Famous Quotes & Sayings

Whitney Cummings

I remember my agent at ICM at the beginning of my career telling me that I wasn't pretty enough, that I was always going to be a quirky sidekick. And he was an ogre of a man. He should have been carrying a torch. If he was in a bar, he couldn't have come near me, and then he was deciding my fate.

Ursula K. Le Guin

It did not matter, after all. He was only one man. One man's fate is not important. "If it is not, what is?" He could not endure those remembered words.

Robert Hunter

Don't waste the breath to save your face, When you have done your best, And even more is asked of you, Let fate decide the rest.

Vladimir Nabokov

We hasten to alienate the very fates we intended to woo.

Zedd

Fate does not always seek our consent.

Ehud Barak

their own fate and the fate of their families, their children, all of us.

Andrew Lebow

The fate of these seven refineries -- you don't know how long they'll be out for.

Neal Stephenson

It is the fate of operating systems to become free.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Our destiny and ultimate fate depend upon our daily decisions. . . .Tomorrow's joy or tomorrow's despair has its roots in decisions we make today. . . . Those who stand at the threshold of life always waiting for the right time to change are like the man who stands at the bank of a river waiting for the water to pass so he can cross on dry land.

Graham Arnold

Guus is a great believer in a youth policy and he is determined to give them their chance at international level.

Donald Sinden

Whatever part I'm playing, I always carry with me something that's been used by an illustrious predecessor. I'm a great believer in a touching of hands. I have daggers belonging to Henry Irving and Sarah Siddons.

Lara Flynn

I do not promote breast jobs. But I am a believer in enhancing.

Dante Hall

I am a firm believer in resting the body.

Rory Bremner

Being a great believer in Scottish tradition, I followed the example of my fellow countrymen and moved to England.

Billy Donovan

I'm just a big believer that when guys are injured or hurt, if they elect to play, there's a certain expectation they have to uphold. And if they can't uphold that expectation, I'm totally fine if they sit out.

Kate Winslet

I have no regrets. (I)f you regret things, (then) you're sort of stepping backwards. I'm a believer in going forwards.

Tom Izzo

I'm not a big believer that the NCAA goes totally on strength of schedule and things like that, so I think you still have to have wins.

Julia Glass

I'm not a believer that you have to write every day. If I felt industrious, I'd spend ten hours a week writing. The writing is going on all the time in my head; the trick is to capture it. Showers are great. Traffic jams are great.

David Stern

It happens at least probably 5 percent of the time.

Van Nguyen

He is my heart, ... If something happens to my son, my heart will be stopped.

Darren McCarty

I'm just happy I hit the net. I'm happy I didn't mess that up. When it happens bang-bang like that, you have less time to mess up because you don't have time to think.

Jeremiah Trotter

I never planned for it to escalate like that, ... happens every other play.

Richard Smalley

In a way, cancer is so simple and so natural. The older you get, this is just one of the things that happens as the clock ticks.

Jerramy Stevens

I hope the big story is what happens (today).

Kevin Brooks

That's what happens. You just get on with it. There are no endings.

Elizabeth Smart

It's not what happens to us that defines us. It's what we choose to do with what happens to us that defines us.

Eric Bogosian

I'm always surprised by things that happen to my work.