Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they are all alike in that they will one day die.

Denis Kearney

They are imported by companies, controlled as serfs, worked like slaves, and at last go back to China with all their earnings. They are in every place, they seem to have no sex. Boys work, girls work; it is all alike to them.

John C. Calhoun

I saw that the incorporation of Texas into this Union would be indispensable both to her safety and ours. I saw that it was impossible she could stand as an independent power between us and Mexico without becoming the scene of intrigue of foreign powers, alike destructive of the peace and security of both Texas and ourselves.

James A. Baldwin

The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible.

Greg Thomas

With the growing popularity of televised poker shows such as World Poker Tour, poker has become a mainstream sport. By partnering with the trusted World Poker Tour brand, we are bringing both gamers and poker fans alike the most realistic poker experience available. And now that World Poker Tour will be available on the PSP, gamers can enjoy the game wherever they go.

Roy Barnes

And one of the things I've tried to do in my first months in office is to give more Georgians - reporters and members of the general public alike - a closer look at how their government works.

Joe Solmonese

Justice O'Connor was a voice of moderation and cast several votes to protect the GLBT community in recent years. Justice O'Connor's replacement should continue the model of fairness she and others have set. We join Republicans and Democrats alike in continuing to call on President Bush to nominate a justice who will keep the court balanced.

Michael Foley

Manufacturers and users alike recognize that Bluetooth technology is the perfect solution for hands-free systems.

Robert Redford

I think Paul and I are probably alike in that we're reluctant to talk about something that is not real yet, but we are talking about it.

Vince Vaughn

I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.

Rebel Wilson

I was sporty in high school. I played tennis and hockey, and was basketball captain. Then I went to university and stopped doing sport and started eating ice cream.

Dave Grohl

I didn't start sweating until I had children. That was one of the first things I realized when my daughter Violet was born - I started getting wicked BO. You know there's a difference between basketball BO and stress BO? This was definitely stress BO. Like, new dad BO.

Carl Paladino

THESE ARE BEAUTIFUL PROPERTIES with basketball courts, bathroom facilities, toilet facilities. Many young people would love to get the hell out of cities

Arsenio Hall

I call Los Angeles the city of alternatives. If you don't like mountains, we got the ocean. If you don't like Knott's Berry Farm, we've got Disneyland. If you don't like basketball, we've got the Clippers.

Bill Vaughan

Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.

Bill Bradley

Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.

Bill Bradley

How should we Democrats select the next presidential nominee? Smoke filled rooms? Brokered convention? National primary? Personally, I prefer jump shots from the top of the key.

Bill Bradley

Basketball can serve as a kind of metaphor for ultimate cooperation. It is a sport where success, as symbolized by the championship, requires that the dictates of community prevail over selfish impulses.

Don Yaeger

Marino was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2005, and his name always comes up when the conversation centers on the greatest quarterbacks of all time. But his greatness comes with an asterisk: He never won the Big Game.

Vince Gilligan

'SpongeBob SquarePants' is a great show, and it centers on a character that is courageously nice. Why is SpongeBob interesting? It's because he has passion. He has a passion for chasing jellyfish.

Judith Butler

The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers and which, together, constitute a multiple displacement of those authorities.

Jess Gomez

We have to wonder if there is a true community need for another program, given the limited number of liver transplants that are performed each year in this area. If you have two centers competing for 40 to 45 patients a year, will either one get the needed volume of patients to ensure excellent outcomes?

Rick Smolan

They're trying to put data centers in cold environments because they're actually generating so much heat now; they're using up so much electricity.

Avery Johnson

We have three centers and none of those guys can do any cameos at small forward or point guard, so that leaves the rest of the guys. We need them to play now.

Ariel Sharon

We will remain in the centers of the cities,

Patrick Rothfuss

Humans are kind of story-propagating creatures. If you think of how we spend our days, think of all the time you spend on entertainment. How much of your entertainment centers around stories? Most pieces of music tell stories. Even hanging out with your friends, you talk, you tell stories to each other. They're all stories. We live in stories.

Deborah Lewis

Most locals understand, but some don't. The reason why we enjoy the lifestyle we do is because of our tourism-based economy, ... I think it stands to reason that that's why visitor centers exist in any community it's that you hope to have that kind of a sales impact on a visitor coming through to get them to stay a day longer.

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.

Anne Wilson Schaef

Looking after my health today gives me a better hope for tomorrow.

Paul Morrison

(The) 10K (distance) is longer than I'm used to, ... But if the weather is right, with no wind, I think I have the fitness to do it.

David Cope

I thought Moffat did really well. You've got to remember it was 1-1 after 30 minutes. You could see fitness starting to tell in the second half. Our girls are very fit and pretty athletic.

Kim Poole

We fought and we stood ground and we now know what skills we need to (get better). Our fitness level was good.

Paul Roos

For the sake of waiting another week, we can get in two sessions this week and next week. He has done a lot of running, his fitness is very good. He is 50/50.

Mahela Jayawardene

There is a good probability him making into the XI. He batted really well, he has done his fitness test and the fielding schedules as well.

Sven Eriksson

He will be fit, I am sure about that. We will have time to get the fitness we want.

Brendan Mallon

He never smoked and he was a physical fitness person, very healthy in his lifestyle. With any luck he would have had another five or 10 years of healthy living most likely.

Catherine Bell

When I do get time, I like to hike and I take lots of vitamins and powders to keep healthy.

Iggy Azalea

People think I'm more wild than I am... I like going to theme parks, play sports or just hanging out with my friends.

David Cross

In New York there isn't that weird palpable competitive thing where it's friendly but everyone isn't trying to top one another with jokes when you're just hanging around.

Doug Fisher

That was Jordan's first varsity start. The score didn't reflect it but she did well. Hats off to her for hanging in there.

John Imlah

That was a huge swing, those two steals. That was a game-turner. We were hanging right in there and they got the momentum after that. We kept clawing at them, we just could never get there.

Roy Williams

We have a lot to prove and we're not going to come out here hanging our heads down because we had a 6-10 season. This is a new year.

Reggie Miller

To know that No. 31 will be hanging from the rafters ... it'll be a special night.

Eli Pariser

Most of them are still hanging on to the money.

Love Actually

Mia: I'll just be hanging round the mistletoe, hoping to be kissed.

O. J. Simpson

Wilma's hanging over the market here a little bit, too, and it will, obviously, for the next (few) days,

Evangeline Lilly

My son was three months old when I started filming 'The Hobbit,' and I was still breastfeeding.

Ashton Kutcher

When you do movies, it's you have a 3-month family and then everybody goes away and then joins another family, you know?

Greg Valliere

I think it will be months and months before you see this clarified.

Zach Galligan

An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year.

Nick Saban

I wonder what this technology is up here, ... (Rewind it) to six months ago. You'd get the same answers.

Bob Straus

We don't see the type of value in the sector that we saw six or seven months ago.

Shelli Rushing

We'll have another public workshop here in three months or so to start talking about getting into more specifics about the plan. We're supposed to wrap up the plan by the end of the year.

Bill Ryden

We are really working on the perfecting part of the sport. Sometimes it takes months to fine-tune.

Dean Hachamovitch

Nine months is very aggressive, but 18 months is too long.

Bill Hader

When you're performing, you're playing to the back row. With acting, you have to be more nuanced.

Rosario Dawson

That was something that we really worked on, not repeating ourselves. But I was like, 'This is not going to be a problem because I'm playing a woman.'

Chris Masoner

That was really important for us. We really wanted it ... It's so important for us to go into the playoffs playing like this.

Tiger Woods

We need to keep playing more in Ohio. It's that simple. We don't have enough tournaments here.

Kobe Bryant

We have to understand that we're not playing for right now; we're playing for the long haul. It's important to be patient. It will come.

