Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Charlton

I've been asked about that goal every day for the last 40 years. We didn't have the technology back then to show whether it was a goal or not, which led to the controversy. I'd like to think one day we'll have the technology to show whether or not it was a goal.

Ellen DeGeneres

When I asked her what she missed the most right now she said, 'My friends. I don't know where my friends are,' ... Tonight, let's show people on the Gulf Coast that they have friends all over the world . . . to give them shelter from the storm.

E. Hicks

When I moved out here during the late '70s, I had a neighbor who was a farmer who asked me 'What do you produce? ... I said, well, I don't produce, I publish, but he meant, you know, 'Do you grow tomatoes?'

Lionel Hampton

Louis asked me do I know anything the instrument, and what was it, and I explained it to him. So he said, 'Could you play something on it?' I said, 'Sure,' you know.

Laura Mvula

Lots of people think I'm telling porky pies when I say how nervous I get about singing. I was good at working out how music was put together, and I was good at being at the back, but if you asked me to sing up front, then I looked like I was going to pass out.

John Diaz

Lots of people have come in here and asked me whether it is safe to go to the Eiffel Tower. This is really hurting the city's image.

Jennifer Blanke

Last year the Swiss business leaders we asked placed the country 56th overall on a world scale and it actually dropped to 79th this year. There was a tangible higher sense of pessimism.

Fernando Segovia

Last year we were in the same position. We needed to beat Rowe to win the district championship. I asked the guys if they wanted what should have been theirs last season.

Chris Richards

Lee was the villain today. The fox, the crocodile, all of that. We couldn't have asked for a better game.

Toby Keith

Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail,

Ambrose Bierce

PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.

If I ever get real rich, I hope I'm not real mean to poor people, like I am now

I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.

Roy Strong

I hope we can find someone just as good,

Larry Kruse

I hope we can find our jump shot. It seems like we lost it tonight.

Jamal Lewis

I hope we can build our offense and go out there and win games.

Colin Kolles

I hope we can be reliable and that we don't need so much luck to get points.

George Yeo

I hope we are improving by our standards. Whether we are improving by your standards or American standards is a different question. Our responsibility is to Singaporeans, and what we do here should meet their approval. There are no universal prescriptions.

Sydney Schanberg

This isn't a little debate society. That's high school stuff.

Ray Romano

In school, I wasn't a very good student - I was very irresponsible and never did the studying but always liked to get the laugh.

Ray LaHood

Liveability means being able to take your kids to school, go to work, see a doctor, drop by the grocery or Post Office, go out to dinner and a movie, and play with your kids at the park - all without having to get in your car.

Ray Kurzweil

All of our schools need to bring 'learn from doing' into the mainstream education, not just afternoon.

Ray Lewis

I've been a fan of video games since the old school, I even have a lot of the old school arcade games at my house.

Raquel Welch

In school, nobody could pronounce my name. They just called me Rocky.

Rashida Jones

I did a lot of theater in school. I thought maybe I wanted to go to law school or be a judge or a politician. And then I just kind of got smitten by the process of rehearsal and working with other actors and those kinds of challenges. And then comedy.

Rashida Jones

In high school, I was on the youth advisory council for the Mayor's Office of Los Angeles, and that was kind of my first experience in the bureaucratic system. We tried to get things done, and nobody was really interested in getting anything done.

Rashida Jones

In elementary and high school, I never considered acting as a profession.