Famous Quotes & Sayings

Twyla Tharp

My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the world.'

Twyla Tharp

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Custard is controversial: what makes it a custard, how best to cook it and, crucially, is it to be eaten or put in a pie and thrown?

Yani Tseng

It's very easy when you have someone in front of you that you can chase. You want to be No. 1 but now I feel like I have to play well because everybody looks at you as a best golfer. So that's why I put more pressure on myself.

Thucydides

We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.

Timothy Noah

There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.

Thomas Friedman

I can see a day soon where you'll create your own college degree by taking the best online courses from the best professors from around the world - some computing from Stanford, some entrepreneurship from Wharton, some ethics from Brandeis, some literature from Edinburgh - paying only the nominal fee for the certificates of completion.

Idina Menzel

I used to take 40 minutes to warm up before going on stage. If you want to spend time with your child as well as having a career, you have to get up there even if your head's a mess. It's made me more relaxed, and I'm having some of my best shows.

Idina Menzel

I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'

Tim Berners-Lee

There was a time when people felt the internet was another world, but now people realise it's a tool that we use in this world.

Webb Simpson

I felt the Lord telling me just to be patient all year. Whether it happened this year, next, or never, everything was going to be okay.

Valerie June

When I was 15, I begged my grandfather to give me this guitar he'd always had in the back of his closet. I promised him I'd learn to play it, but I never did. Then my grandfather died, and I felt so guilty. So I started playing.

Chuck Palahniuk

A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainments were getting better, constantly, as technology allowed. Movies. Video games. Music.

Constance Marie

I never felt ready to have a baby until I was about 37 years old. I knew I always wanted kids someday, but I needed to be 'ready,' ya know?

Evangeline Lilly

It's so important for women to say to other women, 'I like myself how I am.' But it's hard because in your heart of hearts you are thinking, 'I don't really.' But you have to learn to say it. Imagine what a world it would be if people felt good about themselves the whole time.

Ellie Goulding

Breakups just hit you harder when you're younger. When I was a teenager, it felt like the most depressing thing in the world if a boy I was infatuated with didn't like me back!

Edward Snowden

I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression.

Dave Jones

The points target at the start of the season was 52 points because that we felt was the safety mark.

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.

Bill Vaughan

The things which must be, must be for the best, God helps us do our duty and not shrink, And trust His mercy humbly for the rest.

E. O. Wilson

The association earns money by helping to sell them and working at the store on the day of the event.

Holly Vlymen

We have to keep playing like we've been playing in conference. Playing (Iowa and Illinois State University) is helping us to get ready for Southern Utah because they are going to be tough. These teams showed us what we need to work on, so we can get ready for the weekend.

Shawn Chacon

I'm happy. Being in a race and helping the team, I don't think I could have written a better script.

Peter Byrne

I'm impressed. I thought we would have had more of a subtle day, but the financials are up strong, so that is helping us out here.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.

Beck

There are a lot of technical studio things I've learned or figured out, and I feel like I could use those things to help other people with what they're doing.

Keith Benjamin

I think if you're an institution, you own these stocks, you're pinching yourself saying, 'Oh, thank you,' ... Because it's helping your relative performance. And if you're selling any, you're not selling all your position.

Gilbert Arenas

While everyone's watching on TV, they need to be helping at the same time.

Arnold Rothstein

I prefer to make my living honestly.

David Akers

I'm honestly proudest of this kick today. I can honestly say that.

David Akers

I'm honestly most proud of that kick today.

Tom Reeves

We didn't even go. We honestly thought that $4 million was pushing it, so there wasn't any missed opportunity.

Ron Howard

I think people relate to the story for personal reasons. Some are interested in the mystery, some are interested in the spirituality and some are interested in the locations. I honestly think that a lot of people get a lot of different things out of it.

Wendy Crewson

Nobody honestly thought she would do the things she did.

Bob Morton

I look through the team and I can honestly say I can't see a weakness,

Keith Gayden

I have a lot of thoughts. I don't know what to say. I don't know what happened. I honestly thought he would be here next year. Put it like that.

Sami Gayle

I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.

Ashton Kutcher

Whether you like it or not, the digital age has produced a new format for modern romance, and natural selection may be favoring the quick-thumbed quip peddler over the confident, ice-breaking alpha male.

Bill Bryson

England was full of words I'd never heard before - streaky bacon, short back and sides, Belisha beacon, serviettes, high tea, ice-cream cornet.

Doug Deming

Whoa! There's not as much ice here as I thought there was. I don't think we'll go any farther.

Jacques Villeneuve

I was happy to ski and play a lot of ice hockey. But I've come back because I was - and am - a racing driver. This is what I do.

Kelly Ioane

I think she's going to be OK. We just had her ice it and we'll see how it goes.

Mignon Waterman

Which is very easy. It actually is a little Italian dessert. It's like a mousse ... kind of like ice cream.

Dan Jones

We even had people showing up in shorts and sweatshirts, but the ice was still safe.

Pierre Turgeon

We can't wait to see what they are going to do. We have to make sure we put everything we have on the ice right off the bat. . . . The first 5 to 10 minutes are going to be crucial.

Steve Denney

We're going to be stocking 20,000 legal-size rainbow trout as soon as the ice is off, as soon as we can get to the lake.

Tina Brown

When Obama heralds another 'teachable moment,' it means he has already made an egregious rookie mistake.

Irving Ravetch

Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other.

Will Chase

'Miss Saigon' taught me what it means to help carry a big show, and it had some of the most gorgeous songs wrote.

Gary Bauer

The polls mean virtually nothing, ... We're not tottering on the edge. Each week we're picking up momentum.

John Anastos

The patients are happier, and we can serve more patients. More patients mean more revenues.

David Selby

And I haven't met too many actors along the way that haven't told me how much the show has meant to them. It's one of the reasons they say they are doing what they're doing, today.

David Wenham

My representation overseas can't stand me doing theatre because it takes me out of action. But it's what I want to do. If it means passing up other possibilities, them's the breaks.

David Foster

With Celine Dion, we were selling 25 million records a pop. 'Pop' stands for 'popular.' It means we're plugging into the masses.

Dev Hynes

'Chamalkay' is an old Guyanese slang word. It means a 'young mischievous girl.' It's not derogatory, but it isn't over complimentary, either. It was probably a word I just Googled one day, and the song kind of played into the feel of that.

C. S. Lewis

Whatever you do, He will make good of it. But not the good He had prepared for you if you had obeyed him.

Timothy Brown

We can't go without water. We have to be prepared for anything.

Pearl Cleage

When you sit down to write, you have to be prepared to strip all of those voices away, all of the censors away, and talk about what you think the truth is, which I think is really the task of the writer - to get to the truth.

Marc Shapiro

I wish I could tell you, ... We're cooperating with all investigations, and we're prepared to do that as long as it takes.

Billy Corgan

I think rock & roll has prepared me for a lot of flexibility.

William Williams

Thus having prepared their budsagainst a sure winterthe wise treesstand sleeping in the cold.

Carlos Gonzalez

Only when the ETA killers served out their sentences will we be prepared to talk.

Fernando Gonzalez

I was prepared for a tough match. In the second set, he started to serve much better. He started to come on and he had me under pressure.

Juan Montoya

I feel well prepared for the long season ahead. But as always there is a lot of work still to be done.

Napoleon Bonaparte

From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.

David Pogue

I travel a ridiculous amount, so I've thought a lot about, and spent a lot of time refining, what I carry and how I carry it.

Bear Grylls

I've had so many injuries in my life that it's ridiculous.

Jane Austen

She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.

Barbara Kingsolver

I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.

Laura Bush

I think it's ridiculous. It's a ridiculous comment, that's what I think.

Lord Shaftesbury

Nothing is more ridiculous than ridicule.

Anais Nin

He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity.

Donald Judd

If a chair or a building is not functional … it is ridiculous.

Patrick Chan

I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other people's desire for me to do well.

Linda Miner

You'll see skaters in their 70s as well as little kids.

Mike Butters

We just have to find the net. We didn't do that tonight and Eugene skated very well.

Ashley Wagner

Skaters are infamously superstitious.

Linda Miner

We have skaters from Altoona, and Wheeling, and so many other places.

Teppo Numminen

We didn't skate as well as we'd like to. We had our chances, but it wasn't enough.

Felicity Jones

I'm very excited that I can get on a skateboard and skateboard down the street now. That was something I never thought I'd be able to do. I conquered my fears.

Leo Fitzpatrick

I'm not an artist or a collector. I'm a skateboard kid with no one to tell me if I'm not doing things the right way.

Mike Richards

We need a place around here we can skate without getting a ticket for it.

Catullus

Stop wishing to merit anyone's gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.

Aron Ralston

Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you.

Lori Cope

We could never thank them enough for what they did.

Marcus Samuelsson

Being an Ethiopian-born, Swedish-raised chef, there's nothing traditional about my Thanksgiving spread.

Estonian Proverb

Who does not thank for little will not thank for much

Jennifer Lopez

I'm so excited, ... Thank you so much for your support. I wish I could have been there.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.

Barry McCaffrey

Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces.

William Shakespeare

Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks, but I thank you; and sure, dear friends, my thanks are too dear a halfpenny.