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.'

Timothy Noah

Republican presidents talk about freedom. Democratic presidents talk about equality.

Clay Shirky

The web's democratic in one way and distinctly undemocratic in another way. And I think a lot of the confusion about the political ramifications have to do with that one word having so many meanings. So, it's democratic in that it quite literally delivers power to the people; it, it essentially opens up participation in the public's mind.

Samantha Power

Throughout history, when societies face tough economic times, we have seen democratic reforms deferred, decreased trust in government, persecution of minority groups, and a general shrinking of the democratic space.

Mimi Kennedy

Don Siegelman should be a star in the Democratic Party. Instead, he's a former elected official sentenced to prison by a right-wing judge in Alabama.

Chris Seeger

Metro should study the democratic process before they study a way to get around it.

Dick Gephardt

We in the Democratic Party feel strongly that the people in the middle, the people stuck on the bottom, are the people we need to be giving the majority of this tax cut.

Kevin Hassett

Pork is the inevitable feature of the democratic process.

Jason Willett

On the Democratic side, we've had somebody looking at it for a long time. From the party's perspective, when you've not had the governor's office in 10 years you're ready for a race like this for quite some time.

Fernando Ferrer

forward to campaigning with him, and a united Democratic party ... to take on Mike Bloomberg as we head into November.

Ellen Key

War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause.

David Beckham

We could have done without this, leading up to the World Cup.

Mark Hurd

We've got some looseness in our structures and our processes, ... We have to get away from managing and reporting to leading and driving.

Chris Tinker

Valuations on mining stocks look very rich. Any pause in the spot price is leading to sharp price corrections and sentiment can reverse quite quickly.

Rafe Spall

It's properly scary playing a leading man. Growing up, I always wanted to be a character actor.

Peter Shaffer

I think possibly the first film that has music as its leading character.

Karen Tandy

We are identifying, targeting, disrupting and dismantling some of the world's leading opium and heroin trafficking organizations,

Alexis Herman

We don't see that leading to any inflationary pressures on the economy.

Santiago Cabrera

How you look is part of what acting is, but the way I look at it, every actor is a character actor. Someone once told me at a casting, 'You're a character actor in a leading man's body,' and I can live with that.

Mark Gibson

We couldn't be any more pleased with the timing of our announcement.

Mike Cavic

We could have done a lot of things better, but overall, I'm pleased with how we did.

Bob Bales

We're very, very pleased with the support from the community.

Charles Sanders

We're very pleased with what we have produced so far.

Gary Smith

We're very pleased with what's happening, and we're proud of our people.

Steve Hogan

We're very pleased with the progress we're making, but we've still got a ways to go.

Kim Butler

We're very pleased with the participation and response. I think 2006 will see First Wednesday even more widespread throughout the city.

Jeff Moorad

We're very pleased with our relationship in Tucson,

Nicole Leverich

We're really pleased with the response so far.

Bill Vaughan

The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.

Bertrand Russell

Almost all education has a political motive.

Bertrand Russell

Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events.

Fatos Nano

We will rebuild Albania without Berisha as a political factor.

David Sanchez

Wilson was right when he called us a relentless political machine, and we will be in the Prop. 75 fight.

Asa Hutchinson

I think (Oklahoma) has made it a political issue.

Rudi Giuliani

I think I'll return to politics. I have some political visions. I don't know what they are yet, they're a little foggy.

Keith McKenzie

Without a political solution things will get worse. The situation is deteriorating in the remote areas.

Zharmakhan Tuyakbai

We know it is the result of the political system in our country, because our society is sliding more and more into illegality.

Cecelia Ahern

We don't realize what a privilege it is to grow old with someone.

Bertrand Russell

Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Angelina Jolie

I feel very, very privileged to be a very small part of it.

Marcellus Sommerville

He erases a lot of mistakes. It's a privilege to have him back there to do that. He comes up with big rebounds when we need them.

Monica Wright

I feel privileged to be a part of that.

Catherynne M. Valente

I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived.

Bob Ainsworth

I never expected to be Defence Secretary. It's a great privilege.

Bill Hybels

Savor every day you have the privilege to lead.

Antisthenes

It is a royal privilege to do good and be ill spoken of.

Pat Roberts

I know there is moral outage in regard to Mr. Milosevic, and that is certainly justified. But what about our response?

Luke Hudson

I didn't want to get better any more just because I was out of the rotation. I wanted to get better regardless of where I was.

Dominic Cooper

I'm not going to pre-empt anything regarding how my career's going to go because I'm always prepared for the worst.

Aesop

Do nothing without regard to the consequences.

Ichiro Ozawa

I will do my best, regardless of whether I would be running at the top or at the bottom.

Donald Johanson

Regardless of what we look like on the outside, genetically, on the inside, everyone is an African.

Jeffrey Fieler

Regardless of the (earnings) metric, they're on the right path.

Wang Xuming

Regarding our textbooks, the (policy) has been consistent. There haven't been any changes.

John Maynard Keynes

Regarded as a means, (the businessman) is tolerable; as an end, he is not so satisfactory