Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Manning

We were hoping we were going to get bonus points there, ... Jacob went out there and got the job done.

Mike Holtzapfel

It's exciting getting our name out there and letting people hear it in a big meet. This (state meet) is just a bonus thing. Obviously they wanted it and I'm proud of them.

Jeff Nelson

For a civilian member it's a $1,500 signing bonus and they could use it for whatever the want.

M. Wolfe

It started out as a bonus to the retail business. Now, it is really the driver of the entire business.

Andrew Frank

They fouled us a lot in the first half. We were in the bonus early in the second quarter. We went to the line a lot which always helps. Our defense was good. We picked it up in the second half.

Ashton Irwin

It's a bonus if your girlfriend likes your music - definitely not a downfall.

Mark Thompson

It's a bonus if we win and if we lose it's not the end of the world but we will go there to enjoy the experience.

Brett Clark

It's a bonus getting goals from guys that are unexpected because it takes the pressure off the other guys. They're expected to score every night, and when you get others to contribute it makes a lot less pressure on those guys.

John Beck

It?s a great opportunity for Cody to go and participate at a high level and go on and get his college education paid for. We?re just excited for him and his family and Crater?s football program. It?s a big bonus for everyone.

Michael Boulware

The possibility to play this game is very exciting and very motivating. The play I got hurt on, I played a little tentative, and I think it made me realize that if you played tentative you're going to get hurt.

Lexi Thompson

I love my sponsors. They make things so much fun for me. We do really fun and exciting things, so I always have a blast. It doesn't ever seem like work.

Noel Fisher

I'm just looking for good work. I just really love acting, and I'd like to jump on something that's really exciting for me.

Cassandra Peterson

[I] go to the Golden Globes, the Grammys, all the awards shows. Just stuff you would never get to do as a regular person were things that were really exciting for me.

Karen Johnson

We want everyone to come out and take part, because it's going to be a very exciting event, one in which families can participate together.

Nick Harkaway

Google's library plan was staggering and exciting - it wasn't the idea I objected to, but the method.

Kurt Barnard

Watch out for this company. It's telling us something. While most retailers sold indistinguishable products, Sharper Image sells exciting and unique things that people want to buy.

Donna Brazile

Watching 'Scandal' is a fun and exciting guilty pleasure, which is how I imagine most real scandals start out.

Greg Nasello

We've always struggled to score goals. That's why it's been so exciting to see the girls put these type of games together.

Charles Dickens

But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.

Charles Dickens

I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart

Charles Dickens

He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart.

Charles Dickens

Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!

Charles Caleb Colton

Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the hearts of people; for the goods of this present world are so vile and low that they are beneath it; and those of the future world are so vast and exalted that they are above it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Neutrality is no favorite with Providence, for we are so formed that it is scarcely possible for us to stand neuter in our hearts, although we may deem it prudent to appear so in our actions

Charles Caleb Colton

Nothing is more durable than the dynasty of Doubt; for he reigns in the hearts of all his people, but gives satisfaction to none of them, and yet he is the only despot who can never die, while any of his subjects live.

Charles Caleb Colton

We strive as hard to hide our hearts from ourselves as from others, and always with more success; for in deciding upon our own case we are both judge, jury, and executioner, and where sophistry cannot overcome the first, or flattery the second, self-love is always ready to defeat the sentence by bribing the third.

Charles Caleb Colton

Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good; if meagre, muddy, vapid and sour, both are fit only to engender colic and wind; but if rich, generous and sparkling, they communicate a genial glow to the spirits, improve the taste, and expand the heart.

Alan Watts

If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.

Alan Watts

But the disappearance of the effort to let go is precisely the disappearance of the separate thinker, of the ego trying to watch the mind without interfering.

Alan Watts

Nothing is more creative than death, since it has the whole secret of life. It means that the past must be abandoned, that the unknown cannot be avoided, that 'I' cannot continue, and that nothing can be ultimately fixed. When a man knows this, he lives for the first time in his life. By holding his breath, he loses it. By letting go he finds it.

Alan Watts

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be

Aiden Wilson Tozer

It is God who works in and through us, if only we would let God do His work.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The superior Christian lets God strip him of everything that might serve as a false refuge, a secondary trust.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The meek man will attain a place of soul rest. As he walks on in meekness he will be happy to let God defend him. The old struggle to defend himself is over. He has found the peace which meekness brings.

Chris Colfer

Due to personal issues, I have been let go from the cast of Glee. Explanations will come shortly,

Chris Colfer

Roses are red, Violets are blue, No amount of money, Can stop me from loving you, Try as they may, Try as they might, I’m not letting go, Without a fight, Some say it’s wicked, Some say it’s sinful, Some it’s wrong, And just wrong, I don’t know much, But when push comes to shove, I definitely don’t believe, There’s such thing wrong as love.

Al Ries

Only brand names register in the mind... What you should generally do is take a regular word and use it out of context to connote the primary attribute of your brand.

Chief Joseph

Big name often stands on small legs.

Edward Gibbon

Augustus was sensible that mankind is governed by names; nor was he deceived in his expectation, that the senate and people would submit to slavery, provided they were respectfully assured that they still enjoyed their ancient freedom.

Edward Gibbon

Such events may be disbelieved or disregarded; but the charity of a bishop, Acacius of Amida, whose name might have dignified the saintly calendar, shall not be lost in oblivion.

Eddie Izzard

Danger could be my middle name... But it's John.

David Horowitz

You could mention my name in any hallway in any academic institution and you would have people foaming at the mouth.

David Hockney

You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Someday the world is going to know who I am-just be hearing my first name.

Bear Grylls

I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.

Howard Dean

We have no idea what this woman's record is about. She's obviously an accomplished attorney. The question is what does she believe. We have no idea, ... This Week.

Ryan Kolb

We're still struggling with the first period and I don't know what to do about that. But obviously we were able to regroup in the second period.

Mary Neubauer

They obviously scored the highest. There was no favoritism shown to any of these companies.

Mike Sullivan

They don't think it's real serious but obviously enough to keep him out of our lineup.

Rod Wright

For me, it's always been about producing when you get there. Obviously you want to go high. But once you get there, you still have to do the same thing, and that's produce.

Steve Perea

It's obviously windy and it's drizzling pretty hard. People were spinning out of control.

Annika Sorenstam

It's obviously very satisfying. It's a big week for many reasons.

John Grahame

There wasn't much to shoot at. I thought I was there, and obviously he's got (90) points for a reason.

Declan Kidney

There is obviously no question that Sale are the strongest rival in the pool.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

William Shakespeare

Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud; but, God He knows, thy share thereof is small.

Mike Roberts

We were as proud as we could be with the young man.

Charles Baudelaire

On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose of pox.

Charles Rangel

I have a record that I'm so very, very proud of, and no campaign is going to take that away.

Benjamin Netanyahu

I'm a proud member of the rabble.

Kelvin Philpot

We're going to find a way to get her here. She'll see how proud she can be of her kid.

Dale Petroskey

What we're proudest of is the broadening of knowledge.

Catherine Ashton

I was the first woman British commissioner, the first woman trade commissioner, so I am also proud to be the first woman High Representative.

Catherynne M. Valente

Respect me. Be proud, and if you love me, a little afraid, because love so often looks like fear. We are alike. We are alike.