Famous Quotes & Sayings

Branch Rickey

Problems are the price you pay for progress.

Edmund Burke

Public calamity is a mighty leveller.

Nick Saban

We certainly created some adversity for ourselves to overcome out there, ... but I was really pleased with how we responded time in and time out. Nobody's ever happy with penalties. Nobody's ever happy with turnovers. But I think it's most important to establish how you respond to that stuff when it happens in the game.

Francis Ford Coppola

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Francis Bacon

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

Francis Bacon

Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity

Phil Smith

One of the things we've been after the guys about is the killer instinct and not letting adversity get them down.

Jeremy Bloom

My whole mentality was similar to the Tiger Woods approach. I had a lot of opportunities to jump in training and competition. I focused only on improving these skills. Adversity and racing gave me confidence to get through it.

Diana Vreeland

You can see and feel everything in clothes.

Daniel Clowes

Something I always wanted to do, to capture that later half of the '70s. It's like the early half of the '70s is still the '60s, in that there's still kind of a playfulness and inventiveness in terms of design and the things that were going on in the culture. The second half, it got much more commodified. It's possibly the ugliest era of architecture and clothes and design in the entire 20th century, from 1975 to '81 or '82.

Alfred North Whitehead

Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by our bodily experience. Intellect is to emotion as our clothes are to our bodies; we could not very well have civilized life without clothes, but we would be in a poor way if we had only clothes without bodies.

Megan Fox

I'm horrible to live with. I don't clean. My clothes end up wherever I take them off. I forget to flush the toilet.

John Oates

You may be embarrassed about the way you looked and the wacky clothes you wore when you were young, but normally, at least it's hidden in a box in the attic.

Estella Warren

I kept my clothes on. I borrowed money.

George Herbert

Mend your clothes and you may hold out this year.

Jay Kay

I am quite fussy about clothes.

Janet Evanovich

Lula's borderline too much of a good thing in lots of ways. It isn't exactly that Lula is fat; it's more that she's too short for her weight and her clothes are too small for the volume of flesh she carries.

Emilio Zebadua

The story of this storm is not over yet.

Tobias Smollett

True courage scorns to vent her prowess in a storm of words; and to the valiant action speaks alone.

Ernest Hemingway

This was a big storm and he might as well enjoy it. It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it

Gary Oldman

I like these calm little moments before the storm, it reminds me of Beethoven

Jeff Sessions

In retrospect there were failures enough to go around. There were failures before the storm and failures after the storm.

Luis Gomez

We are not going to wait for the storm to hit.

David Letterman

So they caught Gadhafi in a storm sewer and shot him. Or as they call it in the Middle East, an orderly transfer of power.