Famous Quotes & Sayings

Twyla Tharp

My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the world.'

Twyla Tharp

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Custard is controversial: what makes it a custard, how best to cook it and, crucially, is it to be eaten or put in a pie and thrown?

Yani Tseng

It's very easy when you have someone in front of you that you can chase. You want to be No. 1 but now I feel like I have to play well because everybody looks at you as a best golfer. So that's why I put more pressure on myself.

Thucydides

We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.

Timothy Noah

There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.

Thomas Friedman

I can see a day soon where you'll create your own college degree by taking the best online courses from the best professors from around the world - some computing from Stanford, some entrepreneurship from Wharton, some ethics from Brandeis, some literature from Edinburgh - paying only the nominal fee for the certificates of completion.

Idina Menzel

I used to take 40 minutes to warm up before going on stage. If you want to spend time with your child as well as having a career, you have to get up there even if your head's a mess. It's made me more relaxed, and I'm having some of my best shows.

Idina Menzel

I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'

Ian Mckellen

We're very lucky, men, that there are these fabulous parts. Women - once you've done all the parts in Shakespeare, they start running out. So you can pick and choose and find something to energise you.

Gail Kelly

You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.

Chelsea Clinton

My dad had always been a big decaf coffee drinker. But my mom had always been more of a tea drinker. So I grew up around a lot of tea. And I also really love tea. But I'm not one of those people who has ever felt the need to choose between coffee and tea. I think that is a completely false dichotomy.

Bruce Afran

The people are the ones who are entitled to choose who occupies elected office, not the party.

Natasha Trethewey

It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.

Rick Perlstein

It is a quirk of American culture that each generation of nonconservatives sees the right-wingers of its own generation as the scary ones, then chooses to remember the right-wingers of the last generation as sort of cuddly.

Nick Carter

There was a ton of fighting between my mother and father. The kids would be thrown into the middle, to choose sides.

John Brady

We can't just use the weekly points to choose the team because if a team has one or two dominant players others in that side won't get any votes.

Linda Massey

We have two fine men to choose from.

Chris Peterson

The point we're at now is we're not taking any options off the table, but I can tell you one thing: We're not moving the school. I think there's always room for discussion, and we definitely want to cooperate as much as possible.

David Axelrod

This ought to be a season for cooperation in terms of pushing our economy forward, job creation, steadying the middle class, and laying the groundwork for a better future. And that's what we want to work on with Republicans and Democrats.

Abdelwahab Abdallah

We have always had profound ties, of respect and mutual cooperation.

Tim Roemer

We need to have fair and full cooperation, not separate and unequal cooperation from the two administrations.

Dean Fryer

We were stopped at the entrance by the security guard who refused to grant us access, refused to cooperate with us, refused to take the stop order personally.

Alan Levine

Time had run out. We got fantastic cooperation . . . and were able to get the patients to safety.

Jalal Talabani

We have more than 100,000 (Kurdish resistance fighters), and Syria also has tens of thousands. These forces can liberate Iraq with the support of the United States, with cooperation and coordination with American forces.

Ken Vargas

Usually people cooperate when they hear it's with the IRS.

Bob Martin

We have had great cooperation from the community, ... As soon as we get word that it is safe, we are sending 24 disaster relief trucks to the New Orleans area.

Jim Fassel

Those are the decisions you make, ... I made a lot of them. You can second-guess every damn one if you want.

Melody Strong

My mother didn't have any other options. But to be able to educate women now that there are options - damn it, I am going to work my hardest so that there aren't kids that go through what I went through, and grow up with so little self worth.

Mike Price

(Only), he's such a damn good student, he doesn't have to go into coaching.

Chris Cramer

One of the most damning indictments of the media profession is that reporters provide the ink and others provide the blood,

J. Straczynski

I would go back in time and do it again... I would not do it a second time, because it damn near killed me the first time.

Ron Galloway

I worked with a lot of superintendents. The last four didn't know a damn thing about what they were doing, particularly the guy from Oklahoma City. I'll never get over that guy.

