Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sara Blakely

I failed the LSAT. Basically, if I had not failed, I'd have been a lawyer and there would be no Spanx. I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating.

Roger Rosenblatt

No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. In even their least sympathetic characters, one senses a kind of helplessness to passion quivering between the poles of good and evil.

Bill Martin

We've looked at all the other options ... but they all have different financial numbers attached to it. The objective is to position Michigan Stadium so that it will serve our constituents for the next 50 years.

Buz Plyler

We have been very blessed with the people who have vacationed here and ... are so attached to the store they bring their children in.

Buz Plyler

We have been very blessed with the people who have vacationed here and . . . are so attached to the store they bring their children in.

Orhan Pamuk

My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions.

Steve Bietau

You have to do something right to be able to play in a big match at this point in the year. It definitely has some significance attached to it for us.

Chip Greenberg

You'll notice that the program interface resembles a telephone with a video screen attached to it. The keys on the telephone can be tapped with the mouse. It's designed to be user-friendly.

Andrea Vinyard

It didn't take much to get attached to him. I can honestly say he's one of the funniest guys I'd ever met. Every time he walked into a room you just wanted to start laughing because you knew he was going to say something funny.

Yann Martel

If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure.

Victoria Osteen

God's not thinking about your mistakes, failures or shortcomings. No, His thoughts toward you are good.

Rick Pitino

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Bill Vaughan

Failed the bright promise of your early day?

Pete Harpolis

That was in 2002, and to date, we haven't had any failures since we proof tested this cable.

Zhang Yadong

We could learn more lessons from the losses than from the victory. We had enough failures in the past,

Rick Perry

We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure.

Richard Russo

The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or she is telling.

Maude Adams

Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.

Gary Sheffield

That would be devastating to me. I should be able to come back quicker than if it was a hamstring. I'm going to get the anti-inflammatories and see how I feel tomorrow.

Bobby Lewis

That way you get them in quicker and out quicker.

Rebecca Ferguson

For me, it's not about quick grabs and quick sales; it's about having a sound that will last and sustain.

Joseph Quinn

We have to make all the reports that are necessary, ... It's not a quick process.

John Lyboldt

You can go to all the manufacturers very quickly and save yourself a lot of time.

Dario Franchitti

I think performance-wise we had a strong season and we were very quick in most of the races.

Karen Ostrov

It does work, but it takes time. It's not a quick fix.

Mike Sander

We don't want to make a quick decision, but a comprehensive and thorough one.

Julio Lugo

I'm a quick healer, and it's taken more time than I thought it would take. Three times more time than I was expecting.

David Boreanaz

I seem to get recognized more in London and Europe than over here in the States.

Gordon B. Hinckley

I've tried to recognize my wife's individuality, her personality, her desires, her background, her ambitions.

Woody Johnson

We all recognize that there are similarities here. We will be searching out the possibility that we have a serial bomber.

Domhnall Gleeson

I was in 'Harry Potter,' and nobody on the street recognizes me from that. Nobody on the street has ever stopped me from 'Harry Potter!'

Larina Kase

To become successful is to recognize every tiny step towards successand then take more of them.

Tariq Aziz

We don't have any relationship with the Taliban, ... We didn't recognize the Taliban.

Bobby Gonzalez

I don't know what it was with Jason. I didn't really recognize him today.

Gail Goestenkors

We've watched enough tapes of them to recognize they are scrappy.

Lauren Lee Smith

The only place I really get recognized is at Ralphs. Whenever I'm in L.A., I go to Ralphs, and for some reason, everyone there recognizes me.

Charles Stross

More often than not, piracy is a symptom of an under-provisioned market.

Darrell Hammond

Everyone always told me that I had the symptoms of a P.O.W.

Tracy Brown

WHAT ARE THE SYMPTOMS OF SUPERCALAFRAJALISTICEXPEALODOCIOUS BECAUSE i THINK I GOT EM ALL.

Dr. Kovacik

You're actually dehydrating yourself, which are some of the symptoms of a hangover.