Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis Walsh

Well he's better than Jason Donovan, Pete - with reference to a contestant who Pete said couldn't sing

Leyla Milani

I didn't expect that! The hardest working, most dedicated Diva Search contestant in 2005.

Leslie Brockman

I still have the letter seating on my desk. I was so excited when I got it because I wanted to be on the show for such a long time. It was the first time I tried out for it and I got lucky. I enjoyed the thrill of it all. I was also the youngest contestant on the show during that week.

Olly Murs

I think when you're a TV presenter, you have to have a reason for doing it, and a lot of them have been around a long time and grafted for that. The reason why it works with me on 'The Xtra Factor' is because I was a contestant on it, and I have a relationship with the viewers at home.

Marissa Jaret Winokur

My cholesterol went from 220 to 149. I was crying like a 'Biggest Loser' contestant when my doctor gave me the news.

Randy West

Of course watching a particularly exciting game or a wonderful contestant is always a joy.

Mark Hollingsworth

We give each contestant 10 pounds of our own White Fences grapes and 40 seconds to stomp, ... The key is the swisher, who uses a little tool to keep the grapes underfoot.

Robbie Owens

A contestant must be a resident of Geneva County or a member of one of our senior centers.

Duncan Hunter

A number of people who have supported me on the border fence in the U.S. have observed the fences in Israel and their effectiveness.

Jim Cummings

I take the work seriously. Which is why I always swing for the fences whenever I voice a character. But that said, I don't take myself all that seriously.

Alan Young

Harper wants to mend fences with Bush. I think it's a mistake for the country, and I regret that it's happening after so much work has been done.

Ron Williams

We've gone from 280-foot fences at Island Grove to 320-foot fences on the new fields. That's going to take a pretty good jack to get one out of there.

Mark Davis

Typically, we do not have fences on our property. Usually, responsibility for maintenance of these fences is that of the property owner.

Mark Metzger

We still have the land issues to resolve and a lot of work to do. I think one of the things we need to do is to mend fences with people about the boundaries.

Clint Hurdle

We keep knocking fences down that have been put up over the years. We're stripping the paint.

Bill Hartley

This kid worked his rear off to get up here. I don't want to be sour grapes ... but I'm a father.

Juvenal

The grape becomes tinted from the grape it comes in contact with.

Charles Bukowski

It's just that the grape has me down.

Aesop

I am sure the grapes are sour.

Alfred Adler

My passions are the grapes that I tread out for mankind.

Charles Spurgeon

A vile imagination, once indulged, gets the key of our minds, and can get in again very easily, whether we will or no, and can so return as to bring seven other spirits with it more wicked than itself; and what may follow no one knows.

Alan Greenspan

The use of a growing array of derivatives and the related application of more-sophisticated approaches to measuring and managing risk are key factors underpinning the greater resilience of our largest financial institutions .... Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.

Al Kaline

I was very, very shocked about Cooperstown. I thought my chances were fairly good, but I tried to stay low key about it, not too high and not too low. That was the way I played, too.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The KEY to disciplining ourselves in the area of obedience is always keeping in mind to whom we are being obedient.

Chris Colfer

I just downloaded the new Alvin and the Chipmunks album! They're the only guys that make music in my key!

Audre Lorde

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. They are chaotic, sometimes painful, sometimes contradictory, but they come from deep within us. And we must key into those feelings... This is how new visions begin.

Arthur Rimbaud

I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.

Carlos Gonzalez

I'm more focused at the plate- that's the key.

Chester A. Arthur

Experience has shown that the trade of the East is the key to national wealth and influence.

Bryce Harper

I'll lose about 20 pounds during the season.

Benjamin Franklin

Take care of the halfpence and pence, and the shillings and pounds will take care of themselves.

Mark Elston

They've got 14 seniors. They're enormous. They have three lineman who are well over 300 pounds and they have some quick secondary people.

Dave Barry

A full-grown manatee, which can weigh more than 1,000 pounds, looks like the result of a genetic experiment involving a walrus and the Goodyear Blimp.

Kendra Wilkinson

I gained about 60 pounds when I was preggers with Lil Hank, and I'm desperately trying not to do the same with our daughter.

Carnie Wilson

Going from 300 pounds to 150 pounds was the biggest change of my whole life.

Baltasar Gracian

An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness.

Bruce Dickinson

The joke in aviation is, 'If you want to make a million, you'd better start with £10m.'

Billy Bob Thornton

I’m not much of a drinker, so I’m going to eat seven pounds of pork.

Tom Cavanaugh

Thirty seconds later, it just went up in smoke.

Jeff Kasko

This is so complicated for the voter to understand. And you only have 30 seconds to make a pitch.

Brian Bickford

You have two or three seconds to get someone's attention. What we look for is those kind of attention-getting devices.

Ray Walston

I have 30 seconds to tell you I have been waiting 60 years to get on this stage.

Chris Travers

I thought if we could get it down to three with 40 seconds left, we would have had a shot.

Jim Court

I thought about it for 10 seconds or so.

Sue Donohoe

When he wanted to know what time it was, you had to get down there. You didn't tell him that it was 30 seconds left.

Jim Calhoun

We've got to take away 3-point shooting and not get fatigued by the shot clock. They make as many shots under 12 seconds as any team you're going to play.

Brenda Frese

I think it was like 10 seconds after the game.

David Ricardo

Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.

David Brenner

Digital brand integration is part of the evolution of product placement. It's simply another tool marketers use to get products integrated into shows. If you can put it in a package, we can put it in a show.

Madeleine Albright

Nobody's ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

Agnes Varda

Sometimes I want to work with a DP, sometimes I want to work myself. I go to 35mm, 16mm, it's all the same, but it depends on what you want to tell and what are the tools you need.

Charles Edwards

The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management.

Bill Gates

Solutions to all biological problems are greatly advanced by the sequencing work and the new tools that are created.

Bill Gates

It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.

Charles Lyell

No tools have yet been met with in any of the gravels occurring at the higher levels of the valley of the Seine; but no importance can be attached to this negative fact, as so little search has yet been made for them.

Abraham Maslow

It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, treat everything as if it were a nail.

Chris Rainier

I am a storyteller who uses a camera.

Rabih Alameddine

Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.

Alan Bennett

It's the one species I wouldn't mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth. I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.

Al Sharpton

There are white n*ggers. I've seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.

Al Sharpton

Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.

Al Sharpton

What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?

Chico Hamilton

And I'm happy to say that I'm able to find people wherever I go that are not black, not white - they're just human beings. That's where I am, where I've been and where I intend to stay.

Edmond Rostand

All my laurels you have riven away, and my roses; yet in spite of you, there is one crown I bear away with me... One thing without stain, unspotted from the world, in spite of doom mine own! And that is... my white plume.

Eddie Huang

Not only was I not white, to many people I wasn’t Asian either

David Hume

No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan is sufficient to refute that conclusion.

David Duke

I won my constituency. I won 55% of the white vote.