Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Tom Vosa

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

Mahmoud Alinejad

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

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.

Joseph Cirincione

You no longer heard comments about tyrants and pygmies. It may seem to be a small matter, but it's very important diplomatically.

Cathy Cook

The public comment period is open until May 11. It doesn't just stop with these (hearings). We hope to have a final decision in about a year.

Stanton Glantz

entirely free to publish his review without including our comments and without restriction.

Toshihiko Sakai

Between Greenspan's comments on interest rates and today's 30-year auction, the fundamentals don't look too good for Treasuries. We are not interested in holding Treasuries at all.

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

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.

Bill Graves

When things go to 50%, in general there's still a pretty good selection. More than 50%, and you may get a good price on something, but it might not be what you want.

Charles Golvin

Generally speaking, browsing on your mobile phone is a lousy experience.

Herb Kohl

Larry has done a good job as our general manager,

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.

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.

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.

Vince Cable

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

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).

Marin Alsop

I can't see that I'm going to be a much different person? I signed the contract.

Peter Kretzmer

It is a strong number. There is little sign of a slowdown,

Chris Duerksen

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

Becky Lourey

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

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.

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

Aesop

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

Donald Barthelme

HENRY: Now it is necessary to court her, and win her, and put on this clean dressing gown, and cut my various nails, and drink something that will kill the millions of germs in my mouth, and say something flattering, and be witty and bonny, and hale and kinky, all just to ease this wrinkle in the groin. It seems a high price.

Sydney J. Harris

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

Robert A. Heinlein

Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument.