Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Estrada

ASEAN is facing its greatest challenge since its founding 31 years ago,

Mark Harmon

As an actor, you don't always know where a role is going, and part of the fun of playing this guy is that it changes and he continues to challenge me.

Paul Eisenberg

As a customer, it's always your prerogative to challenge a gratuity. You don't tip incompetent service.

Margaret Chan

Avian and pandemic influenza are posing a greater challenge to the world than any previous emerging infectious diseases.

Chris Hayes

Our defense needs to really improve more. If we had a little more fire we'd challenge a little more of their shots.

Mary McDowell

Our experience is in the consumer space, now our next challenge is in the enterprise. Today mobility is something of an executive toy, and we think that's about to change.

Eran Thompson

People take (Martin Luther King Jr. Day) as an opportunity to feel good, not as a challenge to do good.

Matt Sparks

Of course we'd like to challenge for the win. But realistically, if we could finish top three in the conference, with those (graduated seniors), it'd be a productive year for us.

Carroll McCray

Drake is coming up next week, which will make a four-day week for us. We will have to regroup quickly. They are a good team and will offer a big challenge for us." ()

Jenji Kohan

A TV touchstone for me is 'The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd.' That series was whimsical and smart and had the mix of comedy and drama that I now trade in - but with a dash of magical realism. I wanted to be Molly Dodd, but more than that, I wanted to be Jay Tarses, who created the show.

Melissa McCarthy

At some point in the past, it was decided that women in comedy are never supposed to be shown in an unflattering light. But in comedy, you need all of your tools to be funny.

Mark Waters

Drama is played at the pace of chess... or billiards... or poker. Engrossing? Sure. But comedy is played at the jubilant, high-octane speed of sports like basketball or hockey.

Ray William Johnson

Sometimes, comedy and entertainment is not all about telling jokes; sometimes you just have to be you for a few moments.

Mitch Hedberg

Sometimes I wave to people I don't know. It's very dangerous to wave to someone you don't know, because what if they don't have a hand? They'll think you're cocky. 'Look what I got... This thing is useful. I'm gonna go pick somethin' up.'

Reese Witherspoon

Romantic comedy has really evolved since that time when there used to be a lot of social conventions and all sorts of reasons why people couldn't be together,

Christy Romano

It would be a half-hour comedy that would really showcase my personality so my fans could get to know me. And I'd love to keep working with ABC.

Roberto Benigni

This is an homage to the master, because I love this movie, and, of course, making a movie -- a comedy about concentration camp, I watched this movie a lot of time,

Douglas Muzzio

This is really a comedy of errors and missteps for the candidate, the party, the consultants, everybody. Everybody wants an opponent like these guys.

Ritchie Blackmore

I criticize my own work pretty harshly.

Rick Santorum

I'm probably known most by the work I do in Washington on the big issues of the day and I'm criticized sometimes for taking on the big issues of the day like Social Security,

John Murtha

I like guys who've never been there who criticize us who've been there,

Brad Adams

The message is clear: If you criticize the government, you will be thrown in jail.

Angie Lucier

It just seemed to happen so quick. It really messed up our rotation. I'm not one to criticize officials, and we don't want to use anything as an excuse, but it just threw off everything we did.

John Ferguson

It's very unusual for there to be a situation where there is nothing to criticize ... This is one of those very special colts.

Joel Osteen

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you're criticizing God.

John Wooden

I had three rules for my players: No profanity. Don't criticize a teammate. Never be late.

Wes Walz

I took so many things for granted as a young hockey player. From the time I was 20 to 24, I was the first guy to criticize somebody else if I wasn't playing well. I was lazy. That frustrated my dad a lot. I remember him telling me, if you put something into it, and work hard, you'll always get something out of it. You won't know when it's going to happen. It could be years down the road.

Catherine Hardwicke

Back in medieval times, Victorian repression hadn't come in yet. People were bawdy and wild and more in touch with their true natures. If you look at the Bosch paintings or Bruegel, you see, when people are dancing, they're totally cutting loose.

Alan Boss

Normally when you think of flea markets, you think of sweat socks and T-shirts. We're looking at young designers, art, photography, nothing mass-produced. We want to be cutting edge and unique.

Trilby Lundberg

Dealers are losing their profit margins, cutting prices to get sales,

Kari Fluegel

The shuttle is still on the cutting edge.

Rashad Anderson

A day hasn't gone by where I don't think about it. There's never a day I don't think about cutting down those nets again, the feeling we had in '04. We had a taste of it two years ago and we want it again.

Scott Briggs

Once we started making things more difficult for them, I don't think it was a coincidence that all of sudden we were cutting a little harder and we were screening a little better.

