Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hollie Woodard

We want the program to get better and better and better. We don't want to have any excuses anymore as to why Council Rock isn't what it used to be.

Scott Thaler

We have to go further and further out on a limb in order to keep today's audience entertained because they're not excited anymore about seeing a fast car chase on San Francisco streets. For a Coca-Cola and box of popcorn, it isn't worth getting somebody killed, and if at the end of the movie it says 'in memoriam to,' then you haven't properly done your job.

Neneh Cherry

I've never really spent too much or put too much gravity or placed too much importance on being a pop star. It's like, OK, great, does that mean I don't have to do anything anymore except walk around and be a pop star?

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I claim that space is part of our culture. You've heard complaints that nobody knows the names of the astronauts, that nobody gets excited about launches, that nobody cares anymore except people in the industry. I don't believe that for a minute.

Jordin Sparks

When I was on Broadway, I got really sick with walking pneumonia. I decided not to take my health for granted anymore and make it a priority. The great thing is, the pounds just started to fall off.

Mack Brown

What a fun week for us, for Ohio State and for college football, ... It is unusual anymore to have matchups like this out of conference. I am proud that we are going to a place that cares about football like we do and that has the storied history that we do.

John Edgar Wideman

Writing 'Hoop Roots' was a substitute or a surrogate activity. I can't play anymore - my body won't cooperate - so in the writing of the book, I was looking to tell a good story about my life and about basketball, but I was also looking to entertain myself the way that I entertain myself when I play.

Michael Watkins

There goes another excuse to not exercise that we can't use anymore ... What's left? I think all the myths about what's bad about exercise have now been debunked. There are no more excuses. Exercise is good for our general health, and if we know what's good for us, we should get out there and exercise.

Tim Kropp

We're not arguing so much anymore if this is a harmful chemical. Now the questions are, what are we going to do about this?

Alan Moore

Ideas are bulletproof.

Alan Bennett

We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.

Alan Alda

Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.

Al Ries

Changing the direction of a large company is like trying to turn an aircraft carrier. It takes a mile before anything happens. And if it was a wrong turn, getting back on course takes even longer.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God, either.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

When God would make His name known to mankind, He could find no better word than "I AM." "I am that I am," says God, "I change not." Everyone and everything else measures from that fixed point.

Robert Bennett

We want them to completely change the way they handle organs. We want stricter testing and we want families and patients to be notified if there is a problem with a donor, so that the family could make the decision, not the doctor.

Tom Harp

We want to totally change the look from a 50-year-old neighborhood to a neighborhood that is state-of-the-art and fully improved with nice front lawns.

Chogyam Trungpa

In the cocoon, there is no idea of light at all, until we experience some longing for openness, some longing for something other than the smell of our own sweat. When we examine that comfortable darkness - look at it, smell it, feel it - we find it is claustrophobic.

Pierre McGuire

Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux created a whole new genre of players.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Wealth today has been created by a world view dominated by fast-moving networks, open information, bottom-up entrepreneurialism.

Lisa Jakub

What was really wonderful about the 'Doubtfire' shoot is that we had this really long rehearsal period in the beginning. That was a great time to get to know each other. We got to know each other and to create the family vibe. So we really didn't have to force it.

Michael Steele

The federal government has never created one job that is sustainable long term. It creates government project work but not creating real work where people are.

Ghazi Hamad

The position of the (Interior Ministry) general inspector was not created by the government, it had been there before the new government was formed.

John Brown

the people who create it want the most to protect it.

Aaron Guillen

We've actually tucked the elementary school back with the industrial to create a little more buffer.

Eric Keller

We spread the offense to spread the opposing defenses and that really creates running room.

Omar Vizquel

Wherever he goes, he's probably going to create a lot of controversy. That's why he's one of the greatest.

Felipe Alou

We always have big rallies when they walk him. I hope they don't stop walking him.

Charles L. Allen

When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.

Jack Rio

We're going to keep him out this week, then hopefully get him back as quick as we can, ... This is not a season-ending injury by any means.

Jim McAlpin

We're going to have to find some different ways to score because of that, but we'll still attack. We hope to score as much as we did last year.

Bruce Allen

We're getting some more analysis. He's still on the team. He is wanting to play. We're hopeful that he can. But we're going to get the proper medical opinion.

J. Horton

We're hopeful what we have done to this point is enough.

Wayne Kramer

We're hopeful we'll be able to identify many more.

Jason Tapp

We're hopeful that a much more experienced and talented team this season will have us near or on top at the end of the regular season.

Jeff Hall

We're hopeful ... but realistically we're looking for deceased.

Hillary Clinton

There is nothing fast or easy about diplomacy. I have no illusions about that.

Eugene Ionesco

Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.

