Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stella Young

People get all up in arms when I describe myself as a crip because what they hear is the word 'cripple,' and they hear a word you're not allowed to say anymore.

Joe Torre

The one thing I can take credit for is for not trying to be someone else. I've always tried to be a manager who allowed his players to play. The game is theirs. What I've done for 10 years is try to stay out of their way.

Tysen Kendig

The one bottom line here that I think people are missing is that it is university policy that you are not allowed on the field unless you are a participant. Everyone recognizes the thrill of the win and the excitement, but the police were trying to prevent a situation that could have resulted in injury and thousands of dollars of damage, and I think overall they did a good job in doing that.

Michelle Gomez

The older I get, the more I'm starting to believe in myself. I'm beginning to think of roles that I could do that I would not have allowed myself to think of before, saying: 'That's not for me, that's for the big guns.'

Tom Izzo

The officiating, I question it. I really do. I question it. I guess I'm allowed to say that.

Tommy Robredo

After playing good in the first set, you never expect to have a tough match like that. It's tough to get in a rhythm after that. He did good to come back, but it's my mistakes that allowed him to come back. I prefer to win 6-0, 6-0 in my matches and make it quick so I can go watch a movie. I'm going back to my room now to watch a tape I have of Million Dollar Baby.

Paul Gudgin

The most significant new initiative this year is our Web site. It allowed audiences to plan ahead, catch up on the latest news, and for the first time, actually buy tickets online in real time, which is a real breakthrough for an organization of our size.

Fabio Capello

The most important thing is we played a great game and showed a lot of character, ... We dominated in midfield. (Patrick) Vieira was excellent. We really allowed Inter very little.

Nancy Howell

The most important thing is that she isn't allowed to do this again.

Johnny Rotten

(During a gig on the Sex Pistols' US Tour) See the fine, upstanding, young men Britain is chucking out these days.

Sergei Prikhodko

We hope that we shall be able to prepare the meeting of the leaders better than Britain in 2005.

Ann Veneman

Great Britain had a much different situation than we do and did here in the United States, in that they had literally thousands of infected animals with human health risks. Their infectivity in this disease happened before very much was known about it.

Rodney Barker

The purpose of the 'Way Forward Group' is simply to do, in a formal way, what the royal family in Britain has always done.

Stephen Kinzer

In 1907, Britain and Russia signed a treaty dividing Iran between them; no Iranian was at the negotiations or even knew they were taking place.

Inayat Bunglawala

This man has never set foot in the United States; he has lived in Britain his whole life. If he has done something wrong, this is where he should be put on trial.

Nelson Mandela

I told the relatives that he would go to a country trusted by Britain and the United States to serve his full sentence, and the length of the sentence would be determined by the Scottish authorities,

P. J. O'Rourke

We have the British motor industry as a role model for what happens when you try to save an industrial dinosaur. Britain was the first country to industrialise and the first to de-industrialise. We should learn from this.

Michael Sheen

While I enjoy spending time in L.A., Britain is my home.

James St. James

As for my identity within the context of New York nightlife? I left in the '90s, so I'm not part of the scene anymore. I'll always be interested in what's happening downtown, and I try and keep up with the changing faces on social media.

Mike Di

The storm patterns are changing in a short period of time. Since 1995 we've been having good rainfall years.

Justin Lane

I've been struggling, pulling my head out. The coaches have been working with me on changing to a stance where I could keep my head in better.

Ezra Klein

The idea of changing and fixing the problem of how news is presented on the Internet has been recognized for a long time.

Robert Greene

There are enough things changing that if you have something that works, you stay with it. For a standard infrastructure server, there just isn't that great a demand on the processor.

George Edwards

While the number of companies registered with the local stock exchange has not been increasing the rate at which their shares have been changing hands signifies a growth of interest in the stock market.

D. James

As the nation's largest pizza restaurant chain, we must consider consumers' changing lifestyles and provide them with lower-fat alternatives and great-tasting menu options.

A. Hodge

As they are changing from old contracts to new ones they are raising rates, which is a good sign that they are doing very well. They have established themselves as a viable investment prospect.

Jarrod Cooper

As I said at the end of the season, changing the coach staff won't do anything if the players don't want to go out there and play. It's on us to get this done.

