Famous Quotes & Sayings

Noah Hawley

Greatness and fiasco is the same. You're reaching for something just out of your grasp, and if you get it, it's great, and if you don't, it's a disaster.

Ellen Taylor

Obviously it was a total fiasco of lack of response. He was given warning. He knew the levees were going to break.

Jim Almarode

We got back on track after the fiasco down at Fort Tuesday night. Jason did good job for us on the mound. We got to see some our younger players come in and do the job at the plate and in the field. Maybe this win will get us pointed back in the right direction.

P. Herbert

The fiasco in Iraq and the president's response to the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe were Mr. Bush's two most spectacular foul-ups.

Cameron Crowe

Not that I took it as a fiasco at the time, but no one saw 'Almost Famous' in the theaters,

Dane Bradshaw

We've all just learned so much from (Pearl), and we're a reflection of him on the court. He's working just as hard as we are on the sidelines, and we're just very fortunate to have him as well as the rest of his staff. It really has become a perfect fit, and I'm very happy for the seniors that they're able to have this success under him in their last year.

Avery Johnson

We struggled to guard Yao in the first half, but we made some adjustments and were much more physical in the second half. We were fortunate enough to hold him down then.

Geno Auriemma

We're incredibly fortunate (to still be playing), and we're going to make the most of it.

Carlos Fuentes

I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.

Charles de Gaulle

It's better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.

Bill Wyman

I'm not an upfront person. Being upfront is not my forte. I'm quite happy to stay in the back there with the drums, where I belong.

Belle Boyd

Fortune has played me a sad trick by letting me live on and on.

Brian DeJong

We're going to have to be ready. We'll have to play smart ... that's been our forte the whole year, to play smart, play intelligent and to be there in the end.

John Carney

We feel an obligation to the people of the Gulf Coast, ... We're representing the fortitude and perseverance and strength of those people who are trying to piece their lives back together.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye. But I gotta make the first move 'cause if I don't you're gonna start hating me.

Chinua Achebe

I don't want to be the one to tell somebody, You will not make it, even though I know that the majority of those who come to me with their manuscripts are not really good enough.

China Mieville

In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye.

Edith Wharton

There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart you knew. I have kept her with me all this time, but now we are going to part, and I have brought her back to you - I am going to leave her here. When I go out presently she will not go with me. I shall like to think that she has stayed with you.

Daymond John

Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.

David Hyde Pierce

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

David Icke

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

Ben Whishaw

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

Charlaine Harris

Jason's favorite person in the entire universe was Jason Stackhouse.

Brian Sabean

The more you see of the old Jason Schmidt, the more you want to sign him. We need him to get through 200 innings.

Larry Bowa

A lot of guys, if you say to them, 'Hey, you could work on this or that,' they'll look at you and tell you that you're crazy. Jason isn't like that.

Pat Walker

This is what Jason does. He wants to thank everyone else.

Andrew Friedman

We think Jason is going to be a big part of our future.

Deion Sanders

Jason Witten will go down as one of the best tight ends in history.

Alison Brie

I love Jason Bateman. He's so funny.

Rick Riordan

Please excuse Jason from eternal damnation. He has had amnesia.

Mark Shapiro

I don't think he showed us the true Jason Dubois when we got him. I'd like to think this is the real guy, but the truth is he's probably somewhere in between.

Alan Rickman

With the best intentions, the job of acting can become a display of accumulated bad habits, trapped instincts and blocked energies. Working with the Alexander Technique has given me sightings of another way... Mind and body, work and life together. Real imaginative freedom...

Alan Greenspan

At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock, wage-skill differentials would be stable, and the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.

Alan Chambers

I think we've made it a golden idol. I think we in the church have treated it differently than we've treated anything else. We've made it bigger; the resolution for this needs to be bigger than for other people. I think we have to do a better job than we've done. So I do think there is, people rush to judgment and rush to clarify their point on this issue in ways that they don't' rush to judgment and to clarity on other issues.

Al Roker

Never give up your day job. I do all sorts of things, but at the end of the day, it all boils down to The Today Show, and I love doing this thing, and they will have to blow me out of here with dynamite before I leave.

Al Jardine

I'm pretty satisfied with how 'Postcard' turned out. I think everybody did a great job.

Akio Morita

We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.

Akio Morita

I consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with because at Sony we know that a terrific idea is more likely to happen in an open, free and trusting atmosphere than when everything is calculated, every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.

Akio Morita

Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly; that may be the most important job management has in dealing with its engineers.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

I cannot recall, in any of my reading, a single instance of a prophet who applied for the job.

Madeleine Stowe

As we were leaving the Huron camp, it was awkward filming. I think that the Huron watching us was there to create tension - maybe we wouldn't get out. Nothing complicated.

Jane Levy

All over the world, maybe besides literature, there's nothing that touches many people as movies do. People see them everywhere.

Mark Richt

about as pretty as I've seen. Maybe we should do that more often.

Juan Felipe Herrera

The more we engage in society, the more firsts we have, then there will be a moment when we have no more firsts. Or maybe there will always be new firsts.

Sheryl Skolnick

It seems to be of some concern. Maybe you don't need the headache.

David Lipe

They played well. Maybe this will give those two some confidence.

Sean McCarthy

They should be very proud of what they've done. Maybe not satisfied, but proud.

Nancy Mitchell

This happened, so maybe something else can happen.

Ron Rivera

They thought they were better than we were and in some instances, some positions, maybe they were better.

Xiaodong Song

We're talking about 50,000 times that of plate tectonic motion.

Jerry Angelo

We've got as lot of plates in the air.

Tracey Emin

Women, at 50, are on a plateau with their careers, but later they ascend.

Randy Johnson

Everything I threw over the plate they hit.

Gabriel Lippmann

I got quite good results from protein plates.

Tom McKenna

He stepped up to the plate and took this like a man.

Jeff Flowers

We just couldn't get it done at the plate today.

Rusty Wallace

When I took the plate off, I went 'Holy (smoke), you don't want to do this,'

Keith Baird

It's not an earthquake, it's more of a plate shift,

Brett Favre

I, most talented players don't always succeed. Some don't even make the team. It's more what's inside.

Lindsay Davenport

It seems like the top players are really stepping up and have been getting through with relative ease,

Mike Fisher

A lot of our top players are out right now and we haven't been able to find a way to score.

John Osborn

A lot of my players from Hancock who live in Santa Barbara,

Carlo Ancelotti

This continual rotation of players is very important to make everyone feel useful.

Gerard Gallant

They (the fans) are disappointed. I am disappointed and our players are disappointed.

Michael Chang

It's not that easy for some of these players in China to get the coaching they need.

Avery Johnson

It's the way we play. More than assists, we want to make sure our players move. We're really a different team.

Hiroyuki Nakai

The yen's rise and uncertainty over possible (dollar-supporting) intervention made players take a wait-and-see stance.

Pete Carroll

This is the time of year that we've pointed toward. It's happened, and it's at the Rose Bowl, and it just can't get any better for the USC Trojans.

Craig Bruce

It pointed out to me that there was a problem.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Some are very hostile if mistakes are pointed out. I'm not. If I make a mistake, I make a mistake.

Joe Jamail

It has been pointed out to me, more than once, that for someone who chose a profession steeped in procedure and protocol, I had little use for either.

Richard Carmona

It should be pointed out that we are a week out, and so far, so good,

Daniel Yergin

This has been pointed out ... even in thrillers.

Carl Lewis

I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.

Carl Jung

But India did not pass me by without a trace: it left tracks which lead me from one infinity to another infinity.

Ed Helms

So long as your desire to explore is greater than your desire to not screw up, you're on the right track.

Edwin Moses

The joint lubrication was not what it was when I was competing, and I decided that not having arthritis or rheumatism for the rest of my life was a lot more important to me than returning to the track.

Arthur Conan Doyle

The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.

Bob Seger

I was a runner, a failed quarterback, third-string quarterback, but in track I was a 2-miler.

Bill Kurtis

You need a very good financial person to keep you honest, and to keep track of income and outgo.

Jeff Hawkins

This is a better way for us to keep track

David Mitchell

But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters.

Denis Norden

Dictum on television scripts: We don't want it good - we want it Tuesday.

Dick Cheney

I'm up in the Senate most Tuesdays when they're in session.

Charles Krauthammer

Tuesday's victory was big. But it did nothing more than level the playing field and give you a shot. Take it.

Nicholas Sparks

They got here on a Sunday, ... And by Tuesday we had them in a new house.

Devon Sawa

For instance, when I go to the premiere on Tuesday I probably won't watch the film at all - I'll be watching the audience just to see their reaction to different moments, what I'm doing right and what I'm doing wrong, stuff like that.

Amy Poehler

In the trial of Saddam Hussein on Tuesday, witnesses emotionally testified about the abuse the former dictator inflicted on them. Afterward, a tearful Saddam said, 'Ah, good times.'

A. A. Milne

On Tuesday, when it hails and snows, The feeling on me grows and grows That hardly anybody knows If those are these or these are those.

A. A. Milne

You can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count.

Tom Stoppard

If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life.

Charles Caleb Colton

If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.

Charles Dickens

One disagreeable result of whispering is that it seems to evoke an atmosphere of silence, haunted by the ghosts of sound - strange cracks and tickings, the rustling of garments that have no substance in them, and the tread of dreadful feet that would leave no mark on the sea-sand or the winter snow.

Charles Dickens

The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution.

Charles Dickens

The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.

Charles Dickens

"It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. "It was the salmon."

Charles Spurgeon

You will win as many souls as God gives you, but no one will be converted by your own power.

Charles Spurgeon

The diver plunges deep to find pearls, and we must accept any labor or hazard to win a soul

Charles Spurgeon

The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win

Charles Spurgeon

Our great object of glorifying God is to be mainly achieved by the winning of souls Do not close a single sermon without addressing the ungodly.

James Garner

There are younger directors, and anybody over 30 is ancient to them, because they're not that old.

Liam Hemsworth

As the younger brother, I think you always have crushes on your older brother's girlfriends.

Daisy Ridley

Carey Mulligan and Felicity Jones are two of my favorites. I'm not so much younger than them. I like that. It's kind of aspirational.

Chris Evert

I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people.

Martin Parr

I like to keep in touch with younger photographers. It's important that a younger generation comes up and questions the assumptions made by old farts like me.

Margaret Spellings

I'm encouraged... we're on the right track, especially with younger students,

Ian Mckellen

It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.

Larry Brown

I wanted to play some of the younger kids. I didn't think there was a way we were going to get back in that ballgame, the way it was going.

Ruth Rendell

I've done the big 12-city tours, and I'm never going to do that again - never. I was younger then. It wears you out, you know.