Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes you have to be careful when selecting a new name for yourself. For instance, let's say you have chosen the nickname "Fly Head." Normally you would think that "fly Head" would mean a person who has beautiful swept-back features, as if flying through the air. But think again. Couldn't it also mean "having a head like a fly"? I'm afraid some people might actually think that.

Catherine McCartney

We've spoken out and said you can stand up and you don't have to be afraid of anybody. But it won't mean anything unless the people in the communities take that opportunity the next time the IRA comes to their door and say to them 'I'm not going to allow you to bully me'.

Chinese Proverbs

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still

Rob Varley

Bob cares a lot about the success of Cocoa Beach. He's a regular guy who isn't afraid of hard work. Let me tell you -- it was very difficult for the tourism industry after Sept. 11. We were hurting.

Wesley Hill

What I try to emphasize more than anything else is don't be afraid to make a mistake. That's how you learn what you can't do, and what you don't like to do.

Robert Green Ingersoll

All the punishment in the world will not reform a man, unless he knows that he who inflicts it upon him does it for the sake of reformation, and really and truly loves him, and has his good at heart. Punishment inflicted for gratifying the appetite makes man afraid but debases him.

Nate Robertson

Leyland's not afraid to yell at you from the dugout. It's situational things, not pitch selection. When he says something, I take it to the bank. I trust what he says.

Antonio Villaraigosa

Leadership is not about being afraid to lead or make mistakes, ... the whole culture is about being safe and risk averse.

Susan Chapman

So many bad things have happened, they are afraid to hope. Until it's actually voted on by the commission, they're afraid to have any trust in the process.

Seth Greenberg

Let him get through tomorrow, and we'll figure it out from there. I wanted to give him some freedom to figure out how much he can deal with and give him some time to grieve without having to put him on a schedule.

Emily Landau

I don't think there's a desire on any side to deal with this militarily.

E. O. Wilson

We have to be able to recognize when we pull up outside that we might be having to deal with one of these buildings,

Kellie Pickler

My grandfather is a retired Marine, and I've always had a great deal of respect for anyone who serves our country.

Melvin Spears

I didn't really know how to deal with neonatal kids,

Darren Howard

I like the situation. I like the team. It's a matter of getting a deal done.

If life deals you lemons, why not go kill someone with the lemons (maybe by shoving them down his throat).

Dan Veru

A lot of their publications deal with the Internet, targeting professionals who write software for the Internet. So, in that way you're getting to play the growth in the Internet; the growth of programmers, so on and so forth, without necessarily being right in the fray of it all.

Phil Noblitt

This is a big deal for the parkway. The essence is that we're trying to meet modern traffic safety engineering standards without compromising the historic design of the parkway. It's going to be tough.

Merle Shain

Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.

Robert B. Parker

Send it to someone who can publish it. And if they won't publish it, send it to someone else who can publish it! And keep sending it! Of course, if no one will publish it, at that point you might want to think about doing something other than writing.

Steven Price

I go into the whole composer thing quite open to keep on going and keep on trying different things because you never know... the next idea you have might be the one.

Rick Chryst

If it's a part, it's just a part. Each institution is different. TV might be a part for some schools, and nonexistent for others.

Todd Moody

I was surprised that Dayton was moved into our district. I thought that it might be Barbers Hill.

R. Ingram

I was pleased with what we saw, It might be several years before we go out there again.

Brian Lara

If we had rested him we might have had his services in Durban and here.

Walt Jocketty

If we had won that game, ... the whole Series might have been different.

Randolph Morris

If we retrieved the ball, it might have been a different outcome.

Isaac Asimov

What would I do if I knew I only had six months to live? Type faster.

Jacob DiPietre

They've already been in the process of doing that for several months now.

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.

Marie Windsor

So, I certainly subscribe to what Bette said about acting being very hard work.

Ted Turner

The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.

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.

Mark Twain

I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.

Mason Cooley

Sensuality takes planning and work.

Robert Gottlieb

Nobody could call the work of Noche Flamenca & Soledad Barrio pallid.

James A. Moore

I am the first to point out that I really am not kind to illustrators. By that, I mean I really don't give that much to work with.