Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jesse Owens

You can melt down all the medals and cups I have and they wouldn't be a plating on the 24-carat friendship I felt for Long at that moment.

Sri Aurobindo

The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.

Jethro Tull

I'll pour a cup to you my darling, raise it up, say Cheerio.

Lyle Bauer

Winnipeg has already been there for the league -- in good times and bad. We're back in the East and we've represented the East in five Grey Cups (1988, '90, '92, '93 and 2001). Let's hope history repeats.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

A World Cup without Zlatan is not worth watching.

Johnny Miller

If you are a bad putter, you will not make a putt. If you have a tendency to chili-dip wedges, you'll be chili-dipping them all over the place for sure. Whatever your weakness, it will come up in spades during the Ryder Cup.

Al Jourgensen

I've seen 48 Stanley Cups in my life. I was about six or seven when I started going to games with my dad.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

However, one cannot put a quart in a pint cup.

Phyllis Logan

Normally I will have five or six cups of tea a day, and if I can have them poured from a teapot, then all the better. I think tea tastes so much nicer from a pot.

Miles D. White

People come to a company like Abbott sometimes and think, 'It's so big, I can't make a difference.' I think just the opposite. I think everybody can make a difference.

Julian Lee

The tendency (is) once prices start to rise, for everybody to open the tap a little bit.

Greg Spires

The most important thing is that we're playing together and everybody is gelling, everybody likes each other, ... Everybody wants to win, and when you're winning, everybody's happy.

Kevin Cox

Southwest has made it well known to everybody they're going to push this matter,

Warren Sapp

Once you've sat at the king's table, you know what it's like. That's a feast that everybody is going to be trying, ... It's a matter of us just repeating our success. It sounds crazy. But we do it one day at a time.

John Senden

You've got to think about winning, because everybody thinks about winning playing on this tour. If you're within two or three at the turn, maybe you have a chance.

Roy Young

You never plan that. You always plan everybody to come home at the same time. My thoughts and prayers are with his family. Jeremy was a good guy.

Jim McAlpin

We're looking forward to the next week or two. We'll get everybody healthy and move some people around. It should be a fun last two weeks of the season.

James Salter

There are writers for whom names mean nothing; everybody could be called John and Elizabeth, and the writing would be just as good. A name, of course, is like a piece of clothing, isn't it? It gives you an impression right away.

Sarah Elliott

As a player, you want to listen to her. She's been there. She knows. She knows the scenarios. We've just tried to listen and learn and execute.

Old Proverb

A wise man knows everything.A shrewd one, everybody.

Mike Greene

People are thinking about signing up at gyms, and everyone knows people make commitments and don't stay to them.

Mike Post

This is a total team effort, ... Everyone knows they are just one piece in the puzzle of getting supplies to victims, and they all know how important it is.

Alan Dershowitz

I know Obama, I like Obama, I voted for Obama.

Daniel Handler

Tell it to everyone you know, but pretend you're kidding.

Pete Murray

We had been playing solidly for 18 months, everyone knows how to play together,

Aristotle Onassis

The more you own, the more you know you don't own.

Kathy Bocock

Brittany knows right now that we're going to have to have her throw a lot of innings. Brittany has that mentality, so I think she's going to be OK.

Ben Nicholas

Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

Babe Ruth

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

Ashley Smith

Live life messy and love every moment of it.

Baruch Spinoza

If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than if he had never loved it, and his hatred will be in proportion to the strength of his former love.

Barbara Sher

Isolation is a dream killer.

Barbara Sher

I believe you can have whatever you really want in this life, in one form or another, sooner or later. All you have to do is take care of your health and be lucky enough to live for a while. But you can't have it all at once and you can't have it forever. No life has the room for everything in it, not on the same day.

Arthur Miller

I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it.

Arthur Miller

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

Arthur Adamov

Everything happens as though I were only one of the particular existences of some great incomprehensible and central being.... Sometimes this great totality of life appears to me so dramatically beautiful that it plunges me into ecstasy. But more often it seems like a monstrous beast that penetrates and surpasses me and which is everywhere, within me and outside me.... And terror grips and envelops me more powerfully from moment to moment.... My only way out is to write, to make others aware of it, so as not to have to feel all of it alone, to get rid of however small a portion of it.

Bode Miller

The stuff after the Olympics was pretty aggressive.

Jin Yan

Safety and quality of all the Olympic venue projects are under control.

Shaun White

You show up at the Olympics, and you're no longer you; you're an American Olympian. You're part of this greater whole, and the individual doesn't matter.

Mike Lambert

I wish he was younger or the Olympics were this year. I wish he picked me up earlier, but he didn't think too much of me then.

Shaun White

I didn't understand how big a thing the Olympics are until I showed up here.

Sara Parson

One of my friends went to the Olympics in '04. So a lot of us are working towards getting on the Olympic team as well.

Jessica Ennis

I was around 15 when I first wanted to compete in an Olympics. I even remember the first time I got to wear a GB kit as a junior. I've even kept it. It's in my mum's loft somewhere, probably gone mouldy by now.

Jackie Chan

Olympics for me is love, peace, united.

Dennis Tomasevicz

How many people do you know that are on a bobsled in the Olympics from Nebraska?

Frances Chaney

It would be just too embarrassing if we won again.

Cloris Leachman

Everything is so sad and so wonderful.

Aristotle

For through wondering human beings now and in the beginning have been led to philosophizing.

Albert Einstein

My sense of god is my sense of wonder about the universe.

Christopher Walken

No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing.

Anne Rice

My greatest sin has always been that I have a wonderful time being myself

Andy Samberg

Genndy [Tartakovsky] is so good at directing and so wonderful with animation.

Anne Frank

What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet.

T. S. Eliot

And indeed there will be time to wonder, 'Do I dare?', and 'Do I dare?