Famous Quotes & Sayings

Evel Knievel

You can't say you're going to jump the Grand Canyon and then jump some other canyon.

Steve Hodson

We were so tense . . . I don't think we ever did relax and get in the flow of Canyon View basketball. But at the same time we did the things that you have to do be successful ? you guard, you rebound, you're unselfish and you make free throws going down the wire.

Jim Wilkins

Wind through these canyons runs like water does. It follows the canyon path.

Valerie Azlynn

I think I have lived in every part of L.A. except downtown. Everywhere from Topanga Canyon to Toluca Lake.

Don Baylor

If inequality is a gulley in other states, it is a deep canyon in Texas.

Harley Shaiken

There is more than one way out of this canyon they are in right now,

Gerry Bradley

We are looking more and more like those Third World countries with a Grand Canyon between the haves and have-nots and a disappearing middle class.

Chris Hillman

Those Laurel Canyon days were great. I have a real fondness for that era, 'til about '68. Musically, it was wonderful, and there was this great innocence, an idyllic view of the world. After that, everything got a little... edgy.

Hampton Sides

When the Americans were trying to conquer the Navajos, they felt this need to capture Canyon de Chelly like it was the Navajo capital. It was a meeting place and a sanctuary of last refuge. To control Canyon de Chelly was to control the Navajo people.

Iyad Allawi

With nearly 20 days until Iraq emerges as a free sovereign state for the first time in more than three decades, terrorists have increasingly targeted our country's infrastructure.

George Allen

We're going to hear a lot of spirited discussion about the President's plan in the next few days and weeks and that's fine as long as everyone comes ready to talk and not just snipe, complain and argue.

Yo-Yo Ma

Mastering music is more than learning technical skills. Practicing is about quality, not quantity. Some days I practice for hours; other days it will be just a few minutes.

Billy Graham

Some people spend their lives building ultimate dream homes so they can enjoy their twilight years... Others spend their last days in nursing homes.

Don Rickles

I mean, in my - and I'm not trying to do spilled milk, but in those days it was a little - I think it was much tougher, because you got an image, and you were in a saloon. And it was tough to come out of a saloon and to get in films, and to maintain an image, you know.

Graham Swift

The pen is very quick for getting stuff from your brain to the page. I can do hieroglyphics in the margin. There are days when I really enjoy the flow of ink. I mean, nice pen, ink straight on to the page.

Ben Elliot

I eat out three times a day most days of the year. This is no big deal to most New Yorkers, and it is not something I am necessarily proud of - it's simply the nature of my itinerant life.

Becky G

There are days I'm feeling lazy, and my mom will remind me, 'Beyonce also only has 24 hours during the day.' That always keeps me going.

David Kay

As leader of the effort of the Iraqi Survey Group, I spent most of my days not out in the field leading inspections. It's typically what you do at that level. I was trying to motivate, direct, find strategies.

Alice McDermott

I have a great fondness for the liars in my stories.

Mary C. Jones

He showed in the last interview, as on the later portions of the chart, a genuine fondness for the rabbit.

Bruce Rinker

I have great respect and fondness for the friends, and I think that's reciprocal. I want everyone to know we're trying to respect that formal agreement.

Teresa Heinz

My only self-confidence and satisfaction comes from the people that I do meet; I have fondness for people. I mean, I like to hug. And I also like to be hugged.

Dan Buettner

The more things for which you develop a fondness the richer the life you live.

Yousuf Karsh

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

Todd Rundgren

It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.

Idina Menzel

I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

Idina Menzel

I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.

Ian Frazier

I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.

Ian Mckellen

Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.

Ismail Kadare

In antiquity, there were three regions in southern Europe: Greece, Rome, and Ilyria. Albanian is the only survivor of the Ilyrian languages. That is why it has always intrigued the great linguists of the past.

Gaines Adams

I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.

Gad Elmaleh

There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.

Joan Ark

With a view of Pike's Peak to the left and Cheyenne, Wyoming, to the right, we really did have an idyllic upbringing in a post-card setting..

Susanne Bier

You don't have to go very far away from Scandinavia to realize what an idyllic society it is.

Brian Williams

When you make 'The Daily Show', it's usually not for a laurel, it's for a dart.

J. Tillman

Laurel Canyon is kind of grotesque. It's this nature-themed place, and everybody is kind of angry.

Steve Martin

I don't like to look back, and I'm always worried about the next thing rather than resting on the laurels or the degradations of the last thing.

Mary Kay Ash

Nothing wilts faster than a laurel rested upon.

Patricia Cornwell

I refuse to sit on my laurels.