Famous Quotes & Sayings

Garry Hynes

There wasn't anyone in my family who was involved in the theatre. I saw a few amateur plays when I was growing up, but I can't think of anything that happened or anybody in particular who inspired me; it all came from within.

Nelly

I won an MVP trophy with the St. Louis Amateur Baseball Association. I didn't even start. I was a sub on this team. This was, like, an All-Star game where we had athletes from different teams, different mixtures. We had, like, the only black team in the league, basically. We had four players go to the All-Star game.

Joe Pantoliano

The amateur porn business makes $11 billion a year. They don't get bad reviews.

Patrick Chan

In skating or any amateur sport, as athletes we share something in common: the cost of training is quite a burden on our parents or on the athletes themselves trying to find a way to pay for their costs.

Rickie Fowler

Time management is probably the biggest thing I've had to learn to deal with being on the PGA Tour, whether it be media or figuring out how many weeks to play in a row. That's been the biggest adjustment, coming from amateur and college golf.

Tom Megeath

Who knows, in 100,000 years the emerging Grand Nebula in Cassiopeia may replace the fading Orion Nebula as a favorite object for amateur astronomers. In the meantime, I think it will be a favorite target for professional astronomers trying to solve the riddle of massive star formation.

Devon Brouse

Whitney played extremely well in the U.S. Amateur before she started college golf. She beat a lot of really accomplished players, which was really a testament to her abilities.

Matt Kuchar

I'm helpless in post-round, hole-by-hole interviews. I can't take you through most of the holes of winning the Players Championship, the U.S. Amateur or Ryder Cup matches. It's like golf amnesia.

Maureen Shea

It felt great to be on that stage in front of so many friends and family. It was different than fighting at the amateur level. I came out to my own music and I had on my own boxing outfit. I could feel the electricity and it only drove my to push harder.

Kenny Graham

We have an attacking team, and we're hoping to put a lot of pressure on other teams to stop us. We're going to be pretty balanced so defenses won't be able to focus on anybody. We have a lot of confidence going into the season.

Christie Martens

We need to keep going down the same road of improving our short game. To really stay competitive, we need to keep the attacking mentality.

Russell Smith

All coffee shops now have WiFi. Why bring a book when you could be wittily attacking some idiot columnist on Twitter, or responding to your date requests, or posting a picture of your foot? All of that is more gripping and immediate and social than books.

Magic Johnson

I don't care who is attacking my son. I still support him; I still love him.

Larry Keller

We're not attacking the Catholic Church. We're simply suggesting there was a time in its history when the church dealt with molesting priests in a much different manner than it does now.

Mark McKinnon

I took a lot of heat from Republicans when I stepped out of John McCain's campaign after the 2008 primaries. I still supported McCain, and voted for him, but I just didn't want to be the tip of the spear attacking Obama.

Bob Bork

It defies understanding, from our perspective. One can speculate, one, that the ACLU has been captured by the homosexual-rights movement, and so therefore they are attacking the Boy Scouts and friends of the Boy Scouts as a way of punishing us for having rights that the Supreme Court has affirmed. The other thing that is interesting is that they're attacking our friends. They go after our relationships with the Defense Department, with schools and school boards - and they sue those people, but they don't sue us. They think maybe that's a way of hurting us and hurting our friends for having relationships with us.

Virgil Thomson

I thought of myself as a species of knight errant attacking dragons single-handedly and rescuing musical virtue in distress.

Tommy McWhorter

I thought in the first half, we came out a little slow and North Cobb came out with a lot of intensity. The second half, we came out attacking more on defense and we made some good shots. We also shot our free throws well.

Gary Hart

I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Wherever I go, people recognize me, call my name, cheer me.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Call me tacky, but I love the union of sweet and sour, even in some now-unloved Oriental dishes incorporating pineapple and ketchup.

Wesley Clark

I said the rosary, and I said the Our Father, as they call it in the Catholic Church. One of the things I learned in the conversion process was to say the rosary, and I had a set of rosary beads. So I said 'Hail Mary, full of grace.'

Viswanathan Anand

I honestly don't remember when and why I started calling my mom 'Momsi'. These are family things; it starts for some reason. It's not that I just call her Momsi; I call her other things as well!

Chris Carter

If you look at 'The X-Files' generally, we did 202 episodes. About 80% of them are not 'mythology' episodes, which tend to be the epic episodes. They deal with the big conspiracies, the search for Mulder's sister. They deal with what I would call the 'saga' of 'The X-Files.'

Don Rickles

I call myself an actor. I always wanted to be one.

Rob Bishop

The political spin in Washington is revolting, just revolting. It's a callous political game.

Joan Rachetto

The 40 was really good from Tara. That was an excellent score for her.

Glenn Lincoln

That was the major problem in the game, and the Connolly team really hustled. They did an excellent job.

Dana Ferry

That was really a great goal. Just the way she scored the goal was impressive. She's really turned into an excellent player.

Michael Kelly

Tyler fits the Dayton mold. He's a quality student, has outstanding parental support and excellent leadership skills. He's not just a football player, but a well-rounded young man.

Steve Rives

We have a first-team all-conference player in Jeremy Richardson, a 6-7 kid who plays small forward. He gives us an excellent perimeter player. He's been at 18 or 19 a game.

Richard Giannini

We've had excellent discussions recently and our goals are the same for this football program.

Don Flanagan

We have had some inconsistency. But I do feel this is an excellent team. When they're good, they're very, very good. Last night I thought they were very, very good, and I think they can replicate that.

Nick Barnett

I would love to see Jim Bates back again. He's an excellent coach.

Kate Christensen

Most of all, I love unfussy, unpretentious, simple food made with excellent ingredients. If I'm a snob, it's about quality, not cuisine.

Timothy Noah

Being a teacher is back-breakingly difficult work. It is also extremely important work.

Robert Clark

The overall message we received from teachers is they are extremely pleased the program is available.

Sharon Johnson

The pendulum has just been swinging back and forth with the fundamentals in the market, ... This is an extremely short crop, but the big negative has been questions about demand.

Ian Stannard

The PCE deflator will be extremely important today. The market looks at this very much as one of Fed's main indicators. If it's strong the market will not only be looking for a rate hike at this meeting but next time around as well.

Ian Stannard

The PCE deflator will be extremely important today. If it's strong the market will not only be looking for a rate hike at this meeting but next time around as well.

Brian K. Vaughan

I was only ever part of 'Lost' - a very small part of an extremely talented writers' room, where as a writer, it's sort of your job to sublimate your ego and work in the service of the show and the show's voice.

Christien Meindertsma

Even if you are genuinely interested in what is in your products, it is extremely difficult and often impossible to find out.

Denis Napthine

I am extremely proud to have the honour and privilege to be the Premier of this great state of Victoria.

Gary Gaetti

That was the first World Series in an indoor stadium, so it was kind of a novelty. It was extremely loud. We've had very, very similar moments here where you can actually feel it on your body.

Yotam Ottolenghi

You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.

Yanni

The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.

Yanis Varoufakis

I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.

Thierry Henry

I've always loved New York; I've been visiting New York since 1996. People don't look at you like, 'What are you doing? What are you wearing?' There is also that thing that when people know that you have worked hard to get something, people have that respect for that here. You worked hard - good for you.

Iggy Azalea

I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.

Ice T

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

Idina Menzel

I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?

Idina Menzel

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

Ivar Giaever

Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.

Rob Pike

To write a kernel without a data structure and have it be as consistent and graceful as UNIX would have been a much, much harder challenge.

Bobby Knight

Parcells and I have learned a lot of things during a lot of years since we first met. But being graceful about losing has never been one of them.

Leon Panetta

He was always graceful in the way he handled his guests, ... He always talked about substance. He never made snide remarks.

George Will

Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow.

Yuri Semyonov

The Mir has lived a wonderful life and must end it in a graceful way,

Andy Parsons

Is it as meticulous and graceful as a human touch would be? No, it's not,

Pete Seeger

It was not going to be a graceful symbol of the past. It was going to try to restore the river.

Omar Minaya

The key thing with Mike is to communicate and we did that, ... He's gracefully done everything we've asked.

Tilda Swinton

This film is all about questions and gracefully not about answers. This film steers away from that.

Yousuf Karsh

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

Todd Rundgren

It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.

Idina Menzel

I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

Idina Menzel

I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.

Ian Frazier

I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.

