Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jamie Bamber

Back in the Eighties, I'd buy the biggest Benetton jumper I could find and would wear it long-sleeved, hanging off my shoulders, with a varsity jacket and a baseball cap on back to front with a quiff. I was the smallest boy in my class, and I looked like a reject from New Kids On The Block. Terrible.

Nelson McCullough

A number of times, we had the bases loaded and we'd get that third out. We just couldn't capitalize on it." ()

Jason Mraz

A rescue mission doesn't involve going in and just taking a child and leaving. You can't just choose any child at random. Every kid has a case that is based on that child's original family. So, we made it over to a village, found the child; we were interacting with the child.

Bobby Valentine

Rule No. 1 is you don't make the third out at third base with Mike Piazza coming up.

Jeff Chown

Right now there's a risk in signing any baseball player, whether or not there's been a rumor about him or not. There's a dark cloud over the entire sport.

Jose Guillen

This is a pitchers' ballpark. Everybody knows that here. It's not in my mind anymore. I'm just here to play baseball -- that's what I'm going to do. Some of these guys are worried about it. That's not by business.

Derek Avery

That took the wind out of our sail, that's for sure. You'd like it not to, but that's a pretty big hit by that kid. He did a good job. I think he was on base all day.

Jimmy Rollins

That's what matters most. You have to get on base and score runs, and it's nice to be doing it in the fashion I'm doing it in. The W's matter.

Wayne Chrebet

That's not a concern. We know what we're capable of. We still have a lot of work to do, but you can't base anything on that.

Jim Olson

Once we developed their confidence, their trust (and) their respect, they were more willing to talk to us.

Krist Novoselic

The only way you do anything is to become really active. And the most effective way to get your message to your elected representatives is to make campaign contributions and develop relationships with them.

Alfred North Whitehead

Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology.

Steve Ballmer

Developers, developers, developers, developers.

Jim Jeske

She's been a surprise early. We knew she would develop as the year went on, but she's done it sooner than we thought and that's probably why we've had the success we've had early on.

John Lasseter

Short films really helped me develop as a story teller, animator, and as a director.

H. Hart

I feel like he is developing a different technique and I wish I had a little more time with him. He has great potential this year and he is developing quickly. I am working with him on a new style of diving and his technique when he goes off the diving board.

Edmund Phelps

The 1920s and 1930s were a period of sensational productivity growth: new products were springing up all over the place, and most of those new products and new methods were developed by people who started their own companies.

Jeff Ross

I was the kid who always hung back and then dropped the jokes when you least expected it. Timing was everything. My mouth sort of developed over time.

Bruce Dickinson

Nothing lasts forever but the certainty of change

Anne Rice

Drink from me and live forever. Lestat de Lioncourt

John Ruskin

Every noble life leaves its fibre interwoven forever in the work of the world.

Gary Allan

I've always said I've wanted to be around forever. I never wanted to be the latest, greatest thing. I want to be like Willie Nelson - touring when I'm 70. To do that, you can't be the latest, greatest thing because those things fizzle out.

Sarah Dessen

Everyone had a forever.

Zig Ziglar

Court each other forever.

Jonathan Swift

Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.

Jodi Picoult

She thought of death like the seam of a hem: each time you lose someone close, it unraveled a little. You could still go along with your life, but you'd be forever tripping over something you previously took for granted.

John Green

How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world?

Michael Rose

There's still a lot of gas in storage.

Robert A. Heinlein

ANYTHING will burn with enough gasoline and dynamite.

River Phoenix

I remember we'd roll into gas stations in our beat-up van and I'd tell the attendant, 'I'm going to be an actor!

Bill Richardson

We do think prices will go up a little bit, but in the end we do think gasoline prices will stabilize,

E. O. Wilson

I think we kind of ran out of gas at the end.

Mike Charles

That's crazy. I've never seen gas prices like that before.

Joel Gretsch

I'd love to fly, especially with the gas prices right now.

Scott Walden

The major utilities all have contingency plans to protect the power grid and gas lines. But it is a good thing that many Alaskans think a generator is just another yard tool.

Keiichi Sano

The market is led by natural gas now.

