Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Smith

says Stanley Crouch, the writer who long urged Rollins to trust Smith. ''It actually creates a kind of a reevaluation of what we consider musical creativity. When you hear this, these chumps in hip-hop and rock, they're jokes compared to Sonny Rollins.

Dan Hendricks

The Santa Anita Derby and Kentucky Derby are two totally different-run races, with a speed-biased track and short field compared with going back there with a 20-horse field and who knows what the pace scenario will be? This is a big race, a $750,000 Grade I. To win that would be a big deal. The Kentucky Derby is like a one-hand poker game. It's all in with whatever you've got. Whatever comes up comes up.

Jonathan Frakes

Well, there's much more time to do a weekly show, and much more coverage - as it turns out, it was all preparation for the stuff I'm doing now - but it was interesting to see how much time was spent on how little airtime, compared to knocking out a show a day on the soaps.

Gerald Schwartzbach

He was denied a fair jury; he was denied a fair trial. This is a man who, as a result of a tainted jury in this case, is being compared to O.J. Simpson ... We're talking about this man's legacy.

Tomas Berdych

I was surprised about the first two sets because Ivan played different tactics compared to the other two matches he played when he won. But I expected him to play better and even though three match points went I knew it wasn't the end.

Denise Richards

I would be so lucky to be compared to her, ... I could never live up to that, though.

Julia Mancuso

I got my first Olympic race out of the way with the downhill, so my nerves aren't anything compared to that.

Legedu Naanee

If they haven't put up with pressure, the pressure's going to be a whole other element. So we want to put that pressure on them now. ... Gassers are really nothing compared to a loss.

Chris Paterson

I have been here since he started and if you look at the squad now compared to the one he inherited it's markedly different and I think he would say himself that it has taken until now for him to get the squad he wanted.

Pete Asadourian

With hard work and a hard work ethic comes success.

Robert Clarke

We tried very, very hard to make a product which was first morally and ethically correct. To do that, we only work with a person's own blood.

Aleksandar Hemon

Politics is about ethics and morality, openly or not openly.

Swami Vivekananda

Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis.

Tom DeLay

If somebody else doesn't file an ethics charge, I will.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

And so we shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody virtues we can respect, who have moral and ethical principles we can applaud with enthusiasm.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Sir John Templeton: "My ethical principle in the first place was: 'Where could I use my talents that God gave me to help the most people?'"

Larry McKinney

A lot of fishermen are telling us they like things the way they are. They aren't pushing for the change. It's part of the conservation ethic that coastal fishermen have developed.

Deirdre Fedkenheuer

There was nothing in the file. What was in her file said that, 'Her services were no longer required.'There was nothing in there about ethics violations.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Kurt Thomas

As long as I set a good pick and roll, get to the open spot, it's about me knocking down the shot. He knows when to find you.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Don Kloth

Normally, we're a very good free-throw shooting team. But tonight, we weren't.

Dean Wagenaar

Normally we're a good 3-point shooting team but we weren't hitting anything today, so they just plugged up the middle and took Chad's shots away. We panicked a little in the third quarter but the kids held together. Bruce's kids are so disciplined, and they really know how to protect their floor.

Chris Riddell

Do you have hands? Excellent. That's a good start. Can you hold a pencil? Great. If you have a sketchbook, open it and start by making a line, a mark, wherever. Doodle.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

John Brady

Defensively, we've been quite good throughout the tournament, but really we've been quite good defensively this whole year.

Jason Witten

Seeing some of these guys is pretty special. They've done a lot for us, the young players.

Gilles Muller

I see these guys in a different way,

Albert Pujols

This is something I can do for my country. Definitely, I want to participate in this. It's big for me and I'm pretty sure that's the same way a lot of guys look at it.

Chris Ault

That Virden keeps showing up. He has done a very nice job. He might be the most improved secondary guy we have got.

Brandon Sanderson

What wasdat, sir? What wazzat sir? What wassat, sir?” “Wayne, what are you babbling about?” Waxillium asked. “Practicing my pretzel guy,” Wayne said. “He had a great accent...” Waxillium glanced at him. "That hat looks ridiculous.” “Fortunately, I can change hats,” Wayne said in the pretzel-guy accent, “while you, sir, are stuck with that face.

Charles Barkley

If Michael Jordan was a damn plumber, he couldn't get a date. Any guy got $500 million looks good.

Craig Counsell

There are plenty of guys who have this, who are playing through it. There is no reason I can't be another one of them.

Damon Lindelof

If you're the guy who basically shows up with coal at the locomotive, they will put it in the train. Like, they won't even assess whatever or not it's good coal.Just throw it in there.

Bret McKenzie

Now it looks like I'll be known as the musical comedy guy. Which is good news for me. Or I'll be known as the New Zealand idiot.

Lauren Fine

Rather than meeting the chef, we heard more from the CFO and even had a review of the financials.

Craig Sher

Sometimes the vocal minority is heard over the silent majority.

John Fossum

I've never heard of a situation like this before,

Kalle Palander

I skied like a pussy cat. I didn't take any risks because I heard that Rocca had skied out.

Scott Owens

When I heard this morning, I said 'What?

Ian Hunter

When I heard him, I thought, if he can do that and get away with it, I can do it too. (on Sonny Bono)

Steve Clark

To be honest, I never even thought of it or heard of it.

Kyle Lowry

You heard about it all the time. It was always sold out in here so I couldn't get tickets.

Jan Egeland

We have not heard of any tsunami hitting anywhere.

Ben Nicholas

Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

Babe Ruth

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

Ashley Smith

Live life messy and love every moment of it.

Baruch Spinoza

If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than if he had never loved it, and his hatred will be in proportion to the strength of his former love.

Barbara Sher

Isolation is a dream killer.

Barbara Sher

I believe you can have whatever you really want in this life, in one form or another, sooner or later. All you have to do is take care of your health and be lucky enough to live for a while. But you can't have it all at once and you can't have it forever. No life has the room for everything in it, not on the same day.

Arthur Miller

I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it.

Arthur Miller

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

Arthur Ashe

You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.

Arthur Adamov

What is there? I know first of all that I am. But who am I? All I know of myself is that I suffer. And if I suffer it is because at the origin of myself there is mutilation, separation. I am separated. What I am separated from -- I cannot name it. But I am separated.

Jamie Farr

It makes you famous, you get money from it, you go on and do the best you can, but it really is dreadful that people don't know your name.

Asa Gray

This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which has become familiar, that of protoplasm.

Brie Larson

I have a sister and her name is Mimsy, like from 'Alice in Wonderland,' so we've got some strange names in our family.

Aphra Behn

Dear me no Dears, Sir ...

Ben Hecht

In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.

Eliphas Levi

What is more absurd and more impious than to attribute the name of Lucifer to the devil, that is, to personified evil. The intellectual Lucifer is the spirit of intelligence and love; it is the paraclete, it is the Holy Spirit, while the physical Lucifer is the great agent of universal magnetism.

Clive Barker

A soul of water a soul of stone. A soul by name a soul unknown. The hours unmake our flesh our bone. The Soul is all and all alone!

Ansel Elgort

If you don't know my name and you don't know what movie I'm from, don't come ask for a picture while I'm trying to eat chipotle

Cheryl Burnett

Purdue has some players that, in the time of need, are really going to step up and want the basketball.

Rick Barnes

I've never seen players take so much pride in their schoolwork.

Pete Hald

I've never had three players at the same time who can score like they do.

Joe Legerski

We've had a lot of different players step up for us (in the post).

Jerry Angelo

To get valued players you have to be willing to give value.

Frank Rijkaard

This was a big result for the players and the club.

Zeke Moreno

L.T. is fast. It takes 11 players to stop him. If 11 players are on the same page, then it's cool. But it's going to be very hard.

Mark Cooper

My players should feel embarrassed, especially the seniors.

Rich Rodriguez

Most of our players have never been in there before.

Dr. Wielgosz

It is as simple as putting a measuring tape around the waist. That will give an indication.

Cynthia Nixon

I'd do a show about garbagemen if it was good!

Anthony Jeselnik

I never knew if I would get my own show, but I knew I loved stand-up.

Alice Barrett

But this is called show business, not show family.

Veronica Roth

Come on,'he says.' I have something else to show you.

Tommy Tune

I like a show to unfold and keep presenting itself, surprising you.

Pete Carroll

If anything, it shows that we can finish.

Douglas Muzzio

But, ... he shows no inclination of doing anything like that.

Patrick Campanelli

I think the videotape impeaches her on that issue. I think, in fact, the videotape shows that she's lying.

Robert Bennett

That doesn't right all wrongs. I didn't say it did, but it shows we're trying to set this correct, and trying to do the right thing.

Chris McAlister

No sacks, no turnovers. That's not our type of football.

Craig Ferguson

In the 1970s vampires were pretty boring. The scariest vampire was Count Chocula. One bite of Count Chocula and you were cursed with Type 2 diabetes.

Abdallah II of Jordan

I'm not the type of person that is forced.

Ryan Kavanaugh

To me, an Oscar movie has to have some type of emotional pull.

Allen Ginsberg

The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!

Alex Haley

But then, as far as I know, as far as I've studied or heard or picked up, it seems that this type of thing is a curse against mankind.

E. M. Forster

There has been, is, and always will be every conceivable type of person.

David Bailey

I'm never shocked, I'm not the shockable type!

Dave Attell

I'm not like a performer type.

P. J. O'Rourke

We all know the types who listen to Pete Seeger songs; even Pete admits they aren't interesting.

Kristin Baker

I've matured. I think I work better with the team.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Amanda Hale

I've come to realise I work so much better when I'm going by instinct.

Luis Castillo

This is terrible. Very disappointing. I've got to get back out there. There's so many things I have to work on.

Bryson Sumlin

That's not in the playbook, ... That's just excitement. Everything worked as clockwork.

Jane Fonda

The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

Kathryn Harrison

I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.

Julia Glass

The old adage is, 'Write what you know.' But if you only do that, your work becomes claustrophobic. I say, 'Write what you want to know.'