Famous Quotes & Sayings

Susan Strasberg

My acting career wasn't going where I wanted it to. I wasn't getting good parts. I got so bored with myself that I started writing.

Quincy Jones

I've never been bored in my life, man. I've never been bored or lonely. Are you kidding? No way! I'm an orchestrator, a musician, a producer. I love everything. I've studied languages from Farsi to Greek to French, Swedish, Russian... How can you get bored?

Mark Twain

The people stared at us everywhere, and we stared at them. We bore down on them with America's greatness until we crushed them.

Gavin Prout

I think after the 7-2 lead we got a little lackadaisical. We kind of rode the lead and it diminished pretty quickly. Then people start seizing up when the opportunity comes. Those are the types of things where you need to take control and take some leadership, and I'll take full bore for that.

J. Tillman

I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.

Nicholas Haslam

I didn't want to look distinguished; I wanted to look fun, and also to fade into the street, into the King's Road. If I don't fade into a room at White's, that's fine. My father was chairman of Brooks' and the Beefsteak, and I was brought up in that life, and it bores me rigid.

Michael Keaton

I don't know - sometimes I catch myself being dark, and it's annoying. I think, 'Get over it.' I bore myself. But sometimes, like everybody, I'm sure I am obsessive.

Wallace Stevens

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

Wayne Dyer

The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.

Colin Murray

He had no idea what Matthews was doing, and he was crushed when he found out.

Arturo Lomibao

(The) military has effectively crushed the plot but some people responsible for it are still out there.

Paul Byrd

The thing I see is that we're getting the hits now. Before, maybe if a guy crushed a line drive, it was hit right at somebody for an out. Now the hits are starting to fall in and we're stringing them together.

Paul Byrd

I wanted to respect the inside, but it went over the middle and he crushed it.

Tory Hauser

It was a great day for Alex. She pretty much crushed them. I knew she had the will to win and she just went out and did it.

Maggie Stiefvater

I was wild and tame and pulled into shreds and crushed into being all at once.

Edmund Burke

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Daryl Dickey

They know just because one guy is starting now, that doesn't mean the other is not going to have his opportunity later. Starting is going to be a very big thing for somebody and it's going to be a great opportunity. We don't want the other person to be crushed because he's not.

Sonny Jackson

They met two men who were paid $50 for the vehicle. It had no hood and it had been stripped. They took it to the crusher and it was crushed on Dec. 28.

William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

William Gilmore Simms

Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside.

Robert Ringer

The bolder the action, the greater the genius, magic and power that is likely to flow from it.

Robert Ley

Catastrophe was only narrowly averted. It was all due to the faith of one man! Yes, you who called us godless, we found our faith in Adolf Hitler, and through him found God once again. That is the greatness of our day, that is our good fortune!

Sanford I. Weill

From the business point of view, always encouraging the people in our company to own stock in the company, and if we're going to build something great, to have a lot of people share in the benefits of that greatness.

Samuel Johnson

The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestic privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, were exterior appendages are cast aside, and men excel each other only by prudence and virtue.

Will Smith

The way I like to measure greatness is... How many people can you make want to be better?

Will Smith

Greatness exists in all of us.

Wayne Dyer

Choose to be in close proximity to people who are empowering...wh o see the greatness in you!

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

H. Hunt

He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.

John Keker

He could kibbutz at most. He didn't run China. Other people did.

Lindy Ruff

He just doesn't feel right. Until we get him through that, he won't be skating.

Chrissie Fit

I was afraid of the dark until I was, like, 15 and slept with a nightlight.

Saku Koivu

We've got to win them all and get help from other teams, but we are going to push until the end.

I. Stone

I want to wait until I get the right heart.

Johnny Gimble

I didn't really get crazy about Bob Wills until 1940.

Kathy Bennett

I always wanted to know what was wrong. They could never find anything wrong with her until this.

Stephen Dodd

I am just more focussed. He had got me not to give in, to keep going until the last,

London Fletcher

I really didn't know if I was going to be able to play until right before the game,

Craig Roberts

I never wanted to be an actor until about three years ago when I realised it was what I liked doing.