Gerhard Schroeder

Ratification must continue. We must decide what to do at the end of that process,

Malcolm-Jamal Warner

I've met men who have been married 19, 20 years, and all of a sudden the wife decides one day she needs to find herself.

Epiphanny Prince

After I scored 29 points in the first quarter, I didn't think much of it. After I had 58 points at the half, and especially after having in the 80s after the third quarter, I just decided to go for it.

Dick Enberg

said Simms. ''It's a matter of time. The game is much faster in the TV booth. It's so hard to get it done in a three-man booth. There's less time to talk. With only two guys, Troy will be able to set it up, and decide what he wants to show and tell. I'm sure he's going to enjoy it. I'm also sure he liked Cris and working with him. But this is about freedom.

Bruce Carlson

Putting our heads together collectively we could decide on the recipients of such a fund.

Scott Borg

The Russians aren't waiting for standards. They have decided to move forward. We have declined to participate (in the drilling). We don't feel it's ready.

Harold Miller

I've been here 13 years and decided it was time to take time off and then find opportunities where I can help grow the region,

Michael Waltrip

I've never had a problem with Robby, ... Like I said, I just held my ground is all I did and he just decided he wanted to take that place from me instead of working for it.

Jason Schenker

The worst possible outcome for the stock market is that it takes a month to decide the election,

Ken Cantrell

The water is not draining off the landfill like it should.

Doug Williams

I think the slow draining in the Sammamish watershed had everything to do with the record rainfall we saw in those weeks.

Laurel Scherer

As hostile as they've been it would not be a good working environment.

Li Keqiang

As a developing country, China needs a favorable neighbouring and international environment for its modernisation.

Dr. Paulos

The brace didn't function well in this environment and should have done better than it did, frankly.

Kevin Lee

a very clean, safe, loving environment to be in.

Peter Charlton

As long as there are no major shocks and the interest rate environment remains the same, I expect it to go on into the first half of 2006 at the very least.

David Minsker

The more connections students make with teachers and administrators, the better environment a school will have.

Ryan Lewis

Coming out of the Northwest and that environment to shoot hip-hop videos, it's a little atypical of a place to be, you know.

Rex Tillerson

This is an industry that lives in cycles. The price environment we're in today is not sustainable.

Chad Calabria

The University of Iowa was the talk of the town. There were no pro sports. It was a nice environment and seemed like the right place for me.

Ray Elliott

I've never seen an individual request more time,

Lindsay Whalen

I've been having that my whole life, where there haven't been a lot of individual awards,

Ron Messick

They all had their own individual abilities, but I could tell they were special players.

Masaaki Kanno

This is a new trend in Japanese politics. People are increasingly voting on the policies of individual parties. Now the manifestos of the different parties have become very clear.

Leonard Leo

that they were very interested in making sure that the president nominated a second individual who shared the philosophy of judicial restraint.

Boethius

A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.

Jerry Colangelo

We wanted a team not of individual stars, but athleticism, shooters, role players and distributors.

Geno Auriemma

We don't score on sheer individual talent. Sometimes we run stuff just to run stuff without an idea what we're going to get from it.

Robert Kiyosaki

Capitalism is about producing a better product at a better price. As individuals, we have to keep producing better products at a better price, also, or we're obsolete.

John Vessey

You have to set your "shove-it" tolerance someplace. But you also have to recognize that you, too, may be wrong, and that in two weeks' time you'll be "old what's-his-name" and won't be able to influence the situation at all.

Andrew Stanton

I almost feel like it’s an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure.

Curtis Hanson

Rob Lowe, who I thought was really good in the movie [ Bad Influence], had his performance overshadowed by this sort of tabloid approach to him and the movie.

Ambrose Bierce

DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.

Robert Harris

Orwell has always been a huge influence on me.

Tony Robbins

The person with the most certainty in a given situation will influence the other.

Thomas Harris

You cant reduce me to a set of influences.

Scott Weiland

Bowie's obviously my biggest influence.

Steven Morrissey

You are bound to pick up influences.

Dominique de Villepin

Nobody can deny there is a rise of Islamic fundamentalism.

Donald Trump

I would say, we have had a lot of problems with radical Islamic terrorism, that's what I'd say.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity' if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

And I should like to assure you, my Islamic friends, that under the American Constitution, under American tradition, and in American hearts, this Center, this place of worship, is just as welcome as could be a similar edifice of any other religion. Indeed, America would fight with her whole strength for your right to have here your own church and worship according to your own conscience. This concept is indeed a part of America, and without that concept we would be something else than what we are.

David Petraeus

The Islamic State fighters in Mosul are dead men walking and I think they increasingly know it.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that's it

Tariq Ramadan

Arabic is the language of the Qur'an, but Arab culture is not the culture of Islam.

Tariq Ramadan

The Truth does not belong to you, you belong to the Truth.

Tariq Ramadan

We have to be very cautious not to accept the scam of polarization we see in the media. It is not in fact between secularists and Islamists, it is a battle within the Islamic reference.

Henry Renteria

That phone call, or registering on line, is a key step toward getting help.

Bryant H. McGill

Giving is the master key to success, in all applications of human life.

Alain Ducasse

The proportion of ingredients is important, but the final result is also a matter of how you put them together. Equilibrium is key.

Jan Garbarek

If you feel you have the right key, you try to make some phrase or sound that will fit.

Gary L. Francione

People say that being a vegan creates a social problem in that others may react negatively. But isnt that the case if you take a principled position on any issue, whether its racism, sexism, heterosexism, violence as a general matter—or speciesism? The key is to educate others about *why* you take the position.

Debra Messing

If I have a pocket, then I'll have lip balm, my keys, and $10 cash.

Atul Gawande

Human interaction is the key force in overcoming resistance and speeding change.

Eddie Van Halen

If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.

Deepak Chopra

Our minds influence the key activity of the brain, which then influences everything; perception, cognition, thoughts and feelings, personal relationships; they’re all a projection of you.

Voltaire

theology is to religion what poisons are to food

William Shakespeare

If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that

Paracelsus

All things are poisons. It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a poison and a remedy.

Henry Taylor

His foodWas glory, which was poison to his mindAnd peril to his body.

Eleanor Roosevelt

We need our radicals.

Ambrose Bierce

RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day.

Mort Sahl

I'm not a liberal, I'm a radical!

Eric Hoffer

Radicalism itself ceases to be radical when absorbed mainly in preserving its control over a society or an economy.

Dana Rohrabacher

I support this war on terror and the war on radical Islam.

Bob Freehan

This is not a new thing. It has been successful in other schools.

Brett Hull

I think the biggest thing for me is being able to adjust to the way the game has changed. It's basically a 180-degree turn from the style I like to play. That's what I think I'm most proud of, being able to fit into this style of game and still be fairly successful.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

It's even harder to stay at the top in sports than it is to get there.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

There are no shortcuts—everything is reps, reps, reps.

Bertrand Russell

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

Benjamin Disraeli

Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.

Brian Tracy

Make a decision to be successful right now. Most people never decide to be wealthy and that is why they retire poor.

Brian Tracy

Successful people save in prosperous times so they have a financial cushion in times of recession.

Brian Tracy

If you could find out what the most successful people did in any area and then you did the same thing over and over, you'd eventually get the same result they do.

Brandon Marshall

I try to live by the principles the Bible speaks on.

Brandon Sanderson

Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.

Brad Paisley

I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?

Brad Feld

While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

Jane Jacobs

It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams.

Jane Hirshfield

Zen taught me how to pay attention, how to delve, how to question and enter, how to stay with -- or at least want to try to stay with -- whatever is going on.

Kendall Jenner

I feel really productive. I'm very competitive with myself. I'm a scheduler. I'm always trying to keep everything together - I'm very OCD and very organized.

Kenneth Blackwell

You know, Jesse Jackson is just trying to stir up a hornet's nest.

Cardinal Richelieu

A virtuous and well-disposed person, like a good metal, the more he is fired, the more he is fined; the more he is opposed, the more he is approved: wrongs may well try him, and touch him, but cannot imprint in him any false stamp.

Lester Funk

We're 16-4 right now, but we could be 0-20 and the sportsmanship has to be there whether we win or lose.

Mary Pierce

I think it is possible. Whether it happens, I don't know.

Nick Cave

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.

Tom Woods

I don't know whether 3-3 would do for us, I don't know if 4-2 would do. But I know 6-0 would do.

F. Schumacher

That has to be our target. Whether it's realistic, we'll find out in Bahrain.

Imtiaz Ali

Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.