Famous Quotes & Sayings

Winston Churchill

It is a gaping wound, whenever one touches it and removes the bandages and plasters of daily life.

Meghan Coward

Sometimes Molly will fly out to L.A. for a few days, raid the gallery scene there, and come back with a list of names and try to lure them down here.

Jonathan Cheechoo

We weren't very disciplined; (we) took a few penalties maybe we shouldn't (have). It was pretty one-sided, the (penalty) calling, but at the same time we were putting ourselves in that position.

Rockie Bork

We played good ball, took them to the wire. You have to be proud of the kids because they're trying real hard and they put 100 percent into the game. We just got off to a way too slow start and we had a few too many turnovers. What do you do?

Mike Tice

He'll get prepared for surgery at some point in the next few weeks and then he'll be out for the season. This is just another hurdle we'll have to overcome as a football team.

Olin Browne

I guess there are a few more people who recognize who I am,

Greg Rose

I just don't recall seeing them much until the last few years.

Alex Smith

I rattled a few jars and roared at them at the interval.

Marco Rubio

I pinch myself because of the understanding that I've been blessed with a real rare opportunity that few Americans ever get - to serve their government and their people at this level.

Shane Sweet

I personally think that this is going to settle out over the next few days.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Bobby Lutz

We're a better team right now, the way we've played the last 10 games.

Bobby Lamb

We signed 23 last year, and this year we signed 12. This year we were very selective because we were looking at taking one at every position, basically.

Nikola Tesla

The last 29 days of the month are the toughest!

Rabindranath Tagore

Let this be my last word, that I trust in your love.

Octavio Dotel

What I saw today, it made me feel good. It made my work for the last nine months look good. I've been waiting for it.

Philip Mote

In the last year or so, this has really taken off like a freight train without brakes.

Danny Sullivan

In the last year and a half, (A9) hasn't skyrocketed in popularity.

Eric Skrum

In the last two years, we're seeing more and more communities saying, 'We just don't want to use the technology.

Reggie Miller

No matter how good you are, there's a lot of luck involved.

John Noble

I was a very lucky actor.

Mariah Carey

I'm really fortunate. I'm really happy, and I'm really really lucky to be where I am.

James Altucher

Luck is created by the prepared.

P. J. O'Rourke

Actually, there is no way of making vomiting courteous. You have to do the next best thing, which is to vomit in such a way that the story you tell about it later will be amusing.

Peter Shilton

The main factor in a penalty shootout is luck again. You need to stay calm and focussed but the biggest thing you need is luck.

Placido Domingo

I'm not superstitious because it brings bad luck.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.

Lincoln Kirstein

She was chronologically in luck. She corresponded to necessity.

Isaac Asimov

What would I do if I knew I only had six months to live? Type faster.

Jacob DiPietre

They've already been in the process of doing that for several months now.

Leah Busque

I had the idea for TaskRabbit one night when my husband and I were getting ready for dinner.

Suzanne Isidor

We are really ready. We are ready to play with something on the line.

Desmond Tutu

Catharsis returns us to the purpose for which were originally intended - to be called by God to do good - and thus ultimately returns us to ourselves.

Charles Bukowski

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart

Alberto Salazar

I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.

Alberto Salazar

I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.

Alfred Kazin

Brooklyn Heights itself is a window on the port. Here, where the perspective is fixed by the towers of Manhattan and the hills of New Jersey and Staten Island, the channels running between seem fingers of the world ocean. Here one can easily embrace the suggestion, which Whitman felt so easily, that the whole American world opens out from here, north and west.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Alex D. Linz

Home Alone was a lot and a lot and a lot of standing and sitting and walking and running and it was physically demanding but in this, I'm doing back flips and riding ostriches. It's physically demanding in a new way, so it's fun.

Alex Garland

When you develop an infatuation for someone you always find a reason to believe that this is exactly the person for you. It doesn’t need to be a good reason. Taking photographs of the night sky, for example. Now, in the long run, that’s just the kind of dumb, irritating habit that would cause you to split up. But in the haze of infatuation, it’s just what you’ve been searching for all these years.

Alex Ferguson

David impresses by his example on the field. He never stops running, he plays with supreme confidence, he always tries his hardest and he scores important goals. (on David Beckham)

Alec Baldwin

Anderson Cooper has a job to do. And that job is to try to reinforce his credibility in the gay community after the fact that you couldn’t get him out of the closet for 10 years with a canister of tear gas. Now he’s the sheriff; now he’s running around writing everybody a ticket!

Bobby Jones

During the season on Saturdays, I usually sleep in until about 1.