David Sanborn

But I never had any illusions at that time that it was going to be how I was going to make a living. I thought, well, I'll make a solo record, and it'll be fun.

Mike Bennett

I would like to see someone come in second that tells it like it is. I don't have any illusions that he'll come in first, but I do think it might be nice.

Brian Goldberg

Junior has no illusions that he's 25, but he'll go at it and work hard. If everything is working out, he'll play.

Ben Wagner

I don't have any illusions that I'll become rich off this project.

Jorge Amado

I'm under no illusions about the importance of my work. But if it has any worth, it is that it truly reflects the Brazilian people.

Fran Wallis

I'm not having any illusions that it will be a piece of cake.

Chinua Achebe

My weapon is literature

Chinua Achebe

I teach literature. That's easy for me. Take someone else's work and talk about it.

Edward Hirsch

There's always some place to go. You don't need workshops, you don't need friends necessarily, you can be befriended by literature itself.

David Hume

Such a superiority do the pursuits of literature possess above every other occupation, that even he who attains but a mediocrity in them, merits the pre-eminence above those that excel the most in the common and vulgar professions.

Audre Lorde

I am very, very happy for Alice Walker.

Audre Lorde

We're supposed to see "universal" love as heterosexual. What I insist upon in my work is that there is no such thing as universal love in literature.

Kurt Vonnegut

And what is literature, Rabo," he said, "but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in the universe but a few molecules who have the disease called 'thought'.

Bill O'Reilly

Dan Rather is guilty of not being skeptical enough about a story that was politically loaded.

Carlos Fuentes

Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal.

Mark Tinker

With the multiple storylines and recurring characters, they took storytelling for the masses and made it into something sophisticated, intelligent and emotionally complicated.

Gary Andersen

There isn't much difference. The positions are very interchangeable.

K'naan

I don't feel political most of the time. Sometimes I'm placed in positions because no one else will go there.

Joe Ehrmann

You have one of the most responsible positions in society.

Ryan Snair

Sean can play any of the infield positions and can catch, too.

Greg Valliere

On one hand, he seems more palatable to Wall Street than Dean, in that his positions on trade and taxes are more moderate.

Lori Rogers

Spring is just around the corner, so I think you'll see a lot of seasonal positions start up.

Tony Padilla

Carroll is strong at all positions even cornerback. We've got to be ready when we play them.

Sarah Fisher

Six years ago when I started this whole fiasco, there were not this many women in these positions to get the attention,

Megan Hilty

I think the only way you can really grow is if you push yourself and put yourself in uncomfortable positions and doing things that you're not used to; it's exciting.

Charles Caleb Colton

That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged are induced to cling with the greater avidity to the former.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.

Charles Caleb Colton

We make a goddess of Fortune ... and place her in the highest heaven. But it is not fortune that is exalted and powerful, but we ourselves that are abject and weak.

Charles Caleb Colton

Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of our heads, where, having blinded the two watchmen, it readily descends into the heart.

Charles Stanley

One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. And the biggest lie is that there are no consequences to our own doing. Satan will give you whatever you ask for if it will lead you where he ultimately wants you.

Charles Spurgeon

We declare, upon Scriptural authority, that the human will is so desperately set on mischief, so depraved, and so inclined to everything that is evil, and so disinclined to everything that is good, that without the powerful, supernatural, irresistible influence of the Holy Spirit, no human will ever be constrained towards Christ.

Charles Spurgeon

In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.

Alan Watts

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

Chris Duerksen

This is simply something you don't have right now.

Ken McNeely

We simply don't think Californians should have to wait that long.

Albert Einstein

If you can't explain something simply, you don't know enough about it.

Robert Henri

The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.

Rhys Ifans

Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.

Jim Wilkinson

I can tell you that simply did not happen.

Robert Rubin

I think there is more work to do, and we simply have to all work together and do everything we can to get it done,

Jack Whittaker

I'm simply a businessman who has seen his share of failures and successes.

Patrick Vieira

He is simply exceptional. He is always there at exceptional moments.

Alan Watts

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

Al Kaline

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Dean Acheson

I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.

David Riesman

Though top executives may work as hard as ever-in part perhaps because, being trained in an earlier day, they can hardly help doing so-their subordinates are somewhat less work-minded.

David Riesman

The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as play and their play as work.

David Duval

I've just been working hard, trying to get some good stuff to come out.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

When your vision is powerful enough, everything else falls into place: how you live your life, your workouts, what friends you choose to hang out with, how you eat, what you do for fun. Vision is purpose, and when your purpose is clear, so are your life choices. Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith, there is no anxiety, no doubt - just absolute confidence.

Ben Whishaw

I've gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.

Arnold Palmer

I never met a winner who had a work ethic. Not somebody who says I have so much talent that naturally I won.