Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anthony Cannon

We're here now. We have a home, and we're finally relieved to know we have a set schedule for now and know what we're going to do next. We have somewhere to call home and we appreciate Louisiana Tech and Ruston for opening their arms to us.

Brian Tracy

Every great success is an accumulation of thousands of ordinary efforts that no one else sees or appreciates.

Hubie Brown

We're 30 years older now, so you can go back and appreciate things a lot more, ... It's made for a wonderful year.

David Krings

The people I work with are nice people, and they seem to appreciate what I am doing.

Billy Thornton

Critics have been very, very good to me -- there are only two or three of them that really hate me, really bad. I really appreciate this award, because you're fun folks.

Dee Tvedt

We like to stay on top of things, and when we're out on patrol, we tend to be the first to hear about new businesses about to open and the first to meet a new puppy. People will often tell us they appreciate our presence, and that they feel safer when we're around.

Todd Lewis

Even some of my goals this year, I fell a bit short on a couple. I think that makes you appreciate hitting your goals. I think if you hit every one of your goals, they're not high enough.

Michael McGuire

While we appreciate and are grateful for the government's comments and narrative of Mr. Fortier's labor in the past three years to assist the government in the investigation and prosecution of these cases, the retreat of support for Mr. Fortier as a trial witness and lukewarm endorsement in that regard is factually inaccurate,

Mike Albert

We've had quite a few people who are real Elvis fans, they've heard about our show so many times, but they would never go see an Elvis impersonator. They finally get talked into it and they appreciate the way we deliver. They come back. That's the best testimonial.

Jonathan Miller

People can't draw now and don't feel it's necessary. Art students don't seem to want to draw.

Sigmar Polke

People expect things from art that are horrible for us who make it! They put the things we make in these restrictive places called 'museums,' then don't want to hear another word from us.

Peter Gabriel

People go on and on about the copyright issue, and that is central to what is going on now. Someone sent me an article from the Register this morning about this person named Fisher who has proposed an extra $6 per month on every broadband user's bill that would supply enough revenue to pay all the money that is earned from records and films.

Jake Wien

During my time in New York I was interested in what was going on in the arts culture music, galleries, auction houses that's where I learned as much as I did about art history. It was the vortex of the art world and a fabulous place to get up to speed and develop one's eye.

Eric Liu

The summer of 1991, I took $2,000 of my savings and a desktop program, and I asked my friends to write 800 words about something they cared about. I got eight or nine articles and put them together. It was no frills, black and white, no graphics. I printed them out and just dumped piles around D.C.

Roz Chast

I've always wanted to learn how to hook rugs. A wonderful artist named Leslie Giuliani taught me how. The nice thing is you can change it as you go along.

Iman Iman

I wanted to do something other than just sign books, ... I thought that by doing makeovers I could make this more of an interactive thing. So I have makeup artists there and I do a little Q and A. I just want to make myself available. I want them to feel that I will treat them as well as I would any celebrity. Some people may not think it is my forte, but I am actually very approachable -- unlike my photographs.

Bob Clark

The mural would've been part of the overall design of an individual building. The concept behind the art program was to give artists jobs, too.

Richard Klein

After 40,000 years ago, the art is unquestionable,

Matt Young

The whole idea of designing a vessel like a sub in my first year of college really interested me.

Derrick Bell

I live to harass white folks.

Dennis Prager

Most women are not programmed to prefer a great career to a great man and a family. They feel they were sold a bill of goods at college and by the media.

Brad Dancer

Duke really had a fantastic crowd and made it tough for us to get a win on the road. It was a great environment for college tennis and I am really proud of the way our guys competed tonight.

Norm Johnson

What prompted it was concern that students knew that they are supported in the college. With all that happened, students have wondered where they fit. We wanted them to know that providing them a supportive, nurturing environment is a top priority.

Brandon Hoyte

We might have more people at the pep rally than some colleges have at their stadiums for games.

Thomas E. Mann

Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College.

Stephen Hawking

I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.

Shakira

Breastfeeding has been one of the best experiences of my life. I love it! I can't stop! I think I'm going to breastfeed him until he goes to college! I'm hooked!

Arthur Conan Doyle

Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

Jose Rizal

There now exists a factor which was formerly lacking - the spirit of the nation has been aroused, and a common misfortune, a common debasement, has united all the inhabitants of the Islands.

Howard Jacobs

We felt U.S.A.D.A. made the proper ruling. It seems to me the anti-doping rules are lacking any notion of common sense.

Herbie Hancock

We talked for a couple of hours before we played a note. We didn't talk about music, we talked about life - families, children, issues in the world, politics, so many things. The kind of camaraderie we developed helped make the music what it is. I wanted to find a common ground and connect as people first.

Urs Linsi

We want the referees to be a team and they should all be able to speak and write a common language.

Jed S. Rakoff

I think it's common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there is.

Rob Bell

That may sound a big vague, but what has struck me in city after city is that despite our differences and diversity, there's a common humanity we all share. In many ways we're all searching and longing for the same things...

Vladimir Putin

We had a very good situation in 2005. The common budget had a volume of 80 billion dollars per year. Thousands of jobs were created in Germany by Russian investments. At the same time, a large number of German companies invested in Russia. There were countless cultural and social contacts.

