Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brenda Blackburn

I think raising the bar is a good idea. I think it's a good thing for kids, and long-term for Florida.

I think people tend to forget that trees are living creatures. They're sort of like dogs. Huge, quiet, motionless dogs, with bark instead of fur.

Lloyd Carr

I think certainly the '97 team raised the bar at Michigan. They raised expectations, which were already enormous. But I think the goal of every Michigan team since then is to win the national championship. And I think we all recognize how difficult that is to do. And yet it's certainly a goal worth pursuing. I think we're trying to pursue that every day.

Mark Mitchell

I think most people equate drunk driving to someone who stumbles out of the bar and is drunk, but you can have two or three drinks and still be impaired.

Mark Guibert

I think most enterprise customers will continue to want a lot more today than can be accomplished through a service pack for wireless e-mail. We launched enterprise-grade wireless e-mail seven years ago, but we've continued to raise the bar for wireless e-mail since and our market is also about much more than wireless e-mail today.

Andy Purdy

We have to raise the bar (about security). This is the challenge.

Sandy McCullough

We read (the phrase) in the forward, where it talked about speakeasies. We didn't want a bar and grill at the end of the name, and we kept coming to that (phrase)." ()

Graham Murray

We don't set it too high, we keep the bar at a reasonable level which means semi-final bound. But I can see we've developed a pretty special team at the moment and particularly if we continue to do as we've done in the trials I think there's a hell of a lot of rewards for us this year.

Mark Johnson

Well, we've been pretty consistent with our statements and what we want to do as a group, and that gets better each weekend. We've certainly made some strides in the early part of September to where we are now, but now it's time to elevate the bar a little bit more. The team has done some real nice things up to this point, and we've won a lot of hockey games, but now you got to keep watering it and put a little fertilizer on it and grow with it.

David Gregory

I'm very grateful for the experience at NBC.

Robert Stack

I'm sure that we'll learn a lot from their experience, as we do from all the other disasters,

Charles Buchwalter

I'm not going to tell you that the online experience is matching the TV experience ... however, the online experience today is so much more like the TV experience than it was three or four years ago,

Melissa Etheridge

I'm exploring the maturity, the wisdom that just comes from having gone around the sun 50 times. My experience is, 'Oh, I'm never really going to get it right. I'm never going to get it done. But that's not the point here.' The point is the journey.

John Battelle

I left 'Wired' before it was sold to Conde Nast and Lycos, so I didn't experience that transition.

Steve Kinser

I made a mistake but it turned out to be a good thing because it gave me more experience working the draft,

Steven Michael Quezada

I'm a big 'Breaking Bad' fan - if I'm not in the script, I like to experience the show with the rest of the world. I'm ready to be shocked.

Rece Davis

I love to come up and experience the countryside and the people, who were so nice to me the last time I was there,

Steve Cleveland

I loved my experience here. We've got a lot of special memories here.

Billy Blanks

When you become confident with your inner-self, the outside's just going to fall into place.

Bobby Darin

I had these shoes made and 2 to 3 inch lifts inside and the heel was another 2 and half inches. I walked around that way, wherever I could without falling over.

Alexander McCall Smith

If your ceiling should fall down, then you have lost a room, but gained a courtyard. Think of it that way.

Don DeLillo

A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable.

Amber Valletta

I wish the word supermodel would just fall off the face of the earth. Anyone can be a supermodel now.

Chuck Palahniuk

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.

Chuck Palahniuk

Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.

Christopher Marlowe

O soul, be changed into little waterdrops, / And fall into the ocean, ne'er be found!

Dashiell Hammett

The roof might fall in; anything could happen.

Daryl Patton

We're a pressure team. We're going to give up some big plays at time but overall ... we gave up some big plays but the kids responded usually with something positive right after that.

Caitlyn Jenner

'Esquire Magazine' just gave me 'Father of the Year'. I'll put it right up there with my gold medal. I survived; that's why they gave it to me.

Billy Donovan

They played great tonight, they really did. I was proud of how hard they played and competed. They gave me everything I could possibly ask.

Tommy Hill

It wasn't what I wanted. I'd rather leave here with a third than (leave) with nothing at all like I did last year. I guess I wrestled a lot better once I lost because it gave me the drive.

Marc Bulger

It was sort of a wakeup call. It gave us a little spark that we didn't have. I can't say how much that turned the game.

Bobby Keys

I first went on the road with the Rolling Stones in the year of our Lord, 1969. But my grandfather gave me away to a drummer when I was 15 years old.

Peter Bienert

We worried and we hoped constantly. We never gave up hope.

Jack Kerouac

Nothing ever happened - Not even this

Aldous Huxley

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Michel de Montaigne

The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.

Michael Beasley

You always want to be remembered as one of the greats. We know the history and tradition of this program.

Voltaire

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

Joshua Simmons

I love history. I'd like to find more about the history where I live at.

Nathaniel Philbrick

As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.

Plato

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Sonia Sotomayor

It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.

Warren Littlefield

In the history of pilot reports, 'Seinfeld' has got to be one of the worst of all time.

Bill Hicks

How many people disapprove of the job the Conservatives are doing? Seventy percent. Of those same people, how many will vote for them again? ...Seventy percent. What the f-k? Where did they take this poll, at an S&M parlor?

Barack Obama

Every single thing I`ve done, from the Affordable Care Act to pushing to raise the minimum wage, to making sure that young people are able to go to college and get good job training, to what we`re pushing now in terms of sick paid leave,everything I do has been focused on how do we make sure the middle class is getting a fair deal.

Douglas Coupland

MCJOB: A low-pay, low-prestige, low-dignity, no-future job in the service sector. Frequently considered a satisfying career choice for people who have never held one.

Adam Savage

That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.

Adam Carolla

The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were.

Adam Carolla

Everything seems overwhelming when you stand back and look at the totality of it. I build a lot of stuff and it would all seem impossible if I didn't break it down piece by piece, stage by stage. The best gift you can give yourself is some drive--that thing inside of you that gets you out the door to the gym, job interviews, and dates. The believe-in-yourself adage is grossly overrated.

Anna Wintour

Go get a job. Whether it’s working as a designer or working in a restaurant and then doing your own thing in your own time, it’s a reality of life. In the end it’s going to be helpful to you and so many others.

Angus T. Jones

Committing yourself to some kind of job that isn't committed to God is going to bring so much trouble into your life. It's not good and not something I would suggest that someone seek.

Anish Kapoor

I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form

Pearl Norris

We thought it was a warehouse but when we opened it, the pews were still in it.

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?'

Morris Chestnut

I remember when we were in rehearsals and we were going through it, because we rehearsed before we went to Toronto, and it's more of the same. She and I had to deal with a lot of stuff in this movie and we really have to take ourselves there. It actually started in rehearsals, and just revisiting that piece of it all. Just the way Monica is and what she says and the way she looks at me, it really affects me throughout rehearsals and throughout the scenes.

Jeanne Tripplehorn

I'd really been wanting to do a television series. I was looking for a comedy.

Jack Gould

There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come.

Kevin Beary

He's not watching television, 'cause we've done some things so he can't watch television.

Geena Davis

I watch very little television, actually. There's so many shows I want to watch and then I know I'll get hooked and I have to binge-watch the entire thing.

Gary Cole

You don't really have time to do other than what's written. It's very rigid. Shows have a certain rhythm that nobody wants disturbed. So a lot of that doesn't take place on television, at least the television I was doing at the time when I first started.

Gary Cole

Television is a big roulette table on so many levels. That's all it is for actors.

Fred W. Friendly

Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best.

Eddie Cahill

I love flexing theater Muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.

Helen McCrory

I had a great start in television; the first thing I did was an episode of Performance called The Entertainer with Michael Gambon playing Archie Rice.