Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian King

Greek week is always an intense competition because they are competing for trophies, but they are mostly competing for bragging rights.

Willie Wilson

It's overblown. It's whoever's hot at the right time. It does give you bragging rights, but you'd better be ready at the end.

Nathan Brookwood

Sun, for at least two weeks, had bragging rights about that.

Tim Hares

It's important winning the county meet. You have bragging rights for a year. The kids all hang out in Marquette County. It was a nice experience for them.

Johannes Ullrich

It used to be teenagers looking for bragging rights. Now it's done for profit.

Bobby Januska

It (the GMCT) is about bragging rights. (South Plainfield) has a lot to brag about.

Arnold Alpert

It's bragging rights in your hometown. Who doesn't want to be the guy to go to 7-Eleven and be able to say they're the king of the town?

Mark Rechtin

It was not something he would have bragged about, he was not a bragging man. He always thought that he should contribute to the greater good. It wasn't his role in life to be a star like today's celebrity CEOs.

Jeff Ross

It's always a good rivalry. They all went to grammar school with each other. It's not just bragging rights for the season. They'll be kidding each other forever.

Ken Hill

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

Charles Warren

I was like, 'Wow,' something's going on here, ... Something good is about to happen.

Ramon Hernandez

I was looking for a fastball. I got it on the good part of the bat. It went where no one could get it.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Buck Showalter

Kenny was effective. They've seen Kenny so much. They hit some good pitches for hits. He bent, but he didn't break.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

John Crumbley

(Key West) had a tough week this week, but (starting pitcher Daniel) Foltz pitched a good game. It was good to be in this type of pressure situation.

Paul Wood

Kim is a real good person to have on the team because she is fun, but also knows when to take it serious, ... Leshia will play between the midfield and the attack. She is like a new player for us. We hope she can come back healthy.

Morris Gleitzman

Kids who are nine, 10 and 11 are pretty sophisticated readers; they know that there isn't always a good outcome every time and that problems don't always have solutions.

Joan Didion

I never actually learned the rules of grammar, relying instead only on what sounded right.

Stephen King

American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar, but it has its own scruffy charm.

Horace

Grammatici certant et adhuc sub iudice lis est. - Grammarians dispute, and the case it still before the courts.

H. Hart

I'm not in a kidding mood about kicking, quite candidly. That's something that has to be addressed and it will be.

Kevin Towers

We're kidding ourselves if we say this problem is not happening. Look at the before and after shots, at the size of some of these players from the '90s to now. It's a joke.

Michael Turner

I wanted that TD. I didn't know it was going to open up that much. L.T. was kidding me about having a monkey on my back.

Tom Maher

We're 10th in the world, but I want to win a medal. People say I'm kidding myself, but I'm not.

Larry Stevens

Are you kidding me? ... We feel we let them win the championship.

Jim Walters

Are you kidding me? Oh, man. I'm No. 126.

Chloe Dao

Are you kidding me? No way... oh my god, thank you.

Charles Barkley

Are you kidding me? It's a four-day party in Houston, and life doesn't get much better than that.

Kevin Hall

Dude, are you totally kidding me? My first PGA tournament is THIS WEEK?

Margaret Williams

I think that the smoker has just as much rights as the non-smoker.

William Perry

The rivalry is huge between South Carolina and Clemson. It's major bragging rights; one of the most intense things I've been a part of.

Robert E. Lee

I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings. And have never seen the day when I did not pray for them.

Ryan Miller

Mutual respect among everyone for one another and for one another's rights is an absolute prerequisite for peace.

Romeo Dallaire

Now is the time to take up the cause of the advancement of human rights for all and the moment is yours to grasp.

Reinhold Niebuhr

While it is possible for intelligence to increase the range of benevolent impulse, and thus prompt a human being to consider the needs and rights of other than those to whom he is bound by organic and physical relationship, there are definite limits in the capacity of ordinary mortals which makes it impossible for them to grant to others what they claim for themselves.

William Jennings Bryan

As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.

Westbrook Pegler

Did I say "republic?" By God, yes, I said "republic!" Long live the glorious republic of the United States of America. Damn democracy. It is a fraudulent term used, often by ignorant persons but no less often by intellectual fakers, to describe an infamous mixture of socialism, graft, confiscation of property and denial of personal rights to individuals whose virtuous principles make them offensive.

Richard M. Nixon

It's long been common practice among many to draw a distinction between "human rights" and "property rights," suggesting that the two are separate and unequal - with "property rights" second to "human rights."

Teju Cole

Never say 'I went to Harvard.' Say 'I schooled in the Boston area.'

Jessica Pare

I was a drama-class nerd. I did whatever school production we put on.

Julie Brown

I was always trying to do things to make school fun.

Richard Madden

I was at a rough high school where admitting you were an actor didn't go down well.

Jan Murphy

I think we've done just about everything that can be done on a school vacation.

Ron Messick

Lauren's so big as a player. A lot of schools are starting to take notice.

Gia Coppola

I went to a private all-girls school where I didn't feel I fit in.

Tom Stoppard

I went to an English school and was brought up in English. So I don't feel Czech.

Grant Achatz

I was a completely below-average high school student. I never went to college.