If you get invited to your first orgy, don't just show up nude. That's a common mistake. You have to let nudity "happen.

Lisa Murray

collaborative education is a better way to learn.

Ben Parr

Don't let failure deter you; use it as a stepping-stone and an educational experience towards making your mark on the world.

Barbara Jordan

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted.

Andrea Lewis

Don't get me wrong ten list, I'm getting a good education but some of my professors just don't get me going.

Dan Erikson

The UN is going to stay in Haiti for a long time. It should be much more involved in improving healthcare and education than peacekeeping.

Jim Dale

What we are saying and implying here is that the education you get here is effective. It's not simply for its own sake.

Bradley Wilson

We were pleased that we had four other applicants that are leaders in higher education in the country,

David Keller

What is UVSC's role in the Utah system of higher education in general and, more specifically, to the local community?

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

John Tavares

Any player in the NHL would be a great comparison, but when you name a guy like Sidney Crosby . . . but I don't know if I'll be able to do things he's done in the league because we're different types of players,

David Phillips

Are we no longer the Great White North? It's incredible.

Porter Bibb

Sony has got a solid distribution network, ... It's got a great library and it's got a lot in the hopper ... Realistically, there are some significant buyers.

Michael Hegarty

Tennessee is a truly great and competitive opponent. I can tell by the way we played them today that we are really starting to come along.

Reggie Lewis

Scoring a lot of points is great when you win, but when you lose it doesn't matter.

Bill Bowles

Ross made a great play and kept them out of there.

Ryan Goodman

Ryan did a great job defensively the whole weekend, and scored just enough to win. It was a masterful performance.

Richard Estrada

So we said, let's organize this huge march of the pueblo, of the people.

Steve Lowery

It would be very satisfying after the start I had. That would be a huge accomplishment.

Octavio Dotel

This is huge in my country. Just huge.

Richard Sullivan

This is the first time we have been able to predict such a huge improvement in long-term survival,

Terry Ryan

Last year we won 83 games, which was a huge disappointment for us. Eight, nine years ago I would have been thrilled to win 83. That's no longer the case.

Todd Whetsel

That was a huge win for our team. You don't want to have to be in that play-in game. Even if you win, you're playing Stratford in the first round and you don't want to see them in the first round.

Marty Barnes

That was a huge steal by Kyle to set all that up.

Mike Szabo

He just stepped up and made a play. That was a huge play.

Robin Pingeton

I thought Brooke was the difference. She had a little stretch in about 30 seconds that was huge for our team.

Daniel Woodrell

Texas humor and Southern humor are pretty similar.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

And ah for a man to arise in me, That the man I am may cease to be!

Chuck Norris

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

Thomas Reed

One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.

Suzanne Collins

No. Now, shut up and eat your pears.

George Mikes

If it is gay, ribald and lascivious night-life you are after, Israel is not the place for you. The night clubs you do find are nearer in spirit to a YMCA than to dens of iniquity.

Jeff Gordon

I'm not a robot; I have a personality and I have emotions. I have a humorous side to me and an angry side to me.

Samuel Goldwyn

Coffee isn't my cup of tea.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world.

James Purnell

There is a possibility that the number of offences will increase. That in itself could be a sign of success because more people are using the powers of the act.

Albert Camus

An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself

D. James

If that swelling comes down and they can do some things with it and get itself worked out, then possibly he could come back. But if it doesn't, that's something he can't play with.

David Friedman

As a person, I'm not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs.

Quintilian

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

Gever Tulley

The idea that we can make all things safe for all behaviors is in itself a dangerous and slippery slope.

Daryl Hannah

I'm one of those people who figures that it will eventually sort itself out.

Jim Puckett

When you're a cash-strapped school system, you're going to go to the lowest bidder. The lowest bidders are the ones who are going to export.

Kelly Clarkson

Thank you so much. You have no idea how much this means to me.

Steven Forester

He'll be singing in his upper register to give the idea of what it means to be roasted on a spit.

Leon Hall

That just means we have to do everything that we need to do perfectly. Know where we need to be at, know our technique. If you mess up your technique with this guy, he can make you pay.

E. Hicks

It means a little stability, a little security.

Michael Drake

Evolutionary theory says if there is a God, then he has not made things by means of design, purpose or, in the creationist point of view, with immediacy.

Dwight Yorke

It means now that we have it all to play for and a win will seal it for us,

Brendan Gaughan

We don't need to talk about what Vegas means to our family,

Lori Chappell

You really have to see the grounds to understand how populated they are.

Stephen Hawking

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

Seth Godin

Understanding the mythology of your partner, your customer and your audience is far more important than watching the instant replay of what actually happened.

Rajneesh

Religion is nothing but a science to attain wisdom, understanding, to know what life is, and to live it in utter celebration.

Rajneesh

The deeper you surrender to existence, life, nature, the more loving, more understanding, more insightful you become.

Jean Piaget

Experience precedes understanding.

Pat Cash

I see it, but I don't understand it,

Isaac Asimov

The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.

Milan Kundera

The reason is that everyone has trouble accepting the fact that he will disappear unheard of and unnoticed in an indifferent universe, and everyone wants to make himself into a universe of words before it's too late. Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.