Paul Eenhoorn

I walk into a scene, and I do the scene. That's my job. I don't have an objective. I have the words, and I have whoever I'm playing with.

Landon Donovan

We were getting slaughtered, ... We weren't playing well at all yet we're up, two-zero. But that's soccer.

Kevin Williams

We were still playing for a title, because we were playing for second.

Colby Armstrong

Typical Devils-type game. They wait for you to make a mistake. They've been playing that way for a long time.

Colleen Kennedy

We have a lot of seniors this year,

Gary Sharpe

We're going to the South side on Tuesday. Our seniors have never won down there.

Abe Badmus

We're going to do everything as seniors to keep this going.

Dustin Villepigue

I was wondering what he was doing there. I didn't have the ball. Then he swung at me, but I didn't swing back because seniors aren't supposed to retaliate.

Mark Lasley

Most of the seniors that are starting have been starting since they were sophomores.

David Mobley

Seniors always find a way to win. There?s wisdom in experience. It showed tonight.

John Brady

That is what seniors are supposed to do.

Rod Wallace

I told them in the huddle during our timeout that it was time for the seniors to step up. Eli said give me the ball.

Matt Loveland

We wanted to (get to state) for the seniors and we wanted to do it for (Graham).

Yao Ming

I'm getting fat... because my size, I put on 20 or 30 pounds, it doesn't show very much... I'm thinking about going back to work out in a very short time.

Don Howard

We have a long way to go and a very short time to get the work done.

Roger Miller

We haven't had as many workers over there. We have a shortage of workers,

Stephen Jones

We're not short on supply -- we're potentially short if something were to happen.

Frederick Burke

Ports could be a bottleneck in the short term.

Louisa May Alcott

Never use a long word when a short one will do

Thomas Ford

Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time.

Grace Young

On short notice, we're not going to get a lot of people.

Sam Cassell

I don't think he tipped it. I just shot it short. I shot it short over a 7-foot guy.

Dean Price

When the Australians say they are not swimming well, that's when you must worry.

David Sedaris

I see you that have a little swimming mouse

Cheryl Hines

I just learned how to scuba dive. Id been scared to rely on one little air hose for oxygen, but swimming with all those fish is exhilarating.

Charles Saatchi

Many people cycle or swim to keep trim. But if swimming is so good for the figure, how do you explain whales?

Eddie Marsan

I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said, 'You know, it's funny, it's when you've got no clothes on, no one recognizes you.' I said, 'What are you saying? That I should do more love scenes?

Eddie Izzard

I did bronze survival swimming. I could save people in a bronzey kind of way.

David Duchovny

Sometimes when I'm swimming, I think that maybe someday I'll put my red Speedo up for auction. Or maybe I'll donate it to the Smithsonian. They can stuff it with two plums and a gherkin and put it on display.

Bruno Tonioli

I think a lot of people have a vision of L.A. in which TV executives and movie directors plan their latest productions by the swimming pool.

Benjamin E. Mays

Failure isn't in not reaching your goal but in having no goal to reach.

Sean Covey

That's important, apologizing, listening, you know, I think the teens I speak with, most of them don't feel understood. They feel like they're being lectured to all the time.

P. C. Cast

Vampires and teens have a lot in common. Teens have surging hormones, vampires have surging blood lust. Teenagers think they're immortal.

Kathy Gallant

I was used to teens who had everything they needed.

Rory Kinnear

I always loved acting - though what I did in my teens was probably more eclat than elan. But I wasn't sure about doing it professionally.

Amy Lee

The only place I'm recognized is at the mall, because that's where the teens are.

Ally Condie

Teens find out a lot from other teens.

Andy Summers

I was totally into jazz in my teens.

Chris Crutcher

I am for anything that makes teens visible in an honest way... in other words, anything that represents them the way they are, positively or negatively.

Amy Heckerling

Teens are the target demographic for everything in pop culture.