Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Charlton

I've been asked about that goal every day for the last 40 years. We didn't have the technology back then to show whether it was a goal or not, which led to the controversy. I'd like to think one day we'll have the technology to show whether or not it was a goal.

Ellen DeGeneres

When I asked her what she missed the most right now she said, 'My friends. I don't know where my friends are,' ... Tonight, let's show people on the Gulf Coast that they have friends all over the world . . . to give them shelter from the storm.

E. Hicks

When I moved out here during the late '70s, I had a neighbor who was a farmer who asked me 'What do you produce? ... I said, well, I don't produce, I publish, but he meant, you know, 'Do you grow tomatoes?'

Aaron Peirsol

Couldn't have asked for a better meet as far as the competition goes, ... Those are some great fans sitting out there, a lot of kids and that's kind of who we're trying to reach with this.

Poppy Z. Brite

I certainly don't think I would have been asked to pose for Rage if I wasn't a known writer.

Marcus Brigstocke

I'd lie in bed in my dormitory and grab at bits of my body, wanting to tear them off... I was so large by then that, in the heat, my thighs chafed together and bled. I was very unhappy, and yet no one ever asked me how I felt.

Scott Walker

You can make tough decisions that I believe voters for years have asked us to do.

Simon McBurney

Living in France while the Falklands War was going on, I felt a profound sense of shame and betrayal, just as I did by the war in Iraq. People have asked why I don't talk about that directly in my plays. Well, politics needs to be articulated in many different ways.

Mike Ross

To me, it was the most fascinating sign in Boston. I asked my parents about it when I was very young and first saw it. My father and I would have big discussions about it. I didn't get it. I didn't get what those buildings were. Now I know inside those buildings is a great community.

Jim Gray

The team that won last year prides itself on being the last team to register. So they usually register around 4:30 p.m. on the Friday of the competition and they have won the last four or five years that they've been playing.

Steve Smyers

We've got a big golf course here, but what we've got are 16, 17 and 18, that if you come out and play a friendly match or if we have a competition here, there can be a huge spread of scores.

Terry Grant

They want me to play running back. Wherever you go, you've got to work to be the best. Competition is good.

Lily Collins

A lot of my friends aren't working, especially since fewer films are being made now and there's more competition.

Laurence J. Peter

Competition in academia is so vicious because the stakes are so small.

Marc Benioff

You never want to be completely alone at what you do. Competition is good for everyone.

Lee Kuan Yew

India is scared of the competition... because Chinese goods will go into India and compete.

John D. Rockefeller

Competition is a sin.

Karl Rove

Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world.

Jody Bronson

We've been working toward getting everybody healthy in practice. They showed a lot of heart out there today. It was an all-around effort.

Robert Gordon

Basically, we want everybody to stop for a minute and think about what it is they love about Litchfield, so it will be an example of what we're trying to save.

Here's a good trick: Get a job as a judge at the Olympics. Then, if some guy sets a world record, pretend that you didn't see it and go, "Okay, is everybody ready to start now?".

Linda Evans

There are no words to express this. Everybody says there's nothing they can do. This is outrageous.

David Williams

The Herald-Leader got it wrong, and it was also on the local TV news. I didn't see the Register, but everybody said it was wrong.

Ray Allen

Everybody stepped up and they play big for us tonight. When everybody plays well, these are the result. Tonight was a sonic effort.

Kim White

I want to pitch but it's a game-time decision. But if Carly is striking out everybody and they are hitting off me then she should be the one pitching.

Mark Borders

After the Nova game we huddled up in the locker room and I told everybody to look at the scoreboard. We're better than that, I told them. So now our mind-set is just getting back to playing D. That's what got us off to our 3-1 (conference) start.

Dave Calloway

It's great for our school, our players, and for everybody involved.

Oscar Hammerstein II

The dearest things I know are what you are.

Ellen Hopkins

The only thing about myself I know for sure is that I don't know anything.

Lord Kelvin

To measure is to know.

Maika Monroe

You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.

Haruki Murakami

Some things, you know, if you say them, it makes them not true?

Lee Dashiell

The mating was ferocious. Every day for two weeks. Who knows what they did at night when we went home.

Charlie Munger

Acknowledging what you don't know is the dawning of wisdom.

David LeBlanc

There are a lot of people wondering what is going to come out of this. No one really knows where it is going.

Alanis Morisette

The person who knows how will always have a job. The person who knows why will always be his boss.

Rick Baker

I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques.

Reggie Bush

I am my own biggest critic ... I'm constantly criticizing myself, constantly trying to find ways to better myself and ... compete and, you know, just be the best.

Tom Hodgkinson

Labour-saving devices just make us try to cram more pointless activities into each day, rather than doing the important thing, which is to enjoy our life.

Tom Verlaine

Everybody's out trying to be commercial. I'm not trying to be anything, really.

Scott Adkins

I put so much pressure on myself to raise the bar with each and every project. I treat it like every film is my last, and I make sure I pour everything I have into every film I make because if I'm not trying to improve, someone else will

Fannie Lou Hamer

I guess if I'd had any sense, I'd have been a little scared [to register to vote] - but what was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do was kill me, and it kinda seemed like they'd been trying to do that a little bit at a time since I could remember.

Christian Siriano

A bad investment is going for quantity over quality. If you're trying to be careful with your wallet, especially with the economy right now, you have to choose staple pieces.

Jack Nicholson

Always try in interviews to avoid the cliches about the problems of public life.

Travis Barker

I try to do an hour of cardio on the days that I have off, and then I'll do 30 to 45 minutes on show days. That's the first thing I do when I wake up, I have breakfast and then I'll hit the gym.