Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Frost

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

Santiago Ramón

As long as our brain is a mystery, the universe, the reflection of the structure of the brain will also be a mystery.

Chuck Hogan

Anything you can do to stay organized and free up the creative side of your brain is a good thing.

Heather Janik

I've been racking my brain on this (issue).

Thomas Insel

These are urgent questions because we're talking about a lot of children and a tremendously disabling brain disease, which really robs a child and a family of the personhood of this child.

Brian Billick

So I hear they call you 'The Freak' Wow, that's quite a coincidence. They call me 'The Brain.'

Jane Bryant Quinn

Life insurance can be numbingly complicated. Clients often turn off their brains and surrender their judgment to the very agent or planner who brought on their coma in the first place.

Bruce Barton

If you want to know if your brain is flabby, feel your legs.

Edsger Dijkstra

Programming in Basic causes brain damage.

Marco Coleman

As far as health, that's just a blessing. There's just so much that's out of your control, that you don't know how it's going to go. Really, you've just got to be really fortunate. You've got to be lucky.

Brian Evans

A late-model Chevrolet truck discharged a firearm into the truck, striking (Morales), forcing (Morales) to lose control of his vehicle and wreck.

W. S. Gilbert

The mistake we had made was trying to control everything.

Benji Sonnichsen

We're just trying to focus on the things we can control and get better every day.

Shari Walling

We were disappointed we didn't place higher, but you can't control how other people swim. It's surprising when you qualify in 10 of the 11 events and not to place higher.

Richard Syron

We shall take the necessary steps to upgrade our control and financial reporting infrastructure to meet our regulatory and reporting commitments.

Mark Ellis

Even as a young guy, he takes control. That's his infield out there, and that's the way it should be.

Doug Miller

Being young, sometimes you don't know how to control your emotions. He'll mature. I'd take him on my team any time.

Patrick McGurn

Boards, frankly, are just getting up to speed in many instances on what they've done in the past and are really just starting to exhibit some control over the pay practices. It's going to be a gradual process.

Tom Harkin

I've said time and time again, there is little risk of BSE in U.S. beef, but it is obvious that we have not yet convinced key trading partners of that.

Greg Gardner

We met with family members of the suspect and convinced the family members, when they heard from their son to have him turn himself in.

Jack Paradise

To many doctors this will come as a surprise because it's been a matter of some controversy and speculation and some doctors are convinced it's a problem,

Joe Maloof

We just talked to him on the phone. He told us he's excited to come to Sacramento, and just hearing him say that, we were convinced he was sincere.

Amelie Mauresmo

We have a very strong squad and I'm convinced I'm not the only one able to win a singles. We have won many ties despite injury worries.

Bobby Frankel

I'm still not convinced he can get a mile and a quarter.

Pablo Picasso

Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He recopies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He's convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

Charles Kennedy

Like John Major in her wake, Thatcher was convinced that she understood the Scots - yet couldn't understand why we remained so stubbornly resistant towards the notion of understanding her.

Roberto Heras

I was very surprised ... I am convinced it is a mistake because I have never taken anything.

Peter Cameron

As long as I've got my eyesight I'm not going to stop.

David Morris

The temptation is to pick the eyes out of the wines to make a great wine, a trophy-winning wine,

Unknown

The soul that can speak with its eyes can also kiss with a gaze.

Richard Natonski

I wanted to come out here to look you in the eyes to tell you that this is a good aircraft,

Matt Damon

a fairy tale about the guys who wrote fairy tales as seen through the eyes of Terry Gilliam in a wild fantasy world only he could create.

Mike Gillespie

The one thing that he has done is pitch consistently. It's not overpowering, knock-your-eyes-out kind of stuff, but it's good stuff and he throws strikes. He doesn't get rattled or become afraid, you kind of know what you're getting.

Patrick Walsh

After all we went through this summer, all we wanted was the'05 season to get started. I had tears in my eyes when I walked on to the field tonight thinking about all we went through. We could have lost by 700 points, but at least the'05 season had started.

George Annas

Once you say it's okay to screen for gender, there's nothing that you can say that it's not okay to screen for whether it's eye color, hair color, trivial issues.

Bruce Bochy

Ryan has a good eye and a good on-base percentage.

Rashad Anderson

People say we may lose this tournament because of lapses. It's not happening.

Larry Nicks

Originally, we were going to lose tennis but we're one of two schools with tennis courts. So we may end up with tennis and give up something else.

Carmelo Anthony

You're kind of embarrassed when you lose like that.

Ingrid Seward

The only power they have is by the respect that the people have for them, and if people lose that respect they have nothing.

Bob Hamley

You find out more about people when you lose than you do when you're winning. We're trying to find our identity.

Jay Hakkinen

There's just rules to what you're doing. No matter what's happening, you need to be aware, and if you lose that awareness, you shouldn't have a rifle in your hand.

Luke Donald

I don't think you win or lose this tournament off the tee. I mean, it's all around the greens.

Annie Golden

If you are a singer and you lose your voice, you realize that you have other skill sets when that is taken out of the equation.

Ozzie Guillen

How can you be a choker or a loser when you've won 91 games?

Leroy Foster

The motivation wasn't there. I don't know if it was the layoff, but they just weren't ready to play. The mental mistakes, the turnovers, everything just showed they weren't prepared.

Sam Blank

It was a little different. I think its all about warming up and staying mentally focused.

Tony Russa

That's just the way he pitches. I think it has more to do with him mentally concentrating really well. He hasn't let anything get away from him.

Samuel Butler

Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it.

Greg Smith

We've recently been having problems getting mentally prepared for games. We keep starting out slow. But after halftime, it seems we always come out to play.

Billy Gillispie

We just made so many mental mistakes, and that's embarrassing to me. And that is my fault.

Sherron Collins

We just tried to stay mentally focused. They were trying to get in our heads, but we slowed it down at the end.

Riley Wallace

No excuses. We just have to get better prepared mentally to play. Mentally, we just weren't in the game.

Mac Gifford

She plays to win and she is a very mentally tough person. She just can't stand to lose.

Sheila E.

Don't forget, I was a musician long before I ever met Prince. That's a big difference between me and those other women he's worked with. We operate on the same plane, as equals.

Paul Boyce

We could've met a nobody next but that would've been no use to anyone.

Barney Oliver

Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.

Seth Lloyd

I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the universe is complex.

Scott Snyder

- If I tell you, will you let met go? - You bet, partner. [...] - You promised! - Nope. I said "you bet." You did ... and you lost.

Mike Tyson

Sarah Palin met the wombshifter! Old Sarah and the wombshifter.

Theodore Roosevelt

Constructive change offers the best method for avoiding destructive change.

Deborah Kerr

Personally, I think if a woman hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky.

Maureen Phillips

He was a very gentle, wonderful, kind soul. In 22 years ... I never met a person who didn't like him.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

Johnathon Schaech

People recognize me on the street for all kinds of different things that I've done. 'That Thing You Do' remains to be my favorite film in which I played my favorite character. That role is the one that I'm most recognized for.

Karlos Dansby

People really dont know or they really aint watching, ... Got to give them something to see.

Howard Dvorkin

People spend what's there. If it's not there, they're not going to spend it.

Kevin Spacey

People sometimes have to be reminded, I'm not Frank Underwood. I'm an actor named Kevin Spacey.

John Abraham

People talk about the money, but it had nothing to do with the money,

Lindsey Kildow

As long as I can physically do it, I can suck it up for a minute, 55 seconds.

Daniel Davis

This is a touchy-feely case. This is not an egregious kind of physical contact.

Jerry Hayes

We just shut down as a team, ... They got more physical and we shut down.

Richard P. Feynman

The drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of always teaching techniques, rather than the spirit, of how to go about solving physical problems.

Larry Coker

He put a lot of pressure on, was very physical and I thought he did an outstanding job.

Joe Haldeman

I like the physical action of writing down by hand, and I don't just use it for writing my fiction.

Mark Stoops

We are getting better and more physical and more explosive. That's what we have talked about doing since we got here.

Darcy Wingo

We got off to a terrible start and we never recovered. Amador was very quick and very physical. They didn't press, but it was a very physical game.

Jon Gruden

You'd have to take a big yellow excavator to get me out of here. I'm here for the long haul, unless someone comes and physically removes me.

John Grammer

As coaches, we tell the players to make plays and that's what they did. We made some big plays to win at the end, especially Derek Carver.

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.

David Noel

Big players show up in big times games. That's the type of player he's been all year.

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.

Jim Lawinger

With seven experienced players returning, the road to a championship is a possibility.

Frank Rijkaard

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

English 16th Century Proverbs

A woman and a ship ever want mending.

Kirby Copeland

This proves a lot. We can come out and play with the No. 3 team in the nation.

Steve Mitchell

We're a service industry, what a town does is it proves services. We need to be able to look and see how we are raising revenues to provide these services.

English 16th Century Proverbs

The tongue always returns to the sore tooth.

Tom DeLay

Mr. Earle and his staff know it. And I will prove it.

Joe Davis

He kind of proves that you can still serve long after you take off your uniform.

Jim Mattox

He's been there 30 years, he doesn't have to prove anything to anybody,

Zachary Quinto

I want to be working with directors who are at the top of their game. I want to be raising the bar for myself, and to me, the best way to do that is to prove to them that I'm the best for this job.

Hisayasu Nagata

In the end, I could not prove the authenticity of the information.

Babette March

I never thought I wouldnt succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.

Tony Robbins

There are millions of business ideas out there but only a tiny percentage of businesses succeed.

Ricky Ponting

I was always fiercely determined and driven to succeed.

Margaret Drabble

Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.

Maya Angelou

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

Christian Dior

It is unforgiveable to do what one doesn't love especially if one succeeds.

Greil Marcus

We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail

Roger Ebert

It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.

William Arthur Ward

A success is one who decided to succeed and worked. A failure is one who decided to succeed and wished.