Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clare Boothe Luce

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

Thomas Paine

That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.

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.

Vidya Balan

Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.

Stephen Levine

Hell is not fire and brimstone, not a place where you are punished for lying or cheating or stealing. Hell is wanting to be something and somewhere different from where you are.

Stephanie Seymour

I always hang up my own dresses. It is a good lesson in appreciation and in always remembering that you're part of a team, not outside of the team, but with the team and on the team.

Tacitus

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

Jeff Talbott

It would have been awesome to have won one more and be in the finals again.

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.

Craig Forys

It feels awesome to put my name up there with the others that have done it. Plus it gives me a lot of confidence going into nationals (Nike Indoor Nationals, March 11-12 at the Prince George's Sports Complex in Landover, Md.).

Emily Hughes

It felt awesome to be No.1. Let's hope next time I stay there.

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.

Jody Bass

I think it's awesome for the kids. They worked really hard to get here. I'm just happy for them. We dug ourselves and hole and worked our way out of it winning the last three and two of those were on the road.

Rachel Maraio

It is so awesome that the girls had the opportunity to go and compete in a tournament of this level. I am so happy with how they performed. It was good for them to be able to see all the teams and the different types of styles out there.

Andrew Kuechler

I thought we played really well. We played awesome getting to the state finals, something not many teams are able to do. It just didn't work out, but we made a good run at it.

Eli Juarez

A new coach, a new system and a young 6-foot-and-under team. I'm extremely proud of what we accomplished this season. We lose only two seniors and we're still learning. We can look forward to a good season next year.

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.

Mike Bibby

Coach said it was the first time in 20 years he had seen that.

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.

Caron Butler

Coach is a player's coach, ... He gets real involved in what's going on, so I had to give him a little high-five.

Derrick Williams

Coach is a person who looks into the future. It's been hard, but I know exactly where Joe is coming from. It can't be anything I can get mad over.

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.

Paul Allen

The Super Bowl. Wow! It's mind-blowing if you're a fan, how great it is to think of your team winning the Super Bowl.

John Lawlor

The sum of the parts is greater than the whole.

J. J. Johnson

The thing about Mike is he's so explosive. And he's going to make plays because he's got great quickness and great pad level.

Vic Wolffis

The thing about Kyle is that you can't say he hasn't only looked for himself. He's done a great job of getting other people involved. We've done this as a team.

David Whyte

The thing about great poetry is we have no defenses against it.

Bible Bible

But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they were not grown 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.

Sean Sullivan

We had grown out of it. We just wanted something new.

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.

David Blunkett

I am nothing if not a loyalist. After 46 years in the Labour party, I've grown weary of the cry: 'If only we had a new, shining, revamped leader, all would be well.'

Nick Price

I don't want to lecture him. He's a grown man; he makes his own decisions.

Maurice Cheeks

I could hear how grown up he'd become. That's what happens with most people. They've got to grow up at some point and I could hear the growth in his voice. It was refreshing and it was amazing.

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.

Jessica Valenti

As a kid, I wasn't sure that I would ever get married - I was not the kind of little girl who played at being a bride.

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.

Eric Karros

So I wouldn't have played me either, ... Not that you care.

Ray Emery

I don't think we played well in the third period, but I've got to be better. I've got to come up with some big saves.

Darin Spence

I don't think we played that bad, they're just that good.

Bud Adams

I don't think we have to rebuild, we just have to keep them going like they played today,

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.

Frank Rijkaard

This was a big result for the players and the club.

Chuck Daly

I've had too lengthy a career and coached too many players to make a choice.

Andrew Bird

I'm a terrible Scrabble player.

Alice Cooper

Johnny Depp already seen how alcohol and drugs can get in the way of a career. And you have to remember one thing: Johnny was a guitar player and a rock-and-roller way before he was an actor. When he came to Los Angeles, he came with his band.

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.

Alice Hoffman

Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

Patriotism demands the ability to feel shame as much as to feel pride.

Angela Merkel

If we remind ourselves of the fact that every fifth American today rightly points and perhaps also with a certain degree of pride to his German ancestry or her German ancestry, we can safely say that we, indeed, share common roots.

Rush Limbaugh

The press has met their Waterloo, and it's Obama.