Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Johnson

This is game we came here to play.

Theo Epstein

This is one of those contract negotiations where it all came together because we have a player who means so much to the organization and has done so much for the organization and he wanted to stay in Boston. David said it early on, and he meant it. It came together very quickly.

Daniel Bard

This is one I've needed. I've been waiting for an outing like this. It came on a good day.

Younis Khan

This is perhaps the most valuable and memorable hundred for me in my career. I was under pressure in this match to perform and I came good,

Tim Whalen

The whole idea is for the people by the people, which, especially nowadays, is not the slogan for a lot of things in music. It's good on so many levels. We all have come from having to do it ourselves, so it's gratifying that if it's a successful show, it came from everybody's hands.

Willie Nelson

The whole house came up and I came up with it, ... I was just praying to the Lord to take care of me.

Joe Dunn

The whole game came down to free throws. At one point we had eight straight possessions with an opportunity from the line. It's very uncharacteristic of this team.

Daryl Hall

The whole American pop culture started in Philadelphia with 'American Bandstand' and the music that came out of that city.

Eric Long

The way we came out and continued the intensity we had in the second quarter was a key factor in the game.

Stephen King

There are things of such darkness and horror—just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty—that they will not fit through the puny human doors of perception.

Burn Gorman

I'm afraid the 'Doctor Who' door is probably closed because of me being in 'Torchwood.'

Ellen DeGeneres

I have the picture of Barack [Obama] and me dancing right outside of my dressing room door, I see it every single day, and it makes me very happy.

Lara Pulver

I'm not shutting doors on myself, in any way, within theater, musical theater, TV and film.

Bob Uecker

The MRI scan looked like I had swallowed a cantaloupe. It was an abdominal aortic aneurysm. I was shocked because, except for the back pain, I felt good.

Robert A. Heinlein

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

Vernon Jordan

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you swallow the negative? Do you shoot yourself? It’s the gimmick of money.

Alexei Mordashov

My wealth is reflected in the price of Severstal, and the number of shares I have in my possession doesn't have any impact on the company.

Irv DeGraw

I would like to think they can get in the 20 percent range, but with that number of shares it could be difficult.

Bill Gates

I have to admit that business-type thoughts do sneak into my head: I hope our customers pay us, I hope this stuff is decent, I hope we get it done on time. The little additions and subtractions that one has to do. Take sales, take costs and try to get that big positive number at the bottom.

Angie Martinez

Every weekend we've been trying to go out of town, to let people know about this album. I've been trying to host parties. It's hard, because it's a lot of work to do both.

Susan Cain

The glory of the disposition that stops to consider stimuli rather than rushing to engage with them is its long association with intellectual and artistic achievement. Neither E=mc2 nor Paradise Lost was dashed off by a party animal.

Rihanna

I have several videos on my phone that I’ve never released. Having dance parties in our car, don’t be jealous!

Mark Steyn

When is the Democratic Party going to apologize for being the biggest slave-holding-supporting institution on the planet and sticking with racism for the century after the abolition of slavery?

Zach Braff

If you're dumb enough to volunteer for the army, I don't see why we're supposed to feel so bad when you get shot. I'm not saying we should throw a party or anything, but is it such a tragedy? If I'd gotten shot before I made 'Garden State', yeah, that's a tragedy, but some red-state hick getting his legs blown off? Come on.

Henry A. Kissinger

Certainly not a party of the workers and the peasants. In fact, Jiang Zemin in recent weeks has officially said that capitalists and the entrepreneurs should be enrolled in the Communist Party.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Parties weaken themselves by their fear of capable men.

Christopher Hitchens

Benito Mussolini had barely seized power in Italy before the Vatican made an official treaty with him. . . . Catholicism became the only recognized religion in Italy . . . and in return urged its followers to vote for Mussolini's party. Pope Pius XI described [Mussolini] as 'a man sent by providence.' . . . Across southern Europe, the church was a reliable ally in the instatement of fascist regimes. . . .

Mary Lou Williams

Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Elie Cohen

If you get burned, you will take time before you try again.

Denise Miller

If you live here and you see wreck after wreck after wreck, you think about that every time you're in that intersection.

Stephen Graham

I like time ticking the way it is.

Maurissa Tancharoen

I like to do all things. I've been fortunate enough to be able to do a bunch of them at the same time.

Robert Emms

I just wanted to be one of those actors who works at the National Theatre the whole time.