Famous Quotes & Sayings

Darren Shan

I was lucky because my mum was a teacher and showed me how to read and write. But most importantly, she encouraged me to use my imagination.

Cam McLeay

Having listened to family, friends, and everyone else, without exception everyone encouraged us to continue.

Jake Delhomme

I was encouraged, very encouraged -- we'll leave it at that.

Jonas Bjorkman

I play singles and doubles, and I think that's what every player should be encouraged to do.

Michael Metz

Investors were encouraged by the inflation figures. There was fear they would be considerably higher.

George Eliot

Instead of trying to still his fears, he encouraged them, with that superstitious impression which clings to us all, that if we expect evil very strongly it is the less likely to come . . .

Mel Gardner

I know a lot of parents and kids want to specialize and focus on one sport, but we've always encouraged Scott to play what he wants to play. He's been playing three sports since he was 3 years old and he loves playing them all, so we've always encouraged him to try different things.

Paul Vasconi

I have to admit, I wasn't encouraged at first.

Kelly Brownell

I'm very encouraged by what is occurring in schools. One can just see the landscape changing.... At the moment, it's still a minority of schools, but the number is growing and the state legislatures are getting involved in requiring schools to change.

Tucker Carlson

I wouldn't say I'm happy now. My skepticism is warranted, given what I've seen over the decades.

John Capel

Just to let them know that I haven't given up yet. They thought I was just going to let them have the title, but not yet.

Robert McKinley

Just pay attention. Make sure you're not given a product you don't want.

Max Minghella

I think it'd be pretty unrealistic to think we're the only planet in the world with thinking beings. It's kind of a strange conceit. Especially given how many universes there must be.

Steve Rives

He is someone who has given us a real go-to guy.

Muhammad Yunus

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

Ron Suskind

Haven't we already given money to rich people... Shouldn't we be giving money to the middle?

James Salter

I think you can be taught to write. You can't be taught to be a good writer. For that, you have to bring something to it, yourself, something that can't be given to you.

Jerry Stracke

We're pretty balanced. I think that is what has gotten us this far. We have different players that can step up on any given day. It makes it hard for other teams to play us because we are so balanced.

David Johnson

I would suggest there's some sloppiness here. Neither mere negligence or gross negligence will suffice.

Samuel Coleridge

I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance

Mark Gandler

I know we left some gross money on the table. I know, and so does Olli. But that's not the issue.

Henry David Thoreau

It [is of] some advantage to live a primitive and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilization, if only to learn what are the gross necessities of life.

Hani Durzy

They can say whatever they want about their gross market volume.

Larry Ceisler

We have offered $2 million to start out with, and then every year going forward, a percentage of our gross with a minimum of $500,000.

Anna Kendrick

I heard people saying they were going to become millionaires by the time they were 25 - that's gross and obnoxious, but in California it's looked on as an asset.

Brent Sutter

The players thought it was pretty gross because my leg was just black. I limped around until the end of January.

Laurence Gilman

To say we're unhappy with the performance of the team is a gross understatement.

Dennis Hastert

I also think there has to be real guidance, ... So they can rule and tell people and give them guidance before they take a trip about what's right and what's acceptable.

Eric Ross

Guidance was disappointing. Inventories and chipset shortages are still issues.

Albert Rauch

If you've misjudged what's happened in 2005, how can you give guidance for 2006 and 2007?

Ted Parrish

Intel has a history of undershooting in its initial guidance.

Carl Smith

I'm 100 percent sure if Dr. Clayton was there, this would not have happened. It's all because the people in the guidance office had no idea what they were doing.

John Boland

I'm surprised by the guidance for next quarter.

Dipen Sanghavi

The market had moved very quickly in a short period of time, so investors are just taking profits now, waiting for guidance from the big tech firms.

John O'Connor

It just seemed like there were more questions this time. It was just simply a reinforcement of what our guidance is.

Neil Strauss

But who are we, really? Just a bundle of good genes and bad genes mixed with good habits and bad habits. And since there's no gene for coolness or confidence, then being uncool and unconfident are just bad habits, which can be changed with enough guidance and will power.

Bill Parcells

I was kind of thinking back to Seattle last year, ... We kind of talked about that. We're just fortunate, really.

Joe Edgens

Kelley is going to be right up to the last minute before it's done.

Dave Kaplan

(Jocelyn) bounced back from a rough outing last time. Very nicely done. She's going to get another start, and we're going to keep working with her.

Will Grace

JLo-so karen hows married life?Karen-well it only lasted 20 minutesJLo-Oh is that short?

Bobbie Davis

I think I said to the players last year that they had one day to celebrate. And then they had to start concentrating and thinking about this year.

Jack Parker

He couldn't make a pass or shoot a puck. If this wasn't his senior year, if he was a junior, we probably wouldn't have played him this weekend. I didn't want to miss what could have been, at any moment, his last game.

Jim Knight

There are so many things that we try before we ever go to court. It's the last step, and we don't like to do it, but there needs to be consequences.

Justin Gray

I think (the fans) are going to talk about it all the time just because they know probably what we could've done with the team from last year. But that's last year.

Peter Currie

It is fundamentally different from the last time we restated, primarily because the scope is a lot narrower.

Frank Martinez

We've been told to say that. (And say) whatever it takes to get that phone line in the receiver.

Mike Boyajian

We've got to keep on scoring. Right now, all three of our lines are starting to score. A team can't concentrate on one of our lines. We're pretty deep.

Mario Lemieux

I thought the other lines were pretty good, as well. We'll see what happens.

Nariman Behravesh

I think that whole line of reasoning is overdone.

Antoni Gaudi

There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.

Dale Mitchell

He was lined up straight with the ship canal,

Joy Harjo

I come from a long line of revolutionaries.

Richelle Mead

My life didnʹt need to be on the line for me to enjoy dessert.

Vinny Testaverde

When you're on the road, you have to be louder and you have to communicate. That's really the bottom line.

Steve Ward

Rendell's winning margin is black. Take that away, and he's even.

Howard Davidowitz

The margins are positive, but sales are eroding,

Danny Nee

Nothing worked. That's inexperience. You need someone to step up and make a play. We have no margin of error. We have to be at 85-90 percent effectiveness. It might be 95 percent to win a game.

Paul Hagen

The value is marginal with other visual content.

Sue Stevens

Things can go very wrong with a margin loan.

Emma Lazarus

Until we are all free, we are none of us free.

Phil McNichol

It was an eyelash. Bode would have won and should have won by a margin that would have shocked people.

Howard Wilkinson

Things are tightening up a lot here. Wherever the race is, it's within the margin of error. This is now a much tighter race now.

Billy Childish

I like being on the margins. You work better there.

Monica Crowley

Just when you think you've heard it all from Team Obama, the next day brings another jaw-dropper.

Meredith Ostrom

John Casablancas was saying, 'You will be the next Claudia Schiffer!' But I said, 'Actually, I have to go to college.'

Stephen Colbert

All I can do is today and tomorrow and have some idea of what we're doing next week. That's all I can worry about.

Erin Dethloff

Having a season-best performance before the Big 12 (conference meet) is really huge. We are just going to keep practicing next week.

Nick Price

He's a little older than me and out of respect he should be the next one to be asked,

Ted Ligety

I think it's kind of stupid to make him do it if he isn't going to be in the next run.

Carl Poston

It could be (today), it could be next week. It's all up to him.

Ken Warwick

When they go to school the next day, it's become the show to watch, and if they haven't seen it, they've got a problem.

Elliott Sadler

I actually am pretty pumped up for the next nine races.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

H. Hunt

He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Dominik Hrbaty

I was already tired after the second five-setter, it was already quite enough.

Mike Schmitt

He didn't quite make it back to the house.

Trevor Noah

Comedy is really getting quite popular in South Africa.

James Williams

I was completely speechless. I really had no idea at all, and it was quite a wonderful surprise.

Helen Clark

I think this is going to take quite some time to work through simply because the writs (final results) won't be until two Fridays' time,

Kimberley Nixon

I'm a tomboy and quite clumsy, so I'm more like the anti-sexy icon.

Gwendoline Christie

I quite like looking mucky; it's quite nice not having to care about how you look.

Kevin Flanagan

In San Diego, we don't try quite as hard.

Dina Emde

I really wanted the record to be quite honest.

Jim Hickey

I wouldn't be surprised at all if he starts,

Kathy Pulley

He's a whole lot better than we ever imagined. I am surprised that he wasn't just shattered.

Howard Opinsky

I was as surprised as everyone else was to see it.

Jerry Jones

I was very surprised that he was still there.

Jordan Leopold

I was actually kind of surprised but it's OK. We get all of the attention.

John Heimlich

I will be very surprised if there is not a proposal.

Jeff Candage

I'd be surprised that he would do something like that.

David Hayes

I'm surprised to see him doing so well

Brandon Rush

I'm surprised I didn't get a technical. I got real mad. I thought it was a foul.

Jeff Hammond

He's a different person than he was a year ago.

Emily Cederholm

I think the expectations are higher, but they don't feel so much pressure. This whole year is different.

Brandon Roy

I think this is the year it can happen.

Two Chainz

In my 8th grade yearbook picture I had on 2 chains.

Richard D. James

My filing system's really crap because I can never decide whether to sort things by studio, or year, or where I lived.

Richard D. James

I've always got to change something. All the tracks I've done in the last five years were made in like six different studios. It gets a bit complicated.

Robbie Coltraine

Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you.

Rob Sheffield

Not being able to protect her from things was the most frightening thing I'd ever felt, and it kicked in as soon as we got together. With every year we spent together, I became more conscious that I now had an infinitely expanding number of reasons to be afraid. I had something to lose.

Rob Chapman

I'm an avowed modernist. I'm for the new thing. I came to the conclusion many years ago that rock music is essentially a conservative form.