Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yolanda Adams

All of my lyrics are based on the one thing that's never failed me, and that's the Word of God.

Yanni

My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.

Irving Stone

My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.

Vivienne Westwood

We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning.

Chuck Palahniuk

'Romance' is based on my entire creative process. I fall in love with an idea, obsess over it, isolate myself with it, and when I eventually introduce it to my friends, they all tell me that it's stupid.

will.i.am

You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry I'm in, it's all based on technology. From radio to phonographs to CDs, it's all technology. Microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editing, chips, it's all technology.

Constance Wu

It's my privilege to be able to play somebody not myself. I'm an actor who creates characters based in voice, movement, emotional quality, speech.

Elizabeth Warren

I never sought nor gained personal benefit in school or job applications based on my heritage.

Brian O'Neill

The overall performance of the Grand Caravan was similar in all three tests, except for the fuel tank, ... Based on these tests, the 2001 models manufactured before the redesigned fuel systems are rated poor for crashworthiness because of the leak.

Gianni Agnelli

I mean, what Fiat had it was not very big, it was something like forty or fifty million dollars, but it's enough to get revolving credit, to get starting away again, the buying of new machinery.

Virginia Postrel

As a general rule, durable-goods production tends to be the most volatile sector of the economy. Since people usually have a stock of durables in use, when times get tight, they put off new purchases. What seem like small cutbacks to the end buyer translate into big swings for the producer.

Gary Meyer

The only reason we are talking about this (wheel tax) is to get a vote (for the EMS budget), and I have a real problem with that. The feeling I'm getting here tonight is that I'm buying (Williams') vote so that he'll get the Capital Improvement Plan in gear for 2005.

Phil Boyer

The pilots of tomorrow are the plane buyers of tomorrow.

Stephen Baker

The PC is much more of a mature product than it's ever been before, so it's much subject to the vagaries of the overall economy, ... When the economy slows and people retrench, they don't buy durable goods, and the PC is a big durable now.

Nikki Reed

I do feel like by buying rats from a pet store, you are saving them because if not, they would get fed to a snake or something.

Lyndell Zanotti

That was his big thing. He did that several times. He was extremely generous. He was always buying things, just doing whatever he could. He used his own money. He liked helping the kids because he didn't have any kids of his own. He was very good to the girls.

Atsuko Abe

That, Your Excellency, is precisely the problem. As long as we are buying Russian oil, we are at their mercy. Japan must have its own resources.

Todd Rosenbluth

We have a negative outlook on the telecom-services sector, preferring smaller, rural providers and one in Canada that, in our view, have stable margins and are paying out dividends and buying back stock.

Denis Napthine

There should be - we should have a society that, whether you're catching the train to anywhere, Frankston or Cranbourne or Craigieburn late at night, you should be able to do it with safety, and, increasingly, you are.

Dave Terre

The 60s are magic. That's when things start to happen. When the temperature gets into the upper 50s, the males start looking for spawning sites. Anglers who start catching the males know that's when the spawn is about to happen.

Patty Loveless

A lot of people have a cough that doesn't go away, or go up and down stairs and get shortness of breath, and they don't think about COPD. They could have a problem, though, and catching it in the beginning stages is crucial.

Jim Beattie

You just see that in spite of all that, he's just not catching up to pitches that I know he would have hit in the past.

Ryan Langerhans

I thought I had a shot at catching it. I dove. It was right there.

James Green

I think this is a very significant moment in Brazilian history. The gay movement has exploded and there's a real shift in people's understanding of homophobia. The media is finally catching up,

Brent Vinson

I think I do a good job of catching the football, and I understand that they struggled with that last year. But I also can do some things after the catch. I like to think that I can take a short pass and turn it into a long gain.

Mark Farley

We're catching them as a very confident team.

Katy Miller

We're catching on. He probably understands better than me.

Chet Faker

I would consider my diary serves the same purpose as going for a walk or a run. They are all physical ways of clearing a mental landscape.

Patrick Modiano

For a long time, I've had a recurring dream - I dream I don't have to write any more, that I'm free. I'm not free, alas; I'm still clearing the same terrain, with the impression that it's never finished.

Jim Burns

We have a lot of mutual aid, and right now, we're just working on clearing the streets of debris.

Tom Ditt

We're urging people to stay off the roads if they don't have to go. We've got a lot of stranded cars. It makes for delays in clearing the roads.

James Awad

With the election clearing the deck, I think you'll see more momentum. If you're going to have a 10 percent increase in corporate profits next year, I don't see why you couldn't be up 20 percent (in mergers and acquisitions).

Bill Thomas

I think this week we will go a long ways toward clearing these young men's names.

Marcia Townsend

We really worked hard clearing a lot of the area. The guys hauled away more than 40 truckloads.

Joe Jones

We really wanted Justin to take the shot, because even when guys are on him, he can still make the shot. I had to scream at him to go, but he's just so good at clearing space with his body. He's got great confidence in himself, he really does.

Ray Barrett

If it comes in that you're dead, we put you in the computer and pull your card. We've been going a step further. There's a Social Security Web site you can get on and double-check. We've been clearing up a lot.

Christina Baker Kline

Having the book-club army embrace you is a gift that keeps giving for years.

Rick Pitino

I try not to get too low. I fight adversity as hard as I can fight it, not to get too low. When good things happen, I don't really embrace it. I just say it's a lucky day.

Daunte Culpepper

We have to welcome him and embrace him and hope that he understands the importance of him being successful and doing the right thing.

Saint Bernard

I myself, however wretched I may be, have been occasionally privileged to sit at the feet of the Lord Jesus, and to the extent that his merciful love allowed, have embraced with all my heart, now one, now the other, of these feet.

Olly Murs

It has been hard for me in a sense because from an industry point of view - I don't care if I'm from the 'X Factor;' I embrace the fact that I'm from the 'X Factor,' but other people don't embrace that.

John McEnroe

Most guys would like to play the guy they have the winning record against. That's what you love about Roger he embraces the challenge.

Carl Hayes

Willingness to embrace scrutiny from outsiders is a hallmark of well-managed companies. You don't invite Lincoln Almond into your house if you have something to hide.

Jeff Blauser

I still look at him as a player, so it was nice to see what he's been able to come in here and do. My hope is that our regulars here will watch, embrace and learn everything they can from him while he's here.

Greg Harrison

I think raves are being embraced because ... it's a very interactive experience,

Gail Carson Levine

As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.

Elizabeth Warren

Groupthink can become a serious issue - old ideas stay around after they're useful, and new ideas too often don't get a fair hearing.

Janna Sampson

The only reason this plan looks reasonable is that it is scaled back from something that was fairly audacious.

David Ulevitch

If people use Chrome, we make less money on our service and that's fine by us because that is fair competition. I wouldn't put Google on a pedestal for competition, but they aren't telling users not to use OpenDNS.

Noah Baumbach

Even fairly serious moviegoers can't shake this shadow of the corporate world.

Hassan Nasrallah

The Americans are surely mistaken if they think they can make peace without finding a real and fair solution to the Palestinian issue.

Mike Irwin

That would not be fair to Red Hook. But we have a good team.

Chris Lee

That was tough for me to get situated because I was back and forth (between positions) the whole season. Now, I'm fairly secure at defense.

John Koskinen

That will actually look fairly interesting on a T-shirt.

David Friedman

It sometimes feels like I'm not doing anything.

Bethenny Frankel

I have to be in a relationship where I can say what I feel even if it's wrong - so we can work through it.

Katy Miller

That was a surprise because if we see a special defense, it's usually a box-and-one on Ashleigh. It was frustrating and hard to get open. Now I know how Ashleigh feels sometimes. But now that I've been in her shoes, I see how important it is for us to set good screens to get her open.

Ed Belfour

That was a great win. I felt good tonight, I saw the puck well. It feels like things are getting back on track.

Kaitlin Carney

That was a great way to start the season. We were able to get off on the good foot and that's what we've been working toward. It really feels good, but we're just going to take it one game at a time.

Scott Eastwood

I like working with my hands. It feels good to build something yourself.

Mark Ronson

I think I have an inherent modest level of stress, but I'm only super-aware of it when it goes away, when I'm on holiday and I think, 'Oh this feels pretty good.'

Robin S. Sharma

I used to be incredibly afraid of public speaking. I started with five people, then I'd speak to 10 people. I made it up to 75 people, up to 100, and now I can speak to a very large group, and it feels similar to speaking to you one-on-one.

Rickey Henderson

I love playing this game and every spring training feels like the first.

Yanis Varoufakis

Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.

Wayne Rooney

As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.

Viswanathan Anand

In Gujarat, we had the world record of largest number of chess games in a single venue - 20,500 - and in Tamil Nadu, I have been emphasizing on the positives of chess to the authorities.

Randy Petersen

The policy doesn't look overly generous, but right now this is the only game in town.

Age Hareide

The points mattered more than anything tonight. The results in the other games went our way, and now we can travel to Belarus knowing that we are in the play-offs. I hope our luck continues.

Malcolm Jenkins

The Penn State game was crazy. There were like 110,000 people there, and they were ready for it.

Ted Young

The pat on the back (for winning the regular season) is gone. The first do-or-die games for the girls are (today) and on Saturday for the boys. Everything you've worked for is gone on Saturday if you're not prepared for it mentally or physically.

Nolan Bushnell

'Pong' hit the fancy. It was sort of the perfect storm of a game which has two players highly social, a game that women could play better than a guy, and sort of an acceptance of this social nature of games in a bar.

Joe Crawford

We have a lot to prove. Every game we lost I think we should have won. We need to play hard in the SEC Tournament to make the NCAA Tournament.

Yousuf Karsh

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

Todd Rundgren

It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.

Idina Menzel

I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

Idina Menzel

I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.

Ian Frazier

I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.

Ian Mckellen

Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.

Ismail Kadare

In antiquity, there were three regions in southern Europe: Greece, Rome, and Ilyria. Albanian is the only survivor of the Ilyrian languages. That is why it has always intrigued the great linguists of the past.

Gaines Adams

I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.

Gad Elmaleh

There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.

David Alan Grier

I, myself, identify myself as a heathen.

Denise Miller

We've tried to not lay a lot on him right now. I don't think Heath even realizes what an impact he has had.

Roy Jenkins

I am sure Mr Heath thinks he is honest but I wish he didn't have to have his friends say it so often.

Paulla Solar

The kids have experienced through the season that Heather is not always in for us. So they kicked up the intensity on defense.

Bruce Calhoun

There was a possibility of Heather winning. But I didn't think it would occur until it actually happened.

Paulla Solar

We sat down and talked about Heather and he said he really liked No. 13 (Fernandes), too.

Joe Hudak

Heath threw very, very well. We made some adjustments with his delivery, and he is still working on those. But when he focuses and throws strikes, he is great.

Scott Kerstetter

Heather has battled a knee problem all season and that?s limited her mobility. She?s making up for it on the glass.

Mark Bruener

Heath and I could really relate. And I know he'll go through a lot of the things I did 10 years earlier.

Beck

If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?

Charles Schumer

I think my constituents' view is very simple -- no rush to judgment, don't be hasty, don't do anything too quick.

Homer

Thou know'st the o'er-eager vehemence of youth, How quick in temper, and in judgment weak

Edmund Waller

Though with judgment we on things reflect,/ Our will determines, not our intellect.

Greg Mitchell

I have learned how people think about themselves and others. Law and rules prevent proper judgment!

Tom Wright

He was put into positions that tested very quickly his style and his judgment,

William Shakespeare

A right judgment draws us a profit from all things we see .

Barbara Deming

I learned always to trust my own deep sense of what I should do, and not just obediently trust the judgment of others - even others better than I am.

Jane Fonda

I've worked really, really hard on myself to not be judgmental.

Imelda May

I was one of those annoying kids that loves singing and entertaining.

Gwen Moore

We cannot allow our kids not to have an educational opportunity.

Gail Carson Levine

Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.

Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange

One has to divide attention between having kids and a full workload.

William H. Macy

I'm not against watching myself, but I miss a lot of it. I've got two little kids who we don't let watch TV.

William Joyce

I like stirring things up. I'm on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasionally I find some adults that have that same mischievous streak, so I don't get in too much trouble.

Wendelin Van Draanen

You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.

Vanessa Hudgens

My advice to kids is give it your all! Give it 110 percent and don't give up!

Wyclef Jean

As a producer, I always want to know what makes the kids tick.

Etel Adnan

I love Nicolas de Stael particularly, and my work can remind people of him. But looked at attentively, our works are not similar at all.

Cilla Black

It's true what they say: 'You don't appreciate what you've got until it's gone.' I miss love. I miss being looked after.

Goldie Hawn

Oftentimes, actors are looked at as court jesters. They are not looked at as deep-thinking, smart people who do many other things or have gifts in other areas.