Keith Jackson

I'm at a point in my life where I can't see as well, I can't hear as well and I damn sure can't run as fast. And you get tired after a while. I've been doing it for 53 years and I think that's long enough.

Bob Odom

If it's clean, I'll let it go, ... I'll renew (the ban) every damn month if I have to, I will do whatever I have to to protect the consumer.

Joe Torre

Hernandez pitched one hell of a game. He's pretty damn good, that's for sure.

Zach Braff

I'd always fantasized about writing a new play. Even when I had all this success in television, what I was daydreaming about in my dressing room is that one day I would do it.

William Cavendish

By this way you may dress all sorts of horses in the utmost perfection, if you know how to practice it; a thing that is very easy in the hands of a master.

Bonnie Bassler

If I didn't teach the aerobics class, I wouldn't come, and I need to stay in shape. I've got a whole wardrobe of sleeveless dresses and strapless gowns, not to mention the short skirts.

Bethany Mota

When I went to prom, I wore my hair down. But I love the idea of a long dress with your hair up. It's just gorgeous.

Big Sean

I still got a lot to learn about fashion. I'm somebody who experiments, somebody who's finding their way. I'm young, and I don't really know if there's any guide to style in what's right and what's wrong. I just dress as an extension of how I'm feeling. If I feel crazy, then I'm gonna rock something crazy.

Victoria Osteen

It's no secret that in our society, and many before, people are trend followers. For some reason, they feel better about themselves if they are dressed in the latest fashion or have the newest tech gadget.

Bethany Mota

I feel like whenever you dress for someone else you probably won't be as comfortable, because that's not what you genuinely want to wear.

Ron Dayne

That was the hardest part. Not dressing didn't really hurt me, but not being able to help the team did.

Stephen Moore

That was sort of his dress rehearsal, so to speak, ... He passed with flying colors. He was very loyal to Bush's agenda.

Hank Azaria

The craft Emmys are kind of the kids' table at Thanksgiving. You're not really invited to the big dance. It's still really, really exciting, and the statue still counts.

Sherri Shepherd

I'm not into the Oscar and Emmys as much as I used to be because I'm tired of looking at people who don't look like me.

Ellen DeGeneres

I guess I don't have to point this out, that it's the second time I've hosted the Emmys after a national tragedy. And I just want to say that I'm honored because it's times like this that we really need laughter,

Jon Cryer

I grew up loving TV so much. It was such an integral part of my youth, and I was completely an Emmy geek.

Ellen DeGeneres

Seriously, I think overall in the scheme of things, winning an Emmy is not important,

Allison Williams

The Emmys is great, but the Golden Globes, you have the stars of television and the stars of movies in one place.

Amanda Eliasch

Tinseltown is eerily silent when The Oscars, The Emmys and The Grammys, The Sag Awards, and The Golden Globes aren't in full swing.

Alan Alda

When I got recognized as a writer, when I got the Emmy, I was more excited than the Emmys I had gotten as an actor.

Beth Wilson

After the Emmy the show picked up steadily through the seventh season, when they had people from 'Survivor' on there, until last year.

Becky G

I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.

David Hyde Pierce

Last year, I finally got my own grand piano, and that was a big thing for me because it's always been and always will be a very important part of my life.

Nile Rodgers

I've found great solace in finally taking care of myself and others.

Chris Richard

That was the plan for the whole game, but we just didn't do it. We tried, but they played good defense. Once we got it worked out, we kept going at it and going at it, so it finally worked.

Tracy Roller

That whole last minute was just surreal. We finally did everything that we needed to do. It just took us until the last two possessions to get to that point.

George Clark

That was a good win for us, ... We finally put together a full game. The players should be proud because they did it as a team

Dave Huber

We just didn't react (early). It took a little while, but finally we started reacting and started doing some good things.

Fred Griffin

We were having trouble with their press and getting into our offense, but we finally got into a groove. The other night it was 16 teams left, then eight. Now it's four. We just want to finish the mission.

Bobby Carpenter

We've done about 30 or so of these. Now, it's finally winding down.

C. S. Lewis

This moment contains all moments.

