Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carrie Fisher

Saying you're an alcoholic and an addict is like saying you're from Los Angeles and from California.

Jay Leno

As you may have heard, former President Bill Clinton says he's coming here to California to help Governor Gray Davis in his recall election campaign. Which is ironic, isn't it? When Clinton was president, he couldn't recall anything.

Warren Beatty

To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.

Mike Trapasso

When we're going good we tend to keep going back to the same place (in this case California Pizza Kitchen) every Friday.

Mickey Rourke

I'm the worst surfer in California. My balance is off from boxing.

Kamala Harris

We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.

Krista Allen

I just didn't know what the heck I wanted to do with my life, so I drove out to California and got really lucky.

Joseph Brodsky

When Thomas Mann arrived in California from Germany, they asked him about German literature. And he said, 'German literature is where I am.' It's really a bit grand, but if a German can afford it, I can afford it.

Kay Redfield Jamison

As best I could make out, having never heard the term until I arrived in California, being a WASP meant being mossbacked, lockjawed, rigid, humorless, cold, charmless, insipid, less than penetratingly bright, but otherwise---and inexplicably---to be envied.

Alan Nevin

During the '70s, a long list of state, local and federal regulations came into being that cumulatively relegated too many Californians to a lifetime of renting.

Robert Lundgren

An old friend of his, Dan Stone, came to us with the idea. He talked to Coach Knight, and from Day 1 he was interested in the concept, and then I talked to ESPN about it.

John Le

The spy who came in from the cold.

Rod Barnes

The thing that has helped him, our guys are so close. This is a close-knit group. I think that's one of the reasons why he came back. Most kids in that situation wouldn't have played today. But he made the commitment to come back, and I think the guys were excited to see him and really welcome him.

Stan Heath

The thing that got them over the top was Rondo's penetration. Time after time, where the shot clock was winding down with five or six seconds to go, he came up with the play. That's what great players do.

Mark Williams

I've never done stand-up; I came via small-scale touring theatre, through the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, then I got employed on that as an actor who had a humorous sensibility.

Michael Heisley

I've made it clear for some time if somebody came up with the right offer, I'd consider selling the team. It wasn't a secret in Memphis or, really, around the country.

Eddie Thompson

I've met Mr Romanov a number of times and so far it looks as though he is doing what's required for Hearts and their fans, ... No-one can knock that in any way whatsoever. We're all different in our own way. Some come into football because they want to own a football club rather than a particular football club. Others come in because they want to prove a point. I came in because I was emotionally involved with the club. There was only one club for me.

Jay McKee

I've been around the game long enough to be pretty relaxed in the locker room before the game. But, when I came out on the ice for the anthems, I got chills hearing how loud the crowd was. It was hard not to smile.

Jon Gruden

We gave him one extra day, and he'll be ready to go today, ... He's going to be ready to go today and he's going to play in the game, so he's all right.

Tom Johnson

We just do extra patrol of the buildings. We do not go into any of the rooms unless there is a specific problem or a special request.

Lindy Ruff

We made a lot of things happen real slow. We always took the extra second to shoot.

JayDee Luster

I'm always needing to prove myself. Being a small point guard, we have to work harder than most and we've got more to prove. You've got to work extra hard to get to the next level no matter what.

Flip Saunders

For whatever reason, we just weren't as mentally alert. We had a lot of mental breakdowns on defense, and offensively we didn't make the extra pass as often as we normally do. You hate to say it, but we just didn't have it tonight.

Brian Duffy

If we were flush with extra money, I'd say hey, let's do it.

Clay Martin

I didn't think we played very well to start off. I was proud of the way we settled down and held them scoreless for the next seven innings while we were able to score in the sixth and seventh and win in the second extra inning.

Venus Williams

I didn't feel I was really on my game, ... My feet were slow and she played really well. You have to have that little extra step and I didn't feel like I had that today. I had to fight myself to get it out of me.

Brendan Barber

Millions are still putting in up to an extra day a week for free.

Lee Humphrey

As a shooter you can tell when your shots are going good. Tonight I felt good, especially in the second half.

Brandon Jenkins

I've never felt this way. I never lost this many games in my two years here. We're just a young team. We've got to get tougher.

Lynsey Addario

I've always wanted to do a photo book, but I've never done one because I've never felt ready; I just didn't feel my work was good enough.

Ben E. King

I always felt I never chose music, it chose me.

