Famous Quotes & Sayings

Theophile Gautier

Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Imelda May

I'm lucky to come from a very musical family. If you put a record on and turn the volume up, there's a pretty good chance you'll have a lot of people dancing very quickly.

Imelda May

Everybody told me that if I insisted on doing rockabilly music, I'd never have a chance of selling any records. In fact, I lost count of how many people told me to ditch it all together, in favour, I guess, of sounding like everybody else.

Ice T

When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting.

Ice T

'New Jack City' was a perfect marriage of music and film. They used a lot of musicians: myself, Christopher Williams. People that were popular because of their music were given the chance to act. And the soundtrack was incredible.

Gillian Armstrong

You rarely, in the professional world, have the chance to express yourself as an individual.

Venus Williams

If the sun comes up, I have a chance.

Bill Gates

If you're low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn't seem entirely fair.

Chino Moreno

A chance to work with the guys from Isis sounded like a lot of fun. I've always been into the atmospheric sounds they had created with that project and felt my sense of melody would meld well with theirs.

Michael Matz

The pilot did a terrific job getting the plane down. We were lucky enough to survive that crash. It's something you're grateful for, and I guess it just wasn't my time ...

Carrie Newcomer

Every night before I go to sleep I say out loud three things that I am grateful for, all the significant, insignificant, extraordinary, ordinary stuff of my life. It is s small practice and humble, and yet, I find I sleep better holding what lightens and softens my life every so briefly at the end of the day.

Carrie Underwood

I'm not worried. I'm just so grateful to be in the position that I'm in. I'm just going with the flow right now, and I think my album will come together quite nicely because I think everybody is on the same page.

Carrie Underwood

I'm grateful for every scar, some pages turned, some bridges burned, but there were lessons learned

Ashley Tisdale

I'm so grateful for what Disney gave me and the experiences that I got, but at the end of the day, I can do so much more than what I did on that channel and in those movies.

Ed Hutson

I thought, 'Oh, this is incredible, because that's where I was the previous day.' So, a lot of different thoughts went through my mind. I was grateful nobody got hurt.

Luz Hoyt

I'm so grateful to my mother for helping us out while we went through all of the paperwork. We wouldn't have been able to do it without her.

Friederike Boszko

I'm so grateful that you showed him your love.

Jill Takayama

I'm so grateful that my family's not here.

Patrick Modiano

I always have the impression that I write the same book.

Paul Jewell

You just got the impression it was one of those nights.

William Hatcher

I think the team's first impression was this was like homework.

Andy Engel

I was under the impression that you had to be a student to be on it.

Gary Mitchell

I was under the impression most people got the message. Apparently, the jury didn't.

Gregory Coleman

I was under the impression he was there (at the school), if you want to say, to allude justice,

Roger Gerlach

I think our team is going to show up. I know that's the pat answer, but we're not content. I didn't get that impression at practice.

John A. Logan

I had mapped most of these data, and had an impression about it, but I didn't want to do anything about it until I had seen it.

Veronique Keyser

I have more and more the impression that things could go calmly.

Idina Menzel

I will never leave the theater. My heart is there, and I love being on stage 8 times a week.

Gillian Armstrong

Maybe women should leave time for themselves and their relationships and just have some fun.

Michael Lloyd

That would leave the other one to merge with Union Pacific.

Samir Inamdar

We have already talked with Zimbabwe with the view of having their team come here before we leave for Bangladesh.

Rick Riordan

I wanted my students to leave my classroom loving reading and wanting to read more, and if they left my classroom thinking that reading is boring, then I haven't done my job.

Bruce Bowen

To leave that and become disciplined to the point where you realize, 'OK, maybe now is not the time to take one in transition'... him getting that is huge.

William J. Wills

We have been unable to leave the creek.

Noelle Quinn

We're used to warm weather, leaves on trees and being able to walk outside without a jacket. But we're not here for the weather, we're here to play basketball.

Larry Davis

Mick and I share the same philosophy - don't leave any stones unturned - and that's serving us well in our situation.