Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kelly Slater

He has a great knack for picking the right wave and he's a really smart competitor. He might even bust out a superman air. He has a few tricks up his sleeve. He always pulls reverses and airs that other people don't.

Scott Sanders

We're filming her show Nov. 8 and I think it airs Nov. 11.

Emma Willard

His daughter returned from her boarding school, improved in fashionable airs and expert in manufacturing fashionable toys; but, in her conversation, he sought in vain for that refined and fertile mind which he had fondly expected.

Jason Katims

I'm not somebody who goes online after every episode airs because that would be, for me, getting too much feedback and too much information.

Howie Mandel

Some version of 'Deal or No Deal' airs in 120 countries. And they play it exactly the same way, with models and briefcases. It crosses language and culture and gender, because it's the simplest game in the world, and everyone wants to press their luck.

William Cullen Bryant

The moon is at her full, and, riding high,Floods the calm fields with light.The airs that hover in the summer skyAre all asleep to-night.

Ruth Ginsburg

A plain speaker without airs or affectations, the chief fostered a spirit of collegiality among the nine of us perhaps unparalleled in the court's history.

Casey Wilson

If you're going to be part of a nationally televised show that airs live and do sketches that haven't even been brainstormed a week earlier, you really can't be afraid to fail.

Simon Cowell

There are no airs and graces about her. ... I like her.

Clive Thompson

There's nothing wrong with talking out loud in public, but there is something wrong with the government sucking up all those utter instances in a database just in case they maybe want to bust you in five years.

Rhonda Yates

The police called me at the restaurant and said his car was still in the garage. I told them that if his car was there, he was there, and they busted down his door.

Brunello Cucinelli

In my office, I have a very beautiful marble bust of Seneca. I always have my eye on him when I'm taking phone calls. He's one of the many philosophers I've always read and admired.

Beverly Cleary

I like to read, walk, cook, and travel to cities. We live in the country, so we miss museums and the bustle of city life.

Marshawn Lynch

You never want to be the one who everyone is going to bust jokes on. The only way to prevent that is to be good at something.

Cheryl Burnett

We were still within shouting distance. And then of course they busted it open.

Dusty Baker

Today was kind of a flat day after the guys have been busting it. Guys are dragging a little bit.

Carlai Moore

We've had busted lips, stitches to the head. But that's what makes it fun. We know at the end of the day we worked hard.

Tyler Reed

We're working really hard. I think we came together a lot this week at practice, and we really busted our butt this week trying to get better, and I think we showed some improvements.

William Lashner

I try to write stories that are thrilling and full of mystery and funny all at the same time, stories that raise moral questions but come up with very few moral answers, stories that emotionally touch readers through the characters.

William Lashner

I don't trust novels with points, do you? If a novel is only about a point, the writer should just say it in as few words as possible so we can take it in and go back to watching 'The Bachelor' on television.

Will Rothhaar

I hope that, when I leave this planet, I will have touched a few people in a positive way. That's really what I hope I am remembered for the most.

Emma Watson

I think when I was younger I wasn't really sure if I wanted to act, so I played around with a few different ideas. I wasn't sure whether I might want to write or whether I might want to do something in fashion.

Jeffrey Archer

Very few people deserted me when I went to prison. They stayed loyal.

Wayne Schwertner

The past year we should have had a good hatch. We should have had a good hatch for the last few years.

Brian Kernighan

I want students to understand specific technologies, but the real goal is that they should be able to reason about how systems work and be intelligently skeptical about technology so that, when they're running the world in a few years, they'll do a good job.

Bobbi Brown

Many women like to wear nude eye shadow during the day, but it doesn't really do much for you. Instead, try one that's a few shades lighter than your skin tone.

Bill Hader

I met Robin Williams a few times, and he was a beautiful guy.

Yousuf Karsh

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

Todd Rundgren

It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.

Idina Menzel

I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

Idina Menzel

I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.

Ian Frazier

I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.

Ian Mckellen

Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.

Ismail Kadare

In antiquity, there were three regions in southern Europe: Greece, Rome, and Ilyria. Albanian is the only survivor of the Ilyrian languages. That is why it has always intrigued the great linguists of the past.

Gaines Adams

I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.

Gad Elmaleh

There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.

Ned Colletti

That was important, that he had a knack for winning and a knack for developing, that he knew the road it took.

Seth Greenberg

He is a winning player -- he's got a toughness about him that's unique. He has a knack for making other people better. I don't know where we'd be without him.

Ray Depwe

He had a knack of knowing what to do.

Ben Whishaw

I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.

Richie Sambora

Throughout my career as a songwriter, I've had a knack for writing songs that were about me and my life experiences and observations.

Brandon Lee

I always had a pretty good knack for raising hell

Craig Ferguson

She still cared for me, and the best way I could make amends to her was to be happy. I do have a knack for finding great women.

