Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil Flynn

On 'Scrubs,' I played a very unusual character who pretty much was defined by saying and doing strange things, so it was easy to improvise around that.

Jim Scherr

They have a very defined strategy for success at these games. They'll focus on sports where they've traditionally been strong, then they'll look to pick up opportunities in sports where they can, and maybe take a few medals from us in track and field and swimming. If you look at it, it's a very cost-effective, smart strategy.

Paul Hewitt

This is a 401(k)-styled defined contribution plan, ... It has performed very, very well.

Michael Goodman

For a period there, they defined the consumer-electronics space. They were the quintessential electronics. Their name personified quality. They were a heck of an innovator.

John Battelle

It's not easy being number two. As a marketer, you have limited choices - you can pretend you're not defined by the market leader, or, you can embrace your position and go directly after your nemesis.

Ned Yost

It really helps to have defined roles, and we don't really have that now,

Bill Cowher

There's a lot of people telling you that you can't do it but, you know what, that doesn't mean you don't go try. Don't let your journey be defined by history, let your journey make history.

Dick Thornburgh

Specifically, the reservation of sovereignty to the people of the states in matters not governed by federal law is constitutionally defined and permanently enshrined in the 10th Amendment.

B. F. Skinner

I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.

Charles M. Schulz

A watched supper dish never fills!

Essence Atkins

I like to make Arroz con Gandules, rice with pigeon peas. My husband loves it. It's a Puerto Rican dish my mother taught me.

Ernie Harwell

Tom told me this wonderful story about how Ernie and his wife invited Tom and his wife over in Florida one time for a dish of ice cream. Who in this day invites you over for a dish of ice cream. Just wonderful.

Craig Nichoson

They do have electricity and are providing meals and showers for workers. They have had workers from Missouri, Texas, Florida and Ohio. Paper plates are a huge item right now. All water has to be boiled, and if you are feeding 50 to 60 people a meal that's a lot of dishes to wash.

David Sax

Food is entertainment now. People tune into 'Top Chef,' and they're not trying to replicate the recipes. Anthony Bourdain is entertainment. Instagramming your dishes is entertainment.

J. M. Roberts

They didn't have a guy who could guard me. When I could drive and dish off, we could get baskets.

Ricardo Patton

There was nothing on film that indicated they would take that many 3-pointers. They were primarily a penetrate and dish team.

Lea Dea

There will be a few recipes in the show that feature national sponsor ingredients. When we're putting a show together, we want to have a variety of dishes and pick out a few things that we think are new and different and some things that have some teaching technique as well.

Jonathan Cheechoo

It's a hockey-rich town there, and everybody lives hockey. When they go hunting now they even take a generator, a TV and a satellite dish out there so they can watch the playoff games.

Ed Helms

Probably my favorite thing about watching a movie that I'm in the first time is to see all the things I didn't know were happening in a scene around me.

Jay Cutler

It's the steak I always get when I go there. It's my favorite cut.

Christopher Davis

It's one of our favorite large value funds, and has offered very good long-term returns with a lot of stability.

Steve Solomon

It's one of my favorite times of the year to be down here in the Grand.

Jake Shears

I travel so much and am always living out of a suitcase, so my favorite saying is 'Wherever you go, there you are'. I love it because it's reassuring to me that you have to live in the moment wherever you happen to be.

Danton Cole

This is why playoffs are great. This has always been my favorite time of the year.

Pete Sampras

They're all very valid: Not only is he winning majors, but the way he's winning them -- with pretty much ease. He's pretty much the favorite in every major for the rest of his career.

Jim Rosborough

It was a whale of a game. That's my favorite memory of the place.

Elena Dementieva

It was a very tough match but I am just thinking, 'Why is my favorite score 7-6 in the third?

Alan Parsons

I try to find a way that the other guy hasn't thought of using a sound or a sample.

David Dunn

I've always thought that having an attractive free agent is better than a guy who was picked in the seventh round.

Benicio Del Toro

Villains used to always die in the end. Even the monsters. Frankenstein, Dracula - you'd kill them with a stake. Now the nightmare guy comes back.

Benicio Del Toro

The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With the bad guy you have more freedom to experiment and go further out than with a good guy.

Beau Mirchoff

Ladies, I'll let you in on a lil secret: guys don't notice your nails.

Bear Grylls

The rewards of the wild and the rewards of the survivor go to those who can dig deep, and, ultimately, to the guy who can stay alive.

Barry Alvarez

We had some guys that abandoned their technique and abandoned some of the things that we just worked a month on,

Audrina Patridge

A lot of the guys that I date and my friends are all in bands.

Arnold Palmer

I look back, it taught me something - it taught me how to live, how to be a better guy, not let defeat be the end of my life.

Charles Caleb Colton

Habit will reconcile us to everything but change

Alan Paton

It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.

Bertrand Piccard

Very often, human beings are living like on autopilot, reacting automatically with what happens. What interests me about the life of an explorer is you are in the unknown; you are out of your habits.

Charles Baudelaire

The habit of doing one's duty drives away fear.

Bryan Adams

Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

Benjamin Franklin

He that resolves to mend hereafter, resolves not to mend now.

