Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Greenspan

I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.

Alan Ball

Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

David Hilbert

A mathematical problem should be difficult in order to entice us, yet not completely inaccessible, lest it mock at our efforts. It should be to us a guide post on the mazy paths to hidden truths, and ultimately a reminder of our pleasure in the successful solution.

David Douglas

Have the models been successful in predicting anything? They, of course, predict substantial global warming. This is not surprising given the expressed belief of some of the model builders in the global warming Hypothesis and the many parameters in the model that need to be introduced. However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surface of the earth; but all the available observational data unambiguously shows the opposite!

David Brenner

Entrepreneurs with disabilities are overwhelmingly successful.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Well, you know, I'm the forever optimist.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

You don't really see a muscle as a part of you, in a way. You see it as a thing. You look at it as a thing and you say well this thing has to be built a little longer, the bicep has to be longer; or the tricep has to be thicker here in the elbow area. And you look at it and it doesn't even seem to belong to you. Like a sculpture. Then after looking at it a sculptor goes in with his thing and works a little bit, and you do maybe then some extra forced reps to get this lower part out. You form it. Just like a sculpture.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I will not change. Because if you are successful and you change, you are an idiot.

Charles Caleb Colton

Wit may do very well for a mistress, but [I] should prefer reason for a wife.

Alan Jackson

I've been a lot of places, and my wife, Denise, she likes a lot of the fancy restaurants. I'm more of a basic eater. I still go into Cracker Barrel. Those are the kind of people who like the kind of music I'm making.

Akshay Kumar

Why bother with Google when I have a wife who knows everything about everything!

David Riesman

The situation of the factory worker today is reminiscent in certain respects of that of the nineteenth-century capitalist whose wife dragged him reluctantly toward "culture" and away from his "materialistic" preoccupations.

David Brainerd

I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English.

William Shakespeare

As for my wife, I would you had her spirit in such another; The third o' th' world is yours, which with a snaffle You may pace easy, but not such a wife.

William Shakespeare

I crave fit disposition for my wife; Due reference of place, and exhibition; With such accommodation, and besort, As levels with her breeding.

Aaron Spelling

One thing my wife says is bad about me is that I still care too much.

Aaron Spelling

I love my wife, she deserves anything and everything.

Charles Dickens

In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease--a terrible passing inclination to die of it.

Alan Watts

Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together.

Alan Watts

Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone.

Alan Patricof

The secret now is to be disciplined. It's so easy to get carried away with things valued on the hereafter.

Alan Paton

But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.

Al Oerter

There's no substitute for work. There are no shortcuts. There are no secrets.

Akio Morita

There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.

David Hume

We learn the influence of our will from experience alone. And experience only teaches us, how one event constantly follows another; without instructing us in the secret connexion, which binds them together, and renders them inseparable.

David Brooks

It's rare in an administration for a secretary of state and a secretary of defense to get along really well.