Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carrie Fisher

People are still asking me if I knew it was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.

John McCarthy

Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig.

Michael Jackson

What we call single-factor authentication is a basic password and ID. Now we're asking banks to use another form of identification.

Richard Maloney

We are asking them to make a modest contribution. Most people are paying much more.

David Taylor

We are asking them to locate some of the same uses that we are playing with in the area. We will tell them what we have been doing.... We bring a set of skills and experience, but it is never a substitute for what the local community culture is. We are looking for feedback.

Jim Hood

We are asking the Legislature that, when a special session is called, to appropriate funds to the Supreme Court to hire retired judges to set up an expedited calendar so that we can quickly send looters and price gougers to the penitentiary,

Jim Rise

We are asking the kids to take more responsibility for conditioning and strength this year. Last year we didn't have the maturity and this year we will be older and smarter.

Gene Kimmelman

We are asking the Justice Department to step in and block this.

Russell Verney

We are asking the federal court to intervene because grave and irreparable harm will occur if a staged debate takes place as planned.

Herb Kohl

No two umpires, or no two referees, have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game, ... And ballplayers and basketball players understand that, depending upon who the umpire is and who the referee is, the game can be called entirely differently.

Matt Thissen

San Diego isn't a hard place to want to go to school. It's a good school. Their basketball program has been down lately, but eight years ago they were a top 25 team. Their coach left to go coach her alma mater at Ohio State. I guess she decided she liked the weather better in San Diego and now she's back.

Steve Alford

It was the same scenario. The last 5 minutes, I just thought they were the tougher basketball team.

Kevin Stallings

I've been saying our team has been playing good basketball. We just don't have a lot to show for it.

Bobby Cremins

I've been blessed. I got to live the American dream when I was coaching, and I continue to live the American dream. Without basketball in my life, I don't know what I would have wound up doing.

Mike Predmore

They are a great group of guys and a great group of young men. I'm not taking anything away from them as basketball players, but they really are great people. I can't say enough about them as people. In the long run, that's probably more important than anything else in life.

Todd Hansen

This is a nice win because it puts us up two games over three teams. We've been winning games, but could only get a one-game lead. Now we've got a little cushion. I thought our kids played a pretty good basketball game tonight.

Tom Barker

This is a sport where the kids that aren't big enough or fast enough for sports like football or basketball can come in and compete. It's a great way to build up a kid's confidence.

Ron Artest

That's gonna be fun, ... I love the tension. I love when everything's going wrong ... In the NBA, they don't promote guys like me. They like guys who like Cheerios, good guys. But I find a way to promote myself.

Dennis Miller

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Matthew Scully

An environmentalist can oppose factory farming because it's reckless stewardship. A conservative can oppose factory farming because it is destructive to small farmers and to the decent ethic of husbandry those farmers live by. A religious person can oppose factory farming because it is degrading to both man and animal - an offense to God.

Lord Byron

An old man / With an old soul, and both extremely blind.

Chip Dickinson

The thing I like most out of our girls in both games is ... the girls didn't get down. Their maturity level between last year and this year is a phenomenal difference.

Bobby Bowden

I want both of 'em practicing with a No. 1 mentality.

Trent Hunter

Special teams are what usually win games. We were working hard on both sides of that.

Dave Ramsey

Once you agree, then pinky swear and spit-shake that you will both stick to the budget.

Jane Lindskold

The sad thing is that, for many writers of fantasy fiction, the inclusion of magic seems to mean that logical ramifications and real-world laws both go out the window.

Dan Davis

The school records are both within reach for her. She's capable of going lower in the 800. We think she's capable of winning both of those events in the state meet, also.

Jon Tester

As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.

Elbert Hubbard

An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.

Michelle Gorman

The significance of this (preliminary) decision is sending a strong message to all countries, about the importance in basing your decisions on science.

John Lemme

The most profitable decisions in your life will be the most challenging.

John Lemme

Self decisions are the #1 key for success or failure.

Laura Martin

There are very few executives who can be a No. 2 guy for 20 years and then suddenly be comfortable making big, empire-changing decisions five months later, and this is one of those guys.

Brian Tracy

To improve your life, be prepared to make new choices and decisions.

C. S. Lewis

Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.

Graham Sharpe

Dr Fox's decision to run does not seem to have excited political punters.

James Flecker

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon - / With few but with how splendid stars / The mirrors of the sea are strewn / Between their silver bars.

Marco Polo

At school, a few people know that I'm over here. I don't know about everybody, professors, curling people and a few kids in class.

