Famous Quotes & Sayings

Janice Biggers

His foresight and his total dedication of himself to preservation and the arts in general in Columbus has added tremendously to the cultural opportunities available today.

Sometimes you have to be careful when selecting a new name for yourself. For instance, let's say you have chosen the nickname "Fly Head." Normally you would think that "fly Head" would mean a person who has beautiful swept-back features, as if flying through the air. But think again. Couldn't it also mean "having a head like a fly"? I'm afraid some people might actually think that.

Catherine McCartney

We've spoken out and said you can stand up and you don't have to be afraid of anybody. But it won't mean anything unless the people in the communities take that opportunity the next time the IRA comes to their door and say to them 'I'm not going to allow you to bully me'.

Chinese Proverbs

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still

Rob Varley

Bob cares a lot about the success of Cocoa Beach. He's a regular guy who isn't afraid of hard work. Let me tell you -- it was very difficult for the tourism industry after Sept. 11. We were hurting.

Jean Richter

The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Chris Cooley

I started thinking playoffs the first game of the season, I'll be honest, ... That's the goal, you've got to think about it. We're for sure talking about what we've got to do in our division to get there, what it takes to get there. I don't think we're afraid to mention it. That's what we want to do.

Jim Yatzek

We're physical ourselves, and we're not afraid to play physical. They might be slight in stature, but the girls can dish it out.

Dave Schroeder

We tell the players that if you are thinking something, go ahead and say it... that fans want to know what they are thinking. We tell them not to be afraid to think out loud.

Tad Williams

We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.

Bill Muir

As European markets move farther east, Ukraine becomes cost-competitive with our most competitive places.

Rig Veda

A scholar always treads on the path of righteousness and as result becomes successful.

Bob Kelly

What this means is that Windows becomes the platform for virtualization. Customers will consolidate existing systems to Windows using virtual technology. This is very compelling to our customer base.

Brown Johnson

The idea is that being able to speak a second language becomes a magical power. We wanted to make it special as opposed to being embarrassed about it.

Brian Riedl

The fiscal situation will probably have to worsen and cause some economic pain before it becomes a priority.

Bill Murray

I feel that if you really want an Oscar, you're in trouble. It's like wanting to be married - you'll take anybody. If you want the Oscar really badly, it becomes a naked desire and ambition. It becomes very unattractive.

Jim Calhoun

We still have a chance to have a special season, there's no question in my mind. In order for us to finish up the season the way we have to, we have to eliminate some of those inconsistent moments, because pretty soon every game becomes important, and if you have an inconsistent game, you go home.

Kevin Reilly

It's not entirely analogous, because those movies were ready-made products you could go and acquire. With this, at best, there's probably something that's going to be a presentation for something that becomes a pilot for something that could eventually become a series.

Mike Timlin

It's not any different until we get a significant lead and it becomes different when our magic number is zero. Then it becomes different. Then you can take a deep breath and concentrate on the next step.

Toby Keith

Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail,

Mike Slive

Right now, there is peace in the valley. We hope to keep it that way for a little while.

Anne Sexton

There is hope. There is hope everywhere. Today God give milk and I have the pail.

Anne Sexton

When they turn the sun on again I'll plant children under it, I'll light up my soul with a match and let it sing....

Ambrose Bierce

PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.

T. S. Eliot

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

No scandal about Queen Elizabeth, I hope?

Susan Sarandon

At a time when everything seems so out of control and the people you've elected are bogus and there's so much random violence and hatred, it fills you with such hope and admiration to even be part for a short time in a community where people have connected to strangers to try to put out a hand.

Storm Jameson

Hope is a talent like any other.

Jeffrey Sachs

Russia increasingly lived on short-term borrowing. Now, this was an extraordinary merry-go-round.

Martin Straka

If you play like that for 10 years in the NHL, there's no way you lose it in a year.

If you lose your job, your marriage and your mind all in one week, try to lose your mind first, because then the other stuff won't matter that much

Linda Duessel

The performance of dividend-paying stocks has more to do with the fundamentals in their industries.

Ricardo Montalban

Revenge is a dish best served cold

Julius Caesar

Many of you wished me dead. Many of you perhaps still do. But I hold no grudges and seek no revenge. I demand only this...that you join with me in building a new Rome, a Rome that offers justice, peace and land to all its citizens, not just the privileged few. Support me in this task, and old divisions will be forgotten. Oppose me, and Rome will not forgive you a second time. Senators, the war is over.

Otto Weininger

Everything evil is revenge.

Kanye West

Success is the best revenge.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Revenge and wrong bring forth their kind; The foul cubs like their parents are.

Ellen Hopkins

revenge is living well with out you.

Ellen Hopkins

The more I think about it, the more I believe there has to be a subtle yet satisfying method of revenge.

Elizabeth Fry

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

Rick Baker

I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques.

Reggie Bush

I am my own biggest critic ... I'm constantly criticizing myself, constantly trying to find ways to better myself and ... compete and, you know, just be the best.

Tom Hodgkinson

Labour-saving devices just make us try to cram more pointless activities into each day, rather than doing the important thing, which is to enjoy our life.

Toni Morrison

I'm just trying to look at something without blinking, to see what it is like, or it could have been like, and how that had something to do with the way we live now. Novels are always inquiries for me.

Tom Verlaine

Everybody's out trying to be commercial. I'm not trying to be anything, really.

Scott Adkins

I put so much pressure on myself to raise the bar with each and every project. I treat it like every film is my last, and I make sure I pour everything I have into every film I make because if I'm not trying to improve, someone else will

Fannie Lou Hamer

I guess if I'd had any sense, I'd have been a little scared [to register to vote] - but what was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do was kill me, and it kinda seemed like they'd been trying to do that a little bit at a time since I could remember.

Christian Siriano

A bad investment is going for quantity over quality. If you're trying to be careful with your wallet, especially with the economy right now, you have to choose staple pieces.

Jason Varitek

You know, catching the knuckleball, it's like trying to catch a fly with a chopstick.