Famous Quotes & Sayings

Doug Stanhope

Babies are like poems. They're beautiful to their creator, but to other people, they're silly and they're irritating.

Doug Stanhope

At least black people knew when they were slaves; you remain clueless.

Doug Stanhope

If you really believe death leads to eternal bliss then why are you wearing a seatbelt?

Doug Stanhope

Sex is a very narrow avenue. You only have so many holes and parts, and eventually, you run out of things to do.

Douglas Adams

Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.

Duffy Daugherty

Football is not a contact sport. Its a collision sport

Duke of Wellington

Yes, about ten minutes.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

Donald Rumsfeld

Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.

Bob Dylan

Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build the big bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks.

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

There isn't any wall, however high, however wide or however big, whatever it is made from, that can bar you from achieving a better life. There isn't any wall or pit that is in front of you to stop you from achieving a future of wellbeing.

Jonathan Swift

Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them; as he who in a melancholy fancy sees something like a face on the wall or the wainscot can, by two or three touches with a lead pencil, make it look visible, and agreeing with what he fancied.

Kevin Spacey

The control is shifting because of the democratisation of the internet. My industry is very good at building walls to stop people getting in.

Kelley Armstrong

Simon's walls were covered in what looked like pages ripped from a comic book, but when I squinted, I realized they were hand drawn. Some were black-and-white, but most were in full color, everything from character sketches to splash panels to full pages, done in a style that wasn't quite manga, wasn't quite comic book.

Kathy Reichs

Ben yanked Hi sideways as spikes snapped from the wall…Once again, only Ben’s reflexes had saved him. “Please stop doing that!” Ben barked. “Please keep doing that!” Hi warbled.

Khaled Hosseini

I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I remember the precise moment, crouching behind a crumbling mud wall, peeking into the alley near the frozen creek. That was a long time ago, but it’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years.

Khaled Hosseini

One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.

Khalil Gibran

He is short-sighted who looks only on the path he treads and the wall on which he leans.

Bobby Knight

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

Johnny Giles

Home advantage is usually an advantage to the home team

Michael Jordan

I can remember a game, we were down with about 5 to 10 points, I go off about 25 points, we come back and win the game, we're walking off the floor. Tex (Winter) looks at me and says "There's no "I" in team!" I looked at Tex and say, "There's not, but there's an 'I' in win!

Cathy Martin

She tends to take the team on her back. The team relies on her to lead.

Jim Harbaugh

I love people, I really do. I'm a people person. I think that's a strength of mine. I love being around people, especially in a team setting.

Jacqueline McKenzie

I love being part of the team.

Gary Neville

When you join this club as a young player you know you've got a mountain to climb to get yourself into the first team. (on Manchester United)

Jack Brickhouse

Any team can have a bad century.

Jay Leno

A Pakistan businessman is claiming that John Walker Lindh is gay and that he was his lover. Say what you will about Lindh, but when this guy goes to play for the other team - he goes all the way ... So Lindh may be both a terrorist and a gay man. That may be John Ashcroft's worst nightmare.