Famous Quotes & Sayings

Twyla Tharp

My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the world.'

Twyla Tharp

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Custard is controversial: what makes it a custard, how best to cook it and, crucially, is it to be eaten or put in a pie and thrown?

Yani Tseng

It's very easy when you have someone in front of you that you can chase. You want to be No. 1 but now I feel like I have to play well because everybody looks at you as a best golfer. So that's why I put more pressure on myself.

Thucydides

We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.

Timothy Noah

There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.

Thomas Friedman

I can see a day soon where you'll create your own college degree by taking the best online courses from the best professors from around the world - some computing from Stanford, some entrepreneurship from Wharton, some ethics from Brandeis, some literature from Edinburgh - paying only the nominal fee for the certificates of completion.

Idina Menzel

I used to take 40 minutes to warm up before going on stage. If you want to spend time with your child as well as having a career, you have to get up there even if your head's a mess. It's made me more relaxed, and I'm having some of my best shows.

Idina Menzel

I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'

Virginia Postrel

In the fall of 1978, I left the religious, conservative, biracial, slow-paced culture of South Carolina for the secular, liberal, multi-ethnic, intense culture of Princeton University. Like most immigrants, I was looking for a better life in a place I only half understood.

Nancy Vinson

That was so important as far as water quality and habitat and public views. People come to South Carolina to enjoy these gorgeous marsh views.

Dee Davis

We have a lot of work to do. To play the way we did (last night), it's kinda depressing to know how much we wasted. If we'd played like this all year, we would have had a higher seed, and maybe we'd have played North Carolina in the finals. I take this year as a loss, as a failure. We gypped ourselves.

Jim Long

We've got people here from Florida; we got people from South Carolina -- so it's a combination.

Chip Rich

We're very proud to be here. It's so impressive, the response and the resources North Carolina has.

Tyrese Rice

It definitely was a road game. We're on the road right now, playing down here in North Carolina in ACC country.

John Hendricks

I thought it was a good event. I'm not displeased. I thought that we had a pretty decent crowd. Obviously it wasn't as large as South Carolina State. But hopefully the city of Columbia and the people of South Carolina will see that this is a very viable game, and they'll decide they will come out and support these young people. This is a very good game.

Hannah Storm

I was in Charlotte, N.C., when they launched the NBA team there, the Charlotte Hornets. And the first guy to roll into town was Carolina native Michael Jordan.

Ben Foster

We can say we'd like to play in Detroit, or do something like spend three days in North Carolina and be able to do that. Success means we don't work a day job and can live.

Imelda May

I'm the youngest of five - three girls and two boys. There was one record player for the seven of us. It was good for me, because I got to hear everyone else's music.

Ian Mcewan

Some people are tied to five hundred words a day, six days a week. I'm a hesitater.

Zoe Sugg

Who knows what will happen in five years' time.

Will Shields

Just looking at society as a whole, there are a lot of different things that we are not doing as a group to make sure we are close. Everything is in transit. People are moving from place to place. You can have a neighbor you live next to for five years and never speak to, and nobody has a problem with that.

will.i.am

If you listen to the songs I write, they are the most ADHD songs ever. They have five hooks in one and it all happens in three minutes.

Evel Knievel

I play golf five days a week. I find that if I play seven days a week, I get stale.

Emma Watson

I could never really imagine myself doing one thing, and I'm pretty sure that I'll end up doing four or five different things. I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I want to just do everything.

David Bailey

All my ex-girlfriends or wives are all kind of great friends and I've never understood somebody who can live with somebody for five or six years and then not like them.

Tim Armstrong

The overall radio space looks similar to the way the Internet did five or six years ago.

Zach Johnson

I don't know if I have a brand. I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf. I guess I'm kind of the feel-good story who's seen every level of professional golf.

Warren Zevon

So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on.

Whitney Cummings

After school, I'd wait for someone to pick me up and no one would, so I'd be like, 'I guess I'll walk home.' I had to be a hustler, because nobody did anything for me.

Connie Mack

I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself.

Chris Bohjalian

I loved all ghost stories. So I guess it was only a matter of time before I wrote one.

Brian De Palma

I guess what's most surprised me in most of the reviews is that they don't seem to get the noir story in the dream sequence, so they analyze it like a straight noir movie.

David Cone

I guess it kind of stemmed from my father. He was a union guy working for the meat plant down in Kansas City. He was a union guy, and I guess it was just in my blood.

Vidya Balan

I remember someone telling me that when he saw the back of a woman's head, he knew that was the woman he was going marry. I laughed that away as silly talk. But I guess when a relationship has to happen, it happens seamlessly. Your partner just walks into your life.

Clint Eastwood

I guess I'm living in the present more than the past.

Ismail Kadare

It is well known that in the Communist countries, and especially in my own, Albania, readers were often called upon to demonstrate their vigilance by detecting and denouncing the 'errors' of authors.

Vincent Bugliosi

No matter what I do, I'll be forever known as the Manson prosecutor.

Zubin Mehta

I've known Pinchas Zukerman since he was a teenager.

Nayvadius Cash

My day one fans - my fans from my mix tape days - know my life now. They know where I've been. You don't want to have a disconnection with those fans. You have to give them all of you because they feel like they've known you.

Cecelia Ahern

Have you ever not known something but known it at the same time?

Roman Jakobson

Of course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any verbal sign, is a unity of two components.

Dorothy Day

We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.

Juergen Trittin

We've long known the waste would have to be taken back.

Rodney Moore

We've known about this idea for some time, but it has yet to be developed.

Bruce Anderson

The patterns we are seeing are similar to those witnessed in the last campaign, but the past is not always a reliable predictor of the future.

Victoria Osteen

Don't fall into the trap of putting yourself last on the list or not even putting yourself on the list. That's not balance; it's not even healthy.

Richard Daley

I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.

Nas

Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it's not up to people's expectations anymore, its still here, and that's says a lot.

Cecelia Ahern

She couldn't remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone.

Bertrand Russell

The saviors of the world, society's last hope.

Jim Edmonds

The always-important last at-bat. That's big, especially here.

Charles Hayward

The $5 million will not last us until the summer.

Thomas Carter

That was it, that was the last straw,

Bikram Choudhury

Growing up in Bombay, I saw many sick people.

Nancy Grace

I grew up in a courtroom kind of like the one you saw in 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - big, big courtroom, sometimes it didn't even have air conditioning.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

I was 15 or 16 when I first saw 'Once Upon A Time In America,' so I was quite young, but I was completely blown away.

Bill Burr

Patrice O'Neal is the best comic I ever saw.

E. B. White

That was a train wreck that we saw in New Orleans,

John Nicks

That was the first time I ever saw her distraught.

Reid Scott

I actually started as a director, but then I saw Mark Ruffalo in 'You Can Count on Me,' and I thought to myself, 'I want to do that.'

Bonni Retzkin

I thought it was great. You saw it.

Bede Griffiths

I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God.

Skip Bertman

That would be something very special. It's already been a very special season.

Jimmy Calderwood

That was very disappointing on such a special day,

Donald Trump

I think this wedding is one of the most special ones we've done.

Becca Fitzpatrick

There's nothing special about losing your virginity over a toilet.

S. Walker

We do most of our own work. Only specialty work is sublet out to other contractors.

Derek Moyers

We really think, if we can stay healthy, it can be a special season.

Zac Taylor

We have something special going here, so we're just going to keep going.

Rick Clausen

We know it could be a special year,

Avery Cutshaw

I look for him to be pretty special by the time he's a senior.

Bobb'e J. Thompson

I'm blessed, and I say it all the time that I don't take anything for granted. I studied my craft and just stick with it.

Carrie Underwood

If you stick to what you know; you sell yourself short.

Rashad Anderson

We just didn't come out and put them away. It's not easy. It sticks with you until you play again.

Zoe McLellan

I dream in numbers, and I like to look up the meaning of numbers, and numbers stick out to me.

Joey Porter

I still stick to my word: that's not smash-mouth football. We play smash-mouth football.

Ozzie Guillen

We have to stick together for when the tough times come.

Ben Wallace

We're always going to stick to our concept. There's no need to change.

Jayme Wilson

We know it?s going to be a challenge. We?re going to try to stick to what we do and give them a game.

Alan Simpson

You'd like to stick it in his gazoo.

Tony DeMuro

That was the way we want to see it end. It couldn't be any better than that with three teams going after it.

John Stockton

We could have one of the better teams we've ever had here. I think we're on our way back up.

Andy Athanas

Usually when you see teams do what we've done in two years, it's the same group. These are different kids.

Andre Patterson

We've done it more than most teams I've worked with.

Pete Rose

Any time you've got big teams winning, you've got big stars.

Tom Condon

Those are the two teams we have scheduled so far.

Jamelle Cornley

We can play with anybody, teams know that.

Bob Shoop

We do need to find another playmaker on offense, whether it's the tight end or who it is. Or teams are just going to quadruple-cover Bowser.

Jerry Moore

We don't see Big 12 teams very often,