Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nancy Cartwright

I will not say ""Springfield"" just to get applause

Oliver Goldsmith

He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another's keeping

Ken Blanchard

I once heard profit is the applause you get for taking care of customers and your people,

Russell Crowe

I'll pass that applause on to my mother.

Larry Foote

I'm from Detroit, but I haven't had the great career that he has. He deserves all of the applause and honors that he's been getting. He's always been a hero of mine. He's earned this. What did he call it other day? A dream? I know it is, and that's why everybody's happy for him.

Robert Green Ingersoll

A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others.

Alex Pareene

The State of the Union is less written than it is designed, structured and organized around applause prompts and camera cues.

Dwane Casey

Flip deserves it. You give your heart and soul to an organization for 10 years, and you deserve applause and a thank you. No matter how it ended, it was a good ride.

Nina Arianda

When I was 3, I recited a poem at a festival in Passaic, New Jersey. The applause was tremendous, and it hit me that I could affect people positively by performing.

James Jeffords

I was lucky to be able to call Christopher Reeve a friend.His passion for life and for improving the lives of all Americans serves an inspiration to all of us. He may have played the character of Superman in the movies, but he lived the role of a superman through his life.

Pierce Brosnan

I was looking forward to making (Bond) edgier and grittier -- and for all of that to go down in one phone call was highly disappointing,

Tony Oliva

Kirby meant to me a lot. For me, it's like my own son. He used to call me 'Papa', too.

Cindy Mannes

I would not say it's an epidemic by any stretch, but it is a problem. We used to get one or two calls a year ... Now we're getting one or two calls a week.

Manny Fernandez

Jacques said any roll we can get on is a bonus. Well, I would start calling this a roll.

Rick Dunlap

I would say the ice fishing is what we call gravy. The lion's share is made in the summer and fall.

Mark DiCamillo

I would suspect his tone would change significantly if they don't make it onto the November ballot. If that happened, I could see calling the Legislature all sorts of names by the end of the campaign.

Gary Brown

Ken Lay is what I would call a fix-it man who thinks he can pick up the phone and take care of it because of who he is, a man of power. It's as though he thinks he can call anyone, any time. They're not going to like that kind of attitude.

Rich Beem

Just think of it as a golf cart with a V-8. Call it the Silver Bullet, baby.

Courtney LaVere

Knowing it's the end of the season and the end of my career possibly, I don't want to regret anything.

Walt Jocketty

I would think it's a good fit, ... but that's not something for me to decide. He started his career there, and he's obviously one of the top managers in the game that's not employed as a manager. Jim is going to manage somewhere in 2006. Definitely.

Jim Fuglie

He dedicated his professional career to kids, and his retirement years to volunteer work, especially work with the credit unions.

Lindsey Graham

has been in the legal trenches throughout her career and has a tremendous understanding of how the law works in people's everyday lives. Her legal experience combined with her life experience makes her a solid choice.

Andrew Larson

For me, personally, it just made my career more meaningful, ... It never gets old. Any time, anywhere, I love talking about it.

Jim Murphy

He's a self-motivated kid. He's got three years under his belt. He's got a whole high school career already and he's just a freshman.

Colin Lee

He scored two vital goals for us but was unlucky that we had to play him out of position and he should be able to further his career elsewhere.

David Chokachi

His surf career is kinda over, so he's at a crossroads when a friend comes to him and says here's an opportunity to work with these girls. ... He has to make sure they train, don't stay out late, and show up to events on time. I'm grooming them for a pro career.

Tom Moody

He's gone through a lot over his career and let's hope this final test that's been carried out is the end of it.

Graeme Souness

Kieron says he feels better now than at any time and that's encouraging. He has been extremely determined and shown strength of character, considering all the stories about him. It must have been, and is, a worrying time for him until he gets games under his belt. He deserves credit.

Byron Scott

Kirk (Snyder) deserves a shot. Kirk works his butt off every day. He's still out here. Matter of fact, do you see J.R.? (Smith had left.) That pretty much tells it. It's work ethic -- he has to work harder.

Ryan Freel

I think it's a great signing. He has all the respect of the players and I think he's done a heck of a job since he's been here and I think he deserves this position.

Robert Baker

He deserves it. It's Christmas, he should be with his kids.

Bill Self

He deserves it. If you're going to tie for the championship, you at least would have to get one guy up there, you would think.

Jim Johnson

Hollis had a great preseason and he deserves it. He earned it. This is a great game for him.

Jonathan Charette

He's awesome, he deserves it. He is the most dominant player right now. He can't be stopped.

David Dewhurst

I think the public deserves better from their elected officials,

Michael Cohen

What does that tell you about how people value mental health? New Hampshire deserves better.

Teresa Kerry

John is a fighter. He earned his medals the old-fashioned way, by putting his life on the line for his country,

Winston Churchill

Half my lifetime I have earned my living by selling words, and I hope thoughts

Atharva Veda

LAKSHMI or wealth accrues by fair means as well as foul; money is earned by gambling, by various forms of deceit; by highway robbery; by high and low; by all and sundry.

Robert Gottlieb

In today's world, it never looks good when you're suing somebody who earned $20,000 for writing a book over a period of a year or two.

Tom Greene

I'm pretty happy to still be playing. And we earned the right to be there because of the 18 games in the league season.

Tom Megyesi

This is a good reward for all of their hard work and putting up with me in practice. The running, all of the stuff that they do in and out of practice, they earned this win.

Chris Neitzel

That's the first earned run we've given up this year.

Alex Pareene

Tax expenditures for middle- and working-class Americans - like the earned income tax credit - aren't thought of as loopholes; they're just thought of as benefits.

John Bunting

They won the job, earned the position through their play in training camp.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

James Patterson

Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.

Mary Carskadon

Kids are too sleepy to learn well. They're too sleepy to be happy. And they're at great risk for such things as traffic accidents.

Jim Schmitz

Jake Wade did just such a great job throwing strikes, going right at them. He pitched six quality innings. It was just nice to see him come out like that.

Alden Ehrenreich

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.

Chuck D.

Joey wrestled a great tournament, and we don't want him to get lost in the shuffle. He was solid all weekend.

Tim Ehresman

Joe was great tonight. He did things tonight he's been practicing all year. Come heck or high water, he was going to make it (to the regional tournament) again.

Ike Turner

Joe Louis is a great artist. He kind of helped me somewhat getting back to the blues.

Tori Rosenthal

Just seeing how some of those people lived and how little they had and how happy they are. It put in perspective what's important in life.

Frances Rodman

Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again.

Jeff Hawkins

I swear my heart stopped. I was so happy when he was able to come back.

Don Neise

Greg battled to get out of trouble. In the sixth inning, he got out of a bases-loaded jam. We're just happy to get out of here with a win.

Jenny Taylor

Greer is just scrappy. They get after it. They may be small, but they play big. My kids play big, too, and I'm happy with the way they played and the way they've played all season.

Bill Gates

Happy Valentine's Day. My other invitation was to go quail hunting with Dick Cheney.

Phil Savage

Happy New Year. I've really got nothing to say.

John Keats

Happy is England, sweet her artless daughters; / Enough their simple loveliness for me.

William Shakespeare

Happy are they that hear their detractions, and can put them to mending

Allan Carr

You should never meet your heroes. Paul Newman... I was so excited about meeting him, but he turned up in shell suit bottoms, slippers, and a jumper. He was just so worn out and old, he wanted to go home.

Janusz Bednarski

Greg Howard was one of the heroes on the men's side.

Rick Riordan

Alabaster, you told me earlier that heroes don't die. You may be right, but I can tell you one thing." Claymore looked the boy in the eyes. "I'm not a hero.

Rick Riordan

I looked at the campers, all of them grim and determined. I tried not to feel like this was the last time I'd ever see them all together. 'You're the greatest heroes of this millennium,' I told them. 'It doesn't matter how many monsters come at you. Fight bravely, and we will win.' I raised Riptide and shouted, 'FOR OLYMPUS!' They shouted in response, and our forty voices echoed off the buildings of Midtown.

Rhianna Pratchett

Videogames need more women and are too reliant on male, stubble-covered heroes.

Raymond Chandler

Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid...He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world

Raymond Chandler

Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid

Regina Spektor

I'm the hero of this story, I don't need to be saved

William Manchester

His [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] own heroes were Lincoln and Washington, and in some ways he resembled them.