Carl Sagan

We live at a moment when our relationships to each other, and to all other beings with whom we share this planet, are up for grabs.

Amy Irving

Theater actors know what their motivation is for each scene. They treat it very seriously as a craft. You do your homework. The reason I always need to go back to theater is the most stimulating moments are in rehearsal... whereas often in film, you've go to do it on your own.

Bob Bauman

That was a real surprise. But even though they scored, I don't think it shifted the momentum.

Derian Hatcher

That was probably the single most embarrassing moment I've had in my career.

Mike Sweeney

That was probably the most touching moment of silence I've stood through.

Stephen Byers

We have the investigators on site as they are at the moment and they will give me their preliminary findings as soon as possible.

Carlo Ancelotti

We will see how they are on Sunday because at the moment we can't say anything.

Roy Jorgenson

We had chances. We had looks. We played a 'B' game. There were moments where we played 'A' soccer.

Becky G

Sometimes I'll post goofy photos of myself on Instagram without make-up or making silly faces. I don't always look like a little Barbie doll.

Jess Glynne

I have so much hair, so straightening takes a long time. I mean, if I look at photos of myself with straight hair, it's hilarious. I look like a different person.

Megan Smith

For those of you who are underrepresented in technology, know that you've always been here. Look in photos and see yourself reflecting back.

Norman Reedus

I'm always taking pictures and travelling with a camera and have so many photos that I've done a book.

Mark Edwards

That's a little weird to me. Why would you be taking photos if nothing happened? Were they being taken to set up a defense?

Craig Fraser

Those photos would make you turn white to look at them,

Mary-Kate Olsen

I look at old photos of me, and I don't feel connected to them at all. I would never wish my upbringing on anyone... but I wouldn't take it back for the world.

Rebekah Brooks

The days of foot-in-the-door harassment and snatched photos are gone.

Wislawa Szymborska

You have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.

Carl Sagan

Even through your hardest days, remember we are all made of stardust.

Bill Vaughan

These are days you'll remember. If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.

Tilda Swinton

till I was about 17. I can't remember why I stopped. I've tried (to suck my thumb) since, but it doesn't work anymore.

Eric Osmundson

I thought oh, not again. I remember my first year here was a similar situation.

Christian Moody

Julian just went up, and I can't remember who he dunked on, but who he dunked on will remember it.

Beck

I remember you would record a guitar part, and we would have to sit there for 15 or 20 minutes waiting for the computer to process it. You'd see the little wheel spinning on the computer, and you'd be praying that the hard drive didn't crash and you didn't lose the performance.

Juanita Johnson

I was thinking, 'Well, this is easy.' Three-fourths into it, I remember sweating. I hadn't sweated in a long time.

Larry Anderson

I was here for Camille and I'm leaving. I was here and I remember it well. I don't want to be here for another one.

Tim Sims

He was just wild enough to keep them off balance.

David R. Brower

We cannot go on fiddling while the earth's wild places burn....

Chief Seattle

This We Know. All Things Are Connected

Cheryl Strayed

You can't replicate walking 94 days through the wilderness by yourself with a really heavy pack until you do it.

Bryant H. McGill

The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.

Baltasar Gracian

There is no wilderness like a life without friends.

Brigitte Bardot

My wild and free side unsettled some, and unwedged others.

Denis Waitley

Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

Aldo Leopold

Wildlife administration, in this respect, is not yet a profession.

Bill Bryson

It was an especially wonderful time to be a noisy moron.

Tino Martinez

The '98 Yankees never won 11 in a row.

Mike Fox

We've made a lot of advances. We won our first game, which was a big step.

John Spiak

You kind of wonder what's going on in the state.

Robert Redford

Julie, it's wonderful to see you. This is Lena.

Paul Terry

We have not won the Championship for more than 30 years and it is something we really want to do.

Jason Taylor

We haven't done anything yet. We won one game. Big deal.

Gregory Peck

I won one of these in 1947 and it was very encouraging, and it's very encouraging now,

Krystal McKenzie

I think if we had set it up a little differently we would have won it.