Famous Quotes & Sayings

Twyla Tharp

My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the world.'

Twyla Tharp

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Custard is controversial: what makes it a custard, how best to cook it and, crucially, is it to be eaten or put in a pie and thrown?

Yani Tseng

It's very easy when you have someone in front of you that you can chase. You want to be No. 1 but now I feel like I have to play well because everybody looks at you as a best golfer. So that's why I put more pressure on myself.

Thucydides

We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.

Timothy Noah

There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.

Thomas Friedman

I can see a day soon where you'll create your own college degree by taking the best online courses from the best professors from around the world - some computing from Stanford, some entrepreneurship from Wharton, some ethics from Brandeis, some literature from Edinburgh - paying only the nominal fee for the certificates of completion.

Idina Menzel

I used to take 40 minutes to warm up before going on stage. If you want to spend time with your child as well as having a career, you have to get up there even if your head's a mess. It's made me more relaxed, and I'm having some of my best shows.

Idina Menzel

I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'

Rebecca MacKinnon

The 'Shawshank Redemption' has nothing to do with China, but that hasn't kept social media censors from blocking the movie's title from searches on the country's most popular Twitter-like microblogging service, Weibo.

Marc Bulger

We have the luxury of having four really good receivers when we are in our quad package, ... At the same time, since Isaac is going to be down, Dane (Looker) can step in and play the fourth receiver, but Kevin, like I said after the game, could start for most teams. And there are different things that Kevin does better than Isaac, but at the same time, there are a lot of things that Isaac brings to our team that we will miss, route-running and blocking and just being that leader out there. So, we'll miss him if he can't go, but Kevin, he knows what he's doing.

Eric Davis

Tyler has been blocking a lot of shots for us this season. He not only blocks shots but he changes shots.

Mike Nolan

We've lost production out of the offense. That hurts, and you have to try to make up for that in other ways. We certainly have confidence in our two wide receivers from a playmaker standpoint, as well as at running back, (but) you need somebody to stretch the middle of the field, and our tight end position has been more in a blocking mode than anything else.

Peter Riegert

I did a play in high school, then one in college. My first professional experience was off-off-Broadway. I'm conveniently blocking the title. I'm sure I was terrible.

Darrell Blackman

We just went back and practiced after the Virginia Tech game and worked on some of the mistakes that we made in running our inside zones and stuff like that. Cleaned up a little blocking and stuff that we might have messed up in the first game.

Michelle Buckley

I think I've improved on my blocking a lot. My quickness at the net, transitioning back-and-forth, has gotten a lot better.

Sam Simpson

Johnson is a player, but he also got good blocking upfront. They put eight players back to stop the pass, so we've got to run.

Tom Sawyer

We had too many missed blocking assignments, and that takes you out of your game,

Scott Kaupin

The overall numbers were lower than anticipated. Quite a few of the candidates had to be contacted by the search firm. With that being said, quite a few of the candidates are qualified.

Rosemond Pradel

The people and the candidates want to have the elections and we are ready.

Nina Easton

Successful candidates follow a simple fundamental rule: Define yourself before your opponent can define you.

Joe Galli

We have a model that's very acquisitive and we are looking at a number of acquisition candidates and we will continue,

Bill Gallagher

We could not have found a better candidate to lead our marketing efforts as the company phases up operations, ... Alicia will oversee our marketing team, shaping and articulating the company's image on a widespread basis, especially as we follow through on our growth strategy over the next few months.

Rebecca Jones

We were having difficulty recruiting qualified police officers, and we felt this policy may have prevented some good candidates from applying.

Elliott Stonecipher

You are going to have candidates going into their hotel suites to watch the returns, knowing that anything could happen.

Steve Pike

We've had concerns about the recent election where over 1,000 candidates were disqualified from running and there were many allegations of election fraud and interference,

Scott Provancher

We have communicated to the music-director candidates the current situation. It's our intention, as long as we are able to operate the season, to have those candidates come in.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Some days, just occasionally, when I've had just one too many chickpeas, drizzles of olive oil or chunks of feta, I crave a return to the sushi-filled joints of Tokyo.

Ed Black

Microsoft has always felt threatened by the Internet, because it is an open world. It sees it as essential to extend its presence there and move chunks of it into a proprietary world.

Jim Bates

We haven't given up the big run, the 25-, 30-, 40-yard run. But we have given up way too many for big chunks on early downs. We have to get better, it doesn't matter who's playing. I have confidence we'll stop the run.

John Krafcik

We don't have a vehicle with three rows of seats now, and we know we're losing big chunks of customers because of that. But next year, we'll have three (vehicles with three rows of seats).

Damon Galgut

I wrote large chunks of 'The Impostor' and 'The Good Doctor' on a beach in Goa.

Katharine Kerr

I personally am a 'discovery writer,' as we're termed, someone who plans the book by writing it and then revising the entire thing. When it comes to saga, this means writing large chunks of prose before any of it coalesces into a book.

Ryan Moats

That makes things a lot easier, because you can really focus in on what you have to know specifically. As time goes on, we'll learn more and more, but right now they're keeping it to nice bite-sized chunks that we can digest easily. And that should let us have an impact right away.

Marcus Vick

We watched their defensive line, and we noticed that they weren't that athletic. I just wanted to pick up chunks of yardage. There were a couple of designed runs, but for the most part, I just tried to pull it down and get what I could get.

Tallia Cahoon

There was this huge, glass-enclosed refrigerator with big chunks of meat hanging on hooks.

Sushmita Banerjee

The Afghans, despite their backwardness, are a friendly lot, but the Taliban are as barbaric as the Huns from the past.

Dave Bike

We can't let them play their up-tempo style. We won't be able to run with them. They are playing well, despite having lost three, 1,000 (career) point scorers from last season. They haven't really missed a beat. We need to slow this game down.

Ashraf Laidi

Today's trade figures are a stark reminder to the structural deficiencies of the U.S. economy and the reason for our negative dollar outlook for the year despite (its) recent bounce.

Philip Reeve

I used to be very fascinated by Victorian stuff, and my best-known books, the 'Mortal Engines' series, have a sort of retro, Victorian vibe, despite being set in the far future.

Paul Muldoon

The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.

Peggy Lipton

Despite 'Mod Squad's hit status, I never really made the inner connection that I was contributing.

Dave Taylor

Most IT Managers have seen an increase in the number of mobile or field workers by around a third, but despite this increase, they are expected to manage these workers with inadequate tools.

Danny Sullivan

Microsoft's problem is that despite having all this stuff, they haven't really budged their share of search.

Julie Cordova

I thought I did okay despite the lack of training, but one of my listeners told me that while I thought I was playing music to take a break, I was actually recording!

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I think I am difficult to satisfy, because when I win something, I'm already thinking about the next step, and that is maybe a problem for me. I'm not enjoying the moment. I'm already on the mission to win the next trophy.

Abraham Lincoln

When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.

Gerhard Schroeder

The pictures we've seen on TV are difficult to bear.

Susan Burke

The pictures are just the tip of the iceberg. I don't think we'll have difficulty because there's a heck of a lot of evidence.

Brian Cox

I enjoy acting now more than I ever have. I've had lots of difficult times when I was younger, but that was all tied up with thwarted ambition. It's hard being a young actor, because you don't realise until later that it's only ever about doing the work.

Nash Grier

You can play professional lacrosse, but they make less than a teacher's salary now. I always thought about that. And it's a very difficult career, a short career, as a pro athlete.

Carrie Fisher

I don't want to be thought of as a survivor because you have to continue getting involved in difficult situations to show off that particular gift, and I'm not interested in doing that anymore.

Alan Johnston

That was the most difficult game we played this season.

Rob Andrew

That was rubbish. Two teams having a real off-day. It's difficult to explain performances like that.

E. W. Howe

No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.

Scott Reed

The Pelosi-Durbin announcement was like a tree falling in the forest. Nobody heard it.

Bill Hader

I think that's the thing I learned at 'Saturday Night Live' - any time I would try and strategize, I would always, always fall on my face. Things worked out when I tried to make it about what I was feeling at that moment and what I was into in that moment of my life.

Cecelia Ahern

Chin up, don’t smile, don’t cry, don’t fall, walk.

Cecelia Ahern

Moments are precious, sometimes they linger and other times they're fleeing, and yet so much could be done in them; you could change a mind, you could save a life and you could even fall in love.

Cecelia Ahern

Always a chancer, always lucky, he'd fall into a river and come out dry, with fish in his pockets.

Cecelia Ahern

This love thing awakened a group of slumbering senses in my body that I never even knew existed.

Cecelia Ahern

Don't be afraid to fall in love again. Open your heart and follow where it leads you...and remember, shoot for the moon.

Cecelia Ahern

I'm never overwhelmed or under it either; just nicely whelmed. I'm OK. Nothing spectacular but sometimes special. I look in the mirror and see this medium average person. A little tired, a little sad, but not falling apart.

Glen Hansard

This weird thing that musicians have... it's got something to do with approval, and not feeling good enough, and therefore going out and being great somehow makes your life valid.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

I try not to regret too much. I find that feeling guilty takes up so much of my time already.

Cecelia Ahern

Love was one of those feelings that you could never control.

Carrie Chapman Catt

What is prejudice? An opinion, which is not based upon reason; a judgment, without having heard the argument; a feeling, without being able to trace from whence it came.

Carrie Underwood

Singing is just a feeling set to music.

Arnold Schoenberg

I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.

Bill Vaughan

One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.

Charles R. Swindoll

Lead with action and let the feelings follow.

Sheryl Krmpotich

That was huge. At one point we were up by 20 (63-43 with 2:42 to play). You know, this team has done a lot of great things this year. We've had our ups and our downs, but it's just a great feeling to be number one.

George Karl

I will talk to him and see what's happening. He told me and the staff at halftime that he couldn't go. Now, there's stuff filtering out that there's frustration there. We'll see.

Michael Winter

I didn't like filtering the story through me, saying, 'Reader, you'll be safe with me. While it gets a little dangerous, it'll be okay because, after all, you're with me, because I'm a warm convivial voice. But let's be entertained by this horrible stuff.' I didn't like that.

Rebecca MacKinnon

However, it seems that is never going to happen. So if people are going to filter, I want them to be open and transparent with their users about what they are filtering and why.

Karen Adams

If you review them from someone else's perspective, you have a better filtering system to filter out people that wouldn't work for you,

Vivek Wadhwa

You will find that every successful entrepreneur has suffered many setbacks. These entrepreneurs just forget to mention these when they are doing interviews with the 'Wall Street Journal' or Bloomberg TV.

Bill Burr

You wanna know how you know you're informed as a protestor? They don't show your interview on TV.

John Rose

We filmed every recording session and did interviews on what each song represented to the artist, so we've amassed a world of footage.

Cyrus Mehri

We have some things to point to that we think are successful. We had a record number of interviews this year, over 25. . . We also had for the first time a trade for an African-American coach.

Alice Lowe

For years, I didn't give interviews because I was scared of people judging me or thinking I was arrogant.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Reporters tend to launch on what seems to be the clearest, most stark aspects of someone's life in terms of an interview.

China Mieville

The Weaver is a really godlike power. It's not even a blind idiot god, a sort of Lovecraft thing, it's just a purely capricious god. It's an intelligence you can't understand, so you can't trust it." -Amazon.com interview

Bob Ross

I never turn down requests for interviews. I'm just rarely asked.

Charlie Rose

The person I've always wanted to interview but never met was Richard Burton.

David Givens

We were going to somehow win this game.

David Aebischer

Usually, you should win these games. Somehow right now, we are a little short.

David Bergen

I always have a book that I use that somehow inspires my novels.

Laurie Colwin

Somehow or other, I always end up in a kitchen feeding a crowd.

Sarah Snook

I was always like, 'No, I don't like sci-fi,' and then I started watching it and thought, I didn't know that's what it was. I think I'd somehow got it confused with action and space-travel action - that sci-fi could only be like 'Star Wars.'

Vint Cerf

The idea that you can somehow erase the Internet is silly.

Alison Jackson

It's always fun to put fake celebrities in unlikely situations, but somehow it's even more fun when politicians are involved.

Paul Giamatti

Somehow whatever I play ends up being sleazy.

Clint Hurdle

Somehow we have to find a way to get him involved.