Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lee H. Hamilton

The status quo failed us. Reform is an urgent matter, and reform must not wait until the next attack.

Steve Fossett

There is a risk in the takeoff. There is a risk during the flight of running out of fuel or other mechanical failure in an experimental aircraft.

Ransom Riggs

If you must fail ... fail spectacularly!

Tommy Lasorda

Nothing succeeds like - failure.

Seth Godin

Don't have any meetings about your web strategy. Just do stuff. First you have to fail, then you can improve.

John Templeton

There is a distinction between failing and being a failure. Few things are learned in life without failing at least once. Did you learn to roller skate without falling a few times? Did you learn to ride a bike without losing your balance? Chances are you didn't. You may have wanted to do those things so intensely that you quickly put unsuccessful attempts behind you and kept trying. Soon you acquired the skill to do the thing you wanted. Even though in the process of learning you may have failed many times, you were not a failure. "Failing" simply became an open door to try again.

Rick Perlstein

There's no question that Kennedy was an utter failure as a passer of laws during his proverbial thousand days.

Peter Charlton

But it would not surprise me. If it did happen it would be pretty much a failure of leadership.

Bill Vaughan

Failed the bright promise of your early day?

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

John Tavares

Any player in the NHL would be a great comparison, but when you name a guy like Sidney Crosby . . . but I don't know if I'll be able to do things he's done in the league because we're different types of players,

David Phillips

Are we no longer the Great White North? It's incredible.

Jane Austen

One has no great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Tom Coughlin

No way were we going to lose at home on this date, for this great city, ... There was no way.

Mr Howard

Now it was always ridiculous and it's done great harm to a product and it's done great harm to the consumer,

Robert Davis

Now I'm worried. That worries me a great deal.

Randy Jackson

No matter how great your pitcher is, things are going to happen and you're going to have to back her up.

Brian Perry

The older they get, the harder they are to find parts for,

Riley Wallace

(Substituting is) our job. They need to play hard and we need to watch them.

S. Walker

Once you hook them up and they start pulling that sled, they just want to go and go and go. The hard part is to reel them in.

Brian Fanelli

Once you get down by 12 or 13 and you get it all the way back to two it's hard to sustain and keep going.

Clarence Curry

Once you get a taste of making it in the NFL you don't want to go back. I just want to play hard and become part of the organization.

Danny Starkey

Sometimes when you're working so hard, it's hard to get over the hump.

Paolo Bacigalupi

Sometimes when we label something dystopian fiction, I feel like we're trying very hard not to use the words 'science fiction,' because science fiction has those horrible connotations of rocket ships and bodacious babes.

Kelly Golob

Sometimes, when I'm off the court, I find it hard to believe. It seems like I just got here.

Tom Green

Teams that shoot as quick and as well as they do make them hard to stop.

Ayn Rand

The question of whether one alleges the Superiority or Inferiority of any given race is irrelevant; racism has only one psychological root: the racist's sense of his own Inferiority.

Cameron Diaz

I'm not really in any competition with anyone, I'm not in any race.

Calvin Coolidge

There are racial considerations too grave to be brushed aside for any sentimental reasons. Biological laws tell us that certain divergent people will not mix or blend. The Nordics propagate themselves successfully. With other races, the outcome shows deterioration on both sides. Quality of mind and body suggests that observance of ethnic law is as great a necessity to a nation as immigration law.

Booker T. Washington

No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.

Rusty Wallace

The racetrack said, 'You get a release from the judge, we'll let you race,'

Robert Frost

Ants are a curious race

Tony Campolo

Our call is to be God's agents, to rescue not only the human race but the whole of creation.

Russell Peters

Ideally I'd like to be working steadily as an actor: movies, a TV series, that sort of thing. I've been through a few different TV development cycles, and they didn't work out. When the time and project are right, it'll come together. Like I tell a lot of guys, it's not a race; there's no finish line.

Tacitus

The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.

Babette March

I never thought I wouldnt succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.

Christian Dior

It is unforgiveable to do what one doesn't love especially if one succeeds.

Greil Marcus

We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail

William Arthur Ward

A success is one who decided to succeed and worked. A failure is one who decided to succeed and wished.

Pat Summitt

Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.

Sarah Martin

Our team worked really hard. Well, I told them to work really hard.

Jim Balsillie

No question, we took one for the team here.

Brett Hull

Canadian hockey fans... They boo me every time I go anywhere. Because I play for Team USA.

Brett Favre

I never thought I would see it. I’m not saying it’s not possible. I’m not saying it didn’t happen. I don’t know. There’s a lot of guys getting picked on (in the locker room). Some handle it well, some don’t handle it as well. I’m not saying it’s right, and from a locker room sense or from a team sense, I’m not saying it’s wrong. It’s just the way it is.

Bobby Knight

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

Jamie Spencer

We've got two different teams here. It's like this every year.

John Force

We've had some trouble this year, but there's nothing wrong with me and nothing wrong with this team that a win wouldn't fix,

Darrell Gravatt

Every team is beatable. They're very good, but every team is beatable.

Warwick Smith

At the end of the day, it's a team you can't come back against.

Brendan Behan

Prostitutes, more than any other profession, help keep American marriages together.

Ann Beattie

Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.

Ringo Starr

I met The Beatles while we were playing in Germany. We'd seen them in Liverpool, but they were a nothing little band then, just putting it together. In fact, they weren't really a band at all.

Steven Spielberg

Actors just need each other to act together.

Robert Bresson

Bring together things that have not yet been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.

Tommy Bolin

I want the new band to work together for a while, and when we're ready we'll invite every major record company to see us.

Tom Stoppard

The unpredictable and the predetermined unfold together to make everything the way it is.

Stephen Chbosky

I feel like a big faker because I've been putting my life back together, and nobody knows.

Sophie Turner

I used to fancy Jonathan Rhys Meyers. I didnt tell him that when we worked together on Another Me.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

Brian Eno

I often work by avoidance.

Billy Connolly

Don't work out, work in.

Elisabeth Harnois

The more you work out, the more you get the energy to do it. And the more you get motivated to do it, especially when you start seeing results.

Elisabeth Harnois

Working out makes me feel good. When I don't work out for a few days, I start feeling grumpy. When I'm at the gym, it wakes me up. My spirits are higher. I just feel happier and more motivated to do things.

Jonathan Galassi

An e-book distributor is not a publisher, but rather a purveyor of work that has already been created.

Jon Postel

Another aspect of our work is multimedia teleconferencing.

Spike Jonze

Every actor I've worked with I want to work with again.