Famous Quotes & Sayings

Twyla Tharp

My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the world.'

Twyla Tharp

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Custard is controversial: what makes it a custard, how best to cook it and, crucially, is it to be eaten or put in a pie and thrown?

Yani Tseng

It's very easy when you have someone in front of you that you can chase. You want to be No. 1 but now I feel like I have to play well because everybody looks at you as a best golfer. So that's why I put more pressure on myself.

Thucydides

We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.

Timothy Noah

There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.

Thomas Friedman

I can see a day soon where you'll create your own college degree by taking the best online courses from the best professors from around the world - some computing from Stanford, some entrepreneurship from Wharton, some ethics from Brandeis, some literature from Edinburgh - paying only the nominal fee for the certificates of completion.

Idina Menzel

I used to take 40 minutes to warm up before going on stage. If you want to spend time with your child as well as having a career, you have to get up there even if your head's a mess. It's made me more relaxed, and I'm having some of my best shows.

Idina Menzel

I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'

Elizabeth Meriwether

Every show is unique, some shows have the master plan and have everything figured out and that's just the way they do things. It's like high school. Some people write their papers the second they get their assignments, and some people write it the day after it's due. I am the latter.

Gregg Popovich

The pieces have to fit around him. The fortunate thing for us is that it seems that, given enough talent, all pieces fit around Timmy. He figures it out.

Rene Locher

The overall figures are lower-than-expected, not only because of the catastrophe claims, but also because of the reserve additions.

Annie Lennox

Having children, they're not your property. They need to figure out their own views. I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness, but I can't speak on their behalf.

Chuck Schumer

You have to walk in the other guy's moccasins. You have to think what they think. If you want to bring somebody onto your side, you have to figure out what motivates them. What do they need?

Mike Dunleavy

That would be nice. But I've come to realize that might not happen. I'm just going to be ready. You've got to be ready for the ball, you've got to make cuts, you've got to find other ways to score, put points on the board, make the team better. If I don't get plays called for me, I'll figure something else out.

Jerry Sloan

That will figure itself out at the end of the year.

Avery Cutshaw

We could move the football; we've just got to figure out a way to get it in the end zone. We had opportunity after opportunity. We just didn't capitalize.

Scott Peterson

We just didn't come out tonight and have it. I thought we figured it out this week, but we still have a lot ... to work on.

Wesley Clark

The Ukrainians don't have the military means to stand up to Russia, but we haven't helped them militarily, either.

Brittany Curran

Playing Chelsea on 'The Suite Life of Zack and Cody' really helped with my over-the-top comedy.

Dean Geyer

I think my time on 'Australian Idol' really helped train my voice for a lot of genres.

Cilla Black

I helped make the Sixties swing, and I'm very proud of that.

Christopher Dodd

It's vital that we help them get the right start, nurture their development and provide for their well-being.

Alice Walker

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

Bill Vaughan

The things which must be, must be for the best, God helps us do our duty and not shrink, And trust His mercy humbly for the rest.

Lukata Mjumbe

The applicants will still be responsible for their bills. The program will only help them up until March.

E. O. Wilson

The association earns money by helping to sell them and working at the store on the day of the event.

Chuck Palahniuk

Sometimes, like in 'Invisible Monsters,' I get too out of control, and instead of a plot point every chapter, I want a plot point in every sentence.

Vidya Balan

I like all things natural, and I love being Indian. So clothes-wise, I love wearing Indian. Does my wearing a salwar kameez instead of a dress make me less of an actor, less of a person?

Pat Coyle

We have an eight-player rotation and those players are going to play. If I can keep their minutes in the 20s instead of the 30s, I'll do it.

Margot Robbie

I'd rather trust nine people and have the 10th one stab me in the back. I'd take that fall in order to have those nine friendships or working relationships instead of having none. That's not living.

Paul Lancaster

We have to look for the pass more, too, instead of settling for the 3. When the 3 is not going, we can go to penetration.

Jeff Katz

We're working on solutions instead of just rehashing the problem.

Ranulph Fiennes

Will I spend my life in a wheelchair? Tottering around my lounge, instead of running up mountain passes or navigating glaciers?

Andy Roddick

I thought he played great, let's get that out there right now. He really took it to me so I was playing reactive instead of active.

Mitt Romney

I've been in politics now for long enough to not worry about what others are saying, but instead to talk about what I believe.

Bill Bryson

I'm quite certain that if the rest of the world vanished overnight and the development of cricket were left in Australian hands, within a generation, the players would be wearing shorts and using the bats to hit each other, and the thing is, it'd be a much better game for it.

Arsene Wenger

Unfortunately apparently I am to blame because I don't produce enough English players.

Arsene Wenger

Sometimes I see it [a foul by an Arsenal player], but I say that I didn’t see it to protect the players and because I could not find any rational explanation for what they did.

Arsene Wenger

You build a player like you build a house. You start with the foundations. The fundamentals.

Arsene Wenger

Who is the Best Player in the World? Leo Messi. Who is the Best Player Ever? Leo Messi!

Arsene Wenger

I think generally the Japanese players have more intensity in practice but generally I do the same things.

Arsene Wenger

As a coach you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong.

Arsene Wenger

English players are as easy to coach. The problem is that the Premier League has the best players in the world, and statistically not all of them can be born in England. But we don't have enough English players: we are working very hard on it.

Bill Bruford

One of the great things about having good players in your band is that you just ask them questions. You can pick up some good information that way.

Katie King

We'll probably keep saying all that to ourselves, but it sure doesn't make this feel much better.

Eric Dubin

Wait, are you saying because they spoke Spanish they were illegal?

Peter T. King

In the real world in which we live, it's a dangerous world. And you know the old saying is that we have to be right 100 percent of the time; the terrorists only have to be right once.

Hal McManus

I'm so tired of saying 'box out' that I'm sick of it. I think I say 'box out' in my sleep.

Frank MacKay

It doesn't have any basis. It's like me saying they're Martians; it's silly.

Kevin Smith

We're not saying we're a sequel. No, no, no.

Denis Breslin

We're not saying a whole lot right now.

Harold Williams

We are saying we won't look into the provenance.

Amber Frey

On Saturday, you were saying that there's so many things you thought about ... about us, but you haven't shared them with me. Why can't you share them to me on the phone?

Sara Teasdale

I am the pool of gold When sunset burns and dies-- You are my deepening skies; Give me your stars to hold

C. S. Lewis

And men said that the blood of the stars flowed in her veins

Cathy Moriarty

The truth is, ever since I was little, I've wanted to be an actor more than I ever wanted to be a movie star.

Cecil Rhodes

To think of these stars that you see overhead at night, these vast worlds which we can never reach. I would annex the planets if I could; I often think of that. It makes me sad to see them so clear and yet so far.

Catie Curtis

Adam Ezra writes with the heart of a troubadour and sings like a rock star. He is truely a fresh voice in singer/songwriter scene.

Carrie Fisher

People are still asking me if I knew Star Wars was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.

Carrie Fisher

For Star Wars, they had me tape down my breasts because there are no breasts in space. I have some. I have two.

Carrie Fisher

It's hard to date once you're a big Star Wars star because you don't want to give people the ability to say, "I had sex with Princess Leia."

Carrie Underwood

Wake up feeling like my life's worth living. Can't recall when I last felt that way. Guess it must be all this love you're giving. Never knew never knew it could be like this, but I guess some hearts they just get all the right breaks. Some hearts have the stars on their side. Some hearts they just have it so easy. Some hearts just get lucky sometimes.