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.'

Theophile Gautier

Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Imelda May

I'm lucky to come from a very musical family. If you put a record on and turn the volume up, there's a pretty good chance you'll have a lot of people dancing very quickly.

Imelda May

Everybody told me that if I insisted on doing rockabilly music, I'd never have a chance of selling any records. In fact, I lost count of how many people told me to ditch it all together, in favour, I guess, of sounding like everybody else.

Ice T

When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting.

Ice T

'New Jack City' was a perfect marriage of music and film. They used a lot of musicians: myself, Christopher Williams. People that were popular because of their music were given the chance to act. And the soundtrack was incredible.

Gillian Armstrong

You rarely, in the professional world, have the chance to express yourself as an individual.

Venus Williams

If the sun comes up, I have a chance.

Bill Gates

If you're low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn't seem entirely fair.

Chino Moreno

A chance to work with the guys from Isis sounded like a lot of fun. I've always been into the atmospheric sounds they had created with that project and felt my sense of melody would meld well with theirs.

Yann Tiersen

When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.

Christo

You see, we are not machines and we do not have lots of ideas in a drawer.

NeNe Leakes

I'm not a real makeup girl - you see me in lots of makeup on 'Housewives,' but I'm really all about skin. Take it from me: Wash, moisturize, and never neglect the neck.

Ivan Radenovic

We know that they play slow basketball. We have to put lots of pressure on them and keep it like that for 40 minutes.

Pat Ivey

We have an opportunity here, but there are lots of questions that still need to be answered, and that's what we're working on. If we take this to the public, we've got to be able to show them that we can deliver, because we'll have just one shot to do this right.

Tom Jankovsky

We haven't been sold. There have been lots of people looking, but that's it. There have been no offers.

Zadie Smith

I love to dance, and sing - in the shower, not in public. I'm too old to go raving, but my fondest memories are of that kind of thing - dancing, with lots of people, outside if possible.

Victor LaValle

I spend lots of time on the Web, some of it even useful.

Michael Todd

We are seeing lots of young people with melanoma, ... It's actually scared me quite a bit.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Joseph Garcia

We could have had 50 points in the first half.

Curtis Shaw

We have a lot of Marriott points that we'll never be able to use.

Peter Jackson

While you're finding evidence of innocence, you also find evidence that points to other people.

Eric Sanders

You have to do that as a quarterback. You've got to go make that tackle and save some points on the board.

Gretchen Rubin

Skillful conversationalists can explore disagreements and make points in ways that feel constructive and positive rather than combative or corrective.

Craig Conroy

Those are turning points in the game. We had two of them (5-on-3 power plays). Not to be able to capitalize, you know, that's been our problem up to this point.

Brad Shaw

We have to start believing. (Our standings points deficit) now seems manageable.

Jim Tressel

Yeah, it makes you uncomfortable because we're not 35 points better. It's still going to be about what we do.

Al Davis

We didn't score enough points with the firepower we have.

Larry Foote

We just didn't want them to score today.

Ron Forman

We just come out and play ball. We never really try to come out and score this much, but sometimes it just all comes together.

Sergio Garcia

You just have to turn the scoreboard around. That?s the only thing.

Stephen Ames

I think I was watching it with Vijay. I was watching the scoreboard from the first hole, so I knew.

Christine Sinclair

I think the thing that has sort of always separated me, even from when I was younger, is my ability to score goals.

Rick Adelman

We made him work, he took 20 shots to score 15 points.

Derek Jeter

I was thinking triple all the way. It's good, too, because it usually takes a triple to score Jorge.

Chelsea Baker

We can play with anyone, we can win any way and if they score a lot we'll score more.

Nick Haynes

We can play pretty well, but we just can't seem to find somebody that can score for us,

Tony DeMuro

That was the way we want to see it end. It couldn't be any better than that with three teams going after it.

John Stockton

We could have one of the better teams we've ever had here. I think we're on our way back up.

Andy Athanas

Usually when you see teams do what we've done in two years, it's the same group. These are different kids.

Andre Patterson

We've done it more than most teams I've worked with.

Pete Rose

Any time you've got big teams winning, you've got big stars.

Tom Condon

Those are the two teams we have scheduled so far.

Jamelle Cornley

We can play with anybody, teams know that.

Bob Shoop

We do need to find another playmaker on offense, whether it's the tight end or who it is. Or teams are just going to quadruple-cover Bowser.

Jerry Moore

We don't see Big 12 teams very often,

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.

Tomas Transtromer

The language marches in step with the executioners. Therefore we must get a new language.

William Shakespeare

She's beautiful, and therefore to be woo'd She is a woman, therefore to be won

Adam Weishaupt

The first task of the association must therefore be to form the young members.

P. J. O'Rourke

I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him.

Jaime Herrera Beutler

I've enjoyed programming on NPR, but 'we're broke' and therefore all spending must be reduced.

Estelle

A lot of scarves are made to stand out and therefore not appropriate on your head, say, at work.

P. J. Harvey

It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.

Bill Joy

The fundamental problem with vi is that it doesn't have a mouse and therefore you've got all these commands.