Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tina Turner

My legacy is that I stayed on course... from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

'Beyond the Lights' took incredible fight to get made. Four years of writing and two years of overcoming 'no.' Every studio balked. Twice. But I kept fighting. What gave me the courage was 'Love & Basketball.' Every studio turned down that film, too. But I never gave up because I believed in it with my whole heart and soul.

Gareth Bale

I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.

Zadie Smith

Oh yes, my generation liked to be in some pain when they read. The harder it was, the more good we believed it was doing us.

Wesley Schultz

When I was a kid, award shows were super-interesting for me. But when I started making music, it was kind of hard to watch because I believed in what I was doing and yet knew I didn't really have a shot.

Evel Knievel

I don't know what in the world happened. I don't know if it was the power of the prayer or God himself, but it just reached out, either while I was driving or walking down the sidewalk or sleeping, and it just - the power of God in Jesus just grabbed me... All of a sudden, I just believed in Jesus Christ. I did, I believed in him!

Ben Macintyre

'What if?' history is a tricky game, but there is no doubt that the senior planners of D-Day - including Eisenhower and the British general Bernard Montgomery - believed that the Double Cross operation had played a pivotal role in the victory.

Big Sean

Kanye didn't sign me to hold my hand and walk me through my career. He signed me because he believed in me as an artist and gave me a co-sign. I didn't see that at first. I saw it as him about to hold my hand, and I'm about to be the biggest artist because he's the biggest artist, you know?

David Kay

The Germans certainly - the intelligence service believed that there were WMD. It turns out that we were all wrong, probably in my judgment, and that is most disturbing.

Evangeline Lilly

I don't like the idea of playing a one-dimensional character who is just fearless, strong, and killer and has instincts and just thrives in dangerous circumstances - that's really boring to me, and I don't think it represents what most women feel inside.

Regina Brett

Cancer taught me to stop saving things for a special occasion. Every day is special. You don't have to get cancer to start living life to the fullest. My post-cancer philosophy? No wasted time. No ugly clothes. No boring movies.

Rodney Brooks

I see robotic technology getting rid of the dangerous, the dirty, and the just plain boring jobs. Some people say, 'You can't. People won't have anything to do.' But we found things that were a lot easier than backbreaking labor in the sun and the fields. Let people rise to better things.

Patricia Arquette

I liked the premise of this material. I love the marriage relationship. They kind of keep each other honest, and they enjoy each other's sense of humor. Kind of a sexy but boring relationship.

Patrick Rothfuss

The problem with dragons is that everyone uses them. All the time. When that happens, they become commonplace. A lot of people think you can just throw them into a story and suddenly whatever you're writing is 28% cooler. But that doesn't work. All that does is make dragons into some boring cliche.

Mark McKinnon

Who the hell ever dreamed up a tie? It's just such a weird idea, and yet it has been literally hanging around forever as the one constant and boring men's fashion staple.

Edward Lazarus

Most of the cases they work on are boring from a layman's point of view, but important, and ferocious, from an economic point of view.

Steve Duplessie

Microsoft wants the operating system and their tools to have all the value so that users don't need to go outside of the family. It drives Microsoft crazy that people spend a ton of money with EMC and Veritas on boring old storage issues.

Takeshi Natsuno

While you're in that boring meeting, you can see what kind of programming is on tonight, and from your mobile you can control your hard-drive recorder at home.

Allan Payne

The 40,000 spectators will see spectacle of fast-running, exciting sevens rugby.

George Steinbrenner

That was the only exciting thing that happened today.

Dontaye Draper

That was real exciting because we weren't expecting it. He just wanted us to play hard, don't worry about anything and just get this 'W.' That's what we did.

Russ Howard

The 10th end man, exciting - a real finish.

Joe Sakic

We have to worry about a playoff spot. We've had a pretty good year, got a lot of wins. The way the game is being played now, especially with the shootouts, a lot of the teams out west are good teams. It makes for an exciting race.

Reed Hastings

My first company, Pure Software, was exciting and innovative in the first few years and bureaucratic and painful in the last few before it got acquired. The problem was we tried to systemize everything and set up perfect procedures.

Sebastian Stan

Just to get a job is always really exciting to me. I do feel there's a lot left for me to learn about movies, the subtleties of acting.

Paul Fleischman

What could be more exciting when the writing is going well and things are falling into place? It's just like riding a fabulous wave for a surfer. There's no better place to be.

