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.'

Phil Savage

Miami this year had an incredible team down there, ... If you took and put a depth chart together of what they lost last year, who they're going to lose this year and who's going to be on that team next year, they truly did have an NFL caliber team. There's no two ways about that.

Randy Shepherd

Melvin called me. He has been playing in Iceland. He enjoyed the game last year and wanted to be a part of it again. Having a guard of his caliber will help us.

Greg Brunner

You just look at that team. The caliber of players they have. They're not going to be intimidated.

Brad Smith

I think the teams are all set to have strong spring seasons. With the kind of players already on the teams and the caliber of recruits who are coming to the programs, I think they will be in good shape for years to come. I want to wish them a lot of luck in the future.

Gary Shaw

Manny has a superb management team in Shelly Finkel, Nick Khan and Keith Davidson, as well as a Hall-of-Fame caliber trainer in Freddie Roach,

Aaron Sorkin

The problem with getting actors of this caliber is that if the show doesn't work, Tommy and I can be pretty sure it was our fault.

Peter DeFazio

I won't be flying out of Sioux Falls, ... Before 9-11, screeners had trouble in tests detecting fully assembled large caliber handguns and today that's not a problem.

Chuck Merzbacher

I think playing a team of that caliber really helped us figure out what we need to work on the rest of the year. We really picked up some things that we know we have to get better at to be able to compete with those type of teams and be successful the rest of the season.

Joe Galante

We realized we'd be down as an industry this year. We didn't have the same caliber of releases and in the same quantity.

Xavier Becerra

Today, we have a trade regime which has led to the largest trade deficits this country has ever experienced.

Timothy Noah

Economic inequality is less troubling if you live in a country where any child, no matter how humble his or her origins, can grow up to be president.

Giles Foden

I can't think of a specific meal, but my favourite country for food has got to be France. I love those restaurants in the middle of the village squares.

Gilbert White

You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter.

Donald Trump

Obamacare is, number one and maybe least importantly, it's costing the country a fortune.

William Shatner

I've never been without a dog. I've made trips across the country with a dog.

William Whitelaw

Harold Wilson is going around the country stirring up apathy.

William John Wills

This country is undergoing great changes for the better.

Valerie June

I'm not really into alternative country - I'm into Patsy Cline, who lived down the street from where I lived, and old Dolly Parton records, Kitty Wells and that old stuff. I like country music. I also like Eric Church, who has a great new sound but also holds onto that old sound.

Carrie Underwood

I love scary movies. I like blood and gore, and I love Halloween movies.

Rickey Henderson

I'm a Hall of Famer and I'm still fighting for it because I love the game and I love to play.

Greg Bender

Usually, when he does these things, he'll give a talk, and then he and everyone else leaves and comes back the next day. Here, the students stayed together and were able to keep talking in the halls and the restaurants and lobby.

William Shakespeare

I charge thee, hence, and do not haunt me thus.

Pete Rose

I'm not sure Mark McGwire was a Hall of Famer to begin with.

Jim Boeheim

Most of the people in the Hall are on a different level from me,

William Shakespeare

Be as thou wast wont to be. See as thou wast wont to see.

William Shakespeare

In the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear!

William Shakespeare

Methought I was enamour'd of an ass.

Jim Struhsaker

I would say that what we observed here was very rare.

Ty Cobb

I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.

Chris Wedge

One of the things I've observed since I was a kid, is that if you work on something long enough you'll find I, even if you're lost for a while you'll find it.

Salar Kamangar

We observed by talking with our users that there is no reason to think of IM as different from an e-mail message.

Thomas Breuer

The most astonishing thing is that we have observed them using tools not for obtaining food, but for postural support.

Cinnamon Williams

They've already been observed mating. I was not here, but I have been told.

Roger Richards

In December, we observed an impropriety in the bookkeeping.

Steve Long

We wanted to have a place where our practices were together.

Philip Morris

merchandising practices at the wholesale and retail levels.

John Hawkins

Like all citizens, Ms. McNeill has the right to be free from unlawful employment practices such as sex discrimination and retaliation.

Mike Price

Those were spectacular catches. I want to see him out at 15 practices this spring, every one of them, all the way through. Then I'll tell you (where he stands). He showed what he can do. But he can't do that if he's sitting on the sidelines.

Kelly Herndon

We're just taking it step by step right now. I've got to see how I feel in practices and then how I feel for the game.

Mike Goforth

It's one of the two or three worst spring practices (for injuries) I can remember.

Gary Gray

It's sort of a research update. We give growers an update of what practices seem to be most beneficial.

Gary Barnett

This team is getting better. I'm pretty pleased. . . . We've got 10-11 practices left, but I'm satisfied with where we are.

David Thomas

Every year we've come to California, it's been raining. But we get all our practices in, and it's been fun.

Sammy Day

That was a tough loss. But they battled back and I was proud of them.

Liz Darger

We could end the season right now and I'd be happy. I'm proud of this whole team.

Tommy Swanson

We had our chances. It was still a solid year for us, one we can look back on and be proud of.

Tom Renney

We were sloppy, but we didn't give up. I'm proud of that.

Shaun Alexander

We have a lot of things to be proud of. We took Seattle to a place it's never been before.

Chad Alan

We're very proud of where we come from.

Rick Hendrick

We're really proud of the team and the effort.

William Shakespeare

Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania

Dick Cheney

You'll be proud of Harriet's record, Rush, ... Trust me.

Charles Dudley Warner

The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.

Chief Joseph

Cursed be he that scalps the reputation of the dead.

William Shakespeare

You have lost no reputation at all, unless you repute yourself such a loser.

Mary Foley

Worship here is very joyful. Our reputation is that of a very friendly, welcoming community.

Charles Churchill

And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word.

Blaise Pascal

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

Sydney Smith

Avoid shame, but do not seek glory; nothing so expensive as glory.

Baltasar Gracian

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

Ariel Pink

I get to live down my reputation for being cantankerous if I slowly evolve towards being a really good live show.

Stefan Hell

Calling on each molecule one by one? No way. I just told all of them to be quiet - except for a selected few.

Jim Kerr

She's a leader, and she doesn't have to say much to be one. She's been selected as our teammate of the year for several years, and that's something that's voted on by the players.

Nate Robinson

The whole time from when I was selected for it, I've been watching film of Spud Webb.

Bergen Evans

There is wisdom in the selection of wisdom....

Peter Agre

Natural selection is not an inflammatory phrase; evolution is.

Dion Harris

We said from Selection Sunday, from that day on, whatever happens, we're going to come out to play to win.

Don Morrow

Variety selection is most important of all factors.

David Blunkett

Read my lips. No selection by examination or interview.

Samuel Dalembert

That would have been a tough decision. If the staff didn't change, it would have been something to think about.

Joe Nathan

We've got our staff back. We've got a better lineup. We're going to be a lot better.

Dusty Baker

We have a support staff here I think that can make a difference.

Jay Carson

Forty-one just wanted to come by and say hello. He was really great, and our staff really appreciated it.

Cherry Loney

We are already strained in terms of our staff and space.

Allen Weinstein

NARA must provide security at our facilities to protect our public patrons, our staff, and our holdings.

Cynthia Johnson

Our staff don't take to rhetoric, they need proof.

Ralph Brennan

Staff is our most significant challenge. We already know that many of them will not return.

John Roberts

I was a staff lawyer, ... I didn't have a position.

C. S. Lewis

[M]an has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head. He doesn't think of doctrines as primarily "true" or "false," but as "academic" or "practical," "outworn" or "contemporary," "conventional" or "ruthless." Jargon, not argument, is your best ally in keeping him from the Church. Don't waste time trying to make him think that materialism is true! Make him think it is strong or stark or courageous—that it is the philosophy of the future. That's the sort of thing he cares about.

C. S. Lewis

I have come," said a deep voice behind them. They turned and saw the Lion himself, so bright and real and strong that everything else began at once to look pale and shadowy compared with him.

Catie Curtis

Love can't make you strong 'till love has made you weak.

Cecelia Ahern

I want a character to wake up one day and feel like, I can face it. That, to me, is happy. I want the characters to rescue themselves, though you use the relationships you have, to make you strong enough to be able to do that.

Cecelia Ahern

There’s something completely unnerving about seeing your parents upset. I suppose it’s because they’re supposed to be the strong ones, but that’s not just it. Ever since people are kids they use their parents as some sort of measurement for how bad a situation is. When you fall on the ground really hard and you can’t figure out whether it hurts or not you look to your parents. If they look worried and rush toward you, you cry. If they laugh and smack the ground saying “Bold ground,” then you pick yourself up and get on with it.

Carrie Underwood

I know that music is my life. It is my strong point. That's my love.

Carrie Underwood

I wouldn't go so far as to say I am a feminist, that can come off as a negative connotation. But I am a strong female.

Carrie Underwood

And all the things that break you are all the things that make you strong. You can't change the past 'Cause it's gone, and you just gotta move on.

Carl Rogers

The way of being with another person which is termed empathic...means temporarily living in their life, moving abut in it delicately without making judgment... to be with another in this way means that for the time being you lay aside the views and values you hold for yourself in order to enter the other's world without prejudice...a complex, demanding, strong yet subtle and gentle way of being.

William Mezger

Most of them are students and don't work at other times of the year.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Human reproduction can be a sticky subject—” “Ewww!” groaned a chorus of students

MaryEllen Elia

We have a way to go with our 12th-grade students.

Brian O'Reilly

We don't want to penalize students for something that was not their fault.

John Boyles

I have a vision for the way students can be represented.

Steve Ferguson

What we want to do is make sure that students who come to Bloomington are already prepared.

Kenny Perry

He's a tremendous kid, a tremendous student of the game,

Becky Lofstead

He was a 4-point student from what I understand. Just an outstanding student.

Kevin Knight

I'd like to see every student be a part of their school, whether they are in sports, band, drama, or any other ac-tivity,

Idina Menzel

Growing up I studied classically and did lots of shows in school.

Poe Ballantine

I studied a truckload of true crime, praying for illumination, but most true crime relies on luridness and voyeurism for effect.

Robert Battle

I studied martial arts before I studied dance.

Edward Brooke

I never studied much at Howard, but at Boston University, I didn't do much else but study.

Steven Blair

We've studied this from many perspectives in women and in men, and we get the same answer: It's not the obesity, it's the fitness.

Flea

I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.

Marcelo Balboa

I never really studied the game. I just watched tape of who I had to cover. That was my studying.

Ben Barnes

Sometimes success comes in ways you don't expect.

Carrie Snow

Remember that the successful marriage depends on two things: (1) finding the right person and (2) being the right person.

Carrie Underwood

As far as talent goes, we had pretty much everything, and I think that's why this year was so successful.

Carl Sagan

Scientists constantly get clobbered with the idea that we spent 27 billion dollars on the Apollo programs, and are asked "What more do you want?" We didn't spend it; it was done for political reasons. ... Apollo was a response to the Bay of Pigs fiasco and to the successful orbital flight of Yuri Gagarin. President Kennedy's objective was not to find out the origin of the moon by the end of the decade; rather it was to put a man on the moon and bring him back, and we did that.

Bette Davis

Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.

Bette Davis

Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you're called very, very difficult you're really nobody at all.

Ashton Kutcher

I don't believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can't sit still.

Arsene Wenger

A manager is a guide. He takes a group of people and says, 'With you I can make us a success; I can show you the way.'

Arsene Wenger

When you look at people who are successful, you will find that they aren't the people who are motivated, but have consistency in their motivation.

Bernard Berenson

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.

Allen Ward

We know the cabin, we know the people, we know the training and we know the job.

Corey Brewer

We told him to get some training wheels.

Mike Thibault

From that standpoint, it kind of makes for a very competitive training camp.

David Ginola

I loved being back out on the pitch. Although I have not been in full training, I felt pretty good.

Alan K. Simpson

The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.

Alan Kay

I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.

Bernie Mac

I've been in training for stardom.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I didn't mind basic training. It taught me that something that seems impossible at the start can be achieved.

Imelda May

My parents never told me to get a real job. They always said, 'Go for it! If this is what you want to do, work hard.' They were always very supportive.

Ian Mckellen

I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.

Gale Harold

I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.

Gaines Adams

Every day I went to work at Tampa, I gave it my all.

Donald Trump

I always look at it that I work with my employees as opposed to them working for me.

William Quigley

I never wanted to be someone who's asking someone to put my work in their gallery. I wanted to be asked.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Zubin Mehta

The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.

Wynton Marsalis

I generally work right up to when I have to do something - I'm always doing a lot.