Daniel Patterson

You can't just go out and plow lizard habitat into the ground.

Stephen Covey

Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking.

Lance Robinson

As long as you have appropriate habitat and water quality, they will be back.

Charles Dickens

We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner.

Bebe Moore Campbell

Knowing who you are begins in the mind.

Audre Lorde

I train myself for triumph by knowing it is mine no matter what.

Arthur Rimbaud

I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent

Denis Waitley

The primary success factor is knowing how to learn from others and rely on yourself.

Harper Lee

Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.

Mark Twain

The person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

Tom Zupancic

When you walk into this stadium you won't be able to walk out of it without knowing what the name of the stadium is going to be.

William Shakespeare

Our rash faults Make trivial price of serious thing we have, Not knowing them until we know their grave.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.

Charles Caleb Colton

Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.

Charles Dickens

While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal sea.

Charles Dickens

There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The saltwater on your sunburnt legs. Sometimes the water is yellow, sometimes it’s red. But what colour it may be in memory, depends on the day. I’m not going to tell you the story the way it happened. I’m going to tell it the way I remember it.

Charles Dickens

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Charles Dickens

Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green.

Charles Dickens

Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.

Charles Dickens

Love is not a feeling to pass away Like the balmy breath of a Summer's day....... Love is not a passion of earthly mould As a thirst for honour, or fame, or gold

Charles Dickens

My life is one demd horrid grind.

Jo Handelsman

We actually don't know much about soil microbes and the lives they live.

Paul Cellucci

When you think about the day-to-day, positive impact on the lives of U.S. citizens, there is no relationship that we have in the world that is more important than our relationship with Canada.

Matt Blunt

worth it to protect the lives of Missouri children.

Karen Hall

We're for making women's lives ? everyone's lives ? better.

Jim Cavanaugh

It's just too important. We are talking about lives here, ... I'm not going to walk away from it. Period.

Derek Luke

It's a story about victory that will touch the lives of everyone who watches it. It's powerful.

Kevin Kwan

A lot of the people who live the lives of 'Crazy Rich Asians' don't see the humour of their lives simply because this is just who they are. Even though I'm from that part of the world, I'm no longer part of that world.

Hilary Rosen

American music has touched everyone's lives throughout its short history,

Julie Johnson

Also, I have a parent volunteer who lives and breathes 'The Wizard of Oz,' and doing this show for the school's first play was partly her idea too.

Charles Stanley

Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves.

Charles Spurgeon

I cannot tell you how much I owe to the solemn word of my good mother.

Alaina Huffman

Agent Mom is a perfect opportunity for me to do what I love... develop characters, act and take incredible stories to my fans. So yes, I can absolutely see myself cast as Agent Mom.

Al Roker

They wrapped her up like a baby burrito to show to Mom. Here were a mother and her daughter and I love them both so much. I couldn't wait for Courtney to come to the hospital so I could have all my women together.

Al Roker

We already had an adopted daughter, 10-year-old Courtney, from my previous marriage. To me, there is no difference between 'natural' and 'adopted.' My own childhood showed me that when it comes to loving your kids, concepts like that don't apply. I was the oldest of six, and three of my siblings were adopted. Mom and Dad even took in foster children. 'There are no limits to how much you can love,' Dad always said.

Al Sharpton

I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.

Akiva Schaffer

One time, my mom told us, 'No TV.' It was 3 P.M., and I was sneaking it in. She put her hand on the back of the TV to see if it was warm, and it was. So she pulled the cord out of the wall, opened the second-floor window, and just threw it out the window.

Chris Colfer

I was obsessed with fairytales, and I was a very, very inquisitive kid, and I would ask my mom all kinds of questions. It all kind of formed a story in my head, and I really wanted to be a published author when I was 10, but I had a hard time writing a novel when I was 10, so I decided to wait until I was little bit older and then get it done.

Chris Christie

And the greatest lesson that mom ever taught me though was this one. She told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. Now she said to always pick being respected.

Arthur Ransome

When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.

David Miller

The performance of the stock is going to come down to the movies. It's that simple. And there are no sequels in store for next year.

David Foster

We spent the night at a parking lot until the next morning.

Carolyn Wells

Advice ... is a habit-forming drug. You give a dear friend a bit of advice today, and next week you find yourself advising two or three friends, and the week after, a dozen, and the week following, crowds!

Chad Whitworth

We have to get better the next two weeks and come out ready to work and execute.

Alan Kulwicki

First you learn to drive fast. Next, you learn to drive fast in traffic. Then, you learn how to do it for 500 miles.

Charlie Chaplin

3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is the next prime after 8.

Cherie Lunghi

I have that precious commodity - freedom. I can live my life a day at a time, and I am open to whatever the next day brings. I know I sound as if I have been off with some guru in India, but I haven't. I've come to realise the value of being able to decide for oneself.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right.

Chris Lowery

We've never done this. We've always been on eggshells wondering if we were going to get in or not.

Catherine Jones

I was wondering that myself. I don't know.

Douglas Rice

I was wondering if we were going to sink. It was very, very wobbly and very, very dark.

Al Wolski

I was just wondering if we were ever going to get the ball.