Famous Quotes & Sayings

Perhaps, if I am very lucky, the feeble efforts of my lifetime will someday be noticed, and maybe, in some small way, they will be acknowledged as the greatest works of genius ever created by Man

Kevin Appleby

We're at a critical time in the debate and we want the American public to receive a positive message. We don't want to do anything to create a backlash.

Katherine Jenkins

After doing 'Doctor Who,' I'm open-minded to doing more acting. Part of the reason you do a show like this is because it creates other opportunities you haven't had before.

Robyn Anderson

All of the kids worked so hard to create this engineering feat. We are equally honored when they decided to paint a mermaid on the sub.

S. Hughes

At first I looked to create and get everybody involved in the game, then I looked for myself. I don't think it's too hard for me. I know when it's the time to score and it kind of comes easy for me.

Jill Soloway

At East Side Jews, we can take a risk because it isn't all about the rules. I started it to create a space for all those people who wouldn't go to temple because they were scared of getting the rules wrong.

Toshifumi Suzuki

As we value what each one of us have, we want to create a new model through our merger.

Ellen Hansen

As we move into the realm of electronic medical records, we're trying to look at the way we do work, and determine how we can create good workflows and a good setting for the patient in an electronic environment.

Tom Hines

About 50 percent of heat gain in homes is because of the sun hitting the windows. Anything you can do to create shade on the outside is seven times more effective than shading from the inside.

Beth Keating

I'm very excited about it, particularly for the summer. It's a lot of work. But it's great not having a boss. And I have some ideas.

Brad Meltzer

I'm excited just to start my new novel,

Dave Winker

I'm excited for two reasons. First, a rocket launch is always exciting. But in terms of my career, the real interesting, exciting thing is getting the data.

Dan Mahurin

I'm excited for those two guys. Those kids work extremely hard ... I'm happy for them.

Charli Turner

I'm excited for this weekend . . . to see how we'll grow from this, and to see how good we can be under these circumstances. I know this team and its character. I think we can prevent this from happening again. I really do.

Derek Jones

I'm excited for this season, with it being my first full season as a pro. I'm especially proud to be part of the National Guard team because of what they stand for.

O. Henry

I'm excited for the summer. Well, not excited for the summer, but I'm excited for the season, anyway.

Ozzie Guillen

I'm excited for the people here. They wait so long for this to happen. It was a lot of work but a great thing to get it done.

Mike McCoy

I'm excited for the kids. I think they're excited to be in a new building. Not only are they seeing friends they haven't seen since last year, they also have new surroundings." ()

Sophie Kinsella

There is something exciting about saving up for a special treat. Bring back the piggy bank!

Steve Payne

He's never complained or felt sorry for himself. That's been the hard part for me, having to watch him go through this. It's been an inspiration for our guys and our program to see how he's handled everything as far as being unselfish and how tough he's been.

Greg Oden

I know that's where I want to go, ... I'm not really worried about other schools or things like that. As far as signing, I just haven't talked it over with Mike or Mom yet.

Ernie Whitt

I know you are not supposed to look too far ahead, but you have to in a tournament like this.

Kent Anderson

The feedback we've received thus far seems to indicate that people are finding these very useful.

Kevin Flanagan

The Fed may pause even if the risks aren't balanced. He is trying to tell you that we will still pause even if the numbers come in as they have so far this year.

Obie Schramm

The far majority of students do the right thing. We need to make sure we're protecting all these kids.

Todd Jones

I'm not saying how far we might go, but Jim has been in this situation before. When he managed the Florida Marlins (in 1997), he knew that team was put together specifically to win a championship. And it did.

Brian Seo

I'm not really worried about (King). That's really far off. Second or third, that's right up there where my goal is.

Marcus Conigliaro

I'm not so sure how we would respond at first. Personally, that loss (to Stout) took the wind out of me. But then I think we all realized that we had to stay together and move on. We had come too far for that to end our season that way.

