Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shelby Gross

That was my amateur background. I fought about 55 fights and took a year off before deciding I wanted to try and make a living at boxing.

Andre Seymour

Our boxers need technical support and we need the technical coaches who work them to travel with the national teams. They will be of great assistance to our national teams. Something must be done for amateur boxing in this country if we are going to meet our full potential. We need international help. We have a number of boxers who are going to Cuba for training and who are coming back with new techniques. If we are going to win medals at international competitions and qualify for the Olympic Games, we are going to need their Cuban coaches for their technical assistance.

Tamba Hali

We got in contact with him from the airport. He uses amateur radios, and that's how we reached him. He sponsored us to come to the United States.

Ben Shahn

An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.

Guan Tianlang

The AAC is the best amateur event in the region and the most important tournament to me every year.

Marcia Muller

Women in mystery fiction were largely confined to little old lady snoops - amateur sleuths - who are nurses, teachers, whatever.

Jennifer Saunders

We were watching the first series recently, and it has a charm, a kind of amateur charm. At that point we didn't involve ourselves technically at all - we just messed about and told our jokes - and it looks a bit like that.

Michael Strahan

When it comes to the camera, I can do my thing. But I'm bashful.

Chad Myers

From one side of our camera to another, from very gray to blue. That's the way a hurricane is.

Elizabeth Kelly

Go on in, ... The testimonials are in the back of the mine on a shelf. They go back a long ways. Your camera will work just fine in there.

Jennie Garth

I know I have the ability to do so much more than just stand in front of the camera the rest of my life.

Ronda Rousey

If there's a camera on me or off me, it's roughly the same, just a lot less energy.

Reyne Rice

The cool thing about that is that kids are role-playing what they see around them, and they see their siblings using digital cameras and using digital phones. They see their parents using those, and so that's what they want to role-play with.

Chris Wilson

To me this is a real look at what's going on over there. It's right from their cameras to the site.

Kelly Wearstler

I do not like being in front of the camera.

Ken Rice

Years from now, when I think about working with Jen, I will remember cracking up during the commercials and having to suddenly sober up in time for the news to come back on. We could press each other's buttons. She knew exactly what I thought was funny. A lot of times we were giggling within seconds of the camera going on.

David M. Kelley

I always found that if you handle a problem in a benevolent way and a transparent way and involve other people, so it's just not your personal opinion, that people get to the other side of these difficult conversations being more enthusiastic.

Tia Carrere

When I first met my agent, I said, If something comes up and it fits my age range and personality, I would like you to send me up for it, even if it specifies blonde or brunette.

Stan Getz

I'm a recovered alcoholic. I don't do anything anymore, but those things, those things take away ... You're a different personality completely when you take those. For those who are really chemically dependent on anything, it's not you.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Runners are poor walkers.

Bill Nygren

I don't think it has anything personally to do with Bob.

Julie Chen

If you're trying to be something you're not, whether it's an age or a certain type of personality, you're just going to be in misery. You have to own who you are, and part of who you are is your age.

Louis Auchincloss

Your literary style reflects your personality.

Jo Coudert

It takes an enormous amount of energy, creative energy withdrawn from the total economy of the person, to hold a trait underground, and, unfortunately, needs and drives do not go underground alone; they carry with them useful parts of the personality, depriving it of richness and the possibility of a variety of response.

Edward Bach

All we have to do is preserve our personality, to live our own life, be captain of our own ship, and all will be well.

Todd McFarlane

About 85 percent of what you see is just because I get on the phone and [say], 'Let's go do this'. I don't do any market research or test groups or focus [groups]. I just go, 'It's my company; would I buy it, personally?'

Seth Godin

Marketing is the way your people answer the phone, the typesetting on your bills and your return policy.

Skylar Astin

I always separate myself from reviews, but tweets and Instagram comments, they go directly to my phone. It's hard to keep up.

J. B. Smoove

Remember Tupperware? That was the toughest stuff ever. Why can't they make a phone out of Tupperware?

Frank Zappa

He just got in the car, but the batteries dead. So he asks to use the phone and she gives him some head.

Jennifer Westfeldt

It's exciting to take control of your future instead of waiting for the phone to ring,

Fred Couples

I don't answer the phone. I get the feeling whenever I do that there will be someone on the other end.

Jason Reitman

And I certainly like being on a plane, next to a stranger, having conversations that you'd never otherwise have. You're unplugged, your phone doesn't work, you're not online.

Jay Leno

President Bush called Arnold to congratulate him today, and after he got off the phone, Arnold said, 'I thought my English was bad.'

Dean Kamen

More than ever, the world needs good engineers. However, the pool of talent is shrinking not growing.

Diane Sawyer

Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide you to your destination.

Deepak Chopra

Space and time are not objects of perception, but qualities of awareness

David Lynch

Because you make a world that didn't exist before, and you can go into that world deeper and deeper. It's unbounded out there. One film takes you into one area, another film takes you into another area. There could be trillions, zillions of worlds that exist in the big space.

Richard Branson

There are millions of people out there who would love to become astronauts, who'd love to go to space - they'd love to look back at this wonderful world from space. That will be the engine that will enable us then to develop spaceships to transport people around the world at tremendous speeds in an environmentally friendly way.

Swami Vivekananda

Everything that we know is within our universe, and everything within our universe is moulded by the conditions of space, time, and causation.

Sloane Crosley

For a long time I wanted to draw, but I could never get the proportions right. My still life sketches were the artistic equivalent of someone who has misjudged the space constraints of a postcard, the handwriting shrinking uncomfortably at the bottom.

Rajneesh

Go inwards. Find your inner space, and suddenly, you will find an explosion of light, of beauty, of ecstasy -as if suddenly thousands of roses have blossomed within you and you are full of their fragrance.

Rajneesh

[T]hat is the true function of meditation: to create a space in you where you can be rich, infinitely rich, utterly peaceful, absolutely ecstatic.

Merce Cunningham

There are no fixed points in space,

Ben Marcus

Spelling is a way to make words safe, at least for now, until another technology appears to soften attacks launched from the mouth.

Al Gore

Our new technologies, combined with our numbers, have made us, collectively, a force of nature

Steve Jobs

Technology alone is not enough.

George Bernard Shaw

Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.

J. G. Ballard

It was an excess of fantasy that killed the old United States, the whole Mickey Mouse and Marilyn thing, the most brilliant technologies devoted to trivia like instant cameras and space spectaculars that should have stayed in the pages of Science Fiction . . . some of the last Presidents of the U.S.A. seemed to have been recruited straight from Disneyland.

Terence McKenna

The sensory ratios that are being reinforced by the new electronic technology are like the sensory ratios that were in place fifteen thousand years ago. . . . Print imposes a condition on human mind which is now lifting.

Terence McKenna

Now, through the catalytic interaction with technology, the human species is getting set to redefine itself.

Terence McKenna

Tribalism is a social form which can exist at any level of technology. It's a complete illusion to associate it with low levels of technology. It is probably, in fact, a form of social organization second only to the family in its ability to endure.

Shoshana Zuboff

As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action.

Gary Thomas

This is overreaction. It won't make a difference. They'll turn 18, but they'll still be inexperienced.

James Tate

We did make a turn for the better at some point.

Tim Tebow

I'm not somebody that opens a playbook and just turns and reads and reads. That doesn't do it for me.

Derek Walcott

How can I turn from Africa and live?

Author unknown

I thought I wanted a career, turns out I just wanted paychecks.

Wayne Gretzky

A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.

Steve Olson

It turned out to be the right project.

William Bass

No, ... That's just how it turned out.