Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jimbo Davis

We always believed we could come back, and once we got to their bullpen, we knew we were gonna score a lot of runs. It was just a matter of whether we'd run out of innings.

Jo Nata

We are prepared to do something dramatic again. Don't forget, we took over parliament and held hostages for what we believed in.

Martin Jacques

If the truth be told, we are a society that is dripping in racism. This is not in the least surprising. For the best part of two centuries, we British ruled the waves, controlled two-fifths of the planet, and believed it was our responsibility to bring civilisation to those who allegedly lacked it.

Ted Leonsis

When you're young and you buy entertainment-oriented businesses, you do it so you can package them in a way that enhances their value. I've always believed that to build the Internet you build a community of interests. Then you supply content to strengthen the sense of community - and a hockey team is content.

Brandy Norwood

Right now, it's really about my fans knowing that whatever I believed spiritually at the time is what I believed. I just wouldn't deliberately lie to them just to save my image.

Tim Finchem

We've always believed we're prepared to do it, ... We can handle it in short order if we need to.

Adam Rothberg

We've always believed in Dan Brown's exceptional talent as an author. Everyone in publishing knows that sometimes it takes three or more books to reach critical mass and we're happy to have ultimately sold millions of copies of his books.

Kyle Hines

When we weren't winning, we were still working hard. It just didn't seem like we had all the pieces of the puzzle. We all believed sometime we'd click, and I'm happy it's now.

Frank Spinner

What he was doing he was doing in the open, and he was doing it because he believed the information in fact would save lives.

Bill Jenkins

We want to take the components and plug them into best-of-breed solutions, such as ratings engines. And whatever we choose has to be scalable, because, like other companies, we look at acquisitions as a viable way to grow.

Joseph Carroll

The perfect home is your home ... whatever it is and however you choose to make it so. You are surrounded by the things you like ... things that make you comfortable. It's as simple as that.

McKayla Maroney

For our team leotards, we get about ten to choose from to actually compete in at the Olympics.

Gretchen Rubin

I embrace treats, but I'm also very wary of treats. Treats help us feel energized, appreciated, and enthusiastic - but very often, the things we choose as 'treats' aren't good for us. The pleasure lasts a minute, but then feelings of guilt, loss of control, and other negative consequences just deepen the lousiness of the day.

Nitin Gupta

We want people to kind of help us choose what to listen to. This device kind of fills that role.

Mbhazima Shilowa

We want our townships to be places in which people take pride, where people live, not because they have no alternative, but because they choose to live there.

Jamie Pollard

We want kids that want to be here. If they choose that they want to be at another place, then that's better for them, and that's better for us. We made the decision a long time ago that we're running a marathon, we're not running a sprint.

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

When I was a kid... if I couldn't get a ride to the comic book store, I would walk a mile and a half each way to get the latest issues of 'Batman' and 'Spider-Man' and 'X-Men.' I could not choose one over the other.

Nathan Vasher

Wow, we have so many guys. I can't choose just one.

Tom Browning

We're starting to get some fluidity in our offense,

Jevon Kearse

They don't know if it's a torn meniscus, maybe a cyst, or maybe some fluid in there.

Sean Booth

We're more into sort of fluid structures that are simultaneously the most efficient, the most beautiful, and the most engineered. You know what I mean? We like the balance you can get in there.

Mark Twain

The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice

Ben Schott

I have always loved the fluidity of language - delighting in dialects, dictionaries, slang and neologisms.

Don DeLillo

Human existence had to have a deeper source than our own dank fluids. Dank or rank. There had to be a force behind it, a principal being who was and is and ever shall be.

Chuck Palahniuk

Anytime my work can coax bodily fluids out of someone, I'm happy.

Thom Mayne

For me the meaning of my work is much more fluid.

Eric Gagne

I was fluid today but I didn't throw enough strikes.

Charles Stanley

People don't like the idea of consequences. They want to be able to live their life freely and do what they want to do without any consequences. And we know that's just not the way life is.

Alan Perlis

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.

Alan Moore

It's only those exceptional and rare individuals who have brilliant ideas delivered to them by the muse, complete and gift wrapped. The rest of us have to work at it.

Alan Moore

A lot of people have found the idea of living your life over and over again absolutely terrifying; there's some people that find it very comforting. There are others that are appalled by it.

Alan Moore

Yes, of course, the whole idea is utterly inane, but to let its predictable inanities blind you to its truly fabulous and breathtaking aspects is to do both oneself and the genre a disservice.

Alan Moore

There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.

Alan Moore

Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.

Al Neuharth

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Akon

My ideas come when I least expect it, so I've always got to have a studio nearby or close by somewhere.

Charles Dickens

Circumstances beyond my individual control.

Alan Watts

Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.

Richard Berry

There is no magic. There is no secret. You need your sleep, ... A lot of our society tries to get by, but the truth is it is up to each individual to get their optimal sleep amount. If you get less than that you can get by temporarily, but it's only temporary.

Carl Jung

Individualization does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself.

