Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Phillips

Ben was such a special guy. He had the utmost respect for people. That was one of the things we thought and admired about him and the love the kids had for him. The kids wanted to it because of the respect for the person. Watching him teach kids was a privilege. He was always energetic, always intense and an unbelievable teacher.

Frank Morgan

I was an admirer of Art Pepper even before I went to California, when he was still in Kenton's band. His playing is joyous, great.

Edward Albee

There are a number of contemporary playwrights whom I admire enormously, but that's not at all the same thing as being influenced.

Tom Poorman

The mayor opened the door for people to speak out. The mayor did the right thing. He brought a higher profile to this matter. I really admire what he did.

Nora Volkow

It's a sense of doing something that can improve the quality of life for people, ... Of course I admire (Trotsky), I think he was an incredibly visionary individual.

Frank Robinson

A lot of guys said he was off the wall, he's crazy. I found him to be a guy with a lot of energy. He played the game hard. He just wanted to go out and play. Sometimes his emotion got in the way. He would lose control and tear things. I talked to him and reasoned with him. I listened to him. We developed a fondness for each other. I admire him for the way he goes about his work.

Steve French

This being the longest sports season of the year and having to train indoors, you have to admire any kid for sticking with it and doing as well as they do. It's the only co-ed situation of the team sports and there's a lot of camaraderie and support of the underclassman. I think the athletes had a fun season. It was fun for me to be a part of.

Richard Mathis

They've got a good system and they play it well. They play a lot of people and they wear you down. Give Bubba (Skelton) credit. His kids play hard every game. You have to admire what they've done.

Jim Tracy

For a guy to come in here and work to improve his versatility, to put on that catcher's gear ... I admire that. I had a 15-minute talk with him, and I told him so. Like I told him, it takes a hell of a lot more than nine players to win. ... I appreciate the demeanor he's shown coming into this camp.

William Taylor

What I tend to see from people is their wanting their children to appreciate the legacy that's being passed. You can either treat life disrespectfully and be self-centered, or you have a true calling or a passion.

Ralph Reed

What I don't appreciate - and what I'm confident the voters will reject - is the attempt by some of the media and others to engage in guilt by association. To associate me with the misdeeds of others is unfair, it's wrong and it will be rejected at the ballot box.

Hari Kondabolu

I want to write my own stuff, and, you know, it would be nice to put myself in it. But I would like to hope that there are going to be better roles offered as well and that I don't need to do everything. You know, like, I appreciate my career being somewhat DIY, but it would be nice to get some help.

E. O. Wilson

The living environment is the biosphere, the thin layer around the world of living organisms. We're part of that. Our existence is dependent on it in ways that people haven't even begun to appreciate. Our existence depends not just on its existence, but its stability and its richness.

Drew Barrymore

When you work in film, you learn to appreciate a distributor. You can have this great little film, but if you don't have a distributor, you are sitting in your living room with a great little film.

Donatella Versace

I've learned how to appreciate what I have. And it's a lot. I'm very lucky.

Douglas William Jerrold

There are some people as obtuse in recognizing an argument as they are in appreciating wit. You couldn't drive it into their heads with a hammer.

Dalai Lama

As human beings we are all the same. We have this marvelous intelligence, which sometimes creates problems for us, but when influenced by warm-heartedness can be very constructive. In this context we need to appreciate the value of having moral principles.

Dalai Lama

Appreciate how rare and full of potential your situation is in this world, then take joy in it, and use it to your best advantage.

Jodi Picoult

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

Herman Edwards

I've played that position. You get 10 interceptions in one season, that's pretty good. He had a great season for a guy coming off an injury.

Matt Stairs

I very easily could've went to a contender, ... but I felt very good about coming back to this organization.

Graham Taylor

It would be very much harder to win it without him. One of the criteria for most of the past World Cup winners is that they possess a 'special' player. You know, you have a Maradona, you have a Pele, and, in Rooney, England have that 'special' player coming into 2006 in Germany.

Greg Skidmore

It would be very easy for conferences to just fine schools like that. And if a school is being faced with a $100,000 fine, they're going to take the steps necessary to prevent fans from coming onto the court. It's just not that hard to do.

Robert Blake

I understand, and there's also an 'or else' in it. But I don't want to get to that just yet, ... I just want you to know where I'm coming from. I got the picture of where you're coming from.

Dan Corbin

It would've been a tremendous win for us, but now we got two tough ones coming up and it won't be easy.

Juan Uribe

it would turn into a major motion picture, coming to a theater near you.

Robert Parry

It would seem to me he would be more comfortable with a freer exchange of ideas, not coming in 100 percent convinced of what should be done.

Jason Witten

Seeing some of these guys is pretty special. They've done a lot for us, the young players.

Mike McMahon

We all have to get on the same page. If one guy makes a mistake, it can ruin the whole play.

Ron Gardenhire

To me, if you're going to hire a coach, he's the first guy you go to. He's been with us before. He has knowledge of these guys, the whole package.

Doug Armstrong

To me he's been our leader on and off the ice this year and it's really a pleasure just to watch a guy get some rewards for it.

Hugh Laurie

To me, he's a hero, ... He's not polite. He's not someone you want to take home to meet your mother, necessarily. This is a guy in search of truth. Incidentally, that truth one day could save your life or the life of someone you love. That's a heroic thing.

Tommy Tuberville

Up to this point, our guy was pretty much on target. It's one of those things, it comes and it goes.

Vaclav Prospal

The reason that we won is that guy sitting over there. He kept us in the game.

Penn Jillette

The reason I'm an I.B.M.-type guy today is that I really needed a laptop back in 1986, and I just couldn't wait for the Powerbook.

Daniel Alfredsson

The optimum would be to have him (Hasek) in net but he's injured and we're happy the way Ray has been playing. He's going to be the guy for us.

Zach Malvik

This shows us what we need to improve on and what we need to get better at. That game's over. We have to be ready for (today).

Albert Lin

But they need to improve their relationship with Motorola for this product to succeed.

Kevin Heise

There's not much we can do about what has been done. But I'm going to be optimistic and say we'll be able to play nine or 10 games, at The Cage.

Bobby Bowden

He does that several times during the game, ... And nine times out of 10, he's right.

Mark Cooper

My players should feel embarrassed, especially the seniors.

Roy Keane

You shouldn't have spoken to the players like that. No, you should have.

Allen Ginsberg

You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening. If you're grasping to get your own voice, you're making a strained attempt to talk, so it's a matter of just listening to yourself as you sound when you're talking about something that's intensely important to you.

Robert Barry

I usually, if I give a talk, I don't usually prepare anything. I just say - you know, I may stop talking by showing some video or slides of what I do but mainly I try to respond to what problems people have with my work.

John Travolta

I have fame on the level of a Marilyn Monroe or an Elvis Presley, but part of the reason I didn't go the way they did was because of my beliefs. People make judgments about Scientology, but often they don't know what they're talking about.

John Philpot Curran

Madame de Stael talks herself into a beauty.

Michael Caine

I don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not talking about money.

Mason Cooley

Great talkers do not stop for breath, and never look at the clock.

Tom Coughlin

Let's talk about winning. Let's talk about winning first before we talk about anything else,

S. Walker

Ridiculous. I couldn't talk for like 20 minutes.

Lou Piniella

My talk in Toronto was from the heart, ... It was from the heart.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

Don Marquis

A great many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life could make it seem longer if they did a little more work.

Dweezil Zappa

Well, I haven't been doing that much work with other people per se. I started doing more of that.

Dalai Lama

A human being isn't meant to be some kind of machine designed only for production. No. Human life isn't just for work...

Dolly Parton

Daddy worked for God, but asked for no pay. For he believed that God provides a way.

Dolly Parton

Jump out of bed and I stumble to the kitchen, pour myself a cup of ambition and yawn and stretch and try to come alive.

Anderson Cooper

You can't stop suffering, you can't stop terrible things from happening, but you can bear witness... The least us reporters can do is go there and tell their stories.

Andrew Carnegie

The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost- for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train.

Andrew Carnegie

Anything in life worth having is worth working for.