Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vijender Singh

I have prepared myself to be at my peak in London. But in the Olympics, there are so many factors. You need to stay alert all the time, and a lapse of concentration, even for a second, will let you down.

Charlotte Bronte

It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment.

Tom Hollander

If you're actually being paid to be miserable, and to be as miserable as you can be, that's a very fortunate thing, if you're prone to occasional lapses of spirit.

John Burness

Joe wanted to reach out to students who felt they'd like support and provide answers for anything they felt they needed to know.

Evan Bayh

I think I should hear what the man has to say before making up my mind, ... Whoever is chosen for this spot could be on our nation's highest court for 30 years perhaps, and deal with some of the most fundamental liberties that we have in this country. So I think it's important we take our time, ask the right questions, listen carefully to the answers and then reach a considered judgment.

Paul Heath

It answers who did it and possibly why they did it, and to that extent, there is closure.

Robert Yates

It answers the question; we feel the engine program is pretty solid, ... There is a long list of things that make up a good race team, and when you can eliminate one of those variables, it's nice.

Peter Young

We support the general concept of a World Cup but like everything else with Twenty20, there are more questions than answers and we'd like a bit more time to look at everything.

Tom Clark

To conjure up such ridiculous questions, the answers to which we all know or should know are in the negative, is to build up a whimsical and farcical straw man which is not only grim but Grimm.

Alex Jones

The answer to 1984 is 1776.

Verne Troyer

I felt probably more uncomfortable than Beyonce. But I can't answer for her.

Robin Wright

Everyone has the answers.

Nancy Cartwright

I will not do that thing with my tongue

Rex Stout

What the tongue has promised, the body must submit to.

Sarah Addison Allen

He was the only person in the world she was tongue-tied around, and yet the only person she really wanted to talk to.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

The microspeed of the tongue ought to be always slightly less than the microspeed of the thoughts and certainly not ever the reverse.

Jonathan Swift

I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.

Moliere

Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.

Plutarch

A fool cannot hold his tongue.

Pythagoras

Govern your tongue before all other things, following the gods.