Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marvin Parvez

As the winter comes in, the situation has gotten more grim.

David Pearson

Some have gotten very angry, however, ... That's the reality.

Andre Ward

My mind-set has gotten a little more serious. I've always respected the game, but now this is my living. The hardest part is being away from my family.

Michael Vick

Just because he's my brother, that doesn't give him the right to step on another player's leg during a game. It doesn't give him the right to get into some of the other situations he's gotten himself into.

Denise Bishop

I think he went to the same area. They said, 'We think you've already gotten assistance' (and) he took off.

Ted Ligety

I think I've gotten to the point where I shouldn't be having to talk about Bode.

Bobby Johnson

He can do other stuff that he hasn't been doing, ... He can play tight end. We haven't gotten into some of the stuff we want him to do.

Jeff Emerson

Gov. Riley is the only governor to open up these records to the public. The office had gotten a little behind, but now the records are up to date.

Meredith Lazarus

For the past three years, we've gotten to the championship game. We want to win another one before we leave.

Bobby Scott

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.

Alexander Cockburn

There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of a key. The significance of the past, as expressed in the manuscript by a deleted word or an inserted correction, is annulled in idle gusts of electronic massacre.

Aldous Huxley

The critics don't interest me because they're concerned with what's past and done, while I'm concerned with what comes next.

Alexander Pope

When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.

Alexander Pope

Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.

E. P. Thompson

We must not look at the past with the enormous condescension of posterity.

Doug Stanhope

The fact is that really no comedian sets out to offend you. Some comics enjoy the challenge of taking a subject that is likely to be found offensive and trying to make it funny‚ but the object is still to make you laugh. Offense is only a calculated risk. It's highly unlikely that a comedian whose only goal was to repulse you would ever make it past an open-mic stage, far less build a long career of touring theatres and television appearances.

Doug Stanhope

I don't like being in the UK for every other reason aside from the show. It's aesthetically uncomfortable to me on almost every level for reasons that might sound petty but I can't get past. The audiences are far more challenging and while I wouldn't say I prefer it, I certainly need it to ward off my inherent laziness.

Stu Rothenberg

This is one state, but it is really two or three states.

Eric Idle

When, in 1966, I progressed to The Frost Report, I was paid ten guineas a minute. I was guaranteed three minutes a week, so this was good money.

Emun Elliott

I actually wanted to be a forensic scientist for a while. When I was doing my Standard Grades, three of them were science subjects. The interest in science didnt wear off, but I found other interests.

James Chanos

I call it the Rule of Three. If you read a company's financial statements three times, and you still can't figure out how they make their money, that's usually for a reason.

A. Hodge

It's really, really fast. We have three mid-race sprints.

Amy Childs

I've got a personal trainer, and I train three times a week.

Kathy Bates

I hope I look skinnier in 3D. I hope I don't look three times as fat. That'll be disappointing.

Teju Cole

Sebald, Naipaul, and Joyce are three of my biggest influences, all of them for their formal freedom and their ability to create mood. So those comparisons are immensely flattering and, of course, unearned.

Selma Blair

I have three sisters, that's it for the family.

Barack Obama

I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

Drew Brees

When you wake up, think about winning the day. Don't worry about a week or a month from now -- just think about one day at a time.

Drew Barrymore

I'm okay with the idea that slow and steady wins the race.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have

Douglas Conant

Learning to celebrate success is a key component of learning how to win in the market.

Dorothy Hamill

I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal.

Dontrelle Willis

Whatever I can do to win, I'll do it, even if I have to get hit by a pitch, whatever it takes.

Don Nelson

If we're gonna win, we have to play up to and beyond our potential.

Dwayne Johnson

What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.