Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vaclav Havel

You have no idea how happy I am that you have won the Nobel Prize in literature. I think you absolutely deserve it.

Rudi Giuliani

You learn a great deal when you come close and you do a good job but you lose an election, ... The campaign he's run this time is absolutely terrific, it's right on target.

Mike Woodson

Phenomenal. He was absolutely unstoppable tonight. It was a real fun game, going back and forth like it did. We were just the better team tonight. Our young guys are starting to grow up.

Claude LeRoy

If they are not paid, they will not play the quarter-final. That's absolutely sure, absolutely certain.

Sharon Scott

She's unbelievable. Our people absolutely love her. Everybody knows who Argent Mortgage is now.

Bruce Allen

Oh yes. He's a good teammate. I think it worked out well for both. He's absolutely interested in returning.

Adam Linkenauger

Some of my family and friends that have never even seen me jump before are going to be there. I'm absolutely thrilled.

Ed Simnett

SIMPLE is not a mature protocol at this point, so we've taken a snapshot and implemented against that. As we make subsequent releases, we will be looking to make sure we are absolutely compliant to the standard.

Martin Van Creveld

Since 2006, when the Second Lebanon War killed perhaps 2,000 Lebanese, many of them civilians, and led to the destruction of an entire section of Beirut, the northern border has been absolutely quiet.

Shaun Pollock

To protect a defeat and still go down 1-0 in the series is pointless. We've got to give ourselves a chance to win.

Albert Pujols

It's not how you start the season, it's how you finish. If you wind up helping the team make the playoffs, that's what you play for. You don't play to put up your numbers, but to try to get a chance to make it to the World Series.

Bill Delahunt

This is a chance for me to listen and learn. There's no more important and rewarding part of my job.

Bernard Barton

Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot.

Bruce Pearl

To do special things you need have special players and special performances. Obviously you saw one tonight from Chris Lofton. We did a pretty good job of getting him open and guys did a pretty good job of turning shots down to get him shots because he (Lofton) clearly had a pretty good chance of making what he put up.

Rick Dudley

Todd is known as a very good guy in the locker room and is well known for working with younger players. He has a chance to become one of the veteran leaders of this team and we're going to give him that opportunity.

Steve Richey

We had a hard time handling their big man inside. They got a lot of second chance baskets and that hurt us in the second half.

LeBron James

We wanted to be mentally focused. We didn't want to give Portland a chance to get back in it. We did a great job of closing it out.

Steve Bruce

We've had two opportunities and to give yourself any chance here you have to take one of them and unfortunately for us we didn't.

Shelley Long

It's harder to write two people happy and in love than two people fighting and driving each other crazy.

Steven Adler

You figure that time could heal all wounds, but some people just really hold a crazy grudge.

Ray Bradbury

What are you up to now?" "I'm sill crazy. The rain feels good. I love to walk in it.

Ray Bradbury

Men are nuts. Young men are crazy. We all love toys. I'm toy oriented. I write about toys. I've got a lot of toys. Hundreds of things. But computers are toys, and men like to mess around with smart dumb things. They feel creative.

Ray Bradbury

If you did not write every day, the poisons would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act crazy or both-you must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Ray Bradbury

Sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads.

Ray Bradbury

You learn to live with your crazy enthusiasms which nobody else shares, and then you find a few other nuts like yourself, and they're your friends for a lifetime. That's what friends are, the people who share your crazy outlook and protect you from the world, because nobody else is going to give a damn what you're doing, so you need a few other people like yourself.

Ray Bradbury

Go out and make your own speeches. People need you. Go on TV. It can be done. After you speak up a few times, people say, "Hey, we got a crazy man in the community," and they'll begin talking to you.

Ray Bradbury

You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.

Stephen Covey

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Stendhal

The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.

Stendhal

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

Stanislav Grof

LSD is a unique and powerful tool for the exploration of the human mind and human nature. Psychedelic experiences mediate access to deep realms of the psyche that have not yet been discovered and acknowledged by mainstream psychology and psychiatry. They also reveal new possibilities and mechanisms of therapeutic change and personality transformation.

Stanislav Grof

There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a universal phenomenon.

Spike Lee

As we move toward the millennium, the year 2000, the most powerful nations are not those that have nuclear bombs, but those that control the media. That's where the battle is being fought; that is how you control people's minds.

Spike Lee

I think black people have to be in control of their own image because film is a powerful medium. We can't just sit back and let other people define our existence.

Simon Cowell

If I had to say who is the number-one most powerful figure is in reality TV, it's very easy. It is the general public. They're the only people who have power now.

Sigourney Weaver

I actually think the reason I am interested in certain parts is because I was such a dweeb in high school. When you are such a loser, it's a helpful way in to a lot of characters because even very powerful people are not all that powerful really. They all had a high school. That vulnerability is completely permanent and, as an actor, it's a good thing.