Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Ross

I was the kid who always hung back and then dropped the jokes when you least expected it. Timing was everything. My mouth sort of developed over time.

Jim Hall

Where I get frustrated is when we use government tax dollars to identify problems, we have developed a solution with our government tax dollars, but we have a reluctance to step in and mandate the solutions. What we lack sometimes is the political will to eliminate some of the risks that are still out there.

Bob Stevenson

We're waiting to see what develops out of the committee.

Orson F. Whitney

Nearly all men and women are poetical, to some extent, but very few can be called poets. There are great poets, small poets, and men and women who make verses. But all are not poets, nor even good versifiers. Poetasters are plentiful, but real poets are rare. Education can not make a poet, though it may polish and develop one.

Elizabeth Meriwether

Every day, I learn something new. I think one of the most exciting things for a writer is to work on a TV show. It's like a novel. You have a really long time to develop and learn about the characters, and you can just really keep digging in deeper, every week.

Gary Hume

I'm probably not going to develop to a final state as an artist. Like, become better and better, more and more refined. Become 'pure.' I don't think that's going to happen to me, because I don't really see that as something I want to explore.

Michael Orsini

This tree was literally a sapling when Washington was marching down here. I'm hoping that whenever they develop the property, they'll leave it here.

Susan Ward

Train your staff (if you have any) to be always helpful, courteous, and knowledgeable. Most importantly, give every member of your staff enough information and power to make those small customer-pleasing decisions, so he never has to say, "I don't know, but so-and-so will be back at..."

Susan Ward

The irony of good customer service is that over time it will bring in more new customers than promotions and price slashing ever did!

Lance Armstrong

Fear is priceless education.

Lisa Loeb

I walked away to get wisdom, but in the end I just walked home.

Lisa Loeb

With all the things that you could be, you never could learn how to be me.

John Updike

You cannot but learn more of the world's heft, as you take it now into your hands.

John Updike

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

John Updike

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

John Updike

It's not up to us what we learn, but merely whether we learn through joy or through pain.

Rick Woodard

The thing I'd like for us to work on is getting better quality shots. I'd rather us get fewer shots that go in than to take more shots that don't. I'd rather have quality than quantity.

Meghan Coward

Sometimes Molly will fly out to L.A. for a few days, raid the gallery scene there, and come back with a list of names and try to lure them down here.

Alex Tanguay

We got a few lucky bounces. We're very fortunate.

Katie Walker

We got a few congratulations. We got a few middle fingers as well.

David O'Leary

We gave poor goals away and there were a few reminders at half time, a few things to be said,

Beth McNamara

We gave it a good fight today. Our team hustled and did a few things well and a few things not so well that we will work on, ... We made a few mistakes defensively and they capitalized. They made some really good plays.

Richard Mandella

We found this a few years later after we realized we didn't keep anything when he was around.

E. O. Wilson

We have 26 girls out and that's as many as I can remember in a long time. I can remember just a few years ago going to meets and not being able to fill all the events. It's going to be fun this year.

Dave Doemel

We had a few very good possessions to start overtime. But it started with Lucas (Weaver) being a magician again. That's his game, chaos.

Catherine Young

Southside's still a good team, and I don't think they played as well today as they have been.

Marcelo Enriquez

South is a very good team and I knew they were going to be much more competitive the second round.

Pam Reeves

South has a very good team, but we have a lot of young guns who will be ready down the road.

Dave Cox

Southern Utah has been good for trucks and trucks have been good for Southern Utah, ... There is nothing in this valley that didn't come in on a truck.

Sean Payton

Specifically, I just think we're not in real good shape right now. I think we've got a lot of work to do. There are a lot of guys struggling with reps.

Joe Linta

Special teams will be his meal ticket. He's got good speed and good hands. He's a real good 51, 52 or 53-type guy on the roster who can do a lot of things for you.

Lovie Smith

So we just realize we're going to get a good player and that's what's exciting.

Michael Walden

So this is a good report for Durham County, a strong report.

Kyle McLaren

Special teams was good tonight, especially the penalty kill.

Joanne Pratt

The Web is a great place to shop and spend money, but it's pretty great for making money too.

Jerry Murphy

The weather cooperated and we really had a great show.

Jeff Koons

The Whitney is a museum that has a great rapport with younger artists and the community.

Christopher Morley

The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure is too great for his income of ideas

Piet Hein

The universe may / be as great as they say. / But it wouldn't be missed/ if it didn't exist.

Jim Yurwitz

The way things turned out, we had a shot at winning it. We had some great performances today.

Rick Carlisle

This game's not a great indicator of reality.

Terry Donahue

That's when I said, 'We've got an issue here with this guy for sure.' And then I find out we had had 10 to 12 guys getting IV's. I'd say the team really responded and did a great job in that situation.

Johnny Damon

That's what we needed to do. A great team win.

Baruch Spinoza

Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.

Augustus Hare

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Ayn Rand

And man will go on. Man, not men.

Calvin Coolidge

That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad.

Richard G. Scott

The seminary programs will help you as a young man or woman to lay a foundation for happiness and success in life.

Sydney Smith

A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.

Pete Johnson

We've got 10 men working on the Discovery, but we could use six more.

John le Carre

Writers are two-home men - they want a place outside and a place within.

Henry David Thoreau

A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it than by the woods and swamps that surround it

Bill Hayden

Stock kernels will be the norm for some time.

Vanna White

I'm really just a normal person.

Deborah Moggach

I work every day from 9:30 or so until lunchtime. In the afternoons, I become a normal person - go shopping and do the garden and look after my grandchildren.

Tom Verica

Most shows are normally 40 or 50 pages.

Jim Jarmusch

The beauty of life is in small details, not in big events.

James May

It's a small step in the right direction.

Edgar Allan Poe

To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

D. H. Lawrence

If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.

Sonia Sotomayor

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

Victoria Woodhull

Women have every right; they just have to excercise them.

Rudyard Kipling

When the Hymalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside. But the she-bear thus accosted, rends the peasant tooth and nail, For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

Rudyard Kipling

I've a neater, sweeter maiden in a cleaner, greener land!

Samuel Johnson

There is always something a woman will prefer to the truth.

Samuel Johnson

When female minds are embittered by age or solitude, their malignity is generally exerted in a rigorous and spiteful superintendence of domestic trifles.

Roxane Gay

We don't all have to believe in the same feminism. Feminism can be pluralistic so long as we respect the different feminisms we carry with us, so long as we give enough of a damn to try to minimize the fractures among us. Feminism will better succeed with collective effort, but feminist success can also rise out of personal conduct.

Ronald Reagan

Blondes have the hottest kisses. Red-heads are fair-to-middling torrid, and brunettes are the frigidest of all. It's something to do with hormones, no doubt.