Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Vinton

I had a big troupe, a big army and it was a lot of fun. And, after 10 years of that, I just decided that I wanted to travel and do special dates. I go to Las Vegas these days.

Donald Sutherland

I never think of this business as fun. I don't know why. I think I've actually said something about it being fun, but I don't think of it that way. It's not fun, doing it. It's joyful, it's passionate, it's rewarding, it's a pursuit of truth, but I don't think of it as fun. It's not a game.

Don McLean

I developed this fantasy world. I found that that was much more fun and more interesting and exciting than real life was to me. Then, once I got the guitar going when I was a teenager, I set sail for the direction I've been in my whole life.

Dominique McElligott

The most fun part for an actor is the writing and the story and the character. That's very fulfilling.

Doug Stanhope

If you're in high-school and you're not having fun, quit.

Douglas Adams

Science fiction that's just about people wandering around in space ships shooting each other with ray guns is very dull. I like it when it enables you to do fairly radical reinterpretations of human experience, just to show all the different interpretations that can be put on apparently fairly simple and commonplace events. That I find fun.

Duff Goldman

I love history because when you strip away the social and political aspects, it's really just a bunch of fun stories.

Dr. Seuss

Oh the places you'll go! There is fun to be done!

Dorothy L. Sayers

I admit it is better fun to punt than be punted, and that a desire to have all the fun is nine-tenths of the law of chivalry.

Darryl Hammond

Win, lose or draw, I'm done. I'm glad to have helped the league, but it's time for me to go.

Donald Trump

I shake hands very gladly politically. I don't think you could be a politician if you didn't shake hands.

Kirby Moses

Ten of our 14 wrestlers scored points which helped us today. There were 15 teams and we didn't know what to expect. We were the smallest school there.

Deon Grant

We didn't play bad, ... But we sure didn't do a lot to help ourselves.

Derek Smith

Time of possession obviously helps us. We've just got to keep on working.

Toby Keith

Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail,

Ambrose Bierce

PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.

If I ever get real rich, I hope I'm not real mean to poor people, like I am now

I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.

Roy Strong

I hope we can find someone just as good,

Larry Kruse

I hope we can find our jump shot. It seems like we lost it tonight.

Jamal Lewis

I hope we can build our offense and go out there and win games.

Colin Kolles

I hope we can be reliable and that we don't need so much luck to get points.

George Yeo

I hope we are improving by our standards. Whether we are improving by your standards or American standards is a different question. Our responsibility is to Singaporeans, and what we do here should meet their approval. There are no universal prescriptions.

Earl Nightingale

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Rick Bayan

REVOLUTIONARY: An oppressed person waiting for the opportunity to become an oppressor.

Tiki Barber

Every day is an opportunity disguised as a challenge.

Tom Harkin

[A]s we celebrate 75 years of the minimum wage, we must also recognize that it is no longer achieving its potential impact in our economy or for America's working families. Every American deserves the chance to build a better life for his or her family - and raising the minimum wage will provide that opportunity.

Tom Hanks

And then it was like, wait, you can go to college and study theater? And act in plays? This is almost a racket, you know. And then when the opportunity came along to do it professionally, I thought I'd won the lottery.

Tom Brokaw

We were not just competitors and colleagues, we were friends. We had a lot of opportunities to reflect on this in the last year. It was a competitive brotherhood.

Tom Clancy

Every person you meet - and everything you do in life - is an opportunity to learn something.

Tina Fey

I don't know how many more movies I'm going to get the opportunity to make and I don't want to look back and go: "Man, I just floated through that one." Or: "I did that one for the money." I want to be able to say that I worked as a hard as I could and I did the best work that I could do.

Tibor Fischer

Stay cool, and wait for opportunity.

Bobby Knight

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

Morgan Wootten

To be successful in coaching you have to treat your team like a family. The leader needs backing from everyone.

Joey Logano

My reputation is different among different groups. You have your fans, your non-fans, your team, your crew, your family, your friends and then you have your peers. I think they're all different and each of them have their separate opinions about you.

Joey Logano

My friends and family and team know who I am, and they have my back. So I don't let someone who doesn't know me affect me.

Joey Logano

I’m really proud of my team. They have given me great cars all year long. Today, we finally got to show what kind of cars they have been giving me. We were up front, leading laps and showing how good this No. 22 Ford is. Once again today, my team showed they have my back and that will only make us better going forward.

Joey Logano

It's funny how the whole team gets quiet when you're about to win a Daytona 500.

Joe Sakic

You need a lot of leaders, but a hockey team needs a voice, not only in the community, but more importantly between the coaching staff and the players. There are always ups and downs in a season; the captain is the guy players look to in those situations.

Joe Nemechek

There are a lot of other things I could be doing out there, but I love to race. I'm fortunate to have the opportunity, to have the team and to have the resources to be able to do this.

Joe Mauer

I want to be back behind the plate as long as I can. I can help the team that way, and I like being in control and in charge.

Bobby Womack

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

Bobby Scott

Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

Bobby Sherman

In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.

Bobby Knight

At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.

Bobby Cox

This year is different, ... We have 11 for about four.

Alexander Ludwig

When I first started acting I was about nine years old. I had never been to audition in my life and my agent sent me out. It was just a commercial for 'Harry Potter.' That was the first thing I ever went out for and I got the 'Harry Potter' commercial which was really cool, but I didn't play Harry Potter.

Alexander Payne

Adult movies with any artistic credit are released in the last quarter of the year and expected to gird for battle for Globes and Oscars. So the films aren't being seen just for themselves, but rather in a competitive context.

Alexander Payne

As the years go by and I make more films, I am increasingly interested in capturing place as a vivid backdrop for my films.

Alexander McQueen

My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years.