Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Lee

My dad had the idea in 1963. As a promotion, it's been a gold mine ever since.

Joe Orton

It's all any reasonable child can expect if the dad is present at the conception.

Rick LeBeau

The entry date was several weeks ago, before we knew we were going to the Super Bowl. Dad called the other day to see if I wanted a ticket, but I told him I couldn't go.

Sylvester Croom

The idea of not going to school in my house? My dad would spank you raw. We had the value of education hammered into us at an early age. There was never any question we were going to college.

Lindy Ruff

A lot of mannerisms remind me of his dad, kind of the way he skates and the fact he's a real smart player. He really thinks the game well.

Jake Gyllenhaal

My mum and dad are pretty amazing chefs and they spent most of my childhood cooking really extravagant things for my sister and me.

Henry Cavill

If there is some sort of trouble at home, kids don't think that James Bond is going to come save their mum from their dad, or their dad from their mum. They don't think, "Bond is going to come and save me." Superman is a different sort of idealized figure.

Malorie Blackman

Because my mum and dad brought me up to believe that people are different but equal. And that I should treat everyone, no matter who, with the same respect I'd like to be shown.

James Robertson

It might be tough, but my dad used to say, tough times don't last — tough people do.

Sydney Smith

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

O Love! what hours were thine and mine, In lands of palm and southern pine; In lands of palm, of orange-blossom, Of olive, aloe, and maize and vine!

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was love.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

To me He is all fault who hath no fault at all: For who loves me must have a touch of earth.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

He that shuts love out, in turn shall be Shut out from love, and on her threshold lie, Howling in outer darkness.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Of love that never found his earthly close, What sequel? Streaming eyes and breaking hearts; Or all the same as if he had not been?

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Sweet is true love, though given in vain.

Bobby Rahal

My son is racing his first 24-hour this year with Porsche.

Anne Rice

Garden of Pain, I need you. What were the songs of beasts to the cries of sentient souls?

Czeslaw Milosz

I imagine the earth when I am no more: Women's dresses, dewy lilacs, a song in the valley. Yet the books will be there on the shelves, well born, Derived from people, but also from radiance, heights.

Conor Oberst

My dad, who plays guitar and piano and was in cover bands, along with my older brother, Matt, taught me guitar and stuff. I started writing acoustic songs and playing by myself in 7th grade.

Conor Oberst

For a song I was bought Now I lie when I talk With a careful eye on the cue card. Onto a stage I was pushed, With my sorrow well rehearsed. So give me all your pity and your money, now (all of it).

Conor Oberst

I think different musical collaborators bring out different qualities in my songs and I like that.

Conor Oberst

When I try to explain to people the big influences in my life, or at least when I first started, the most important ones were my friends who were also writing songs and were typically four or five years older than me.

Conor Oberst

To outsiders it probably seems like splitting hairs, but to me, Bright Eyes is a simply the collaboration between myself and Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott. What you hear is definitely the sum of all our ideas and represents all three of us. But I still write the songs myself.

Conor Oberst

To me, a political song is also a personal song. Most political activism has been driven by empathy for other people and the desire for a world that's less divisive. Even if songs aren't overtly political, they can make a listener more empathetic.

Debi Thomas

It is great to be a part of the whole skating family, and it makes me feel ecstatic that my name will be among the greats of the sport.

Andre Agassi

But, I would say when I was four years old and I was at the Alan King Tennis Tournament and I was hitting with all the pros that would come to town. They would get me on the court or take notice and that stayed with me.

Andre Agassi

First of all, in any sport where you can measure distance, height speed and all of that, you see how athletes have changed their sport and made it better. I believe, with every generation, the sport has improved. Certainly, in the men's game, that has been the case. I think that I played Pete [Sampras] at his best, I played Roger [Federer] at his best.. I believe wholeheartedly that Roger and [Rafael] Nadal have pushed the game much further than myself or Pete ever did. Their options on the tennis court are considerably more than ours.

Andre Agassi

This sport has given me so much that my hope would be to give back as much as I can for as long as I can.

Andre Agassi

When I was 7 years old I saw Jimmy Connors make someone carry his bag, as though he were Julius Caesar. I vowed then and there that I would always carry my own.

Andre Agassi

Sometimes it's just harder to remind yourself about what you're doing and why you're doing it... Other times, you have a great desire for it, but physically you're not responding the way you want. That presents other challenges. Then sometimes it all comes together.

Chuck Klosterman

I love sports, but I don't like live sporting events, because I don't like sitting in the crowd. I like listening to records, but I don't like going to concerts, because I don't like standing in the crowd. I guess I just don't like being in the crowd itself.

Chuck Daly

Though I'd have to say it was generally the guys in Detroit, as a group, that won the two Championships. They were terrific and I always look back very fondly.

Chuck Daly

The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful.