Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Jordan

Before I knew what was happening, I had a fistful of spears around my neck like a collar. I could have shaved myself with one sneeze.

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Remember the turtle -- He never makes any progress till he sticks his neck out.

Tomas Vokoun

I have never taken a shot like that to my neck in a game. It was scary.

Khaled Hosseini

The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck.

Larry Flynt

I may be paralyzed from the waist down, but unlike Gray Davis, I'm not paralyzed from the neck up.

John Brown

I have been whipped, as the saying is, but I am sure I can recover all the lost capital occasioned by that disaster; by only hanging a few moments by the neck; and I feel quite determined to make the utmost possible out of a defeat.

Tony Russa

The neck where he had the whiplash, that's what's sore -- more sore.

James Conant

The turtle makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

Kathy Whitworth

It was neck and neck the whole way. Very exciting.

Stephen Hadley

I would say that is some real progress.

John Bolton

I think we are still making progress. I think it is slow but it is steady,

Pierre Pettigrew

We have to acknowledge the substantial progress that has been made in India,

Peter Flynn

We made progress, we haven't made as much progress as we'd like to make,

Mark Brazil

I don't know where this thing stands. I would think the PGA Tour is making some progress, but some slow progress. It's going to take some time. I'm sure they're doing the right things.

Mark Brazil

I don't know where this thing stands, ... I would think the PGA Tour is making some progress, but some slow progress. It's going to take some time. I'm sure they're doing the right things.

Richard P. Feynman

It is the facts that matter, not the proofs. Physics can progress without the proofs, but we can't go on without the facts ... if the facts are right, then the proofs are a matter of playing around with the algebra correctly.

Richelle Mead

Right. As opposed to your cradle-robbing mentor. I don't really see you making much progress with him.

Trey Songz

Change is a natural form of progression.

Winston Churchill

Thus, be every device from the stick to the carrot, the emaciated Austrian donkey is made to pull the Nazi barrow up an ever-steepening hill.

Jodi Picoult

If he says jump, she doesn't even ask "How high?" She goes out and buys a pogo stick.

Jodi Picoult

Sometimes all you need to live one more day is a good reason to stick around.

Juno Temple

I'm a private person; I stick to my neighbourhood and eat in my little restaurants.

Kristin Scott Thomas

I love shooting French films because I don't have to stick with being sophisticated or stuck-up.

Nathan Fillion

It's hard to shake a stick at success.

Martin Lawrence

My audience is a diehard audience. They are dedicated. My audience always follows me and sticks with me. They're the reason I'm still here - in the films and in stand-ups.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I've decided to stick with love.

Margaret Cho

A lot of the actresses who were around when I started, I don't know where they are. Comics stick around.

Robbie Amell

I grew up watching 'Power Rangers,' 'Ninja Turtles', 'Batman.' You name it, I was a huge fan. And that's what I used to play with my friends. We would have the masks and the swords and pretend we had super powers.

Russell Hoban

The sign said 'The Green Turtle, Chelonia myadas, is the source of turtle soup....' I am the source of William G. soup if it comes to that. Everyone is the source of his or her kind of soup. In a town as big as London, that's a lot of soup walking around.

Walter Benjamin

There was the pedestrian who wedged himself into the crowd, but there was also the flneur who demanded elbow room and was unwilling to forego the life of the gentleman of leisure. His leisurely appearance as a personality is his protest against the division of labour which makes people into specialists. it was also his protest against their industriousness. Around 1840 it was briefly fashionable to take turtles for a walk in the arcades. the flneurs liked to have the turtles set the pace for them.

Mike Dirnt

A turtle does come in it's own bowl

Peter Kreeft

On my door is a cartoon of two turtles. One says, 'Sometimes I would like to ask why he allows poverty, famine and injustice when he could do something about it.' The other turtle says 'I am afraid that God might ask me the same question.'

Lewis Carroll

And how many hours a day did you do lessons?' said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject. Ten hours the first day,' said the Mock Turtle: 'nine the next, and so on.' What a curious plan!' exclaimed Alice. That's the reason they're called lessons,' the Gryphon remarked: 'because they lessen from day to day.

Eddie Campbell

And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.

Heinrich Heine

Reform Judaism is like mock turtle soup-turtle soup without the turtle

Charlie Munger

Warren is one of the best learning machines on this earth. The turtles who outrun the hares are learning machines. If you stop learning in this world, the world rushes right by you.