Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Blanks

A will is to make a decision how you should take care of yourself.

Bobby Labonte

It would mean a lot to me. Ten years from now you'd look back and the 43 car hadn't gone to victory lane. And then you were the one to take it to victory lane. It would be a cool thing.

Rocco Calo

This isn't about money because Sikorsky has plenty. The company has said it wants to cut our health care to teach us a financial lesson. That's not right and it won't fly.

O. J. Simpson

This is not how I imagined the day would end. Even after we had our pole position taken away from us, I was confident of a good result. Everyone knew we had the fastest car and there were only two drivers in front of me, but it was not to be.

Amber Cope

This is so dumb - once time I spray-tanned before a race, and I didn't shower, and I sweated the whole thing off on my car. It was so bad, I told a fan I would never do it again.

Greg Lewis

This is something we will look more at (in the future). There are developers out there who care about the community.

Rep. Flores

This is something we have to take care of this year.

Cary Leahey

This is one of the days when nobody is really going to care because the employment report was definitely weak.

Gary Gait

This is obviously the first step. You can't get a home game without making the playoffs, and we took care of that.

Jamie Sandison

The performance of European equities corresponds closely to the strength of the dollar.

Bobby Valentine

Koga put him in the No. 1 spot last year, and he got hot after that. I thought I'd follow suit.

Marcelo Enriquez

South is a very good team and I knew they were going to be much more competitive the second round.

Joe Linta

Special teams will be his meal ticket. He's got good speed and good hands. He's a real good 51, 52 or 53-type guy on the roster who can do a lot of things for you.

Kyle McLaren

Special teams was good tonight, especially the penalty kill.

Kelly Wood

One good shot from the opposition (centre guard) and that's all they needed to win. We had to hit at least three-quarters and it hung straight. That's curling.

Thomas Fuller

One good head is better than a hundred strong hands

John Sharp

One can say all they want about politicians, but politicians to other politicians, their word is almost always good.

Rob Hermann

Once you get to this point, you just want to see the local guys do well. Dustin is a good kid, and we love to help as much as possible.

Chris Chambers

Once you wrap that screen around, and you get really good sound you get immersed, ... You mentally make the leap that you're in this game. It's really amazing.

Stephen Malkmus

One day I'm going to write a straight-ahead story. I really want to, but I can't at the moment. I'm not very good at it right now.

Corin Nemec

I got to do a whole slew of TV movies playing the bad guy, including an episode of Smallville. That would never have happened if I hadn't done the Stand.

Amanda Seyfried

I'm never going to be with a guy that can't deal with my friendship with him.

Andrew Vachss

Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.

Ricky Jay

I never talk much about my family, but my grandfather was friendly with these guys, with magicians and ventriloquists on the highest levels, and I was just interested.

Tom Petty

I'm not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.

Tiger Woods

There are guys on Tour who hit the ball further than me. I always thought it was important to have power, but more important to have power in reserve.

Steven Wright

I thought I would be a guy on the radio.

Steven Wright

Very rarely do I talk off the top of my head on stage. I'm not an improv guy. I'm a writer-guy who presents what he's written.

Steven Wright

One day a guy tried to rob me on the street, and I had no money. So I charged him.

Barbara Mertz

kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.

Lucille Ball

When you're too mad and too rattled to see straight, you're bound to make mistakes. You can't go on and on for years being miserable about a situation and not have it change you. You get so you can't stand yourself.

John Cleese

While you're being creative, nothing is wrong. There's no such thing as a mistake, and any drivel may lead to the breakthrough.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.

Napoleon Bonaparte

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Nelson Mandela

I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.

R. A. Torrey

Many who read their Bibles make the great mistake of confining all their reading to certain portions of the Bible which they enjoy. In this way they get no knowledge of the Bible as a whole. They miss altogether many of the most important phases of Bible truth.

Sebastian Vettel

Generally I don't care about what people say. I have to be clear with myself. When everything goes well, people celebrate you, when you make mistakes people criticize you.

Les Brown

Give yourself a break. Stop beating yourself up! Everyone makes mistakes, has setbacks and failures. You don't come with a book on how to get it right all the time. You will fail sometimes, not because you planned to, but simply because you're human. Failure is a part of creating a great life. Stand up to it and handle it with grace. Because, you can.

Demi Lovato

I'm very passionate about charity... Performing is my passion. But it's not gonna change the world. That's why I give back.

Aristotle

Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.

Angie Martinez

The projects I'm working on are all diverse, but each represents a different passion for me. I'm constantly looking to stretch myself.

John Ruskin

We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind.

John Ruskin

All other passions do occasional good; but when pride puts in its word everything goes wrong.

John Ruskin

Superstition, in all times and among all nations, is the fear of a spirit whose passions are those of a man, whose acts are the acts of a man; who is present in some places, not in others; who makes no places holy and not others; who is kind to one person, unkind to another; who is pleased or angry according to the degree of attention you pay him, or praise you refuse to him; who is hostile generally to human pleasure, but may be bribed by sacrifice of a part of that pleasure into permitting the rest. This, whatever form of faith it colors, is the essence of superstition.

John Ruskin

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

Masiela Lusha

If I cannot offer some relief to our world, if I cannot inspire our generation to join me, then I feel I am a complete waste of space. This constant fear of feeling irrelevant in our society has been the catalyst behind all my efforts and passions for as long as I can remember.

Mason Cooley

My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.

Bobby Scott

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

David Arquette

I love round people, I love skinny people. I love people in general; we've got to get past labels and stop being so critical about everything.

Dan Brown

The decisions of our past are the architects of our present.

Daniel Yergin

An important United Nations environmental conference went past 6:00 in the evening when the interpreters' contracted working conditions said they could leave. They left, abandoning the delegates unable to talk to each other in their native languages. The French head of the committee, who had insisted on speaking only in French throughout the week suddenly demonstrated the ability to speak excellent English with English-speaking delegates.

Alfred Austin

Thought, stumbling, plods Past fallen temples, vanished gods, Altars unincensed, fanes undecked, Eternal systems flown or wrecked; Through trackless centuries that grant To the poor trudge refreshment scant, Age after age, pants on to find A melting mirage of the mind.

Aloe Blacc

I felt I had an opportunity to follow in the footsteps of great soul musicians of the past, who made a lot of social and political commentary through their music.

Andy Samberg

I used to stay up at night and sneak into the TV room, past my parents, who were asleep, to watch Saturday Night's 'Main Event.' That's how I started watching SNL. On accident.

Amanda Holden

In the past, I've thrown myself into work so much there's been very little room for anything else.

Anne Carson

To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.

Paul Perry

I think that positions No. 2 through 7 could be inter-changeable all year.

Morris Gleitzman

Don't sit back and wait for God to do it all. Ask for His advice, but be prepared to do the hard yards yourself.

George Orwell

I have tipped waiters, and I have been tipped by waiters.