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.'

Ice T

I think the most successful are the most paranoid. The first thing people do when they buy a mansion is they build the biggest wall you could possibly build around it. What happens is, now you become a target. If I go into the hood, I'm at a disadvantage. They could carry guns. I can't. They can hit me in the face. I can't.

Ice Cube

I never get tired of 'It Was A Good Day' references or jokes or anything like that. It's just, you know, keeping my biggest hit alive. Nothing wrong with that.

Isaac Brock

I like Modest Mouse. I'm our biggest fan. And enemy. I won't waste people's time by putting out a Modest Mouse record just because. That's fair, right?

Ian Watson

My father-in-law just happens to be a global procurement guru. Now retired, he was the global head of procurement for some of the biggest companies in the world as well as our very own treasury.

Giovanni Agnelli

The Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy, and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside the Soviet Union.

Gianni Agnelli

Well, the Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside Soviet Union, there's no doubt about that.

Gareth Bale

My dad's the one who's always been there; he's my hero, you could say. Even when he was working, he'd do anything for me. He's been the biggest influence in my life.

Vonda Shepard

The biggest similarity between me and my character is that we've both played clubs for 20 years. In real life, the clubs aren't quite as controlled - and my hair isn't quite as in place as it is on 'Ally McBeal.'

Christian Bale

The biggest rebellion I could've ever had with my father would be to work in a bank. He would have disowned me. As long as I was doing something where I didn't have to wear a tie, I was good.

Richard Greenfield

Nobody could have anticipated how much of a financial juggernaut ESPN would become.

Jeff Feagles

I'm a realist. I don't think they're going to open up ESPN the next day with my story,

Michael MacCambridge

When everybody starts broadcasting games the way 'Monday Night Football' did, then 'Monday Night Football' is not as exceptional and unique as it once was. You can turn on ESPN 2 now and see the same techniques being used for the Kent State-Akron game.

Vivica A. Fox

First thing I do in the morning is give thanks to God for another day, and then turn to HLN News or ESPN to see what's going on in the world.

Dan Daly

Looking forward to Four Minutes, the ESPN original movie that's premiering next month. I haven't gotten the press kit yet, but I'm pretty sure it's about Patrick Ramsey's stint as the Redskins' starting quarterback this season.

Dan Daly

Looking forward to 'Four Minutes,' the ESPN original movie that's premiering next month. I haven't gotten the press kit yet, but I'm pretty sure it's about Patrick Ramsey 's stint as the Redskins' starting quarterback this season.

Patrick McEnroe

I think that was a tough loss to take. I watched most of the match. He was up two sets to love and up 3-love in the third. I went off to an ESPN production meeting, which I'm now sorry I did. When I looked up 45 minutes later, it was two sets apiece. I couldn't figure out what happened.

Stephen Rodrick

Celebs that hit the West Hollywood/Beverly Hills quadrant and places like the Urth Caffe are not exactly trying to keep a low profile; it's sort of like if LeBron James went to an ESPN Zone and then whined about being hounded for autographs.

Oscar Hoya

Lose this fight and you'll be fighting on ESPN on Friday nights.

Yanis Varoufakis

Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.

Wayne Rooney

As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.

Viswanathan Anand

In Gujarat, we had the world record of largest number of chess games in a single venue - 20,500 - and in Tamil Nadu, I have been emphasizing on the positives of chess to the authorities.

Age Hareide

The points mattered more than anything tonight. The results in the other games went our way, and now we can travel to Belarus knowing that we are in the play-offs. I hope our luck continues.

Ted Young

The pat on the back (for winning the regular season) is gone. The first do-or-die games for the girls are (today) and on Saturday for the boys. Everything you've worked for is gone on Saturday if you're not prepared for it mentally or physically.

Darren Mathews

We need to have these kinds of games to prepare us for late in the season.

Tom Typrowicz

We could lose a million games and I wouldn't care. I want these young ladies to leave these games knowing what life is about and what it's going to take.

Brett Tomko

We can't let these opportunities slip away. Before we know it, we're going to be out of games. This next series is huge. If we can take three, then we've got a shot.

Tim Brasic

We can't let guys come in here and do what they're doing to us at home. Our last two home games have been just embarrassing.

Imelda May

I was one of those annoying kids that loves singing and entertaining.

Gwen Moore

We cannot allow our kids not to have an educational opportunity.

Gail Carson Levine

Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.

Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange

One has to divide attention between having kids and a full workload.

William H. Macy

I'm not against watching myself, but I miss a lot of it. I've got two little kids who we don't let watch TV.

William Joyce

I like stirring things up. I'm on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasionally I find some adults that have that same mischievous streak, so I don't get in too much trouble.

Wendelin Van Draanen

You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.

Vanessa Hudgens

My advice to kids is give it your all! Give it 110 percent and don't give up!

Wyclef Jean

As a producer, I always want to know what makes the kids tick.

F. Stone

The annuals, the yearbooks, brochures and programs of old plays and musicals...that all tells the story about what they did.

Ed Swanson

That was huge. The kid's got guts. She can be 0-for-6 from 3, and she's going to shoot that seventh shot the way she shot that first shot. She plays with confidence.

Greg Graham

That was a tough one. We made all the plays down the stretch. We got big stops, we just ran out of time.

Maryann Mitts

We just didn't connect. We didn't make the plays and they did.

Kelly Sears

We just didn't come up with the plays at the right times.

Brian Hill

We had our chances. That's what it comes down to in tight games. Who is going to make the shots, make the plays at the end of the game.

Rhett Bomar

We have the plays that will work and we know what to do.

Derrick Coleman

We were sluggish, and they just made more of the toughness plays than we did.

Wayne Gretzky

We've talked about this for it seems like months. When the team plays disciplined, plays smart and plays the way that they need to play to be successful, we have some success.

Chet Faker

All my ego wants is to be sitting by a lake in Italy. It doesn't want to be backstage, warming up.

David Zayas

There's not too many things I'm afraid of, but I'm not too brave when it comes to sitting in a chair getting my teeth drilled.

Neneh Cherry

To me, a song is a song when you can sit in a room and just sing it from end to end.

Bill Bryson

When you sit in a chair, you are not actually sitting there, but levitating above it at a height of one angstrom (a hundred millionth of a centimetre), your electrons and its electrons implacably opposed to any closer intimacy.

Bill Budge

The program should know if someone is at the keyboard or joystick or if it is just sitting there idle. It should know if someone is proficient in its use or a novice.

Robert Maddox

That would be kind of an insensitive thing to do in a situation like that.

LeBron James

That was very strange. We were way up, so I could sit over there.

Scott Turow

I hate second-guessing other lawyers because I know that I've tried and lost cases, and somebody could sit there and say, 'Should have done it this way,' and they'd have been right.

Ricky Gervais

You should make something. You should bring something into the world that wasn't in the world before. It doesn't matter what it is. It doesn't matter if it's a table or a film or gardening-everyone should create. You should do something, then sit back and say, 'I did that.'