Meghan Coward

Sometimes Molly will fly out to L.A. for a few days, raid the gallery scene there, and come back with a list of names and try to lure them down here.

Beth McNamara

We gave it a good fight today. Our team hustled and did a few things well and a few things not so well that we will work on, ... We made a few mistakes defensively and they capitalized. They made some really good plays.

Jonathan Cheechoo

We weren't very disciplined; (we) took a few penalties maybe we shouldn't (have). It was pretty one-sided, the (penalty) calling, but at the same time we were putting ourselves in that position.

Jan Egeland

We need more resources to save 2 million to 3 million lives and we need much more resources in the next few days.

Gin Wigmore

That would be awesome, to be totally making records whenever I want and to play a show and have a few hundred thousand people there at any city you go to because people know you and your music.

Vernon Smith

I think people (at Butler) put out the word that I was going to Pittsburgh, and those other schools just figured it was a done deal. But I haven't talked to Pittsburgh more than a few times in the last two years. I really don't think those people really thought I was going to make it out of here (academically).

Jason Giambi

We don't get worried when we're behind. We know we're only a few walks and a few swings from being back in the ballgame.

Joseph Wood

I thought it had gotten better, but in the last few weeks there have been more incidents,

Rockie Bork

We played good ball, took them to the wire. You have to be proud of the kids because they're trying real hard and they put 100 percent into the game. We just got off to a way too slow start and we had a few too many turnovers. What do you do?

Joanne Pratt

The Web is a great place to shop and spend money, but it's pretty great for making money too.

Marcus Thames

That's what I work for every year. It'll be a great feeling.

Sean McMahon

Zach had a great race for us as he mixed in with some of the top runners in the state.

Tommy Lasorda

You wait till you see that Dominican team. You wait till you see Puerto Rico. You wait till you see Venezuela. . . . Matsui is a great player. The Japanese team needs him.

Thomas More

Your sheep, that were wont to be so meek and tame and so small eaters, now, as I hear say, be become so great devourers, and so wild, that they eat up and swallow down the very men themselves.

Ken Johnson

You really hope that he's OK. He's a great player and you never want to see a player get hurt like that.

Mike Dunne

You're a great neighbor and we all know what you're doing, and we know you're going to do this with care,

Tim Duncan

Beno has been playing great for us. With Nick out right now, Beno is getting a lot of minutes and he has really responded well.

Phil Colicchio

We wanted to take away their penetration. Our big guys did a great job of meeting their guards in the lane.

Earl Nightingale

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Richard Hatch

When you meet someone with a vision, you have to give them a shot and an opportunity to see what they can do.

Amy Tan

I began to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid.

Rick Nielsen

I prefer to be an equal-opportunity offender of the guitar.

Thomas Paine

Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.

Thomas Schelling

I use game theory to help myself understand conflict situations and opportunities.

Thomas Sankara

Let there be an end to the arrogance of the big powers who miss no opportunity to put the rights of the people in question. Africa's absence from the club of those who have the right to veto is unjust and should be ended.

Thomas S. Monson

Our opportunities to give of ourselves are indeed limitless, but they are also perishable.

Thomas Sowell

Young people in general - and young women in particular - need to understand that they cannot retrieve in their forties the opportunities they threw away in their twenties.

Bobby Scott

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

David Arquette

I love round people, I love skinny people. I love people in general; we've got to get past labels and stop being so critical about everything.

Dan Brown

The decisions of our past are the architects of our present.

Daniel Yergin

An important United Nations environmental conference went past 6:00 in the evening when the interpreters' contracted working conditions said they could leave. They left, abandoning the delegates unable to talk to each other in their native languages. The French head of the committee, who had insisted on speaking only in French throughout the week suddenly demonstrated the ability to speak excellent English with English-speaking delegates.

Alfred Austin

Thought, stumbling, plods Past fallen temples, vanished gods, Altars unincensed, fanes undecked, Eternal systems flown or wrecked; Through trackless centuries that grant To the poor trudge refreshment scant, Age after age, pants on to find A melting mirage of the mind.

Aloe Blacc

I felt I had an opportunity to follow in the footsteps of great soul musicians of the past, who made a lot of social and political commentary through their music.

Andy Samberg

I used to stay up at night and sneak into the TV room, past my parents, who were asleep, to watch Saturday Night's 'Main Event.' That's how I started watching SNL. On accident.

Amanda Holden

In the past, I've thrown myself into work so much there's been very little room for anything else.

Anne Carson

To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

Abraham Lincoln

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Albert Einstein

Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent People Ignore.

Alfred Sisley

To mention only contemporaries, Delacroix, Corot, Millet, Rousseau, Courbet are masters. And finally [I like] all those [painters] who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands the creed of creeds In loveliness of perfect deeds, More strong than all poetic thoughts; Which he may read that binds the sheaf, Or builds the house, or digs the grave, And those wild eyes that watch the waves In roarings round the coral reef.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills, And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me, And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’d To dwell in presence of immortal youth, Immortal age beside immortal youth, And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus

Alexander Downer

I think any good government will target on the finishing date, that is, the polling day and make sure that their strategy is strong and in place to get them successfully re-elected.

Aldous Huxley

A man may have strong humanitarian and democratic principles, but if he happens to have been brought up as a bath-taking, shirt-changing lover of fresh air, he will have to overcome certain physical repugnance before he can bring himself to put those principles into practice.

Albert Pike

He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current... Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on toward ultimate success.

Mark Martin

I'm not always successful. But I try to treat the people the way I want to be treated. I really try to keep that in mind, but it doesn't always work.

Michael Grade

I sometimes say that success just happens. That's not true. You have to make it happen. When I make up my mind to do something, I make sure it happens. You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Robert Redford

The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.

Wallace Stevens

The poem must resist the intelligence almost successfully.

Saint Francis de Sales

Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great.

Vince Lombardi

Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness, and respect for authority are the price each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Malcolm X

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

Malcolm Gladwell

Achievement is talent plus preparation

Orison Swett Marden

The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.

Bobby Knight

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

Robert Herjavec

I own a Ferrari race team, and we race all over North America.

Richard Branson

I learnt from an early age the need to delegate responsibility out to other team members as there is just too much for one person to do themselves. What is the point of hiring talented team members if you don't give them the freedom to make the most of the chance you have given them?

Rudolf Arnheim

Order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.

Steve Case

At the end of the day, the team you build is the company you build.

Thomas Boswell

Some things cannont possibly happen, because they are both too improbable and too perfect. The U.S. hockey team cannot beat the Russians in the 1980 Olympics. Jack Nicklaus cannot shoot 65 to win the Masters at age forty-six. Nothing else comes immediately to mind.

Viktor Yushchenko

I have excellent relationships with Jewish organizations and participate every year in a Hanukkah celebration with my family. There haven't been any anti-Semitic tendencies in my team for a long time.

Vin Scully

The only difference between a winning team and a losing team is one game. The winning team can win two out of three games...the losing team can only win one out of three.

Vince Carter

I don't care how I got here. In the books, when you look at it 10 or 20 years from now, it's not going say how he got here, it's going to say he's here and he represented the team.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

S. I. Hayakawa

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

Marie Windsor

So, I certainly subscribe to what Bette said about acting being very hard work.

Ted Turner

The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.

Morris Chestnut

I'm an R&B and Hip-Hop type guy. When I work out, which I do at least four or five times a week, I love to get the latest Hip-Hop because it really pumps me up and inspires me to get that workout on.

Mark Twain

I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.

Mason Cooley

Sensuality takes planning and work.

Robert Gottlieb

Nobody could call the work of Noche Flamenca & Soledad Barrio pallid.

Matthew Goode

I'm always pretty tense about everything when it comes to work.