Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes you have to be careful when selecting a new name for yourself. For instance, let's say you have chosen the nickname "Fly Head." Normally you would think that "fly Head" would mean a person who has beautiful swept-back features, as if flying through the air. But think again. Couldn't it also mean "having a head like a fly"? I'm afraid some people might actually think that.

Catherine McCartney

We've spoken out and said you can stand up and you don't have to be afraid of anybody. But it won't mean anything unless the people in the communities take that opportunity the next time the IRA comes to their door and say to them 'I'm not going to allow you to bully me'.

Chinese Proverbs

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still

Rob Varley

Bob cares a lot about the success of Cocoa Beach. He's a regular guy who isn't afraid of hard work. Let me tell you -- it was very difficult for the tourism industry after Sept. 11. We were hurting.

Wesley Hill

What I try to emphasize more than anything else is don't be afraid to make a mistake. That's how you learn what you can't do, and what you don't like to do.

Robert Green Ingersoll

All the punishment in the world will not reform a man, unless he knows that he who inflicts it upon him does it for the sake of reformation, and really and truly loves him, and has his good at heart. Punishment inflicted for gratifying the appetite makes man afraid but debases him.

Nate Robertson

Leyland's not afraid to yell at you from the dugout. It's situational things, not pitch selection. When he says something, I take it to the bank. I trust what he says.

Antonio Villaraigosa

Leadership is not about being afraid to lead or make mistakes, ... the whole culture is about being safe and risk averse.

Susan Chapman

So many bad things have happened, they are afraid to hope. Until it's actually voted on by the commission, they're afraid to have any trust in the process.

Hines Ward

He's still the 37 I know. He may have lost a step or something but he'll still end your career if he gets a chance.

Tim Seislove

He's our first three-time place-winner. He earned everything he's gotten. He will be proud some day when he looks back on the career he did have. He's disappointed right now.

Gerard Gallant

He's right there. He's played a long career and he's still playing well. He's had a great career. He's a great friend. It was Gretzky and Lemieux in my era and he's right there.

Greg Blache

He's one of those American success stories, and that's why I hope his career will end way at the top.

Robert Lang

He's one of the only guys who could have challenged (Wayne) Gretzky had he played long enough. Gretzky had a longer career and was fortunate to play more games than Mario. As a pure point-getter, he's right up there with Wayne.

Ashley Giles

I don't think I'll score more important runs in my career and I don't think Hoggy will hit a better extra cover drive in his career.

Jeff Lemire

I don't play video games because I know that if I ever started, I'd never be able to maintain a career again.

Lindy Ruff

I don't know if his career was going nowhere. They liked him there, but here he's been a more determined player in all three zones. He fits the way we play here, and when he plays center he's able to play in any situation.

Josh Greenberg

I didn't expect to continue my playing career after high school. I chose Yale because it was a great school academically and I didn't regret it.

Ralph Alvarez

A merger of flavors and spices has spilled over into fast food.

Dan Marino

It's not how hard you throw it, but how fast you get it there.

Kristine Lilly

It's not how hard you fall, but how fast you get up.

Larry Baeder

For a freshman to swim that fast in the 500, you know you have a special kid on your hands. He was hoping to be seeded No. 1...He wants to be the freshman that wins the event.

Alexander Paris

It's the market saying these guys aren't going to grow as fast - these guys are no longer a growth company.

William McDonald

It started out at a fast pace, but it looks to be slowing down.

Lakshman Achuthan

It's the 'Red Queen effect' -- you've got to run twice as fast just to stay in place.

Jay Davis

They are a really fast team, and they gave us a lot of different looks. They move and shift around a lot, and that gave me a hard time picking up a read on their defense.

Tucker Peavey

They are fast at all their skill positions.

I think my new thing will be to try to be a real happy guy. I'll just walk around being real happy until some jerk says something stupid to me.

Stephen Rubin

I have never seen him so happy writing something.

Laveranues Coles

I'm very happy with where I'm at and I'm very comfortable here.

Ryan Smyth

I'm very happy with this deal, especially since we didn't have to go through the arbitration process,

Frank Michalowski

I'm very happy with the year - especially with the size of my team.

John Tortorella

I'm very happy with the way the organization is working.

Michael Sim

I'm very happy with the way I played today. I'm also very surprised to be leading the tournament after an even-par round.

A.J. Burnett

I'm very pleased with the outcome and the results. I probably could have thrown 10 or 15 more, if I wanted to, but overall I'm really happy with how I threw.

Bob Schmidt

I'm very pleased with the meet. I saw a lot of competitive effort, and I saw the kids taking a lot of pride in what they were doing. I'm happy for them.

Maya Angelou

The music was my friend, my lover, my family.

Herb Alpert

I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.

Isaac Hanson

But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.

David Friedman

I publish my own music. I'm creating my own songbook. It works that way for me; I'm very independent.

Jim Foglesong

I'm just kind of a music junkie. Whatever I'm doing at the moment is my favorite.

Jerry Hunt

In 1955 music wasn't that important. Music was a kind of a special thing you went and did.

John Trudell

I'm not a musician making words to go with my music.

Lapo Elkann

I like listening to music and driving. How do you say... It's the only way I can 'chillax.'

Rabindranath Tagore

Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color may make it vague and insignificant. Yet color may, by combination with lines, create great pictures, so long as it does not smother and destroy their value.

Andy Johnson

Some people think that because it's a threatened species, that every one we save is good. But not if they never get to live in the wild.

Andrew Niccol

Some people think 'Lord of War' is a political film,

Liam Hemsworth

Southern people remind me a lot of Australia.

Jim Anderson

So we're trying to let people know that we will automatically enroll them in Part D and there is no premium at all,

Mark Rylance

So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it.

Jesse Toprak

Now, for vehicles priced under $40,000, it is one of the first questions people ask.

Cesar Romero

Now I don't know half of the young people in the industry. It's too spread out, too diffuse.

Lois Lowry

Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy.

Robin Cook

Tell the people of Serbia how much wealth you have sucked out during the same years they have been impoverished in Serbia,

Tubby Smith

When a team shoots 72 percent, you're not really playing much defensively.

Amy Winehouse

I always try to write a song to work things out with myself and I want to do it with a little punchline at the end, because I never want to remember anything bad in my life.

Amy Winehouse

I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and atmospheric. You'd have an entire story in song. I never listen to, like, white music - I couldn't sing you a Zeppelin or Floyd song.

Amy Winehouse

I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.

Amy Winehouse

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

Amy Winehouse

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.

Alexa Chung

DJing for people is fun until someone comes up with a phone screen that has 'PLAY SOME RIHANNA' written on it. I prefer to play older songs because they're the ones I personally enjoy dancing and singing along to and modern dance music bores my brains out.

Drew Carey

I wish I could end every rap song I didn't like with a buzzer.

Duff Green

Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the most popular man in the United States.

Dr. Dre

I realized at a young age that sequence in an album is almost as important as the songs that are on the album.

Kenny G

You can't just walk away when somebody recognizes you. You have to take some time out and talk to them. It's not a waste of time - I just love talking to people. And I don't do this to sell records. The truth is, I do what I do because I love it.

Keith Ellison

San Bernardino involved two killers were actually radicalized before they started courting or dating each other online, and online as late as - as early as the end of 2013, they were talking to each other about jihad and martyrdom before they became engaged and then married and lived together in the United States.

Paullina Simons

Tatiana...you and I had only one moment..." said Alexander. "A single moment in time, in your time and mine...one instant, when another life could have still been possible." He kissed her lips. "Do you know what I'm talking about?" When Tatiana looked up from her ice cream, she saw a soldier staring at her from across the street. "I know that moment," whispered Tatiana.

Ann Gard

They're so crispy. You're talking a long time ago here.

David Mamet

Hitchcock denigrated American films, saying they were all 'pictures of people talking' - as, indeed, most of them are.

Herbie Hancock

To my wife, I'm not Herbie Hancock the musician. I'm her husband. When I'm talking to a neighbor, I'm a neighbor. When I vote, I'm a citizen.

Louis C. K.

All talking is good, negative and positive. Stabbing is bad; talking is good.

Anton Chekhov

If only one tooth aches, rejoice that not all of them ache.... If your wife betrays you, be glad that she betrayed only you and not the nation.

Dalai Lama

If there is a solution to a problem, there is no need to worry. And if there is no solution, there is no need to worry.

Sophocles

To him who is afraid, everything rustles.

Oprah Winfrey

I’ve learned not to worry about what might come next.

Margaret Chan

For a pandemic of moderate severity, this is one of our greatest challenges: helping people to understand when they do not need to worry, and when they do need to seek urgent care.

Mary Oliver

Things take the time they take. don't worry. How many roads did St. Augustine follow before he became St. Augustine?

Peter Lynch

Your ultimate success or failure will depend on your ability to ignore the worries of the world long enough to allow your investments to succeed.

Mickey Rivers

Ain't no sense worrying about the things you got control over 'cause if you got control over 'em, ain't no sense worrying. Ain't no sense worrying about the things you got no control over 'cause if you got no control over 'em, ain't no sense worrying.

Paula Radcliffe

I try not to worry about things that I can't control.

Terry Pratchett

It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death.