Famous Quotes & Sayings

Twyla Tharp

My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the world.'

Twyla Tharp

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Custard is controversial: what makes it a custard, how best to cook it and, crucially, is it to be eaten or put in a pie and thrown?

Yani Tseng

It's very easy when you have someone in front of you that you can chase. You want to be No. 1 but now I feel like I have to play well because everybody looks at you as a best golfer. So that's why I put more pressure on myself.

Thucydides

We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.

Timothy Noah

There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.

Thomas Friedman

I can see a day soon where you'll create your own college degree by taking the best online courses from the best professors from around the world - some computing from Stanford, some entrepreneurship from Wharton, some ethics from Brandeis, some literature from Edinburgh - paying only the nominal fee for the certificates of completion.

Idina Menzel

I used to take 40 minutes to warm up before going on stage. If you want to spend time with your child as well as having a career, you have to get up there even if your head's a mess. It's made me more relaxed, and I'm having some of my best shows.

Idina Menzel

I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'

Warren Christopher

We have a human rights interest. Then there is the immigration problem. The human-rights violations have caused people to take to boats and flood not only the United States, but other countries in the region, creating great instability.

Kelly Kaylor

We have boats for every budget here, everything from a kayak or canoe to a $1.6 million yacht.

Jim Worthing

Who knows. I heard yesterday that the shrimp boats are getting them. I don't know if it's true, but I used to hear that years ago, too.

Gary Sherman

Wildlife, septic systems, agriculture, boats and road run-off all contributed to the problem. The town has worked to try to get these things corrected.

Houssaye Houssaye

Whoever embarks with a woman embarks with a storm; but they are themselves the safety boats

John Petersen

I think this week is going to be really competitive between our boats on the water and extremely focused. There will probably be some lineup switches, some seat racing, and trying out some new guys, which is good, because it keeps people on edge a little bit.

Mark Richard

I think if the conditions are here, I'd say all five big boats will break the record.

Walter Maestri

We put life jackets on the fourth floor of the EOC and tethered boats to the roof.

Connie Williams

With all of this new development, it only means more boats on the water.

Graeme Smith

The appointment of Jacques as vice captain is most welcome because he has so much talent and experience to impart to the other players. His knowledge of all facets of the game will help my captaincy considerably.

H. Hart

That was great. Pete's a captain and he's really stepping it up. I had complete faith in him in that situation.

Rosemary Mahoney

A lot of Polish and Russian Jews had this experience: they would emigrate, thinking they were on their way to New York. Then their captains would stop in Dublin and say, 'Everybody off.' They would leave, and by the time they discovered they weren't in America, they didn't have enough money to continue.

J. M. Roberts

We have talked a lot about leadership. We name our captains late. They are just feeling their role and Marc stepped up big time. He leads by example and is a big motivator. How he plays is how we go.

Parker Young

I actually was the captain of the football team. I went to Catalina Foothills High School, and I played football all four years. I started on Varsity my sophomore year, and senior year I was captain.

Thomas Gunderson

I think Jim Tobin is a great captain of the ship.

Greg Chappell

It is disappointing that what was a private discussion between the captain and myself has become a cause of public speculation. Even more disappointing is that much of what has been written does not represent the discussion fairly,

Paul Tidwell

Those captains are really helping the team take ownership of each unit. We've seen the effort level raised and they are accountable for their responsibilities. The captains will show a clip from practice and tell guys when they're letting down their unit. It's been great.

Jack Falahee

I think my darkest days were probably when I was catering. I would go to these parties and pass out hors d'oeuvres, and it's like you're invisible. I remember one catering captain told me that all you are is a tray that comes into their space for a moment and then you leave. It was one of the most depressing things I've ever been told.

Yang Lan

In 1994, after four years of talking about travel on my first show, I realized I knew so little about the world - I knew so little about myself. I decided to quit my job and pursue a postgraduate degree in New York.

Thom Yorke

We toyed with the idea of making it a double album, but I think that would only have confused everybody even more, so we decided to stick with the songs we picked.

Ike Barinholtz

We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.

Vivek Wadhwa

Writing a book is usually a full-time job that takes years. I didn't have years. So I decided to crowdsource content for the book.

Becky G

When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.

Bethany Mota

I decided to launch a fragrance because Aeropostale approached me about creating one, and it's something that I kind of always wanted to do but didn't think it would actually happen. So when I heard I had the opportunity to create my own perfume, I got super excited.

Vidya Balan

Promotions can be seen in two ways - either you hate them, and they're a burden, and you are getting through with it, or you can enjoy them. I decided early on that I was going to enjoy them. I did 43 interviews in a day for 'Kahaani.'

Walter Jon Williams

It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field.

Raul Grijalva

The American people have decided that it was a mistake to choose to go to war in Iraq.

George Allen

I have no intention of running for office again.

C. S. Lewis

Total war is the most humane in the long run.

C. S. Lewis

We're free Narnians, Hwin and I, and I suppose, if you're running away to Narnia you want to be one too. In that case Hwin isn't your horse any longer. One might just as well say you're her human.

C. S. Lewis

Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other.

C. S. Lewis

In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these rules at first seem to be constantly interfering with our natural inclinations.

C. S. Lewis

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

C. S. Lewis

Aslan: You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are.

Catullus

What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air.

Catullus

What women say to lovers, you'll agree, One writes on running water or on air.

George Allen

Before I was governor, tuition was skyrocketing, and we stopped that. We capped and then we froze college tuition.

Dee Brown

That was what we set out to do, stop Grier.

LaVar Arrington

We can't give up the big play. That's what we do, and we have to stop that. That's got to be part of our maturation process.

LaVar Arrington

We can't give up the big play, ... That's what we do, and we have to stop that. That's got to be part of our maturation process.

Bob Schneider

We just couldn't stop them. And we didn't stop them. That's my only observation.

Craig Craft

We just couldn't get any stops in the end.

Craig Craft

We couldn't get a stop at the end.

William Patterson

I stopped going to the conferences because most of (us) are all gone.

Jim Crace

I stopped being an engaged journalist and became a disengaged novelist.

Margot Robbie

When I first tried the American accent, for a moment I thought I could never be an actor because I just could not do it. But then I thought, 'Okay, it'll just be something that I work at until I get it.'

Peter Scolari

My first wife tried to get back with me a year later, but there was no way. I used to think she was the be-all and end-all, but I got my stinky little pride back.

Joe Nappi

Wherever there was an event, we tried to be there with buckets.

Bob Enos

We've tried surgery, medications, and nothing has changed.

Tom Daschle

We've tried all the voluntary options, ... They have all failed. We know what we've got to do.

Joe Novak

We've tried A.J. at fullback and other types of things.

Sidney Crosby

I was too close, so I tried to back off and whack it. I didn't get it.

Phil Flynn

Yesterday we had the big sell-off and we tried to come back a little bit.

Shannon Miller

We really tried to find where we had some duplication of services. It was one of our lesser-used facilities.

Wendell Berry

We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.

Ben Elliot

When you think about the word 'quintessentially', it's about trying to get to the very essence of something.

Becky G

It's really easy with makeup to look like you're trying too hard, like a clown. That's not what you want!

David Selby

Oh I am trying to remember, we would read the script after we did the show.

David Friedman

I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference.

Nayvadius Cash

I know I haven't always done things the right way. I'm just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist.

Nick Carter

I'm trying to make myself better. But I don't regret anything that I've gone through, because it makes me who I am.

Cecelia Ahern

I guess when you’re trying to find all the parts of yourself, it’s difficult to be with someone who’s already fully intact.

Carrie Underwood

I try to stay away from carb-y things at dinner.