Rick Woodard

The thing I'd like for us to work on is getting better quality shots. I'd rather us get fewer shots that go in than to take more shots that don't. I'd rather have quality than quantity.

Jan Popa

A few personal photos are OK, but it's pretty hard for people to walk by a wedding picture without looking at it.

Karen Evans

A few of the service providers did not do what they said they were going to do.

Meghan Coward

Sometimes Molly will fly out to L.A. for a few days, raid the gallery scene there, and come back with a list of names and try to lure them down here.

Rivers Cuomo

I've done a few things on the side here and there, but there is not much reason to do so in a sustained way. I'm generally able to say what I want to say within the context of Weezer.

Dean Winters

I've done a few jobs out there for the money, and I find those jobs have come back to haunt me.

Retief Goosen

I've been putting very well all week, seeing the greens very well. I started playing better in the last few events. It was nice to have a good week.

Ricky Davis

You saw it right here on the stand, ... Right in front of you.

B. R. Hayden

We have a rule for that, but I don't have it in front of me,

Phil Cline

There's really only one way out and one way in. Once he's inside and by that front door, he's got them cornered.

Jorge Posada

There's nothing he could do. I'm right in front of the plate.

John Swiatek

We were learning what we were doing while we were doing it! We put a front office staff together, and we put a marketing plan together, and we just went for it.

Steve Watkins

Making the team is not in the front of my mind at all. I just wanted to come in here and show them what I can do.

Bill Wilson

(My grandmother) used to tell me how pretty it was with a lake out in front of it. So it kind of stimulated my interest in taking part in this and doing something with it.

Lindsey Jacobellis

Getting out in front first and staying in front usually works.

Charlie Coe

Getting off to a good start like that was big. Whenever you play a team like Southern, getting out front quick is a big key.

Tony Gray

Ever year his stick has gotten better and better.

Marvin Parvez

As the winter comes in, the situation has gotten more grim.

Brett Jodie

If Spark had some time to loosen up, he probably would have gotten some outs. I've always said he could probably still pitch if he wanted to.

Pete Rose

If I took steroids, I would have gotten 5,000 hits.

J. M. Roberts

He was a monster on the glass. He was just big. The neat thing to see about Jeff is he has gotten to the point where I think he wants to try and get every rebound. And that's pretty rare for a high school kid.

Cheryl Voyna

I always tell prospective new members to think of two-or-three pet projects they would like to do in the community. If you help with those projects, then you've gotten what you wanted out of it. Everything else is a bonus.

Chris Carpenter

I always had that mentality but I've gotten to a point where I understand how to use it. It's all about controlling it in your head.

Markus Manson

He would have gotten about 100 rushing yards.

Brian Cashman

He works hard at his defense. He's gotten better and better, and now he's got two. Hopefully there are many more to come.

Stephen Baldwin

Don't get me wrong, there are sometimes if I go and see a really funny comedy, that I wished I had smoked a joint. I'll be honest with you. That's the truth.

Irving Berlin

We joined the Navy to see the world, / And what did we see? We saw the sea.

Ice Cube

I don't consider myself ever joining. But I have affiliations, for sure.

Sean Connery

I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but to join the Navy, having left school at 13.

Stephen Kinzer

As recently as the 1970s, some Pashtun leaders in Afghanistan were pushing to create a new state, Pashtunistan, by joining with Pashtuns in Pakistan.

Anne Robinson

I do have a rule that very few meetings are worth more than ten minutes.

Stephenie Meyer

I thought about that for a minute - about what I wanted.

Stephen Chbosky

After a few minutes, it was time for me to leave. I don't know who decides these things. It just happens.

Mike Sherman

He said he was fine. I said, 'I can tell something is wrong here. What's wrong?' He wouldn't tell me, ... It took me about 10 minutes to get it out of him. Finally, he told me.

D. James

I don't feel fatigued at all. I can go out and play 48 minutes if they want me to.

Richelle Mead

I'm always at least ten minutes early.

Edward Snowden

I'm just another guy who sits there day to day in the office, watching what's happening, and goes, 'This is something that's not our place to decide.' The public needs to decide whether these programs or policies are right or wrong,

Donald Trump

I have a very, very great balance sheet, so great that when I did the Old Post Office on Pennsylvania Avenue, the United States government, because of my balance sheet, which they actually know very well, chose me to do the Old Post Office, between the White House and Congress, chose me to do the Old Post Office.

