Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joyce Bickers

As always, there are things to work on, but I am seeing the players incorporating things we work on in practice into the matches, whereas before they would work on it in practice, but never attempt in an actual game. These players are growing with each play and getting stronger and stronger and more confident.

Tim Hamilton

If Congress does not address the exports problem, company simply will pocket tax breaks. Any actual increase in production occurring in the U.S. will likely to find its way out of the county and prices will continue to climb.

Mike Rizzo

And, of course, ... if we get the equivalent of J.D.'s actual production, well, we're kind of screwed. But, no matter what happens, it still can't possibly be as bad of a signing as Russ Ortiz .

Mike Nichols

It's very, very corrupting to the spirit, doing comedy. And you have to be almost a saint, like Jack Benny was, like Steve Martin is, to avoid the corrupting of it, because there's very little work where the actual work and the reward are simultaneous, and comedy is that.

Neil Diamond

I t was a difficult time, but the actual creation of the record in the studio was the most eye-opening thing for me of the whole process,

Brett Hall

It will be the largest veto in terms of actual dollars in the history of the commonwealth. But, then, we've never had a capital budget this large.

Oscar Wilde

In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.

Oscar Hoya

It's exciting to be contributing to a project that pushes the popularity of boxing to a new level and to a new audience. EA SPORTS Fight Night Round 3 is so realistic anyone can pick up the game and learn about the actual sport while having a fun time doing it. The visuals in the game are so amazing. You can actually see the emotions on my face change throughout the round.

Tom Schrader

It seems that GM put a damper on things with some negative comments, and the economic numbers were a little weaker. They are both putting an overhang on the IBM news, which was generally positive. This is one of the biggest earnings days we have -- and people are going to be focusing more on the guidance than they are the actual earnings.

Phil Garner

Sometimes your offense picks up your pitching, and I do believe that our pitching will pick up our offense more often than it will let us down. Tonight we needed the offense and we had the offense. A win is a win.

Art Hogan

(Techs) had such a terrific run for the past two weeks that I believe some people are taking this opportunity to take some money off the table and invest it in the 'old economy,'

David Gibb

Terri is declining rapidly. We believe she has, at this point, passed where physically she would be able to recover, ... Face the Nation.

Bob Skubal

Some people still don't believe she's for real. If they have an issue to deal with they should get over the fact that girls should have no limits set on them. They should never hold themselves back.

LaVerne Knox

Sometimes people in this area, they just believe that one of us, if not both of us, should be in the Colonial Center every year.

Sathya Baba

Seeing is believing, I will believe in God only if I see Him; but are all things seen or heard or touched or tasted, as real as they seem?

Viktor Yushchenko

Russia is our strategic partner and we believe that in the course of this visit we will lay the groundwork for a new stage in the development of Ukrainian-Russian relations,

Russell Smith

Sadly, I don't really believe in the idea of timeless fashion. It's an oxymoron. If 'classic fashion' really never changed, we'd all still be wearing togas.

Phil Klay

Prayer in a combat zone serves exactly the same purpose as it does in peacetime. In war, the stakes are life and death, true; but if you believe in God and in the notion of a human soul, then we are always making decisions of tremendous significance.

Kevin Bardsley

We didn't want them to have to recreate the wheel, ... In our eyes, Garrett saved Brennan's life because of the things that we've learned.

Charles Fillmore

The mind is the seat of perception of the things we see, hear, and feel. It is through the mind that we see the beauties of the earth and sky, or music, of art, in fact, of everything. That silent shuttle of thought working in and out through cell and nerve weaves into one harmonious whole the myriad moods of mind, and we call it life.

Charles Fillmore

Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.

Charles Bukowski

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

Charles Bukowski

Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.

Charles Bukowski

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

Charles Bukowski

Life's as kind as you let it be.

Charles Bukowski

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Charles Bukowski

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

Bruce Springsteen

The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence.

Emmanuel Jal

To tell my story, to touch lives.

Emma Thompson

I`ve realized that in all the great stories, even if there`s a happily-ever-after ending, there`s something sad.

Lord Byron

But stories somehow lengthen when begun.

Ted Naifeh

I get tired of stories that keep going and going and never get anywhere. It's like a promise that's never fulfilled. Stories need endings. Otherwise, they aren't really stories. Just pages.

Alan Rickman

The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

David S. Goyer

What I really like to do is write 'genre' stories without a cartoonish element. I did the same with 'Da Vinci's Demons,' and I'll do the same with 'Man of Steel.'

Charles Soule

There are fantastic stories yet to be told featuring Marvel's characters, old and new, and I'm thrilled to be part of them.

Laurie Holden

I'm not interested in playing the victim. I like stories about survivors.

Conrad Aiken

The truth--a hideous spectacle!

Sydney J. Harris

Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.

Thomas Jefferson

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Mason Cooley

Disillusionment is not truth.

Mason Cooley

Errors are more numerous than truths, but fortunately too divided among themselves to take power.

Mason Cooley

Truth is a necessary phantom.

Mason Cooley

Birth dates and bathroom scales tell more truth than I want to know.

Margaret Oliphant

Somehow even a popular fallacy has an aspect of truth when it suits one's own case.

Michel de Montaigne

I have never known a greater miracle, or monster, than myself.