Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Riordan

The giant raised his fist, and a voice cut through the dream. "Leo!" Jason was shaking his shoulder. "Hey, man, why are you hugging Nike?" Leo's eyes fluttered open. His arms were wrapped around the human-sized statue in Athena's hand. He must have been thrashing in his sleep. He clung to the victory goddess like he used to cling to his pillow when he had nightmares as a kid. (Man, that had been so embarrassing in the foster homes.) He disentangled himself and sat up, rubbing his face. "Nothing," he muttered. "we were just cuddling. Um, what's going on?

Zach Braff

Sure, they are the future of our world. Nike and Reebok need more factory workers every day.

Jan Runau

In every single region in the world, it is now a two-horse race between Nike and Adidas.

Nate Robinson

I observed the way Dee and Deron played at the Nike Camp [in Indianapolis]. They share the ball well; I mean, they average about 13 points apiece and they could both score 20 -- they do what they have to do to help the team.

Muhammad Ali

I'll leave you with one that I have hanging on my office wall, compliments of Nike: Impossible is nothing.

Naomi Klein

When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?

Naomi Klein

Despite different cultures, middle-class youth all over the world seem to live their lives as if in a parallel universe. They get up in the morning, put on their Levi's and Nikes, grab their caps and backpacks, and Sony personal CD players and head for school.

Kid Cudi

Dim them lights get it in pimp tight do wat i do i lace up my own nikes.

Temple Grandin

Like, for example you beat the dog up and they're looking at you and your Nike shoes or any sneaker or anything like a Nike, he's likely to be afraid of that - so anything without that Nike wingtip, he's likely to be fine. If you think about it, that's a different picture, than a Nike type shoe. Its specific because its sensory based.

Andrew Cooper

We feel it would be inappropriate for us to race.

Alex Jones

Some people say they're gathering DNA. Perhaps they're gathering it for the future when the human race is stronger or weaker, who knows. That's science fiction and mere speculation.

Keith Williams

I thought the races would be a little closer,

Greg Gilchrist

I want to win this race really badly,

Allison Duncan

I don't know that there is any more urgency now that Erin has run a Busch race,

Sarah McCune

I don't know what happened. It's not the way you want any race to go, especially when you're leading." ()

Rebecca West

Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed.

Umberto Eco

Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.

Umberto Eco

Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards; those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those bastards always talk about the purity of race.

Jeff Jensen

Keep our water treatment plant, ... Don't go with the regional system.

Richard Aboulafia

It has a big feel in a regional jet.

Lyle Mangum

Region 4 is tough. I think Region 1 is the toughest, but Region 4 is right after. I think our wrestlers have fared well.

Sarah Southern

Our region is crazy. The way it is, we still have a shot to be in first place.

Joel Sawyer

As we would like to appoint someone from every geographical region of the state, with only three appointments, we're not always going to be able to do that.

Edward Lincoln

They think there is a lot more going on in the region than that.

Dr. Etienne

This is the most inequitable region in the world.

Jared Ingersol

With this region being as strong as it is, it was important for us to get off on the right foot.

Wang Guangya

The region is already complicated, we don't want to make it more complicated. We are not so enthusiastic about more resolutions.

James Nesbitt

I don't know a single person who doesn't regret the things that they did to hurt their parents, or the things they didn't say to them.

Michael R. Bloomberg

had to work every single day of his life.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.

Ursula K. Le Guin

We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything. Anarchism, in all its forms, with the rest. But I have not tried it. They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are we born?

Wes Moore

Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it so important than not a single moment be wasted.

Clinton Solomon

I had a lot of support from my mom. She was my backbone. She's a single parent, she's been through my ups and downs, and she just told me to keep a straight head, that it wasn't over.

Scott Clavenna

In general, to have a whole solution like that from a single vendor is really valuable.

Joseph Addison

To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.

Jorge Luis Borges

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.