Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Rakoff

I do not go outdoors... As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of living in New York City is indoors. You want greenery? Order the spinach.

Gary LaGrange

From a commercial and psychological standpoint, this is five stars. This shows the people of New Orleans their city is back in business.

Gretchen Mol

She finds herself in New York City and she is making a living posing for photographs. A lot of it was her not really crossing the line and looking at what people were doing with the photographs.

Mitchell Rasansky

I think Southwest needs to step up to the plate. We can't have the city of Dallas continue to subsidize Southwest Airlines.

William Jarvis

Jeff really has local Washington sensibilities. . . . He understands the city and demonstrated it when he put together a team with deep local roots.

Ronne Froman

Jerry very much wanted to have somebody who was sitting around his table advising us on the day-to-day stuff. We had no ethics person for the whole city staff, right down to the grass roots.

Gary Boyd

I think everyone's excited about seeing those projects completed. I think our city is going to be better off,

John Barrett

I think even more disturbing was that the president of the company described North Adams as a 'shrinking, depressing city with no future,'

Joe Horn

I saw people on the streets, on the bridges, and I didn't want to leave that way. I didn't want to come to a new city and know we left New Orleans like that. To go back, to have us back there again, is phenomenal.

Edward Hirsch

Poems mesmerized me, and I felt better when I was writing them, or trying to - more in touch with something deep and dark within myself.

Don Maloney

On paper, I like the team that we've put together. Then again, I've felt the same way each of the past six seasons. But I like this group that we have assembled, and I think we may be even stronger by opening day.

Lorenzo Booker

My goals are a lot higher than that. I'm only twenty-something hours away from graduating. And, more importantly, I never felt like I was through, and once you leave, that's it.

David Jennings

From that point on. I think they felt like they could do nothing wrong.

Jose Vidro

I don't remember the last time I felt this good going into the season.

Guillermo Coria

I was really worried because my hands were shaking and I felt sick.

Tiger Woods

I was satisfied when I won one, I felt I should have won the other,

Stuart Raper

I was sure we were good enough to win the game and I spoke to the players about how I felt it was there for the taking.

Quin Snyder

I wouldn't even characterize it as benching. That kind of implies he was doing something that was upsetting me. He wasn't playing well. I felt like there were other guys who were playing better.

Helen Mirren

Ill-informed intuition is fantastic - it's what great art is. So really old painters or writers or actors are brilliant, because they've finally reached the point when they can let go of al technique.

Chogyam Trungpa

Mindfulness does not mean pushing oneself toward something or hanging on to something. It means allowing oneself to be there in the very moment of what is happening in the living process - and then letting go.

Andy Johnson

Some people think that because it's a threatened species, that every one we save is good. But not if they never get to live in the wild.

Lois Lowry

Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy.

Robin Cook

Tell the people of Serbia how much wealth you have sucked out during the same years they have been impoverished in Serbia,

Nick Hanauer

Tech innovation is something societies have to pursue as vigorously as they can. We have to innovate civically and socially at the same rate; otherwise, you create unfortunate disruptions, and that's where you have people opposing technological innovations.

Harvey Pekar

Sometimes I want to convey something complex philosophically, and sometimes I just want to portray myself in a situation that I think other people have been in many times, but it hasn't been written about much.

Don Herold

Poverty must have its satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people

Yusuf Islam

Perhaps people will remember my voice and what I was able to do with it.

Jeb Bush

Perhaps people are saying, 'I'm going to hunker down,'

M. Wolfe

Quarterback is a position that people try to put too many things into it,

Bobby Jones

During the season on Saturdays, I usually sleep in until about 1.

Bobby Knight

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

Rudolf Arnheim

Order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.

Vince Cable

Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation, personally negotiated by one of Gordon Brown's team, was a disaster, as the National Audit Office has confirmed.

Vin Diesel

I live my life a quarter mile at a time. Nothing else matters: not the mortgage, not the store, not my team and all their bullshit. For those ten seconds or less, I'm free.

Vijay Mallya

If you work for a team, you have a different view, if you own a team you have a radically different view,

Stephen Covey

The role of the leader is to foster mutual respect and build a complementary team where each strength is made productive and each weakness irrelevant.

Stephanie Leonidas

The stunt team were great on Defiance. They were there, every day.

Suzanne Farrell

You're never more of an individual than when you're a happy team player.

Suzanne Collins

If I feel ragged, my prep team seems in worse condition, knocking back coffee and sharing brightly colored little pills. As far as I can tell, they never get up before noon unless there's some sort of national emergency, like my leg hair.

Bobby Womack

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

Bobby Scott

Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

Bobby Sherman

In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.

Bobby Knight

At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.

Bobby Cox

This year is different, ... We have 11 for about four.

Anna Torv

I live by the sea in Australia and the weather of course is glorious all year round.

Andrew Niccol

Sometimes I'll be channel surfing or something, and I'll see a glimpse of something, and I'll quickly turn the sound down, and then what I look at, that's an interesting movie. But it's not me who made it. It's whoever that guy I was 10 years ago who made it.

Alex Rodriguez

I had a great year and left my guts out on the field.

Alec Issigonis

My doodles and sketches are not the work of an academic engineer. They represent many years of design study in attempts to produce the best value for money in the field of small car design.