Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people alwaysdo that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Lamont Bryant

I've never spoken to Coach Weber about Patrick. Big-time head coaches know they talk to the high school coach. This is why the top city kids are going outside the state. I'm not trying to belittle Illinois. My son goes there. I love Illinois.

Jim Lett

Jim doesn't yell and scream to get a point across. He doesn't belittle players. He has his ways of getting his point across, but it's in a professional manner. And this coaching staff follows his lead.

Crenston Boxhill

I certainly will not belittle this. Some may see it as a mere symbolic upgrade, with little to do with sport.

Warren Farrell

If a man belittles a woman, it could become a lawsuit. If women belittle men, it's a Hallmark card.

Vanna Bonta

When ridicule is shrill, remember people only bother to belittle something they perceive big enough to fear.

Maya Angelou

I will not sit in a room with black people when the N word is used. I know it was meant to belittle a person, so I will not sit there and have that poison put on me. Now a black person can say, 'Oh, you know, I can use this word because I'm black.'

Filippo Brunelleschi

Many are ready, when listening to the inventor, to belittle and deny his achievements so that he will no longer be heard in honourable places, but after some months or a year, they use the inventor's words in speech or writing or design.

David Williams

We don't belittle the funding per se, it's that the money did not go through the proper channels. Our criteria are objective as opposed to subjective.

Nana Sutresna

In terms of denying the allegations - they used the words 'strongly deny' - they feel that this kind of measures has no foundation.

Melissa Frame

In some ways I'm a pioneer. I know my limitations -- I can't deny them -- but I really have great parents who try to let me do as much as possible, and I've had people encourage me throughout my life, so I've never let it stop me, at least in theater.

Denis Conroy

It was a game of runs. What they did a really good job of was denying the other players, other than Sam. They're like a glacier ? they wear you down.

N. Robert Hammer

There is no denying that downsizing can happen when a company receives private equity funding. It is unfortunate and hard on everyone who is affected.

Rachel Cusk

It seems to me that 'women's writing' by nature would not seek equivalence in the male world. It would be a writing that sought to express a distinction, not deny it.

Will Walker

They were denying me real well. It got frustrating, but I had to do other things to stay involved.

Ravi Moss

It's not one or two things; it's everything . It's getting in your stance to denying the ball.

Acie Law

I tried to get it back but OU did a good job of denying me the ball. So the second option was for Joe to try to go down and make a play and he didn't make it.

Lindsey Harding

I tried not to let her touch the ball. I was trying to follow her and deny her the ball. The only thing that was open was the back door but they didn't look for that.

Russell Smith

Kindle Worlds is a clever way to monetize a formerly underground trend, and to enable its participants to be remunerated. But it will be of no interest to writers with any literary ambition, as its constraints are designed to stymie even the most rudimentary impulses - even the first flickering of a dangerous originality.

Jeff White

Knowing what we know now, we would have designed it differently.

Gary Bardini

I think it's a known fact these stages are designed to get up this high and this is the way the flood system operates.

Phillip Bloch

I think it's moving forward, I love to see designers mature and I think they did a great job. We know that they can do denim, so it was nice to see them do something else.

Beth Young

I always do landscape design with the functional needs of the homeowners foremost in my mind.

Rachel Lambert Mellon

I always design a landscape with fixed horizons whether it be mountains or a stone wall around a 20-foot-square plot.

Lois Huff

He didn't follow someone's design. He designed what he wanted. That's an extreme reversal of where trends and styles come from.

Maya Elhalal

GUI (Graphical User Interface) is always intuitive to those who design it.

Townes Van Zandt

I don't envision a very long life for myself. I think my life will run out before my work does. I've designed it that way.

Dorothy Smith

I was in on the meeting with the developers. I heard their presentation, and I liked what they said.

Greg Beratlis

I would've liked to have heard something out of his mouth. Yes, anything. A plea for his life or just his opinion on what went on over the last two years,

Mark Mandel

John is never at a loss for words. But when he heard the news, he was speechless.

Billy Donovan

I think in this tournament, they've been able to inspire a lot of different people, people that maybe are really, really in need. I heard Jim talk about some stories of some people and the letters he's gotten. To me, that's what his team has been all about.

George Thorogood

I take it that some of you people have heard this song before.

Felicity Huffman

I actually haven't heard the phrase 'overnight success,' but I know that most of the world doesn't know who I am.

Oprah Winfrey

I also heard I was helping you find a house because I wanted you near me.

John Thompson

He didn't say, 'I'm going to kick down this wall. I've heard him talk about it, and he was honest about what he did. He said, 'I'm going to win this championship, and this is what I've got to play with.' He wasn't even thinking about anything else, but they never listened to him. So he's not the one perpetuating the lie. We all are. It's crazy.

Crystal Merillat

He knew that was me talking if he heard that.

Bryan Randall

He seems to be real comfortable with the system. He seems like he's been doing it longer than two years. He seems like he's made strides.

F. Stone

I think what makes this one different is just the sheer scope and size of it. It's just going to be a much, much longer haul.

Alberto Fujimori

It is no longer a possibility or an option.

Matisyahu

People aren't religious because it's easy not to be. Like anything, it's habitual, and once it's a habit it's no longer hard.

John Phelan

Our message is that suffering years of misery to remain super-skinny is not going to have a big payoff in terms of a longer life.

Dr. Armstrong

In our trial, women who received part of their chemotherapy via an IP route had a median survival time of 16 months longer than women who received only IV chemotherapy.

George Charamba

I no longer talk to you and you must never phone me again.

Georg Hackl

I have the strength of a 10-year-old. If the track was 500 meters longer I might have a chance.

Elliot Morley

In many parts of the country, water is a precious resource which we can no longer simply take for granted.

Bob Israel

It could be six months before many dealers reopen doors,

Martin Freeman

I think the hardest part about anything you do for 18 months is just keeping yourself together for 18 months.

Whoopi Goldberg

If I was doing a talk show, I would do the kind of show that comes on just once a month, with amazing guests.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.

Veronica Roth

A lot can happen to a person's appearance in three months.

Yann Martel

I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.

Eric Katzman

In the 2-1/2 months that have elapsed there has not been any divestiture news.

John Godina

It has taken six months for me to get past my injuries.

Patrick Faure

I really think we can be more optimistic than we could have been six months or a year ago.

Richard M. Nixon

There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.

Salman Rushdie

A figure of speech is a shifty thing; it can be twisted or it can be straight.

Salman Rushdie

Free speech is life itself.

Robert Orben

Humor is the most honest of emotions. Applause for a speech can be insincere, but with humor, if the audience doesn't like it there's no faking it.

Robert Louis Stevenson

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Robin Quivers

We shouldn't have free speech.

Wislawa Szymborska

They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway.

Zhuangzi

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

Winston Churchill

Haven't you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches.