Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeffrey Katzenberg

As a result of its tremendous box office success, the potential to tell a new chapter in its story and the popularity of the film's characters, we are excited to announce that we are making 'Madagascar' our second company franchise -- along with 'Shrek,

Douglas Brinkley

As a composer, Dylan now fits comfortably alongside George Gershwin or Irving Berlin, though he grumpily refuses to wear any man's collar.

John Eisenhower

The British soldiers serving in Afghanistan alongside Prince Harry were in exceptional danger until he was withdrawn.

Steven Whittaker

At youth team level, I always played in central midfield alongside Kevin Thomson and I used to get well up the park and score quite a lot of goals,

Gary Smith

As Intandem has had significant experience distributing in the UK, we made the decision to undertake UK distribution ourselves along with Vertigo.

Martin Jacques

Racism always exists cheek by jowl with, inside, and alongside culture and class. As a rule, it is inseparable from them. That is why, for example, food, language and names assume such importance in racial prejudice.

Sam Wood

Projects like this don't come along very often and I feel amazingly luck to be a part of it.

Robert Elliott

Personally, I looked for something in him that might have shown remorse or anything along those lines, and I just never saw it the whole time.

Craig Brown

Personally, I belong to the speedy school of golf. If it were left up to me, I would introduce a new rule that said every golf ball has to stay in motion from the moment it leaves the tee to the moment it plops into the hole, thus obliging each player to run along after his ball and give it another whack before it stops rolling.

Dan Mullen

Athletes face some of the same issues any student deals with: academics, family and personal issues, career or educational path changes. Each person has a unique set of circumstances that lead to decisions they make.

Pierre Lueders

The thing I found over my career is the Olympics stir up emotions in an athlete or in a person that have never been stirred up before ? and that's something you have to be careful of.

Michael Holden

The most important thing is to work with the athlete for him to discover how to optimize the various positions relative to the skiing,

Ken Slappy

I understand that (football) is his focus, but he's a good athlete and in basketball you can always use good athletes. He's 6-2 and he's tough. I can put him in the game and he won't be afraid.

Frederich Cepeda

This is a revolutionary team. Baseball is not judged by the price of the athletes but by the heart of the people.

Arthur Ashe

Seven out of 10 black faces you see on television are athletes. The black athlete carries the image of the black community. He carries the cross, in a way, until blacks make inroads in other dimensions.

Tom Peters

The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.

Oleg Cassini

At the very beginning of my career, when I opened my business in Italy, I was also a ranked tennis player. I had won many tournaments. To be an athlete was my first choice. Second choice: designer. However! There was more money in being a designer at that time.

Edwin Moses

My concentration level blocks out everything. Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet.

Orlando McGuire

As Cro-Magnon as it sounds, the problem with attitudes is some people have just never had their ass kicked -- and I don't mean necessarily in the physical sense.

Stan Bergman

As always, our main goal is to go out and compete with a positive attitude and to have a good experience.

Tammie Adair

The big thing was just getting them to focus. We just want them to take with them a positive attitude and still have their goals and dreams in focus.

Sufjan Stevens

program. ''It puts us in the attitude of respect for our audience. I think it's important on every level to have a kind of attitude of unification in some way. . . . I don't really have that naturally. I'm not a great performer, so we have to do everything we can, do the exercises, to prepare.

John Concannon

The strength of our team is our defense. Their attitudes have been wonderful.

Steve Yzerman

After Game 5 was over, everybody was upset and kind of thinking about the game and what went wrong, trying to figure it all out. Then gradually you start realizing, oh, we've got to get ready for the next game. So your attitude changes, your mood changes. We got in here Saturday night, and by the time everybody went to bed, I think everybody had gotten their frustration out.

Chris Matthews

The most incredible thing about Austin is how far been his attitude and work ethic have come. I'm really proud of the way he's taken on the leadership role.

Budge Pountney

The most important thing was the attitude we took into the game,

John Ortberg

The most important criterion is this: hire someone whose character and humility and attitude you would like to have reproduced in your church and in yourself.

Gavin Redknap

A rebound today will allay fears the consumer sector is continuing to struggle. The improvement in the housing market should bolster consumer spending.

Brian Quinn

Do what they can to bolster their own immune system in case they can't find vaccine.