Anton Chekhov

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Stephen Hawking

[Question: What do you think was the most important physics idea to emerge this year?] We won't know for a few years.

Plato

They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'

Horace

To know all things is not permitted.

Richard P. Feynman

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

Salvador Dali

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

William Arthur Ward

Fools act on imagination without knowledge. Pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

William Ralph Inge

The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other; and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable.

Will Carleton

There's lots of people-this town wouldn't hold them; Who don't know much excepting what's told them.

Eric Hecox

The most significant thing I've seen has been the level of participation.

Mario Caminiti

Sometimes we just play to the level of the opposition. We can play better.

Simon Greul

I see now that I can play at this level and I can play with these guys. I'm playing my game, I'm playing well.

Conor McGregor

To do anything to a high level it has to be total obsession.

Claude C. Hopkins

Every reader of your ad is interested, else he would not be a reader. You are dealing with someone willing to listen. Then do your level best. That reader, if you lose him now, May never again be a reader

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

What is a shame is that there isn't stuff that is as great as 'Oz' on a consistent level around today.

Anna Lee

Intruder on level one. All aliens, please proceed to level one.

John Wall

The main thing I do is to carry myself as best as I can on my pro level.

Mike Birbiglia

I have a following, but it's small. I have this level of fame where people spot me in the airport, consistently, but they always think they're the only one who ever has. People will think they win a prize when they recognize me.

Ray Davies

There was a gas strike, oil strike, lorry strike, bread strike, got to be a Superman to survive.

Steve Chabot

We've passed an energy bill in the House, to help us be less reliant upon foreign oil so we can get gas prices down. But nothing happens in the Senate.

Thomas Friedman

Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply chain because of wild behavior you could lose a lot. It would be like pouring cement down one of your oil wells.

Herbert Hoover

I can at once refute the statement that the people of the West object to conservation of oil resources. They know that there is a limit to oil supplies and that the time will come when they and the Nation will need this oil much more than it is needed now. There are no half measures in conservation of oil.

George Packer

Today, we have our own concentrations of economic power. Instead of Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, the Union Pacific Railroad, and J. P. Morgan and Company, we have Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft.

George Osborne

The rise in world oil prices has been larger than anyone forecast.

George Orwell

As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unliveable to them unless they have tea and puddings.

Christopher Buckley

Oil they would buy from anyone. From Satan.

Jim Costa

Despite the previous efforts of Congresses, our addiction to foreign oil, as the President stated, is greater today than ever before. That dependency is a threat to our national security, and we must address that threat.

Nick Lewis

We went in a little too confident. We've got to realize it's tough to win on the road in any conference.

David Baker

I think we all realized that we had really been replicating things that had already been happening. I don't know if we were smart enough to realize that we were in a cul-de-sac, but we were curious.

Alexander Milinkevich

It is important that the Russian authorities realize that we are sincerely willing to respect Russia's interests. But we are not going to sacrifice our interests, either.

Melissa McCarthy

I have an overactive sense of justice. I want women to realize you don't have to work for the company. You can run the company. I want the scope for them to be endless.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Were all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.

Tony Gilroy

What you need to know to direct a movie is [of] such great variety. I've worked with people who were maestros, who know everything. I've worked with people who were empty and lost, who had no clue what they were doing. You wouldn't hire them to paint your apartment. And then there's everything in-between. There's no list of skills you have to have to sit in that chair.

Shiv Khera

There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.

Gregory Maguire

She assumes that skill will guide her fingertips, that shapely lines will uncoil out of the pencil the moment she starts. Surely talent is a thing curled deep inside, just waiting to be exercised, and at the slightest invitation it will stretch, shake itself, make itself known? Talent, it seems, is not so insistent.

Sarah Wayne Callies

Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick - it seems like a decent skill to have.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Socializing is more positive than being alone, that’s why meetings are so popular. People don’t like being alone. That would be, however, an important skill to learn...

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Most enjoyable activities are not natural; they demand an effort that initially one is reluctant to make. But once the interaction starts to provide feedback to the person's skills, it usually begins to be intrinsically rewarding.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

One must develop skills that stretch capacities, that make one more than what one is.

Terry Pratchett

Any fool could be a witch with a runic knife, but it took skill to be one with an apple corer.