Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katrina Bee

Keep the end in mind and focus on that. Say 'I am at my ideal weight of...,' not 'I want to be...'. Focus on what it would feel like to you to have achieved that goal; Get in touch with that winning feeling.

Lindy Ruff

I think it's a heck of an accomplishment. It's a mark nobody would have expected at the start of the year. ... It's something they should be proud of.

Sol Campbell

He was a great guy, he knew what he wanted and achieved it in his own way.

George Arzt

He created a record of achievement. But he also gives off an aura that the city is getting better.

Dave Loos

I think the big thing about Chuck is he has done this all behind the scenes with very little fanfare. Yet all of these athletes could not have achieved any of their goals without him and the people that work for him.

Albert Speer

It is clear that a worker who has not enough food cannot achieve a good work output. I already said yesterday that every head of a plant, and I too at the top, was naturally interested in having well-fed and satisfied workers, because badly fed, dissatisfied workers make more mistakes and produce poor results.

Joann Johnson

I was especially pleased to see the commitment of credit union officials to help their members and communities with special check-cashing services and lending considerations. NCUA is working closely with all affected credit unions to ensure they have the necessary resources to achieve and maintain safe and sound operational status going forward. We encourage credit unions to evaluate the benefits of joining a shared branching network, because many of the credit unions that were able to regain operations and serve their members, were able to do so through shared branching.

Chade-Meng Tan

I was always very different from the other kids. I have an I.Q. of 156. I didn't play sports. I thought big. I thought I could achieve great things. I don't want to sound megalomaniac, but my whole life is about doing something for the world, from as far back as I can remember.

Jules Verne

Whatever one man is capable of conceiving, other men will be able to achieve

Mike Hanson

He is very lucky to be alive. We were told he was lucky to be alive and his face had severe trauma.

Nyoman Kandun

He is alive and so far is in stable condition.

William S. Burroughs

No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.

Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.

If Roosevelt were alive he'd turn in his grave.

Samuel Beckett

I am still alive then. That may come in useful.

Ursula K. Le Guin

She'll die.' 'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive.

Roberto Bolano

We all have to die a bit every now and then and usually it's so gradual that we end up more alive than ever. Infinitely old and infinitely alive.

Tom Johnson

Playing at Gulf Coast kept my recruiting buzz alive in the state, ... By staying in Mississippi, I got publicity and immediate playing time at Gulf Coast and Southern Miss.

Hussam Ayloush

Reform is alive and well within Islam, but it will only happen by those from within Islam and not those who hate Islam.

John Burdett

I think it is immensely difficult to get the U.S. interested in non-U.S. topics. I don't think this is because the average American reader is disinterested, but more because of publishers playing it safe: if a thriller based in L.A. is a sure winner, why spend money plugging one based in Paris - or Bangkok?

Pat Riley

He'd average 20 points a game if he was put in that role every night and I'll be damned if I'm not going to try to put him in that role - now. You forget a little bit about how good he can be if he gets good opportunities.

Andy Roddick

He kind of wrapped some presents for me and handed it over. I was average in most regards, but a win is a win. I feel like I'm on the verge of playing well.

Dave Maguire

He's got over 800 now. so if he continues his average of more than 20 points a game, he could do it. He's a great shooter that really has a quick shot. He has the green light to shoot whenever he thinks he can make it.

Duncan Taylor

I think were doing good; its a good, solid sale, ... There are a lot of good horses, so if you have less than average of what the stallion is throwing, its a tough market for those people, but if you have average or above, its a strong market.

Scott Skiles

I thought overall we played better tonight. We have a lot of energy. We did a better than average job of following the game plan. We could have had the game in regulation. We just weren't able to get it.

Scott Cooley

I think we saw a taste of what could happen in July, when a brief and moderate correction caused this fund to lose nearly 7 percent, about twice the loss suffered from the average conservatively managed large-cap fund.

Mike Casey

I think what's driving it is Helena is still recognized as a value in the western Montana markets. When you compare Helena to Kalispell or Missoula or Bozeman or any other nice place to live in Montana, it's relatively speaking still a good buy, which says the average could continue to go up for the next three or four years.

Tim Doyle

It got borderline embarrassing. They're a very average team, and they made us look like we didn't even belong in the league.

Derek Parra

He just floats on his skates. It's like God lifted him up when he was born and said, 'You're going to be a skater.

Sufjan Stevens

I was sort of born into a Subud cult that has ties to Islam and Indonesia and Middle Eastern spiritualism. My parents were kind of trial-and-error when it came to religion.

Emily Dickinson

Had I not seen the Sun, I could have borne the shade, But Light a newer Wilderness, My Wilderness has made

Daniel Gibson

I think what happened opened his eyes. Something you love can be taken at any time. He's borne that out through the season. He came out motivated.

William Congreve

I came upstairs into the world; for I was born in a cellar.

Monica Raymund

I am Dominican American. My father was born and raised in the U.S. and his heritage is German and Eastern European, and my mother hails from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Ronald Curry

He has such a great personality a lighthearted personality that kind of draws people to him. Some people are born leaders, and he's a born leader.

Richelle Mead

morois are born..but strigois are made..!

Wes Moore

But really, where leadership is born and where leadership is really bred is...

Laurent Fabius

Italy is one of the pillars of Europe and one could be quite worried, ... So I think there is a need for a clarification at the level of the heads of government.

Vladimir Bukovsky

Europe, I have lived in your future, and I did not like it...

Salvador Dali

Democratic governments are not suited to the publication of the thunderous revelations I am in the habit of making. The unpublished parts will appear later ... when Europe will have restored its traditional monarchies.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised.

Voltaire

A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration.

William Joyce

We know that England is crying for a leader, and that leader has emerged in the person of the greatest Englishman I have ever known, Sir Oswald Mosley ... When the history of Europe comes to be written I can assure you that his name will not be second to either Mussolini or Hitler.

Winston Churchill

If Britain must choose between Europe and the open sea, she must always choose the open sea.

Winston Churchill

We must build a kind of United States of Europe.

Robert Kagan

When it comes to setting national priorities, determining threats, defining challenges, and fashioning and implementing foreign and defense policies, the United States and Europe have parted ways.

Jeremy Corbyn

Taken slightly historically, the turning point in the E.U. was actually the Single European Act, the Thatcher/Maastricht-era stuff, which was turning the E.U. into very much a market system.

Jason Winston George

American television tends to move faster than European or U.K. television.

Brian Shea

For many of the European insurers, Katrina will likely push the full-year 2005 (earnings) to an above-average year with respect to large losses.

Pascal Lamy

It is the Europeans and the Americans that must budge,

Warren Christopher

At heart, ... this is a European problem.

Tamara Tunie

I have Native American blood. I have African blood. I have European blood.

Hamid-Reza Asefi

We regard the European proposals as an initial and not the final proposal.

Gareth Southgate

Stuttgart is a great game for us. To be honest, it's the first big European tie we've been involved in this season.

Jack Straw

Now more than 40 years since the prospect of membership of the European Union was first held out to Turkey,

Joe Moore

Knowing what they have to pay for the next four years would be a luxury for their budgeting.

Preston Clark

He's got 'em all, four pitches. And nobody really hits him hard.

Breakfast tiffany's

Holly: It takes four seconds to get to that door... I'll give you two!

Vance Belew

I thought we were in good shape, having them in about a fourth down and 25 situation.

David Graveney

It is going to be hard to win four games in a row.

Joe Borchard

It is good timing. I had no idea four weeks ago that I'd be standing here with the opportunity I had presented to me.

Sherry Sealey

L.A. did a good job on the mound on the night. The first four innings she did a great job.

Sam Cowart

Whatever it takes to win. Because whatever we were doing the first four games, we're 1-3, it wasn't working. ... We need the help.

Jay Wright

We try to play our four guards, but sometimes we have games where we get off to a good start, and we can speed people up and stay with it. We were having a rough time speeding them up.

Voltaire

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

Quincy Jones

After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, trombone, trumpet, most of the instruments in the orchestra. Trumpet was my instrument.

Jean Alesi

I'm not sure they understand everything about racing cars. I am not sure that this is wise.

Jacques Chirac

The French people stand with all their hearts at the side of the American people,

Carey Perloff

The French love stark plays about power and sexuality,

Thomas Erskine

The French have taste in all they do - which we are quite without; For Nature, that to them gave gout, To us gave only gout

Kim Raver

I've learned from my French husband and the way they eat, it's all about moderation. And that's really sustainable.

Bruno Jeanbart

Society is getting more and more dangerous, more and more violent, and the French are trying to find answers, to find better solutions.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to be understood?

Ludwig Wittgenstein

It is necessary to be given the prop that all elementary props are given." This is not necessary because it is even impossible . There is no such prop! That all elementary props are given is SHOWN by there being none having an elementary sense which is not given.

Novak Djokovic

In my case, I can sincerely say nothing is impossible.

Jim Murray

Don Quixote would understand golf. It is the impossible dream.

Bill Gates

Tasks that we thought in the past as impossible will now be rather simple, ... We are going to lead the way in XML advances.

Ariel Sharon

It's impossible to watch this ... without tears in the eyes,

Art Torres

It's impossible to think that he couldn't find one Latino to put in his Cabinet,

Jim Brown

It's impossible to tell until they come in.

Donna Bradley

It's impossible to listen to this music and not move something. It's so upbeat. It's so melodic.

Rex Ryan

I know we'll lead the league in defense.

Willie Mays

Youngsters of Little League can survive undercoaching a lot better than overcoaching.

Johnny Oates

I still don't know how I got to the big leagues because I wasn't that good.

Paul Jennings

All the teams in the league really need to support one another.

Nick Saban

This is a league decision, and we are disappointed in what it means for Ricky and the team.

Felipe Alou

It looked like a World Series American League team when I wrote it.

Norv Turner

It's what this league is now. A lot of it is schedule. A lot of it is how you start. A lot of it is staying healthy.

Lastings Milledge

I want to get to the big leagues as quick as I can. But I want to stay there. I could be ready now or I couldn't be.

Jeff Nelson

They just want livable wages and a realistic per diem. I had to live with my parents until the day I got a major league job. Nobody's going to want to take these jobs.

Daniel Breaker

I think that the major message in 'Shrek: The Musical' is be who you want to be. I think that it is about being your true self in this world.

Phil Goff

It is not within the power of the president to remove the prime minister other than on the vote of a majority of the house,

Alan Greenspan

Roger was the major policy maker during 9/11.

Roger Altman

The Fed is the major U.S. firefighter. It's not the Treasury. It's not the Congress. We certainly saw that vividly in 2008.

Phyllis Davis

I'm going to miss it terribly. I know that. It's been a major part of my life. So, it's going to be a new adjustment.

Eliot Spitzer

A lot of major songs have been implicated in this.

Steve Friswell

The major companies, and we represent about 80 percent of them, do. It's the other 20 percent who have been underpaid.

Walter Bradley

The major question is the nature of nature.

Ann Brown

These products can really hurt. We're talking a major recall,

Bill Richardson

is used for national supply emergencies for a really rainy day.

Bruce Bartlett

Remember, personal savings is only a small portion of total national savings,

The Jerusalem

Orders have been issued regarding this by the Palestinian National Security Council.

Hong Feng

I suggest taking pictures here with an unfolded national flag.

Gerard Houllier

About a third of the national team is made of Lyon players and I have the right to say that I disagree.

Billy Bennett

It's kind of depressing, seeing it all on national TV.

Monique Currie

It's just really disappointing. We were just so close. I think we had all the tools in place to win the national championship. Sometimes things don't work out the way you want it to.

Tim Tessalone

A lot of our players do get a lot of national attention,

Andrew Mitchell

All of Britain's aid is spent in Britain's national interests, and some of it contributes to Britain's national security as well.

Paul Reiser

He's 50 percent Peter Falk, 50 percent my own father,

Michael Andretti

He's all but signed. It's not 100 percent done, but we're down to the piddly stuff.

Jim Tracy

I think the personnel is here to get that done.

Sarah Parcak

I think archaeologists are stuck, and we are losing our past at a very rapid rate. Tens of thousands of sites will be lost, and we've only unveiled a tiny percent of the past.

Steve Tisch

I think that's the perception and I'm not saying it's not accurate.

Gwen Stefani

I was ... writing that song (with) tears streaming down my face. To me it'sa snapshot of (a) time period of my life, and ... that's the song that kind of took us around the world.

and City

I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.

Ken Thompson

There are no projects per se in the Computing Sciences Research Center.

J. C. Watts

I have friends who didn't turn 60. As you get older, your perspective clears.

Willie Nelson

I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money.

Jorja Fox

The reason the contracts are so long is because actors are very spontaneous; we may want to do Shakespeare one day and be Porky Pig the next!

John Green

If I could do it all over again," he said, his speech slow and vaguely mangled by his massive lower lip, "I'd just let myself be trampled to death by the Satan Pig.

Julia Quinn

He sighed, wondering how his life had been turned upside down by this woman in less than forty-eight hours. Correction: by this woman, a pig, and a rabbit.

Julian Assange

I may be a chauvinist pig of some sort, but I'm no rapist.

Mary-Louise Parker

It's the best part of the whole movie. John Malkovich with a pink pig is - you can't get better than that. Then John Malkovich alone and then you add a pink pig.

Larry the Cable Guy

I grew up on a pig farm in southeast Nebraska. When I started doing the Blue Collar Tour, I thought it was kind of funny because I faked my accent, so everybody thought I lived in an apartment somewhere. But I grew up on a pig farm.

Philip Emeagwali

The labs were happy that I was brave enough to attempt to program it and the $5 million computer was left entirely to my use. I was their human guinea pig.

Joel Salatin

A culture that just views a pig as a pile of protoplasmic inanimate structure, and can be manipulated by whatever creative design humans can foist upon that critter, will probably view individuals within its community and other cultures in the community of nations, with the same type of disdain and disrespect and controlling-type mentality.

Michael Keaton

There are certainly producers I hang with and directors I hang with and actors I hang with.

Rick McCallum

Producers don't really publicize movies.

Evan Osnos

Confucius, who was born in the sixth century B.C., traditionally had a stature in China akin to that of Socrates in the West.

Diana Vreeland

Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.

Boomer Esiason

I got the title for you, ... Table For One.

James A. Garfield

I will not vote against the truths of the multiplication table.

Ethel Merman

At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first.

Fran Drescher

Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.

Jeannette Walls

One thing about whoring: It put a chicken on the table.

George Herbert

The table robbes more then a thiefe.

Adam Gopnik

What we eat is the one simplest way to declare who we are - the table reflects our values with a clarity that few other theaters of human behaviour posses.