E. O. Wilson

Either the administration has some information that it has not shared with the public, or, yes, they were using the selective use of facts to bolster the decision in a case that had already been made -- a decision that had been made to go to war,

Mirko Mikelic

GM is desperate for the cash. They need it to pay out a lot of people, so they're trying to bolster their cash position.

Laurie Garrett

Measures we can take to handle pandemic flu if it emerges in the next six months are limited and bleak, but wise investments and strong science could well bolster the public health armamentarium considerably over the next five years.

Mike Mills

I think I make films to help bolster and feed the part of me that wants to remain in a positive relationship with the world and to engage in it. So hopefully in non-sentimental ways, I'm trying to make something that helps make me happy.

Jon Daniels

He is a youthful starting pitcher with an excellent track record that includes an All-Star selection, and will bolster our starting rotation.

David Seiders

All the fundamentals remain in place, and the overall housing market continues to exhibit ongoing strength. Favorable mortgage rates, as well as strong household income and job growth, continue to bolster housing demand.

Michael Specter

By themselves, genetically engineered crops will not end hunger or improve health or bolster the economies of struggling countries. They won't save the sight of millions or fortify their bones. But they will certainly help.

Shay Doron

Crystal obviously is our No. 1 option. Everything goes through her. She spreads the game, especially for the guards and the other post players because she draws so much attention.

Dorothy Hodgkin

I was captured for life by chemistry and by crystals.

Anne McCaffrey

I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio.

Jack Palance

Billy Crystal... I crap bigger than him.

Michael Gove

Well I've been crystal clear that we should not have schools which are set up by extremists whether they're Christian fundamentalists, Islamic fundamentalists or any other sort of outrageous and beyond the pale organization.

Jim Gillespie

I don't think we have any intentions of slowing down. I don't have a crystal ball, but the pace that we have set for ourselves the last 10 years -- my goal is to keep that going.

Regg Simon

Your guys that have scored all year should be scoring in the playoffs, too. (Sioux Falls') two big defenders were doing a good job on them with hooks and holds, but they always find a way to score.

Andy Gray

Listen, if you're a defender, DO BETTER!

Benjamin Watson

He threw a great ball. They were playing man-to-man, and there's not much the defender can do when he throws a perfect ball.

Bob Macaluso

He's the kind of kid that could make a defender miss in a phone booth.

Bryan Winkler

He sets people up -- he gets in there and draws defenders and sets his teammates up very well. He's a good skilled player with a high work rating.

Dave Sarachan

Jeff is very consistent, very steady and comfortable with the ball. He has size and strength to be a good defender in our league.

Jeff Guinn

I was thrilled that Matt won the defender of the week award,

Chris Abel

I dropped our very first pass, but the first touchdown was a perfect pass from Aaron. The defender had no chance. We got some more great pass protection on the second pass. Neff just threw it up for me to go get it.

Stephen Jackson

He's not as good of a defender as Ron, but he's an All-Star. I'll welcome any All-Star to our team. He's a great player.

Jose Maria

As far as we can, I hope and desire that they are soon out of prison.

Robert Clarke

Our desire is to be involved in a series as we view as the pinnacle and the premier open-wheel racing series, ... and see that as maybe a priority over the need to have competition.

Mike Baker

Our effort and desire were there throughout the game. We just weren't very smart with some things we did.

Alphonso Jackson

Of the families I talked to, 90% of the families have no desire to go back, ... But that's not what I'm hearing from Texas. It's a whole different perspective.

Joe Browne

Some people, you can tell if they want it bad. He always was a kid who wanted to be a good player. He had that will and desire to play. Everyone around the pool room saw that.

Baha'u'llah

The true seeker hunts naught but the object of his quest, and the lover has no desire save union with his Beloved.

Bertrand Russell

I resolved from the beginning of my quest that I would not be misled by sentiment and desire into beliefs for which there was no good evidence.

Juvenal

Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.

C. S. Lewis

If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.

Terrence Gabriel

The Nasdaq has at least the Microsoft report to look forward to, which should be strong.

Chris Walker

I've been ready to move forward for six or seven years now. People are just kind of concerned. You don't like to see a little change, and this is a huge change.

Abdul Karim

I've been looking forward to seeing the trial of the criminal, ... I feel that my sister's soul will not go wasted if I could see Saddam dead.

Amelie Mauresmo

It would be great (to end 2004 at number one), ... Hopefully, I can make it this week even though I know it will be very tough. She's been playing well also. I'm looking forward to the next match every day.

Scott Morris

I understand the frustrations out there, and the results were unacceptable. We are no longer stagnant. We're moving forward at a pretty good pace.

Susan Levy

I urge him, if he does have any information, please be man enough to step forward and talk about it -- share it with the public or share it with us or with the officials.

Guillermo Coria

They are all very young and motivated and looking forward to making history in their own country.

Jonathan Pulik

The whole project is being re-evaluated at this stage. But we will most likely go forward without Pat Robertson.

Dennis Hastert

the wrong way to step forward in this campaign.

Matisyahu

As a kid, I was really into performing. I would do choruses, I would do musicals, whatever it was. And then, as a teenager, I got into an acting class at SUNY Purchase for gifted kids, and that really turned me on to material beyond musicals, Sam Shepard, and Christopher Durang plays.

Mike Waldo

Spencer is a very gifted player who works very hard at what he does. I thought he played smart, played with a lot of intensity and had a great game.

Mike Kemp

We're a pretty good goal-scoring team, top to bottom. Parse is the high profile guy, but we've got a group of gifted scorers.

Norm Cook

This year, he's done an unbelievable job. He's just one of these gifted goal-scorers. He's got a great scoring touch.

Dean Montzingo

We need to learn to run better offense. The kids are talented and gifted but we need to learn to play more unified. We do what we need to do to get the lead and we kind of stop.

Robert Graves

Why have such scores of lovely, gifted girls / Married impossible men?

Dennis Northcutt

As long as I'm doing what I'm supposed to do, and I'm going out and helping this team in any way, I'm going to be here, ... The only way I'm going to lose my job is if I'm messing up and not getting the job done.

Tom Lochner

Probably the most important thing was the educational process those students went through. Our role in the state symbol was to help those students have that experience.

Javier Solana

The solution of this problem is not only military, the solution has to be political.... We are prepared for the possibility of helping with a cease-fire,

Peter Briggs

The students get help they need, and we learn about the rest of the world by being involved with them.

Robert Reisz

So we are suggesting this was a relatively helpless little hatchling.

Rig Veda

One can rectify the mistakes made in the past with the help of fearlessness and patience.

Bill Clinton

Now I've already told you I think we ought to be doing more to help, but there's some people you can't help if they don't help themselves. And I think this is a very, very important point.

Mike Morse

Now, I just want to stay in the big leagues, and I'll do whatever they suggest to help me do that.

Juan Avila

Thank you to all the people who helped us get this house.

Freeman Dyson

It is better to be wrong than to be vague.

Curt Schilling

I don't go out there with the mindset that he did this, now I'm going to better him. This game's too hard.

Hans Rosling

Let the dataset change your mindset

LeBron James

We have a lot better mindset this year. I feel that I am a lot better. I know what it takes down the stretch.

Scott Olson

We want to keep that mindset going. They've performed admirably so far.

Ayn Rand

The only man never to be redeemed is the man without passion.

Jane Hirshfield

Passion does not make careful arguments: it declares itself, and that is enough.

Jane Fonda

I don't like the word 'calculated' because it sounds pejorative. Intentional. Intentional is better, I think. Wild in passion and intentional in expression.

Jane Fonda

I like to be wild in passion and calculated in expression! I'm both. I like to be wild in passion more. But I think the balance is what's essential.

Carl von Clausewitz

Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind.

Celine Dion

Don't make your career be your life. let it be your passion. Let it bring you pleasure. But don't let it become your identity. You are so much more valuable than that.

Jane Addams

A Settlement is above all a place for enthusiasms, a spot to which those who have a passion for the equalization of human joys and opportunities are early attracted.

Jan Eliasson

Without passion, nothing happens; without compassion, the wrong things happen.

Bar Refaeli

Have the passion and the magic will happen

Rig Veda

In real worship,we just not do ritualistic worship but we try to imbibe the qualities of the one we are worshipping.