George Lloyd

The ancient Greeks have a knack of wrapping truths in myths.

Gary Dunn

She has always had a real knack for this stuff. She has training in something and she can make a living at it.

Victoria Strauss

Very wonderful books might be published, and very terrible books might be published.

Herman Edwards

That was something that might not have been as special to him as it was to all of us, he's not that kind of guy. He's about the team, that's what makes him so unique.

Brad Johnson

Most communities will not have any trouble by 2008, but 2013 might be a little tougher.

Thomas Reid

might not be an appropriate place for him to stay.

Chuck Smith

Might be guilty' isn't enough. 'Possibly guilty' isn't enough. 'Probably guilty' isn't enough.

Eliot Spitzer

Who might or might not be my opponent on the other side of the aisle, I'll just wait and see how it plays out,

Eliot Spitzer

who might not understand the ways of Wall Street.

Kweisi Mfume

who might not like what we have to say.

Chris Morrison

Who knows? You don't know who you might draw.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Jim Johnson

He's a smart player and is picking up the system really well,

Juan Felipe Herrera

Just like my parents immigrated from ranch to ranch picking crops, I have migrated from city to city.

Martin Jol

I can't remember him picking up a ball.

Christy Romano

At this point, I can't say what network would be picking it up, but I know that it would be a success.

Spike Lee

Where are the slaves? Who's picking the cotton?

Joe Gibbs

Celebrate, celebrate, celebrate, ... and I'm picking up the tab!

Astro Teller

Moonshot thinking starts with picking a big problem: something huge, long existing, or on a global scale.

J. A. Konrath

No one was interested in picking up a midlist series, even though I have a decent fanbase and respectable numbers.

Chris Anderson

They keep picking and picking to make it too uncomfortable to stay.

Lyn Jones

Heineken rugby pulls up a lot of surprises, it's testing for all and we're not downhearted,

Vince Carter

When you think something can't be done, that's when he pulls off another stunt.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

Each new book that comes out kind of pulls up the old ones a little bit. The new releases are always going to bolster the old releases.

Jensen Ackles

I'm just a regular boy who goofs around, pulls pranks, and makes jokes. I'm not Mr. Debonair Suave. I'm just a regular boy who goofs around, pulls pranks, and makes jokes. That doesn't sound very hot to me.

Larry Rothschild

If he pulls something, even though it's not the spot where we're concentrating on, it could set him back too far. We probably did the right thing.

Mark Perry

We all kind of have our regional focuses, but this pretty much pulls together everybody.

Carrie Fisher

I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.

Carrie Fisher

A lot of the time, I'm just smart enough to be unhappy.

Carrie Fisher

Don't you see? We've become smart enough to justify stupid behavior. Like, 'I'm angry at him and I didn't express it, so I turned my anger inward and now it's depression, so in order to feel good again, what I should do is call him and express my anger.' It's like, if we can make it sound smart enough, we're allowed to do stupid things.

Carrie Underwood

I'm always thirsty when I wake up, so I guzzle a bottle of Smart water before I scramble tofu with onions, peppers and spinach and top it with salsa. I've been a vegetarian for years, but I recently became vegan.

Carl Sagan

How smart does a chimp have to be before killing him constitutes murder?

Carl Sagan

Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.

Carl Sagan

We are not smart enough to decide which pieces of knowledge are permissible and which are not.

Carl Sagan

It is the responsibility of scientists never to suppress knowledge, no matter how awkward that knowledge is, no matter how it may bother those in power; we are not smart enough to decide which pieces of knowledge are permissible, and which are not. ...

Ashton Kutcher

Be smart, be thoughtful, be generous.

James Harrison

Superman ain't got nothing on me, ... Kryptonite? C'mon now.

Bobby Johnson

He can do some Superman stuff. I'd like to see it.

Douglas MacArthur

Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.

Dorothy Richardson

If there was a trick, there must be a trickster.

James Rota

There are no tricks with us. What you see is what you get.

James Rosenquist

I learned a lot of painting tricks painting outside.

Heidi Klum

You have to play tricks for the TV.

Lulu

A solid giggle should do the trick.

Mike Ross

I'm from Las Vegas and all my tricks are magic.

Mark Millar

The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised.

Josh Radnor

My trick is the trick that everyone knows: Work really hard and prepare.

William Shakespeare

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.

Chester W. Nimitz

If you're not making waves, you're not under weigh.

Cynda Crawford

We're just going to see this in waves over and over again.

Adam Braun

I realized that even big waves start with small ripples

Jim Hooper

Eventually, the waves get big enough and the Jell-O fails.

David Byrne

I wave to the double-decker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction?

Neil Young

Every wave is new until it breaks.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the cliffs, where love was more intense because it seemed like a shipwreck.

Christian Slater

There was a time when I felt I should do everything that was offered to me, you know, ride the wave