Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Hearns

Ray Leonard was more of a favorite than Thomas Hearns that night.

Carly Patterson

Well, first I have to make the team, of course.

Kit Williams

Leonardo da Vinci, for example, was an expert on differentials and made thousands of drawings of gears in his lifetime, largely for military purposes.

Kit Williams

Legend has it that the original South Pointing Chariot was built in China three to four thousand years ago for the Yellow Emperor, Huang Di.

Jerry Kramer

Many things have been said about Coach, and he is not understood by those who quote him. The players understand. This is one beautiful man.

Eric Heiden

Secondly, you got to have the right frame of mind. There are a lot of people with the right tools but just don't have the drive.

Richard Petty

So I've realized that this outfit is part of Richard Petty now. And the real Richard Petty is still hidden behind these glasses.

Hugh Mackay

So let's not get carried away by hubris: Australians are no better than anyone else when it comes to occupation of the moral high ground.

Raymond Floyd

So I'm looking forward to tomorrow. I've put myself in position, and that's all I can ask. I hope I can go out there and enjoy it.

Keith Stewart

We're very concerned because the (electricity) system is still very much in the hands of the people who built our last nuclear plants and got us into the mess we're in today,

Fisher DeBerry

We feel like we have some depth in our offensive line and obviously we have two good quarterbacks with game experience. That second unit built some pride. There are a lot of those second-unit guys that could be just as effective as the first-unit guys. We'll continue to use two units like that. What periods of the game we'll use them or when we'll use them, we're not going to say.

Steven Tuen

The expectations are built up so high that anything less than perfection will cause the stocks to fall.

Scott Ford

Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Roustam Tariko

Lots of businesses built in the early 1990s were not very transparent, not only by Russians, but also by foreigners.

Rabindranath Tagore

Man has a fund of emotional energy which is not all occupied with his self-preservation. This surplus seeks its outlet in the creation of art, for man's civilization is built upon his surplus... In everyday life, when we are mostly moved by our habit

John Lautner

My father liked doing carpentry work, construction work, in the summer vacation. And so my mother designed a cabin, a log cabin, like a - it was like a Swiss chalet. I was twelve years old, and my father and I built it on a rocky point peninsula out into Lake Superior.

Robert Heller

Growth continues at a very high pace and energy prices have increased considerably over the past year, so the Fed will say, 'okay, we have to prevent those energy prices from being built into all goods and services,' ... The Fed is not going to ease its stance on raising rates.

Robert Thompson

For most of the '60s, television was trying to hold the dyke. All of these changes and pressures built up throughout the 1960s and finally burst in January of 1971.

Hu Jintao

China is forever an important force safeguarding world peace. China have never sought hegemony, and never will in the future,

Michael Whitaker

China is a very special market, a very important market.

Aphaluck Bhatiasevi

China has learned from the SARS experience and has been more open and more willing to respond to disease outbreaks.

Chong Quan

China has a competitive edge in the labor-intensive shoe manufacturing industry. They have ignored the fact that 98 percent of the shoemakers in China are privately owned.

Luo Bingsheng

China expects the 2006 global iron ore price to return to the level previous to the dramatic price hike.

Chen Xingdong

For sure by 2006 China will become number four and by 2010 it will be more than Germany.

Alan Greenspan

Further development of China's trading relationships with the United States and other industrial countries will work to strengthen the rule of law within China and to firm its commitment to economic reform,

Mark Brewer

is all but a China company at this point, and he's turned his back on Michigan.

Li Peng

Such a system may be suitable to the West. However, China has its own conditions. We are a developing country with a large population,

Doug Johnson

I've been here four years now, ... and I know this offense. I know what needs to be done. We'll still be a contender. I don't feel any different today than I did yesterday. I was a leader on this team before this happened and I'm going to be a leader now.

Mike Falbo

This is not at all like fourth quarter of last year.

Mark Murray

This is something that's been in the works for three or four months and frankly, it only represents a tiny fraction of Internet users.

Terri Mitchell

All-American players go from four points in the first half to 20.

Brett Ratner

You can't show a four-hour movie in a theater, really.

Tom Odell

The first song I ever wrote was when I was 12, and it had, like, four lines in it. You progress and get better.

Bruce Steinberg

And the signs since the fourth quarter suggest growth picking up in the first quarter more strongly than most people had anticipated. So I would say the recovery is here.

Reggie Sanders

Each day is better, ... I'm not 100 percent. I'm not going to be 100 percent because it's going to take another three to four months for it to heal completely. For me, it's being 100 percent functional and doing what I need to do to help the ballclub win.

Al Northington

We just had to play smart in the fourth quarter. Our girls showed a lot of heart and a lot of grit.

Maynard James Keenan

I can't be a legend yet. I'm not dead.

Dick Trickle

Not yet, when I'm gone I'll be a legend, right now I'm just very good at what I do.

Rex Harrison

Robert Morley is a legend in his own lunchtime.

David Gemmell

All legends have a base in fact.

Steve Martin

I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct.

Jorge Luis Borges

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

George Gershwin

It is always possible to create something original.

Tim Ritchey

That is the race I've been pointing for.

Carroll Quigley

To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.

David Sibley

They talk about Southern hospitality, but Southern hospitality has nothing on this place,

Frances Townsend

Two in South Asia, two in Southeast Asia.

Thomas Wolfe

I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.

George S. Patton

Those who live in fear die a thousand deaths.

Charles Howard

Once we started doing those three things, we got going.

Andrew Walpole

There would not be any replacements for Vaughan as we have already got three newcomers.

Sinead O'Connor

I've been married three times, really I should only have been married once.

Jay Asher

Why does it say she has three hundred and twenty friends?" Josh asks. "Who has that many friends?

Joe Girardi

Hopefully, we'll have off-days every two or three days,

Michael Schroeder

I don't know if they are necessarily unhappy they don't have one of the big three networks.

Rhonda Rompola

I didn't think it was good. But all three referees made the same call.

Jack Dempsey

A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end.

Japanese Proverb

One kind word can warm three winter months.