Famous Quotes & Sayings

Suzanne Somers

I understood something way back when I was on 'Three's Company.' When I got the part, I was flat broke. I was so happy to get the part, but I kept thinking, 'Ugh - dumb blondes are so irritating; how do I make her likable?' I think that I achieved that. It took a while for people to realize I was acting.

Lawrence Halprin

This isn't a memorial to him as a person. It's a memorial to what he achieved as our leader. It's a way of communicating to this country what he stood for.

Joseph Johnson

We developed this product specifically to meet the military's need for an affordable communications OTM solution. By combining the characteristics of new X-Band satellites and our heritage of designing to military specification requirements and maximizing highly reliable COTS technology, we have achieved that goal.

Martin O'Malley

Between 1999 and 2009, the people of Baltimore achieved the greatest reduction in crime of America's largest cities.

Joaquin Castro

Since becoming mayor in 2009, Julian has worked tirelessly to pursue policies that honor the aspirations of the people he represents. I'm proud that my brother has achieved his dreams, but I'm even more proud of the work he's done to help others achieve theirs.

Sol Campbell

He was a great guy, he knew what he wanted and achieved it in his own way.

David Ferrer

I'm very happy, because it's something that I never expected to be in the Top 10 of the INDESIT ATP Rankings. In a year I've gone from being No.40 to Top 10 so I'm very proud of myself. I will keep on working and I'm just proud that I'll always be able to say I've been in the Top 10. It was always something that motivated me, but now that I've achieved it, it just gives me more desire to achieve greater things.

Mackey McDonald

I'm very pleased that we achieved our third consecutive year of higher sales and also our third consecutive year of record earnings. Clearly we put in place a platform for solid sustainable growth in both sales and profits.

Robert Einhorn

India appears to have fully achieved all its negotiating objectives: importing uranium and nuclear technology, gaining recognition as a nuclear weapon state and preserving full freedom to expand its nuclear weapons capability as it sees fit.

Donatella Versace

(Demi) is a woman who has kids, who has a career and still looks amazing first thing in the morning. No wonder she has such a gorgeous man by her side. She looks just as sexy in a pair of jeans and a sweater as she does in an evening dress that is my idea of a woman.

Ted Purdy

I understand he's really slowing down, but at 94, he's still an amazing guy. I'm sorry not to see him this week, but I hope he can make it for his tournament in Dallas next month.

Lindsay Brown

Everyone wants to win (the national title) for them because they've worked so hard and they've played amazing all year. It's their last year, so it'd be nice for them to go out with a win.

Abbie Letz

Dionne is an amazing basketball player, and she hasn't even begun to reach her full potential yet. She proved she is just as good as Sophia Young. I expect her to be an All-American before she graduates.

Jose Andres Puerta

Cotton candy is the most amazing form of caramelization ever invented by man.

Greg Frers

Corey is Mr. Everything in Saskatchewan. It's amazing what he did this year,

Paolo Bacigalupi

As a writer, you should care about reluctant readers. You want these kids to feel like books are amazing and cool and that they're an escape.

Paul McEuen

Carbon nanotubes are amazing because they're really good electrical conductors, yet they are only a few atoms in diameter. You can make transistors out of them in the same way you can with silicon. At Berkeley, we made the narrowest device anybody had ever made. It was basically a single molecule.

Pattie Boyd

It wasn't until I realised that I could actually take nice photographs that I started to become passionate about it. I then got a few jobs working for magazines in London, and I would get terribly excited and intense about doing a job and taking photographs and looking through the lens to capture something amazing.

John Bruno

We hope to make Start even better next year, continuing with a two-day run,

Alex Smith

It feels great to get my first (touchdown pass), no matter where it was, but it was great to get it here. Obviously, a lot of credit goes to the other guys, the receivers and especially the guys up front. Things are going to come together. All we need to do is keep working hard. Being young, I'm continuing to learn and make strides every week.

Yis Gigay

In the middle of my first year I decided that I wanted to open up a Middle Eastern restaurant instead of continuing to study.

Michelle Snow

I've been doing this for 20 years. I've seen hundreds of kids. Monica is dedicated to music. She's got perseverance. She's one of the few that will actually make it.

Pastor Birnbaum

We dedicated 17 new flags during this President's weekend and the groundbreaking was for the parking lot and landscaping improvements and getting ready for the 50th.

John Cena

When my job isn't performing in a WWE ring, my job is to get back performing in that ring. When I'm hurt, all I have to do all day is get strong and get better. I'm a very dedicated physical therapy patient, and that helps a lot.

Kimberly Schmitz

Five shows are specifically dedicated to beading, which has become a phenomenon. Even doggie sweaters are beaded now.

Carolyn Smith

We all have been singing the blues. We have dedicated full time the last month to the museum and we all have other jobs.

Yuvraj Singh

No matter what people say, about what I did, about what I am like... They say you are not dedicated or hardworking. A lot of people say things about me, but they don't realise I have played 250 games. It's not like you just land up in the team, sit down and play 250 games. You can't survive like that in international cricket.

Kurt Cunningham

We depend greatly on the help we get from volunteers. We have up to 20 volunteers helping out every year. Last year, they put in 4,000 hours. They are a very dedicated and well-trained bunch.

Henry Williamson

True idealists are rare; they are the dedicated workers, who would, if need be, die at the stake.

H. Hart

We just didn't have enough to have a dedicated group of offensive players and a dedicated group of defensive players,

Brian Tracy

Set excellent performance as your standard and strive to achieve it each day

Deepak Chopra

Pursue excellence; ignore success.

Thornton Wilder

All excellence is equally difficult.

Hannah Arendt

Every activity performed in public can attain an excellence never matched in privacy; for excellence, by definition, the presence of others is always required.

Helen Thomas

You're only as good as your last story.

Cassie Campbell

Why is women's hockey the only sport that sort of gets put down for excellence? Why should we stop and not get better?

Henry Ellis

The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Steve Kerr

This ranks right up there, ... Right up there at the top with anything that happened with the Bulls.

Peter Cohen

I feel that so much has happened that I didn't think would happen. I'm shocked. My judgement has been wrong for two years.

Jack Kerouac

Nothing ever happened - Not even this

Virginia Littrell

That's something that should have happened years ago.

Donald Rumsfeld

It's important to have metrics, it's also important to have the right metrics and not be misled by metrics -- as has happened in some other conflicts,

Angela Ruggiero

It's happened two Olympics in a row. Will it be three?

Maurice Ager

It's happened so fast. It's tough to swallow right now. We've got to be a team, be men, keep going. Things aren't always going to go your way.

Andreas Lilja

It's happened before. When it happens, there's not much you can do. It probably looks worse (then it is).

O. J. Simpson

The AXP System automates what was typically an 18-step manual process while improving the recovery rates of the stem cells.

Paula Abdul

I've never been to MAGIC before. This is a little overwhelming.

Jane Yolen

Touch magic. Pass it on.

Charles Bukowski

I could never accept life as it was, I could never gobble down all its poisons bu there were parts, tenuous magic parts open for the asking.

Albert Einstein

God is a scientist, not a magician.

Thomas Bangalter

If everybody knows all the tricks, it's no more magic.

Val McDermid

It's not magic that takes us to another world - it's storytelling.

V. S. Pritchett

There is more magic in sin if it is not committed.

Susie Bright

Doing the right thing for someone else was like a tonic for me; it was like some magic ointment that made a wound disappear

Susanna Clarke

He hardly ever spoke of magic, and when he did it was like a history lesson and no one could bear to listen to him.

Ambrose Bierce

A chop is a piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants.

Morris Chestnut

I remember when we were in rehearsals and we were going through it, because we rehearsed before we went to Toronto, and it's more of the same. She and I had to deal with a lot of stuff in this movie and we really have to take ourselves there. It actually started in rehearsals, and just revisiting that piece of it all. Just the way Monica is and what she says and the way she looks at me, it really affects me throughout rehearsals and throughout the scenes.

Richard Gere

I do my work as an actor, but another part of my work goes to the piece as a whole. I can be fairly detached looking at my work and be brutal on myself.

Ronaldo Ronaldo

It was a piece of stupidity on my part,

Thomas Frank

We're trying to put all the pieces together.

Tom Chapin

Mine is not a traditional music, but it comes from a tradition.