Bai Ling

What I like about being an actress is that it keeps you feminine. Being a director and producer makes you manly and very masculine and I don't like that quality in a woman. But I'll do it when the film is very close to me.

Greg Robinson

We're going to work; we're going to work hard. It's going to be quality work.

Cardinal Richelieu

Not the least of the qualities that go into the making of a great ruler is the ability of letting others serve him.

Anton Chekhov

Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves.

Dean Koontz

Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic....

Bob Dylan

I'm looking for a woman who's head is mixed up like mine.

Dennis Prager

The rarest of the good qualities in human beings is courage

Deng Xiaoping

We must firmly grasp management. Just making things isn't enough. We need to raise the quality.

Dieter Rams

Nothing works without details. They are everything, the baseline of quality

Terry Tamminen

It would be much stronger if it was a law.

Kathy Emerson

The work is very exciting. In fact, we've remarked how much stronger the work is now than what it used to be.

Andrew Harrington

Zinc is a lot stronger in terms of supply characteristics than the other metals.

Barbara Kingsolver

That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we stretched out our hands we could practically feel it rising up from the ground. I don’t know how a person could ever describe that scent.

Baruch Spinoza

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

Azar Nafisi

The more we die, the stronger we will become

Ayelet Zurer

TV is the place that writers want to be. When you don't have a very strong indie market going on, talented writers want to have their voice heard, so they'll go somewhere else, and everyone goes to TV because their voices are heard.

Aubrey McClendon

Every day you use dozens of products that have strong chemicals in them, but remember, the only difference between poison and medicine is dosage.

Brenda Strong

Balance for me now means seeing myself as a tree, being strong enough in my roots and trunk to not be a pushover, but being flexible enough in every circumstance not to break. I am continuing to expand, but not any faster than my roots can support me.

Cedric Benson

As a competitor, you want to be out there, making something happen, especially when the team is losing. But my time will come.

Sarah Martin

Our team worked really hard. Well, I told them to work really hard.

Jim Balsillie

No question, we took one for the team here.

Mark Ehlen

Anything that I've said to the team hasn't been effective. I've been mad, I've stomped, I've screamed, I've been encouraging and positive, and nothing matters.

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

Jami Finan

It was a long time. Our team could not have wanted it more than anything in the world.

Kenny Rogers

They are a better team than us right now. Those are the facts.

Mark Attanasio

This is the first time the team has had to play with expectations. We'll see how we react.

George C. Williams

This is one of the best, if not the best, teams we've had here in a long time,

Norm Chow

I think he's a tremendous player. He's so explosive.

Dan Bennett

Dale Hansen is a tremendous talent, and we wish him the very best.

Bai Ling

I'm one of the best actresses. One day I will win an Oscar.

Ayrton Senna

You either commit yourself as a professional racing driver that's designed to win races or you come second or you come third or fifth and am not design to come third, fourth or fifth, I race to win.

Benito Mussolini

Tomorrow, the Tripartite Pact will become an instrument of just peace between the peoples. Italians! Once more arise and be worthy of this historical hour! We shall win.

Brian Boitano

I have to consider my greatest accomplishments winning the Olympics because everything that Ive done after that is really because of the Olympics.

Brian Blessed

Ninety nine per cent of the time, for anyone who wins or makes money, it makes them happy.

Jamie Foxx

I never planned to win an Oscar. When I auditioned for 'Ray,' I was just thinking about what a great project it would be.

Carroll Shelby

Horsepower sells cars, torque wins races

Al Franken

When you win an election, what you really win is a chance to go to work for working families who need a voice in Minnesota.

Charles R. Swindoll

Consistency: It's the jewel worth wearing; It's the anchor worth weighing; It's the thread worth weaving; It's a battle worth winning.

Daniel Handler

How can someone so wonderful do something so terrible?

Cloris Leachman

Everything is so sad and so wonderful.

Christopher Walken

No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing.

Anne Rice

My greatest sin has always been that I have a wonderful time being myself

Andy Samberg

Genndy [Tartakovsky] is so good at directing and so wonderful with animation.

Anne Frank

How wonderful it is that we can start doing good at this very moment.

Anne Frank

What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet.

Thom Gunn

Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady.

Stanley Hauerwas

I simply cannot get over what a surprising and wonderful life God has given me,