Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brett Favre

Most talented players don't always succeed. Some don't even make the team. It's more what's inside.

Ben Okri

We can still astonish the gods in humanity And be the stuff of future legends, If we but dare to be real, And have the courage to see That this is the time to dream The best dream of them all.

Barbara Kingsolver

The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.

Babe Ruth

If you want to hit home runs, you've go to swing a lot.

Baruch Spinoza

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Augustine Birrell

Is this true or only clever?

Augustus Hare

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept of the stretch.

Auguste Rodin

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

Maisie Williams

Sometimes people think they know you and they go, 'Hey!' and then they realize that they've just seen you on the television. That's kind of funny sometimes.

Jarome Iginla

That one wasn't so funny because he got hurt.

Barbara Kingsolver

He had senile dementia and liked to go outside naked, but he could still do two things perfectly: win at checkers and write out prescriptions.

Augusten Burroughs

The Schnauzer listens to jazz. I listen to jazz because he likes it, and I have even gone to jazz concerts with him, but truthfully I would rather listen to retarded children pounding on pan lids with wooden spoons.

Aziz Ansari

I'm in a situation with this girl that's as hopeless as overthrowing the Bush administration.

Ayn Rand

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

Benjamin Disraeli

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Kenneth Branagh

It's funny to be in rooms where you were originally referred to as 'The Shakespeare Guy' and to suddenly be in the position where you're 'The Blockbuster Guy.' That's a pretty unusual turnabout, I must say.

Benjamin Disraeli

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Antisthenes

Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

Barbara Mertz

Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.

Jane Hamilton

In the end maybe what marriage offered was the determination of one's burial site.

Susan B. Anthony

Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the circumstances of life.

Susan B. Anthony

I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man's housekeeper. When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she became a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll. Had I married at twenty-one, I would have been either a drudge or a doll for fifty-five years. Think of it!

Tracy McMillan

Yes, I have 'failed' at marriage - a lot.

Brigham Young

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Dennis Rodman

I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.