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.'

Ibrahima Fall

The political process in the Congo is due to end with the swearing in of a president on 30 June. The conference will be held after this.

Tiffany Jackson

The past two games have been a huge confidence boost. After we lost two games on the road, we had a sense of urgency because we knew the conference is going to get tougher and tougher as we go.

Tony Pullen

That was huge, a sophomore on the mound. You go on the road for the first conference game, and he comes up big for us.

Dave Vestal

That was a very impressive win for Blackhawk last week. They've gotten better and better each game. Blackhawk is so well coached, there's no way there would be a letdown. In the conference we play in you have to be ready each week.

Terri Sullivan

That win was very critical for us. We obviously want to be in it till the end in the conference race. You have to get some wins. That's not easy, especially in this conference, but that's why it's an honor to play in the Big Ten.

Mark Kellogg

That will be a good test or us a big conference game at home.

Darren Alexander

That was a huge conference game for us. We needed that bad.

Damon Coupe

We have a much tougher schedule this year than in years past. I have focused on playing as many ranked teams as possible. Our conference schools have become much more competitive this year. We do not have any walkover matches.

Ashley Langen

We have two games left, but we want to keep on winning. We don't want to go into the conference and region tournaments on a downfall.

Chuck Zito

So if one, or two, or a handful of guys sells drugs for their own personal gain and profit who just so happens to be a member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, we want that same consideration.

Evan Brown

The path to gaining respect is paved with knowledge and empathy.

Daniel Kahneman

If you think in terms of major losses, because losses loom much larger than gains - that's a very well-established finding - you tend to be very risk-averse. When you think in terms of wealth, you tend to be much less risk-averse.

Bill Vaughan

Western audiences can gain an impression of China from my films. This is an excellent channel for promoting China`s culture.

Shirley Egner

That win (at Oshkosh) was huge. It couldn't have helped with our preparation any better. We were able to gain some momentum and confidence. We're welcoming the challenge.

Peter Cardillo

We've made some nice gains for the year, and now we're consolidating near the highs,

Yitzhak Rabin

We have to pass one year in our relationship with the United States by walking on tiptoes. If we pass successfully the year 1975 and we will reach 1976, we will gain not one year but two.

Gary Mickelson

We're still trying to gain a better understanding of what happened.

David Tucker

You can be 90 years old and you'd still gain muscle mass.

Bob Bauman

That was a real surprise. But even though they scored, I don't think it shifted the momentum.

Darrent Williams

It don't matter. It was a momentum changer for the team.

Dick Powell

When it starts to move it will make a lot of noise and it will move and have a lot of momentum and take anything in its way out.

Gary Gait

We have some nice momentum going into the playoffs.

Zhang Qiyue

China-U.S. relations, though having encountered difficulties recently, now have momentum for improvement.

Frank Sharry

I'm a little worried that the political momentum that we witnessed this week may dissipate somewhat.

Jamee Juarez

I had to try to slow down the momentum and go at them.

Michael Starke

I feel we are riding the momentum wave at the moment. We feel united as a team.

Joe Osha

I don't think I've ever seen competitive momentum shift like this, so congratulations.

Bill Hader

When you're performing, you're playing to the back row. With acting, you have to be more nuanced.

Rosario Dawson

That was something that we really worked on, not repeating ourselves. But I was like, 'This is not going to be a problem because I'm playing a woman.'

Chris Masoner

That was really important for us. We really wanted it ... It's so important for us to go into the playoffs playing like this.

Tiger Woods

We need to keep playing more in Ohio. It's that simple. We don't have enough tournaments here.

Kobe Bryant

We have to understand that we're not playing for right now; we're playing for the long haul. It's important to be patient. It will come.

Paul Eenhoorn

I walk into a scene, and I do the scene. That's my job. I don't have an objective. I have the words, and I have whoever I'm playing with.

Landon Donovan

We were getting slaughtered, ... We weren't playing well at all yet we're up, two-zero. But that's soccer.

Kevin Williams

We were still playing for a title, because we were playing for second.

Colby Armstrong

Typical Devils-type game. They wait for you to make a mistake. They've been playing that way for a long time.

Bethenny Frankel

Being with my family is my highest priority.

Tom Coburn

It doesn't have much to do with Alaska, ... It has to do with priorities for our country.

Augustin Matata Ponyo

I have been busy working in order to make agriculture a priority sector not on a small scale, but into an agro-based industry.

Steve Squyres

For Spirit, the priority has been to reach a safe winter haven.

David Allen

You don't manage priorities, you have them.

David Suzuki

Protecting the biosphere should be our highest priority or else we sicken and die.

David Suzuki

If we continue to set human borders and the economy as our highest priorities, we will never come to grips with the destructiveness of our activities and institutions.

David Suzuki

You would have thought that our first priority would be to ask what the ecologists are finding out, because we have to live within the conditions and principles they define. Instead, we've elevated the economy above ecology.

Alan Lakein

In all planning you make a list and you set priorities.

Ian Mckellen

Gandalf is in Middle-earth to keep an eye on everybody, and that can be a rather serious matter.

Errole Rembert

We'll play the j.v. and they play the varsity. Rather than get destroyed, we get (our kids) to play the right way.

Mary Hansen

Most of them do walk rather than take the bus.

Joker Phillips

It didn't take long for me to say yes. Once we started talking, he said that we had been on the up and up with him and that he'd rather come here.

Michael Long

I think I would rather that he didn't run.

Zana Marjanovic

The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.

Terry Bradshaw

I will tell you what I feel, right or wrong. I don't want to do it. I would rather make you laugh. But that's my job. I did it. Archie's mad. I understand.

Tanith Belbin

We'd rather it be here than at the Olympics. So in that respect, it's good.

David Chaney

We'd rather her be here, even if she does win all the time.