Famous Quotes & Sayings

Twyla Tharp

My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the world.'

Twyla Tharp

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Custard is controversial: what makes it a custard, how best to cook it and, crucially, is it to be eaten or put in a pie and thrown?

Yani Tseng

It's very easy when you have someone in front of you that you can chase. You want to be No. 1 but now I feel like I have to play well because everybody looks at you as a best golfer. So that's why I put more pressure on myself.

Thucydides

We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.

Timothy Noah

There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.

Thomas Friedman

I can see a day soon where you'll create your own college degree by taking the best online courses from the best professors from around the world - some computing from Stanford, some entrepreneurship from Wharton, some ethics from Brandeis, some literature from Edinburgh - paying only the nominal fee for the certificates of completion.

Idina Menzel

I used to take 40 minutes to warm up before going on stage. If you want to spend time with your child as well as having a career, you have to get up there even if your head's a mess. It's made me more relaxed, and I'm having some of my best shows.

Idina Menzel

I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'

Colin O'Donoghue

When I was younger, I was hopefully going to do animation and special effects.

Frank Lampard

I have made lots of mistakes on and off the pitch, and you can only learn from them. If I can get that across, then hopefully I am doing something right.

Steve Jaksa

That would be nice. Obviously that would be tough to do but hopefully someone can step up like J.T. did this weekend.

Mark Zuckerberg

I think Facebook is an online directory for colleges... If I want to get information about you, I just go to TheFacebook, type in your name, and it hopefully pulls up all the information I'd care to know about you.

Ray Winstone

On every job you do, you've got to raise your game. My ambition is to just get better and better every job you do - you should never stop trying to get better. You have to teach yourself new things - I don't think you necessarily learn them from other people because you have your own style of doing things, but hopefully you get better.

Greg Zipadelli

We'll race the way that got us here, and hopefully we can lead some laps, win some races and not make mistakes,

Allan Bristow

Well probably get it up to 18 players. We've got some young players (already on the roster), and hopefully they'll shine and show their potential that they belong.

Brian Barwick

We have the opportunity, if we want, to get the person in place hopefully before the finals.

David Gill

We have the fact we sell out every week to 67,500 and hopefully 75,000 in the future. We have a lot of assets.

Anton Corbijn

Grain is life, there's all this striving for perfection with digital stuff. Striving is fine, but getting there is not great. I want a sense of the human and that is what breathes life into a picture. For me, imperfection is perfection.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Perfection is reachednot when there's nothing to add, but when there's nothing to take away.

Baz Luhrmann

I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.

Megan Fox

I think it's perfectly acceptable not to run with cliques.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

Azzedine Alaia

Perfection is never achieved, so you need to go on working.

William Shakespeare

How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection!

Petrarch

Reality is always the foe of famous names.

James A. Baldwin

Color is not a human or a personal reality it is a political reality.

Dick Armey

Virtually all bad ideas come from universities, bad ideas that only survive when insulated from reality.

Diane Setterfield

I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.

David Brooks

People want reality that tells them how right they are all the time.

David Brooks

If you just rely on one model, you tend to amputate reality to make it fit your model.

David Shields

To me, the moment you're talking about nonfiction you're talking about reality.

David Morrell

A thriller becomes great when it carries a feeling of reality and truth.

David Mitchell

Reality is the page. Life is the word.