Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tucker Carlson

I wouldn't say I'm happy now. My skepticism is warranted, given what I've seen over the decades.

Muhammad Yunus

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

James Salter

I think you can be taught to write. You can't be taught to be a good writer. For that, you have to bring something to it, yourself, something that can't be given to you.

Jerry Stracke

We're pretty balanced. I think that is what has gotten us this far. We have different players that can step up on any given day. It makes it hard for other teams to play us because we are so balanced.

Ed Comeau

We talk about winning as a team and on any given night we think we have the talent to get all our guys scoring. We want that type of balance; we don't want to rely on (Grant) and Willy to score seven between them.

Maria Semple

I think a novel has to be about where you are at a given moment in time. I think it really needs to represent some specific pain you're going through. it's not just a story.

Bill Schneider

He's going to be given very different treatment than he had in the past, ... celebrity.

Jack Kokinda

He's given up one run in the last 42 innings. That's the reason why we're winning. If teams can't score, they can't win.

Gary Patterson

He's given TCU three great years. All you can say is it shows that TCU has arrived.

Roy Harper

I was determined if I was going to become a superstar it would be on my terms. I've had that ethic since the beginning.

Shane Valdez

I think that's the first time since I've been here that we had everyone qualify.

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Samuel Smiles

The truest politeness comes of sincerity.

Zane Grey

These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.

Chelsea Clinton

I have voted in every election that I have been qualified to vote in since I turned 18.

Michael Mayer

I haven't read a single word that a critic has written about me since 1994.

Kelly Slater

I haven't surfed since Japannot even one wave.

Saku Koivu

I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while.

Jake Delhomme

He's a special player. We say that every week.

Scarlet Knights

We try to put three scholarships towards special teams -- one kicker, one punter and one combo guy, ... That should show how important we think it is.

Sara Zarr

Remember that no matter where I am or what I'm doing I've got a special place inside me that's all for you. It's been there since the day we met.

Ken Wade

Calvin is a very special player. He's just amazing; there is no other way to say it.

James Willis

I kind of did that when I first got back. I got that out of my system. It was only special to me as I was walking out on the field. After that, it was back to business.

Nancy Werlin

You can be special without being extraordinary.

Helen Gurley Brown

There are not that many people who know how to edit. It's a funny tiny little obscure talent but it's very special. You have to have the feeling of popular taste.

Northrop Frye

Everything that happens in the Old Testament is a "type" or adumbration of something that happens in the New Testament, and the whole subject is therefore called typology, though it is a typology in a special sense.

Cliff Floyd

Nothing special - the same old Lieber. He doesn't make mistakes.

Joseph Lieberman

We support a woman's right to choose, ... The other ticket does not.

Ryan McGinley

Most of the e-mails I get nowadays are from students who ask me how I got my start. In truth its from having a really supportive family but also having a good patron who will help you - like financing all those early trips I took.

Rhianna Pratchett

I enjoy co-directing or even being there just for support because you get to see your script come to aural life in front of you.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

Tory Burch

Having an environment that is supportive is really important for success.

Winona LaDuke

If we build a society based on honoring the earth, we build a society which is sustainable, and has the capacity to support all life forms.

Rudy Giuliani

If there's no other alternative, I support civilian trials for terrorists.

William O. Douglas

Christianity has sufficient inner strength to survive and flourish on its own. It does not need state subsidies, nor state privileges, nor state prestige. The more it obtains state support, the greater it curtails human freedom.

Frank Bennett

Part of it was to support the facility,

Bill Uttley

I want to thank Mr. Edwards for his time in the negotiations.

Whitey Herzog

Some people asked me if I would be interested in managing the A's. I said a definite no thank you. At night, that place is a graveyard with lights.

Robyn Carr

My husband was an Air Force pilot man years ago and recently an Air Force wife thanked me for my service! I laughed and said, 'No, I wasn't in the Air Force, my husband was!' And she smiled and said, 'If he served, you served. And thank you.'

Virgil Thomson

I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization whenever you can.

Saint Basil

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship.

Zakk Wylde

If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot

William Tecumseh Sherman

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Lofa Tatupu

I just want to thank you for your unwavering support.

Kristen Staab

I'm done with the whole thing. I don't want to say anything. Thank you, though.

Richard D. James

I'm a quite erratic person: From setups to actually when I'm doing a track, it's just turning and switching and changing all the time.

Valentino Rossi

It is dangerous and unbelievably fast and entirely different from the kind of track I am used to racing on

Richard Dawkins

Evolution normally does not come to a halt, but constantly 'tracks' the changing environment.

Robert M. Pirsig

A person filled with gumption doesn’t sit about stewing about things. He’s at the front of the train of his own awareness, watching to see what’s up the track and meeting it when it comes. That’s gumption. If you’re going to repair a motorcycle, an adequate supply of gumption is the first and most important tool. If you haven’t got that you might as well gather up all the other tools and put them away, because they won’t do you any good.

Robert Farrar Capon

A good time occurs precisely when we lose track of what time it is.

Robin Trower

I don't tend to have a favorite album; I tend to have favorite tracks. There are flaws in every album that spoil it for me.

Sam Altman

In general though, if you look at the track record of pivots, they don't become big companies.

Sam Altman

Losing focus is another way that founders get off track.

Rufus Wainwright

I am regarded as a usurper, as an imposter and dilettante, because I do technically come from the wrong side of the tracks in musical terms.