Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Bragan

I've been in this game since 1937. My biggest thrill was when I was in Milwaukee and I told them I was leaving. It was the loudest ovation I ever got.

Teju Cole

I am suspicious of writers who say their work is original and influenced by nobody. If it is, it is probably uninteresting. The biggest source of novels is other novels.

Joseph Altuzarra

One of my biggest pet peeves is well-dressed designers. If you spend that much time thinking about your own clothes, you're not spending enough time thinking about what you're designing.

Bernard Cornwell

I have a terrific, marvellous, unbelievably helpful editor in London and she has the biggest influence, but even so we disagree as much as we agree.

Jason Tapp

Honestly, I love playing in games when so much is on the line. This was a big game, (Friday) night was a big game and (today) is now the biggest game.

Erron Kinney

I think the biggest difference is (Dungy) has had people in key positions that have been there and understand the system. When they have plays they make them. It used to be they did a lot of stunting and got caught up out of position. They're playing straight up with a lot of speed and they rally to the ball.

Mark Mace

I think the biggest challenge has been just figuring out who we?re going to put on the hill. When you play six games in a week and you have four pitchers to work with, you can do the math.

Alonzo Mourning

We've got to stop worrying about the offense, too. Our biggest concern should be our defense.

Paul Klein

I thought she gave an excellent talk. She handled the questions with great respect for the people, no matter what level the question was. The biggest message is not to be passive, it's a time for people to stand up, and that may be the most patriotic thing we can do.

Bertrand Russell

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

Marie Curie

Now is the time to understand more, so we fear less.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Theodore Roethke

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.

Theodore Roethke

Fear was my father, Father Fear. His look drained the stones.

Theodore Roosevelt

The worst of all fears is the fear of living

Theodore Bikel

I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.

Theodor Adorno

The capacity for fear and for happiness are the same, the unrestricted openness to experience amounting to self-abandonment in which the vanquished rediscovers himself.

Texas Guinan

Success has killed more men than bullets.

Gaby Hoffmann

I have a teacher friend who gets nervous when there's $200 in her account. But at least she knows that in a week, she'll get another paycheck. I have no idea.

Bobby Bowden

As I look back on my 51 years of coaching, ... that is the hardest thing to explain.

Mark Oaten

What are the kind of words that somebody would use which could then be implied to be incitement? This will be hard legislation to draft.

Joe Aquilante

Whatever we learn on the track, we put into the cars. Everything is evolutionary. We work hard to have the pieces come together.

Bart Szarko

Tony worked so hard in camp. We're hoping he comes back. The timetable says he will. He's a leader.

Mark Dantonio

Tony plays so hard and he is so smart. He is a winner who makes plays and has made himself a starter this spring.

Larry Scott

We've been testing the systems and they have been better than 90 percent accurate, which is better than the human average. We haven't set a hard deadline, but next summer is realistic. We want to make sure it is completely reliable.

Courtney Hill

We tried. We worked hard to get the word out. We did interviews, we did CNN, we went everywhere, but we didn't have any luck.

Fannie Goodwin

We tried to send a message because we heard they had a (tall) player and we were shorter than her. We had to work real hard on defense.

Doug Piquette

We just made way too many mistakes to win the game. But the kids battled hard and competed.

Salim Khan

I pray he was not there when there was the earthquake, ... How can I know?

Mahatma Gandhi

It's more important to put the own heart in the prayer than to put other's words with nothing of the own heart.

Nick Rahall

As a people of faith, we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God, we know that many times our most powerful tool is prayer.

Mary McCarthy

If you talked or laughed in church, told lies, had impure thoughts or conversations, you were bad; if you obeyed your parents or guardians, went to confession and communion regularly, said prayers for the dead, you were good.

Mark Twain

In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust', but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par.

Nicholas Sparks

I don't pray because it doesn't work. Prayer doesn't fix anything. Bad things happen anyway.

Neal A. Maxwell

As we come closer to Him, we not only "stand all amazed"-we even kneel all amazed!

Mitch Daniels

We don't have a prayer of defeating the Red Threat of our generation without a long boom of almost unprecedented duration.

Mark Batterson

Bold prayers honor God, and God honors bold prayers… The bigger the circle we draw, the better, because God gets more glory. The greatest moments in life are the miraculous moments when human impotence and divine omnipotence intersect — and they intersect when we draw a circle around the impossible situations in our lives and invite God to intervene.