Famous Quotes & Sayings

Willie Mays

And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5' 11". So I just picked baseball.

William Scott

You just don't want to push people into doing things that they really don't want to do. I don't think it's going to produce much.

William Scott

There are certain authors that do not turn students on; it is the truth. Homer happens to be one of them.

William Scott

On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting.

William Scott

I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of an illusion.

William Scott

The one thing you've got to say about Columbia is that it has courses that are famous. It has alumni who come back and say it was the best thing they ever did.

William Scott

The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning.

Whitey Herzog

We need just two players to be a contender. Just Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax.

Whitey Herzog

The only way to make money as a manager is to win in one place, get fired and hired somewhere else.

Donald Trump

I'm competitive, and I love to create challenges for myself. Maybe that's not always a good thing. It can make life complicated.

David A. Bednar

In the school of mortality, we experience tenderness, love, kindness, happiness, sorrow, disappointment, pain, and even the challenges of physical limitations in ways that prepare us for eternity.

Kofi Annan

The people and government of Pakistan are faced with an extraordinary challenge and we need to make an extraordinary effort to support them, ... What is needed is an immediate and exceptional escalation of the global relief effort to support the work of the government of Pakistan.

Amelia Earhart

Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.

Clyde Tombaugh

It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck.

Darell Hammond

The lack of free, child-directed play time for our kids today will have dire consequences for these future leaders, making them less prepared to solve complex challenges and problems.

Richard Rogers

There is no one-size-fits-all solution to the challenges facing our cities or to the housing crisis, but the two issues need to be considered together. From an urban design and planning point of view, the well-connected open city is a powerful paradigm and an engine for integration and inclusivity.

Carrie Fisher

Kevin Smith is a very challenging conversationalist and Jay has many great stories.

Berkeley Breathed

It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one.

Ice T

We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.

Paul Little

The outlook for the group is very positive.

Kate Becker

We can't let it be cut. They're just a really powerful group of people. It's going to have a ripple effect.

Scott Rudin

I love work. I love putting together a group of people who are all doing the same thing. The commonality of purpose.

Raymond Kelly

A small number of people and groups control the Democratic primary.

Bob Wright

We hadn't been on the line more than 30 minutes when we spotted our first group of seven.

Terrance Haywood

To lose all of those guys and to come back with a group of young kids, none of them having any varsity experience. And just to see where we started from, and where we're at now, it was huge.

Jeff Tageant

We have a laid back group of kids.

Phil Savage

We have a group of linebackers now and we will sort through them and see which ones serve us best.

Inga Cadranel

When we were growing up, we had all these crazy, in-your-face guys around the house. For us, it was like, 'Ugh! Actors again.'

Val Kilmer

I've been very fortunate and met the guys that have become, basically, philosophers and have a kind of sensibility about life that's very precious.

Chuck Palahniuk

When I first used to tour, guys would come up and say, 'Where's the fight club in my area?' and I would say, 'There isn't one.' And they'd say, 'No, no, you can tell me, you can tell me.'

will.i.am

When you think about the guys who started Twitter, and the Google guys, and the Facebook guys and the Napster guys, and the Microsoft guys, and the Dell guys and the Instagram guys, it's all guys. The girls, they're being left behind.

Alberto Martinez

The overriding theme of these numbers is that these guys are pretty much tied, and will likely stay that way for a long time.

Brian Bell

The guys in the Twins understand that the better Weezer does, the more people will probably care about us.

Wade Henderson

We have a lot of young guys who haven't jelled yet. It's tough when you lose (last year's seniors), but you have to learn to play without them.

Mark Marquess

We have a lot of young guys and we'll see where we stand.

Lindsey Hunter

We need to have our showers, there's some guys in here who should be showering more often than they are.

Denise Richards

It's just keeping what I want private, private, and the same with Charlie.

Carl Sagan

There is a lurking fear that some things are not meant to be known.

Eric Hemmendinger

We can stand up and tell people they ought to be keeping up-to-date with patches, but in the real world, that's not particularly useful advice. There are just so many of them.

Marco Rubio

When I am the president of the United States of America, we don't know who you are, and we don't know why you're trying to come to the United States, you are not going to get in, because the radical threat that we now face from ISIS is extraordinary and unprecedented and when I'm president, we are keeping ISIS out of America.

Don Cox

We were having a lot of trouble keeping up with a large quantity of returns with this system.

Jay Wright

We were getting stops and keeping it out of Quincy's hands. And those shots turned into fast-break opportunities for us.

Janie McCarthy

We have been trying to play more (offensive-minded), by keeping the forwards on top to give them more scoring chances.

Marcus Jones

You let him know that you're still keeping him on your mind.

Grover Norquist

My wife and I have what's known as mixed marriage. I am a Methodist, she is a Muslim. So we're keeping it in the M's.

Ashton Kutcher

Scars are reminders of the obstacles we've overcome. Wear them proudly.

Petrarch

Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.

Carter G. Woodson

We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.

Alan Watts

For me, being literate and articulate is a form of judo, of overcoming the [system] by its own method.

Chris Bosh

Everyone talks about success, but what happens before? There's always something you have to overcome.

Chogyam Trungpa

There is more to fearlessness than merely having overcome fear... This state of being is not dependent on any external circumstances. It is individual dignity... that comes from being what we are, right now.

Bernard Baruch

You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache.

Bill Walsh

I've observed that if individuals who prevail in a highly competitive environment have any one thing in common besides success, it is failure—and their ability to overcome it.

Bill Kirby

Good quote it takes five positive statements to overcome one statement