Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jody Conradt

I think (Texas Western coach) Don Haskins probably opened a lot of doors for a lot of people. I can't identify totally with the African-American players, but I can identify as a woman doing things you're not supposed to do. That has been in my thoughts.

Manmohan Singh

I have extended a hand of friendship to Pakistan, our doors are open to everyone who wants to talk to me calmly,

Robert Redford

Hollywood was not a place I dreamed of getting to. I never could take seriously the obsession people have about being a celebrity or getting to Hollywood - I was born next door.

Walter Cronkite

This opens the door on another chapter of history.

Rod Steiger

Complacency in the presence of miracles is like opening the door to your own tomb.

Robin Thicke

Like with acting, if you're charming or just good-looking, you might be able to get your foot in the door. But a lot of time with music, you actually have to kinda be able to sing.

Robin Roberts

When fear knocks, let faith answer the door.

William Gurnall

Never venture near the door where sin dwells, lest you are dragged in.

William Arthur Ward

To the optimist all doors have handles and hinges; to the pessimist, all doors have locks and latches.

Shandon Anderson

I think it's because we're a veteran team and we understand what we're trying to do at the end of the day, and that's win a championship. To win a championship you can't have any egos on this team.

Jeremy Bloom

There aren't a lot of egos on this team.

Daryl Hall

I'm used to the egos in the 1960s, '70s and '80s where people just expected massive success and thought it was their birth right to be successful.

Johnny Carson

I have an ego like anybody else, but I don't need to be stoked by going before the public all the time.

Ken Flowers

I've got one of the strongest backcourts in the state and there's no ego with them. If one guy's scoring a lot, there's no telling when somebody might run off 10 (points) or four straight. Those guys keep fighting. It's never about one guy -- it's about the team.

Alan Cohen

Anger is the ego's way of cloaking fear to make what is frail seem formidable.

Alan Cohen

Only the ego resists egos. The spirit may notice egos, but sees beyond them and does not engage with them.

Nelson DeMille

...the most common cause of death among alpha males was ego.

Joe Namath

My ego's not the kind that says, 'I want to be an actor and be accepted as that.

Kami Garcia

You can't jump off a cliff when you have already fallen off a bigger one.

Jo Beverley

Venice is truly magical. The Devon-Dorset coast in England is so beautiful, and its sandstone cliffs are full of fossils, which can make for some very exciting walks. And I love Halifax, a great place with all the modern things you could want, plus a wonderful sense of history, and, of course, the sea.

John Burnside

There is a red sandy beach in the Minas Basin in Nova Scotia that is unlike any other shore landscape I have ever seen. The world's highest tides wash its shores, and the soft cliffs of Blomidon Provincial Park are constantly crumbling away; whole trees will occasionally slide down to the sea to decay slowly in the wind and brine.

Seth Godin

Incrementalism ceases to be a good strategy when there's a cliff on the route.

Stanley Baldwin

Since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine.