Famous Quotes & Sayings

M. J. Rose

As a general rule, when you comment on a blog, make it knowledgeable or witty and, most of all, relevant to that post - then, simply sign it with your name and your book title. Resist the urge to brag or sell your book.

Brad Pitt

In Missouri, where I come from, we don't talk about what we do - we just do it. If we talk about it, it's seen as bragging.

Robert Browning

Never brag, never bluster, never blush.

Michel de Montaigne

A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself; if he belittles himself, he is believed; if he praises himself, he isn't believed.

Ellen Miller

Let us know what earmarks, for example, your members of Congress are bragging about, tell us about them, and together we'll track down what they're really all about.

H. Hunt

He just told us to go out there and do what we do best. I think it would have been better if he was here, though. But Coach Jordan did a good job coaching us tonight. We don't really brag about (our record). We just thank God we've got players who play up to their potential.

Brian King

Greek week is always an intense competition because they are competing for trophies, but they are mostly competing for bragging rights.

Scott Baugh

This is a big rivalry game for us. There's a lot at stake for us like bragging rights.

Ben Alexander

We started out a little rough, but we stepped it up in the fourth quarter. We wanted to win. We wanted the bragging rights, but we all were looking forward to this game.

Saad Qindeel

Any comments regarding the contents of the constitution from a non-Iraqi source are not going to be helpful.

Scott Reed

Romney?s comments have not gone unnoticed, and his visit to Phoenix to raise some money has raised some eyebrows.

Howard Mann

It would be unfair for me to make comments about an order I haven't seen yet.

Tom Vosa

These comments have reduced expectations that we will see any hint of a pause in tightening in Greenspan's testimony on Wednesday.

Ehud Barak

These comments have, of course, no connection to reality, and it would have been better if they would have never been said,

Mahmoud Alinejad

These comments are not being made by accident. This is something he has deliberated and thought out.

Todd Akin

This is not about who is running the media, this is about the question of the shock jocks who have been pushing the moral envelope for all too long and the vulgar and indecent comments that come over the public airwaves.

Katherine MacMurray

This game we tried to focus on positive comments to help our players and that helped win the game.

Bill Belichick

You would have to talk to the Jets. I have no comment on their job or their situation or anything else. Anything they have to say about it, I'm sure they would be more than happy to give you that information.

Mark Twain

The world will not stop and think- it never does, it is not its way; its way is to generalize from a single sample

Jim Tharp

Young kids were about a third, parents were about a third, and then the rest was the general audience.

Tori Kelly

When I'm on stage, I generally wear what I would wear every other day, but I think my hair is probably bigger on stage - it seems to be my accessory!

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Here in Davos, it is generally assumed that there is now only one god - the market.

Michael Williams

At the end of the day, what happened in the first 72 hours is going to be generally overshadowed by what happens in the next 12 to 24 months,

Doug Smith

Wolf populations can generally take a 30 percent mortality rate and stay stable. If this is one year, there's nothing to worry about. If it comes to successive years, we could have a problem.

Jeffrey Bewkes

We think it's a general malaise about the (media) sector.

John McHale

Issues of this type are really between the general partners, ... Our office will get involved only if there is a request for a transfer of power.

Chris Dailey

She was very much a small-town girl. I always knew that she'd be successful and happy in her life because she's generally a happy person, someone who always looks at things in a positive way. She's great with people. I'm not surprised at all that she's back home.

Michael Perkins

She is a versatile player, and she can do a lot of different things. She can post up as a guard, and she can shoot, too.

Flynt Leverett

It's an undeclared posture of 'regime change' on the cheap.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

I started working on ribosomes when I was a post doc, in 1978, when it would have been impossible, really, to solve it. But, it was just a fundamental problem in biology.

Jason Wu

I happen to like selling clothes as much as creating them. It isn't relevant unless it sells.

Cary Leahey

I don't see anything in the speech that is relevant to the near-term outlook.

David Peel

We couldn't give it away or sell it. We didn't have permits.

Jeremy Robinson

Getting 10,000 listeners for a free podcast novel is a lot easier than selling 10,000 hardcover novels at $25 a pop.

Shane Smith

If not doing VICE, I probably would be selling Cokes on the beach in Vietnam. I like the sea.

Kay Granger

I started selling insurance in 1979 and continued doing that until 1985 when I opened my own insurance firm.

Mark Cuban

Get me selling and I can figure out the industry. Once I can figure out the industry I can start a business in that industry.

Joel Salatin

We will never sell or have an IPO. What that does is suddenly flushes you with cash. It makes you now work for a group of stockholders, who, again, put pressure and temptations on your true-blueness.

Tommy Docherty

Personally, I am very, very sorry we have come to this. I suppose it is another sign of the times.

Todd Jones

The signs are there that they can do it. It's going to take a long time for them to get to that Target level.

Mark Proctor

This is a terrific signing for us as we look to consolidate our play-off position.

Cathy Austin

Courtney's students, teachers and other students have signed up to volunteer to work the different shifts.

Vince Cable

Fundamental renegotiation is very, very unlikely to produce any significant change

Lisa Kleypas

It was often in small moments that significant things were revealed.

Michael Taylor

I got arrested for signing autographs. Signing a little girl's autograph got me arrested.

Gordon Strachan

If I said to you we're signing Vieira you'd say 'what a signing that is',

Kitty Kelley

I can't say I wasn't warned. Alarms started clanging the day I signed to write 'His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra' (Bantam Books, 1986).

Chris Duerksen

This is simply something you don't have right now.

Rhys Ifans

Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.

Robert Rubin

I think there is more work to do, and we simply have to all work together and do everything we can to get it done,

Becky Lourey

I don't just want to talk about goals. I know we can get there. We simply can't wait.

Michael Dean

I have not talked with Terri in weeks. We were simply brainstorming.

Paul Cleave

You simply couldn't make a living as an author if New Zealand was your only market.

Howard Hawks

I try to tell my story as simply as possible, with the camera at eye level.

Jan Egeland

It's even more urgent than it was in these other hurricanes or tsunamis.

Rain Bojangles

You're just as witty as you feel, just as witty as you feel inside.

Al Capone

Vote early and vote often.

Baltasar Gracian

Many get the repute of being witty but thereby lose the credit of being sensible. Jest has its little hour, seriousness should have all the rest.

Dylan Moran

The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty

e. e. cummings

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

Abraham Lincoln

Tell the truth and you won't have so much to remember

Andy Borowitz

It used to be that people could be painfully boring in private. Facebook changed all that.

Aesop

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

Albert Einstein

Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway.