Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yakov Smirnoff

I have American in-laws, and I care about the environment. We don't use disposable diapers, which, of course, creates an environmental problem of our own.

Young Jeezy

I created my lane. No one can ever run my lane because it's mine. I'm the Michael Jackson of my lane. And you know, nobody was as great as Michael. I love Prince, but he's not Michael.

Thomas Dekker

Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree.

Todd Rundgren

In a way, I created Utopia as a platform for me to become more of a guitar player and less of the kind of balladeer that people were taking me for.

Warren Bennis

A great director or leader knows his people, creates a great team, and then makes a great movie that can influence millions more than the readers of his column.

Willa Fitzgerald

It's been a lot of fun getting to work with Tracy Middendorf, who plays my mom. As an actor, it's always fun to have different parents and to create different familial dynamics than you have in your real life.

William Daniels

He's computerized, but I won't let him come on cold. I created KITT. I understand the personality of the car.

Evel Knievel

My failures had a lot to do with my fame. I created Evel Knievel, and then he sort of got away from me.

Ellen Key

Whereas nationalism still seeks power, honour, and glory through means that endanger other countries, patriotism knows that a country's strength and honour can only be permanently safeguarded through concourse with other countries. And whereas nationalism scoffs at the idea of international laws and regulations, patriotism seeks to create such.

Igor Luksic

We are determined to improve the economic environment by getting foreign investors in and by cutting red tape.

Abraham Lincoln

In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.

Carrie Vaughn

It’s only a scratch, don’t cut my arm off!

Carl Safina

Try to cut down drastically on plastic. Recycle. Use less energy and more renewable energy. We can all live better by doing better for ourselves and the sea!

Antoine Fuqua

The violence you witness is Denzel doing it and we're taking some visual effects and doing some things and you see something happen it's happening in front of you as opposed to cutting away and doing a bunch of tricks. It's in front of you. So it's hard not to make it a hard "R" if you see a guy get punched and teeth wind up in someone's knuckles.

Bill Vaughan

The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.

Bill Burr

When you say, "there's no reason [to hit a woman]" that kills any examination as to how two people ended up at that place. When you say, "there's no reason," you cut out the build-up and you're just left with the act. How you gonna solve it if you don't figure it out?

Dennis Melcher

We're working on cutting down on our turnovers. We're getting better but we had a lull there in the second.

Robert Pozen

We're really reducing the potential inflow, not cutting it off,

Irving Ravetch

Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.

Zakk Wylde

I love the whole process for each new album. The writing, the touring, everything. For me, it never gets old.

Wendy Kopp

It gets to whether we're a teacher-education model or a movement for social justice. I would say we're about the latter.

Bonnie Tyler

The international travelling gets harder as I get older, but when I'm performing on stage, it makes it all worth while.

David Carson

Just because something's legible doesn't means it communicates. More importantly, it doesn't mean it communicates the right thing. So, what is the message sent before somebody actually gets into the material? And I think that's sometimes an overlooked area.

Nile Rodgers

My career has been wacky and not at all normal. I've never had a manager, nobody gets jobs for me. I wind up working with artists that I meet.

Nas

I don't want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I'm not perfect, and I'm just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?

Tony Russa

That was vintage Carpenter. He had first and second, the middle of the lineup, and he gets out of it. That's what he does.

Bill Hanlon

That way they're thinking about the word and how it's used in an analogy. It gets them thinking the same way the test makers are thinking.

Brad Goreski

I enjoy lifting weights, but I hate doing cardio.

Bob Iger

I ride a bike and use aerobic equipment twice a week, and work out with a trainer, lifting weights.

Chaske Spencer

The acting part is easy; it's the preparing - lifting weights and getting your body in tip-top shape - that's the hard part.

Chris Harrell

Paul, they say you've been getting stronger down here by lifting your trophies.

James Long

I am into power lifting and I play football.

J. Horton

I wasn't sure if he was going to pitch (tonight). He tweaked his back lifting weights and it was 50-50 if he would pitch.

John Kneup

She was always there. There've been several times it's just been the two of us lifting weights.

Timothy Noah

I'm all for lifting the payroll-tax cap, if only to make payroll taxes a little less regressive.

Chua Bin

A strong tech recovery is lifting fourth-quarter manufacturing and GDP growth. Pharmaceuticals have also come back with a vengeance in the second half, after languishing in the first half.

Michael McDonald

We have to work with a lot of other local agencies, and that takes time.

Catherine Martin

My children's favourite thing is to con me into buying them ice-cream if there's not too big a queue at our local gelataria, Messina.

Roger Szendy

I think it would be a disadvantage to lose local control.

Peter Woolley

I think it will be a local outcome; it's a local fight.

John Hurt

I think it would be really sad if the local people didn't realize how important he was.

Joan Greenberg

I think locally we're seeing more than that.

Eric Newman

Yesterday we finalized plans with a local theater in Tulsa (to show the movie),

Dan Sleeper

We're a local government, we always pay our bills.

David Barry

We really wanted a local flavor, a unique flavor. We wanted to make it different than going out to the Monmouth Mall or the Bridgewater (Commons) Mall.

William K. Sessions

Looking back on my life, I wish I'd stepped forward and made a fool of myself more often when I was younger - because when you do, you find out you can do it.

Marshall Wittman

The overall problem the Republican Party has is it is increasingly looking like Tammany Hall, ... An odor of sleaziness is enveloping the Republicans and seeping into the administration.

Maurice Greene

The world record will come to me when I run the world record race. I'm just trying to perfect my race. I'm looking for perfection.

Pedro Almodovar

My first memory is of the eyes of my brother; he was looking at me all the time.

Steve Violetta

You are always looking for something that has the wow factor.

Diane Davey

We've had everything from 80-degree weather to snow on the ground. We're looking for two nice sunny days.

Sgt. Phillips

We're really wide open in terms of looking at some things.

Molly Smith

We're really looking at our target as urban nomads.

Julie Bell

We're really looking at decision-making and problem-solving at the same time.

Mike Lopez

That was the big one right there. The one to become an all-American, that is the hardest. Now all the nervousness is gone. I just have to go out, wrestle loose and see what happens.

Dave Trembley

I thought he had a nice, loose arm. He pitched down in the strike zone with his fastball. Like I've said, he's something to work with.

Jim Calhoun

We can really give you nightmares inside, and they really can you nightmares on the perimeter. Plus they rebound much better, get every loose ball.

Nathan Peavy

We were just loose today. We went out to play and to have fun.

Sandy Jacobs

I think it's a loose society. People are just trying to get away with things that they know they shouldn't.

Alex Solis

He was so relaxed; he made the track look fast. The track was loose but he still went 1:12 1/5, just breezing. He was real happy.

Sean Burroughs

If I was loose I would have had a better release point and I would have painted the corners.

Deborah Pryce

We are just tying up the loose ends.

Bud Ogden

We did what we had to do to win. We got rebounds when we had to and got to loose balls. Players stepped up.

Troy Dayak

We had opportunities and we missed them, and the momentum went back the other way and killed us.

Larry Mikesell

We just continually missed too many shots. I called two timeouts to stop the bleeding, but during that 16-0 run, we probably missed three lay-ups.

Jon Sundvold

I thought I missed the memo, but there wasn't a memo.

Vicki Flotta

I'm still not worried about walking under ladders. It's actually been pretty neat to see how we've pulled together and we really haven't missed a beat. We're probably all just a little more tired at the end of the day.

Krystal McKenzie

We got there, her mother said she could run it, and then we missed the 300.

Mary Harris

I was upset. I didn't say anything but I really missed it.

Kevin Kelly

I still had my confidence. I don't think I've ever missed three in a row.

Robert Ross

I think if Phoenix pulled out, it would be a missed opportunity for Phoenix and the state of Arizona.

Steve Armstrong

We couldn't find the net, just missed too many shots.

Imelda May

When I was a teenager, I had a record company after me. They wanted me to be a pop act. They said they wanted me to be the next Sonia. I was 16 at the time. I said, 'No thank you.'

Walter Alston

I do worry about tomorrow's game, but never about next year's job.

Constance Wu

I'm always hungry for the next thing. I'm never resting on my laurels.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

Cecelia Ahern

You shouldn't try to stop everything from happening. Sometimes you're supposed to feel awkward. Sometimes you're supposed to be vulnerable in front of people. Sometimes it's necessary because it's all part of you getting to the next part of yourself, the next day.

Carlton Reed

That was a small situation that was made into a big deal. The problem was solved the next morning.

Nick Umholtz

That was sweet. I've never been in a playoff before. Now I'm going to have to back it up for next year.

Jon Copper

That we have a teammate who may not be with us next year. I'm still not sure what's going on or how it's going to end up.

Steve Novak

We need to keep getting better. There is no next year.

Bill Bryson

At a conference of sociologists in America in 1977, love was defined as "the cognitive-affective state characterized by intrusive and obsessive fantasizing concerning reciprocity of amorant feelings by the object of the amorance." That is jargon - the practice of never calling a spade a spade when you might instead call it a manual earth-restructuring implement - and it is one of the great curses of modern English.

Bernard Arnault

When something has to be done, do it! In France we are full of good ideas, but we rarely put them into practice.

Antoine Rivarol

Axioms are delightful in theory, but impossible in practice.

Bill Bruford

The best practice you can get is on the bandstand, but in between gigs I feel I have to stay in shape.

Rick Clark

We need to have some time to get some practice in now. We need to get a little rest and work on our timing.

Steve Long

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

Dan Miller

We have a lot of cheerleaders who come because they can better their routines with the practice they get here with the classes.

Philip Morris

merchandising practices at the wholesale and retail levels.

Mark Patton

It didn't surprise me to be honest. I've seen him shoot that same shot in practice.

Rick Anthony

We are scoring in bunches and getting them from everywhere.

Jason Tapp

I don't think I've ever had a three-game scoring streak before.

Ray Allen

For most of us, when we see them scoring fast, we feel like it's all right to do the same thing on our end. It doesn't get any better.

Billy Donovan

He hasn't had big scoring nights. But he's also done other things.

Mike Eaves

Three of them (in the second period) were Grade-A scoring chances.

Jeff Ackermann

I think we're a better scoring team than we showed tonight. I know we're a better shooting team than we showed tonight.

Mike Ward

She did things for us that will not show up in the scoring column.

George Gwozdecky

If we did, it wasn't a scoring chance. I'm not disappointed at the loss, I'm disappointed in the way we performed.

Dave Allison

Everyone contributed. We had scoring from every line.