Paul Cullen

In a very simple sense I want everything that's in a work to be there for the reason that it's needed. It's not an ornamentation. It's not there because I thought it looked nice but because it has to be there.

Patricia McBride

I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.

Wayne Hale

We've looked end-to-end at the shuttle to make improvements and make it safer than it has ever been.

Brian Billick

We've looked at these quarterbacks more than we've looked at any position since I've been here,

Don Thomas

We've looked at some (locations) that have potential.

Brad White

We've looked at it long enough. We've got to do something about it.

Allan Palmer

The outside (of Hangar 37) has to be restored, and we've got to repaint it and put a new roof on, and make it look like it did in 1941.

Rohit Sharma

You should not remain in your comfort zone; if you want to make it big, you must challenge yourself, get out of your comfort zone, and succeed in doing well outside of your comfort areas.

Baz Luhrmann

I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.

Nancy Thompson

You can do just about anything outside that you would do inside.

Stephen Tanner

We really push the envelope. We think outside the box.

Mark Bruener

I would say he's one of the more underrated outside linebackers in a long time,

Lynn Coady

Here's the thing about lingerie: The only time we see it outside our own bedrooms, it is on women who are gloriously freakish in their physical perfection.

Jovan Vavic

J.W. is very versatile can play many positions. He can set and guard, be an outside shooter and he's very fast.

Sandra Tsing Loh

Journalists are quite surprised outside their dinner parties when they hear where I live. 'Van Nuys? You still live there?' It is like saying you're from Alabama.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness.

Jordan Gross

We need to be able to protect and get the passes off to make them back off.

Christian Moody

His passes were perfect. Look at his shooting. I think he's the best.

Sherill Baker

We deflected a lot of passes and turned them into transition baskets.

Tom Armstrong

We worked a lot on our high-low passes and our post players sealing. That worked well for us.

Brenda Frese

When we're focused, we can go on runs like that. In the second half, we started making more unselfish passes and made things happen.

Mark Hagen

I think we just strung six passes together, ... That's what we need to do consistently.

Kyrie Irving

I'm not really a big X's and O's guy, but if you want to go there, I'm more of a space-the-floor type of coach: Five out, zero in, and that's the way we play basketball, screen and roll here and there, pocket passes everywhere; it's what it's about.

Nell Fookes

She often comes through for us in big passes or getting big turnovers. Tonight, she had big plays.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

F. Stone

The annuals, the yearbooks, brochures and programs of old plays and musicals...that all tells the story about what they did.

Ed Swanson

That was huge. The kid's got guts. She can be 0-for-6 from 3, and she's going to shoot that seventh shot the way she shot that first shot. She plays with confidence.

Greg Graham

That was a tough one. We made all the plays down the stretch. We got big stops, we just ran out of time.

Maryann Mitts

We just didn't connect. We didn't make the plays and they did.

Kelly Sears

We just didn't come up with the plays at the right times.

Brian Hill

We had our chances. That's what it comes down to in tight games. Who is going to make the shots, make the plays at the end of the game.

Rhett Bomar

We have the plays that will work and we know what to do.

Derrick Coleman

We were sluggish, and they just made more of the toughness plays than we did.

Wayne Gretzky

We've talked about this for it seems like months. When the team plays disciplined, plays smart and plays the way that they need to play to be successful, we have some success.

Cathy Rigby

I will jump into most any role.

Arsene Wenger

If you don't question the officials' role then you've got to ask what they are doing

John Meehan

I think it would water down the commissioners role and take away some of their authority.

Bill Belichick

He's a role player. His role's to play every snap. He does so many things well in so many situations. He's so dependable. You want him in there for everything.

Rodrigo Santoro

I take a role because it makes sense to me, rationally.

Shane Victorino

Whatever my role is, I'm going to do my best. It's all I ever wanted.

Tommy Gibbons

We are functioning in a support role for the county.

Kelly Hu

There weren't a lot of action roles growing up - there were a few, maybe, like Wonder Woman, but then it wasn't real action.

O. Singh

He has not said what his role was. If he is responsible then he should be booked, and the sooner the better.

Bertrand Russell

Only six need be attempted.

Olivia Newton-John

I'm a very light sleeper. I get about six hours a night.

Jessica Williams

I'm six feet tall. No one realizes that because on 'The Daily Show' I'm usually sitting.

John Danowski

We are now the hunted. It wasn't like this six weeks ago.

Mike Shanahan

I think if you take a look at any of the six teams, any of those six teams could go all the way.

Allen Smith

We're not talking about something that will be in and out of here in six hours.

Paula Abdul

I wish we could have more than six (guys).

Jeff Wagner

He never sold anything for us. He was a distributor for us for six months.

Paul Johnson

I'd like to get one win, ... I'm not thinking about getting six wins.

Bertrand Russell

Zeno was concerned with three problems... These are the problem of the infinitesimal, the infinite, and continuity.

David Hayes

He was one of the most underrated sires in Australia. His statistics tell the story.

Alan Kay

In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.

Charles Dickens

The bearings of this observation lays in the application of it.

Alan Greenspan

History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.

Edmond de Goncourt

Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.

David Hockney

The thing with high-tech is that you always end up using scissors.

Arthur Conan Doyle

You know my methods. Apply them.

Brian Kernighan

Trivia rarely affect efficiency. Are all the machinations worth it, when their primary effect is to make the code less readable?

Wole Soyinka

I'm not sure I'm trying to communicate a message. I'm just trying to be part of the movement away from the unacceptable present.

John Carey

That was a time when they weren't really sure if things were going to come together, ... And they sure did!

Starhawk Starhawk

That would be great, but I am not so sure it will be that easy.

Tom Jackson

We can surely try to be there for them.

Mark Zuckerberg

I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That's the whole point.

John Runion

We have the talent; now we just have to make sure everyone's working in the same direction.

Steve Jobs

We're working on that too, but I'm not so sure it will be successful.

Scooter Smith

We just want to make sure we're all together and to have a little fun.

Todd Abernethy

Winning at the end would be big. I don't think it wipes everything out ... that's a lot of games. But it sure would help. It would give us a winning season, and that's better than I've ever done here.

Stephen Wilson

We have very tight travel restrictions. It's not like we're going off to Hawaii.

David Morehouse

Time is tight in a two- to three-year span, not a two- to three-month span.

Tres Thomas

We wanted to keep it tight between the University and SMG until we got the go-ahead from the band.

Jason Statham

Me in a cape? I don't fancy that. Tight tights? Nah! I don't think that's right for me. I just respond more to true stories; that's my flavour.

Johnny Damon

I would be jacked up. But I'd be worried about that high, tight pitch.

Troy Dolan

He had a good, tight waist. He tried to tilt me. He was pretty tough on top.

Jason London

Whenever you have a tight schedule, you sort of have to film whatever you can that day.

Dennis Franchione

We're going to make a tight end out of you, yet.

Jose Carreras

I am a little nervous with strangers. But I'm not tight inside. I think I am impulsive.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Unselfish love does not exploit its object and it does not ask for anything in return.

Brodie Kelly

We are pretty unselfish when it comes to scoring.

Chris Richards

We're a pretty unselfish team. We all like to keep each other involved.

Trent Nelson

Louie's the most unselfish back I've ever met.

Bill Sycks

She can be too unselfish at times. She's a very team-oriented person.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Don Rickles

I'm not one of those guys who wants to die on a stage.

Pervez Musharraf

Wherever or whoever wants to do that, let's do it.

Kristy Gaudiose

It is exciting. It is something everyone wants to be a part of.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

Shaun Alexander

We're all just kind of in the groove. And no one wants to get off anything right now.

Gary Payton

I don't think Shaq really worries about it. I think he wants to play well, but he doesn't really worry about it. ... It's over.

Victor Rodriguez

For whoever wants to come, we're going to be here for them.

Brian Billick

He's got to look at what he wants to do.

Charlie Ward

He said, 'You're welcome to come on full-time now,'

Diablo Cody

I have a lot of screenwriter friends and many of them have had an experience where they aren't even welcome on set during production.

Ann Coulter

I'm a problem-solver, and you're welcome.

John Zorn

Man, Dick Dale shreds. He's welcomed to anybody's bar mitzvah.

Samuel P. Huntington

First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.

Dallas Willard

The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.

William Jenkins

Welcome to UNO; this is their new home, ... They're going to be OK.

Gerard Way

Welcome to the new church! Can I get an 'Amen'?

Alice Cooper

Welcome to my nightmare. I think you're going to like it. There'll be some more when you come down.