Elizabeth Kostova

The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at the end of a single lifetime.

Sathya Baba

The refinement of an individual is measured by the yardstick of sense control.

Charles Lindbergh

Life's values originate in circumstances over which the individual has no control.

Bret Bicoy

What's so promising about this is that we have all recognized as individual organizations that we can't do this alone.

Jon Wagner

We're banged up after the individual state tournament.. But these kids have been resilient all year long and we've battled through a lot this season.

Alan Alda

Kids are natural scientists.

Chris Carmack

I think I was a pretty energetic kid. Well, I was energetic until about my mid-20s when I discovered alcohol. That's not entirely true, but you get older and the edge comes off.

Chingy

I want to invest and have my own record label and artists. I want to have a business where my kids, kids, kids will still have something going on long after I'm gone.

Chita Rivera

It's important that the kids stay busy. It's important that they have something to focus on, and something that they feel good about.

Chip Conley

When any of us thinks of ourselves as a role model - whether thats as a parent being observed by their kids or a leader under the microscope of their followers - it creates a natural stepping up of how we carry ourselves and what we expect from ourselves.

Eddie Murphy

I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm supposed to be. I'm comfortable with that, but in the same breath I'd do something edgy. If someone came to me and offered me an edgy and funny story, then I'd do it.

Eddie Murphy

The thing about kids is that they express emotion. They don't hold back. If they want to cry, they cry, and if they are in a good mood, they're in a good mood.

Dean Cain

I grew up the son of a director and grew up on sets myself, so I was the kid getting dragged around from this set to that set and I loved it. There's something about it which is really interesting.

Daymond John

I don't want to leave my kids an inheritance, I want to leave them a legacy

Daddy Yankee

The shooters had mistaken me for someone else.

Edward M. Lerner

Some books are serials, not to be mistaken for anything else. 'The Two Towers,' for example, ought never to be read in isolation.

Sal Mineo

I'll never be mistaken for Pat Boone.

Scott Berryessa

Many mistakenly think that equates to a 6 percent salary increase.

Patrick Clawson

I think he is mistaken in his optimism,

Gilbert Gottfried

Unfortunately, I've never been mistaken as Johnny Depp.

Greg Boyle

I'm the priest who has been mistaken for an ATM machine.

Jane March

Incredibly, I've been mistaken for Kylie Minogue many times. People look at me, and you can see them thinking, 'She's somebody - but I don't know who.'

Helen Humphreys

I like being mistaken for someone useful.

Ashley Scott

You know what, we're very skinny in our family.

Adele

My aim in life is never to be skinny.

Andy Dick

I guess I'm odd-looking. I'm skinny. But I'm not only skinny - I'm oddly shaped.

Alicia Keys

And Im happy that Im not super skinny.

Lisa Ling

I used to be so twig skinny that I couldn't eat enough, because I was just naturally skinny. Until I went to China.

Nas

Love the skinny model chicks but I prefer the thickness.

Gwyneth Paltrow

I don't know who decided that skinny was more appealing than not skinny. It seems arbitrary.

Candice Swanepoel

I was very skinny, braces; so I never thought I would be a model.

Natalia Vodianova

It's better to be skinny than to be fat.

Ciara

I'm a tomboy at heart. I always like to say that I'm an ordinary girl doing extraordinary things.

Cassie Scerbo

I'm a tomboy at heart, and I've got the battle wounds to prove it!

Jonah Lomu

Until 1998, I worked in marketing at ASB bank. I loved it.

Ellen Roberts

Until we investigate and find out what happened, I don't want him to go back to Mexico.

Dean Laidley

Until this day, we didn't have any injuries, but now we've got this one, so that's the disappointing part.

Dennis Wharton

Until there's a selection, NAB is not commenting.

Tommy Lapid

until the disengagement ends. It is about to end soon.

Ed Troyer

We're going to keep doing it until (the problem) disappears.

Scott Wolf

Although, I didn't really like sushi until I moved out to L.A.

Michael Mussa

They don't need to do it tomorrow, but they can't wait until the end of the year,

Liz Shimek

It's not over until it's over. We're fighters.

Rick Rudesill

Whether they play (against Mitchell) is kind of up in the air. You have to wonder about their stamina.

Pierce Brosnan

Whether they made the right choice, who knows?

Karen Burk

Whether someone thought it was a joke, we take it very seriously. This is a food-tampering issue.

John Podhoretz

Whether my columns are worth reading isn't for me to say.

Leonard Mlodinow

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

Silas Lee

There's a lot of frustration. Whether or not all the incumbents get defeated, that is to be seen.

Teresa Heinz

I've always worked on bipartisans, whether it's on healthcare, drug reform, et cetera. All my work is bipartisan, because what I'm - as nonpartisan actually, because I look for solutions. I'm very practical.

T. Boone Pickens

I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.

Simon Sinek

Whether individuals or organisations, we follow those who lead not because we have to, but because we want to. We follow those who lead not for them, but for ourselves.