Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes you have to be careful when selecting a new name for yourself. For instance, let's say you have chosen the nickname "Fly Head." Normally you would think that "fly Head" would mean a person who has beautiful swept-back features, as if flying through the air. But think again. Couldn't it also mean "having a head like a fly"? I'm afraid some people might actually think that.

Catherine McCartney

We've spoken out and said you can stand up and you don't have to be afraid of anybody. But it won't mean anything unless the people in the communities take that opportunity the next time the IRA comes to their door and say to them 'I'm not going to allow you to bully me'.

Chinese Proverbs

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still

Rob Varley

Bob cares a lot about the success of Cocoa Beach. He's a regular guy who isn't afraid of hard work. Let me tell you -- it was very difficult for the tourism industry after Sept. 11. We were hurting.

Jean Richter

The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Chris Cooley

I started thinking playoffs the first game of the season, I'll be honest, ... That's the goal, you've got to think about it. We're for sure talking about what we've got to do in our division to get there, what it takes to get there. I don't think we're afraid to mention it. That's what we want to do.

Jim Yatzek

We're physical ourselves, and we're not afraid to play physical. They might be slight in stature, but the girls can dish it out.

Dave Schroeder

We tell the players that if you are thinking something, go ahead and say it... that fans want to know what they are thinking. We tell them not to be afraid to think out loud.

Tad Williams

We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.

Bobby Charlton

I've been asked about that goal every day for the last 40 years. We didn't have the technology back then to show whether it was a goal or not, which led to the controversy. I'd like to think one day we'll have the technology to show whether or not it was a goal.

Michael Jackson

What we call single-factor authentication is a basic password and ID. Now we're asking banks to use another form of identification.

Ellen DeGeneres

When I asked her what she missed the most right now she said, 'My friends. I don't know where my friends are,' ... Tonight, let's show people on the Gulf Coast that they have friends all over the world . . . to give them shelter from the storm.

E. Hicks

When I moved out here during the late '70s, I had a neighbor who was a farmer who asked me 'What do you produce? ... I said, well, I don't produce, I publish, but he meant, you know, 'Do you grow tomatoes?'

Jennifer Roberts

During the 'Think Tank' we ask questions that rise from the course of the week. We talk about how Sam could be more diverse; we actually come up with different programs based on the different issues that student and faculty come up with during the think tank.

Leigh Steinberg

Five minutes later, he would turn, with a look of total sincerity, and ask the same questions, as if we had never discussed them. It was frightening to see how delicate was the boundary between rational consciousness and confusion.

Jeff Henley

Fiscal oversight and fiscal responsibility are a huge, huge part of being a school board member. We can sit here all day long and ask Albany for more money, but if we're not spending it wisely, we don't deserve it.

Alberto Tomba

Somebody ask me, 'Alberto, why you not race in Torino?' I finished my career here in 1998, the 15 of March which was my last victory.

Aleksandar Hemon

I really don't feel that any of the pieces I wrote were confessions; there are no revelations about secrets in my life, and actually I have nothing to confess and I certainly do not ask for redemption and there is no reward for confessing that I expect.

Andre Malraux

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

Woody Allen

Some actors like the total freedom Woody gives them, but I like to have some parameters, some structure.

Lorrin Lee

If you want to Rich ...own your own Home and your own Business. Be FREE to pursue life in your own way ...with all your passion.

Kerwin Forges

Cliff's been our go-to guy all year. He missed two free throws. Stuff happens. We should have won the game before that.

Ronald Reagan

Being free and prosperous in a world at peace. That's our ultimate goal.

Boris Yeltsin

His contribution was invaluable to the formation of a new image of the Middle East, free of stereotypes of confrontation and enmity.

Nancy Reagan

His legacy is a strong and free America, and for this and for a lifetime of selfless service, a grateful nation thanks him.

Marshall Brown

I never even thought about it. I knew I was going to hit my free throws. I think I'm a good free throw shooter and whenever I get to the line I think I'm going to knock them down.

Teresa Case

I'm the senior, so I thought it was my job to sink those free throws. But we are all pretty good free-throw shooters, so it didn't really matter who was up there.

Ambrose Bierce

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

Andy Johnson

Some people think that because it's a threatened species, that every one we save is good. But not if they never get to live in the wild.

Andrew Niccol

Some people think 'Lord of War' is a political film,

Daniel Petrocelli

Some people think it's a waste of time to go to trial here.

Liam Hemsworth

Southern people remind me a lot of Australia.

Jim Anderson

So we're trying to let people know that we will automatically enroll them in Part D and there is no premium at all,

Susan Murray

So we're telling people they should know what they're paying.

Mark Rylance

So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it.

E. O. Wilson

so that the will of the people can be upheld.

J. J. Johnson

Once you go out and start making plays, they don't say that anymore, ... You just have to play and show people what you can do.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Runners are poor walkers.

Julie Chen

If you're trying to be something you're not, whether it's an age or a certain type of personality, you're just going to be in misery. You have to own who you are, and part of who you are is your age.