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.'

Jarron Collins

We have a team trip there. A small there is a size 9. They cater to Shaq.

Stewart Fishman

We don't cater just to kosher consumers. Our marketing is largely geared towards the greater community. We serve good food that's kosher--rather than kosher food that's good.

James Garvin

We cater to 'smart kids' as well. It's important that the smart kids help others that need it.

Jason Ward

We cater to every skill level. It's a lot of fun and it can also be competitive.

Ron Jones

We cater so many occasions and so many groups here and we're appreciative of that. We pretty much can prepare anything a customer wants in our catering services, which our general manager, Jimmy Medley, handles most of. We do various dishes, which include anything from southern to Italian.

Carol Adams

If a group is able to underwrite the cost of catering an event, we would encourage them to do so.

Robert Lutz

For Toyota, it was a huge, huge, immeasurably valuable PR coup, ... was a mistake from one aspect, and that's public relations and catering to the environmental movement.

Atharva Veda

Four steps are laid down in the scriptures to help man succeed in this effort; Discrimination between the Permanent and the Impermanent; withdrawal from the process of catering to the senses; Positive control of the feelings, thoughts, and pursuits; and incessant yearning for Liberation from all bonds.

William Taylor

We have no doubt a lot of this meat is going through catering establishments and it is only fair it should be identified.

Ian Mckellen

If you get criticized, good - I don't think people get criticized enough. People talk behind your back and they criticize you, but they don't often come up and say it to you.

Wen Jiabao

There are people who will appreciate what I've done, and there will be people who will criticize me. Ultimately history will have the final say.

David Rabe

There's no demand for a body of work, though writers will be criticized for not having produced one.

Chris Colfer

I was a lone duck in a swan-filled pond who criticized everyone.

Alice Walker

I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it.

Richard Daley

They have vilified me, they have crucified me; yes, they have even criticized me.

David Beckham

Me? I would love to be famous in America. I like the American people and I like the way they look up to Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods . I'm sure they criticize their stars occasionally but it doesn't reach the point where they ever put down their own people and their own stars. That's what's nice for me.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

When people criticize me, instead of putting my head down, it gives me energy to do even more.

Jim Tracy

I was harshly criticized for the decision to make Eric Gagne a closer,

Howard Dean

The president has a moral obligation to rein in the right-wing extremists in his party and stop this divisive rhetoric about immigrants.

Debra Ness

We hope that he won't kowtow to the far right. It would be very divisive for this nation.

Lynn Swann

I'd like to take a look at the process and see how it goes, ... It is not my inclination to do anything that would be divisive to the party.

Antonella Notari

We live in a period where these symbols are taking on very strong connotations and very divisive ones.

Bono

There's nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.

Sal Albanese

The most divisive issue facing New Yorkers in 2013 is stop and frisk, a tactic used by law enforcement to stop, question, and frisk people suspected of a crime.

Jacob Lew

I think the thing that the American people want is for the divisive debate on health care to stop.

Mark DiCamillo

She's a very divisive figure. In my opinion, most people either like her or hate her.

Steve Bennett

For a town our size, this is going to be a huge issue for all of us to get an understanding. I hope we are able to take our time -- I hope it doesn't become a divisive issue for the town.

Idina Menzel

That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you've been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself.

David Steinberg

The odd thing about comedy is that the more personal you are, the larger the audience.

Bette Davis

I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.

James Clarke

We have two skeletons preserved, the larger lying on top of the other one.

Joe Wilcox

Microsoft had tremendous success with larger businesses, but that market has become very saturated.

Rease Watson

We have one of the larger parts to cover.

Rebecca Mangieri

You'll always want to find an actor in the larger role first.

Cassandra Dunn

The problem was much larger than we expected.

Richard Boucher

little pieces being picked out of a larger context.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

As signs of climate instability increase, radical and rapid action is becoming ever more urgent.

John Higgins

We've got to have a radical rethink of the way the sport is funded to help the young players develop.

Calvin Coolidge

There is far more danger of harm than there is hope of good in any radical changes.

Norman Ornstein

Radicals don't care about the institutions. They are looking for an ideological crusade. Traditions don't matter.

Alexander Lebed

I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.

Anand Gopal

Unlike other Taliban groups, the Haqqanis' approach to mayhem was worldly and sophisticated: they recruited Arabs, Pakistanis, even Europeans, and they were influenced by the latest in radical Islamist thought.

Dana Rohrabacher

I support this war on terror and the war on radical Islam.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.

Jack Jennings

Right now, you're not seeing radical restructuring. States are being very cautious.