Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jamil Moledina

We are extremely happy to host the awards ceremony at the Game Developers Conference. We believe it's important to celebrate the individual recipients and provide them with as much exposure as possible.

Marsha Samitt

There is an awards committee that makes the decision on winners, and we look at the community in general for winners, not just members of the Chamber of Commerce.

Ryan Hall

The fact that "Léon: The Professional" doesn't have every award in the world is a sign that it is underrated. I'm not even ashamed to say that I cried during every scene.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

I don't do a television show for awards. You make it so people will enjoy watching it.

Rod Serling

I've never really topped myself, because awards in themselves really don't reflect major accomplishment. It's kind of a strange, backslapping ritual that we go through in this town where you get awards for almost everything. For surviving the day you're going to get awards.

Waylon Jennings

One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold. And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to “have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn't want us to be the ones.

Robert Graves

The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.

Yoko Ono

Some people get medals and awards and all that, and maybe not intentionally - maybe the world is making them do it - but they sort of just follow what they were doing. Repeat or follow what they were doing all their lives, in their style of music or whatever. In my case, I always try to start from scratch. It's very nerve-wracking actually, but it's interesting.

Wynonna Judd

I used to only worry about the #1's and all of the awards. But that was a long time ago.

Jeremy Siegel

I was looking back on when Nixon resigned and actually the market held up very well around those days. It began to tank actually after Ford came in as president and the economic news began to dim.

Drew Gilpin Faust

As we have sought through the centuries to define ourselves as human beings and as nations through the prisms of history and literature, no small part of that effort has drawn us to the subject of war. We might even say that the humanities began with war and from war, and have remained entwined with it ever since.

Thomas Galvin

I think we're returning to the inflationary worries which is more painful for interest rate-sensitive (companies) and less an issue for technology. It's a similar rotation that began yesterday (Thursday). People are concerned about inflation.

Roxane Gay

I think it was really entering my 30s that I began to embrace feminism and call myself a feminist.

Shaun Treacy

It goes back 2 or 3 years when we began to see quite a large growth in our event business including meetings, conferences and banquets. Our whole business grew quite dramatically over the past couple of years and we felt we were running out of space.

JD Salinas

I thank Mr. Garcia for a good race and for bringing Hidalgo County this far. I've already began researching several issues that I consider critical to residents here, and I am ready to get to work.

Eric Matthews

It has been a privilege to work with Nate the last four years. He began turning our program around and the kids respect him. The number of kids out for the team says a lot.

Lindy Ruff

He's built for the game. He's got good tools at the back end and he's a very good defender. We've never given him a set role. He began to play well on the power play and he gained a lot of confidence from that. That confidence came from him knowing that he would be in the lineup night after night.

Michael Hastings

He's been wanting to do this forever, ... Mike began writing in sixth grade.

Christopher Brooks

I was in the process of tying it to my fishing rod, when I turn around and this Coast Guard boat was right behind me, ... It was the one thing I was hoping for and I guess it was like, 'Oh, well, here they are.'

Mona Sutphen

I was always complaining that there weren't enough good people going into public service, so I figured I had to get behind someone I found so compelling.

Elliott Sadler

Kevin's done a great job, ... He's been the man behind the scenes for the last two years. Everybody's been behind him the last two weeks and things are going really well.

Alison Parker

Kids who commit serious crimes shouldn't go scot-free. But if they are too young to vote or buy cigarettes, they are too young to spend the rest of their lives behind bars.

Ron Prince

I wouldn't read too much into who's doing what with what group. We're trying to get all the quarterbacks the opportunity to play with different combinations. It's only what's fair to them when you're going to be behind a group that hasn't been blocking together but for two weeks.

Robert Gamez

I would've made a double bogey but I double-chipped, ... The wind caught me on my downswing on the first shot and I went long. The guys behind me hit good shots and came up short. The wind switched that quickly.

John Jones

I would say that we won when we had to win and did what it took to win (in the first half of district). I wouldn't say our wins were pretty, but we have to put that behind us.

Rohan Verplank

Katie skied great and was only 0.6 and 0.3 seconds behind the winner.

