Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes you have to be careful when selecting a new name for yourself. For instance, let's say you have chosen the nickname "Fly Head." Normally you would think that "fly Head" would mean a person who has beautiful swept-back features, as if flying through the air. But think again. Couldn't it also mean "having a head like a fly"? I'm afraid some people might actually think that.

Catherine McCartney

We've spoken out and said you can stand up and you don't have to be afraid of anybody. But it won't mean anything unless the people in the communities take that opportunity the next time the IRA comes to their door and say to them 'I'm not going to allow you to bully me'.

Chinese Proverbs

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still

Rob Varley

Bob cares a lot about the success of Cocoa Beach. He's a regular guy who isn't afraid of hard work. Let me tell you -- it was very difficult for the tourism industry after Sept. 11. We were hurting.

Rabindranath Tagore

Never be afraid of the moments - thus sings the voice of the ever-lasting.

Terri Schrishuhn

They're both big-time competitors. They're tough. They're hard-nosed. They wanted to put the team on their backs. They had the will to create things and the shoulders broad enough to take shots and make big plays. They're not afraid of that at all.

Cybill Shepherd

My home is different from my mother's, because hers is filled with beautiful objects that I was always afraid of breaking. My home is the opposite. Bring on the kids, the dogs, the parties - there's nothing that's so important it can't be broken.

Leo Buscaglia

I have too much respect for people to try to control them. But they are estranged from love, afraid to reach out and touch one another. We're afraid to appear sentimental or speak in platitudes because people will say, 'What a jerk!' It takes courage in our culture to be a lover.

Bill Bavasi

To be around YB, you'd think he's led the most charmed life, ... Without having walked a mile in his shoes, I'm afraid that, no matter what I say, I may shortchange the hardship he's gone through to get to this point. His perseverance is remarkable.

Donald Trump

We have a special site, a special location. We have a neighborhood that at first was concerned but now has embraced us for the most part.

Allan Payne

We will have discussions with everyone concerned about the future shape of the IRB series.

Jim Williams

We are working on that, we're concerned about that, and the last thing we want to do is discourage traffic. We've got to come up with solutions that meet people's needs.

Bobby Frankel

I'd rather not have the 1-hole. She doesn't have too much early speed. But she's brave. She's got a decent shot. You've got to be a little lucky from the rail, luckier than if you have the outside.

Demi Lovato

As a kid I'd play with homemade recipes, like putting pineapple on my face to exfoliate my skin and doing facial steams with lavender or peppermint oils. I just loved doing stuff like that. It's what motivated me to launch my skin care line.

Alastair Reynolds

Enjoy it, kid. Enjoy feeling that you can make a difference.' Floyd flashed him a smile. 'It won't last for ever.

Amanda Hocking

When I was a little kid, before I learned how to write, I would tell stories.

Amanda Palmer

I was just a very dark kid. My family was complicated.

AnnaSophia Robb

You can keep your mind open and use your imagination and be creative even when you're older. For kids, I definitely think keeping your mind open and using your imagination and being able to play pretend and that it's okay.

Anna Quindlen

Keeping kids safe is sometimes a delusion. The world is a perilous place. Sometimes the kitchen is a perilous place.

Anna Quindlen

Well, we tell our kids things like 'don't gossip' and then an hour later they hear us on the phone. Stuff like that.

Anna Quindlen

Kids and violent TV, violent TV and violence, violence and kids. The only people missing from this discussion are the parents. Where are we? Gone. Abdicated.

Anna Quindlen

Poor kids are much more likely to become sick than their richer counterparts, but much less likely to have health insurance. Talk about a double whammy.

Herman Melville

But the might-have-been is but boggy ground to build upon.

Jean Toomer

I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.

Gucci Mane

I go to the club just like a normal person. I might go to the studio, but I go everywhere like a normal person would.

Harriet Martineau

I wrote because I could not help it. There was something that I wanted to say, and I said it: that was all. The fame and the money and the usefulness might or might not follow. It was not by my endeavor if they did.

Gregory Maguire

If one could drown in the grass, thought Elphie, that might be the best way to die.

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

There have been a few moments when I have known complete satisfaction, but only a few. I have rarely been free from the disturbing realization that my playing might have been better.

Ignatius of Loyola

Calisto, a companion of Ignatius, and who on recovering from a severe illness had heard of the imprisonment of Ignatius, hastened from Segnovia, where he was staying, and came to Alcala, that he, too, might be cast into prison.

Gore Vidal

You hear all this whining going on, 'Where are our great writers?' The thing I might feel doleful about is: 'Where are the readers?'

Gillian Jacobs

Ken Jeong might be my biggest fan.

Robert Barry

So I never had trouble getting work or working or doing - I always worked. I worked when I went to college. I worked after school.

Rob Paulsen

Work hard in school and listen to your parents. They really do want the very best for you and have been where you're going.

Rob McKenna

You can study government and politics in school, but the best way to really understand the process is to volunteer your time.

Rob Lowe

I have been looking forward to this age of my life for a long time. In my twenties, I marked the days on the calendar - I was sick of playing high-school kids.

Red Skelton

A fellow told me he was going to hang-glider school. He said, 'I've been going for three months. ' I said, 'How many successful jumps do you need to make before you graduate?' He said, 'All of them. '

Reed Hastings

About half my work in education is U.S. political reform around school districts and charter schools, and creating more room for entrepreneurial organizations to develop. And about half on technology, which I look at as a global platform.

Samuel Alito

After law school, I had the opportunity to clerk for a tremendous judge, Leonard I. Garth, on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, the court to which I was appointed in 1990.

Samuel Alito

A generation earlier, I think that somebody from my background probably would not have felt fully comfortable at a college like Princeton. But, by the time I graduated from high school, things had changed.

Samuel Alito

This was a time of great intellectual excitement for me. Both college and law school opened up new worlds of ideas.

Bobby Jackson

They just wanted it more. We did all the right things in the first 12 minutes, and did all the wrong things from then on out.