Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sepp Blatter

The only way to fight this is to do exactly what we have done when it came to violence. We have to take away the points because it happens in those leagues where the money is sufficient so, even if you gave a fine of $100,000, it would be paid the next day. That does not change the attitude, so you have to go into a sporting sanction.

Larry Merchant

Especially for younger generations - this was their Ray Robinson - I think it came as a great shock.

Greg McAnally

First of all, Tualatin is an excellent football team. We came out and made a ton of mistakes. We fumbled the ball a bit.

Patrick Stump

First off, we came from hardcore bands, and, in a lot of ways, we still see ourselves as a hardcore band. That said, that's just how we play. I don't know how else to play when you're in a rock band. If you're in a rock band, that's how you're going to do it.

Art Spinella

Flood vehicles can be sold for their parts. There isn't a single vehicle that came out of Katrina that should be sold. They should all be scrapped.

Chad Smith

Flea got into rock later on in life, came up in jazz as a jazz trumpet player, and then got into punk rock, playing in Fear and stuff like that.

Dave Baseggio

Flat's not the word, but we weren't assertive. They came out and played well, and then we got more assertive.

Joey Mullen

First time he came up I thought he played pretty good. The second time he came up, he'd improved a lot. I think he's even gotten better this third time. He's been a real sparkplug for us in the playoffs.

Joel Zumaya

First things first, the jitters are gone. I did what I had to do. I dreamt all through the night time hoping I'd have a great start and it came true.

Francis Bacon

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

Bobby Cox

He's getting paid $12 million because he can hit.

Ray Lewis

Parents may be always working, parents may be in and out. When you're dropping them off with coaches, the first thing kids should be coming back and saying is, 'Mom, guess what I learned today? Guess what coach taught me today?'

Thomas Friedman

My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill.

Thomas A. Edison

The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.

Thomas Jones

My father played in high school. My uncles played. From age five or six, I remember watching all the games. And I remember saying to my mom and dad even then that I was going to play in the NFL, and buy them a house and a car.

Thomas Keller

I wonder if I love the communal act of eating so much because throughout my childhood, with four older brothers and a mom who worked in the restaurant business, I spent a lot of time fending for myself, eating alone - and recognizing how eating together made all the difference.

Rebecca Lobo

In third grade, I was taking tap-dance lessons, and about six weeks before the recital I wanted to quit. My mom said, 'No, you're going to stay with it.' Well, I did it, and I was bad, too! But my parents never let their kids walk away from something because it was too hard.

Vin Diesel

My mom used to say that I became a fighter and a scrapper and a tough guy to protect who I am at my core.

Viggo Mortensen

When I was 11, I moved to the United States with my two brothers and my mom. We moved to northern New York, up near the Canadian border, from Argentina, and there was nobody there that spoke Spanish, and because there was no internet at the time, not even cable TV yet, I lost the connection with my childhood friends and the culture I had been brought up with for my first decade completely.

Victoria Clark

My deceased grandmother on my mom's side was a real fairy godmother, who lived to be 102 and who I always feel is looking after me.

Patrick Dempsey

Didn't you take economics? You could have had me for $49.95.

Ovid

It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.

Paul McCartney

To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things; we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.

Katharine Whitehorn

The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.

Katharine Whitehorn

Being young is not having any money; being young is not minding not having any money.

Katharine Whitehorn

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Hepburn

If you're given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.