Ellen Russell

Sometimes right-of-center parties like deficits because it justifies cutting things. It can be very politically convenient.

Richard Preston

Scientific facts are often described in textbooks as if they just sort of exist, like nickels someone picked up on the street. But science at the cutting edge, conducted by sharp minds probing deep into nature, is not about self-evident facts. It is about mystery and not knowing. It is about taking huge risks.

Marjorie Brody

Say, 'I'm sorry,' only if you're not cutting off a speaker. Otherwise wait until later to apologize.

Ryan McGuire

The big thing was our defense. We didn't give up any easy points in the fourth quarter.

Greg Goodley

The big thing he did was penetrate the baseline. He got some easy baskets and it made them play us a little differently. He had a big night.

Joe Torre

Randy was fine. He had an easy night getting there because he had the big lead.

Paul Newman

Racing here for me is muscle memory. Running at the limit is just kind of average. You are always trying to go as fast as you can go. If you can do it one lap, the next lap can be just as easy until you get tired.

Jim Bruce

People say the most incredible things on e-mail. The power of e-mail is in a sense its own downfall, because it's so easy to transmit and collect.

Bill Clinton

People should get what they pay for online; it should be easy to get redress if they don't.

Brett Carney

People protect themselves on the street, but they are not thinking about how easy it is for people to come into their homes through the Internet.

Julie Novak

People sometimes don't realize how easy and how powerful it is to get together and make things happen.

John Calipari

Offensively, we were back to passing it to each other. We were back to making easy plays. We didn't turn it over as much. We did some good stuff.

Ben Falcone

I'm not much of a joke writer.

Adam Brody

My best jokes are so cheap. All I do is say things sarcastically.

Storm Jameson

A joke is a joke or the image of a truth ...

Stephen Colbert

Knock Knock. Who's there? The Truth. No joke.

Mason Cooley

Jokes are unanswerable objections.

Mike Birbiglia

Jokes are so personal, and they bring us together in so many ways.

Ronde Barber

It's not like we're messing with some jokes at wideout here,

Matt Roth

You don't want to make him mad. He's not one for jokes or antics.

David Lean

Don't make jokes about food.

Doug Flynn

We had back-to-back negative years in the market, and this mimics the market. It's very discouraging for people.

Patrick Stump

We wanted out of it. It was the most negative thing in the world.

Donnie Yen

Better to be called something positive and inspirational than something negative.

Abdul Kalam

For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.

Erwin Schrodinger

The organism feeds on negative entropy.

Farrah Fawcett

Everything has positive and negative consequences.

James Cornish

People look at it in a negative way. It shows things were worse than we thought they were.

Barry Mann

It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.

Gigi Hadid

There were a lot of times where I didn't get any shows and even until recently got a lot of kind of negative commentary from social media about my runway walk.

Kay Yow

Offensively, we never got it going. We didn't play well on the inside. We didn't play well on the outside ... (FSU) played very well defensively.

Jason Leffler

We did not come here to run outside of the top 10,

Tom Richardson

Even though it was an outside chance, that could have been me on the shuttle. It's kind of scary.

David Rossi

At this point in the semester our students would have already been suspended outside of school 700 days.

Hayley Wickenheiser

We are a pro team in every sense of the word outside of being paid like pro players.

Joe Hale

We wanted an urban look with an outside that was simple and symmetrical.

Mike Parks

We just had one today outside a restaurant.

Thom Mayne

I've been such an outsider my whole life.

Mark Bruener

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

C. S. Lewis

The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible

Charles Fillmore

We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad.

Norm MacDonald

He that searches for praise will often find contempt.

Henry David Thoreau

I am not afraid of praise, for I have practiced it on myself.

Henry David Thoreau

Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.

Jeremy Renner

When you get praise from someone that you really admire it's really surreal.

Fred Hammond

The God we serve will make His presence known, when you praise

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Some reproaches praise; some praises reproach.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are reproaches which praise, and praises which defame.

Cilla Black

Really, I'm trying to retire. It's just nobody will let me!

Ian Mckellen

On the whole, actors shout when they don't know what they're doing, trying to make an impact.

Ariel Rechtshaid

I've always had this impression that notoriety came when you're trying to get notoriety.

Joss Whedon

I usually write things in my head before I ever write them down. When I write it out, usually I've already figured out what it is I'm trying to do.

Jeremy Moore

I've always been trying to be a writer. This is the first thing I've ever finished.

David Dunn

The most important thing that we're trying to do,

Domo Genesis

Sometimes, when I'm trying to get my thoughts out, and I'm thinking too fast, I stutter.

Marsha Thomsen

Right now, we are all just trying to adjust.

Craig Venter

I spent 10 years trying to find one gene.