Karin Robertson

Just like dogs and cats, fish feel pain, so if you wouldn't hook dogs through the mouth and drag them behind your car, you shouldn't hook fish through the mouth and drag them behind your boat.

Keira Knightley

It's fantastic to have the opportunity to work abroad, and do all that, but there is a certain point where you're just like, 'Oh, I'd love to work at home.'

Chamberlain Oguchi

I was looking for my shot early and they were leaving me open. It's a certain way they play defense, and I wanted to get us going.

Suzy Merchant

Kent can be extremely explosive. I was certainly frustrated. They just gave it to us.

David Hawkins

I wouldn't say it's unusual. In terms of moving from one institution to another, if Richard felt like it was time for change, it certainly seems like a logical move to make.

Jeff Kelly

I would say that the omission is certainly damaging to us.

Tony Russa

Just look at him, he's in great shape. I don't know if he's more excited than he's ever been, but certainly he's not any less. I think he's high quality.

Jon Gruden

(Jones) has done primarily punt returns, but if pressed into service we'll trust that he'll do the job if he's the guy we choose to go with. He (Pittman) has worked on that throughout his career. Once again, when certain things happen you have to have contingency plans in place. We'll work on our contigency plan throughout this week and we'll find somebody who gives us a chance to hopefully return one for a touchdown.

John Bunting

Joe certainly has experience that Cam doesn't have, so he has a head start in that regard.

James Leavitt

I suspect the district attorney's office is investigating to see whether or not there is enough evidence for any of the charges. They are certainly looking at other incidents to see if there is any involvement.

Franco Carraro

Italy is seeded because it deserved it. It was a logical choice.

Bill Masse

He was awesome. He?s been great all year. He throws strikes. Guys just don?t get good swings off him. He deserved a better fate. He deserved to win that game. He?s got a great mentality and he loves to compete.

Mickey McMurtry

He's been pretty good each game he's pitched, but we've kicked it around in the field and not gotten a lot of timely hits. He's deserved better, and (Friday) night, he got it.

Jason Tapp

I think we did expect this. We deserved to get in with the way we played down the stretch.

John Batina

I thought Pepe deserved a better fate. We just didn't do enough at the plate.

Neil McDonald

I think we showed we were a good side and fully deserved the win today.

Lisa Love

It has been a long time. We deserved it.

Tony Hepburn

I think we all know the better team won today. They outplayed us, and deserved to win. We were totally outclassed.

Tony Hepburn

I think we all know the better team won today, ... They outplayed us, and deserved to win. We were totally outclassed.

Kevin Rahm

My intent was to go to law school... And then what I realised quickly is what I wanted was to be on L.A. Law.

Katie McGrath

I grew up in a small town in Ireland and didn't know any actors. I never thought it was a viable job. It wasn't until I was on 'The Tudors' that I realised it was a possibility.

James Nesbitt

I started a French degree at university, but packed it in when I realised I really wanted to be an actor.

Douglas Adams

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can't fix the weather - you just have to get on with it.

Ted Cruz

I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.

A. Hodge

No one truth is rightly held till it is clearly conceived and stated, and no single truth is adequately comprehended till it is viewed in harmonious relations to all the other truths of the system of which Christ is the centre

Richard P. Feynman

You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. When you get it right, it is obvious that it is right -- at least if you have any experience -- because usually what happens is that more comes out than goes in.

Russell Lynes

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

William S. Burroughs

Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

William Wordsworth

Truth takes no account of centuries.

William James

Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.

William James

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

William James

Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?

Dudley Etheridge

He kind of turned it around for us.

Tom Lochner

Has it turned the world upside down? Probably not.

Seth Tharp

I think we have the turn of the tide. I think we're all on the same page.

Jason Garey

I think it turned out pretty well for me.

Elisa Massimino

I think things are really turning on this.

William J. Clinton

Turning 50 gives me more yesterdays than tomorrows.

Ryan Reynolds

When I exhale, I just turn right into Louie Anderson.

Wayne Gretzky

A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.

Peter Plagens

I like touch. I like to make twists and turns -- but I don't want (my paintings) to be too elegant.