Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jason Gardener

It has always been my ambition to win a major outdoor title and that will be the plan at the Commonwealths.

Richard Rorty

My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have... an ambition of transcendence.

Werner Herzog

Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It's an ego trip, and I'm not on an ego trip. I don't have ambitions - I have a vision.

Samuel Fuller

Ninety-five per cent of films are born of frustration, of self despair, of ambition for survival, for money, for fattening bank accounts. Five per cent, maybe less, are made because a man has an idea, an idea which he must express.

Wangari Maathai

There will always be people who think that you have ambitions.

Wangari Maathai

When I went back home, I was constantly being reminded, I'm an African woman, and so there are certain things I shouldn't do, certain ambitions that I should not entertain. That was a problem for me because I had never thought of myself as an African woman, never thought of myself as a woman to begin with. For me the limit was my capacity, my capability.

W. H. Auden

Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.

William Congreve

Love's but the frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined; A sickly flame, which if not fed expires; And feeding, wastes in self-consuming fires.

Tory Burch

Women have to embrace ambition if they want to. I had a lot of trouble taking compliments in the beginning, and it's really important for women to embrace their title.

Mark Davies

You could have backed England at the equivalent of 14-1 for the series at one stage during the Second Test, and more recently laid them at around 4-1 on.

Marcus Dudley

The driver of the van then backed up and ran over the victim before leaving the area.

Jaret Wright

After that, we got better movement and just backed off a little bit.

Kevin McDonald

Then he went out and scored a hat trick and backed it up,

Tim Mazanec

That really backed up the fact that strength is still expected in the economy, which means more rate hikes to keep inflation at bay, so that has supported the dollar this afternoon.

Brad Faxon

It's soaking wet, and he hit it down the fairway at the bottom of the hill. And it backed up.

Eric Dahl

They basically backed the truck right out of the building.

Jim Segar

They were a bigger, faster, stronger, team than we were. We bent, but we never broke and gave a lot up .I think it was an intense fast paced game. Their kids were a lot bigger, which made for an incredible game. Our guys never backed down, playing with a lot of tenacity.

Cappie Pondexter

They weren't giving me any room and the defender kind of backed off, the shot clock was going down and we definitely needed it so I took it. I have confidence in myself. It is my job when that shock clock reaches below 10 to make something happen.

Keke Palmer

I don't wish for anything. Wishing for a million dollars feels greedy. I just wish for the best for me.

Katherine Paterson

The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears.

Mike Gansey

Kevin is one of the best all-around players in the conference. He's obviously one of the best shooters and his inside play has improved this season. Kevin is a big part of our team.

Peter Laviolette

I would think that we're going to take the best players available.

Pat Brisson

Jack thought long and hard about it. It was very flattering for him that Carolina was so interested but Jack just feels his development is best served by staying another year at school. It was a tough decision but Jack feels good about it.

Chris DiMarco

Jack's the best, the best of all time, and to make that putt for him is what it's all about, ... We wanted to get a win for him so much. Last night, we had a great, emotional dinner. Everybody got up and talked, and I think everybody said they wanted to go out and win this for Jack. And to do that is unbelievable.

John Bogle

Jack Brennan is the best person I could possibly have found,

Stacy Keibler

I would say my best feature has to be my legs - they are 41.5 inches long!

Ed Oakley

I would say it's in his best interest, at this stage of the game.

Reagan Silber

Kevin brings a level of expertise and credibility that perfectly matches the status and style of the destination we are creating here in Las Vegas.

Roy Williams

Kevin's our third guy right now, and he brings veteran leadership to this group. But we do make fun of him because he's so small. He looks like he's 5-7 out there next to us. But he does make plays.

Robert Stevens

Joanne is a highly capable and effective leader who brings vast experience to her new position. Her close working relationship with Tom Marsh over the past few years has provided superb preparation for her new role and I am confident of a seamless transition.

Angelos Anastasiou

I think it is bolstering management rather than bringing in someone who is going to say yes to a bid.

LaVar Arrington

I think it is a dead issue. I think that I'm so excited about being a Giant now, and being in this city and being able to bring what I'm going to bring to this organization ? that's what I'm focused on.

Cory Stillman

I think it all depends on the guys you have. Everybody went into it with an open mind and had a lot of fun doing it. I think it did bring us closer.

Carrie Davis

It brings us frighteningly close to a show me your papers society.

Stu Jackson

It brings to light the danger when a player enters the spectator stands. At that point, we lose control of the situation and anything could have happened.

Drew Martin

It brings the throwing group together, because we have to depend on each other. Everyone else coming out and working hard everyday inspires me. Being able to coach them helps me a lot and keeps me focused. It probably causes me to work harder.

James Jeffords

I was lucky to be able to call Christopher Reeve a friend.His passion for life and for improving the lives of all Americans serves an inspiration to all of us. He may have played the character of Superman in the movies, but he lived the role of a superman through his life.

Pierce Brosnan

I was looking forward to making (Bond) edgier and grittier -- and for all of that to go down in one phone call was highly disappointing,

Tony Oliva

Kirby meant to me a lot. For me, it's like my own son. He used to call me 'Papa', too.

Cindy Mannes

I would not say it's an epidemic by any stretch, but it is a problem. We used to get one or two calls a year ... Now we're getting one or two calls a week.

Manny Fernandez

Jacques said any roll we can get on is a bonus. Well, I would start calling this a roll.

Rick Dunlap

I would say the ice fishing is what we call gravy. The lion's share is made in the summer and fall.

Mark DiCamillo

I would suspect his tone would change significantly if they don't make it onto the November ballot. If that happened, I could see calling the Legislature all sorts of names by the end of the campaign.

Gary Brown

Ken Lay is what I would call a fix-it man who thinks he can pick up the phone and take care of it because of who he is, a man of power. It's as though he thinks he can call anyone, any time. They're not going to like that kind of attitude.

Rich Beem

Just think of it as a golf cart with a V-8. Call it the Silver Bullet, baby.

Wendy Hastings

Kirsten has such great determination on the court. She runs down every shot and always give 100 percent.

Vladimir Lenin

Act with the greatest determination and on the offensive. The defensive is the death of every armed rising.

Winston Churchill

The most formidable people in the world, and now the most dangerous, people who... lay down the doctrine that every frontier must be the starting out point for invasion.

Winston Churchill

If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies, choking in his own blood upon the ground.

W. E. B. Du Bois

The main thing is the YOU beneath the clothes and skin--the ability to do, the will to conquer, the determination to understand and know this great, wonderful, curious world.

Zachary Quinto

I remember our conversations [with Zachary Quinto] always being frustrated that we weren't doing what we wanted to do, but also filled with the determination that we were going to overcome that.

William Godwin

I shall attempt to prove two things: first, that the actions and dispositions of mankind are the offspring of circumstances and events, and not of any original determination that they bring into the world; and, secondly, that the great stream of our voluntary actions essentially depends, not upon the direct and immediate impulses of sense, but upon the decisions of the understanding.

William Tecumseh Sherman

The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical and determined people on earth-right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with.

Vince Lombardi

To the winner, there is 100-percent elation, 100-percent fun, 100-percent laughter; and yet the only thing left to the loser is resolution and determination.

Tony Crescenzi

Greenspan opened the door to 50-basis-point rate hikes,

Mike Ryan

I think what the Fed really did today is they kept the door open for further cuts.

Jim Messina

I think it was just the right moment, ... Kenny was open to it and wanted to embrace old friendships. The door was open.

Charles Mitchell

It happened in an isolated west wing exit door of the school.

Rolando Rios

It is not a very idealistic remedy. I suppose it might be an open door for fraud.

Jody Conradt

I think (Texas Western coach) Don Haskins probably opened a lot of doors for a lot of people. I can't identify totally with the African-American players, but I can identify as a woman doing things you're not supposed to do. That has been in my thoughts.

Carlos Mencia

It is never okay to use the toilet with the door open...I never want to know what comes out of there because sometimes I eat at that resturant.

Bill Stetson

I was waiting at the door when they opened at 9. I was the first customer.

Loretta Mays

I was just walking through the door from the grocery store. I had felt really good about the interview, but you're always surprised when things go the way you want them to in life.

Farid Ayar

There is an enthusiasm to vote. Even in the last month we have registered one million more people,

Trevor Goddard

He taught us so much. His enthusiasm just bubbled out, it was natural with him.

Woody Allen

Enthusiasm is a good engine, but it needs intelligence for a driver.

William Ellery Channing

All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene

Walter Annenberg

It is not easy to find something that will intrigue and bind your interest and enthusiasm. This you must seek for yourself.

William Blake

Mere enthusiasm is the all in all.

Winston Churchill

Success comes from continuing to strive, fail and learn without losing enthusiasm.

Washington Irving

Enthusiasts soon understand each other.

Winston Churchill

Nothing is won without enthusiasm.

Robert Khayat

Rod means a lot to all of us. He's been wonderfully successful. He's an honorable man and I have the highest regard for him.

Giuseppe Pisanu

We are considering the highest possible risk of an attack, ... and we are preparing ourselves for the worse possible threat.

Publilius Syrus

The highest condition takes rise in the lowest.

David Keuhl

There's a lot of pressure for farmers. You want to retire, so you sell off the land, and the highest bidders are developers.

Amber Pruitt

At four, you have to play the highest low seed, which is usually the sleeper team. The third seed to me is much better. You actually get the lowest seed.

Tom Brokaw

Watergate was a constitutional crisis of the highest order.

David Spencer

A safe landing is obviously the highest priority, because without a safe landing, there is no scientific return ... But we also want the site to have the highest possible scientific return.

Anders Igel

Our dividend payment makes us one of the highest yielding stocks in the industry.

Margarita Lenk

I've always been impressed. I've worked intimately with the internal auditing department, and they're of the highest quality.

Scott Storch

I think it's just sad in this industry that sometimes the pressures of being successful make you say things that are untrue.

Halle Berry

I think it was a shift in the industry for the people of color.

Glenn Johnson

I didn't lose that fight, ... I walked away because of promotional disputes. That was hard, after being in the industry so long. But the older you get, the more you learn the business.

Alan Autry

Your Mayor must seek new ways to bring jobs and industry to our community.

Bobby Frankel

I want to be the Martha Stewart of the health-food industry — without the jail.

Toshifumi Suzuki

The Japanese retail industry is totally unique. To be successful, you have to have a thorough knowledge about the market.

David Sowerby

It's more and more the sobering acknowledgement that the industry is significantly challenged.

Gustav Humbert

The year 2005 was a record year for the industry as a whole and for Airbus in particular.

Ridley Scott

There's a big film industry in Egypt, and quite a big one in Syria, and there's a big Muslim community in Paris.

Hameed pasha

Always listen to your inner voice,everthing else is just a noise

Mark Leaman

It satisfies some inner need that I have. I just need it there.

Yajur Veda

Attractiveness and magnetism of man's personality is the result of his inner radiance.

William Channing

The more a person analyzes his inner self, the more insignificant he seems to himself. This is the first lesson of wisdom. Let us be humble, and we will become wise. Let us know our weakness, and it will give us power.

Tift Merritt

I think you need a concrete, real-world metaphor to talk about inner life without feeling like a jerk.

Aimee Mullins

True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.

Bhagwan Rajneesh

Be true to your inner being and all religions are fulfilled.

Dalai Lama

Genuine peace is based on inner peace, because you cannot build peace on the basis of anger

Shirley MacLaine

If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.

Brandon Low

It actually motivated me more. It was an intense match already, but that made it even more intense.

Theda Jackson

What we are talking about is really intensely elevating it with the 'My Beach' message.

Sam Altman

You have to be intense. This only comes from the CEO, this only comes from the founders.

Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

I remember that already as a child I was often intensely interested in things, obsessed by ideas and projects in many areas, and in these topics I learned much on my own, reading books.

James Salter

Not necessarily narrow so much as impatient, intense.

Jeremy Corbyn

You can't sustain a high level of intense activity with thousands of people forever. It has to be for a specific objective.

Nastassja Kinski

And I've become more honest, more intense in my life without pushing it.

Alberto Fujimori

There was a shoot-out a little more intense than we expected,

Diane Sawyer

This is a very big project, ... won't be as intense with 20/20.

Chris Moore

He can split through two guys, and nobody knows how he got through,

Larry Coker

He knows that there is that window of opportunity and he has to respond,

Freddy Adu

He knows me, so he'll probably know what I'm up to, but I've matured a lot since I went pro,

Felipe Alou

He knows we need him real bad. Even if he's not up to par.

Tony Amonte

He's been in the No. 1 spot before so he knows the pressure, he knows how to play.

Brian Gionta

He's been around a lot longer, so he knows more than I would.

Mike Shula

He's doing OK. He knows it's going to be a long haul, and he's ready.

Doug Chapman

He was impressive. He has an all-court game. He knows when to come to the net. He plays within himself. He?s be a solid No. 1.

Len Sommers

I don't have any problems with him missing as long as he knows what he has to do and the time period that he knows he has to do it.

Rian Johnson

I do love science fiction, but it's not really a genre unto itself; it always seems to merge with another genre. With the few movies I've done, I've ended up playing with genre in some way or another, so any genre that's made to mix with others is like candy to me. It allows you to use big, mythic situations to talk about ordinary things.

Veronica Roth

It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.

Lionel Blue

An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so!

Leo Tolstoy

but that what was for him the greatest and most cruel injustice appeared to others a quite ordinary occurrence.

Ralph Goodale

Affected hundreds of thousands of ordinary Canadians who have invested in mutual funds that invest in income trusts.

Paul Krugman

The economic expansion that began in 2001, while it has been great for corporate profits, has yet to produce any significant gains for ordinary working Americans. And now it looks as if it never will.

Katharine Hepburn

It is the ordinary woman who knows something about love; the gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. (92)

Jonathan Franzen

And meanwhile the sad truth was that not everyone could be extraordinary, not everyone could be extremely cool; because whom would this leave to be ordinary?

Brian Greene

We know that if supersymmetric particles exist, they must be very heavy; otherwise we would have spotted them by now.

Reid Hoffman

You gotta be both flexible and persistent.