Andy Roddick

First round of the U.S. Open, the last time that happened I was 17. It's not something I expected. You know, I just felt like I was going to have a pretty good run here.

Gloria Naylor

I wrote what I felt I had to write, and I'm willing to put my own sanity and my reputation behind it.

Grace Paley

Writing poetry, which for me was then saying how I felt about this and that, didn't help me to understand the world I lived in.

Barry Mann

If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.

Hugh Godsey

Brittany struggled some the other night and I felt in my heart that she would step up and she did.

Calvin Coolidge

This is as good a time as any to comment on what I think has grown into an abuse. Congress makes holidays and every time there isa holiday it is the practice for one department to telephone over to another department and say we are going to have an extra holiday in this department and what is your department going to do about it.... If it comes on Saturday, they want a holiday on Friday, and of course they couldn't come back and travel on Sunday and so they want another holiday on Monday to get back on.

Russ Hill

We all signed off on it on Friday and did it on Wednesday. We worked day and night to get this done.

Dan Boyce

There's going to be a lot of guys out there on offense that are green Friday night.

Douglas Adams

2,000 years ago one man got nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if everyone was nice to each other for a change.

Donald Glover

When you think of the former high school football star, you think 6-foot-2, white, meathead as the model for that kind of character. Since I'm not 6-foot-2 or white, I just thought about what I could bring to it. I thought about Smash Williams from 'Friday Night Lights,' like the cocky quarterback, and played around with that.

Neil Gaiman

Friday's a free day. A woman's day.

John Triplett

Initially, we thought she was out for the season, but it gets better every day and she's seeing an ophthalmologist in Tacoma Friday morning and we're hoping she can play Friday. It makes it a tougher hill to climb. We won't be able to press as much, because without Marianne we would get tired.

Nathan Fillion

I'm the kind of guy who, I need a watch that tells me what day it is. I need to know it's Friday on my watch. I need to look at it and go, 'Friday today.' Tomorrow I will not know it's Saturday until I look at my watch. My watchband broke, I was crippled. I have no concept of time, I have no concept of dates.

Nicki Minaj

Pink Friday is a celebration of my life at this moment; it is a reflection of me as a creator, and an expression of me as a woman,

Michael Beasley

It was an honor to be a part of history, but honestly I don't remember all the games we've played. I do remember the trips, though, and that's what we will miss the most ? all those good times.

Leroy Franklin

These are two very big games for us. We have a young team that is really is starting to come on and we're getting better with each game.

Rien Long

These are the games d-linemen live for. We were grooving.

Jerry Stackhouse

This is starting to become who we are. We feel that we are going to win these games and have the wherewithal to sustain anything any team throws at us.

Jim Tressel

This is one of those games that I don't know that you have to worry about getting anyone's attention,

Marc Bulger

You want it to be more balanced, ... You're not going to win many games in the NFL throwing it 60 or 70 times. It might work in high school and sometimes in college, but in the NFL you've got to have a running game.

Andy Reid

You're not going to win too many games in the NFL with six turnovers. When you really get down to it today, that was the problem.

Arianna Huffington

Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.

Damon Runyon

In all the history of the boxing game, you'll find no human interest story to compare with the life narrative of James J. Braddock.

Garrick Phillips

We set the tone late in the first quarter and then more so in the second.

Chris Beard

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John Kilduff

There was a late wave a selling at the end of the day.

Dascha Polanco

I was raised in New York and then moved to Miami in my teenage years, returning to New York later on.

Stephen Harper

I would prefer to do it sooner rather than later but not immediately.

James Lowry

She said she was so mad at me for not making her very rich, but later she thanked me for making her even richer.

Mike Tierney

That was pretty cool. Unfortunately, I didn't see the sign until it was too late - they'd already closed.

Robert Brault

Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life- and it was you. It is not too late to find that person again.

Rick Waugh

I wish we had done this earlier, but better late than never.

Michael McCord

Saint Clair has kind of taken the lead on this." ()

Cesar Chavez

There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.

Daniel H. Pink

What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These skills have become first among equals in a whole range of business fields.

Daniel H. Pink

I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture. I'm trying to get my right-brain muscles into shape. I actually think this shift toward right-brain abilities has the potential to make us both better off and better in a deeper sense.

Bobby Knight

I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.

Ryan Gosling

There's a lot of pressure to be the lead of a film. I have done it. It's not my favorite way to work.

Jack Carey

We got out to a very quick lead and that makes if very tough for the other team.

