Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kennedy

As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.

Joel Davis

Compassion was never a strong suit of mine, but almost by default, I have become much more sensitive to people with disabilities and other setbacks,

John Challenger

Companies are starving for people with technology skills. I think people are kind of shocked. It's certainly almost taboo in society. Parents tell their kids the last thing they should do is skip college for the big money.

Josh Duncan

Coach (Sean) Miller really stresses that and it becomes more of a mental thing once you hear it you know and hear it so much. It becomes almost like a natural instinct.

Jamie McNeilly

Coach mentioned to us playing 40 minutes. We're almost there. We're playing about 36 minutes. We just need to translate that extra four minutes into positive stuff, and we'll be OK.

Colt Sedbrook

Coach Lopez said if it is out there, the pitch will find me. It seems like almost every game I am getting dotted. I got hit in the helmet this time. It was a good thing I was wearing one. There was some ringing in my ears, but it went away.

Ryan Brown

Coach keeps us so well prepared, and we were executing almost perfectly in the first half. We showed a lot of courage to battle back and take control after they made a run at us.

J. Taylor

Cole's just talking -- ain't nobody jealous of no Cole. Cole was running so slow. I was going to try to help him out, but I almost knocked him down. He fell in the end zone, so that's a good thing.

Aaron Green

Colby almost turned it over twice, but he stayed with it. It was a great win.

Tony Martin

I think I sound like a fella who's always making a plea through his music. Sort of a plea of sincerity.

Marvin Imel

Dr. Stratton also had a practice in an office just south of the post office and served the Odd Fellows for about 50 years.

Jonathan Levine

'Warm Bodies' was a more long-term thing; I had to write the script, who knew if it was every really going to happen, if I'd find the right actors, and so on, so I grabbed '50/50' because I just fell in love with it.

Nancy Mitford

Twenty-three and a quarter minutes past," Uncle Matthew was saying furiously, "in precisely six and three-quarter minutes the damned fella will be late

Scott Niedermayer

We fell on the wrong end of the stick on a lot of the calls.

Robert Browning

Lied is a rough phrase; say he fell from truth

Gary Hall

But instead we fell back on our heels and got too disappointed.

Scott Stevens

We were very fortunate this time, ... There were a few limbs that fell and a few minor power outages.

Ric Garcia

We're all right. We're still doing great in conference. We have two losses in league. It's not like the whole world fell apart.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Kurt Thomas

As long as I set a good pick and roll, get to the open spot, it's about me knocking down the shot. He knows when to find you.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Bill Miller

(Osborne) is pretty special. He might be as good as any we've had in the infield, and he's only a sophomore. It's kind of scary to think how good he could be.

Randy Copeland

Offensively, they've got a good running back and a real good quarterback,

Sean Coste

Offensively, there were times where we executed really well and got some good shots for people. The kids were very strong in the post.

Dana Altman

Of the 15 shots he took, I'm not sure how many of them were good looks. We did a good job contesting his shots. Any time you hold him under 10 points, you have a good shot to win.

Steve Rice

Offensively, I like the looks of our line even though we're young. We have pretty good size from tackle to tackle.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Dennis Northcutt

As long as I'm doing what I'm supposed to do, and I'm going out and helping this team in any way, I'm going to be here, ... The only way I'm going to lose my job is if I'm messing up and not getting the job done.

Javier Solana

The solution of this problem is not only military, the solution has to be political.... We are prepared for the possibility of helping with a cease-fire,

Peter Briggs

The students get help they need, and we learn about the rest of the world by being involved with them.

Robert Reisz

So we are suggesting this was a relatively helpless little hatchling.

Juan Avila

Thank you to all the people who helped us get this house.

Kirby Moses

Ten of our 14 wrestlers scored points which helped us today. There were 15 teams and we didn't know what to expect. We were the smallest school there.

Danielle Jackson

Ryan has really stepped up and takes some of the pressure away from the rest of us. She's going to help a lot.

Daniel Burns

It was unbelievable, ... but I knew it was helping us.

Cheech Marin

It was about taking the show and shining a different light on it. Each monologue was like a separate jewel that I helped thread into a necklace.

Jane Yolen

I have always been jealous of artists. The smell of the studio, the names of the various tools, the look of a half-finished canvas all shout of creation. What do writers have in comparison? Only the flat paper, the clacketing of the typewriter or the scrape of a pen across a yellow page. And then, when the finished piece is presented, there is a small wonder on one hand, a manuscript smudged with erasures or crossed out lines on the other. The impact of the painting is immediate, the manuscript must unfold slowly through time.