Ian Mckellen

Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.

Ismail Kadare

In antiquity, there were three regions in southern Europe: Greece, Rome, and Ilyria. Albanian is the only survivor of the Ilyrian languages. That is why it has always intrigued the great linguists of the past.

Gaines Adams

I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.

Gad Elmaleh

There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.

Bill Bryson

I'm quite certain that if the rest of the world vanished overnight and the development of cricket were left in Australian hands, within a generation, the players would be wearing shorts and using the bats to hit each other, and the thing is, it'd be a much better game for it.

Arsene Wenger

Unfortunately apparently I am to blame because I don't produce enough English players.

Arsene Wenger

Sometimes I see it [a foul by an Arsenal player], but I say that I didn’t see it to protect the players and because I could not find any rational explanation for what they did.

Arsene Wenger

You build a player like you build a house. You start with the foundations. The fundamentals.

Arsene Wenger

Who is the Best Player in the World? Leo Messi. Who is the Best Player Ever? Leo Messi!

Arsene Wenger

I think generally the Japanese players have more intensity in practice but generally I do the same things.

Arsene Wenger

As a coach you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong.

Arsene Wenger

English players are as easy to coach. The problem is that the Premier League has the best players in the world, and statistically not all of them can be born in England. But we don't have enough English players: we are working very hard on it.

Bill Bruford

One of the great things about having good players in your band is that you just ask them questions. You can pick up some good information that way.

Brandon Flowers

It's seen as dirty to be ambitious. What if U2 weren't ambitious? We wouldn't have that gift we have from them.

David Hewson

I don't think I'd seen anything like 'The Killing.'

Chris Crutcher

If you've seen 'Friday Night Lights' - that was just like my town.

John Torchetti

That was a team win, if I have ever seen one. Everyone from the goalie out tonight just competed. That was the word for tonight, compete.

Paul Thompson

That was ridiculous. In 16 years of coaching, I've never seen anything like that.

Piero Fassino

We have already seen after two days, that this is how it will finish.

Luis Rodriguez

We can't have standardized testing because there is no such thing as standardized child. I have never seen a standardized kid. Have you?

Bob Thompson

We'll probably find more deaths. I don't think we've seen the end of it.

John Scott

We have been travelling to the old battlefields for years and never seen anything like it before.

Chris Hillman

You don't ever want to touch that money,

Stacey Hallahan

You'll be touching it or combing it, and it'll come out in pieces.

David Zuniga

I wondered what could I do to make a hands-on film that could actually touch people.

Peter Capaldi

I think it's always exciting when 'Doctor Who' touches its past.

Louis Walsh

I couldn't make it because I've got a touch of the flu.

Charles Ruff

I did not do those things. I did not touch those parts.

Alan Paton

Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.

Alan Ball

Once Everton has touched you nothing will be the same.

Edith Wharton

Then stay with me a little longer,' Madame Olenska said in a low tone, just touching his knee with her plumed fan. It was the lightest touch, but it thrilled him like a caress.

Bill Bradley

Al Gore clearly has the vision... it's a much better vision than that of George W. Bush.

Maurice Maeterlinck

You do well to have visions of a better life than of every day, but it is the life of every day from which the elements of a better life must come.

Diane von Furstenberg

Clarity is the most important thing. I can compare clarity to pruning in gardening. You know, you need to be clear. If you are not clear, nothing is going to happen. You have to be clear. Then you have to be confident about your vision. And after that, you just have to put a lot of work in.

David Suzuki

The event of creation did not take place so many eons ago, astronomically or biologically speaking. Creation is taking place every moment of our lives.

Cesare Pavese

One must look for one thing only, to find many.

Alan Parker

A Great Movie Evolves when Everybody Has the Same Vision in Their Heads.

Chogyam Trungpa

When you experience your wisdom and the power of things as they are, together, as one, then you have access to tremendous vision and power in the world. You find that you are inherently connected to your own being. That is discovering magic.

Chogyam Trungpa

When we clean up after ourselves, we have nothing to blame. When we begin to live our lives in that way, cleaning up after ourselves, what is left is further vision and further openness, which leads to cleaning up the rest of the world.

Cher Wang

If you have a vision, no matter how difficult things are, everything just becomes a process.