Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Cowper

Knowledge dwells in heads replete with thoughts of other men; wisdom in minds attentive to their own.

Evan Richert

I think it does not unduly harm property owners' rights. Theo and the town were very attentive to striking a balance. And I think they threaded the needle.

Robert Massey

He's a big name, not only for publicity but for recruiting. And he's a hell of a coach. He has a good football mind. Knowing that he's a former pro athlete, the kids will be very attentive and will work hard for him.

Pope Benedict

We too are called to be attentive to the needs of our suffering brothers and sisters as part of our Lenten observance.

Trevor Hoffman

He takes great pride in it. He's always attentive to the game situation, knows when we're going to probably crank 'er up a little bit more than normal based on the situation. There's no dialogue; he's there before I ever get there. Kind of like you see guys in the Home Run Derby. They bring in their own batting practice pitcher. There's a select comfort you get from somebody.

George Casey

And it's obviously something that one has to be attentive to. It's obviously something that General Casey and his troops are attentive to and have to be concerned about,

Alan W. Livingston

I've always been very attentive to detail. It's a characteristic that drives some people crazy. But on the other hand, when people around me are sloppy, that drives me crazy.

E. Hurley

It's an early indicator that new technologies and new routes to market for standards-based technology can begin to crimp at the edges of brand-name vendors, ... If vendors aren't attentive to these things and don't have a mature story to tell their customers about open source in general, this could be very problematic for them.

Christine Johnson

Excellent leg room, very attentive staff, fairly decent food, and I had my own DVD player.

Trent Reznor

Just spent the day discussing touring up through next summer, then played our asses off to the least responsive audience I can ever remember playing to. As I'm walking to the bus to leave Sacramento as soon as I can, I learn Jerome is back in the hospital. I have no idea what this means.

Glenn Stanton

John and I are both very disturbed by audience members who don't conduct themselves well, regardless of which side they are on. But that is very rare. Most people seem thankful for the way and seriousness with which we engage the issue and our obvious respect for each other.

Mike Spence

I think it is ... because the agriculture community in this country is shrinking, and their audience is growing.

Zhang Ziyi

He creates characters that draw in an audience no matter what language they speak. His insight into the human heart crosses all boundaries. I know he is also making a huge influence in the lives of younger filmmakers and actors.

Rory Bruer

Having a Jim Carrey film over the holidays is a pretty sure bet. Audiences trust he'll have the goods, and they want to laugh and have a good time this time of year.

George Pierce Baker

In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results.

Steve Earle

As much as I'd like to think and as much as people mistakenly think my audience is blue collar people in the heart of America, my audience is basically, in the States, an NPR audience. I play college towns in the summer because that's who comes to see me.

Ingrid Jensen

There are so many pockets of places around the country where I play at tiny little towns, and the audiences in general there are so much more appreciative than big city audiences.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

The body cannot lie. You cannot be somebody else onstage, no matter how good of an actor or dancer or singer you are. When you open your arms, move your finger, the audience knows who you are, you know.

Glenn Wilson

(Kalamazoo has) a great manager and a great staff. They're an outstanding team that just went through a Rockford club that I was very scared of.

Scott Boras

I talk to whoever the club wants me to negotiate with. But I do think that's the longest period I've gone without ever talking to a GM.

Martin Allen

I also know all the clubs in the Premiership that blanked me.

Jose Mourinho

I always feel that with a president, an owner - it depends on the structure of the club and the country - the players generally like to see him.

Rupert Lowe

Harry said that it was now impossible for him to come back to the club and that, in his words, he had been let down.

John Russell

He?s a good kid, works hard and has a good work ethic. You look in our clubhouse and he fits in very well.

Shannon Kleibrink

I was disappointed in the way I played, but I'd have been disappointed if I was playing in a women's club match. I don't think I struggled because of the pressure. I just plain struggled.

Scott Wood

I was an alcoholic by the time I was 21, ... There's enough drunks in the audience. The last thing a club needs is a drunk on stage.

Richard Caborn

Whatever the surplus the clubs will save as a consequence of a salary cap, what better way to use the extra money than to give some of it back to their fans.

Angela Shelton

I thought this would be a cute little film about meeting people with your same name, ... I would shoot it during the summer and then start on my comedy.

Paul Brooks

I think that because it was comedy-horror instead of pure horror is where the problem lay. It's the first comedy-horror in a long time, and maybe the marketplace just isn't ready for comedy-horror yet. It's difficult to think of other explanations.

Patricia Heaton

It had a 'Moonstruck' quality to the comedy - very romantic, huge emotions. I like to think of it as a comic opera, ... It just posed this question, what is true love? Is it that sort of ecstatic, over-the-top feeling you get on meeting someone? Or is it about years of commitment and history together? Or is it both? How do you find it, and how do you know? It's a very complicated topic.

Kimberley Nixon

'Fresh Meat' is the first comedy thing I've ever done.

Sandra Bullock

As for doing more dramatic work over comedy, I do whatever turns me on at the moment.

Taylor Schilling

In school, I was playing old men and women, babies, Russian people, and all sorts of weird parts - a lot of comedy - and that's sort of like home to me.

Anne Beatts

If you think of the people who are funny in your life, you'll note it's not because they tell jokes, it's because of their character. If you develop characters, then you'll know them, and you'll know how they'll speak. The comedy will come out of the character.

Jon Stewart

If you want to compare your show to a comedy show, you're more than welcome to ... You're on CNN. The show that leads into me is puppets making crank phone calls.

Michael Keaton

If you get a good comedy once a year, man, that's pretty good. I may be pickier than some, but still, there aren't that many movies that are really, truly, honestly that funny.

Jesper Parnevik

I would say it's like Pinehurst but maybe that's giving it too much credit.

David Jones

Greenspan is giving the markets a reality check. Good for him.

Tony Wingen

He's a force. We were willing to give up some inside points as long as we were not giving up 3-pointers. We did all that we needed to do to win.

Jeanine Pirro

Today is about thanking them for what they're doing in advance, giving them the support they need to go through the school year.

David Waters

He got ranked on a lot, but he got very good at giving it back.

Cameron Bagrie

He doesn't want to see lightening strike twice, and risk giving the housing market another wind.

Scott Fisher

He loved working with people over the years, and he was especially talented with young people. He was one of those guys who did not give up on kids. He stuck with them, even when that meant giving them a tough message.

Jan Denise

Today, I will know the unadulterated joy of giving with no strings. I acknowledge that sometimes I hope for praise or reciprocation when I give ... and that that detracts from the joy of giving. Today, the giving will be my joy. I know that I will sow what I reap, but I will not sow for the purpose of reaping. I will sow for the joy of sowing.

Robert Collier

But fear - panic - knows no reason. It brings into being overnight the things that it fears. It is the greatest torment of humanity. Fear is, in short, the devil. It causes most of the sin, disaster, disease and misery of the world. It is the ravening lion roaming the earth seeking whom it may...devour. The only refuge is in the knowledge that it has no power other than the power you give it.

Ken Hill

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

Charles Warren

I was like, 'Wow,' something's going on here, ... Something good is about to happen.

Ramon Hernandez

I was looking for a fastball. I got it on the good part of the bat. It went where no one could get it.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Buck Showalter

Kenny was effective. They've seen Kenny so much. They hit some good pitches for hits. He bent, but he didn't break.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

John Crumbley

(Key West) had a tough week this week, but (starting pitcher Daniel) Foltz pitched a good game. It was good to be in this type of pressure situation.

Susan Linn

Kids know that school is supposed to be good for them, ... So they think whatever a school endorses is also good for them.

Bill Davidson

Kids are working hard. They're positive. There's a lot of good things left here. There's a lot more kids left than there are gone.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

B. B. King

Kevin did a great job tonight. He gutted it out there at the end for us. It was a great team win.

James Patterson

Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.

Mary Carskadon

Kids are too sleepy to learn well. They're too sleepy to be happy. And they're at great risk for such things as traffic accidents.

Alan Trammel

I wouldn't say it was one of his greatest performances, but he pitched well enough to win.

Jim Schmitz

Jake Wade did just such a great job throwing strikes, going right at them. He pitched six quality innings. It was just nice to see him come out like that.

Alden Ehrenreich

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.

Cuki Alvarez

Kelvin has been working hard for a little over a month. I wish it could be more, but we'll take what we got and let it work. I'm not worried about his stamina because he's in great shape, it's only now he'll be able to handle himself on the ground.

Nick Hornby

I think a lot of unpublished writers feel the same way. They're not getting anywhere, and nobody's listening to them. You do get frustrated.

Greg Simon

He's been visiting with people, first thanking them for all the work they did while he was in public service, and he's listening to people to see what they thought went right and wrong.

Richard L. Evans

The interruption we now impatiently put off may be the most important thing we could be doing at this particular time?

Robert Orben

Did you ever see that painting the Mona Lisa. It always reminds me of a reporter listening to a politician.

Sandra Cisneros

I learn through listening and watching other performers that are very good, like Denise Chávez, Dorothy Allison.

Vince Neil

I don't even listen to music when I'm off tour.

Vince McMahon

We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time.

Ruggiero Ricci

You have to do a lot of listening, you don't just learn out of yourself.

Walter Matthau

I always had one ear offstage, listening for the call from the bookie.

Emily Lau

I think the people have spoken very loudly and clearly,

Ken Lucas

I think it's the loudest stadium in the NFL. They truly have a 12th man.

Rich Mullins

If you can't be good, be loud.

Robert Parkes

Others like the loud noise and the wrecks.

John Sweeney

I'm a passionate man and a passionate reporter. I've also got a loud voice.

Sam Cassell

Ah, no. We've played in some really loud gyms before. This is like a wine-and-cheese crowd.

David Nash

Noise traffic from automobiles will be louder than any noise they emit, if any.

Brad Radke

It's going to get pretty loud in there now.

Pete Townshend

Looking back, I don't know why we needed it to be quite so loud all the time.

Jeff Carter

He was mixing well tonight. He has an idea of what he wants to do out there and he does it.

David Carr

In preseason, we used it (a three-step drop) a lot because we wanted the repetitions, but now that the season's beginning, we have to mix it up and do some things down the field,

Adam Timmerman

It helps, just the mixing it up. It's nice when we're pushing them back and running the ball.

Bruce Arena

(Ching) is right in the mix right now.

David Milne

The growth of a company like ours tends to be a relatively steady because, like some of the other successful mixed signal companies, we have a wide range of products servicing a wide range of end applications.

John Wells

You want to mix acting styles correctly. People approach the work in different ways. You want to make sure no one wants to kill each other because the approach is different.

Emile M. Cioran

Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism.

Lewis Carroll

Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes.

Mari Pehkonen

It's sort of mixed feelings. It's sentimental and it's also being scared of what could happen.

Chuck D.

It could have something to do with the coarse quality of their paper.

Fernando Couto

I think we have the quality and the right spirit to get a win.

Dwane Casey

I'd like to see if he can get up 20 shots. You can't just walk through that and get that many shots up, quality shots. To get 20 quality shots, it takes work.

Jimmy Johnson

I didn't come back and feel like I solved the world's problems. But I spent a lot of quality time with my wife and didn't think about racing.

David Carr

He is a quality guy. If he hasn't taken a step forward, it's because he hasn't been shown the way.

Rob Zombie

I wanted it to be like a high quality, drive-in movie.

Richard Bach

You don't tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds.

Trisha Goddard

There is a learning quality in all of our shows.

Richard Davidson

The best way I can mentor and lead those around me is to embody these qualities myself.

Udonis Haslem

J-Will is always running. We just have to run with him. Sometimes we just can't keep up. ... If we can run with him, he's going to find you.

Robert Gilmore

It all starts with who we got running the country,

Andy Reid

He can run, ... This doesn't stop him from running the football.

Donna Myers

What you are doing is running the seniors out of Worthington.

Steve Walker

He's about as tough a runner as they come,

Denny Rinehart

Gonzalez will be a factor. Erica Hicks can run anything she wants to.

Frankie Dettori

He's having his first run for us and it will also be his first run on the dirt. It will be interesting to see how he will do.

Lindsay Whalen

It could be worse, ... I'm already kind of running around and jumping. They kind of said to me, 'Just see how you feel.'

Derrick Williams

We talked all week about establishing the running game. We established out running game, and now we can see that we can run and pass.

A. Hodge

What will be very interesting at this stage is that for a lot of guys, this will be the first time that they have raced all year.

Christy Austin

I was just sad. It's real unfortunate. Now I'm at the stage where I'm mad.

Rick James

Off stage it's cool-out time. You can't funk and roll ALL the time.

William H. Macy

You can skim those stage directions and go right to the dialogue. You can almost read the movie in the same amount of time it will take you to see the movie.

Yelena Isinbayeva

The whole stage was only for me. It was so cool.

Henry Rollins

I'm most comfortable on stage.

Miranda Sissons

This is a very important stage in the trial.

Chris Hamilton

Talks are progressing on one or two fronts but we're not yet at the stage where we are waiting on anybody.

Marc Cohn

I wanted to just get back out and feel my way back to the stage in a low-key way.

Mike Purcell

He really wouldn't stand out in the crowd.

Holly Derrick

We told her, just standing there, in the street. It was bad.

Glen Taylor

I do not see that as a possibility. As I stand here, I just don't see a possibility that makes sense.

Fred Miller

He has that persona. He stands in there. He's poised.

Robin Williams

As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.

Wavy Gravy

The 90's are the 60's standing on their head.

Walter Scott

I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone - no ancestors, no fellows, no successors.

Mike Lynch

I really didn't think we'd be able to be standing here. I never really thought I'd be able to do something like this.

Emily Lyons

I was in the right place, just at the wrong time that day.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Denny Green

J.J. is the starter. I said that a long time ago.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Leslie Cohen

I think it'll be time at the end of this year for them to go off and try something new, ... It'll be torture. It'll be torture.

Mary Lambert

I think I streaked one time when I was 16, which was scary.

Cynthia Johnson

He didn't get the time that we may feel he deserved, and he may not get it in this lifetime. But before it's all over with, he will get it.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

David Toole

I think its great, and I think its a long time coming.