Doug Brien

Not too good. I've had this before, and it's persistent for quite a while. Now it's just kind of wait and see.

Kypros Chrysostomides

It seems that today we reached a satisfactory conclusion.

Alberto Lopez

Whatever is in the release is what we're saying officially.

Zola Jesus

And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.

Odalis Perez

It's no good. I started throwing, and when I go down, when I release the ball, it pinches me.

Matt Groening

Do my worst, eh? Smithers, release the robotic Richard Simmons." --Mr. Burns

Kevin Rose

Release early and often.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

...happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release...

Simon Bolivar

It is harder to release a nation from servitude than to enslave a free nation.

Katey Sagal

Going to set was always a great release.

James Taylor

Music is like a huge release of tension.

Howard Schultz

There's tension here, and I'm just trying to respond in a responsible way,

David Aus

It was like, bing, bing, bing. They threw some big punches, and we just didn't respond like we have all year.

Jeffrey Hirschkorn

They make money. The market's going to respond heavily to this.

Jon Gruden

It's a big game. I've been warned of that. 'How are you going to respond to winning? How are you going to respond to losing?' Let's just respond, you know.

Anne Keene

We've accelerated the time structure. The students are responding very well to the new system, and they like writing.

Mike Holmgren

This is a new team, a different team, and they are responding differently. It's been that type of year for us.

Mike Kramer

We had a very preliminary discussion. All we have done is respond to an inquiry.

Erika Yowell

We did respond saying yes, we would be interested.

Troy Erickson

We try to teach them how to respond to situations.

Henry Bonilla

We may not be able to control the Supreme Court... but we can control the money.

Walter Cronkite

Our task is not to tell the truth; we are opinion molders.

Steve Davis

It's going to be a tough task as they are two very tough games,

Karl Marx

The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.

Julia Gillard

If we change the way the electricity sector operates, we can bring down our levels of carbon pollution, and continue the crucial task of tackling climate change. Putting a price on carbon would do this.

Peter Singer

Marx saw that capitalism is a wasteful, irrational system, a system which controls us when we should be controlling it. That insight is still valid; but we can now see that the construction of a free and equal society is a more difficult task than Marx realized.

Plutarch

It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears.

Terry Eagleton

Capitalism is the sorcerer's apprentice: it has summoned up powers which have spun wildly out of control and now threaten to destroy us.The task of socialism is not to spur on those powers but to bring them under rational human control.

Terence McKenna

Our task is to create memes... Launch your meme boldly and see if it will replicate.

Lewis Mumford

What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks left to human performers?

Bryant H. McGill

We are all wealth. We are all treasure. We are the abundance of all things. Spend yourself completely.

D. A. Carson

The more clearly we see sins horror, the more we shall treasure the cross.

Randy Alcorn

It is by serving God and others that we store up heavenly treasures. Everyone gains; no one loses.

Shane Claiborne

We can also cling to the treasures of our faith and get rid of the things that are cluttering that. It is a time we are seeing some trending away from the things that were cluttering our faith.

Max de Pree

We can choose to see life as a series of trials and tribulations, or we can choose to see life as an accumulation of treasures.

Bruno Mars

Treasure, that is what you are

Gretchen Rubin

Now is now. Here is my treasure.

Jean Vanier

To invite others to live with us is a sign that we aren't afraid, that we have a treasure of truth and of peace to share.

Horace

The mob may hiss me, but I congratulate myself while I contemplate my treasures in their hoard.

Bryan Ball

I was just battling. Trying to give us a chance.

Kevin Madden

It can be done without trying to browbeat people.

Drew Brees

We're trying to be that franchise that year-in and year-out is competing for a championship.

Greg Bowers

We've been trying to play at Brooke's level, and we've been disappointed in past, but this is an accomplishment.

Andre Iguodala

I was just trying to put on a show.

Robert Fick

I don't give a ----. I was trying to make a play.

Reginald Delk

I don't know. We're soul-searching right now, just trying to get a win.

Shay Espinoza

I don't know why, but that's what they were trying to do: take my baby.

Russ Ortiz

I could see that they were serious, ... Winning's important. I wanted to be a part of what they're trying to accomplish.

Bobby Cox

I think you've got to do what you have to do to win right now.

Gerhard Schroeder

There is no alternative to this struggle, which we must win and will win,

Chad Qualls

We've got to win the first before we win the fourth.

Amani Toomer

To get a win we've got to play good. And we really didn't play that well at all.

Richard Petty

No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

Richard P. Feynman

Winning a Nobel Prize is no big deal, but winning it with an IQ of 124 is really something.

Retief Goosen

You can't really measure your game. You can shoot seven under and lose and you can shoot even and win.

Trudi Canavan

It is said, in Imardin, that the wind has a soul, and that it wails through the narrow streets because it is grieved by what it finds there.

Rick Cook

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.