Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yousuf Karsh

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

Todd Rundgren

It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.

Idina Menzel

I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

Idina Menzel

I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.

Ian Frazier

I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.

Ian Mckellen

Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.

Ismail Kadare

In antiquity, there were three regions in southern Europe: Greece, Rome, and Ilyria. Albanian is the only survivor of the Ilyrian languages. That is why it has always intrigued the great linguists of the past.

Gaines Adams

I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.

Gad Elmaleh

There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.

J. Taylor

We have a major problem with being lied to.

Martha Beck

Self-improvement books, friends, and polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing, and solving our real problems.

Oliver North

I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.

Jemima Khan

WikiLeaks exposed the most dangerous lies of all, which are those that are told to us by elected governments.

P. J. Harvey

You lied to me in your deposition didn't you Mr. Buckingham?

Marcus Williams

We can't get bigheaded. We can't just think every team is going to lie down after we get a big victory. We were thinking Syracuse was going to lie down after those first 30 minutes and they actually crawled back to get within two possessions. You can't do that.

Rob Kardashian

I think I lie way too much to even know what I've lied about.

Hunter Tylo

There was a storyline this year where Taylor lied to Brooke. It was supposed to be set up in a way that I was so outraged by her that I let it stay. I thought that was human, which was great.

Helen Gahagan

In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable.

Bette Davis

I have always felt proud of my Oscars and my numerous nominations. This pride is due to the fact it was the result of voters from the members of my own profession. This, of course, is a great compliment for one's work. I hope each winner of an Oscar is as thrilled as I was when I received mine.

Arrigo Sacchi

There are too many black players. Italy has no dignity, no pride.

Bill Vaughan

One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.

Frank Beamer

We're winning with a lot of Virginia kids, and I take pride in that.

Becki Newton

I've learned there's nothing wrong with being a little fussy. I used to pride myself on being low-maintenance - I wore it like a badge of honor.

Will Sheridan

We do take the Big 5 seriously. We take a lot of pride in these games.

Tony Womack

Just to play, for me, is special. I take pride in playing. I know I can compete.

Kerry Collins

I take pride in the way I play, ... This organization has treated me well. I still have a lot of fight. Every time I go out there I am going to give it my best.

Paul Hatch

I take pride in being a results-oriented person.

Ian Mckellen

Actors don't, in fact, retire, do they? It took me a while to remember that.

Jim Snyder

That was huge, it took away that 2-0 advantage.

Raymond Bonner

I'm not the only foreigner who took up golf while living in Jakarta.

Andrew Griffin

We had everything it took this year to get over the hump. We just didn't execute.

Steve Francis

I was trying to get to the basket, but I took what was there. It was a tough shot. I got enough arc, but it was a little strong.

Kurt Thomas

We clamped down on him. We took him out of his game.

Neil Callaway

Basically, we took him just because he's a big kid.

Donald O'Connor

Going up the walls doing somersaults, that trick took a couple of days.

Kenoy Kennedy

I think I took off before he started to slide. I'll take a look at it on the film.

Mary Wilson

We have always understood that visibility is viability.

Tom Nolan

Winner never understood how that was a factor. It was always very alarming.

Jessica Sanchez

On 'Idol,' I understood that everyone wanted to hear my vocals, so I stuck with the ballads.

Byron Katie

We fear only what we haven’t understood.

Carl Jung

Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.

Charles Darwin

Music was known and understood before words were spoken.

Elie Wiesel

My God was never happiness, but to understand and be understood.

Arthur Helps

We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.

Stephen Covey

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.