Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nikki Grimes

In one sense, the stories I read betrayed me. Too few gave me back my mirror image. Fewer still spoke to, or acknowledged, the existence of the problems I faced as a black foster child from a dysfunctional and badly broken home.

Iker Casillas

When we beat them there (in Barcelona) in the Champions League (in 2002) no one applauded us. If we play well and win that will be great and if we play badly and win that will be great too.

Constantine Karamanlis

We are given to the cult of personality; when things go badly we look to some messiah to save us. If by chance we think we have found one, it will not be long before we destroy him.

Kay Yow

We knew we were tired, but not that tired to play that badly in the first half. We got into a deep hole and then we were just fighting for our lives.

Allen Iverson

All of it is bad. We just struggled so badly offensively. We just couldn't put the ball in the basket. They did a great job with Tracy (McGrady) struggling. Sloppy, we just didn't play well, just didn't take care of the ball.

Phil Garner

They have beaten us up pretty badly this year. They have really thumped us pretty good. Just as a matter of pride, we would not want to see them celebrate here again. We'd like to change that.

Phil Garner

They have beaten us up pretty badly this year, ... They have really thumped us pretty good. Just as a matter of pride, we would not want to see them celebrate here again. We'd like to change that.

Gloria Borger

They don't want to think that, Bob. And they know that that would be a real uphill fight for the Democrats, but they're beginning to believe that this smells really, really badly for them, and they're very, very worried about it now because they know they cannot depend on this president and his coattails any longer.

Manny Goldman

This means that Vanilla Coke has been doing badly and it is not working and not having the visibility that there is a decent chance that it will work longer term.

Milan Hejduk

We always have a chance to win every night. I'm looking forward to the upcoming season and this new NHL era.

Louis Sachar

Every time I start a new novel, it seems like an impossible undertaking. If I tried to do too much too quickly, I would get lost and feel overwhelmed. I have to go slow, and give things a chance to take form and grow.

Chad Hurley

The power of digital distribution over physical retail outlets is you have a chance to create a global audience.

Lee Scott

The potential right now for success at that school is very, very high. Of the 30 kids in my class, about 10 are Hispanic. It's very difficult for me to look at those kids that I'm teaching now and know that statistically there's a good chance some of them will drop out of school.

Martyn Thomas

The performance in Paris was unacceptable. We will do what is necessary to enhance our chances of doing well in the World Cup. If that means making changes, so be it, but we are not going into panic mode.

Heather Williams

The point of it is to get people to sign it. We really want to give individuals their chance to voice their support.

Jose Gonzalez

We are probably in better shape than we were last year, ... Our chances to go all the way are very good. Right now, I don't think there isn't a way we can't make it to the playoffs and hopefully the finals.

Joe Toy

We've already hit some plateaus in the last few months, and in 2006 we are going to see things moderating. But even with that, hotels are going to be full and there will be a good chance of a record year in room numbers.

Wayne Rooney

We've a better chance than last season, said Sir Alex.

Charlie Munger

It took us months of buying all the Coke stock we could to accumulate $1 billion worth - equal to 7% of the company. It's very hard to accumulate major positions.

Chelsea Handler

If you can't trust your coke dealer, who can you trust?

Manny Goldman

Coke will just continue doing what they are doing but they are just not as happy.

Bonnie Herzog

Coke needs to prove that it can string two successful years together.

Robert Stovall

Coke is down substantially, but I think that is all right.

Caroline Levy

Coke is at an increasing disadvantage. Pepsi is locking up the non-carbonated segment. Coke is dealing with restructuring its internal problems while Pepsi is being proactive about growth.

Caroline Levy

Coke is at an increasing disadvantage, ... Pepsi is locking up the non-carbonated segment. Coke is dealing with restructuring its internal problems while Pepsi is being proactive about growth.

Warren Buffett

I've never seen a system as good as Coke has now.

Karl Lagerfeld

I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.

John Brady

We want to see the figures, refinery runs and all the others. There will be a decent draw in products, especially gasoline.

Andrew Flintoff

We are pleased with the total and the fashion we got it. I think we've had a decent day.

Robert Long

There are some genuinely problematic reports out today, like Merck, but there's a lot of good stuff, too, and people are taking some pretty decent earnings and focusing on the negative.

