Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Nevin

During the '70s, a long list of state, local and federal regulations came into being that cumulatively relegated too many Californians to a lifetime of renting.

John Le

The spy who came in from the cold.

Rob Bliss

(A.C. Reynolds) came out and reasserted their dominance in the second half.

Mike Ritchey

Story?s pin was huge. He came out with a lot of energy and really set the tone for the upper weights.

Marshawn Lynch

Some teams have to go through that. But we came out champions.

Andrew Olson

Sometime during this mess, we caught Tim's group. Then, someone decided that it wouldn't be a good idea if we came into the sprint with the 3s, so we went easy until they finished that lap.

Rod Thorn

Something came up that nobody had any idea about. There is a time frame in which this will play out in the next couple of days. Shareef is a pro. He's a good guy. He's going to continue his career no matter what. Hopefully he'll have a long career. He's under contract (to the Nets). Hopefully that's the way it will stay, and he will play long time for us.

Kevin Toney

Someone told me that after we lost in the sectional final, Isiah was in the weight room for two hours. He might have been letting off some frustration or getting ready for next season. Hopefully, he'll use this season in a positive way. What impressed me about Isiah was the way he came to practice everyday. He took that from the seniors. He's taken their work ethic and learned that from them already.

Jonathan Larsen

Spectators came from far away. The Queen of Camelot, the Duchess of Astor; the court architect, Philip of Glass (who has lately turned to stone); and the court's prose laureate, Brendan the Quill.

Tom DeLay

If somebody else doesn't file an ethics charge, I will.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

And so we shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody virtues we can respect, who have moral and ethical principles we can applaud with enthusiasm.

Jimmy Roy

We're going to have to have a real strong work ethic and that 'never quit' attitude. I see us being a hard-working team.

Jay Graham

We need to have a solid work ethic and come prepared to win hockey games. If we do that, I feel like we can make a run in the tournament. But everyone now must understand that we need to play with a sense of urgency.

Udonis Haslem

My work ethic I learned at Miami High, and I have taken that with me.

Pat Lam

We should have won by more, we needed some more patience, but I love the work ethic and the way we are playing for each other.

Lee Pelekoudas

We thought it was a good idea. With his work ethic and approach, Raul is just a great role model for kids.

Scott Parker

This year's seniors were the model of what kind of work ethic it takes to be a successful program. They laid the foundation for hard work and persistence.

Asa Dotzler

We're very impressed with the videos that have been contributed so far.

Kofi Annan

I was very impressed with what MSF is trying to do in Niger.

Jan Jensen

I was very impressed by that. They were just very self-disciplined.

Earl Holmes

I was very impressed by that, ... He's just ready to make some plays. The better he is, the better we are as a team.

Joanne Dobson

I was incredibly impressed when I saw the movie for the first time,

Hein Verbruggen

We were very impressed by the proposed venues for the equestrian competitions in Hong Kong and the preparatory work there.

Caroll Spinney

I've learned to say, 'I'm a friend of Big Bird. He even taught me how to sound like him.'

Tom DeLay

some things that we've learned and when we do it again, we'll probably be better at it.

Bradlee Pelt

I don't think it ticks him off anymore. I think Jake has learned to program critics, the media in general.

James Jordan

I've learned it's a lot more than what people see.

James Reed

I've learned a lot from him, ... I still learn a lot every time I talk to him.

Eckhart Tolle

If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

Eddie Rickenbacker

Flying is one of the safest jobs in the Army as long as you don't drop out. If you do drop out, you are a dead man, and dropping out means, usually, that you have made a mistake or let go of your grip.

Regina Brett

Time heals almost everything. Give time time.

Stacy London

You have to let go of who you were to allow yourself to become who you are.

Gloria Whisenhunt

I'm pretty much staying out of it and just letting the party stick to its bylaws.

Alan Poster

I'm going to restore it and keep it. I'm not letting this thing go again.

Neale Donald Walsch

Love lets go. Need holds on. This is the way you can tell the difference between need and love. Let go of expectation, let go of requirements and rules and regulations that you would impose on your loved ones.

Kellan Lutz

When I'm in love with a woman, seeing her in something cozy makes me not want to let go of her when I'm holding her.

