Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joyce Bickers

As always, there are things to work on, but I am seeing the players incorporating things we work on in practice into the matches, whereas before they would work on it in practice, but never attempt in an actual game. These players are growing with each play and getting stronger and stronger and more confident.

Kenneth Edmonds

So most of the acting that's done are usually Canadians and because it's shot in Toronto, there's this law that you have to use Canadians for extras.

Carter Jenkins

Sometimes it's just a piece of tape. The other day it was a box of cereal. When we're shooting, he's not there; it's all visual effects. Acting is reacting, and when you don't have anything to act to, it's tough.

Michael Gardner

The whole fourth quarter they were acting as if they were behind. I tried to use my timeouts judiciously to calm them down.

Elie Wiesel

And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.

Tasnim Aslam

We have protested to the Indian government over this provocative act in which one fisherman's life has been lost.

Pablo Picasso

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Adam Ereli

to deal with this and see if we can help to contain the violence and get the parties to act responsibly.

Vanderlei Luxemburgo

A tour should act as pre-season preparation and not only be used as a way of making money. We are going to change it next season.

Otis Smith

Age doesn't matter. Would you rather have a 60-year-old guy and not get it done or a 30-year-old guy and win Super Bowls?

Linda Ronstadt

The music that I chose during my life, it wasn't arbitrary. It was all in my family home when I was growing up. I never tried to record anything I hadn't heard before the age of 10. Otherwise, I couldn't do it authentically.

David Crane

Another little known fact about Amazing Tennis - the computer opponents are modeled after real people. In an odd turn of events, I joined a division 3 college tennis team at age 38.

John Wooden

Better than any person my age has a right to,

Sathya Baba

Be Silent yourself, that will induce Silence in others. Do not fall into the habit of shouting, talking long and loud. Reduce contacts to the minimum. Carry with you an atmosphere of quiet contemplation, wherever you happen to be. The less you talk, the more will become your mental power. With the increase in your mental capacity, there will be increase in your power of discrimination too. Consequently, you will give up individual discrimination . Because of this, you will begin to consider the good of the world at large rather than your own individual welfare. You must cultivate such broad feelings from this young age itself.

S. Walker

Everything just flows on Clint's sets. No one ever drops the ball. And, personally, that guy has a level of fitness for his age that is unbelievable. That's one thing that just completely blew me away about him. The guy moves like a spider.

Catherine Hardwicke

Everything is so aggressively marketed at every age: if you're not in Baby Gap, you're not cool. That's how everybody's grown up, so they don't even know it could be another way.

Mike Wallace

Even though Jack Kennedy and I were about the same age and lived in the same neighborhood and attended the same elementary school, our paths seldom crossed during the years he lived in Brookline. I'm sure that in time, I would have gotten to know him better if he hadn't moved away.

James Hansen

Earth is warmer in 1988 than at any time in the history of instrumental measurements, The warming of a few degrees is going to take us to a world that is perhaps as different from today as the last ice age is from today.

O. Henry

We wish Pedro nothing but the best going forward both on the field and off the field, ... He pitched with every ounce of his being for the Red Sox over the course of 216 games. Some of those performances were among the most memorable in Red Sox history. Who will ever forget the 1999 All-Star game? He has earned everything that he has accomplished, including his World Series ring and his reputation as one of the greatest who ever lived.

Margaret Beckett

The public utilities and the public services are among the people who have done the most preparatory work.

Wolfgang Bernhard

We are delighted to be supporting an important event such as the World Youth Day, ... The young people coming together in Cologne are our future. The message of tolerance, optimism and understanding among nations they are sending all over the world comes from Germany this year, in many ways a valuable sign in itself.

Bhagavad Gita

I am silence among the secrets, and the Self-knowledge of the knowledgeable.

Ralph Rivera

Casino games such as blackjack and poker have become wildly popular among mainstream audiences and that trend is reflected on AOL Games.

Carroll Doherty

Bush stands at a precipice. He's lost ground among independents. He seems to be starting to lose ground among his own party. And he lost the Democrats a long time ago.

Pete Sauer

Bryce and Chris are among the seven seniors that are pretty special to me because I coached them two years with the high school and two years with Bantams. So it was hard to see Bryce and Chris in street clothes for the playoffs.

Nariman Behravesh

Bush has probably made the best choice among the top contenders for the post and one that is likely to reassure financial markets.

Jeremy Heimans

Building up an organisation is like starting a social movement. At the center of everything is the core team. I have the honor of working with some phenomenal people at Purpose who are at the top of their fields. That energy and common purpose among the team is what inspires me and where the magic happens.

John McNeil

I've been very happy serving in a smaller school. It's a way of life for me. The interests of mine and the community have been the same. Rural schools have been my life. Montana is one of the most rural states. There's a need to educate every kid in the state.

Chris Farley

We couldn't register everybody. I'm thrilled by just the number of people here. The running community has really come together.

Surapong Suebwonglee

I know that there is a huge number of silent people in the Thai community who are not satisfied with the protesters.

Gary Cowger

It's a fantastic event -- it's very different, ... It's wonderful to see the community come together and support this.

Rob Higgins

There was a lot of question whether they would ever come back. The presence of Florida A&M to this community is extremely important. They are part of the fabric of this community, and we wanted them back.

Camille Ramsey

It's a win-win. It's a way for people to support their community hospital, support St. Luke's while at the same time honoring those who they love.

