Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wade Leppert

I've been competing since eighth-grade. It gives me the ability to fight off blocks and overpower people.

Ed Wade

I understand the rights of people to have the ability to criticize what we do, ... At the same time, we have a lot of fans out there who were very supportive of what we've done here over the last eight years, particularly what we've done over the last couple of years to try to get to the finish line. And I also think it needs to be said that for eight years, I've been a doer, and not a critic. Because sometimes standing up and doing things is a lot easier that people standing on the sidelines and criticizing what you do.

Warren Shiau

Things are getting worse. However, despite the greater instances of attacks the amount of investment in security has produced a degree of resistance to those attacks. Internal breaches of security was five per cent three years ago (today it is 30 per cent) . . . perhaps with the implementation of improved security people have a better ability to discover security breaches than in the past.

Jia Qinglin

They also show to the world that the Chinese people on both sides of the Strait have the wisdom and ability to resolve their differences and build a new framework for the peaceful and steady development of cross-Strait relations.

Dick Martin

The whole theory of the new law is to see how to improve people's ability to repay creditors. There's got to be a balance between relieving debt and allowing creditors to collect.

Scott Moore

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Chris Mullin

The way Mike performed, the way he conducted himself, and the way we run our organization, we both felt it was something that we wanted, ... We're still putting together a team and not just individuals. Mike's ability to play with the guys that we have on our roster, along with his age and his development ... are what it's about.

Ronald Reagan

The very key to our success has been our ability, foremost among nations, to preserve our lasting values by making change work for us rather than against us.

Tony Fratto

The World Bank's analysis seems to give greater credence to the ability of a Niger to pay back its unsustainable debt than it does for the G-8 countries to meet their commitments.

Jake Wien

During my time in New York I was interested in what was going on in the arts culture music, galleries, auction houses that's where I learned as much as I did about art history. It was the vortex of the art world and a fabulous place to get up to speed and develop one's eye.

Eric Liu

The summer of 1991, I took $2,000 of my savings and a desktop program, and I asked my friends to write 800 words about something they cared about. I got eight or nine articles and put them together. It was no frills, black and white, no graphics. I printed them out and just dumped piles around D.C.

Ben Nicholson

Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.

Mary Lambert

Yes, I would loved to have just sustained myself through my art, but less than one in a billion musicians gets that life. So rather than being like, 'I'm an exception!', like a moron, I thought I'd get a real job.

Charles Bukowski

escape from the black widow spider is a miracle as great as art. what a web she can weave slowly drawing you to her she'll embrace you then when she's satisfied she'll kill you still in her embrace and suck the blood from you.

Charles Bukowski

A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated." - from 'Cows in Art Class

Charles Bukowski

The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.

Charles Bukowski

Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be an art

Frederick Moran

The cable division came in with 13 percent cash-flow growth, which is basically the strongest we're going to see out of the whole cable industry this quarter, ... They're showing some real power.

Sue Shipman

This is the basic premise for everything. Gather, purge and sort. This pile is to take to another room where you can look at it later. And this is the indecision pile. Come back when you have another opportunity.

Norman Cook

The whole British Hip Hop scene basically happened through word of mouth and through people like you sort of spreading the word in different cities.

Daniel Horowitz

You scream, you cry. But I just basically sat with her, and I just told her, 'I love you, and you're beautiful,'

John Key

We are a small, open economy, highly dependent on global flows. It is inevitably a demand that dramatically alters and that is reflected in what we feel here in New Zealand. So there is at its most basic level a limit to what we can do and that is true everywhere.

Tom Perkins

What Scouting has done for these people. It teaches a lot of basic skills that continue on in your life.

Janet Smith

We go beyond the literacy in our conversational English classes by meeting basic human needs.

Kevin Eggan

We found they could be induced to mature into nerve cells, hair follicles, muscle cells and gut endoderm cells. And when cultured in lab dishes, the cells differentiated, or matured, into the three major basic types of cell.

Scott Skiles

We just expect a few basic things. We need him to defend, rebound, run the floor -- same things we've always needed. He's got to be able to find a way to get that done for us.

I think college administrators should encourage students to urinate on walls and bushes, because then when students from another college come sniffing around, they'll know this is someone else's territory.

Robert Vaughn

While at college, I did my first lead on a network TV show, Medic.

Satchel Paige

Don't go to college, unless to get knowledge.

Sargent Shriver

If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college.

Sargent Shriver

I can remember at college, living on 30-cent meals.

Sarah Vowell

I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good.

Santiago Durango

Until these college students came into town, we were all very poor and didn't have money to do anything.

Vince Young

I feel like I accomplished everything I wanted to accomplish in college.

Wendy Williams

I know firsthand that educators are the most overworked and underpaid people around. It influenced me in that it was always about family first, and education was right next to that. There was never any question about whether I was going to college.

Susan Ward

Train your staff (if you have any) to be always helpful, courteous, and knowledgeable. Most importantly, give every member of your staff enough information and power to make those small customer-pleasing decisions, so he never has to say, "I don't know, but so-and-so will be back at..."

Susan Ward

The irony of good customer service is that over time it will bring in more new customers than promotions and price slashing ever did!

Lance Armstrong

Fear is priceless education.

Lisa Loeb

I walked away to get wisdom, but in the end I just walked home.

Lisa Loeb

With all the things that you could be, you never could learn how to be me.

John Updike

You cannot but learn more of the world's heft, as you take it now into your hands.

John Updike

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

John Updike

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

John Updike

It's not up to us what we learn, but merely whether we learn through joy or through pain.

Joanne Pratt

The Web is a great place to shop and spend money, but it's pretty great for making money too.

Beth Combs

That's why they are Purdue and we're not. They were able to sustain that run and make a great run when it counted.

Stuart Allard

That's why I prefer independent movies. It proves you don't need big stars to make a great movie.

Vinny Castilla

That's why he's here. He's a great player, and that's why he's with us and the National team.

Micky Sullivan

That's why he's going to Oklahoma. He can go and get it. It's great to have a guy that where all you need to do is get it close.

Emilie Ravin

That's what's great about it. Everyone is so different. Different ages. Different nationalities,

Will Rogers

That's what makes us a great nation. We take the little things serious, and the big ones as a joke.

Derek Dennis

That's what makes Peekskill so special. We have a great bench, so we can make runs on teams that aren't as deep.

Marcus Thames

That's what I work for every year. It'll be a great feeling.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

There is no land like England, Where'er the light of day be; There are no hearts like English hearts, Such hearts of oak as they be; There is no land like England, Where'er the light of day be: There are no men like Englishmen, So tall and bold as they be! And these will strike for England, And man and maid be free To foil and spoil the tyrant Beneath the greenwood tree.

Alex Campbell

I have no ill will in my heart against anybody in this world.

Alex Ebert

In my heart, I'm always in my rail-hosen.

Alex Ferguson

Everyone remembers Stuart Pearce as a determined, aggressive player, who played with great heart and enthusiasm that gave him a great career in the game.

Aldous Huxley

But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his heart and mind.

Albert Pike

The power of a free people is often at the disposal of a single and seemingly an unimportant individual; a terrible and truthful power; for such a people feel with one heart, and therefore can lift up their myriad arms for a single blow. And, again, there is no graduated scale for the measurement of the influences of different intellects upon the popular mind. Peter the Hermit held no office, yet what a work he wrought!

Albert Pike

True thoughts have duration in themselves. If the thoughts endure, the seed is enduring; if the seed endures, the energy endures; if the energy endures, then will the spirit endure. The spirit is thought; thought is the heart; the heart is the fire; the fire is the Elixir.

Albert Pike

Man is encompassed with a dome of incomprehensible wonders. In him and about him is that which should fill his life with majesty and sacredness. Something of sublimity and sanctity has thus flashed down from heaven into the heart of every one that lives.

Albert Einstein

The traditional religions worry me. Their long history proves that they have not understood the meaning of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill. If we want to save this world from unimaginable destruction we should concentrate not on the faraway God , but on the heart of the individual.

Ludwig von Mises

Capitalism and socialism are two distinct patterns of social organization. Private control of the means of production and public control are contradictory notions and not merely contrary notions. There is no such thing as a mixed economy, a system that would stand midway between capitalism and socialism.

Viktor E. Frankl

Being tolerant does not mean that I share another ones belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another ones right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.

Donald Trump

I think the people of Florida are fed up. I don't think Marco Rubio can - I mean, I may be wrong, but I don't think he can be elected dogcatcher in Florida.

Adolf Hitler

As long as the League of Nations constitutes only a treaty of guarantee for the victorious nations, it is by no means worthy of its name.

Adolf Hitler

Thank the Lord, Germanic democracy means just this: that any old climber or moral slacker cannot rise by devious paths to govern his national comrades, but that, by the very greatness of the responsibility to be assumed, incompetents and weaklings are frightened of.

Adolf Hitler

I have been Europe's last hope. She proved incapable of refashioning herself by means of voluntary reform. She showed herself impervious to charm and persuasion. To take her I had to use violence. (26th February)

Adolf Hitler

Germany suffered most as a consequence of this Peace Treaty and the general insecurity which was bound to arise from it. The unemployment figure rose to a third of the number usually employed in the nation, which means, however, that by counting the families of the unemployed as well there were 26 million people in Germany out of a population of 65 millions faced by an absolutely hopeless future.

Adolf Hitler

Our national policies will not be revoked or modified, even for scientists. If the dismissal of Jewish scientists means the annihilation of contemporary German science, then we shall do without science for a few years.

Adolf Hitler

The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason is terror and force.

Malayan Proverb

If you have, give; if you lack, seek

Jim Jarmusch

The beauty of life is in small details, not in big events.

James May

It's a small step in the right direction.

Kristen Stewart

I want to be an actor, I am just not very comfortable talking about myself.

Kenny G

You can't just walk away when somebody recognizes you. You have to take some time out and talk to them. It's not a waste of time - I just love talking to people. And I don't do this to sell records. The truth is, I do what I do because I love it.

Peter Milligan

When you're alive and everything is going fine, why talk about things? Talking's for later, when talking's all there is that's left.

Prince Philip

I've never been noticeably reticent about talking on subjects about which I know nothing.

Paul Walker

People are often talking when they are not supposed to be.

Terry Pratchett

It’s quite easy to accidentally overhear people talking downstairs if you hold an upturned glass to the floorboards and accidentally put your ear to it.

Selena Gomez

I'm really nervous, because it's actually happening. You forget after a while when you start talking about something that it's actually going to happen.

Sharleen Spiteri

Songwriters tend to make records instead of talking to people.

Phyllis Bottome

When a reserved person once begins to talk, nothing can stop him; and he does not want to have to listen, until he has quite finished his unfamiliar exertion.