Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gayle Lynds

For a decade, I was a stay-at-home mom. I sent my husband to his law office, sat on PTA boards and baked cookies - great cookies. All of a sudden, I had no husband, no job, few prospects, and two small children who had grown accustomed to eating.

Billy Blanks

A will is to make a decision how you should take care of yourself.

Dennis Ross

These cards have not exactly given Syria a very strong hand, ... The more the regime has tried to play the cards, the weaker they've become.

Frank Thomas

I send him a list of the cards I need.

Bobby Labonte

It would mean a lot to me. Ten years from now you'd look back and the 43 car hadn't gone to victory lane. And then you were the one to take it to victory lane. It would be a cool thing.

Paula Mitchell

The water's covering their car and they can't get out, ... The only way out is to get out and swim, and they don't want to take that chance. I'm trying to do anything I can to get somebody to go over there and help her.

Jean Craig

The wooden support beams were rotted to the point where you could take your car key and push it through the wood,

Adam Sohn

These are tools that help people better visualize and connect to the information they care about.

Kenny Smith

These are the types of communities where we come from, and this is one way we can help take care of our own.

James Garner

These are the nicest people. From the producers and writers on down. The actors are just wonderful. ...They take care of the old man.

Bobby Fischer

FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.

Jack Dempsey

Champions get up when they can't.

Bobby Douglas

I think Oklahoma State has a great team, and they've had a great run. (The Big 12 championships) have always been a tough tournament, and a lot of the national champions come out of this tournament. I don't think this year will be any different.

Abby Brenkach

In that game, they shot about thirty 3s. They were driving a lot more this time. They are a good team.

David Swanson

Activism has always been the driving force for change.

Jason Chaffetz

A dash of frugality is a good thing for everyone.

Scott Trost

Adair is a really quality player who is tough to defend. And they have good shooters on the perimeter.

Sibel Kekilli

Acting for me is like a ping-pong game. That's the secret of acting. When you have a really good actor, I always want to be as good as he is or she is.

Odalis Perez

Strike one, strike two. Good location - hitting spots. If you throw strikes, guys have to swing. That's what happened.

Jim Sullivan

Strictly speaking it's not that the stock market views good news as bad, directly.

Chris Squire

Strangely enough, 'I've Seen All Good People' is, I think, the second most played Yes song on American radio after 'Owner Of A Lonely Heart.' And then I think 'Roundabout' is third.

Shane Reid

St. Paul was a good fundamental team. Every time we would get close, they would hit a three-pointer to widen their lead.

Jerry Moore

Some things got loose last year, and that's my fault. I take responsibility for that. But I feel good about these players. I know what kind of kids we've got. I know what they want to accomplish.

Paul Ross

Some people have a talent and want to strut their stuff and show how good they are.

I think my new thing will be to try to be a real happy guy. I'll just walk around being real happy until some jerk says something stupid to me.

Andrew Bell

If people feel they got screwed, I'd be happy to show them everything. I've never heard of any real big problems with the elections.

Charles Jones

If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jon Garland

I love the city. It's where I wanted to play, where I wanted to be. And I'm happy to be there.

Reggie Evans

I'll just write it off (on his taxes). I'm just happy I'm playing.

Matt Holliday

I know him real well. I'm happy he got called up.

Yannick Noah

I know he's been working really hard. I talk to him all the time, and I feel like he's trying as hard as he can. And he's happy here. I'm happy that he's happy.

Fred Armisen

I know I'm going to be happy way later in the future, knowing that's the way I conducted myself.

Harry Reid

I have to say without any qualification that I'm very happy that we have someone like her.

Jonny Lee Miller

The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I have no idea what I will be doing next, and I kind of like that.

Kate Buckley

That opportunity made me realize I wanted to be a director,

Earl Nightingale

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Richard Hatch

When you meet someone with a vision, you have to give them a shot and an opportunity to see what they can do.

Don Henley

The land of opportunity spawned a whole new breed of men without souls.

Dwayne Johnson

When you walk up to opportunities door, don't knock it... Kick that B*tch in, smile and introduce yourself

Claudia Cardinale

And I had a big opportunity with Richard Brooks, The Professionals, which is really a magnificent movie.

Dalai Lama

It is crucial that we realize the great value of human existence, the opportunity and the potential that our brief lives afford us. It is only as humans that we have the possibility of implementing changes in our lives.

Dalai Lama

Each of us has the potential to contribute ... You have a great opportunity to make a new shape of the world.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Henri Bergson

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Saint Francis de Sales

It is the mark of a mean, vulgar and ignoble spirit to dwell on the thought of food before meal times or worse to dwell on it afterwards, to discuss it and wallow in the remembered pleasures of every mouthful. Those whose minds dwell before dinner on the spit, and after on the dishes, are fit only to be scullions.

Will Rogers

The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Zakk Wylde

Had an awesome time. You tell me to show up and all I have to do is drink beer, play guitar all day and I can lift weights and you're going to pay me for this!

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

Thomas Carlyle

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Thomas Carlyle

He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that.

Thomas Carlyle

... There is always hope in a man who actually and earnestly works.

Thomas Carlyle

The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.

Thomas Carlyle

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

Thomas Carlyle

There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in idleness alone there is perpetual despair.

Thomas Carlyle

All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.

Thomas Carlyle

A man perfects himself by working.