Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes you have to be careful when selecting a new name for yourself. For instance, let's say you have chosen the nickname "Fly Head." Normally you would think that "fly Head" would mean a person who has beautiful swept-back features, as if flying through the air. But think again. Couldn't it also mean "having a head like a fly"? I'm afraid some people might actually think that.

Catherine McCartney

We've spoken out and said you can stand up and you don't have to be afraid of anybody. But it won't mean anything unless the people in the communities take that opportunity the next time the IRA comes to their door and say to them 'I'm not going to allow you to bully me'.

Chinese Proverbs

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still

Rob Varley

Bob cares a lot about the success of Cocoa Beach. He's a regular guy who isn't afraid of hard work. Let me tell you -- it was very difficult for the tourism industry after Sept. 11. We were hurting.

Wesley Hill

What I try to emphasize more than anything else is don't be afraid to make a mistake. That's how you learn what you can't do, and what you don't like to do.

Robert Green Ingersoll

All the punishment in the world will not reform a man, unless he knows that he who inflicts it upon him does it for the sake of reformation, and really and truly loves him, and has his good at heart. Punishment inflicted for gratifying the appetite makes man afraid but debases him.

Nate Robertson

Leyland's not afraid to yell at you from the dugout. It's situational things, not pitch selection. When he says something, I take it to the bank. I trust what he says.

Antonio Villaraigosa

Leadership is not about being afraid to lead or make mistakes, ... the whole culture is about being safe and risk averse.

Owen Meredith

Let any man show the world that he feels Afraid of its bark and 't will fly at his heels: Let him fearlessly face it, 't will leave him alone: But 't will fawn at his feet if he flings it a bone

Bruce Sutter

The stadium wasn't the best, and the lights weren't the best. Wallis hit the ball by the lights. And nobody ever saw the ball come down. So they gave him a home run. What else are you going to do? It was one of the strangest things I ever saw.

Rahul Dravid

The shot was on without the fine leg. He was unlucky that the ball rolled on to the stumps.

Ryan Armour

The shot I hit on the second hole could very easily have missed the cup and rolled 40 feet by. That is the way the ball bounces sometimes.

Chris Stephens

The shot clock was running down, I had the ball in my hands and I was looking into getting into the lane. I figured if I could find somebody open, I would pass to the outside. If I had the shot, I was going to take it. I had the shot.

Craig Smith

The tempo was right where we wanted it. We were able to pass the ball up the floor and score in transition and that plays to our strength.

David Dauzat

The team that prepares itself mentally in practice is the one that is going to get out there and win. We have a solid ball club and in every game we are going to come to play.

Luis Sayavedra

The team is starting to take shape. We moved the ball well today, and we created numerous opportunities.

Robert Sanchez

The team continued to give me the ball. They had faith in me to give me the ball and...I love those guys. The fact that this could have been our last game, made this more special.

Mark Wildman

The surprising thing to us was that Cascade was able to run the ball on them. They don't have any type of unusual defense. Their defense is a lot like our defense.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did, ... I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

Mike Burgess

People can register the day of the race, but it's like anything else. You have to stand in line. It's always best to pre-register.

Kevin English

Competing in this event is going to raise his confidence level. He got to see what he needs to do to get past some of the best talent in the state. There are no easy matches once you get here.

Bobby Bennett

Coal mining is probably one of the best jobs you can get around here.

John Bennett

Coaches are role models. They have to be. That's the way all are. For the kids outside of the classroom, they are role models. Everybody makes mistakes. We're not here to be judged. I wish him the best of luck. I know he will land on his feet.

Sarah Lowe

Coach always tells us it's not necessarily the team with the best players but the best team that wins. I think tonight you saw that. We don't have McDonald's All-Americans. We don't have All-Americans.

Allan Schweyer

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Matt Russell

Colin made the best save of the game. He's the reason we got the momentum going in our favor early in the game.

Brian Wallace

Coin laundries have an innate sense of community. People have a lot of time to talk while waiting for their laundry to get done. The best place to get a community perspective on current events is at the coin laundry.

Dennis Smith

We talked to our doctor and had him tested and he said he definitely did not have ADHD.

Mark Rosenker

Learning how to drive while distracted is definitely a recipe for disaster.

Joe Gibbs

Sean can definitely play receiver, ... He has a big wingspan and great hands. We're trying to get him in a few situations where he can maybe make a play for us.

Todd McCullough

Sept. 11, so many things happened that year. This game isn't life or death, but I definitely remember sitting in my room with my old roommate, Ingle Martin, putting everything in perspective." ()

Amber Starkey

She was one of the leaders of our team. I'm excited for her, and I think she is ready to play at the next level. Offensively, she's going to be tough to replace. She was so strong offensively and she played volleyball year-round, and we don't have a lot of players who do that. Those are definitely some shoes that need to be filled.

Brittany Davis

Obviously in the SEC, there's a tremendous emphasis on rebounding. That's definitely been one of our focuses in practice.

Spike Jonze

Obviously technology has become such a big presence in our lives and, I definitely know, in my life.

M. Thompson

Rhett's definitely a great quarterback. Nothing to take away from him, but at this time, they thought I would be a better fit for this offense.

Lovie Smith

Rex definitely showed some improvement. The offense put 24 points on the board; that's a step in the right direction.

Victor Hugo

There are people who observe the rules of honor as we observe the stars: from a distance

Gretel Ehrlich

Between highway sounds I heard waves and thought how the curve of the coastline here had sheltered and nurtured live-born sharks, humans, and migrating whales. Here, at the edge of the continent, time and distance stopped; in the lull between sets of waves I could get a fresh start.

Isaac Asimov

It is the invariable lesson to humanity that distance in time, and in space as well, lends focus. It is not recorded, incidentally, that the lesson has ever been permanently learned.

Gloria Steinem

It's hard to measure success when we're dealing with between 500 and 5,000 years of patriarchy depending on which continent we sit, so I would say feminism has been successful and we have a huge distance to go, huge.

Grant Morrison

It's stupid, I know, but I care. All the things that meant so much when we were young. Under the blankets late at night, listening to long-distance radio. All those things lost now or broken. Can you remember? Can you remember that feeling? Perhaps I ought to go to a doctor.

Robert Ellis

I figured there would be five to seven ride clear. We put a few distance problems in, but we also made it very delicate, so it took a lot of riding.

Harry Shearer

I think it's the distance between what we're supposed to think their job entails and what their job really entails.

Steve Rice

It has been a long time since a shot putter has thrown that kind of distance for Lead-Deadwood.

Jon Davidson

He is a tough kid, but he has a lot to learn about distance running. When he learns it, look out.

Dino De Laurentiis

You have to kill the bad guy.

Curtis Joseph

I'm usually a patient guy anyway.

Corin Nemec

I got to do a whole slew of TV movies playing the bad guy, including an episode of Smallville. That would never have happened if I hadn't done the Stand.

Anthony Hopkins

When I was a young guy, I knew everything. Now I know very little. I know less and less as the time goes on.

Cillian Murphy

You know, I'm a skinny Irish guy.

Anthony Bourdain

One of life's terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they're doing.

Amanda Seyfried

I'm never going to be with a guy that can't deal with my friendship with him.

Andrew Vachss

Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.

Joe Thornton

Those guys are going to get signed. It's just a matter of time.

Toni Morrison

Say make me, remake me. You are free to do it and I am free to let you because look, look. Look where your hands are. Now.

Ricardo Montalban

If you shake your fist, the other guy will shake his too. But if you extend your hand to shake their hand, then they will extend theirs also, and you've made a friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I had learned to dwell with pleasure as a beloved daydream on the thought of the separation of these elements. If each I told myself could be housed in separate identities life would be relieved of all that was unbearable the unjust might go his way delivered from the aspirations and remorse of his more upright twin and the just could walk steadfastly and securely on his upward path doing the good things in which he found his pleasure and no longer exposed to disgrace and penitence by the hands of this extraneous evil.

Sarah Dessen

I looked down again at the sign in my hand - ENJOY THE RIDE! - and it seemed, suddenly, to be just that. A sign.

Voltaire

History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

William Standish Knowles

I was one who liked to work with my hands as well as my brain.

William Styron

I thought there's something to be said for honor in this world where there doesn't seem to be any honor left. I thought that maybe happiness wasn't really anything more than the knowledge of a life well spent, in spite of whatever immediate discomfort you had to undergo, and that if a life well spent meant compromises and conciliations and reconciliations, and suffering at the hands of the person you love, well then better that than live without honor.

William Powell

There is only one purpose in hand-to-hand combat, and that is to kill. Never face an enemy with the idea of knocking him out. The chances are extremely good that he will kill you.

William Powell

I can fully appreciate the fury and anger that a person can feel when put through a humiliating experience by a cop, but I would recommend strongly that a person maintain his cool, and in no circumstances lose his temper. If you lose your temper, you are playing right into the cop's hands.

Andy Johnson

Some people think that because it's a threatened species, that every one we save is good. But not if they never get to live in the wild.

Andrew Niccol

Some people think 'Lord of War' is a political film,

Daniel Petrocelli

Some people think it's a waste of time to go to trial here.

Liam Hemsworth

Southern people remind me a lot of Australia.

Jim Anderson

So we're trying to let people know that we will automatically enroll them in Part D and there is no premium at all,

Susan Murray

So we're telling people they should know what they're paying.

Mark Rylance

So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it.

E. O. Wilson

so that the will of the people can be upheld.

J. J. Johnson

Once you go out and start making plays, they don't say that anymore, ... You just have to play and show people what you can do.