Patrick Kavanagh

The exciting quality about Joyce is that when you read him, you are not told of the large public issues that were agitating the minds of politicians and journalists on those days. Joyce is interested in the mind of a man who has put five shillings on a horse.

Thucydides

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.

Ismail Kadare

Literature led me to freedom, not the other way round.

Emile M. Cioran

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

Common

Doing acting opened up other creative outlets; it made me feel freer as an artist.

Bruno Senna

One of my greatest pleasures in motor racing is qualifying. You have loads of freedom from pushing a lap the whole way. I've always been very good in qualifying in the past; everything I've done, I've got pole positions.

Beeban Kidron

The thing I have come to find astonishing is that people from all political sides routinely say that the Internet has to be the model of free speech and freedom.

Benjamin Franklin

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

F. Sionil Jose

In the end, religion teaches us to value truth, justice and freedom.

Benjamin Rush

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

Ezra Taft Benson

'What would Jesus do?' or 'What would He have me do?' are the paramount personal questions of this life.

C. S. Lewis

Jesus was either a Liar, a Lunatic, or Lord

C. S. Lewis

We are told that Christ was killed for us, that His death has washed out our sins, and that by dying He disabled death itself. That is the formula. That is Christianity. That is what has to be believed.

Cecelia Ahern

Write what's up there." Sister Ignatius pointed at her temple. "As a great man once said, this is a secret garden. We've all got one of those." "Jesus?" "No, Bruce Springsteen.

Carrie Underwood

I'm not the first person to sing about God, Jesus, faith [or] any of that, and I won't be the last. And it won't be the last for me, either. If you don't like it, change the channel.

Carl Sagan

My long-time view about Christianity is that it represents an amalgam of two seemingly immiscible parts-the religion of Jesus and the religion of Paul. Thomas Jefferson attempted to excise the Pauline parts of the New Testament. There wasn't much left when he was done, but it was an inspiring document.

Bethany Dillon

After close to a year of traveling, I had seen things in the world and in myself, both good and bad, that I had never noticed before. I was struggling daily with pride and insecurity, homesickness and loneliness, with the burden of picking up my cross and following Jesus. This journey produced a new hunger for redemption in me.

Bethany Hamilton

I guess my faith in Jesus Christ is what kept me going day by day. I just trusted in him and I believe that he's the one who gives me the strength and ability to overcome struggles and problems day to day. I'm just grateful for him, as he has blessed me with just an amazing family that has supported me through every step of the way.

Bethany Hamilton

I believe in Jesus Christ, and I believe He gave me the passion and determination to continue surfing. You fall off the horse, and you get back on. I had to go for it.

Gordon B. Hinckley

If there were no immortality there would be no need for temples. There would be no need for eternal marriage if there were no eternity.

C. S. Lewis

I am in love and out of it I will not go.

C. S. Lewis

The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant - in a word, real.

Bette Davis

The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.

Anthony Storr

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Anthony Storr

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.

Bertrand Russell

A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it.

Bertrand Russell

Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.

Richie Sambora

A band is like a marriage, and if you're in a marriage with someone, and you lose yourself in that marriage, the relationship is over, really.

Erin Richards

I'm not the marrying type! But if I did get married, I definitely wouldn't be a bridezilla.

Kevin Steele

Technically, you're marrying yourself to someone for his career. You talk on the phone a lot, but other than that you're not getting out too many times.

Henny Youngman

Most marriage failures are caused by failures marrying.

Valerie June

I dont marry bandmates just to go marrying bandmates.

Jane Austen

If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite at leisure.

Terry Tucker

Our witness was the judge's assistant, a woman named Mary Cherry. So we had Terry, Terry, and Mary Cherry.

Mary Beth Whitehead

Out of the ashes of Sara Whitehead rose Melissa Stern. Out of the ashes of Mary Beth Whitehead, there were pieces lost.

Alphonsus Liguori

A true servant of Mary cannot be lost.

Ronnie Bond

Mary was superb. But we missed a lot of shots that we've got to make. That's been a problem for us in the past month, so maybe we'll be able to work our way through it next year.

Jon Birsner

Maryland played it well and Ian wasn't wide open. It really didn't matter because I was going to throw it to him no matter what.

Skip Lockwood

Maryland is the first state that seems to be going section-by-section through the bill, because so much opposition to this has come out of the woodwork that they are very concerned.

Steven Tyler

Mary had a little sheep,With the sheep she went to sleep.The sheep turned out to be a ram,And Mary had a little lamb.

Brian Glass

Mary Ann was just outstanding running the bases. Sometimes, I don't think she really understands just how important she is to our team.