Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Andrew

At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage

Paul Mott

At the end of my second indoor season, my doctor told me, 'You're a bright guy, and you have an ankle that will keep deteriorating over time. We'll take away a lot of bone. My honest recommendation is that you move on,' ... At 23, that's a blow. He made the point, if you try to play on this ankle over time, we're going to keep taking away bone, and you're going to be a prime candidate for a replacement ankle at the age of 40.

Deion Sanders

At this point and age in my career I'm not looking for a stage. I'm looking to teach the young players how to be professional, how to be a man, how to be a father, how to be a friend, how to handle your finances.

Randy White

At this day and age where we have professional women who are continuing to delay their pregnancies, this is a badly needed test, ... There is a bad, bad need for a test that is safe and effective and gives a definitive yes-no result.

Albert Einstein

Common sense is merely the deposit of prejudice laid down in the human mind before the age of 18

Sonakshi Sinha

Coming from a filmy background, I have seen everything growing up, but even at that point of time, it never really fascinated me. I did not like going to my dad's shoots. We were taught not to get carried away with it from a very young age.

Francis Bacon

Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be defied.

Jill Lepore

Disruptive innovation is competitive strategy for an age seized by terror.

O. Singh

Contrary to custom, he comes into the Dark Age of Kali Yuga naked, and naked he is bound down and sent away again.

Michael Speck

It is a great day for artists and anyone who wants to make a living from music. The loud and clear message to anyone involved in the illegal online music business is to get out of it, get legal.

Daily Express

What more can anyone do? The BRDC want everything their way. Business life is not like that,

Pat Riley

We traded a lot, but we got back three quality players. Antoine Walker is one of the very best multi-faceted, versatile players in this game. ... He is able to handle the ball, pass it, make plays, shoot 3's and rebound the ball. There isn't anyone in this league better at doing that.

Rudi Giuliani

We're obviously extremely disappointed that we haven't been able to recover anyone alive,

S. Hughes

When he's on, he is as good as anyone we've had. Technique-wise, he's as explosive a wrestler as we've had.

Shawn Bradley

When he passes the ball back out, the refs aren't really looking at him, at how he's reestablishing his space. For a defender, it's very, very hard to get around anyone at that point--but particularly him.

Mike DeWine

What I saw with my kids was consistent with what I had been hearing, ... I looked around at local (Washington, D.C., driving) schools ... and could not find one that anyone would tell me was a great school.

Bob Hanson

What I knew of him was that he was kind of a curmudgeon, wore thick glasses and didn't take much in the way of anyone else's opinions. He was certainly a gentleman. You could tell he was raised in high society, that's how he conducted himself.

Richard Mason

With many dealers offering free cover on new vehicles, anyone who bought a new car this time last year and benefitted from a year's free insurance should beware of renewing the same policy,

Khalil Dulaimi

We have not been duly informed about any certain date for a trial.

Tom Izzo

I don't think he's looking at that as maybe an option now. But if he does well, we make a run, his stock continues to rise, which I think it has all year, and he's a certain pick, I'm going to be telling him to go.

Russell Schweiss

If an elected official is charged with a felony, the governor will suspend them from office, then if they were convicted they would be removed, and if they are acquitted they would be reinstated. But misdemeanors are all handled case-by-case and there is no certain time to have that done.

Mo Johnston

(I expect him to be) getting up and down the wings. I'm just looking at certain things. I know in my head what I'm looking for; I'm not worried.

Joe Gibbs

I don't think it's as easy as people make it out to be. You also have to protect in there. You're looking through your legs and trying to get something back there 15 yards to a certain spot. Your head's down and there's someone coming who just gets a free whack at you. I don't think there's anything easy about that deal.

Jamie Cullum

I don't think I've ever been true to jazz. There's always a kind of jazz element to what I do. There are a very few genres that I haven't tried out, really, in what I've been doing. As a jazz musician, you can kind of mess about with things with a certain level of musicianship, which helps.

Robert Thompson

From the outside you look at these contestants and think 'get a life,' but within certain subcultures ù and we're all in one that looks strange to the outside ù if you're a part of that rabid fan community, this is one of the ways you express it and rise to the top of that subculture.

Dave Bliss

For us to be perceived as having a drug problem, it couldn't be further from the truth. There may be an individual that has certain problems, I don't know about that, but I do know we have one of the most sound and supportive drug policies.

Kathy Banks

For this method to work, we've got to get the roots in contact with the contamination. Sod-forming grasses work well in certain situations, because they have a large root surface in contact with the soil.

Maya Angelou

The music was my friend, my lover, my family.

Herb Alpert

I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.

Isaac Hanson

But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.

Jerry Hunt

In 1955 music wasn't that important. Music was a kind of a special thing you went and did.

John Trudell

I'm not a musician making words to go with my music.

Lara Pulver

I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.

Paul Desmond

Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above.

Paul Desmond

I was unfashionable before anyone knew who I was.

Joan Baez

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

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.

Kirby Copeland

This proves a lot. We can come out and play with the No. 3 team in the nation.

Christian Siriano

A bad investment is going for quantity over quality. If you're trying to be careful with your wallet, especially with the economy right now, you have to choose staple pieces.

Helen Gurley Brown

We are told to value ourselves without feedback, but if nobody is making a pass at you or trying to take you to Bermuda, how are you supposed to feel? Confident?

Hedy Lamarr

Making pictures, for an actress, is like betting, for a gambler. Each time you make a picture you try to analyze why you won or lost.

Heather Mills

There is a huge agenda behind trying to destroy me and put me down.

Mandy Patinkin

I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.

Mandy Patinkin

I try to get that across in the work, to try to, if I'm lucky, to make this world a little bit better for all of us before I check out. And that's if I'm lucky, I don't always get to have that privilege but I try always.

Malcolm Mclaren

Try managing a junkie - especially if you've never been one yourself.

Malcolm X

If the ballot doesn't work, we'll try something else. But let us try the ballot.

Malcolm Gladwell

When you're an underdog, you're forced to try things you would never otherwise have attempted.