Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Rodrick

As anyone who has read 'Sports Illustrated's Steve Rushin knows, it's quite possible to write an unreadable column without being a TV pundit. But if you want to be a consistently good columnist, you can't be on television.

Jane Green

As a child, growing up in Hampstead, North London, I was shockingly fair-skinned. Holidays involved me spending the second and third day face-down on a bed, shrieking should anyone touch my blistered skin.

Lisa Davis

As always, the House of Bread will need volunteers that day. We will begin at 9 a.m. and finish at 2 p.m.. Anyone is welcome to come to the House of Bread, receive a great meal, fellowship and make a donation to the cause. The greatest need for donations is money, but bleach, bottled water and any canned goods with pull tops are needed.

W. Hull

Anyone who thinks that is out of their mind.

Jennifer Grey

Anyone who thinks I'm a plastic-surgery freak is insane.

Eric Collins

Anyone who tells you it's painless can only honestly be referring to the period the person is under anesthesia.

Henry Morris

Anyone who takes him to be a fool will be very sorry.

John Bisio

Anyone who suggests the number is inaccurate is way out of bounds. What would we have to gain from that? We are in no position to mislead people. A lot of people have an interest in working at Wal-Mart.

J. August Richards

Anyone who's trying to be there for their family and trying to take care of their children is a hero to me.

Jimmy Kimmel

Oh, great, ... Three people beating me up. Maybe it isn't such a great idea.

Jim Hinkle

Teams try to take Johnny out of the game by beating him up. It usually doesn't bother him. Tonight, he let it get to him a little bit. Sometimes we forget he's only a sophomore and he's 15.

Abby Wambach

Right now we have a very recent goal of beating Canada and leaving this World Cup with our heads held as high as we can hold them. There's a lot of pride in still being in the World Cup right now, and there's a lot of pride going into the next 10 months of our preparation for the Olympics.

Eric Johnson

Preliminary autopsy shows injuries consistent with a beating and being run over by a vehicle.

Roy H. Williams

I've said all year long that Virginia Tech is one of three or four best teams in the league. I really believe that, and I said that before they were a 45-footer away from beating Duke at Duke. ... I think they're an NCAA Tournament team at the end of the year, and I strongly believe that.

Don Pooley

I've played well every week, but there's this one guy that's been beating me every week.

Chris Davis

I've really seen myself as a top scorer but more as role player. With my speed, I've gotten a lot of chances at the net, getting close in on the net, beating defensemen wide and getting breakaways. I like to call myself sort of a gritty player. I use my speed to get in there in the corners, but also I like to show a little bit of grit, get in there and throw the body around a little bit. I'm not the biggest guy out there, but I still like to throw a couple of hits.

Donnie Edwards

It was very disappointing. We were riding a high after beating the Colts in their home place.

Brett Rosedale

It was a little payback for his brother beating me for third and fourth (last year).

Doug Marrs

Special teams really hurt us, but we didn't play like we're capable of playing and they played very well. They're a good football team, and they did a great job.

Edmund Stoiber

so that we are capable of taking over the government, even if it is not possible at the present time.

Jim Tressel

I've said many, many times that if you have two quarterbacks capable of being champions, you have a chance to be a champion, ... I think we have that.

Hugh Fountain

That's looks a little more like the way the Trojans ought to play. We played more like we're capable of playing tonight. Our kids played hard in a game we really, really, really, really needed. I'm very proud of them. I don't know anything about the stats, but I know we played harder tonight.

Kirsten Nelson

I am capable of directing, and I am good at that. In order to have longevity as actors, you have to keep changing it up a bit; you have to bring other talents to the table. I want this to be another feather in my cap instead of replacing what I already have.

Doug Scheidt

We thought we could pressure them and we think we are capable of taking away penetration. I thought in the third quarter we did the job.

Florent Malouda

We really enjoyed the match tonight and it was great fun. It showed what Lyon are now capable of doing in this Champions League.

Aaron Snyder

We're a real good defensive team but we didn't show it. We know if we play the way we're capable of playing that we can win this tournament. I think we'll play a lot better than this.

Dave Woodruff

We did over 100,000 pounds of crab, but it isn't enough. My plant is capable of running 1.5 million pounds of crab.

George H. W. Bush

as a president it goes with the territory.

Bobby Cox

This ranks right up there. This goes back 14 years.

Shaun Alexander

We have an unbelievable team, an unbelievable group of fans. Prayer works. I get knocked out and guys step up. One guy goes down and another guy steps up.

Sonam Kapoor

No relationship works without making an effort. That goes without saying. But you should never overcompensate.

Andy Nash

As it goes down the mountain, it's accelerated. It results in stronger gusts of winds that you normally wouldn't have if the mountains weren't there.

Patty Griffin

There's an imbalance when if a woman goes out for a walk at 3 in the morning and something happens to her it was somehow her fault, and with a man that's not true.

Alice Sebold

When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things," Franny said. "What about the dead?" I asked. "Where do we go?

Andy Rooney

If you get murdered because you go on a date with someone you met on the Internet, you probably deserved it.

Anne Frank

I want to go on living after my death!

Cedric Benson

As a competitor, you want to be out there, making something happen, especially when the team is losing. But my time will come.

Sarah Martin

Our team worked really hard. Well, I told them to work really hard.

Jim Balsillie

No question, we took one for the team here.

Mark Ehlen

Anything that I've said to the team hasn't been effective. I've been mad, I've stomped, I've screamed, I've been encouraging and positive, and nothing matters.

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

Jami Finan

It was a long time. Our team could not have wanted it more than anything in the world.

Kenny Rogers

They are a better team than us right now. Those are the facts.

Mark Attanasio

This is the first time the team has had to play with expectations. We'll see how we react.

George C. Williams

This is one of the best, if not the best, teams we've had here in a long time,

Michael W. Smith

Is it going to win an Oscar? Probably not.

Erik Cole

This is huge. If this doesn't say we're in it to win it, I don't know what will.

Nicholas Graham

This is really a win, win, win for everyone involved.

Henry Hyde

That's what you want to do if you want to win too badly,

Ray Willis

That's how you go out and win championships.

Dalton Pepper

You never know if you are going to come down this way again. You have to try to win it now and not worry about the future.

Brandon Jay McLaren

I would say just the weather in Vancouver in the winter can be kind of unforgiving.

Barbara Kingsolver

Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next, are few enough to fit in a bucket, with room enough left to rattle like brittle brush in a dry wind.

Bai Ling

I'm one of the best actresses. One day I will win an Oscar.

Brett Ratner

When I was 13, Eddie Murphy was to me what Chris Tucker was to 13-year-olds when I made 'Rush Hour.' And 'Rush Hour' really came out of the fact that I grew up watching 'Beverly Hills Cop' and '48 Hrs.'

Brett Ratner

I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.

Brandon Sanderson

People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN'T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort.

Ayn Rand

He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning...

Benjamin Cardozo

The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more.

Benjamin Cardozo

More truly characteristic of dissent is a dignity, an elevation, of mood and thought and phrase. Deep conviction and warm feeling are saying their last say with knowledge that the cause is lost. The voice of the majority may be that of force triumphant, content with the plaudits of the hour, and recking little of the morrow. The dissenter speaks to the future, and his voice is pitched to a key that will carry through the years.

Benito Mussolini

If I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep!

Brad Paisley

Willie Nelson, out there 200 days a year, calls his band family. And it is.

Brad Pitt

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all