Famous Quotes & Sayings

Twyla Tharp

My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the world.'

Twyla Tharp

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Custard is controversial: what makes it a custard, how best to cook it and, crucially, is it to be eaten or put in a pie and thrown?

Yani Tseng

It's very easy when you have someone in front of you that you can chase. You want to be No. 1 but now I feel like I have to play well because everybody looks at you as a best golfer. So that's why I put more pressure on myself.

Thucydides

We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.

Timothy Noah

There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.

Thomas Friedman

I can see a day soon where you'll create your own college degree by taking the best online courses from the best professors from around the world - some computing from Stanford, some entrepreneurship from Wharton, some ethics from Brandeis, some literature from Edinburgh - paying only the nominal fee for the certificates of completion.

Idina Menzel

I used to take 40 minutes to warm up before going on stage. If you want to spend time with your child as well as having a career, you have to get up there even if your head's a mess. It's made me more relaxed, and I'm having some of my best shows.

Idina Menzel

I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'

Tyra Banks

I wish I was harder; I wish I didn't care so much about being the nice girl all the time because a lot of the time people can take kindness for weakness, so I wish I had a little bit more 'oomph' in me.

Yann Tiersen

In France the music schools are a bit old fashioned. I was more excited about doing my own stuff or to play with my friend in my band, than studying the piano.

Imelda May

I'm not saying that women shouldn't pursue careers, but if it is going to be equal in the workplace, it should certainly pan out to be a little bit more equal in the home, too.

Imelda May

Music rules a lot of my life - I was bitten by the bug young.

Iggy Azalea

I've been a little bit Las Vegas and casino-obsessed. So, I love some trashy glamour... and I think nothing's trashier or more glamorous than a bit of a sheer number!

Ice T

I think that men need to have a little bit of manism. You have feminism. I don't have a problem with that.

Ian Mckellen

Gandalf the Grey was always the guy I prefer. Gandalf the White was driven to do a particular job, whereas Gandalf the Grey is a bit more humane.

Ian Mckellen

Doing some of the 'Lord Of The Rings' press junkets got a bit claustrophobic.

Ian Mckellen

It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.

Yotam Ottolenghi

You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.

Yanni

The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.

Yanis Varoufakis

I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.

Thierry Henry

I've always loved New York; I've been visiting New York since 1996. People don't look at you like, 'What are you doing? What are you wearing?' There is also that thing that when people know that you have worked hard to get something, people have that respect for that here. You worked hard - good for you.

Iggy Azalea

I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.

Ice T

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

Idina Menzel

I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?

Idina Menzel

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

Ivar Giaever

Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.

Inga Cadranel

When we were growing up, we had all these crazy, in-your-face guys around the house. For us, it was like, 'Ugh! Actors again.'

Ziggy Marley

Even if I wasn't in music, even if my father was a carpenter, some guy in Jamaica would go 'You're just like Bob. You're just like your father.' That happens in Jamaica all the time.

William E. Conway, Jr.

I'm the luckiest guy in the world, and I am going to give away every penny before I die.

Val Kilmer

I've been very fortunate and met the guys that have become, basically, philosophers and have a kind of sensibility about life that's very precious.

Chuck Palahniuk

I get a lot of letters from women who insist that 'Fight Club' is not just a guy thing. They insist that women have the same rage and need the same outlet.

Chuck Palahniuk

When I first used to tour, guys would come up and say, 'Where's the fight club in my area?' and I would say, 'There isn't one.' And they'd say, 'No, no, you can tell me, you can tell me.'

will.i.am

When you think about the guys who started Twitter, and the Google guys, and the Facebook guys and the Napster guys, and the Microsoft guys, and the Dell guys and the Instagram guys, it's all guys. The girls, they're being left behind.

Clay Shirky

Whether it's long-form journalism or investigative journalism, it's no fun to just be the guy diagnosing the problem.

Evel Knievel

Nothing's worse than a guy who loses fair and square and then whines about it.

Clint Eastwood

Prime time for men is, say, 35 to 45. Then they level off and fall off.

Benoit Mandelbrot

I went to the computer and tried to experiment. I introduced a very high level of experiment in very pure mathematics.

John Pickett

The 8,200 level has become a point of support for the Dow,

Gary McCord

That would kind of level the playing field." ()

Dean Laidley

We have come from well back, when you talk about a level playing field. Some people in the media have very short memories.

George Voinovich

We have to level with the American people.

Yusli Yusoff

We've done an independent survey together with SGX to try to ascertain the level of interest. The survey results have been quite positive.

Tom Gorman

We've dismantled this organization and in doing that, you have to dismantle multi levels. We've done it at a local level and a state level.

Paul Singer

Opacity on extreme levels is not addressed anywhere, including Dodd-Frank.

Allan Palmer

The outside (of Hangar 37) has to be restored, and we've got to repaint it and put a new roof on, and make it look like it did in 1941.

Rohit Sharma

You should not remain in your comfort zone; if you want to make it big, you must challenge yourself, get out of your comfort zone, and succeed in doing well outside of your comfort areas.

Baz Luhrmann

I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.

Nancy Thompson

You can do just about anything outside that you would do inside.

Stephen Tanner

We really push the envelope. We think outside the box.

Mark Bruener

I would say he's one of the more underrated outside linebackers in a long time,

Lynn Coady

Here's the thing about lingerie: The only time we see it outside our own bedrooms, it is on women who are gloriously freakish in their physical perfection.

Jovan Vavic

J.W. is very versatile can play many positions. He can set and guard, be an outside shooter and he's very fast.

Sandra Tsing Loh

Journalists are quite surprised outside their dinner parties when they hear where I live. 'Van Nuys? You still live there?' It is like saying you're from Alabama.

Donald Trump

I played golf with my friends, and then I started to play with the hustlers. And I learned a lot. I learned about golf; I learned about gambling. I learned about everything.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I will not look back and say, 'I should have played in England.'

Will Chase

I played more performances of 'Chris' in 'Miss Saigon' than anyone else.

Colm Meaney

I played trombone for 10 minutes, and then I was in an accordion band in school for even less.

Spencer Stewart

That was a totally different team than the one we saw twice this season. They got a lot better and played a tough game.

Demond Garth

That was a stage down at Wallace State, and he played unreal.

Amy Pettibone

That which does not kill you only makes you stronger. We have played with the best. I look at the state rankings, and there aren't many that we haven't played. You've got to test your players.

Janis Pardy

We have all played together for so long. We have a lot of chemistry. We know how each other plays and can predict what they are going to do next.

Dee Brown

We could have played better. We didn't play our best, but we stuck it out and we won.

John McEnroe

I think it can. The powers that be, IMG, the ATP, need to work together more coherently.

Michel Gauthier

Harper said several times that he did not want to centralize, that he wanted to respect the powers of the provinces.

Stephen Kinzer

Western powers remain imprisoned by the idea that the world is a dangerous place, that it needs to be managed, and that they are called upon to do the managing.

Michel Gauthier

Mr. Harper said several times that he did not want to centralize, that he wanted to respect the powers of the provinces.

Walter Rodgers

powers at work about which we have no knowledge.

Brian Kelly

We all are going to outplay and outperform what we do and it's up to the powers that be to recognize that and acknowledge that.

Buzz Hargrove

If you devolve all the powers to the provinces, what do you have left?

Matt Mauck

All I know is the powers that be selected us to be in this game. We just received the trophy.

Patrice Leconte

I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.

Gene Robinson

We have been very successful in several of these searches.

Alex Knott

Those are several times more than the average. It shows you that this is going to be a very costly election.

Rob Kardashian

I won state cross-country competitions several times during high school.

William McKinney

We have stalled in several different fashions. We just camouflage it a bit. A lot of times, we look like we are about to go, and we are not trying to go.

Hanoi Hannah

And we also read Newsweek, Time and several newspapers.

Ruth Winstrom

We're going to be there for several days.

Bruce Raynor

On several occasions, we intervened with the mayor. We had several conversations with Roger.

Edward Gramlich

I think it is more than several weeks for me!

Tony DeMuro

That was the way we want to see it end. It couldn't be any better than that with three teams going after it.

John Stockton

We could have one of the better teams we've ever had here. I think we're on our way back up.

Andy Athanas

Usually when you see teams do what we've done in two years, it's the same group. These are different kids.

Andre Patterson

We've done it more than most teams I've worked with.

Pete Rose

Any time you've got big teams winning, you've got big stars.

Tom Condon

Those are the two teams we have scheduled so far.

Jamelle Cornley

We can play with anybody, teams know that.

Bob Shoop

We do need to find another playmaker on offense, whether it's the tight end or who it is. Or teams are just going to quadruple-cover Bowser.

Jerry Moore

We don't see Big 12 teams very often,

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I can say that the happiest period of my life has been since I emerged from the shadows and superstitions of the old theologies, relieved from all gloomy apprehensions of the future, satisfied that as my labors and capacities were limited to this sphere of action, I was responsible for nothing beyond my horizon, as I could neither understand nor change the condition of the unknown world. Giving ourselves, then, no trouble about the future, let us make the most of the present, and fill up our lives with earnest work here.

Jon Burnham

The big unknown in this is the geopolitical situation,

John Gibbons

There a lot of unknowns on this team.

H. P. Lovecraft

Uncertainty and danger are always closely allied, thus making any kind of an unknown world a world of peril and evil possibilities.

Patricia Marx

I do not find the concept of consorting with unknown persons appealing.

Gotye

I guess Surrealism has a draw for me because it's an unknown world. It's a world of subconscious. Some things you can't really get your hands on very easily. Things that are kind of nebulous and they feel like they're not completely formed. You have to feel your way through that.

John Boyne

It is possible, you know, to drift off to an unknown world and find happiness there. Maybe even more happiness than you've ever known before.

John Lennon

I am going into an unknown future, but I'm still all here, and still while there's life, there's hope.