Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Johnson

As for going on the show, I would not have minded one bit to meet him face to face and look him in the eye, ... But I feel the deck is stacked on that one and the show is Dr. Phil, not Jerry Springer. The title is ?Falsely Accused,? not?Guilty as Sin.?

Rand Paul

As a doctor, I will take it and make it my mission to heal the nation, reverse the course of Obamacare, and repeal every last bit of it.

Jim Furyk

Our team tends to be a little more loose, ... We have a little bit more fun during the Presidents Cup.

Sean Dillon

Our defense kind of locked them down a little bit during that run.

Jools Oliver

People pick up on some bits of the book in particular, like the bit about Jamie's sperm,

Dennis Leung

People feel that the market at 16,000 is a bit too high so there's not much strong buying interest.

Stuart Hoffman

People drew some comfort in the smaller-than-expected core index, but I think the core is a bit deceptive.

Michael A. Stackpole

People downloading my stories from the bit torrent sites were never going to buy them anyway. It's no money out of my pocket.

David Carter

People go for different reasons. Consequently, it makes it more challenging for the league or a given team to put out a single, coherent marketing message that says, 'This is the reason you attend.' You see that throughout sports, but it's a little bit more fragmented in soccer because you have the multiple target markets and you have the difference in the style and size of the stadiums.

Jason Terry

We were down big and it was just real gutsy for us to be able to come back. We challenged ourselves in the huddle. We knew we hadn't played good 'D' at all, and for three quarters there we played lock-down, solid defense. That was huge, it was big for our confidence. That was our mission and our goal going into this trip, to win each game, and we did that.

Andy Jackson

We are going to continue to be challenged and we are looking forward to it. It's not easy. You want losing to be tough. But we've got to get over it when we go to Arkansas.

Rick Smith

We are going to be challenged in 2006 to get supply and demand back in alignment. We've got our work cut out for us.

Bill Fennelly

We challenged Heather pretty hard in practice the other day, and to her credit she stepped in and made some huge shots.

William A. Ward

The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain -- he is inspired by it. The persistent winner is not discouraged by a problem -- he is challenged by it. Mountains are created to be conquered; adversities are designed to be defeated; problems are sent to be solved. It is better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

Bob Swank

Levi, Clint and Zach held spots four through six and are running well. Calvin was our number seven and he will be challenged by the two freshmen.

Wayne Stenehjem

Nobody would have challenged the governor; he would have had the nomination,

Laura Wright

Honestly, I did it for the opportunity. I love what I do, but I don't know if I was doing the character of Cassie justice anymore. When you start to feel like you want to be challenged in other areas, the light starts to dim a little.

David Aebischer

I don't know if I touched it, but I knew he was pretty shifty, so I kind of challenged him a little bit. Then I poke-checked and saw he was going to lose the handle on it. I don't think he expected that from me.

Art Buchwald

Ascot is so exclusive that it is the only racecourse in the world where the horses own the people.

Aziz Ansari

When I bet on horses, I never lose. Why? I bet on all the horses.

Jamie Foxx

I had that upbringing. Of watching 'Bonanza,' watching 'Hee Haw,' which both black and white would watch. I rode horses. I did gun spinning as a kid. I do these things.

Benjamin Disraeli

The canter is a cure for every evil.

Charles Jencks

You know, Darwin said through natural selection things go gradually, and he was talking about pigeon's evolution or horses evolving, getting faster. But in fact if you look at evolution on a bigger scale, cosmic evolution and you look at culture evolution you see it jumps, it goes through phase changes, and that's very exciting.

James Wolfensohn

But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it's very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong.

Dana Delany

I'm the worst rider. I'm a terrible rider. Me and horses are not a good mix. For some reason, people are always trying to get me on a horse in a movie.

Clarice Lispector

A horse is freedom so indominable that it becomes useless to imprison it to serve man: it lets itself be domesticated, but with a simple, rebellious toss of the head-shaking its mane like an abundance of free-flowing hair-it shows that its inner nature is always wild, translucent and free.

Brad Pitt

The choice or decision to take on a film certainly isn't calculated as far as doing something that will be successful against something that will have a smaller audience. It's all a gamble to me, I don't bet on the horses; I just go with the story that speaks to me and that I feel strongly about which is this one [The Assassination of Jesse James].

Edwin Whipple

Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.

Andrew Griffin

The second one, I thought it was going to fall.

Cam Newton

I'm an example of why people deserve second chances.

Charles R. Swindoll

First impressions never have a second chance.

Keith Andrews

We just kind of went out and we were going, but we weren't going full-bore. Then that second quarter, I thought was huge.

Tom Crean

We got our second wind under us when we started to make those shots.

Richard Branson

When people screw up, give them a second chance.

Maya Angelou

Life sometimes gives you a second chance.

James Matthews

Second to the right, and straight on till morning.

Buster Keaton

If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.

Diane Ackerman

There's no place you can go on the prairie that you don't hear the white noise of the wind, steady and rough as surf curling along a non-existant shore.

Billie Joe Armstrong

You can't change the wind but you can set your sails.

Chris Evert

When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis.

Barack Obama

I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

Bruce Chatwin

I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with strips of emerald cultivation either side. Away from the cliffs was the desert. There was no sound but the wind, whirring through thorns and whistling through dead grass, and no other sign of life but a hawk, and a black beetle easing over white stones.

David J. C. MacKay

We must not let ourselves be swept off our feet in horror at the danger of nuclear power. Nuclear power is not infinitely dangerous. It's just dangerous, much as coal mines, petrol repositories, fossil-fuel burning and wind turbines are dangerous.

Donald Sadoway

With a giant battery, we'd be able to address the problem of intermittency that prevents wind and solar from contributing to the grid in the same way that coal and gas and nuclear do today.

Don Henley

Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will take precedence, so that they wind up forcing a word onto a melody. It doesn't ring true.