Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sam Allardyce

Kevin has led the team with passion and professionalism. Each week he gives you everything and he has the ability to be a top player for years to come. One of his main attributes is his ability to score goals on a regular basis. If he continues to progress, he'll go close to earning a seat on the plane to Germany in June.

Michael Nathanson

I would not underestimate their ability to market this franchise, ... I don't think it will move the needle that much at Disney, but it's a good fit for them.

Frank Solich

(Jacobs) has two receivers that are going to get a shot at pro ball and have the ability to play. They're averaging over 100 yards a game in receptions. They have a combination of things that makes it very hard to stop.

Virginia Laken

Keith and I thought we had really good communication but we hadn't had to have this kind of communication about our intimacy. We so often equate intimate relationships with ability to have intercourse, and what we try to help couples understand is that intimacy is not totally equated with intercourse. Intimacy -- as we all know but don't usually put into practice -- can happen in many, many ways.

Louis Miller

Joe Leonard doesn't make quick decisions, which is good. He has the ability to focus on what he wants to get done.

Mike Eaves

Joe has the ability to make something out of nothing, and it's hard to account for skill like that. That makes him an effective offensive player.

Mike Scioscia

Joe has an incredible baseball mind and a tremendous ability to communicate with players on all levels. That's a combination any player should appreciate.

Paul Krumpe

Josh is a very versatile player who could very well be a major contributor this fall. He has the ability to play wide on the left or the right and possesses some great physical attributes.

J. Taylor

John is very athletic for his size. His strength is there. He's got to polish a few things in the passing game and some in the running game, but as long as he has a desire there to want to be successful, he's got all the athletic ability to be successful.

Katherine Paterson

Obviously, I love to do both contemporary and historical fiction. When a hint of a story grabs me, I try to go with it to see where it will take me whatever the setting.

Dan Castellaneta

Kids, kids. As far as Daddy's concerned, you're both potential murderers.

Shawn Trent

Kids don't want to come off the field, but we try not to start them on both sides because they get too tired. and we aren't getting as much out of them (in the late stages of a game).

Greg Moore

I wouldn't say all the pressure is on them - we're both going into the game with the same goal. If they feel like they have more pressure because they are the home team and they are in front of their home crowd, then so be it.

Mike Davis

James came to Indiana to do both sports, so ultimately the decision is his. He had a great football season, and I am really proud of him. He has a bright future ahead, and we want to do whatever is necessary to help him reach his goals.

Eric Johnson

James and I have similar tastes. We both have high tenor voices and write melodic songs. And we both really like the Kinks.

Steve Cram

I would say the decision to run both events would mean she has to make compromises,

Hanya Yanagihara

Kashmir, the 86,000-square-mile region in India's north, both is and isn't the India of the popular imagination.

Alex Winter

Keanu and I jokingly, cause he's still a really close friend of mine, say maybe when we're both 40 we'll do one.

Ted Manning

I think it's a great concept. It's something unique to the market and something that hasn't been done before. I think they've created a niche people are going to understand.

Michael Cohen

I think it's a giant waste of money. I don't see a huge (environmental) downside to it, but the science still doesn't show whether it actually works. If they can create another 1.1 million acre-feet of water, that's a huge amount. I wish them luck.

Billy Donovan

He created and made some things happen. He made some very timely 3-point shots when they were trying to make a run.

Peter Evans

He could not live without adversaries, no more than a tree can live without soil; like mangrove trees, which make their own soil, he could create enemies from within himself.

Amy Maier

He didn't create that list; it was the Department of Homeland Security. He had no say in the process. He was never consulted.

Gilbert Arenas

He (Davis) bailed me out a little bit. Because then I'd have had to try and create and finish over a big man, which I probably would have done.

Eva Saint

He left it to me to create the character. Sometimes he would have a comment, and it was always right on the mark. Hitchcock worked the same way.

Sugata Mitra

My wish for humanity is to invent a way to communicate between us and whatever comes next. And in the end that we the creator of the sentient sapient and the created we have a symbiotic relationship.

Peter Schultz

There are slow geochemical processes that can create spherical shapes and filamentous forms. The 'eye of the beholder' may guide us where to look...but that is not proof,

John Cornyn

He did commiserate with me a little bit, ... I hope that he will be able to give the United States Supreme Court's ruling some coherence, because frankly they are way out of step with what the founding fathers intended.

Todd Kolson

The people who are setting the foundation are the mothers and fathers. I think we are just giving students recognition for the good habits that parents are instilling in them. We can't wake up 900 students and make sure they always go to school. That's up to parents.

Umberto Eco

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Woody Harrelson

I remember my daughter Deni coming along, and she was so pure and caring of everybody and everything. And somehow, this little being managed to get around all the obstacles - the gun turrets, the walls, the moats, the sentries - that were wrapped around my heart. My heart at that time needed her ... I think it's the best thing going, parenthood.

Joseph Addison

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

Luther Vandross

My father would lift me high. And dance with my mother and me and then. Spin me around til I fell asleep. Then up the stairs he would carry me and I knew for sure I was loved.

Olive Schreiner

Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

Epictetus

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

David Soul

Nobody teaches you to be a father. Nobody teaches you to be a husband. Nobody teaches you how to be a star. You have to learn to work with the tools.

E. Howard Hunt

I would say this in terms of my career, that my career provided me with everything that I wanted, and I think a man is fortunate if he can say that at the end of his life.

David Pickering

He is the right man at the right time to take Wales forward.

Bill Ross

He is tight with his mom. He has such an old-fashioned sense of responsibility. He is the man of the house.

Rosemary Dillard

He should be murdered, killed. I mean, this man has no remorse.

Friedrich Muller

Whatever place a faithful, virtuous, celebrated, and wealthy man chooses, there he is respected.

Donald McDonald

We've been trying to get applications out, but everything has been rejected because of his record. I would go with him to talk with some of these managers to just be a support for him.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

John Roberts

I will be my own man on the Supreme Court, period,

Dave Scott

He was popular and a well-liked young man here.

Rebecca West

Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.

Woody Allen

In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

Walter Bagehot

Women--one half the human race at least--care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

Robert Louis Stevenson

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

Sarah Fielding

There is yet another kind of matrimonial dialect (which naturally succeeds this of talking at each other), which may very properlybe styled The Language Contradictory.... In the former, however plain the object of satire may be exhibited to the whole company, yet there always remains some little covering.... But in this last method, the defiance becomes more open and the impetuosity with which these contradictions are uttered (although the subjects of them are often of the most indifferent nature) evidently prove that they arise from passion.

Sarah Fielding

I believe no gentleman would like to have his family affairs neglected because his wife was filling her head with crotchets and pothooks, and who, because she understood a few scraps of Latin, valued that more than minding her needle or providing her husband's dinner.

Samuel Johnson

It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives which they have for remaining in that connection, and the restraints which civilised society imposes to prevent separation, are hardly sufficient to keep them together.

Samuel Johnson

I would advise no man to marry who is not likely to propagate understanding.

Sally Field

The only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

Jeff Gundy

What matters is that we fouled too much, we turned it over too much, and I think we probably shot in the 20's. We didn't play well enough on offense to win. We have professional players out there, so we have no excuses.

John Agius

There are one or two matters I wish to take up with them.

Bryan Whitman

He was relieved for matters of personal conduct.

Paul Taylor

Price matters in this market. This is an increasingly price-sensitive consumer.

Thomas Jefferson

In matters of principals, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.

Andruw Jones

All that matters now is another World Series. It's been a long time. We have done everything else, so now it's time to win a World Series again.

Jerry Steffen

Nothing matters but the weekend from a Tuesday point-of-view.

Steve Ballmer

It never matters where we are, ... We know we have to push, push, push, push, push to be better.

Rudyard Kipling

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!

Jodi Picoult

The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.

Oprah Winfrey

I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.

Pearl S. Buck

...most mothers kiss and scold together.

Lauren Bacall

I always brought up my children not to believe in Mothers Day gifts, and now I regret it.

Phyllis McGinley

A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you.

Phyllis Diller

It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.

Joan of Arc

Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King's daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.

Emily Dickinson

[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

Peter Stringfellow

You're only as old as the woman you feel.

Oriana Fallaci

The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette.