Famous Quotes & Sayings

Xun Zi

Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.

Thomas J. Watson

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Wendelin Van Draanen

What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly what happens to kids. I see literature as a method of guidance, information, and contemplation, and consider it the greatest compliment possible when a reader tells me that a book of mine really made him/her think.

Virginia Postrel

People without children do have the freedom to do things that caring parents with dependent kids can't - to work long hours, to travel frequently, to relocate, and to do all these things on short notice if necessary. In return, they can achieve positions that devoted parents can't.

Bill Gates

I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!

Yehuda Berg

The whole point of all of this - why we are here, why the world is here, and why we have the political system and leaders that we do - is to achieve change. This is the purpose of life.

Chris Bohjalian

My personal opinion is that, if you're a professional writer, that you do have quotas. So every day I do try to write 800-1,200 words. I don't always achieve it, and the reality is that a lot of the words I write will end up on the cutting-room floor.

David Beckham

I've played under some of the biggest and best managers and achieved almost everything in football. Of course it hurts when people question it, but I've come to the end of my career and can look back and say I've achieved everything with every club that I've played for.

Robert Rubin

The overarching point of the president's economic strategy going forward in the 1999 budget is clear: under no circumstances should we take any steps that will undo the fiscal discipline that we have worked so hard to achieve and has been so central to our strong economy of the last five years.

Tina Turner

My legacy is that I stayed on course... from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.

Gail Kelly

I'm a big believer you should design work around a vast majority of people who want to do the right thing rather than around the tiny minority who might take advantage.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

'Beyond the Lights' took incredible fight to get made. Four years of writing and two years of overcoming 'no.' Every studio balked. Twice. But I kept fighting. What gave me the courage was 'Love & Basketball.' Every studio turned down that film, too. But I never gave up because I believed in it with my whole heart and soul.

Gareth Bale

I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.

Zadie Smith

Oh yes, my generation liked to be in some pain when they read. The harder it was, the more good we believed it was doing us.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.

Wesley Schultz

When I was a kid, award shows were super-interesting for me. But when I started making music, it was kind of hard to watch because I believed in what I was doing and yet knew I didn't really have a shot.

Wesley Morris

'The Tree of Life' is a collection of conversations that lost souls and true believers have with themselves while keeping their heads to the sky. But the movie is church via the planetarium.

Billy Graham

I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God.

Joe Pinyan

He's a good, little back ? and a major part of our success. He's not just the quick, elusive runner we like to have. He's also a power runner who will get you a yard or 2 when you need it.

Daniel Gillies

Whatever you want is as elusive as you make it.

Michaela Dorfmeister

That elusive medal was probably the thing that kept me skiing. I didn't sleep for two nights because I kept thinking about it.

Michaela Dorfmeister

That elusive medal is probably the thing that has kept me skiing.

Sharon Kay Penman

Respect can be as elusive as the unicorn. I know something of this because I write books that are set in the Middle Ages, and the historical novel is often seen as the unwanted stepchild in the fictional family. I know even more about respect - or the lack thereof - because I live in New Jersey.

Andy Zantow

We need one of our keys to be possession. Jon gives us some quickness up front. He's very elusive and he's a good dodger.

DeAndre Jackson

They've got fast, quick and elusive guys. We have to be great tacklers. They can make one person miss and take it to the house.

Tom Craft

Ohio State's quarterback kept things alive. Troy Smith was elusive and physically strong.

Emma Orczy

We seek him here, we seek him there, Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven? - Is he in hell? That damned, elusive Pimpernel?

Daniel Harris

Today wasn't fitting for him, I don't think, so everyone's pretty disappointed.

Phil Davis

We hope the plaque will be a fitting tribute to Tom.

Steve Noworyta

He's a rookie in this camp, but you can't tell the difference. To me, that shows a lot. He's fitting right in and looks like he should be here.

Bob Gumbita

He's just fitting right into our program. It's their first year, but they're great athletes.

Justin Bocot

I talk to him. I tell him I know it's going to be hard the first two years fitting in. He was the star of his eighth-grade team. He's in the same spot as me. I talk to him about my experiences and tell him what not to do.

Tomas Brock

I think it's fitting our style more. At least lately, anyway.

Tim Funkhouser

He was impressive. He's really fitting into that role well.

Bill Williams

We're honored to be able to present this rose. We think it's a fitting commemorative for the pope.

Tim Ruskell

We're higher than I would like. But with a transition, you're going to get this. People who aren't fitting are not going to be here.

Judy Hayles

I think she's got him hidden out someplace. She knows where he is, that you can rest assured. He left that place with no shoes, no jacket. He didn't even take his money with him. He told his roommate somebody was picking him up.

Judy Hayles

I think she's got him hidden out someplace.

Tom Shales

You do have to wonder how Jack Bauer, maverick hero of '24,' can stay hidden for so long when no matter where he goes, he always seems within range of a TV camera. Or six.

Steve Greene

We're not scary and we don't have a hidden agenda,

Rep. Gannon

For too long, it's been a hidden issue in Florida. It's a testament to our state that we're going to try to stop this.

Simonides Simonides

There is no better test of a man's work than time, which also reveals the thoughts which lay hidden in his breast.

Don Hewitt

He had a knack for getting things out of people that others never got out of them niches and hidden moments that they never shared with anyone. But they did with Mike.

Mo Ibrahim

Modern slavery is a hidden crime and notoriously difficult to measure.

J. M. G. Le Clezio

To understand the hidden secret of the modern industrial world in which I find myself, I have to return to another world. That world is at once wartime Nice and the plantation - the sugar isles on which Europe's prosperity was built.

Paramahamsa Nithyananda

Never turn to a Master for security for that is one thing he will never give you. He throws you upon the utter insecurity of Life because those who have nothing else find God.

Diane von Furstenberg

Insecurity is a waste of time.

Alan Watts

Insecurity is the result of trying to be secure.

Cathy Guisewite

I can't tell my conscience from my insecurities.

Beth Moore

Somethings wrong with us for us to value ourselves so little.

Beth Moore

Insecurity is miserable. That's the bottom line. We don't need it. We don't want it. And we really can live without it. So what would happen if we quite being accomplices in our own misery?

Jasmine Guy

Bigotry and judgment are the height of insecurity.

Catherine Keener

Insecurity is just something that's there all the time. I've never been crippled by it.

Brandon Sanderson

The hallmark of insecurity is bravado.

John Powers

You can get everything and the kitchen sink here. We are never lacking materials. Sometimes we have to turn things down because we're overstocked.

Brenda Fritz

I won't say we are completely comfortable with it. We (the board) are mostly stay-at-home moms running this program off the kitchen table.

Dave Barry

normal person's weekly chore list: 1. clean kitchen. 2. clean bathroom. 3. clean entire rest of domicile. cleaning impaired person's weekly chore list: 1. don't get peanut butter on sheets.

Alan Rickman

That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas.

Charles Buck

Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.

Charles Rangel

I'm in the kitchen and I'm not walking out.

C. J. Cherryh

Poisoning rarely happens in a well-managed kitchen.

Jamie Oliver

The kitchen oven is reliable, but it's made us lazy.

Jasmine Guy

The kitchen may not get cleaned, and I have to accept that. I do the important things.

Bobbi Brown

I won't usually make plans with people I don't know on Fridays because all I want to do is stick my hair in a ponytail and put on a big sweater, some tights and a pair of sneakers after a week working in the city.

Big Sean

I'm a sneakerhead. I probably have a couple hundred pair of shoes. I got all sorts of shoes.

Nia Vardalos

I do recommend it for all girls, and boys, out there: put on a pair of fishnet stockings and find your inner sexiness!

Reid Scott

I like comfy feet. If I'm not barefoot, you'll probably find me with a pair of New Balance on.

Boomer Walker

I think if we come out and play well tomorrow, we should be able to pick up a pair of wins.

Ruta Gedmintas

I can't quite warrant spending a month's rent on a pair of trousers!

David Hockney

You always need a bit of low-tech.You always need a pair of scissors, it seems to me. You can do better things.... The high-tech, somehow, you do have to combine it with low-tech things.

O. J. Simpson

Wow, three pairs of shoes! Someone had a fetish.

Carol Shields

Eventually, everything gets stuck between a pair of parentheses or buried in the bottom of a trunk.

Cheech Marin

You can always tell when something is good, because the studio senses it has something good, and you can see them pour more and more resources into it. The promotion gets bigger and bigger.

Ranbir Kapoor

Promotions are the worst part of making a movie. We are actors and not salesmen. Still, you have to go to so many places to try and sell the movie.

Weldon Kees

pioneered the promotion of avant-garde film in America.

Ice Cube

A lot of movies will deliver on the promotion but when you go see them, everything you laughed at was in the trailer.

Brad Shaw

It's probably the most fantastic, unusual promotion I've seen at a casino.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I'm not very good at promotion.

Julie LaFreniere

I think they realize now what racing is all about. They need to train how they were racing today... and I think they get that now.

Tim Ritchey

I don't know when and where, but he will return to racing somewhere this year.

Chad Knaus

The racing that we've got in our industry right now is the best racing in the worldperiod.

Charlie Kimball

I wear a continuous glucose monitor when I'm racing.

Charlie Munger

Just avoid things like racing trains to the crossing, doing cocaine, etc. Develop good mental habits.

Denny Hamlin

The recent actions by Kyle Busch are not consistent with the values of M&M'S and we're very disappointed. Like you, we hold those who represent our brand to a higher standard and we have expressed our concerns directly to Joe Gibbs Racing.

Bode Miller

From 1999 to 2003 was the peak of equipment in ski racing. Since then, it's all gone in the wrong direction.

Bode Miller

It is not that I don't recognize the danger in ski racing, but that I don't fear the consequences.

Dennis Anderson

Second place is the first loser.

Patricia Marx

I'm a goody-goody. I'm the person who sits in the back row, makes fun of the teacher, and secretly does the extra-credit work.

Paul Downs Colaizzo

A lot of us are secretly scared, for whatever reason, and so we get in our own way. But if you really want something, you have to ask for it.

Blake Lively

If you want someone to miss you, go secretly and spray your fragrance somewhere.

Sarah Jessica Parker

What I've learned about being a parent is how much you sort of secretly learn from everyone else and how valuable it is.

Jonathan Coleman

Every writer secretly hopes that what he or she has written will endure.

Ashley Scott

You know what, we're very skinny in our family.

Adele

My aim in life is never to be skinny.

Andy Dick

I guess I'm odd-looking. I'm skinny. But I'm not only skinny - I'm oddly shaped.

Alicia Keys

And Im happy that Im not super skinny.

Natalia Vodianova

It's better to be skinny than to be fat.

Candice Swanepoel

I was very skinny, braces; so I never thought I would be a model.

Nas

Love the skinny model chicks but I prefer the thickness.

Gwyneth Paltrow

I don't know who decided that skinny was more appealing than not skinny. It seems arbitrary.

Lisa Ling

I used to be so twig skinny that I couldn't eat enough, because I was just naturally skinny. Until I went to China.