Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leos Carax

When I made my first film, I had hardly ever seen a camera before, and I was a young man when I arrived in Paris from the suburbs. At the time, I didn't talk much. I was very shy, so the bluff served me. I was telling people that I had no money, and that I knew how to make films, but I had no proof.

Herbert A. Simon

Time and again, we have found the 'idle' truths arrived at through the process of inquiry to be of the greatest moment for practical human affairs.

Floyd Abrams

While Judy Miller sat in jail for 85 days and Mr. Libby knew that she was doing it to protect him, no call came in from him, no letter arrived from him,

Gerry McGhee

When we arrived on the scene, the home was totally involved.

Caron Butler

When we arrived in Cleveland (Monday) we were in the back of the bus and we said we know Gilbert is going to come out and have a big game, so it's on us. We didn't play well in the first game.

Robert Wagner

When we arrived at the scene, there were four people still in the 2003 Ford Expedition,

Joe Brand

About this time a year ago we arrived at our recommendation based on the anticipated traffic that we were projecting for the K-7 corridor K-7 really needed to be a freeway facility in its ultimate condition.

Scott Goodale

It's just great to see him reach this level. He is a tireless worker who has continued to do whatever it takes to become a better wrestler. We knew from the moment he arrived at our program that he was a special kind of kid.

Carson Palmer

It seems like we're on top of the world right now. But I don't think guys in this locker room really feel like that. I think they feel we haven't arrived yet.

Arne Jacobsen

Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high.

Denzel Washington

Goals on the road to achievement cannot be achieved without discipline and consistency.

Denis Waitley

A winner concentrates on that which is goal achieving rather than tension relieving.

Denis Waitley

The reason so many individuals fail to achieve their goals in life is that they never really set them in the first place

Denis Waitley

Happiness, wealth, and success are by-products of goal setting, they cannot be the goal themselves.

Denis Waitley

Achievers can almost literally taste success because they imagine their goals in such vivid detail. Setbacks only seem to add spice and favor to the final taste of victory.

Denis Waitley

Be willing to wait longer for you goals to bear fruit than you had anticipated.

Denis Waitley

Make certain that your goals are not measured in comparison with others.

Deena Kastor

A goal is just an awesome way to force growth on yourself.

Loretta Lynn

You can't be halfway in this business. If you don't meet the fans, you lose all you've got.

Bob Beamon

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Sylvester Croom

It really increases our speed in the pass rush and still allows us to play the run halfway decent.

Irish Proverb

A questioning man is halfway to being wise.

Clint Hurdle

The thing was, people we had talked to over the winter didn't want to come our way. We were able to get three of them halfway through the season. So it wasn't by design.

Robin Ross

Right now we're about halfway through our spring practices so this is kind of like a midterm exam.

Mark Twain

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes

Jodi Smallcomb

We are a little over halfway there. For our last fundraising event, we want to push it over the top.

Alan Vega

That's what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill their ultimate promise. They only get halfway there or a quarter of the way there.

Bernard Williams

We are potentially looking at tens of thousands of pounds. The Hirst and the McCartney are star lots.

Cheryl Brown

We've already started looking at what we could do different and better for next year's show.

Monique Currie

We are looking to get into the No. 1 spot because that would mean we won the game.

Craig Barrett

We are looking to be the preeminent building-block supplier to the World Wide Web economy,

Bill Ryan

We are looking to be competitive with the middle of the league.

Mike Williams

We are looking into this matter, we have made no decision.

Mary Osako

We are looking into the report. We would not know the nature of an investigation.

Doug Gay

We are looking into it. There was something that did transpire out there.

Dave Rose

We are looking into installing them because of a rise in vandalism and graffiti at the schools during off hours.

Lewis Wade

They're not going to tell. They'd rather retaliate.

Dryden Mitchell

It was so unorganized. ... It just got silly. We would have rather sat on that record for a year and let Geffen put it out.

Nick Cave

Aw, look, I don't know. I think I'd rather him do that than me.

James Griffin

As long as it is like it is and they tell me not to go back I'm here. I'd rather be up here anyway.

Cade Bernsen

As I understand it, it's going to be done rather quickly.

Bill White

Rather than risk confrontation with (police), we are going to stay at the Capitol.

W. C. Fields

On the whole I would rather be in Philadelphia.

A.J. Burnett

Sooner rather than later, we're going to see a new team on top there.

Kevin Pietersen

Rather him than me in one of those things,

Charles Caleb Colton

If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.

Charles Dickens

One disagreeable result of whispering is that it seems to evoke an atmosphere of silence, haunted by the ghosts of sound - strange cracks and tickings, the rustling of garments that have no substance in them, and the tread of dreadful feet that would leave no mark on the sea-sand or the winter snow.

Charles Dickens

The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution.

Charles Dickens

The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.

Charles Dickens

"It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. "It was the salmon."

Charles Spurgeon

You will win as many souls as God gives you, but no one will be converted by your own power.

Charles Spurgeon

The diver plunges deep to find pearls, and we must accept any labor or hazard to win a soul

Charles Spurgeon

The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win

Charles Spurgeon

Our great object of glorifying God is to be mainly achieved by the winning of souls Do not close a single sermon without addressing the ungodly.