Bob Herman

What I do, with the office schedule I don't schedule regular things past 2:30 p.m. - unless its an emergency. There are many time I have not been able to make practice. The office comes first.

Michael Scott

Wikipedia is the best thing ever.

Mason Cooley

Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.

Mae West

Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

Henry David Thoreau

I have traveled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me to be doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways.

Henry David Thoreau

If the tax-gatherer, or any other public officer, asks me, as one has done, "But what shall I do?" my answer is, "If you really wish to do anything, resign your office." When the subject has refused allegiance, and the officer has resigned his office, then the revolution is accomplished.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Get your priorities straight. No one ever said on his death bed, 'Gee, if I'd only spent more time at the office.'

C. S. Lewis

Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.

Bobby Scott

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

Dennis Potter

We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there.

Eckhart Tolle

The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be...

Daniel Radcliffe

I think pressure is a good thing and it's good to be able to feel it and use it and experience the feeling of it and especially if you can get past it.

Daniel Radcliffe

There's no shame in enjoying a quiet life. And that's been the realization of the past few years for me.

Courteney Cox

I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.

Clive Barker

O little one, My little one, Come with me, Your life is done. Forget the future, Forget the past. Life is over: Breathe your last.

Clive Barker

We always think we are right, and - search as I have - there is no evil under the sun that somebody somewhere won't argue is actually a good, no idiocy that hasn't got its perfectly serious defenders, and no tyrant, past or present - no matter how bloody - without some bunch of zealot schmucks to defend him or his reputation till the last breath in their bodies - or preferably somebody else's.

Pete Hald

I've never had three players at the same time who can score like they do.

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Dikembe Mutombo

The NBA has more than 435 players and there are at least 100-some players doing more than expected. Shaq is doing a lot. Dwight Howard, [Manu] Ginobli. Dirk [Nowitzki] is doing a lot, and not just in Europe; he's reaching out to Africa and all other places.

Joe Legerski

We've had a lot of different players step up for us (in the post).

Jerry Angelo

To get valued players you have to be willing to give value.

Andrew Bird

I'm a terrible Scrabble player.

Russell Wilson

We were 6-4 and everybody doubted us. We lost to the Kansas City Chiefs and that week we had a players meeting and really talked about where we really want to go. It's not about the record. At the end of the day it comes down to are we going to keep focusing on each other and are we going to keep getting better day by day? We ignored the noise, we ignored all the talk from the outside.

Sparky Anderson

The players make the manager, it's never the other way.

Slash

I just play, just you know, If i just sit down with the guitar and just do whatever for, you know, an half an hour or an hour whatever. That's pretty much, that should do it for me.

Jane Bryant Quinn

It's daring and challenging to be young and poor, but never to be old and poor. Whatever resources of good health, character, and fortitude you bring to retirement, remember, also, to bring money.

Michael Phelps

Once I retire, I'm retiring. I'm done.

Evel Knievel

She (my ex-wife) wanted me to stop being Evel Knievel. I am who I am. I'm not going to change. I'll settle down the day they put me in a six-foot pine box.

Samuel Johnson

Among the numerous requisites that must concur to complete an author, few are of more importance than an early entrance into the living world. The seed of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public. Argumentation may be taught in colleges, and theories formed in retirement; but the artifice of embellishment and the powers of attraction can be gained only by a general converse.

Ronnie Wood

We'll rock till we drop. We have all agreed this won't be the last time. Everyone's rocking.

Walter Scott

There are those to whom a sense of religion has come in storm and tempest; there are those whom it has summoned amid scenes of revelry and idle vanity; there are those, too, who have heard its "still small voice" amid rural leisure and placid retirement. But perhaps the knowledge which causeth not to err is most frequently impressed upon the mind during the season of affliction.

Marat Safin

It's too many questions about what I'm going to do, why I'm retiring, and this and that. So I answer the same question, I don't know, a thousand times.

James H. Douglas

A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement.

Laurence Sterne

In solitude the mind gains strength, and learns to lean upon herself; in the world it seeks or accepts of a few treacherous supports--the feigned compassion of one, the flattery of a second, the civilities of a third, the friendship of a fourth--they all deceive, and bring the mind back to retirement, reflection, and books.

T. S. Eliot

I can connect Nothing with nothing

Plautus

To waste one's breath; to pump into a sieve.

John Piper

God doesn’t waste anything for those who are yielded to him.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Don't waste your time on life.

David Hawkins

He told me not to come here to waste anybody's time; he told me to make the team,