Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robin Williams

I had to stop drinking alcohol because I used to wake up nude in front of my car with my keys in my ass.

Samuel Johnson

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

W. C. Fields

It's quite true I'm not drinking anymore; however, I'm not drinking any less either.

W. C. Fields

It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one's present or future thirst, the excellence of the cognac, or any other reason

W. C. Fields

Never give a sucker an even break.

Zach Wamp

Frankly, alcohol leads to a lot of other things when you start drinking at 12-years old. It is a big problem that needs to be addressed. Frankly, the industry has pushed us back and pushed us back.

William Butler Yeats

A drunkard is a dead man And all dead men are drunk.

Walter Scott

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

Viktor Chernomyrdin

Wine we need for health, and the health we need to drink vodka.

Stone Gossard

J was open to our style from the get-go. They weren't expecting us to do something that was unnatural for us.

Grant Heslov

'Monuments Men' is a movie... I don't want to say for grown-ups, because some young folks could appreciate it, too. But if you're expecting 'Transformers,' you're going to be disappointed.

Carl Moore

We may still be about $200,000 to $250,000 short. We're expecting some tax credits, but we may still have to do some local fundraising.

Emma Watson

He was expecting us to be professional the whole time, ... whereas before ?

Pedro Martinez

I don't go out there expecting no-hitters or anything like that. I go out there trying to make things happen, actually expecting them to hit the ball, but where I want, not precisely where they want to. That's what happened today, and I was lucky enough to be flirting with a no-hitter.

Robert Amsterdam

I am expecting nothing more than I've seen in the past,

Ron Nelson

He had a great year last year. He was real steady at shortstop and at the plate. We're expecting big things from him again.

Shannon Wood

In the third quarter we just got really rattled. In the fourth quarter we were expecting pressure and we just stepped it up.

Robert McCarthy

Investors were disappointed with in line results and were expecting a strong to blowout quarter.

Terry Ryan

Kenny Williams has always been very gracious in talking about us, which is flattering. And he says he's doing things that we have done and so forth, and that's awfully gracious of him. But he's done a wonderful job over there.

Jim Kaat

He (Rodriguez) has been hearing it from the crowd.

Anne Mills

I can feel your sympathy. But seeing is what will impact you, even more than hearing the stories.

Charles Schumer

If there ever was a time when the hearings are going to make a huge difference, it's now,

Don Lindburg

I'm not hearing anything like that, and I would be very, very surprised.

Mike Tranghese

I keep hearing the question, 'Are we going to survive?'

Larry Holmes

Earnie hit me harder than any other fighter, including Mike Tyson. He hit me and I was face down on the canvas hearing saxophonist Jimmy Tillis.

Kevin Hall

All we're hearing from the House leadership is 'no,' and that's not a solution. It is bewildering that there are those in the House who would remove tools as opposed to offering constructive solutions of their own.

Graham Henderson

The CRTC did not have a policy hearing where everything is on the table,

Ernie Allen

Not only are we recovering more kids but we're hearing from more parents.

Joe Pesci

Ah, I don't do interviews, really.

Eli Wallach

Well, I've maybe gotten 200 requests for interviews about Marilyn, and I just decided I'm gonna do my own.

Bob Ross

I never turn down requests for interviews. I'm just rarely asked.

Robert Fripp

My life has improved so much since I stopped doing interviews.

Rupert Graves

I'm crap at interviews. I'm just not very good at sentences.

Rachel Weisz

I always do my interviews face to face.

Michael Moriarty

Interviews don't go to the core of my life,

John Simm

I used to be mouthy. It was all to do with being a northerner and from Manchester, which was suddenly a big deal when I was in my 20s. When I read some of the interviews I did back then, I cringe.

M. Wolfe

My mind-set was to interview as many as possible.

Kid Cudi

Dim them lights get it in pimp tight do wat i do i lace up my own nikes.

Andrew Young

Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement.

Sonny Vaccaro

In terms of my work with Nike, obviously signing Michael Jordan to a $500,000 contract in 1984 set a new precedent for the business side of the game.

Phil Knight

Nike is a marketing-oriented company, and the product is our most important marketing tool

Mark Parker

Sustainability at Nike means being laser-focused on evolving our business model to deliver profitable growth while leveraging the efficiencies of lean manufacturing, minimizing our environmental impact and using the tools available to us to bring about positive change across our entire supply chain.

Mark Ronson

Being a die-hard Knicks fan, I remember hunting down these orange-and-blue Nikes that they only released in England. And I used to hunt for sneakers when I DJ'd in Japan. But then Nike flooded the market with a head-spinning array of color combinations and it just didn't seem cool anymore.

Rodney Knox

Nike has had a long-standing relationship with A-Rod and this just formalizes it,

Jason Mewes

It was a lot of fun doing the Nike commercials, too.

George Carlin

When fascism comes to America, it will not be in brown and black shirts. It will not be with jack-boots. It will be Nike sneakers and Smiley shirts. Germany lost the Second World War. Fascism won it. Believe me, my friend.

Geoff Stults

In sports, every day you can be the hero or the goat.

Dick Enberg

He was the first superstar of sports television.

William Law

If you attempt to talk with a dying man about sports or business, he is no longer interested. He now sees other things as more important. People who are dying recognize what we often forget, that we are standing on the brink of another world.

William Wilberforce

Watering places - the sports of the field - cards! never-failing cards! - the assembly - the theater - all contribute their aid - amusements are multiplied, and combined, and varied, 'to fill up the void of a listless and languid life;' and by the judicious use of these different resources, there is often a kind of sober settled plan of domestic dissipation, in which with all imaginable decency year after year wears away in unprofitable vacancy.

William Wordsworth

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

William James

Effort is a measure of a Man.

William Finnegan

Hawaii is the birthplace of surfing, and many Hawaiians or part-Hawaiians surf, but in the rest of the United States it's a pretty white sport.

Will Forte

I am a huge sports fan and spend a lot of my time away from work watching sports, going to sporting events, stuff like that. So it is a big thrill to see these people who I have so much respect for and to find out that they're all really fun, super-nice people. It's very exciting.

Saoirse Ronan

When I was younger, I was very athletic and I always loved sports and physical things.

Joseph Lieberman

We support a woman's right to choose, ... The other ticket does not.

Ryan McGinley

Most of the e-mails I get nowadays are from students who ask me how I got my start. In truth its from having a really supportive family but also having a good patron who will help you - like financing all those early trips I took.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

Winona LaDuke

If we build a society based on honoring the earth, we build a society which is sustainable, and has the capacity to support all life forms.

Frank Bennett

Part of it was to support the facility,

Mandi Lyon

I'm very overwhelmed, but very thankful for all the support.

Brandon McCarthy

I'll just support the team and make sure I'm ready.

Jacque Fresco

This is not a dictatorship, this is based upon scientific evidence to support a given project. If you want to put up a building, say half a mile high, the material has to be available. Using statistics is not a dictatorship. It's a method of getting the most from existing resources.

Heather Mills

I have had so much public support.