Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yanni

Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports.

Don Yaeger

Seeing the intensity and power she brings to the game, it's hard to imagine her being anything but single-minded in pursuing tennis. But Serena Williams has other passions, too. In fact, there doesn't seem to be enough time in the day, week or month for one of the world's most gifted athletes to chase her many interests.

Cathy Rigby

An athlete learns how to hold her breath, but that doesn't work in singing. You have to learn to relax.

Cathy Rigby

It's that athlete's obsessiveness - the need to prove yourself and work harder than anybody else. I think it's what helped me do well in the theater.

Bill Vaughan

You can be an ordinary athlete by getting away with less than your best. But if you want to be a great, you have to give it all you've got-your everything.

Bill Bowerman

The athlete makes himself, the coach doesn't make the athlete.

Bill Bradley

When the playing is over, one can sense that one's youth has been spent playing a game, and now both the game and youth are gone.

Bill Bradley

Behind all the years of practice and all the hours of glory waits that inexorable terror of living without the game.

John Yarmuth

The American people don't believe politicians. They don't believe business leaders or Hollywood celebrities or athletes or other supposed role models. And they certainly don't believe the news media.

Ivan Allen

A lot of things happened in a lot of places. And to see how well it was handled in Atlanta. There are a lot of reasons for Atlanta being a special town in the Civil Rights era.

Yotam Ottolenghi

The kitchen is tough. It's one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit.

John C. Calhoun

It has been lately urged in a very respectable quarter that it is the mission of this country to spread civil and religious liberty all over the globe, and especially over this continent - even by force, if necessary. It is a sad delusion.

Barack Obama

I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution.

Barack Obama

I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

Rand Paul

The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II to African-Americans in the Civil Rights era.

Rick Perlstein

Conservatives are time-biders. And they understand, as Corey Robin explains in his indispensable book 'The Reactionary Mind,' that the direction of human history is not on their side - that is why they are reactionaries - because, other things equal, civilization does tend towards more inclusion, more emancipation, more liberalism.

Frank Pierson

Movies are more than a commodity. Movies are to our civilization what dreams and ideals are to individual lives: They express the mystery and help define the nature of who we are and what we are becoming.

Carl Sagan

I would be very ashamed of my civilization if we did not try to find out if there is life in outer space.

Paul Verhoeven

Jesus may have had an immense sense of importance or destiny, but he never claimed to be the Son of God.

Jim Parker

John would usually do a poem in one take. He claimed to be completely unmusical, but he wasn't really. He liked Victorian hymns and music-hall. I never heard him mention contemporary pop music, but we had in some really good rock-guitar session men and he was very happy with that. He would just sit there and look around. He seemed to think everyone was doing a good job and seemed very happy with proceedings.

Drew Carter

I have never ever claimed 100 percent credit for anything that went on that,

Todd Berry

I think I probably wasn't as strong as I thought I was, but I never claimed I could do an hour and a half, because I just knew I couldn't.

Gordon Strachan

He has never claimed to be a great player. But until we find someone top class, he will do fine.

Wayne Allen

We have no suspects and nobody has claimed responsibility at this time,

Walter Martin

Mrs. White, in my opinion, made false statements. She misused what she claimed was the prophetic gift she had.

Jim Ramstad

The one time that regulators comprehensively audited expenses claimed under the CDSOA, they found significant problems,

Elliott Abrams

Immanuel Kant famously claimed that 'he who wills the ends wills the means,' but he never spent much time in Washington.

Vonnie Holliday

We were sick about that. Kerry Collins is not the fastest guy, first of all.

Harry Kampenga

Well, it got me a smile from you. She had a cushy job, working in that office. Figured she should have flowers. I was working at R. W. Collins Excavating Co. Worked there driving a truck for 26 years.

Mike Krzyzewski

I love Collins; he's unflappable. For them to win, I think they needed Collins to be who Collins is and one of those other two guys have a good night. Just Collins had that night, and that's one of the reasons that we won.

Amy Carlson

If I'm going out on the town in New York, I always wear Danielle Collins T-shirts - they are expressive, young: independent woman in charge of herself, her body, and her mind.

Maya Moore

He was a big part of Collins Hill. And there was no better way to honor him than playing the way we did tonight.

Steve Kerr

He used to go around guys. Now he's trying to go through guys more. (Against) defenders who are willing to take the punishment, like Jason Collins in New Jersey, that's where you see where Shaq has lost some of his side-to-side mobility.

Robert Johnson

We found generators for the pumping stations in Collins after Katrina, ... If there is a similar need in Houston we will be there.

Steve McNair

Towns like Mount Olive and Collins suffered tremendous damage, and you don't see that on the national news. A lot of people around here lost a lot and need help.

