Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Bragan

I've been in this game since 1937. My biggest thrill was when I was in Milwaukee and I told them I was leaving. It was the loudest ovation I ever got.

Teju Cole

I am suspicious of writers who say their work is original and influenced by nobody. If it is, it is probably uninteresting. The biggest source of novels is other novels.

Larry Harris

Morality is the biggest misconception. People also think we're the big spenders and for big government. We're the party for the people and for helping people, and we're for government that works.

Andy Roach

No, I don't. It depends on the goalie, I like to see what he likes to do, ... Some goalies play more for a shot while other goalies play for the deke, so that's the biggest determining factor in what I do.

Vladimir Radmanovic

I don't think we're going to play football in the playoffs. Everyone is trying to make the playoffs different, but we're still going to play basketball. Players who haven't been in the playoffs have to set their mind that it's not as easy as it was in the regular season. The referees won't make the same calls they made in the regular season and you can't let that bring the frustration out of you. That's the biggest adjustment.

Bob Djurdjevic

Global Services results are disappointing, especially a $2 billion drop in its backlog in the fourth quarter. And a 9% decline in new contract signings? That means that the biggest IBM unit is losing more business from its backlog than it is signing.

Tony Wingen

If this wasn't the biggest win in school history, it's right up there with any of them. It was fantastic. To prepare to win, carry out the game plan to perfection, and actually win the game, it was like winning a championship.

Pat Metheny

If we are going to list guitar influences, the biggest one by far is Wes Montgomery. Also, Gary Burton was obviously huge for me in a number of ways. But beyond that, Clifford Brown, Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard.

Rachel Yeggy

He was definitely one of my biggest fans.

Alan Nicholl

Twenty-some shots is a tremendous game, offensively. For them not to score a goal, you have to hand it back to our kids; they put up such a great defensive effort.

Ichiro Suzuki

I've seen a lot of great plays in my five years in the majors. And I know we have enough talent on our team to be able to contend.

Randy Osnes

We played Prairie Grove just once this year, and we won 10-0 in five innings. They will be ready, but we will be, too.

Bill Gates

There are many years where Waterloo is the university we hire the most people from of any university in the world. Waterloo has always been in the top five every year.

G. H. Hardy

I wrote a great deal... but very little of any importance; there are not more than four of five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction.

John McBride

This year we had five very qualified candidates.

Dylan Hunter

They play physical. They know our weaknesses. They want to hit us up front and hit our main guys. They rely on the power play, just like us.

Duncan Hunter

So my point is, you can have a good reform, but in doing that, you don't want to hurt the troops that are in the field.

Don Norton

Some years it probably would because you're hit with a lot of injuries. Some years, it's probably not so good because you don't want to (break) your routine.

Jim Bates

Sometimes when you want inside push we'll use Grady. He's been a good pass-rusher in his career.

Mike Redmond

Sometimes I laugh when we talk. I'm 13 years older than he is. He's got a great grasp for what's going on out there. I don't think I've ever talked to a 22-year-old kid with as much of a good idea as he has.

John Adair

Teamwork is no accident.It is the by-product of good leadership.

Gordie Kerkman

Teams have had us in their sights for quite a while. We're used to that. And I think it's good for us to know we always have to be on top of our game.

Mike Jensen

Teams are looking and looking for ways to stop Brandon, and he's so good it's hard to stop him. I think you have to let him get what he gets.

Richard Parsons

Ted is my man. I love Ted, ... He knows more, particularly about the television space, which is at least a good third of this company. Ted and I have always had a wonderful relationship, and I am going to be reaching out to him, too.

Charlie Peprah

Tell him not to feel so bad, because he played a very good defense.

Bobby Bowden

As I look back on my 51 years of coaching, ... that is the hardest thing to explain.

Jake Voskuhl

We go out and play hard every single night. That's the one thing that we do every night. We may not win the game, but we play hard and have fun.

Lindsay Duda

This year proved that if you work hard and you have a lot of heart, you can really do anything.

Matt Davis

We are trying to improve on our 4-6 record. The kids worked hard this offseason, and this is the most seniors we've had since I've been coaching.

Dennis Shaffer

We're trying to get our name out there more and get a following. It's hard to do that with the originals. We're trying to get people pulled in first, then we'll throw some original music at them.

Tony Parker

Every time we play Houston, we have a hard time scoring. Whenever you make the outside shot, it opens things up for us.

Louis Amundson

Every time we made a run, they'd make a shot. It's disappointing to not come out and play hard from the start.

George H. W. Bush

there's people from all walks of life working hard to protect the American people.