Mahmoud Abbas

We are trying to lead our people to a just peace and to security, and we want to pave the way for the next generations.

Hines Ward

We feel like we can do whatever we have to do, and whenever we have to do it, to win. But there's not a lot of mystery to how we like to play. Get a lead and run the football.

Art Garfunkel

They say in the darkest night there is a light beyond

Miley Cyrus

When I went through a really intense break-up - you know, I was engaged - the thing that gave me the most anxiety was not knowing what to do with myself when Disney wasn't there to carry me anymore or if I didn't have him. And now I'm FREE of both of those things and I'm fine. I lay in bed at night by myself and I'm totally OK and that's so much stronger than the person three years ago, who would have thought they would have died if they didn't have a boyfriend.

Daniel H. Pink

While complying can be an effective strategy for physical survival, it's a lousy one for personal fulfillment. Living a satisfying life requires more than simply meeting the demands of those in control. Yet in our offices and our classrooms we have way too much compliance and way too little engagement. The former might get you through the day, but only the latter will get you through the night.

Barry Gibb

I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.

Nick Fazekas

When I don't see a double-team I have a big smile on my face. I know it will be a long night for the other team.

Earl Nightingale

To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Bobby Collins

Is that all? That seemed like a 25-turnover night to me.

Andy Goldsworthy

Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures.

Alec Baldwin

[American family court] is a system that is corrupt on his best day. It is like being tied to the back of a pickup truck and dragged down a gravel late at night. No one can hear your cries and complaints and it is not over until they say it's over.

Rudy Giuliani

I haven't seen it. I don't really need Michael Moore to tell me about September 11th.

Shaun White

I was sponsored when I was about seven by Burton Snowboards.

Michael Ian Black

The Atkins' diet is where you eat bacon for six or seven months...and the end result is that you lose weight. Because you're dead.

Tom Taulli

Seven years ago Buy.com had sizzle. But this doesn't have a lot of sizzle to it.

O. Singh

Seven shots around here is not much at all,

Mike Hathaway

I'd say right now there are seven teams (that could win it).

Walter Scott

If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.

Sarah Martin

Our team worked really hard. Well, I told them to work really hard.

Jim Balsillie

No question, we took one for the team here.

Brett Hull

Canadian hockey fans... They boo me every time I go anywhere. Because I play for Team USA.

Brett Favre

I never thought I would see it. I’m not saying it’s not possible. I’m not saying it didn’t happen. I don’t know. There’s a lot of guys getting picked on (in the locker room). Some handle it well, some don’t handle it as well. I’m not saying it’s right, and from a locker room sense or from a team sense, I’m not saying it’s wrong. It’s just the way it is.

Bobby Knight

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

Jamie Spencer

We've got two different teams here. It's like this every year.

Mike Getkin

We did a lot of the little things to get the win. It was a total team effort.

Dwyane Wade

We have enough on this team to win games. We just have to go out and do it.

Mats Sundin

We got an experienced team this time around.

Charles Howard

Once we started doing those three things, we got going.

Andrew Walpole

There would not be any replacements for Vaughan as we have already got three newcomers.

Sinead O'Connor

I've been married three times, really I should only have been married once.

Matsuo Basho

He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.

Brian Benson

He turned into a machine. It wasn't just one. It wasn't just two. It wasn't just three ... he was on fire.

Simon Crisford

He won't actually be three until May so we can give him time to develop.

Josh Sibley

I would have to say (our goal) is to make the top three in our league.

Robert Hickey

If we do those three things, then we will take our chances.

Wade Smith

She said they were very close. He was only three years younger than her.

Chris Isaak

I put music on and I drive around town.

Steve Zahn

I lived in Minnesota in a small town.

Ewan McGregor

I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town.

Frances Chaney

It would be just too embarrassing if we won again.

Aristotle

For through wondering human beings now and in the beginning have been led to philosophizing.

Albert Einstein

My sense of god is my sense of wonder about the universe.

T. S. Eliot

And indeed there will be time to wonder, 'Do I dare?', and 'Do I dare?

Tom Waits

We have a deficit of wonder right now.

Socrates

Wisdom belongs in wonder.

Socrates

Wonder is the beginning of all wisdom.

Michael Faraday

Nothing is to wonderful to be true

John Piper

O, God of wonder, enlarge my capacity to be amazed at what is amazing, and end my attraction to the insignificant.