Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kelly Rowland

Self-reflection is so healthy. Journaling works for me - when I record the details of what I'm going through, whether it's a relationship issue or negative thoughts, I can look back and see how far I've come. It makes me proud to see my progress and how I got through a bad situation.

Joyce Johnson

I was in really bad shape. I don't remember a lot of it. But after I got out of there, I spent a week and a half in the hospital. Half of it in the intensive care unit.

Richard Armitage

I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the appearance is that you reward bad behavior. But if North Korea behaves for some period of time, I would pretty much favor direct talks.

Curtis Anderson

I would say it's four to one we've had more bad days than good days.

Ed Muniz

Katrina dealt us a bad hand. But to say you're going to cut Mardi Gras is the wrong approach. That would be another financial hit for the city as well as a psychological hit.

Sean Casey

Just watching my teammates on TV, how close they're coming and not getting results ... it hurts a lot. I'm there on the couch, the game is close and they need a big hit, and I'm, like, 'Jeez, let me get out there.' I want so badly to be part of it again.

Jason Isringhausen

Just one bad pitch I wish I could get back, but I can't. It's just frustrating more than anything, but we'll be back out there.

James Haynes

Joe has good feet, ... If something broke down, I felt he could get away easily. The other night (against DeSoto) he got a bad snap, made this guy miss and that guy miss, and before you knew it, he broke it to the sidelines for about 30 yards.

Allen Iverson

John is going to feel bad because of the situation. Probably he will react to something not that serious because of the situation.

Katherine Paterson

Obviously, I love to do both contemporary and historical fiction. When a hint of a story grabs me, I try to go with it to see where it will take me whatever the setting.

Dan Castellaneta

Kids, kids. As far as Daddy's concerned, you're both potential murderers.

Eric Johnson

James and I have similar tastes. We both have high tenor voices and write melodic songs. And we both really like the Kinks.

Steve Cram

I would say the decision to run both events would mean she has to make compromises,

Hanya Yanagihara

Kashmir, the 86,000-square-mile region in India's north, both is and isn't the India of the popular imagination.

Jon Huntsman

Just the fact that they have taken a position on it will resonate with many both in state and out,

Fred Carter

John and Vicki Kirby have long supported education in the Pee Dee both personally and professionally. We are extremely appreciative of their efforts to help educate the region's future teachers through this scholarship.

Brian Shipley

Joey and Josh both threw strikes, but you can't have five errors and expect to win.

John Howell

Joe was a defensive specialist for us last year. He's grown 6 inches since last season and is now playing a dominant role in both the front and back row.

John Stevens

I would totally disagree with that comment. I don't think we're ever considered as a soft hockey team. We've had this conversation before, our guys that are expected to score, need to score.

Richard Chamberlain

Handsome" means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered - and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically, it doesn't hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business.

Susanna Moore

On its 2015 list, the Fish and Wildlife Service included the 'ea, or hawksbill turtle, as well as the green turtle, Ridley sea turtle, leatherback turtle and loggerhead turtle. Four mammals are considered endangered: the Hawaiian hoary bat; the kohola, or humpback whale; the sperm whale; and the endemic Hawaiian monk seal.

Mark Leno

The only thing that could come to mind is that he's politically pandering to the far right, which has been demanding that he make a statement, ... I'd like to take her at her word that he only considers the policy implications, which means there's no need to make such a hurried decision.

Jon Fleischman

Here's a state that Democrats have long considered an easy win. Not this time.

Paul DePodesta

He's a guy I've been interested in sitting down with for a while, ... We considered him for farm director position last year and he is a potential rising star in the game.

Mike Scioscia

He's been playing great. I think he's got to be a candidate. With the type of year he's having, you'd have to consider him.

Lanny Wadkins

I think it's going to be the same thing that you always have: Players are going to look at places where they play well. I think it's going to be the same criteria. I don't think the players are going to consider the Players Championship a major.

Claude Julien

I think when you consider the position that we were in with our roster and all the situations that have happened in the past couple of days, I thought we played a pretty tight game.

Dave DeCecco

Soft drinks are a big part of it but they are just part of it.

Robin Williams

I still think Nancy does most of his talking; you'll notice that she never drinks water when Ronnie speaks.

John Sicher

Traditional carbonated soft drinks have got a tough road ahead. The migration to water and sports drinks and other noncarbonated drinks seems to be permanent.

Jim Rink

In Michigan, we only have one refinery. The other two factors influencing our prices are that there is a lot of speculation taking place on the commodities market and that there are a number of refineries that are having to shut down temporarily to switch their production to the summer-grade gasoline blends.

Richard Church

The consumer's been out in force for several months, ... all of these factors have contributed to very robust sales at retail.

James Reed

There were quite a few factors that influenced me, but mostly it was the opportunity to do something unique and different.

Randy Bly

It's a combination of factors hitting all at once.

Christa Carone

As other factors are implemented it will start to have an impact in overall employment.

Lisa Ling

There are so many factors to lead to a child becoming obese.

Anthony Chan

There are a lot of good factors out there.

P. J. O'Rourke

There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion.

Peter MacKay

for the simple reason that I love Nova Scotia. That's my home. It's where my family is and my heart ... so that always factors in.

Maureen Allyn

Growth took them by surprise last year so I think this is paying back for all that growth we had last year.

Stuart Freeman

We've been thinking that the Nasdaq, as an index, would likely outperform a lot of the other indexes this year. It's a lot about secular growth. We're seeing growth in technology. And for the most part, it's been a tech year.

Paul Polzin

We've got to go back to the 1970s to get three strong years of 4 percent growth.

Preston Beckman

I think we're relieved and a little shocked that it's showing such growth this year. For us, having maintained the ratings we had last year would have been a plus.

Joe Lieberman

I think what we've learned is that when growth occurs, it occurs in the private sector,

Eric Schmidt

I don't know where (Chinese) revenue growth will be, but it will obviously be large.

Benn Steil

He made some mistakes on the growth side.

Ruben Studdard

I like doing theaters. I like being up close and personal with the fans. It's really cool.

Samuel Smiles

True politeness is consideration for the opinions of others. It has been said of dogmatism that it is only puppyism come to its full growth; and certainly the worst form this quality can assume is that of opinionativeness and arrogance.

Ryan Coleman

I think we're doing a tremendous job defensively. We're holding our opponents to 50 points or less, which is right where they need to be.

Asma Jehangir

I did not see ill will on the part of the government, that they were holding it for themselves, or misappropriating it. But nevertheless, what they didn't understand is the need for speed. They're being bureaucratic.

Jeff Hanna

He loved it over there, and they loved him. When we went onstage in Japan, there were people holding up 'Vassar Clements' placards.

Glenn Mason

I'm an old-fashioned guy. There are two kinds of coaches: schemers and fundamentalists. Fundamentalists teach blocking, tackling and holding on to the ball.

Brian Hill

I'm sure it's discouraging for him. He looked to me that he was having some pain and I didn't want to take any chances. I saw him wincing out there and holding his midsection. It didn't make sense for him to continue. I know he's down.

Lisa Parker

You can see where there's no bark. That's where we were holding onto it.

Jeremy Lewis

It's like holding a wolf by the ears, ... You don't want to hold it, but you don't want to let it go.

Mike Holmgren

I've had the privilege of holding it (the Lombardi Trophy) before and I hope to touch it again.

Kristin Hannah

Sometimes holding on was all you could do.

Laura Bush

When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.

John Powell

We have tightened just as tight as we can go including the elimination of personnel,

Mark Trakh

They are going to be scary for a long time. And I'm including this year when I say that.

George Will

Schools, including universities, must insist upon the prestige of reading and especially of reading old books.

Dionne Warwick

Drugs of every sort, including aspirin, are not anything I even think about.

LeBron James

Brenda was a special person to everyone, including myself. I will truly miss her being around. My prayers go out to her family, especially my little brother, Brandon.

Alex Clare

Every song I write, including 'Too Close,' always starts on the guitar.

William McCarthy

You have to look at the big picture, including your other lifestyle choices.

Matt Hammons

This was a total team effort. Everyone, including the kids who didn't qualify to district, contributed to our team's strong performance.

Stella McCartney

I was in this stadium with 200,000 people looking at my mum and dad. That was mind-bending.

Harry Redknapp

I was looking out there with two minutes to go thinking 'Don't do this to me again'.

John Smoltz

I was looking forward. It was brutal. I was tested to the max.

Trot Nixon

I was looking for Baez to come after me like he normally does,

Jim Crawley

I was looking at our play sheet at halftime,

Dwight Davis

I wouldn't be surprised to see anything at this point; this is the Wild West in terms of licensing models, ... Everyone is looking for models right now.

Kenneth Clarke

I think it sends a message that they are looking for a younger leader.

Les Harrison

We're on the radar now and we're looking to get on the map.

Before Veeder

When he showed up, I wasn't looking for him, but he said he would, and sure enough he did.

John Collins

I think in some ways those conversations, as well as our overall conversations of the organization and how to make it better, may have spun some rumors out that essentially were tagged to the GM.

Richard Jerram

I think the overall picture is quite positive,

Mike Hultz

He was unbelievable. It was probably the second best, not points-wise, but overall performance I have seen live.

Pat Murphy

I'm disappointed overall in the play of the weekend.

Peter Morgan

The overall trend is still that the recovery is weak. I wouldn't say that this is a turnaround yet.

Willie Randolph

When you don't get calls, then you don't pitches where you want them to be. But overall he pitched pretty well.

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

Jon Hanson

Token sales have spiked, ... Token use has spiked.

Richelle Mead

Please don’t get sentimental,” said Jerome. “It’s nauseating.

W. Somerset Maugham

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

James Joyce

Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

David Smith

They are overestimating the anti-gay sentiment in their own organization and the country.

Jane Jacobs

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

Jose Rizal

Orientals, and the Malays in particular, are a sensitive people: delicacy of sentiment is predominant with them.

Blaise Pascal

All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.

John Tkacik

There is no sentiment in the administration for humoring the Chinese,

Henry David Thoreau

Commerce is unexpectedly confident and serene, alert, adventurous, and unwearied. It is very natural in its methods withal, far more so than many fantastic enterprises and sentimental experiments, and hence its singular success.

Kevin Sneddon

Just really disappointed in the third goal; it really took the wind out of our sails. That was just a really soft goal.

Lisa Fernandez

[T]he game's got to be played on the field, and that's the one day that's got to be the most important day.

Lisa Fernandez

There is a way to play this game physically, but it's the mental part that's going to separate gold from silver and silver from bronze.

Philip Schiller

This is to do a whole different set of things. There's been no software that does what Aperture does.

Alan Moore

As I see it, a successful story of any kind should be almost like hypnosis: You fascinate the reader with your first sentence, draw them in further with your second sentence and have them in a mild trance by the third. Then, being careful not to wake them, you carry them away up the back alley of your narrative and when they are hopelessly lost within the story, having surrendered themselves to it, you do them terrible violence with a softball bag and then lead them whimpering to the exit on the last page. Believe me, they'll thank you for it.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I believe in the philosophy of staying hungry. If you have a dream and it becomes a reality, don't stay satisfied too long. Make up a new dream and hunt after that one and turn it into a reality.

Bill Veeck

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.

Richard Williams

These software stocks are all overvalued on the fundamentals that we see today.

Augusten Burroughs

I never could have written the screenplay because I would have been forced to learn new software and I can't learn one more thing.

William Penn

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.

Industry Idris

It (the volume of subsidized fertilizer) will not change.

Jason Simpson

With the US out today, volumes are pretty low.

Richard P. Feynman

On the contrary, it's because somebody knows something about it that we can't talk about physics . It's the things that nobody knows anything about that we can discuss. We can talk about the weather; we can talk about social problems; we can talk about psychology; we can talk about international finance gold transfers we can't talk about, because those are understood so it's the subject that nobody knows anything about that we can all talk about!

Ruben Hinojosa

Farms and ranches contend with much more than quarterly reports and profit margins - the weather can wreak havoc on their quality of life and economic viability. When natural disasters strike, we must do all we can to assist the backbone of our economy.

Robin Morgan

What would we do without irony? Check out your own daily reliance on it, the foul-weather friend who's there for you when nothing else is.

Willard Scott

These days, you have to have a gimmick to do the weather. You have to have an act.

Norman Vincent Peale

Silence fertilizes the deep place where personality grows. A life with a peaceful center can weather all storms.

Julian Baggini

Trying to keep up with health advice can feel like surfing the Net for weather forecasts: what you find is always changing, often contradictory and rarely encouraging.

Mark Twain

Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it

Mark Twain

If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.

Marion Barry

The contagious people of Washington have stood firm against diversity during this long period of increment weather.

Emily Cederholm

I think the expectations are higher, but they don't feel so much pressure. This whole year is different.

Brandon Roy

I think this is the year it can happen.

Richard D. James

My filing system's really crap because I can never decide whether to sort things by studio, or year, or where I lived.

Richard D. James

I've always got to change something. All the tracks I've done in the last five years were made in like six different studios. It gets a bit complicated.

Robbie Coltraine

Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you.

Rob Sheffield

Not being able to protect her from things was the most frightening thing I'd ever felt, and it kicked in as soon as we got together. With every year we spent together, I became more conscious that I now had an infinitely expanding number of reasons to be afraid. I had something to lose.

Rob Chapman

The way I have progressed as a writer over the years is to try and stay true to the principles I absorbed.

Rob Halford

They were and still are a groundbreaking band. Even though they haven't released any new music in ages, you can put on the first Black Sabbath album and it still sounds as fresh today as it did 30-odd years ago. And that's because great music has a timeless ability: To me, Sabbath are in the same league as the Beatles or Mozart. They're on the leading edge of something extraordinary.

Richard P. Feynman

If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those years of study, still cannot spell 'friend,' I say to them that something's the matter with the way you spell friend.