Nora Hochman

The rate at which the community is signing the petition is steady and doesn't vacillate. It's strong and will stay strong all the way through to the end.

Josefa Nata

We are mindful of the role of the international community in our development. We are also very mindful of the outcry of the international community.

Jeff Green

We?re thrilled to have them. They?re making a substantial investment, and from what we understand they?re a good community partner.

Bertrand Russell

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

Shirley Jackson

Poor strangers, they have so much to be afraid of.

Shirley Hazzard

What you fear most will happen to you - that is the law.

Shirley MacLaine

Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. It's where all the fruit is.

Steven Pressfield

Fear doesn't go away. The battle must be fought anew every day.

Steven Pressfield

If you're are paralyzed with fear it's a good sign. It shows you what you have to do.

Steven Pressfield

Fear doesn't go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.

Susan Jeffers

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

The only way to get rid of the fear of doing something is to go out... and do it.

Sebastian Horsley

Pain can be vitalising; it gives intensity in the place of vagueness and emptiness. If we don't suffer, how do we know that we live?

Rain

Having fans wherever I go gives me an energy, and it is the source of my power.

Rain

The more criticism I get, the more it gives me a stronger urge to win. So I try harder.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

If God gives you chocolate, you open your mouth, no?

Mary J. Blige

When you wake up and learn to love yourself and want to take care of yourself, things are harder because people don't like the idea of it. But when you get in trouble, it gives people things to talk about.

Andrew Lau

After making a movie, maybe you weren't able to shoot many of your ideas, because a movie is only 1 1/2 or two hours long, but TV gives you space to film a lot of things.

Gian Carlo Menotti

God gives you the gift of melody or He doesn't - it's as simple as that.

Fabiola Gianotti

For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.

Tyrone Willingham

We're trying to get them to understand it's perfect practice that gives you good performance, ... practices have been up and down.

Tyler Blackburn

I really like individualism based on truth.

Stephen McCausland

In order to get an individual profile, you have to register.

Salvador Dali

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

Charles Caleb Colton

The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing.

T. S. Eliot

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.

Robert Henri

The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea

Richard Branson

Believe in yourself and back yourself to come out on top. A fulfilling career is waiting for those brave enough to find it.

Sri Aurobindo

For the powers of our mind, life, and body are bound to their own limitations, and however high they may rise or however widely expand, they cannot rise beyond them. But still, mental man can open to what is beyond him and call down a Supramental Light, Truth, and Power to work in him and do what the mind cannot do. If mind cannot by effort become what is beyond mind, Supermind can descend and transform mind into its own substance.

Stephen Colbert

I like talking about people who don't have any power and it seems like some of the least powerful people in the United States are the migrant workers who come and do our work and don't have any rights as a result. And yet we still invite them to come here, and at the same time ask them to leave.

Soulja Boy

Words are powerful. When I make mistakes I just try to come back and clarify what I meant.

Thomas B. Macaulay

A perfect historian must possess an imagination sufficiently powerful to make his narrative affecting and picturesque; yet he must control it so absolutely as to content himself with the materials which he finds, and to refrain from supplying deficiencies by additions of his own. He must be a profound and ingenious reasoner; yet he must possess sufficient self-command to abstain from casting his facts in the mould of his hypothesis.

Veronica Roth

How is it I know this little about the boy who says he loves me -- the boy whose real name is powerful enough to keep us alive in a train car full of enemies?

Veronica Roth

Like a wild animal, the truth is too powerful to remain caged.

Stephen Covey

Writing is another powerful way to sharpen the mental saw. Keeping a journal of our thoughts, experiences, insights, and learnings promotes mental clarity, exactness, and context.

Thomas Nagel

I'm not sure I understand how responsibility for our choices makes sense if they are not determined.

Thomas Sowell

The most politically painless way to hand out goodies, without taking responsibility for their costs, is to pass a law saying that somebody else must provide those goodies at their expense, while the politicians take credit for generosity and compassion.

Rob Lowe

People have a responsibility, especially with today's media, to read between the lines.

Sylvia Earle

We are all together in this, we are all together in this single living ecosystem called planet earth. As we learn how we fit into the greater scheme of things, and begin to understand how the system works, we can plan ahead, we can use the resources responsibly, to show some respect for this inheritance that goes back 4.6 billion years.

Ray McGovern

We all have a responsibility, and as Rabbi Heschel, one of my prophets, has put it: "Those who condone, or are silent, in the face of injustice, are more guilty than the perpetrators." And so, to the degree we pretend to be a democracy, we have a corresponding duty to be activist enough to prevent our human rights form being infringed upon.

Ratan Tata

We're responsible for the fortunes of the company but this is a bone-dry situation in terms of access to credit. Nobody can operate on that basis unless you have large cash balances, which we don't. My concern is that the government doesn't appear to care about manufacturing.

Rashida Jones

There's no sense that you can knock on your neighbor's door or be part of a local community group, and that's part of your responsibility as a human being.

Rashida Jones

There's a definite responsibility that comes with being famous. You shouldn't be able to just dress up and look pretty.

Rani Mukerji

Every actor is alive because of his/her fans. I'm glad that my fans love me so much. I have an immense responsibility towards them. That's why I'm careful while signing a film. What is also important is to judge whether I would like to watch the film as an audience or not.