Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Garcia

We're only as good as that plate of nachos or that plate that's going out right now. If they are going to wait an hour and a half, it better be damn good. It better be exceptional, and they better be entertained while they wait.

Pat Roberts

I think we ought to take it down -- take the damn thing down,

Melvin Spears

I don't give a damn what they do. My players' lives are more important than any damned football game.

John Tortorella

I don't give a damn about the Leafs. We're not going to look over our shoulder.

Sonny Terry

In them days I just as soon died-except for my harmonica. It was like a friend who didn't give a damn if I could see or not.

Sam Ervin

I'll have you understand I am running this court, and the law hasn't got a damn thing to do with it!

Denny Green

I'm just surprised I'm not doing a better damn job. The job I thought I could do, I've not been able to do right now. And I'm not happy about it.

Larry Fitzgerald

not true. You damn right it's down because we got on them. I sent people out there.

Mac Smith

The new lift was put in for the sport of skiing. That's pretty damn cool. Because of our numbers, though, it could become economically viable.

Penny Circle

He is responding to treatment and shows improvement every day.

Mark Donahoe

There are signs out there that the market is discounting this (economic improvement) six-to-nine months out.

David Ganey

He showed improvement all season long and that paid off with a trip to the state tournament.

Kevin Williams

I think their new offense is pretty good. It's an improvement, but it will take some time to get running.

Simon Crisford

I think we will be recommending to Sheikh Mohammed that she stays in trainer next year because there is potential for more improvement from her.

George Cunningham

I think it's very nice. It's a big improvement.

Tyra Banks

Don't make excuses - make improvements!

Keith Fithen

I'm seeing a lot of individual improvement. They just have to come together as a team.

James Anthony Froude

Human improvement is from within outward.

Plato

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Robert Nozick

When I was 15 years old, or 16, I carried around on the streets of Brooklyn a paperback copy of Plato's Republic, front cover facing outward. I had read only some of it and understood less, but I was excited by it and knew it was something wonderful.

Virginia Woolf

The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is through our eyes; if we blink or look aside, or turn back to finger what Plato said or remember Napoleon and his conquests, we inflict on the world the injury of some obliquity. This is life…

Werner Heisenberg

My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing.

Walter Kaufmann

There is thus a certain plausibility to Nietzsche's doctrine, though it is dynamite. He maintains in effect that the gulf separating Plato from the average man is greater than the cleft between the average man and a chimpanzee.

Rebecca Solnit

How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?" (Plato) The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other side of that transformation. Love, wisdom, grace, inspiration- how do you go about finding these things that are in some ways about extending the boundaries of the self into unknown territory, about becoming someone else?

Marshall McLuhan

In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence for thought and mechanical learning for the true dialect of the living quest for truth by discourse and conversation.

Joseph Joubert

Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.

Pablo Picasso

...why did Plato say that poets should be chased out of the republic? Precisely because every poet and every artist is an antisocial being. He's not that way because he wants to be; he can't be any other way.... and if he really is an artist it is in his nature not to want to be admitted, because if he is admitted it can only mean he is doing something which is understood, approved, and therefore old hat - worthless. Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.

Rodney Melville

I will look for ways to restrict testimony.

Shayne Ward

I have been to see a specialist and they have told me that singers often suffer from this problem, but that it's nothing to worry about and that I need to rest my voice for a week or so.

Richard M. Nixon

Fate has ordained that the men who went to the Moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace. These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin [Buzz] Aldrin, know that there is no hope for their recovery. But they also know that there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice.

Yoweri Museveni

May the soul of the late President Milton Obote... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace.

Wasim Akram

First of all, convince yourself that you are the best because the rest of your life is going to go proving this to others.

Rick Warren

Relationships are always worth restoring.

Doctor Who

Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead.

Alain Vigneault

Rest is as important as anything else right now.

Dennis Erlich

I like those scores -- everything in the 30s. Those are the types of scores we're going to need the rest of the season.