Laveranues Coles

There's only so much you can do,' ... 'Just keep playing hard and it will be O.K.'

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.

Alex Pettyfer

The biggest thing for me is I don't want to let people down. At the same time I love things that scare me and challenge me. If your job doesn't do that and doesn't excite you there's no point in doing it.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If one is a professional soldier, it is part of one's job to die sooner or later.

Alfred P. Sloan

Give a man a clear-cut job and let him do it.

Alfred P. Sloan

The late Alfred P. Sloan, Ir., long-time executive of General Motors Corporation, had a fivepoint "secret of success." It was: 1. Get the facts. 2. Recognize the equities of all concerned. 3. Realize the necessity of doing a better job every day. 4. Keep an open mind. 5. Work hard.

Alfred P. Sloan

The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs

Alfred Molina

Every job is different. I don't think that I've ever had that wonderful feeling when you've finished a job or where you feel like you've mastered it or sort of nailed it... You can never be satisfied. If you're satisfied, it's time to retire.

Alfred Molina

I never made conscious choices. There were times in my life that I chose the first job that came along because I was broke. I think that there were maybe a handful of times that I had a choice. In recent years, Ive had more of a choice, and its been very nice to have that choice, but most of the time, you just hope that theres another job after this one.

Alan Zweibel

I've been writing for people long enough to know that it has got to feel comfortable coming out of their mouths, especially when you're doing something that is first person and is so near and dear to you.

Jessica Simpson

I've come to realize that the more I censor myself, the less people relate to me.

Ryan Clark

I've been proving people wrong for a long time,

Tim Miles

I've been in that situation a lot. People look at you like they're going to whip you.

Brad Wilkerson

I've been in this organization, the Montreal/Nationals organization, from the onset of it. It's just a shock that I'm not going to be with the same organization, the same people I've been around my whole career. That's going to be different.

Mandy Moore

I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do.

Christie Brinkley

I urge people to make your workout fun.

Robert Gerard

I unequivocally think there is no place for steroids in the sport. There are tens of thousands of young people that look up to these athletes.

Ted Strickland

The zeitgeist is clear. People in this state want change. They're tired of scandal. They want to turn things around, and that's just what we are going to do.

Stana Katic

I don't believe in weak women, I believe women in general are pretty powerful beings. I don't know anything else.

Stanley Milgram

I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority. This view sustains a conception of human dignity insofar as it sees in each man a capacity for choosing his own behavior. And as it turned out, many subjects did, indeed, choose to reject the experimenter's commands, providing a powerful affirmation of human ideals.

Tamora Pierce

Indeed Not. Stop kicking me, Daine. You understand, she is very important to a number of powerful nobles and mages in Tortall." Numair's voice was quiet, almost friendly; his eyes were hard. "Their majesties. Lady Alanna and her husband, the baron of Pirate's Swoop. Me. All of us would take iit amiss if we thought for a moment she was being trifled with, particularly by a young man who wasn't free to do the right thing by her." "Numair," Daine growled. "Can I speak to you privately for a moment? "No. Stepping on my foot won't work either. Do I make myself clear, Prince Kaddar?

Tacitus

Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family

Tacitus

Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose. [Lat., Imperium flagitio acquisitum nemo unquam bonis artibus exercuit.]

Tacitus

Power is more safely retained by cautious than by severe councils. [Lat., Potentiam cautis quam acribus consiliis tutius haberi.]

Sylvia Plath

I am I-I am powerful, but to what extent? I am I.

Sylvia Plath

I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn’t taste like anything, but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword swallowers’ sword and made me feel powerful and godlike.

Swami Vivekananda

The difference between God and the devil is in nothing except in unselfishness and selfishness. The devil knows as much as God, is as powerful as God; only he has no holiness that makes him a devil. Apply the same idea to the modern world: excess of knowledge and power, without holiness, makes human beings devils.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

S. I. Hayakawa

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

Morris Chestnut

I'm an R&B and Hip-Hop type guy. When I work out, which I do at least four or five times a week, I love to get the latest Hip-Hop because it really pumps me up and inspires me to get that workout on.

Florenz Ziegfeld

Not only may she unconsciously register a favorable impression with my associates and me, but she may also suggest something by her work that will lead to some new and novel feature in a forthcoming production.

Mike Pompeo

One of the things you don't always realize when you're younger is that not everything you try is going to work.

Michael A. Stackpole

Choosing to publish work electronically myself is really a no-brainer.

Lalu Prasad Yadav

I work so much. If I don't get all the comforts, I will turn mad.

Friedrich Schiller

The Moor has done his work, the Moor may go.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.