Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chinua Achebe

There is something about important stories that is not just the message, but also the way that message is conveyed, the arrangement of the words, the felicity of the language. So it's really a balance between your commitment, whether it's political or economic or whatever, and your craft as an artist.

Greta Gnagy

We're a little young again. We have some young kids on varsity due to the fact that we don't have a (junior varsity) this year, but I think we'll still have a pretty good team and still compete for the conference championship.

Jim Reed

I called a timeout and tried to light a fire under them. We continued to compete and we responded in the stretch run.

Joe Scott

I definitely liked the effort. If our guys compete like that on a nightly basis, I don't know how many games we have left but I know we're going to be in position to win every game.

Janica Kostelic

I definitely don't feel well. There's no reason to compete while I'm feeling like this. I'm very tired and I'm not 100 percent sure I'll start tomorrow.

Morgan Pressel

I can't wait for the season to start, to be able to fully compete and be a part of the rookie race.

Ralph Cindrich

I don't think there's any question he's going into the position to compete for the job. That was made clear.

Jeremy Bloom

I dreamed big as a kid, but I never thought in a million years that in a span of a week, I'd be able to compete in the Olympics and be at the NFL combine.

Marty Simmons

I am proud of the guys. We tied for the West Division Championship. That's a heck of an accomplishment. Are we disappointed that we weren't able to win it out right at home in the last two games? I don't think there is any question. Our guys have put themselves in a position to compete for the conference championship.

Frank Murray

I am now writing to seek confirmation of the provenance of the software you have developed in order to compete with Focus. Our main concern relates to the speed with which you have developed your product.

Winston Churchill

It is a gaping wound, whenever one touches it and removes the bandages and plasters of daily life.

Jim Campbell

At 47 or 48 feet we have no concern. We have a levee system that is in excellent condition. We feel very comfortable that we are not going to have any problems.

John Oliver

The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not.

Picabo Street

You have to accommodate the whole field. The first group can handle the biggies. The last group can't.

Greg Pettis

We're really hoping to get a large group of people from the community. We want everyone to be involved.

Larry Strader

We've improved all the way through. Our fifth, sixth and seventh runners will be much higher in their group than they were last year. The state meet may come down to our fifth, sixth and seventh runners.

Jim Bowden

We wanted to get two of that group. We got two of that group today. From that group we are finished. Another starting pitcher, it would be a number one or number two type starter, and it would come via trade.

Gil Gall

We are double-checking the situation regarding COBRA benefits. Some authorities say even if they discontinue business, they have to maintain group health insurance.

Dennis Ritchie

The visible things that have come from the group have been the Plan 9 system and Inferno, but I hasten to say that the ideas and the work have come from colleagues.

John Brophy

We organized ourselves into a pretty tightly knit group and put together a plan and a team,

Reggie Sanders

Winning is an attitude. Winning is being able to go out to have a relentless attitude. Yeah, you can teach that. It is going to take a lot to understand. It is a group effort, not an individual effort. We have to try to embed that in their heads.

Allan Ramsay

It's going to take some time for the impact to become clear.

Newt Gingrich

Stop costly new regulations that would increase unemployment, raise consumer prices, and weaken the nation's global competitiveness with virtually no impact on global temperatures.

Kathryn Bigelow

I like high impact movies.

Margaret Thatcher

The habit of ubiquitous interventionism, combining pinprick strikes by precision weapons with pious invocations of high principle, would lead us into endless difficulties. Interventions must be limited in number and overwhelming in their impact.

Margaret Chan

The possible impact of the virus [Zika] an extraordinary event and a public health threat to other parts of the world.

Jon Nadler

That's a pretty big impact on the drivers.

Jon Bergtheil

Exits from the baskets could have a disproportionately larger impact on the less-liquid metal markets.

Marty Natalegawa

The impact of NCDs is not only affecting the urban populations but also rural poor. This is compounding the basic problem of poverty.

Lawrence M. Krauss

For, after all, in science one achieves the greatest impact (and often the greatest headlines) not by going along with the herd, but by bucking against it.

Bill Hicks

How many people disapprove of the job the Conservatives are doing? Seventy percent. Of those same people, how many will vote for them again? ...Seventy percent. What the f-k? Where did they take this poll, at an S&M parlor?

Barack Obama

Every single thing I`ve done, from the Affordable Care Act to pushing to raise the minimum wage, to making sure that young people are able to go to college and get good job training, to what we`re pushing now in terms of sick paid leave,everything I do has been focused on how do we make sure the middle class is getting a fair deal.

Daniel Radcliffe

Part of an actor's job is to find correlations between your own life and the life of the person you are playing.

Daniel Craig

It’s not the job of an actor to judge your character

Dan Harmon

I expect the audience to assume TV is stupid. I accept that it's my job to overcome it.

Dan Harmon

I say what's in my head, and I'm on honest ground. That is worth so much, and I think it does make my job, as a writer, easier. It makes it possible for me to give people stuff that they like.

Damon Dash

Jobs are for lazy people who don’t want to invest in themselves.

Damian Loeb

I always thought being an artist was a lazy job. I was wrong.

Damian Lewis

You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'

Bobby Knight

I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.

Dave Barry

When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy.

Charles Stanley

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

Alan Autry

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

Al Oerter

So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself.

Al McGuire

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

Al McGuire

I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, "Hey, I made a mistake." Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing. I don't believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people. Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.

Chris Christie

I would rather die than be in the United States Senate. I would be bored to death. Could you imagine me, banging around that chamber with 99 other people, asking for a motion on the amendment in the subcommittee? Forget it...You'd watch me just walk out and walk right into the Potomac River and drown. That would be it.

Saxby Chambliss

The young folks that are coming into each of your services are anywhere from 17 to 22 or 23. Gee whiz, the hormone level created by nature sets in place the possibility for these types of things to occur. So we've got to be very careful how we address it on our side.

Chris Copeland

Keep being aggressive, that's what my teammates and my coaches ask me to do. If I see things are going well, I know there's more of a comfort level for me to continue to do that.

Colin Hanks

The only entry level position on a movie is director.

Donna Karan

I've been away and haven't seen my family. I speak to them every day though. I miss them, but I love traveling.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

For a time Jack was angry; but when he had been without the jacket for a short while he began to realize that being half-clothed is infinitely more uncomfortable than being entirely naked. Soon he did not miss his clothing in the least, and from that he came to revel in the freedom of his unhampered state.

Kathy Johnson

We watched it a lot and we're really going to miss the variety.

Cate Blanchett

I miss Brighton enormously, enormously. There is so much I miss, including rain. I miss the verdant countryside.

Mark Twain

Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

Cara Ness

Who thought I would be Miss Louisa County?

Abraham A. Ribicoff

I loved every day I was in politics. But I got out at the right time. I never miss it.

Alan Arkin

I never had a better role than I had in 'Little Miss Sunshine.' That was one of my favorite roles ever.

Alan Arkin

I'd have to say that my favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning. 'Little Miss Sunshine' is like that. That's my fave genre, if I had to pick one.