Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Jenkins

Historians tell us that a gentleman named John Ball once captured eight British Amateur titles.

Susan Harris

We Three Apples, we try to cater to a range of people in the storytelling community - from the listener to the amateur to the professional.

Jacob Ruppert

I was always interested in baseball. In fact, in my younger years, I played it in an amateur way. But up to the time when I became identified with the Yankees, I was a strong National League rooter.

Scott Simon

I am a product of technology. We now have cameras available to the consumer that were of the same caliber in observatories only 10 years ago, ... Now amateurs can have a camera aperture unheard of 10, 20 years ago. An amateur can now do what scientists were doing five years ago.

Jim Hendry

He will have one of the most important jobs in our organization. He'll have complete autonomy in the amateur draft.

John Gardner

He has had phenomenal impact on amateur hockey.

Jeffrey Jacobs

He made a style of telescopes that became the standard for amateur astronomers big and cheap. Before that, they were expensive and small. That was an enormous contribution, and he challenges people with telescopes to share them with others who don't.

Andre Seymour

Our boxers need technical support and we need the technical coaches who work them to travel with the national teams. They will be of great assistance to our national teams. Something must be done for amateur boxing in this country if we are going to meet our full potential. We need international help. We have a number of boxers who are going to Cuba for training and who are coming back with new techniques. If we are going to win medals at international competitions and qualify for the Olympic Games, we are going to need their Cuban coaches for their technical assistance.

Saul Rubinek

In the theatre, as anyone knows who's even done amateur theatre all their lives, you immediately find a family there. Because you're under stress, you're trying to create something, you're putting on a show, you find brothers and sisters right away.

Joanna Lumley

I was involved with the landmines before the Princess of Wales, and nobody gave a damn about people losing their limbs. It only became a success when she came along.

Dan Brown

I was already writing 'The Lost Symbol' when I started to realize 'The Da Vinci Code' would be big. The thing that happened to me and must happen to any writer who's had success is that I temporarily became very self-aware.

Frank Bruno

Just recently I got a request for a proclamation in Volusia County for a gentleman that became 80 years old, ... That is not appropriate because you are proclaiming the day because that person is 80 years old. So I sent a letter instead.

Mark Badgley

I think it just became too formula, ... Everybody looked the same. Certainly women have to dress very practically by day now, so I think they really love the idea of indulging themselves in dressing up for night.

Randy Levine

I think it became obviously clear that no matter under what analysis, this deal is a good deal for taxpayers.

Zulima Farber

I think it became a big case only because of the names involved. I think it would have been a routine -- if there is such a thing -- illegal gambling case if it wasn't for the names of those people involved. However, because there was a trooper involved, it was big to us.

Courtney Pratt

It became pretty clear we weren't going to get any kind of wage concessions from our labour union,

Gordon Huether

It became pretty clear to me the place to expand it was where the population is.

Ryan Dempster

It became one of those things out of necessity that I wanted to give it a shot and thought I could do a good job of it, ... I went down there and committed myself to doing it. I haven't really thought about starting because of it. I just went down there and said, 'This is what I'm going to try to do and do the best I can with it.'

Sena Lund

I think it's a decent choice, and with the challenges Merck faces, they needed someone who knows the company and knows the environment,

Wade Henderson

He listened carefully, he listened thoughtfully. He did not respond to challenges or views that were presented. I do think he felt this should be a vote of conscience and I think in the end he voted his conscience, and I think at the end of the day that speaks volumes about his leadership.

Lynn Solomon

Have fun, work hard be safe. And realize the difference between hating a class because it challenges you and hating a class because you just don't like it.

Al Gore

I think that part of the message from the election last night was get on with that agenda, focus on the challenges that are confronting the people of the United States of America, ... And I hope and expect that the Congress will hear that message.

Jim Rogers

We've got to solve some of the financial challenges for these students. I can't see any other way to do it but scholarships.

Goran Persson

We, the leaders of the world, have for three days discussed how the United Nations can be strengthened to meet the challenges of the 21st century,

Thomas Foley

It gives a good sense of the challenges and the risks.

Kathryn Stockett

Down in the national news section, there's an article on a new pill, the 'Valium' they're calling it, 'to help women cope with everyday challenges.' God, I could use about ten of those little pills right now.

Two Chainz

I want to challenge myself, challenge my styles.

Mark Stephens

He knew this was a judgment that would be of enormous interest. So I think he's playing to people who like intrigue.

Gerry Adams

I think that opens up an enormous opportunity for all of us but also presents a huge challenge.

John Calvert

ID is making enormous progress. Is it going to happen overnight? No. Is it going to happen? Yes.

Peter Douglas

He had an enormous impact on the department. He laid the groundwork for the system we have today.

Richard Dawkins

The evidence for evolution is so compelling that the only way to save the creation theory is to assume that God deliberately planted enormous quantities of evidence to make it look as if evolution had happened.

Ron Chernow

Unless you devote an enormous amount of time to anticipating the future, you won't have any future.

Walter Benjamin

The present, which, as a model of Messianic time, comprises the entire history of mankind in an enormous abridgment, coincides with the stature which the history of mankind has in the universe.

Peter Sorensen

Removing one female lamprey isn't always a terribly valuable exercise. But to prevent a group from spawning, there is enormous payoff there.

Pete Carroll

Reggie has had a great season. He's done everything. Every play he's on the field, he's been an enormous factor.

William Penn

Be rather bountiful, than expensive.

Henry Paulson

In the past, if a homeowner with a mortgage had a problem making the payment, often he'd get together with a lender and strike a deal, because foreclosures are very expensive to the lender and obviously not good for the homeowner and the community.

Louise Driver

I really think it will work well because the most expensive thing on the list is $4.50. So, if you felt you wanted to order, but didn't want to spend a lot, you could.

Nicholas Perna

This is more expensive than most of the rest of the state.

Roger Wagner

A nursing program is an expensive proposition to start and we'll be looking for help. It will take about $45,000 each year for three years.

Cedric Garland

It may be hard to find and expensive to find it, but you want to take vitamin D-3.

John Jadrosich

It's going to be expensive and take thousands of dollars.

Ronda Storms

It's going to be more expensive and more layers of bureaucracy.

Todd Duncan

It's going to be a long and expensive process that will require a lot of reframing and reconstruction to make it work,

Ed Abner

Others had contacted her, but these were the two others she seriously considered.

Austin Wilson

I now what the same sense of security and safety that I used to preach to others about.

Kevin Hayashi

I haven't played that well in that tournament. And other times, others have played well. It's one I'd really like to win because it's the only 72-hole tournament we have.

Martti Ahtisaari

I know what it's like when you are a refugee, living on the mercy of others and having to adjust.

Steve McCausland

It's unclear why the two others didn't jump.

Heather Dougherty

Then, once someone dangled it, others had to ante up.

Judd Nelson

I put less stock in others' opinions than my own. No one else's opinions could derail me

Connie Higgins

All others will receive non-partisan ballots, so they don't get to vote on partisan offices.

Luis Gutierrez

They may remove us, but there will be many others to follow,

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

H. Hunt

He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.

John Keker

He could kibbutz at most. He didn't run China. Other people did.

Joan Smith

There are so many goodies to look at. We share because it is so rich, but it is very good.

Brian Billick

I think that's a quarterback trying to take on his share of responsibility,

Tyler Perry

When it all comes down to it, life isn't about how much we get - it's about how much we share.

Will Smith

I have a great time with my life, and I wanna share it.

Warren Buffett

We have learned to turn out lots of goods and services, but we haven't learned as well how to have everybody share in the bounty. The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.

Robert Louis Stevenson

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.

Yehuda Berg

Share love. Share time. Share friendship. Just share. Put some love into everything you do.

Bob Chernecki

The corporation ... didn't want to share it with the workers.

Alice Stewart

They called the Hogs. They shared stories about their time there.

Robin Williams

As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.

Maggie Lynch

It's pretty standard throughout the country. And we don't give them to families, like they do in New York.

Frank Lloyd Wright

We boast the highest standard of living when it's only the biggest.

Alan Bennett

Of course my standards are out of date! That's why they're called standards.

Scott Fosgard

Collaborating, we could set the standards for this type of technology.

Arlen Specter

The standard is to do it right, not to do it fast,

Joan Claybrook

These standards are written for Detroit, by Detroit.

Jennifer Duffy

They all talked about it. It was a standard part of their pitch.

George Whitehouse

These are standard technologies and can be done securely.

Alex Villalobos

I think that if we play our style and do what we have to do and make them play our game, we'll be OK.

Ronnie Brewer

We've got to play our style of basketball. (Being physical) is not our style of basketball.

Richard Whately

Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.

Richard Whately

The first requisite of style, not only in rhetoric, but in all compositions, is perspicuity.

Toyo Ito

I will never fix my architectural style and never be satisfied with my works.

Woodrow Wilson

I must beg you to indulge me in the matter of hyphens.... You will find that I have marked out a great many in the proofs. We arein danger of Germanizing our printing by using them so much, and I have a very decided preference in the matter.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning also.

Wallace Stevens

A change of style is a change of meaning.

Vinnie Vincent

I agree with you about the music of today. It lacks style and emotion.

Joseph Campbell

It is not only that there is no hiding place for the gods from the searching telescope and microscope; there is no such society any more as the gods once supported.

Edsger Dijkstra

Computer science has as much to do with computers as astronomy has to do with telescopes.

Stanislav Grof

LSD is a catalyst or amplifier of mental processes. If properly used it could become something like the microscope or telescope of psychiatry.

John Wagner

Thanks to the invention of the telescope, planets that are 100 billion miles away look to be only 50 billion miles away.

J. D. Salinger

It happens to be one of those days when I see everybody in the family, including myself, through the wrong end of a telescope.

David Willetts

Looking at scientific inquiry, next paradigm will be based on very large datasets. Scientists are in the lead in handling very large datasets - Hubble telescope or Large Hadron Collider are massive datasets.