Baltasar Gracian

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

Brigham Young

If we lack confidence in each other, and be jealous of each other, our peace will be destroyed. If we cultivate the principles of unshaken confidence in each other, our joy will be full.

Edmund Burke

A jealous lover lights his torch from the firebrand of the fiend.

Aristotle

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

Cristiano Ronaldo

People whistle me because I am good-looking, rich and a great footballer. They are jealous of me.

Amy Poehler

It's very hard to watch comedy for me, when I'm doing a comedy show, because I either watch a show and I love it, and I'm jealous, or I watch a show and I see all the problems with it, and I'm angry that I watched it.

Alberto Manguel

As readers, we have gone from learning a precious craft whose secret was held by a jealous few, to taking for granted a skin that has become subordinate to principles of mindless financial profit or mechanical efficiency, a skill for which governments care almost nothing.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Brandon Claussen

When I walked over there, he wasn't moving. He was knocked out. He wasn't moving at all.

Ray Rice

I won't call myself a failure. Failure is not getting knocked down. It's not getting up.

Isaac Newton

What goes up must come down.

Larry Smith

Chemo is chemo, but it wasn't the kind that just knocked you on your butt.

John Rainey

He stuck his neck out and knocked it out of the park.

Frank Barrett

He tilted at windmills, but he knocked over a lot of them in a variety of fields.

DeJuan Blair

That was like getting knocked out in the last second of a title fight.

Aaron McFarland

That's a very talented team. They'll do well. I'd love to say we got knocked out by the state champions.

Dave Ketterman

They just really needed a win more than we did. They played with a sense of urgency and knocked some shots down.

Brian Simmons

The thing about it is nobody is out there freelancing. Everybody's playing within the parameters of what we are doing.

Mickey Rourke

Once you've been somebody, really, you have a career and you're a nobody anymore, and you're getting older, you're living what's called a state of shame.

Glenn Williams

Push yourself, guys, ... Nobody walking. To the cones.

Jane Walsh

The work (Ryerson) did was really groundbreaking. Nobody else had really done that before.

Manny Diaz

The process is ongoing, nobody has pulled the plug,

Lucky Wurtz

You give him a one-game season and there's nobody better.

Jack Pitney

There's plenty of time to criticize. I think two years from now, nobody is going to remember what these people said.

Andrew Albert

Nobody seems to be talking about security. It's a non-issue at the moment. I'm shocked.

Ray Brown

Nobody would have picked me to play 20 years,

Brett Gardner

I never go up there trying to hit a home run

Brandon Sanderson

Everyone gets scared, Princess. Even brave men sometimes run the first time they see battle. In armies, that's why there's so much training. The ones who hold aren't the courageous ones, they're the well-trained ones. We have instincts like any other animal.

Barbara Jordan

I never wanted to be run of the mill.

Barbara Jordan

I never intended to be a run-of-the-mill person.

Arthur Lydiard

The idea that you can't lose contact with the leaders has cut more throats than it has saved.

Arthur Lydiard

I discovered years ago that the best results in this respect could be gained by running 100 miles weekly at my near best aerobic efforts and that, supplementary to this, running as many easy miles as I could

Arthur Lydiard

When aerobic running becomes a daily habit, strength and confidence follow.

Arthur Lydiard

You must realize one thing. In every little village in the world there are great potential champions who only need motivation, development and good exercise evaluation.

Arthur Lydiard

They're very tenacious. They're dedicated. Once a woman decides she's going to do something, she'll probably stick to it. The only problem with women is if there's anything wrong with them, they won't tell you. They'll get out there and run on one leg. They don't moan and groan like a lot of men do.

Mel Kohn

This is something we need to do a lot more talking about.

Barbara Kingsolver

The talkers are rising above the thinkers.

Brenda Ueland

We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role.

Jamie Bell

When I see people talking about TV, they're way more animated, way more passionate than when they talk about films.

James Woods

No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they're amazingly well informed.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Peace, development, and justice are all connected to each other. We cannot talk about economic development without talking about peace. How can we expect economic development in a battlefield?

Craig Ferguson

The virus in the movie 'Contagion' is based on the bird flu which came out of nowhere back in 2008. Everyone thought it was going to change the way we live and it just faded away. Wait a minute, I'm talking about President Obama.

Brian Chesky

Whatever the press is talking about, they want to keep talking about it. So instead of asking yourself, 'How can I get them to start talking about me?', figure out a way to get yourself involved in what they're already talking about.

Blaise Pascal

We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.