Anna Spear

Lace Collins really had some great leadership tonight. I was really pleased with her play.

Anthony White

The police officer said, 'Drop the gun!' He said it four times. The guy just turned around and pointed the gun right at the cops.

Bruce Coville

I loved teaching. I used to teach fourth grade.

Big Sean

Kids that I went to school with didn't know how to interact with black people like that. There were only, like, three or four black kids in the class.

Bill Hader

I would say it wasn't until my fourth season on 'SNL' where people or my agent was saying, 'You're an actor.' I never thought of it that way.

Christine Keeler

I don't know if he was the fourth man or the fifth, but he was certainly in the top 10.

Denise Morrison

I am one of four girls and was inspired by my father to dream big. Some girls want to be doctors, but I wanted to run a company.

Natalia Vodianova

I raised my sister. I was six when she was born. My mother had to make a living for herself and it was very hard, so I was looking after my sister, cooking and cleaning, and she had four jobs.

Carl Sagan

I'm only a four-dimensional creature. Haven't got a clue how to visualise infinity. Even Einstein hadn't. I know because I asked him

Bill Bryson

Four times I was honked at for having the temerity to proceed through town without the benefit of metal.

Idina Menzel

I have a wide spectrum, a wide demographic. I have the young girls, I have the gay community, I have many regular theatergoers. I do feel a tremendous responsibility and pride to be a role model for some of these young people.

Carrie Underwood

Above all, God wanted us to love others. We have to love each other and get on with each other, she added. It's not up to me to judge anybody.

Carrie Underwood

As a married person myself, I don't know what it's like to be told I can't marry somebody I love, and want to marry, I can't imagine how that must feel. I definitely think we should all have the right to love, and love publicly, the people that we want to love

Bette Davis

Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.

Bernadette Peters

In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov!

Bernadette Peters

It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life, my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And knowing we were all there to raise money for Gay Men's Health Crisis made the evening an extraordinary experience.

Bernadette Peters

I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.

William Shakespeare

I'll give my jewels for a set of beads, My gorgeous palace for a hermitage, My gay apparel for an almsman's gown, My figured goblets for a dish of wood, My scepter for a palmer's walking staff My subjects for a pair of carved saints and my large kingdom for a little grave.

B. D. Wong

I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.

Giles Foden

Ordinary Kenyans rightly want to be able to shop safely, and there is a long history of them doing just that, irrespective of their religion or that of the shop owner.

Colm Meaney

It's interesting because I haven't done a lot of period work in the past, but I always wanted to because I'm interested in history.

Rick Perlstein

I'm reverent toward my sources. History is a team sport, and references are how you support your teammates.

F. Sionil Jose

My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.

Bernard Beckett

Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.

Bernard Berenson

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Antoine Rivarol

History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events.

Megan Smith

We have two boys, and one of our kids is much more interested in history and stories, so if you want him to do some calculations about lenses, you would start talking to him about Galileo... Then he would be into the lenses, but if you just start talking to him about lenses, he might not stay with you.

Scott Stossel

I've always been interested in intellectual history and in psychology, and anxiety is obviously something that's been a big part of my life.

Venus Williams

If you look at me, I'm very tall but I'm not huge or muscular. I tend to be slim and you know, I actually can lose weight quicker than I can gain it.

Yehuda Berg

It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.

Steve Marks

The overall perception was that it would take a year or two to get the problems ironed out. It is a huge endeavor, and we realized it would take time.

Brittany Snow

I love hanging out with my friends; I love to run. I box. I'm a huge movie buff.

Brittany Snow

I am a huge fan of Reese Witherspoon, and I always get told that I look like her little sister. So I would love to play her little sister one day.

David Steinberg

And it was a huge emotional thing to leave the law and become unemployed - to be a student again.

David Cross

I remember being a kid and the Vietnam War was huge and looking at Watergate.

Brent Cahill

That was huge. That was a quality team we beat. We've got some tough kids, and it's a tough group. For us, this is huge for our confidence.

Jason Tapp

That was huge knowing there was a minute to go and we kept them at their end.

Sam Elliott

I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.

Pat Riley

I thought Jason was great. I love him as a point guard. I wouldn't have traded for him if I didn't. And I thought Wade was really good. He was magnificent.

Billy Donovan

When it comes to being around the media or adults or people who look at him differently he's very shy and very cautious, ... If he doesn't know you it takes a while for Jason to trust you.

Mark Shapiro

I don't think he showed us the true Jason Dubois when we got him. I'd like to think this is the real guy, but the truth is he's probably somewhere in between.

Eldon Hoy

He's a big kid. It's tough for a kid like that (to play back-to-back games), just like it's tough for our Jason Martin.

Michael Peca

He does what needs to be done. With Jason it's more about what needs to be done than what needs to be said.

Tim Bell

I couldn't possibly lose that fight, knowing that Jason was waiting for me to come back with the belt,

Charlaine Harris

Jason's favorite person in the entire universe was Jason Stackhouse.

Wayne Knight

I'm not really in touch with those 'Seinfeld' lads except Jason Alexander.

Gillian Armstrong

I have major credibility as a hip, out-there documentary filmmaker, and I'm not going to say, 'I'm only a drama filmmaker' anymore.

Buck Leonard

I was not bitter by not being allowed to play in the major leagues. I just said, 'The time has not come.'

Bryan Cogman

I hate when the major event of a show I watch is spoiled for me. And I'm wracked with guilt when/if I spoil something for someone else.

Bridget Kelly

For me, the majority of my music is really dark and to the point.

Frank Pierson

There's no question that the '70s themselves were really wide open. There was just so much being done at that time. Every year, the major studios were commissioning things that they would never touch today or even thought of touching in the 1950s.

Tony Benn

The anti-war movement now represents a majority in the country.

Steve Forbes

The American administration is making a major mistake, trying to pressure the Chinese. I wish we'd back off.

Sue Enquist

The ASA Major Championship is the pinnacle of women's major softball during the summer. I'm really proud of all the players that contributed to that team.

Arlen Specter

We have a major, major problem on our hands, ... It is a matter of very, very substantial urgency.

Tom Coughlin

Let's talk about winning first, before we talk about anything else, ... We need to win some games. That's what I talk about. ... We need to openly talk about winning before we talk about anything else.

Angela Knight

This reflects openly what has been talked about quietly for some time.

Seanan McGuire

When I was first writing 'Feed' - which was the first book I published as Mira - I talked about it very openly on my blog, on Twitter, that I was writing this book, and it wasn't until after it was sold that I said 'Mira Grant' wrote this book. And the reason there was really purely marketing-based.

Carl Sagan

The Bill of Rights decoupled religion from the state, in part because so many religions were steeped in an absolutist frame of mind - each convinced that it alone had a monopoly on the truth and therefore eager for the state to impose this truth on others.

Bertrand Russell

The reason is, and by rights ought to be, slave to the emotions.

Muhammad Yunus

We have a list of human rights - right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to education, many such items which are considered and accepted as bill of rights. These are to be insured to people. So all nations, all societies try to do that.

Babatunde Osotimehin

Sexual and reproductive health and rights are universal human rights!They are an indivisible part of the broader human rights and development equation. Their particular power resides in the fact that they deal with the most intimate aspects of our identities as individuals and enable human dignity, which is dependent on control of our bodies, desires and aspirations.

B. R. Ambedkar

What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.

Diane Watson

Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority.

Dianne Feinstein

Historically, the court has been the forum to which individuals can turn when they believed their constitutional rights were violated. This has been especially noteworthy in the arena of civil rights.

Dianne Feinstein

I'm concerned about the role the court will play in protecting individual rights in this and the next century.

David Shapiro

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to assume that their president, hostile to the principles that formed the nation and determined to act with malice toward its inhabitants by suppressing their rights and enabling its enemies to prosper in their attempts to destroy it, must be confronted, a rational response for the nation is to encumber itself no more with such a president and reject his authority and the acolytes who carry out his wishes.

Don Yaeger

In sports, championships often define a person's legacy.

CC Sabathia

I was lucky enough to watch my son hit a grand slam at sports camp, and that was great. Yes, I may miss some things, but honestly, I think I get to see more than a dad who works a daily 9 to 5.

Carrie Fisher

Running for office is the least aerobic of the socially interactive sports ...

Carrie Fisher

Here's how men think. Sex, work - and those are reversible, depending on age - sex, work, food, sports and lastly, begrudgingly, relationships. And here's how women think. Relationships, relationships, relationships, work, sex, shopping, weight, food.

Carrie Underwood

I'm girlie in the sense that I like makeup, but I also love sports and man food.

Bethany Hamilton

I love the ocean, and I love surfing. It's something so special and unique, and surfing is unlike any other sport. Skateboarding is amazing, you get the adrenaline rush, but you don't get the feel of the ocean, of doing its own thing. Totally surrounding you. Definitely a unique thing, it's a blessing, and a huge part of my healing process I would say.

Ashley Tisdale

I definitely think cheerleaders have no fear. When I took the Hellcats job I was like whoa, this is a sport. Cheerleaders deserve a lot of respect for what they do.

Ashley Tisdale

My sister is totally my dad's daughter because she loves sports.

Ashton Kutcher

I actually used to be a front for the largest national sports-betting syndicate in America.