Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lawrence Taylor

He's a cocky sumbitch. That's what makes him such a great player.

Jerry Pate

I think you're not as tough and cocky as when you're young and full of energy. I got humbled. I had to reorganize my life. I had to put my faith first, my family second and my golf third.

Joe Namath

I thought we'd win when I said those things. I wasn't trying to be cocky or anything.

Andy Evans

He's a very quiet kid. He's a confident kid, and he's not cocky at all. He's respectful. He's very intense when he plays ... he just loves to play the game.

Marty Barnes

I am impressed with the team's attitude. They are confident, not cocky or overconfident. We are really focused.

Ronda Rousey

Some people like to call me cocky or arrogant, but I just think 'how dare you assume I should think less of myself'

Richard Dawson

It's wonderful to win, but don't get cocky about it!

Willie McCovey

I enjoyed hitting in the Major Leagues more than in the Minor Leagues. I didn't want to tell anybody it was easier, because I didn't want to sound cocky. But Major League pitchers had better control, and most of them were around the plate.

Wynton Marsalis

Trumpet players are just belligerant, and cocky, and you know, just hard-headed.

Johnny Pesky

He was a very unpretentious guy, and there was nothing conceited about him at all. He had a great body, and was good-looking with curly hair. He was a great guy to be around.

Sarah Silverman

I buy water at the liquor store across the street from where I live. So I'm walking into the door, and standing, loitering, outside the door is a man. And I walk by him to go in, and he says, I want pussy! Now, I don't want to seem conceited or anything, but he was talking about me!

Walt Whitman

If you done it, it ain't bragging.

Walter Savage Landor

Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from him.

William Hazlitt

We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.

William Makepeace Thackeray

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

Joseph Addison

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

Jonathan Swift

Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.

Oscar Wilde

They are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

William Gilmore Simms

Modesty is policy, no less than virtue.

Sarah Fielding

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

William Hazlitt

To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy teaches us caution on this subject.

William Hazlitt

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Diffidence is a sort of false modesty.

Qu Hongbin

Investments will slow and producer prices should come down. What we'll see now is a modest slowdown.

Erich Merkle

I think October was the bottom. It could pick up modestly in December.

Joseph Addison

Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.

Joseph Addison

Virtue which shuns, the day.

Rudolf Steiner

Only when I follow my love for my objective is it I myself who act.

Roger Ebert

In my reviews, I feel it's good to make it clear that I'm not proposing objective truth, but subjective reactions; a review should reflect the immediate experience.

Wyndham Lewis

Wherever there is objective truth, there is satire.

Evan Bayh

Our objective is not to oppose the president; it's to do what's right for America.

George Jackson

Our objective is a permanent transformation of the city. We've got a long way to go, but I think we've turned an important corner.

Jim Johnson

Our objective was to put an end to what we view as infringement of our package designs.

Rob Dyson

Our objective is to win the (ALMS) championship. It's the way we take each race and the way we run the team.

Chan Gailey

If I worried about all that kind of stuff, I couldn't be in this business, ... This is like being in most any other profession: You're not going to please everybody. My objective is to do what's right by the program and what's right for these young men. Other than that, I don't have a responsibility.

Dan Johnson

The first and most important objective was to step up our recruiting of international students,

Randy Moss

Just to see him come out here and work with us every day, have the patience with us every day, it's exciting.

John Mitchell

I suspect it's a pattern you will see here.

Donnie Edwards

He didn't look like a rookie at all. He's very patient and able to make plays.

Tom Liston

The only thing it does is patch that single function.

Ron Gardenhire

He's just rushing. He's not being patient enough.

Jonathan Day

It comes down to what the rainfall patterns are,

Carolyn Sime

We're on a different path with the same goal.

Craig McHugh

We're pleased about the patent and the protection it provides us. We're evaluating all the alternatives.

Porter Goss

We've got to have some patience ... It's a tough job,

Bob Greenly

Justus is very much a work in progress, ... but he's getting better all the time.

Waris Ahluwalia

I take my work seriously, but I don't necessarily take myself seriously.

Mads Mikkelsen

I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.

Dan Kane

It can happen. We just all have to work together.

Eric Kristenson

It can be as much of a workout as you want it to be.

Tory Burch

I think you can have it all. You just have to know it's going to work.

Taylor Hawkins

Why go on vacation when work is so much more fun.

Steve Bigam

The only thing that didn't work out was we lost.

Lord Warner

What we've got to work on is the rest,