Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fred Astaire

People think I was born in top hat and tail

Lon Buchheit

She's a natural born leader. She knows what needs to be done and how to do it.

Gary Murphy

She's a natural born leader for us. I thought that bucket helped us to get (the momentum) back our way.

Joe Girardi

Since high school I've wanted to do this. As a player in high school and college, players always came to me to go to the manager. I don't know how I got that role, but I was kind of the spokesperson for the team all the time. I enjoyed it. I enjoy the competition, and I love studying the game. I think that's why I was born to manage.

Judy Davis

I had quite a repressed childhood. I was born in '55 and by the mid '60s it was still very much a sort of '50s mentality there, being so remote. I just found it stifling. And at some point - I think I was about 12 - I came to the conclusion that it was going to be difficult to survive that little society somehow intact.

Deborah Eisenberg

I find it endlessly interesting, endlessly funny, the fact that we're rather arbitrarily divided up into these discrete humans and that your physical self, your physical attributes, your moment of history and the place where you were born determine who you are as much as all that indefinable stuff that's inside of you.

Jason Burke

I feel extremely fortunate to be able to lead this squadron, ... My oldest daughter was born in Meridian and my family just loves it here.

Ruby Rose

I feel like I'm a boy, but I don't feel like I should've been born with different parts of my body or anything like that. I feel like it's just all in how I dress and how I talk and how I look and feel, and that makes me happy.

Mary Crosby

I didn't have anything to do with being born to my mother and father. But I had a lot to do with Kristin Shepard's notoriety. I'm proud of the work I did on Dallas.

E. Hicks

No substantive change was made to the process,

Jim Haslett

The one thing I did learn this year is that things change fast. You've got to be able to adapt. I guess that's the way life is. You just don't know what things are going to change.

Greg Olson

Spam' is the number-one issue for ISP's. It's killing them, ... This is definitely going to change the Internet.

Joe Zappala

Now is as good a time as any to change it.

Marianne Williamson

Now if you know what makes one person's life change, then you know what makes a nation change - because a nation is simply a large group of individuals.

Jehane Noujaim

Now, I don't know whether a film can change the world, but I know that it starts - I know the power of it - I know that it starts people thinking about how to change the world.

Michael Solomon

Technology has changed how people feel about sharing their identity.

Mark Roman

Sometimes do I think it was unjust? Yeah, but I can think about it all I want - it (isn't) going to change what's going on this year. I'm trying to put all that stuff as far away from my mind as I can possibly get it and just move on and try to prosper in this new year.

Soren Kierkegaard

Prayer doesn't change God, but changes him who prays

Lord Alfred Tennyson

A day less or more/ At sea or ashore,/ We die - does it matter when?

Chris Bates

San Diego is out of step with the rest of Southern California. It is the worst performer.

Mark Bittman

The sad thing is, when it comes to diet, is that even when well-intentioned Feds try to do right by us, they fail. Either they're outvoted by puppets of agribusiness, or they are puppets of agribusiness.

Edgar Gonzalez

It would have been exciting to play with him, and he wanted to be here. But San Diego wanted him there.

Brother Lawrence

Let us fear to leave Him. Let us be always with Him. Let us live and die in His presence.

The Talmud

Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.

Dave Rose

We weren't very good. A lot of that has to do with San Diego State. You have to give those guys a lot of credit.

Rudyard Kipling

What stands if Freedom fall? / Who dies if England live?

Abraham Scott

Those who died were not just numbers. They were people with families.

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.

Dwight L. Moody

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.

William Shakespeare

Everyone I meet is in some way my superior.

Oscar Wilde

Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once.

Louis Farrakhan

Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.

Christine Pelosi

Speak out, educate, do not be intimidated by the apologists, and do not let extreme racism be mainstreamed. Hopefully there will come a time when we don't need to tell our kids that Halloween is no excuse for hate, and that blackface has no place in a civilized society.

Vanna White

I'm really just a normal person.

Val Kilmer

I don't make any pretense about being normal. I'm not.

Rupert Grint

I've tried to have a really normal life, and I have because my family treats me normal, and my friends treat me just the same.

Shawn Johnson

My other life keeps me calm and grounded and normal.

Steven Morrissey

I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normal living.

Michael Ian Black

I can be a snarky Asshole, or I can be sort of mentally impaired. It's very hard for me to just be normal human being.

John Benjamin Hickey

I was shooting the third season of 'The Big C' and doing 'The Normal Heart' at the same time on Broadway, and I thought, 'I'll never do anything as difficult as this.'

Deborah Moggach

I work every day from 9:30 or so until lunchtime. In the afternoons, I become a normal person - go shopping and do the garden and look after my grandchildren.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Normality wasn't normal. It couldn't be. If normality were normal, everybody could leave it alone. They could sit back and let normality manifest itself.

Samuel Adams

We boast of our freedom, and we have your example for it. We talk the language we have always heard you speak.

Ron Paul

Let the revolution begin.

Storm Jameson

When you talk of revolution ... you never talk of the day after.

Vano Merabishvili

There is no chance of a revolution in Georgia.

Suzanne Collins

While you live, the revolution lives

Tablo

Revolution begins with one step

William Randolph Hearst

We must be alarmingly enterprising, and we must be startlingly original, and do new and striking things which constitute a revolution.

Vladimir Nabokov

Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.

James Levine

We're in the midst of an evolution, not a revolution.

W. S. Gilbert

I've seen it in all sorts of industries.

Tyler Hansbrough

Every team I play is real physical. They have some big bodies, but it's nothing I've never seen before, and it's nothing I can't handle.

Kristen Donofry

Now, we want to win and that's the first time I've seen that here.

Verne Lundquist

Oh, wow! In your life, have you ever seen anything like that?

Hans Blix

they know very well what they should provide. We have not seen it yet.

Peter Thomas

It was just so different from anything we have seen on Mars.

Randy Adams

It wasn't a bad-looking truck, ... You should've seen it before the fire.

Eli Manning

I've just seen it on TV and in pictures.

Brian Jacques

It's the first time I've seen any of my work done like this,

Lori Chappell

You really have to see the grounds to understand how populated they are.

Stephen Hawking

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

Seth Godin

Understanding the mythology of your partner, your customer and your audience is far more important than watching the instant replay of what actually happened.

Rajneesh

Religion is nothing but a science to attain wisdom, understanding, to know what life is, and to live it in utter celebration.

Rajneesh

The deeper you surrender to existence, life, nature, the more loving, more understanding, more insightful you become.

Jean Piaget

Experience precedes understanding.

Pat Cash

I see it, but I don't understand it,

Isaac Asimov

The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.

Milan Kundera

The reason is that everyone has trouble accepting the fact that he will disappear unheard of and unnoticed in an indifferent universe, and everyone wants to make himself into a universe of words before it's too late. Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.