Gia Coppola

The hardest thing on 'Palo Alto' was letting go because I kept working on it, trying to make it better.

David Berry

Sometimes I get lost in the books, if they're good,

Italian Proverb

The stitch is lost unless the thread be knotted

Daniel Handler

All cannot be lost when there is still so much being found

Thomas Murray

I lost everything, mister, everything -- credibility, business,

Garth Nix

I can see time," whispered Mogget, so softly that his words were lost.

Dick Bennett

He totally lost his composure. He totally played into their hands. He had been playing so well.

James Billups

He told me that he lost it but that he didn't snap.

Kay Granger

I don't know how you can sleep at night, ... You lost the battle.

Michael Charles

I didn't know what else to do. I lost everything.

Gordon Strachan

You might as well scrap offside now if you are not going to rule that offside.

Bret Harte

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'

Pat Olmi

We might go over there and watch 'em. We can sit back and rest a little bit.

Ryan Ward

We might be related, but it's very distant.

E. B. White

And you can use the time as you want. You could say, 'I need you to go pick up a prescription for me,' and that might take up 15 minutes of your time allotment.

John Lyly

We might knit that knot with our tongues that we shall never undo with our teeth.

David Moyes

We might have to go with what we've got and give the players here an opportunity to show what they can do.

Jarvis Williams

We might have relaxed a little. But I just think they played with more intensity.

Donald Knuth

The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent.

Barbara Kingsolver

The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

Anja Thiessen

We skipped classes, so we have to get back next week.

David Whiles

We'll let that percolate for the next 30 days.

Mason Cooley

Originality finds the unexpected but inevitable next step.

Michael J. Fox

Do the right thing, and then do the next right thing, and that will lead you to the next right thing after that.

Michael Jackson

I love John Travolta, who came off that Kotter show. Nobody knew he could dance or do all of those things. He is like - boom. Before he knew it, he was the next big Brando or something.

Method Man

Yeah, the next Wu album should be out by late '95.

LeeAnn Palo

Let them do it next year. They've got a lot of time left.

Al Reynolds

Many if not most of the property owners out there have taken the next steps.

Booker T. Washington

No one can degrade us except ourselves.

Don Ward

When it comes right down to it, someone else may be signing your paycheck but you are the person who fills in the amount.

Albert Einstein

The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth.

Dalai Lama

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

America Ferrera

The most important thing you wear is your personality.

Chuck Norris

A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do.

Stephen Harper

The job numbers are positive. We've had more jobs created now than were lost during the recession. We're seeing that the creation, we're seeing those numbers not only grow but shift toward the private sector and shift toward full-time employment and these are all signs that the recovery is taking some hold but we're not out of woods.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks.

Romain Gary

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

Ayn Rand

Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice.

Bobby Robson

Practice makes permanent.

Diana Oblinger

While the practice is not necessarily widespread, there are a lot of them,

Richard Carlson

You are what you practice most.

Tom Barrett

The thought you have now shapes your experience of the next moment. Practice shaping the moment.

Steve Simmons

System administration is where theory meets practice with a vengeance.

Stephen Covey

Common sense is not always common practice.

Shahzia Sikander

I'm interested in taking a form, breaking it apart, and then rebuilding it. It is about transformation for me...it is a very core notion that stabilizes my practice.

Shahzia Sikander

For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination, and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me to be at my most inventive.

Jim Gordon

We're as ready as we're going to be.

Benny Hinn

Are you ready for some real revelation knowledge... you are god.

Larry Pleau

Until he tells us he's ready ... We'll see what he says on Sunday.

Chen Yunlin

We will be ready for any complicated situation.

Zdeno Chara

I don't think we were as ready as yesterday.

Jaret Wright

I got everything I wanted to get today. I'm ready to go.

John Gibbons

He won't be ready before the weekend, if then.

Ron Artest

I was surprised he did that. I was ready for it.

Brad Hopkins

I was so anxious. It was just a little anxiety. I was ready to go. I was just being stupid. I was probably a little rusty.

Daniel Day-Lewis

If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake... I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!

Jackson Rathbone

It’s not exactly that I can’t stay in one place. It’s that if I’m in one place, I have to rearrange it every four to six months! I have to completely change my room!

John Green

What happens in the band room stays in the band room.

Nate Silver

Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome.

Pope Benedict XVI

Mission is a workshop where there is room for all.

Shia LaBeouf

There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist.

Mwai Kibaki

There is no room for communists in Kenya.

Lisa Alther

What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room.

Joseph Boyden

Compared to Americans, Canadians are often more gentle in their approach to things. They're much more apologetic. There's less room for conflict.

Bobby Jones

During the season on Saturdays, I usually sleep in until about 1.

Mark Banker

We try to stay healthy. We try to get everyone to make it to the season, through the season and beyond.

Tom Brady

There's no better way to end the season than with a win over the Dolphins.

Allen Iverson

We just need everyone to contribute. We feel like this is a whole new season for us.

Rocky Long

He started off this season as a confident, veteran quarterback.

Chris Ellis

I didn't think we'd have a season like this.

Steven Gerrard

I'm signed here for this season and another two so there is no situation. There's a lot of speculation but that's not down to me.

Pete Mackanin

I'm sure by the time the season is over we'll all find out what we're doing.

Frank Robinson

We are the only team to start the season with 21 losses, so we are not going to be off the hook,

C. S. Lewis

They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.

Dean Young

but nothing can be taken back, not the leaves by the trees, the rain by the clouds. You want to take back the ugly thing you said, but some shrapnel remains in the wound, some mud.

Antonya Nelson

Readers will share in the environs of the author and her characters, be taken into the hardship of a pitiless place and emerge on the other side — wiser, warier and weathered like the landscape.

David Bowie

There have been times when I've written something and it goes out and it comes back in a letter from some kid as to what they think about it and I've taken their analysis to heart so much that I have taken up his thing. Writing what my audience is telling me to write.

Andy Roddick

I cook a little - I've never taken classes or anything - but enough to get by.

Anne Hathaway

It takes a minute for me to let my guard down, but once I do and I get to know someone, I'm very open, very trusting. Some might say too trusting, because considering the amount of money that can be made from selling gossip, I could be very easily taken advantage of.

Thomas Sowell

Many bad policies are simply good policies taken too far.

Margaret Mead

If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think certain government officials, industrialists and celebrated persons should make it clear they are prepared to be sacrificed if taken hostage. If that were done, what gain would there be for terrorists in taking hostages?

Michael O'Leary

The unions need to be taken on. British Airways is massively over-staffed and has got to get its costs down. . . . The problem for [chief executive] Willie Walsh is that the board of BA has no spine, no balls and no vision.

Patrick Smith

That play took a lot out of us.

Alice Temperley

If you took some of the behavior that you see in the fashion world and put it anywhere else, it would just be embarrassing.

Tom Daschle

He took charge, and it made a big difference,

Hassan Adams

We were well-prepared. It took us a week to get ready.

Chris Farley

I have what doctors call a little bit of a weight problem.

Maria Sharapova

I don't do heavy weights at all.

George Steinbrenner

If you don't have a hernia yet then you're not pulling your own weight!

Janet Evanovich

It wasn't exactly that Lula was fat. It was more that she was too short for her weight." - Stephanie Plum

Jill Scott

Once I started looking for a record deal, I had a trainer. And the trainer told me that I would never sell a record if I didn't lose weight.

Isaac Marion

What I'm saying is, when you have weight like that in your life, you have to start looking for the bigger picture or you are gonna sink.

Joely Richardson

And whatever my weight, I've always been skinny from the waist up.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I'm constantly looking to see whether I look the same as I did earlier, whether I've put on or lost any weight.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

Brian Eno

I often work by avoidance.

Billy Connolly

Don't work out, work in.

Elisabeth Harnois

The more you work out, the more you get the energy to do it. And the more you get motivated to do it, especially when you start seeing results.

Elisabeth Harnois

Working out makes me feel good. When I don't work out for a few days, I start feeling grumpy. When I'm at the gym, it wakes me up. My spirits are higher. I just feel happier and more motivated to do things.

Robbie Loomis

To do that, I've got a lot of things I've got to work through.

Robin Day

Well, I'd probably go for any work I could get.

Jamie Bell

Well, I am obsessive about my work. I throw myself in all the way.

Jennifer Aniston

Well, honey, if you can, you have got to work with him because he is dreamy.