Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Hearns

Ray Leonard was more of a favorite than Thomas Hearns that night.

Tracy Austin

The prize money for first place was $2,800, but I didn't take it because I was still an amateur.

Muhammad Ali

When you are as great as I am it is hard to be humble.

Arthur Ashe

What it is controlled cool, in a way. Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.

Eric Heiden

What I do right now is very rewarding.

Amy Alcott

The pressure of getting an order right is greater than sinking a putt.

Juan Marichal

Those days were very tough. All my teammates are white, and it was a different time. I couldn't go out to eat with the white players; I had to wait until someone brought something out to the bus. We couldn't stay in the same hotels.

Dave Winfield

Those are real heroes. Hilton Smith, guys that played in the Negro Leagues, never got a chance in the Major Leagues. But you kept on playing.

Gerry Cooney

We are in the learning stages of my organization, so we are taking it slow, to be able to help the fighters with the best options we have out there.

Robert Kelly

You know you're fat when you use a piece of a bread as a napkin.

Randy Alcorn

Why ask for your daily bread when you own the bakery?

Studs Terkel

Work is a search for daily meaning as well as for daily bread.

Victor Hugo

The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.

Suzanne Collins

I don't know what it is with Finnick and bread, but he seems obsessed with handling it.

Michael Pollan

Rule No.37 The whiter the bread, the sooner you’ll be dead.

Matthew Henry

Brown bread and the Gospel is good fare.

Bible Bible

So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits long; / Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, an hundred cubits.

Thomas Moran

Getting tired of back and bread which is pretty much all we have to eat.

Archimedes

Eureka! (I have found it!)

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

The very discovery of the New world was the by-product of a dietary quest.

Iris Apfel

I do have a dominant shopping gene but, unlike a reasonable person, I never plan for what I need each season. I enjoy the thrill of the hunt, the discovery and the endless search. In another creation I was, perhaps, a hunter/gatherer. After all these years, I’ve learned that it’s not the end result or finished product but the process I most enjoy. If my experimenting, searching and juxtaposing turns into an exciting outfit well, it’s just a big fat bonus!

Jim Fox

Her perspective led me into self-discovery. I got to see the other side.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Competition is like experimentation in science, a discovery process, and it must rely on the self interest of producers, it must allow them to use their knowledge for their purposes, because nobody else possesses the information

John Charles Polanyi

It is folly to use as one's guide in the selection of fundamental science the criterion of utility. Not because (scientists)... despise utility. But because. .. useful outcomes are best identified after the making of discoveries, rather than before.

Joseph Heller

Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fear of discovery and change and a positive dread of everything unknown that may occur.

Joseph Priestley

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.

Julianne Nicholson

Onstage, of course, you have the luxury of rehearsal and discovery and time and comfort, which then turns into terror when you actually have to put it in front of people.

Lisa Murray

collaborative education is a better way to learn.

Ben Parr

Don't let failure deter you; use it as a stepping-stone and an educational experience towards making your mark on the world.

Barbara Jordan

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted.

Andrea Lewis

Don't get me wrong ten list, I'm getting a good education but some of my professors just don't get me going.

Dan Erikson

The UN is going to stay in Haiti for a long time. It should be much more involved in improving healthcare and education than peacekeeping.

Jim Dale

What we are saying and implying here is that the education you get here is effective. It's not simply for its own sake.

Bradley Wilson

We were pleased that we had four other applicants that are leaders in higher education in the country,

David Keller

What is UVSC's role in the Utah system of higher education in general and, more specifically, to the local community?

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

Shawnee Smith

So much of life is just talk. At the end of the day, you're just serving the higher thing.

Fadel Gheit

These stocks are not reflecting $50 or $60 oil. They are probably reflecting $40 oil. But this is not realistic. The fundamentals support a higher price.

Don Bowers

The worse the hurricane does to us, the higher the prices are going to go.

Lysle Brinker

This is a tax story. What we don't know is how long the higher tax rate will be sustained going forward.

Rich Olson

That took the wind out of our sails. It just made the hill a lot higher to climb.

Cheng Chin

At the moment, I don't see how this can be done at much higher temperatures.

Adam Sieminski

We should have an overall higher level of distillate product - This should give the industry a breather.

Adam Sieminski

We should have an overall higher level of distillate product -- This should give the industry a breather.

Tom Mann

Property can be replaced ! Human life, never.

Edward Hirsch

Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you write for other human beings.

Auguste Comte

Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

Arthur Miller

Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise.

Jim Fowler

I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.

Coco Chanel

One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.

Edward Abbey

Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.

Deepak Chopra

If you are not astonished that you exist, your humanity is not complete.

Dalai Lama

I am just one human being.

Michael McCord

Saint Clair has kind of taken the lead on this." ()

Cesar Chavez

There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.

Daniel H. Pink

What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These skills have become first among equals in a whole range of business fields.

Daniel H. Pink

I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture. I'm trying to get my right-brain muscles into shape. I actually think this shift toward right-brain abilities has the potential to make us both better off and better in a deeper sense.

Bobby Knight

I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.

Ryan Gosling

There's a lot of pressure to be the lead of a film. I have done it. It's not my favorite way to work.

Mahmoud Abbas

We are trying to lead our people to a just peace and to security, and we want to pave the way for the next generations.

Bobby Howard

We were leading 7-2 in the game. We just didn't get it done.

Karin Brower

We had the 8-4 lead with 13:42 left in the game. We were trying to take time off the clock.