Mike McGowan

We're in pretty decent shape as it relates to fuel supply, but who knows what's going to happen here in the next few days.

Ron Fellows

We started our session a little late and when we finally got out there, we got 'black-flagged' just before I was going to start my quick lap, ... Our guys have been working hard and that's a decent result for my first time out. I just want to thank Paul.

Jean Nidetch

When you're trying to lose weight, one of the most important things you can do is eat three decent meals a day so that you're not so hungry that you can't get food off your mind. Habit and hunger have long been the basic, insidious enemies of the overweight. We can't fight hunger, but we can fight habit.

Charles Barron

We're going to stay here until every one of them has a decent place to go.

Buzz Hargrove

Workers everywhere are just starting to say, 'Look, we're fed up with this. We're going to start demanding that we have respect and we have job security and we have decent wages and benefits,'

Mariella Frostrup

Writers want to talk. They can't wait to tell you what they've been thinking. And because they've been in solitude, they've had some fairly decent thoughts.

Chuck D.

It's no longer 'run to the park' on your own. Parents want to feel secure where they are and what they'll be doing.

John Jordan

It's no longer in our faces. The lynching is still being done, it's just being done covertly.

David Cardwell

It's no longer being done to be better than the other guy, but to keep up with the other guy.

Tom Stehn

It's now in its second year; it's no longer a juvenile. But this one particular whooping crane doesn't know where Aransas is. Its parents never showed it.

Diane Arbus

They are the proof of something was there and no longer is.Like a stain. And the stillness of them is boggling. You can turn away but when you come back they'll still be there looking at you.

Tom Stehn

You don't find them, but they're no longer with their parents.

Jim Barnett

This man is proven to be an ineffective extremist. We're no longer talking about one out of 435. We're talking about a very powerful position, as one of 100 in the United States Senate.

Stephanie Ferlita

I tried to tell them they accomplished a lot. Their season went on longer than a lot of other teams. And they made it through some tough times that a lot of other teams didn't have to face.

Allen Staggers

It's a little tougher because you're spanning such a distance. It takes a little longer to do.

Joseph Capriotti

We are police officers. We don't sit back and watch. We have to get out and do something. Being able to do something means a lot.

Dee Boersma

Whenever you do science it's important to know individuals. And that means you have to distinguish one from another, just like we give names to people we have to be able to give names to penguins. And we often do that with bands.

Shaw Wu

When everyone else is slowing and you're not, it means share gains.

Brian Eno

A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you're prepared to take the risk of trying them out.

Natalie Massenet

For Net-A-Porter and its customers, luxury means exceptional service, 24-7 - wherever they are, whenever they have time.

Chris Harper

We're so young that when they start to press, we think that means we need to speed up.

Jennifer Rodriguez

Wow! I'm really touched. This means a lot to me.

Sathya Baba

Unity is the secret of social progress, and service to society is the means to promote it. 

Jimmy Smith

We're more settled. A new regime means changes, and things have settled down.

Albert Einstein

Matter is spirit reduced to point of visibility.

David Caruso

My visibility may have gotten Hollywood to redefine what's attractive.

Michel Foucault

Visibility is a trap.

Jean Cocteau

Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility. It insists on living its own life.

J. Michael Straczynski

I've worked on high visibility shows that weren't always the best, and low visibility shows that I love but that didn't have the PR behind them.

Margaret Cho

The power of visibility can never be underestimated.

Harvey Mackay

Don't confuse visibility with credibility.

Alan Watts

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

Al Kaline

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Dean Acheson

I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.

David Riesman

Though top executives may work as hard as ever-in part perhaps because, being trained in an earlier day, they can hardly help doing so-their subordinates are somewhat less work-minded.

David Riesman

The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as play and their play as work.

David Duval

I've just been working hard, trying to get some good stuff to come out.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

When your vision is powerful enough, everything else falls into place: how you live your life, your workouts, what friends you choose to hang out with, how you eat, what you do for fun. Vision is purpose, and when your purpose is clear, so are your life choices. Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith, there is no anxiety, no doubt - just absolute confidence.

Ben Whishaw

I've gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.

Arnold Palmer

I never met a winner who had a work ethic. Not somebody who says I have so much talent that naturally I won.