Famous Quotes & Sayings

Janet Fitch

As a middle-aged woman who has had some luck as a writer, I'd like this profession of author to remain a possibility for young writers in the future - and not become an arena solely for the hobbyist or the well-heeled.

Jeff Cunningham

Coach Arena has told me to be ready for Wednesday, ... so I am hoping I will get an opportunity to show what I can do to help this team in Germany next year. All I need is the opportunity, and then it's up to me to show Coach Arena.

Jim Webb

The Senate floor is and always has been the great arena of our democracy. I spent eight years in my younger life as a boxer, and sometimes when I enter the chamber, I think, 'This is the ring. The American people can see us here and listen to our arguments. This is where the fights matter.'

Fred Taylor

I've always believed American citizens have the responsibility to participate in their government. I love the term: you have to get into the arena to play the game. That's exactly right.

Lorelei Sims

The most important lesson I have learned in the political arena is that it is important to consider all the aspects of an issue before making a decision and casting a vote. I make every effort to be informed on issues and have learned the value of asking questions.

Chris Wallace

A couple of times, when we needed a big stop, we didn't get it. We gotta be able to make a play when it presents itself. You have to make it in arena football. That was basically the tale of the tape.

Randy Bredar

One coach had scripted what a day would be like walking recruits and their families through the facilities, so they could envision themselves playing there, see how the arena would function. That can make an impression on the 17-year-olds.

Don Logan

One challenge is having an arena be part of a casino project and expecting events. Colleges can't play at two beautiful venues, the MGM Grand Garden and Mandalay Bay Events Center (because of the casino connections). Having another one of these will compete with them for events.

Giorgio Moroder

One day. I was putting on a hill in Zurich, and a few hundred yards away, Diana Ross was doing a sound test at an arena for a performance that night of 'Take My Breath Away,' my song with her. That was a very nice game, an incredible feeling.

Suresh Kalmadi

Of the eight new venues, five will be outdoors and three indoors.

Marc Procaccini

No question about it, the new realignment of teams in our region made this a tough tournament. Our goal was to get eight guys into the state meet. We got six in, which is a good showing.

George Austin

No seat is more than eight seats from the stage.

Amy Rymer

Once we got (to state), we wanted to qualify for Saturday's finals. Then, we made the most of it and made the jump to eighth place (after Saturday's final two rounds). I'm proud of each and every one of them.

Casey Todd

Defensively you can?t give up eight 3-pointers and expect to win. (Beaulieu) had a great game.

Ron Gardenhire

And that's a pretty good formula. You get your starter to go eight or nine innings and you hit three-run homers. Normally it works out pretty good.

Ryan Brown

These last two games we have put up some runs. When you score eight runs you feel pretty good about your chances, but the pitching just wasn't there today and we made some errors in key situations.

Clive Davis

The songs are great and they're radio-friendly, ... so we have six, seven, eight possibilities at singles.

Ben Woodside

I've never experienced that much excitement through eight hours of travel. We were all hyped the whole way home. We could not stop smiling.

Suresh Raina

At home in Ghaziabad, everyone is a pure vegetarian. In fact, when I want to cook non-veg there, my mum shoos me out on the terrace where I have my cooking utensils. I'm told categorically that whatever non-veg or egg, etc., that I have to cook, I should do upstairs and not enter her kitchen at all.

Bono

The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian.

Kim Fields

There has been a tremendous growth in the entertainment industry throughout Atlanta. There are many opportunities in film, television and theatre.

Ma Huateng

On all open platforms, regardless of whether it's Facebook or the Apple App Store, the largest segment is entertainment and games. It's the largest revenue segment. And it's the same for Tencent.

Timothy Noah

For any politician who didn't enter office a wealthy man, nothing says 'I take bribes' like a Rolex watch.

Britney Spears

My prerogative right now is to just chill and let all the other overexposed blondes on the cover of Us Weekly (magazine) be your entertainment.

George Meredith

Enter these enchanted woods, / You who dare.

Robin Wright

Entertainment and escapism - those are the bigger money-making films today.

Nettie Coad

We could only enter an establishment through the back door, even though we paid the same money as Whites.

Kurt Russell

Sometimes they did end up in fights, ... At one point there were four fights going on, and Ryan Walter just threw his hands up and said 'I can't stop them.'

Frank Maloney

These are the type of fights Scott Harrison likes,

Elie Wiesel

At this moment, Israel fights for her existence,

Marvin Hagler

The likes of Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran, Tommy Hearns were true champions. There were some incredible fights between us, and I was happy to give them all an opportunity to fight me.

Dudley Etheridge

You have to give North Edgecombe credit; they never stopped fighting. They have some incredible shooters.

Hilary Duff

Isn't she always in the news for being in fights with some other chick?

Jeremy Yablonski

I always played hard. I played reckless. I did a lot of the fighting.

Miguel Cotto

I have always believed that you win fights round by round.

Lenny Harris

Keep pushing. Keep fighting. We'll get it done. We have to get it done.

Tommy Amaker

Sometimes he doesn't get enough credit. I thought his floor game was outstanding.

Brad Cattermole

The scores were there to get, you just have to stay on the equipment. We were not mentally tough enough to play tonight. In this game, you've got to stay mentally tough, or you're going to find yourself lying on your back looking up from the floor quite a bit.

Michelle Haney

They are a great team that can just run the floor like that. We had to be on our toes, but unfortunately they hurt us like that.

Kenton Paulino

The whole thing was to get it down the floor and see what happens.

Keith Richard

This is a team that needs Paul on the floor to score.

Robert Maranto

That's why Rendell mopped up the floor with him. He's charisma-challenged. He's not as quick-witted as Santorum. He doesn't come off as well.

Robert Maranto

That's why Rendell mopped up the floor with him, ... He's charisma-challenged. He's not as quick-witted as Santorum. He doesn't come off as well.

Matt Worsham

A little bit. I'd never been on a floor with that many fans.

Michelle Perkins

This will provide better access. People won't have to go the second and third floor any more.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Austin Mahone

The British fans are very intense, maybe even more so than fans in the U.S.! They're great.

Buck Showalter

The big thing was Curt Schilling, he was obviously on top of his game. We ran into a great pitcher today. It's disappointing.

David Lewis

The big question is: Is it too little, too late? I think in great part, yes.

George Savile

A very great memory often forgotteth how much time is lost by repeating things of no use

O. J. Simpson

Aw, Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless.

Josh Page

Avon had a lot to do with our shooting stats. They played great defense. They took away our inside game.

Heinz Jungwirth

Austria has great relations with the IOC. We don't want to put anything under the table.

James Coleman

A truly great hug comes when you squeeze just hard enough to share a heartbeat.

Johann G. Seume

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Gwendoline Christie

People come up to me and say, 'You look so much better in real life.'

Cate Blanchett

People had always vaguely mentioned that when you have children, how part of your life would stop. But they don't say that some other extraordinary part of your life opens up.

John Ortberg

Opposition is an inevitable reality of pastoral life.

Paul Ballard

On this day we want to say thank you for an American hero, for one who would sacrifice his life so we could be free.

Stella Young

On the whole, my life is and has been wonderful.

Jack Brennan

No question it has been a challenging week. But it's a reminder to us all that life in the NFL doesn't get quieter when you have some success.

Joyce Banda

After President Mutharika was declared a winner, there was life after State House. For those Malawians that know me, I am an international public speaker. So I went back to my speaking engagements.

Stuart Townsend

Acting is great. You spend your whole life trying to get it right.

Michael Cohen

People responded to Sandy. At public hearings, which can be so contentious, people would listen to Sandy's presentation and stand up and cheer.

Chris Sullivan

I've been listening to them my whole life.

Denise Bishop

You're sitting here listening to everything we have to say, but there's nothing we can do about this.

Brett Ratner

Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.

George William Russell

It is true the orator may make a myriad replica of his own passion out of those who listen to him. But that does not prove he is right or they are not fools.

Carla Bley

Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.

Alan Vega

Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.

Austin Carlile

To me, music is emotion and if when you're listening to it and it doesn't make you feel that, then it's not music.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plough. The trick is just to wake them up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music.

Tom Ridge

a very unfortunate characterization of the work that people are doing.

Jake Bugg

At school, people would say I should go on 'Britain's Got Talent,' but I would never have done that because it doesn't seem genuine; it doesn't feel natural.

Renae Dreier

A year from now, people will look back and say that was nerve-racking, but it was worth it.

Randy Falco

Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.

Karla Reese

As people stop driving, we haven't been able to replace them as readily as we used to.

Michael Vick

As long as I can go out and make plays, people can say what they want to say,

Jake Barton

As long as your storytelling and emotional depth are intact, that's what people will focus on.

Ferdie Pacheco

As influential as I have been, do you think one of these people has ever called me? ... No.

Astro Teller

Really, having people who have different mental perspectives is what's important.

Pauline Hanson

She may not be sitting in the Senate but she's still standing for us.

Spike Jonze

After 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which was this big, long five-year project, I spent a year making small things.

Ted Cruz

I've spent the past month in Washington, D.C., and it is terrific to be back in America.

Miriam Toews

I spent 18 years in a small Mennonite town in the middle of the Canadian prairies.

Evan Osnos

I spent years overseas. I spent 11 years abroad.

George Chapman

We've spent $300,000 and it doesn't look much different.

David Lowery

Whoever did this spent a long time igniting anything they could find.

King Krule

A lot of the time, I was unhappy as a kid, so I spent it, I guess, in a gray place.

Hunter Hayes

I wrote my first song at 6. I spent every day with the guitar, and I just made up songs.

Freddie Prinze, Jr.

I grew up all over the place, but the majority of my years were spent in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Larry Brown

I wanted to play some of the younger kids. I didn't think there was a way we were going to get back in that ballgame, the way it was going.

Chris Evert

I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people.

Martin Parr

I like to keep in touch with younger photographers. It's important that a younger generation comes up and questions the assumptions made by old farts like me.

Bianca Lawson

I am so lazy. I really don't have a regimen. When I was younger I used to be into cardio and taebo and step-orobics and hiking. Lately, I haven't done anything at all. I'd like to get into yoga, but I've been really bad.