Famous Quotes & Sayings

Orlando McGuire

As Cro-Magnon as it sounds, the problem with attitudes is some people have just never had their ass kicked -- and I don't mean necessarily in the physical sense.

Stan Bergman

As always, our main goal is to go out and compete with a positive attitude and to have a good experience.

Tammie Adair

The big thing was just getting them to focus. We just want them to take with them a positive attitude and still have their goals and dreams in focus.

Sufjan Stevens

program. ''It puts us in the attitude of respect for our audience. I think it's important on every level to have a kind of attitude of unification in some way. . . . I don't really have that naturally. I'm not a great performer, so we have to do everything we can, do the exercises, to prepare.

Carlos Ghosn

Demand is down heavily, ... Now that consumers are being convinced little by little that high oil prices are here to stay, they will be shifting their attitude on the market.

Jeff Mitchell

Definitely, ... preseason-wise, this is probably one of the best teams I've ever been on. So if we can stay healthy and keep the right attitude and work ethic, we'll be doing well.

Mark Wade

Coach Williams gets in there with them and encourages them. There's no nonsense about his attitude and approach.

David Murphy

Coach told us we could do it if we took a professional attitude about everything. To win a tournament like this you have to prepare mentally and physically like professionals.

Gary Mitchell

Despite the drop in house fire deaths, there has been no improvement in getting homeowners to maintain working smoke alarms. We know that smoke alarms save lives, but there has been a very lax attitude about maintaining them.

Brandon Sanderson

I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal, important scenes, and I build them in my head and I don't write them yet, but I build towards them.

Brandon Sanderson

I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours.

Anthony Shadid

The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes—when we write small to say something big.

Ben Mezrich

There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write.

Ben Marcus

When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level.

Ben Okri

The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.

Barbara Kingsolver

I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night.

Barbara Kingsolver

If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, I'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight percent work and two percent magic.

Barbara Kingsolver

It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.

Dick Lamm

This is not a self-correcting problem. PERA needs to be put on a long-term program toward solvency.

Larry Cox

This is not something that needs to go before the board,

Fred Felleman

The whale has always flirted with this kind of danger. It was like that old children's cartoon, 'Are you my mother?' Orcas are very social animals, and this was the only way to get his social needs met.

Carnie Wilson

We need to eat and enjoy it but control it. That's what I do now.

Jamie Zawinski

Your needs are big because the Internet is big.

Dan Barker

Only sinners need saviors.

Charles Spurgeon

Every generation needs regeneration

Dick Van Dyke

You need someone to love, and something to do that you enjoy, and something to hope for, and that's enough for me.

Debra Winger

I do not need a lot of money to be happy.