Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yoko Ono

The odds of not meeting in this life are so great that every meeting is like a miracle. It's a wonder that we don't make love to every single person we meet.

William Petersen

Sure, I always chose rebels to identify with - I still do - but to me a rebel isn't so much someone who breaks the law as someone who goes against the odds.

Evander Holyfield

Odds are just the people opinion. Respect your own opinion.

Bill Nighy

I'm always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!

Charlie Munger

I won’t bet $100 against house odds between now and the grave.

Jim Macaluso

It would be tough for Vegas to put odds on this thing.

Bertrand Russell

The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say the odds are about three to one against survival.

Gayle Lynds

Our only solace as writers is in the work itself, and perhaps also in a penchant for blissful ignorance that allows us to gamble, to risk, to keep going where others would tote up the odds and stop.

Bruce Feiler

The bottom line: if you want a happier family, create, refine and retell the story of your family's positive moments and your ability to bounce back from the difficult ones. That act alone may increase the odds that your family will thrive for many generations to come.

Ed Abner

Others had contacted her, but these were the two others she seriously considered.

Austin Wilson

I now what the same sense of security and safety that I used to preach to others about.

Kevin Hayashi

I haven't played that well in that tournament. And other times, others have played well. It's one I'd really like to win because it's the only 72-hole tournament we have.

Martti Ahtisaari

I know what it's like when you are a refugee, living on the mercy of others and having to adjust.

Steve McCausland

It's unclear why the two others didn't jump.

Heather Dougherty

Then, once someone dangled it, others had to ante up.

Judd Nelson

I put less stock in others' opinions than my own. No one else's opinions could derail me

Connie Higgins

All others will receive non-partisan ballots, so they don't get to vote on partisan offices.

Luis Gutierrez

They may remove us, but there will be many others to follow,

Jose Sulaiman

I think that perhaps this has more to do with physiological aspects, I don't know,

Jane Gardam

I knew I had a lot to say. Not politically - politics have always confused me - but perhaps spiritually.

Joshua Hoyt

They wanted to use this as a wedge issue, perhaps for their presidential campaigns.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare... Perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend through quiet ways.

John Lennon

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything.

S. Walker

It was devastating, ... But perhaps had that not happened, we wouldn't be where we are today.

Alexander McCall Smith

You're always told by your publisher that you must only write one book a year and some years you should perhaps write none at all.

Richard Holbrooke

The situation is as serious now -- perhaps more serious -- than it was in October,

Stephen Carl

Perhaps there is some profit taking before (the Fed).

Gretel Ehrlich

True solace is finding none, which is to say, it is everywhere.

Don Herold

Women give us solace, but if it were not for women we should never need solace

Bob Greenly

Justus is very much a work in progress, ... but he's getting better all the time.

Mads Mikkelsen

I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.

Dan Kane

It can happen. We just all have to work together.

Eric Kristenson

It can be as much of a workout as you want it to be.

Tory Burch

I think you can have it all. You just have to know it's going to work.

Glenn Storch

I think it's going to work out fine.

Alan Siegel

I think the law should be comprehensible not only to those who work with it but also to those who are governed by it.

Michael Osterholm

I think that potentially neuraminidase inhibitors may work if you are already on them as prophylaxis (prevention),

Kevin Hassett

I think it's the only way it works politically,

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Chevy Stevens

Unfortunately, there's still a lot of beginning writers who think you can just write your first draft and hand it in.

Robert Klein

In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate.

Scott Adsit

'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

Aminatta Forna

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

Claire Tomalin

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

Sara Sheridan

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.