Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Flecker

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon - / With few but with how splendid stars / The mirrors of the sea are strewn / Between their silver bars.

Tom Herrion

As a team we take a lot more free throws than we used to. And we've improved greatly at it. But it's like every other team sport, the team that makes the fewer mistakes wins.

Marco Polo

At school, a few people know that I'm over here. I don't know about everybody, professors, curling people and a few kids in class.

Budd Booth

That was a big accomplishment for them. They all seem to be playing well together, and we have a lot of youth and depth, so that's encouraging for the next few seasons.

Dave Tragethon

People should make reservations, because if they wait until they get to the mountain we might be full. There are people who come up, make a few runs, come in and party a little bit, then go back out. Then there's those who come just for dinner, the party and the fireworks.

Jim Bagnall

Offensively, we need to be able to respond and score a few runs here and there to get back in the ballgame.

David Gregory

Offensively, we have to move the football on them. We haven't in the last few years. And that will be tough. They are big and physical.

Matt Stairs

Offensively we have a very good team but .Ê.Ê. pitching is the most important thing and we lost a few guys.

Matt Stairs

Offensively we have a very good team but . . . pitching is the most important thing and we lost a few guys.

Kelsey Grabiak

No, she was happy for us. She was really excited.

Robby Davis

We're happy with the jump we had. We've got work to do, but we're moving in the right direction.

Gary Cole

We're happy to see them. We hope they're here for a long time.

Rene Portland

We're happy to be here (at least) one more night.

Hines Ward

We're happy to be going to the Super Bowl, but we want to win. We plan to go there and win the whole thing.

Jud Honaker

We're happy to be able to help, and we wish them the best.

Randy Nelson

We're happy they're willing to sponsor us since we couldn't get sponsorship here.

Baruch Spinoza

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

James Kelleher

There are a lot of reasons why (Wall Street) just isn't happy about this restructuring.

Johann G. Seume

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Jenny Lewis

I've always just had sort of a dark take on life, I suppose, and hopefully, the music transcends that in a way.

James Taylor

I've always worked all my life and now I need a hand, not a handout. That's why I'm here.

Suki Waterhouse

I've acted my whole life pretty much, but then just got more into modelling.

Rashid Johnson

I've always been interested in this idea of a privileged life, probably because it's something I hadn't seen much of.

Philippe Petit

I wanted all my life to give my world into other arts - books, plays, movies - but I didn't want to sell out.

Warren Spector

I want content that is relevant to my life, that is relevant to me, that is set in the real world.

Robin Marantz Henig

The music that was popular in your youth seems to be the music you recall most vividly - and most nostalgically - for the rest of your life. But so is the music that was popular in your parents' youth.

Adlai E. Stevenson

A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: protocol, Geritol and alcohol.

Scottie Somers

A wise man once told Me that an overnight success takes 10 years. But I may not have 10 Years. I might have to settle for a naptime success.

Marcus Antonius

Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Tommy Lapid

Ross Perot was a rich joke, ... I am a very poor man but serious. We are in serious business.

Willie Randolph

I used to wear his old man out.

Doris Payne

The worse thing I could have done is to live with a man and not be married. That was the worse thing I could do when I was a teenager.

Ellis Hobbs

The way I see it is, each man has to be accountable for himself,

Francis Bacon

The wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Edward Fitzgerald

Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! / That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close!

Tom Daschle

As a veteran, there is no question that I stand strongly with the troops,

Sean Avery

No question that this is a way (for the league) to do something to me,

Pete Carroll

No question it helps. I wish I had two weeks for every game.

Stephen Hess

No question about it. It is overwhelmingly the issue.

Klaus Wowereit

No question about it, it is a glitzy scene but that is also part of Berlin,

Bob Goin

The stakes are higher, ... There's no question about that.

Allen Mesch

The summer's going to be without much question very bad.

Joseph Grundfest

There are a lot of complicated questions to answer.

Apolo Ohno

The first question is always, 'We loved him on 'Dancing with the Stars,' we loved him in the Olympics, but can he speak English?' Yes I speak English. Yes, I can.

Mark Palmer

We think it's important that they have face-to-face contact. In the old building, they were scattered all over the place.

Warren County

Makes you wonder where they all scattered to.

Jane Austen

To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.

Dalai Lama

Material development alone does not yield genuine inner peace.

Anthony Hope

You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.

Albert Bandura

Behavior must also be adequately assessed under appropriate circumstances. Ill-defined global measures of perceived self-efficacy or defective assessments of performance will yield discordances. Disparities will also arise when efficacy is judged for performances in actual situations but performance is measured in simulated situations that are easier to deal with than the actualities

Thomas Overbury

Wit is brushwood; judgment, timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire.

Samuel Adams

If the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.

Susan Griffin

What always seems miraculous is when aesthetic necessities yield an insight which otherwise I would have missed.

Richard Cecil

He who sows, even with tears, the precious seed of faith, hope, and love, shall doubtless come again with joy, bringing his sheaves with him, because it is the very nature of that seed to yield a joyful harvest.

Thomas Jefferson

When earth is rich it bids defiance to droughts, yields in abundance and of the best quality.