Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Lee

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

Erin Andrews

My dad used to call me 'the human pretzel' because I was able to bend my body, and because my legs are very long.

Chris Rock

I can see the humor in just about any situation. After I lost my dad, I realized that none of us should take things too seriously, because everything except death works itself out.

Gilbert Arenas

Most kids would be like, 'My dad's never around.' But I saw it as a positive. He was out there working to provide for me.

Jakob Dylan

To us, there was Bob Dylan, and there was dad. As for what he meant to other people, that was never glorified in our house. There were no accolades there, no gold records.

Hugh Jackman

My friends say, 'Man you're going to have kids sleeping on pillowcases with your face on it! You're going to be on toothbrushes and magnets and stuff.' I guess now that I'm a dad, I'm thrilled about that.

Hugh Jackman

My kids are not that interested in my movie career, by the way. My son, in particular, never talks about it. He just wants me as his dad.

Hugh Jackman

I had a fairly enlightened dad, though if you looked at his resume, it might not seem that way. He was a chartered accountant for Price Waterhouse. He was strict, and we had a very ordered life. To this day, I am the least materialistic person I know, because my father didn't raise me to just go out and buy this or that car.

Hugh Jackman

I've never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent, a selfish act.

Chris Brady

First my guy Peter saved me, then Jon made the play in left. I have to give those guys some love. I owe them for this one.

Mark Gottfried

Felix is the only guy on the team that can make the pass. We practiced it and had guys throwing it all over the gym.

Bill Beattie

Every year we've had some guy who could slam it in there, ... We've been lucky.

Stuart Appleby

There's probably plenty of guys happy to see him down the leaderboard for a change. I don't think you're going to get some, 'Oh, I'm so sorry. What a pity.' You guys can write about someone else for a change.

Mike Degory

There's part of me that would always like it to be better. But I feel comfortable with what those guys are able to do next year.

Clint Hurdle

There's other guys we want to look at, more importantly, for next year's bullpen, ... If we need him, he's available.

Julius Peppers

There's only two spots for All-Pro and there are guys out there that had numbers better than mine.

Mike Johnston

There's something in the water here. Every guy that comes through here seems to get hitched.

Liev Schreiber

There's something insanely sweet about him. And he is a very, very, very good-natured person. He is a truly kind person. I put him in some of the worst circumstances that you could put a human being in and there were homeless guys who I'd hired to be in the movie because I liked the way they looked, and they complained sooner than Elijah did.

Cesar Chavez

There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.

Bobby Knight

I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.

Scott Walker

My problem with public sector union leaders, the bosses, has been they stood in the way of protecting the taxpayer.

Vladimir Putin

They [leaders in Western Europe] do not misuse financial instruments, financial injections, but, first of all, seek structural change. This is urgent for our economy as well, maybe even more urgent bearing in mind the problem that we cannot yet deal with, namely the prevalence of the oil and gas sector in the Russian Federation and, as a result, dependence on revenue from oil and gas.

Walter Lippmann

Leaders are the custodians of a nation's ideals, of the beliefs it cherishes, of its permanent hopes, of the faith which makes a nation out of a mere aggregation of individuals.

Walter Russell

He who cultivates that quiet, unobtrusive ecstasy of inner joyousness can scale any heights and be a leader in his field, no matter what that field is.

Walter Isaacson

Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.

Vince Lombardi

The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders.

Rudy Giuliani

A leader must not let critics set the agenda.