Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald Trump

I'm competitive, and I love to create challenges for myself. Maybe that's not always a good thing. It can make life complicated.

David A. Bednar

In the school of mortality, we experience tenderness, love, kindness, happiness, sorrow, disappointment, pain, and even the challenges of physical limitations in ways that prepare us for eternity.

Darell Hammond

The lack of free, child-directed play time for our kids today will have dire consequences for these future leaders, making them less prepared to solve complex challenges and problems.

Richard Rogers

There is no one-size-fits-all solution to the challenges facing our cities or to the housing crisis, but the two issues need to be considered together. From an urban design and planning point of view, the well-connected open city is a powerful paradigm and an engine for integration and inclusivity.

Carrie Fisher

Kevin Smith is a very challenging conversationalist and Jay has many great stories.

Berkeley Breathed

It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one.

Ashley Tisdale

The only way to grow is to challenge yourself.

Henry Brown

The academies offer an excellent opportunity for those willing to rise to the challenges and rigors of a military education.

Chloe Dao

The 13 challenges nearly killed me. I think I did a great job.

Wesley Clark

A commander in chief with military experience might be able to prod a conservative military into thinking more imaginatively.

David Wenham

People who have never done theatre before, and have only worked in front of a camera, would find it very difficult, I think, to know how to command a stage and work with the logistics of being on stage. They're very different. The theatre is quite tricky, actually.

Phil Garner

That was a surprise. We haven't seen that from Oswalt. He struggled with his command and just didn't look comfortable in that first inning. This is very much uncharacteristic of the way he's pitched.

Harry Reid

We need to hear honesty, humility from the Commander in Chief, not swagger from the campaigner in chief.

Mary Antin

The czar was always sending us commands - you shall not do this and you shall not do that - till there was very little left that we might do, except pay tribute and die.

Antony Sher

You don't expect to get the letter saying, Her Majesty would like to appoint you Knight Commander of the British Empire! It was just a completely overwhelming and exciting day.

John Reid

While we take what happened seriously, and I stand by everything that our commander on the spot did, don't let's take one incident like that and try to pretend that it reflects the whole of even the Iraqi police force,

Cindy Sheehan

Who do you want as YOUR Commander in Chief?

Dan Callahan

I thought his velocity would increase dramatically in college. But that didn't happen. We didn't see dramatic change. He's throwing 79-82 mph. But he has excellent command of four pitches.

Gaines Adams

I feel like by me putting on a couple more pounds will help my game tremendously. Putting on 10-15 pounds will help me stop the run better and be a more dominant pass rusher.

Yo-Yo Ma

I think all musicians have at one time or another experienced one physical problem or another. I have had tendinitis a couple of times, so I try to be really careful. It takes patience and persistence to overcome injury.

Elle Fanning

When I do a movie, that's just a couple months out of my year and out of my life. All the other months I'm just at home, running around doing errands with my mom and going to sleepovers. I feel like I have that side of my life, and then I also do the films - which is just sort of a plus.

Boris Boehm

The overall performance of the market in the last couple of days has been impressive. Investors are locking in profits.

Bryan Cogman

The pressure used to wear on me. I was on Twitter a couple years ago, and I couldn't handle it all that well. Don't get me wrong, because 90% of the feedback you get is fantastic.

Carl Reiner

I was a Teletype operator in the army, so that's where I learned to type. One day, I went downstairs to see if I could still type - I hadn't done it for four or five years after the war. So I typed out a page and I showed it to my wife and she said, "Where did you get this?" I said I wrote it. "You wrote this?" It was something very funny. I went and wrote another page, another couple of pages, and by the time I was finished I had 13 little short stories, humorous short stories.

Bill Bryson

You can always tell a Midwestern couple in Europe because they will be standing on a traffic island in the middle of a busy intersection looking at a windblown map and arguing over which way is west. European cities, with their wandering streets and undisciplined alleys, drive Midwesterners practically insane.

Bette Davis

If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.

Ashton Kutcher

I have someone that cooks for me... that's the best thing ever. I just want to show up and I want my house to be like a hotel... so I want to have a couple of options... I like to have a couple of options.

Yotam Ottolenghi

You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.

Yanni

The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.

Yanis Varoufakis

I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.

Thierry Henry

I've always loved New York; I've been visiting New York since 1996. People don't look at you like, 'What are you doing? What are you wearing?' There is also that thing that when people know that you have worked hard to get something, people have that respect for that here. You worked hard - good for you.

Iggy Azalea

I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.

Ice T

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

Idina Menzel

I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?

Idina Menzel

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

Ivar Giaever

Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.

Abraham Torres

The overall way it is being handled for public relations and for the whole hospital is wrong.

Eddie Olczyk

We've had many mature 18-year old players that have come into this league and handled a lot. Not many have come in with the hype and the buildup as he has and he's handled it very well.

Larry Coker

I think Kirby did well. He handled himself well. He knew what to do with the football. He had some opportunities and plays that weren't made for him.

Pete Carroll

I thought Mark Sanchez handled himself real well. He had a very solid day.

Donald Copeland

It is disappointing, but the way he's handled it shows what type of man he is. He's never made any of this about himself. For him, it's all about the team.

Willie Randolph

Maybe I should have handled that differently. I don't know. I'm hoping a lot of the things I did now will help us in the future.

Joe Torre

The pressure was totally on Chacon and he handled it really well.

Troy Perkins

I think I bounced back well for the next game, and we showed it with a 2-0 victory. We played pretty solid in the back, and the things they did have were just breakdowns, and we handled it well.

Bob Thomason

With all the information we have, it's something that can be handled pretty simply, and he won't be out a very long time.

A.J. Burnett

Wherever they want me to throw 90 pitches I'm up for it.

Willie Randolph

Listen, when he pitches if I don't see what I like to see I'm not going to be totally patient. You go by your track record.

Shawn Chacon

I still made pitches when I had to.

Lou Piniella

He's a lot responsible for the way we've played. To me, he's pitching with a lot more confidence. You can see it out there. But that's what winning does for you. You get aggressive, you make better pitches and you make better choices.

Jim Tracy

When he's right, he's throwing quality pitches down there.

Ken Howe

We swung at a lot of first pitches and got outs. It minimized what he had to do for work on the mound. My hat's off to him.

Bobby Cox

He was just dynamite. Had all three pitches working.

Jeff Blauser

He could throw two pitches for strikes pretty much whenever he wanted. When you can do that, you'll be pretty effective.

Bobby Howard

He just started to get his pitches up. I thought he pitched well enough to win.

Connie Mack

You're born with two strikes against you, so don't take a third one on your own.

Maximilian Schell

Directing is like meeting a woman. You don't know her, but something strikes you, and then you just have to go into it.

Rigoberto Medina

There is no connection. The nationwide strike has nothing to do with this.

Dan Nobbs

We throw strikes and play defense, that's pretty much our philosophy.

Lorenzo Bundy

He was pretty good, especially early. He pounded the strike zone, but he still has to work on his location.

Jimmy Harris

He was spotting his fastball. He had a real tight strike zone.

Derek Jeter

He was throwing strikes, that's the thing. You try to be patient, but if he's throwing strikes with it, you find yourself in the hole.

Siv Meisingseth

We have no idea how long the strike will last.

Richard Watson

We didn't strike to give up more and get less, but that's what happened.

Mark Cuban

The first cities to create friction-free enterprise zones will get a lot of entrepreneurial traction.

Robbie Tobeck

He's kind of in the zone right now.

John Gibbons

He was in command. He was down in the zone all night.

Rick Renteria

He was up in the zone a little too much.

David Lange

An itinerant masseur, massaging the politically erogenous zones.

John Goodwin

Some of that is a construction zone now,

Jeb Putzier

That's where we come in. We have to get in the end zone more.

Chris Hovan

You got to zone everything out and go out and do your assignment.

Pat Metheny

I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly