Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Furst

I had the experience of a monk copying documents, applying myself assiduously to my work. And I thought whatever happened, happened - this is just what I do in my life.

Bobby Bragan

I've been in this game since 1937. My biggest thrill was when I was in Milwaukee and I told them I was leaving. It was the loudest ovation I ever got.

Teju Cole

I am suspicious of writers who say their work is original and influenced by nobody. If it is, it is probably uninteresting. The biggest source of novels is other novels.

Bernard Cornwell

I have a terrific, marvellous, unbelievably helpful editor in London and she has the biggest influence, but even so we disagree as much as we agree.

Erron Kinney

I think the biggest difference is (Dungy) has had people in key positions that have been there and understand the system. When they have plays they make them. It used to be they did a lot of stunting and got caught up out of position. They're playing straight up with a lot of speed and they rally to the ball.

Paul Klein

I thought she gave an excellent talk. She handled the questions with great respect for the people, no matter what level the question was. The biggest message is not to be passive, it's a time for people to stand up, and that may be the most patriotic thing we can do.

Jeff DiBattisto

He had a monster game. He's done a great job when teams have keyed on him. Tonight he was open and knocked down some shots. He is a dual threat. That's the biggest problem he poses for people. He can step out and shoot it, and when you're on him, he can go and post you up.

Jeff Laing

He graduated young. He was 17 when he graduated. The biggest thing he needed to do was get bigger.

Saleem Rasheed

He doesn't have to worry about that. I'll come up and bite you. I'm a soft-spoken guy off the field, but I like to think of myself as the biggest dog out there. If that's what he wants, I'll try to do that more.

Billy Baker

He got down on himself and so the biggest thing I think I had to do with him was convince him that what we do throughout the year is only to get him ready for the end of the season. You have to be able to rebound from those losses, and he's done a good job since.

Donnie Edwards

Marty has been talking about us finishing games. ... He has been stressing about making plays when you have to.

Barbara Mertz

kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.

Lucille Ball

When you're too mad and too rattled to see straight, you're bound to make mistakes. You can't go on and on for years being miserable about a situation and not have it change you. You get so you can't stand yourself.

Karl Popper

Psychologism is, I believe, correct only in so far as it insists upon what may be called 'methodological individualism' as opposed to 'methodological collectivism'; it rightly insists that the 'behaviour' and the 'actions' of collectives, such as states or social groups, must be reduced to the behaviour and to the actions of human individuals. But the belief that the choice of such an individualist method implies the choice of a psychological method is mistaken.

Justin Cronin

It was possible, he understood, for a person's life to become just a long series of mistakes, and that the end, when it came, was just one more mistake in a chain of bad choices. The thing was, most of these mistakes were actually borrowed from other people. You took their bad ideas, and for whatever reason, made them your own.

Charles Stross

Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put a full stop at the end of an epitaph.

Chanakya

Low minded people are fraudulent, wicked and chaeat. They shouldnot be trusted. To h ave faith in low minded ones is mistake in policy and useless because they are not trustworthy. An administrator should not invited calamity by trusting the low minded ones.

Patrick McDonald

These are the kind of people we like to remove from society and we were very successful.

Elaine Stritch

This is for people who have dough. It's expensive. That's the way it is.

Shannon Sickels

This is for all the people who went before us and all the people who would like to come after us.

Rich Carnevale

This is going to be something Princeton people have never seen before.

Richard Power

This is a problem that not enough people really are clued into.

Thomas Miller

This is a perfect storm of relief obstructions. You have landslides, snow and no roads to reach the people way up in the mountains.

Robert Cendro

This is an unbelievable surface. People who haven't seen it or weren't sure what it was are going to say, ?Wow!' It's just incredible.

Mark Viator

This is a team sport. We need as many people there as possible.

Madeline Albright

This is a special time because of a lot of people traveling, so we thought that it was important. There are threats, and so that's why we think that is responsible.