Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clare Boothe Luce

There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.

Robert A. Heinlein

Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.

Rupert Sheldrake

When people see one of these new forms of art for the first time, often they can't make sense of it. Then, if it's around long enough, a lot of people get used to it and it becomes assimilated into culture. So there's a morphic field both for the kind of art and for the appreciation of it.

Sri Chinmoy

When we seek appreciation from others, we get not appreciation, but flattery.

Tacitus

It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.

Philip James Bailey

He is a fool who is not for love and beauty. I speak unto the young, for I am of them and always shall be.

Peter Drucker

Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.

Penelope Spheeris

The first Decline I did was out of sheer love and appreciation for the music. In 1977, it was more about bands, because punk was a new form of music. It was groundbreaking and political.

Mariska Hargitay

Italian culture is so deeply soaked in an appreciation of the good things in life.

Tyrus Thomas

We feel we are one of the best teams in the country despite our youth. If we continue to execute right we will have an awesome season.

Mike Jacobs

I don't know how you look at it, ... It's just awesome that it happened. It was great for me, I was pumped I was helping the team out, and then - that's it. Now I'm just hanging out waiting to help.

Judy Vogt

Katie's an awesome player, so it's going to hurt to be without her, but I run the point in practice and feel comfortable stepping into the job. The most important thing will be taking care of the ball and making sure we run our offense well.

Layzie Bone

It's like a family reunion. It's awesome because it's going to be a star-studded video.

Tyler LaTorre

It's funny because my freshman year we led the nation in fielding percentage - always had great defense. This year I've seen signs of awesome defense, but it's not consistent. Our team defense isn't up to par yet and I think it has cost us some games.

Chris Wielgus

It's just awesome to have made it. This is what little girls dream of when they're playing in the driveway with their moms and dads, getting rebounds.

Preston Early

This is a neat day for our program and an awesome opportunity for her. She was our quarterback and it all started with her.

Granth Sahib

Forever fruitful is the Blessed Vision of His Darshan; He is Infinite and Incomparable. He is Awesome and All-powerful; He is forever the Great Giver.

Jay Trousdale

This is two games in a row where we played terribly in the first half and just had an awesome second half. I told the girls that they've got to help my nerves and be more consistent.

Henry Uhegwu

That was a big win for us. We prepared for them in two days, but the coaches gave us a really good game plan and we stepped to it. This is our season, we're trying to turn things around.

Jeremy Mayfield

Coach Sampson was a major, major, major part of me signing.

David Ryan

Coach McCaffery was great to us this year. It was a great year, and right now he's our coach.

Taurean Green

Coach kind of got upset that we didn't listen to him. We can't let half our shots be threes in the first half.

Gary Foster

Coach (Ken) O'Donnell always tells us stories of the old teams. It's inspiration for us that we can be the stories for the next kids coming up. We want to win the game so we can show those guys that we're still here. The game is dedicated to them.

Bobby Cremins

Coaching at Kentucky is not something you want to do for 20 years. You'd probably be dead. ... It's such a pressure cooker.

Eric Wright

Coach Holt is a heckuva guy, ... I love him as a person and as a coach.

Danny Nee

Coach Hobbs has done as good as job as any coach in the country at taking a program and moving to another level.

Chris Ross

Coach hit on that the other day. He said we have three wins and the team in fifth place has five wins. Everybody wants to get that high seed. Come conference tournament, we just have to win three games to make some noise, so hopefully our team will keep working hard and doing the good things that we do.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

John Tavares

Any player in the NHL would be a great comparison, but when you name a guy like Sidney Crosby . . . but I don't know if I'll be able to do things he's done in the league because we're different types of players,

David Phillips

Are we no longer the Great White North? It's incredible.

Jane Austen

One has no great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Tom Coughlin

No way were we going to lose at home on this date, for this great city, ... There was no way.

Mr Howard

Now it was always ridiculous and it's done great harm to a product and it's done great harm to the consumer,

Robert Davis

Now I'm worried. That worries me a great deal.

Randy Jackson

No matter how great your pitcher is, things are going to happen and you're going to have to back her up.

Scott Bauman

Honestly, if you would have told me in November that we'd have a winning record after losing over half our scoring team from last year, I would have laughed. But these kids have come together and grown and learned, and I'm as proud of them as I could be.

Robert Blake

I didn't have much of a life, ... My kids were grown and gone. I was very, very single a loner.

Steve Scruggs

That was something we could absorb. From 2004 to 2005, we have grown exponentially. We can't keep up with that.

James Wolpert

I feel like I've grown and become a more consummate performer. I feel like I've chiseled out a more distinctive niche.

Tim Ehresman

A big key is we have to finish. I think these guys have grown up a lot over 19 games.

John Pomfret

Working overseas is more difficult in that it's much more complicated to get people to open their hearts to you and to tell you information.

Charles Terry

I've played 654 concerts. That's never been done.

Joel Rankin

Every team we've played the second time, we've played them better. You look at the shooting percentage; it's not even close.

Champ Atlee

We have not played fundamentally sound baseball...we really made our own bed.

Larry Eustachy

We were just one or two plays away from pulling it out. We played well enough to win.

Carlos Rogers

If we played in real life, that's what would happen.

Dave Gahan

I always played around with writing songs, but when you're spending a lot of time in bars, you have a lot of big ideas, but you don't do much with them.

Scott Skiles

I was really proud of the guys. We played really hard. We were active. And we played really solid defense, and we got out with a win.

Bill Self

If we'd played man, he would have had 25 points.

Matt Riley

If we play like we played today for the rest of the season, we're going to go far.

Pete Hald

I've never had three players at the same time who can score like they do.

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Dikembe Mutombo

The NBA has more than 435 players and there are at least 100-some players doing more than expected. Shaq is doing a lot. Dwight Howard, [Manu] Ginobli. Dirk [Nowitzki] is doing a lot, and not just in Europe; he's reaching out to Africa and all other places.

Joe Legerski

We've had a lot of different players step up for us (in the post).

Jerry Angelo

To get valued players you have to be willing to give value.

Andrew Bird

I'm a terrible Scrabble player.

Steve Nash

I have a tendency, especially when I'm playing with great players, to try and get them the ball.

Sonny Vaccaro

There's Brandon Jennings. The NBA told him to go to college for a year, and he said, "Screw that. I'll go to Europe and make a million bucks and then come back." And he's proven to be a pretty damn good player. He's done as much for the game as Michael [Jordan] by forging a different route.

Steve Kerr

I'm just thrilled for so many people. Our players, mostly, but the people in our organization - Rick Welts, Joe Lacob and Peter Guber and the whole group. It's just a phenomenal group of people. I think as a coach you just appreciate kind of the big picture a little bit more.

Craig Ferguson

I found out it is just as hard to make a movie that you are not proud of as it is to make one you love.

Edward Abbey

The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.

Dorothea Lange

I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were--their pride, their strength, their spirit.

Adolf Hitler

In this hour I would ask of the Lord God only this: that, as in the past, so in the years to come He would give His blessing to our work and our action, to our judgement and our resolution, that He will safeguard us from all false pride and from all cowardly servility, that he may grant to us to find the straight path which His Providence has ordained for the German people, and that he may ever give us the courage to do the right, never to falter, never to yield before any violence, before any danger.

Aesop

Pride goes before destruction.

David Lloyd

The Landlord is a gentleman who does not earn his wealth. He has a host of agents and clerks that receive for him. He does not even take the trouble to spend his wealth. He has a host of people around him to do the actual spending. He never sees it until he comes to enjoy it. His sole function, his chief pride, is the stately consumption of wealth produced by others.

Andre Gide

When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.

Anais Nin

My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.

Robert Frost

And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.