Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes you have to be careful when selecting a new name for yourself. For instance, let's say you have chosen the nickname "Fly Head." Normally you would think that "fly Head" would mean a person who has beautiful swept-back features, as if flying through the air. But think again. Couldn't it also mean "having a head like a fly"? I'm afraid some people might actually think that.

Catherine McCartney

We've spoken out and said you can stand up and you don't have to be afraid of anybody. But it won't mean anything unless the people in the communities take that opportunity the next time the IRA comes to their door and say to them 'I'm not going to allow you to bully me'.

Chinese Proverbs

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still

Rob Varley

Bob cares a lot about the success of Cocoa Beach. He's a regular guy who isn't afraid of hard work. Let me tell you -- it was very difficult for the tourism industry after Sept. 11. We were hurting.

Wesley Hill

What I try to emphasize more than anything else is don't be afraid to make a mistake. That's how you learn what you can't do, and what you don't like to do.

Robert Green Ingersoll

All the punishment in the world will not reform a man, unless he knows that he who inflicts it upon him does it for the sake of reformation, and really and truly loves him, and has his good at heart. Punishment inflicted for gratifying the appetite makes man afraid but debases him.

Tom Moore

Rich Hamilton and Kevin Freeman were roommates and both had large contingents of family members. I was hesitant to check their room, afraid they might break curfew and still be with their families. ... When I knocked, Kevin answered the door; he had his uniform on. ... Rich also was wearing his uniform.

John Rushing

People were calling about the damage. It?s like they were afraid to come down because they think it?s still damaged here.

Pravin Gordhan

People want to be in the tax register but are afraid of fines, penalties and interest from the past. The amnesty allows them an opportunity to come into the fold. Money is not the main reason we are offering the amnesty.

Kevin Boyer

The win was almost perfect. It was our last conference game at home; it's nice to go out on top.

M. Thompson

The wind pattern is almost identical to the one we had when we broke the record on Lakota. We should have a fast run up the north sea to coincide with a low pressure arriving in the Shetland Islands.

Paige Patterson

This is definitely the most demanding role I've ever had. It's almost like a job. I've found myself having to do research and really work at this character. It's much harder memorizing lines when they're all in a thick Irish accent.

David Koo

This is an exceptional period of time for astronomy, because for the first time we are able to combine data from almost all of the important wavelengths.

Bill Gibson

This is really a great prize -- all the bowl games, flying on a private jet, staying in nice hotels. I'm a big college football fan so I'm looking forward to seeing some great games. I still can't believe I won. My sons put me in front of the computer almost a dozen times to register, and luck took care of the rest.

Kris Draper

You put Pavel in there, it puts us almost to the upper echelon to compete with the high-end teams.

James T. Walsh

Crooks move into disaster areas almost as quickly as relief workers do, ... These scammers will run every kind of rip-off, from conning people into signing over emergency benefits to signing usurious loans to fronting construction work that's never begun.

Andre Ward

Every time a fighter comes out to fight me, this is almost a world-title fight. This may be the closest he gets to the big time. So absolutely, I'm pumped and I'm ready for each and every fight.

Adam Carolla

I've never really broken this down before, but, in movies, you almost have no connection to fans. And if you do TV, you're kind of connected, but they know you as the TV name not your real name. If you do radio, there's more of a bond there. And then if you do a podcast it's like you're literally inside of your fans.

John Curran

As soon as they switched over, I knew it was Kristi on the ground. They said Kristi Yamaoka, and I was out the door. I didn't lock my door or anything.

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.

Tony Crescenzi

Greenspan opened the door to 50-basis-point rate hikes,

Clay Aiken

It's very rare that you get to go up and meet fans and especially at their house and surprise them. To come and knock on somebody's door is kind of a neat experience.

Nathan Fillion

It's very Jehovah's Witness. I'm not sure if anyone's actually going door to door, but it's not far off.

Lin Ezell

I want every marine who comes through the door to find something that relates to his or her career.

Lara Pulver

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

Angie Martinez

The fact that they're taking this service away is disheartening.

Steve Allen

I don't know that much about them other than the fact that they gave us a lot of trouble last year over at their yard.

Anil Kumble

I am disappointed but never regretted the fact that I was never given the opportunity to lead the Indian side. You can only be as good as the opportunities you get.

Sandra Anderson

I am humbled to be third. I am humbled by the fact that people who don't know me very well are willing to put their trust in me.

Ron Fujikawa

He is not a person of interest. We have received no indication he is somebody who will be called before a grand jury. We have received assurances that he is at most a fact witness.

Joe Paterno

He is a good football player. He is not a great football player. But the fact that he has gone through this I think has helped him with some other kids. He has been able to go to other kids and talk to them a little.

Mike Stevens

He doesn't highlight the things he thinks is fact and the things he thinks is fiction, so the reader hasn't any way of knowing.

Mark Parent

Other than a handful of games, we usually had a shot to win it at the end. That's called competing, and that's what our guys did. I'm really proud of the fact that they did that all year. They handled themselves like professionals.

Felton McClellan

Regardless of the fact that we lost everything materially, we are so blessed.

S. E. Hinton

Things were rough all over, but it was better that way. That way you could tell the other guy was human too.

Stephen Baldwin

I was always a God guy.

Sophie Turner

How can you not love Jack Gleeson? Hes amazing. Hes the nicest guy.

Tim Salmon

I'm trying to keep a good spin on it...But at some point you have to look at a guy like me and ask, 'How effective can I be if I'm not playing on a regular basis?'

Tim Tebow

I'm just another guy starting out.

Thomas Jane

Some of the supporting roles that I've done as an actor, I took them because I knew that I would get to watch some of the leading guys in the movies, and also I'd get to work with them.

Rebecca Loos

I have never farted in front of a guy I fancied before - I was so embarrassed!.

Vijay Singh

There are probably guys who could be superstars but aren't because they didn't work at it.

Victor Cruz

Some guys just slip under the radar.

Jim Hagan

Some legislators left the State House to join us and get on the right side of the issue,

Michael Chertoff

My own view is this, I've got to get my own house in order, ... I am not here to judge others. I did not have a problem with state and local officials.

Donna Freeman

My motto is this: The way you live in a house and the way you sell a house are totally different. If I were to put my house on the market, it wouldn't resemble where I live now. You want it to look like a model home.

Dan Hawkins

I might actually have them pull that house around the track.

Billy Corgan

I grew up in a house of no love or emotion - it kind of sticks with you.

Cecelia Ahern

There is absolutely nothing wrong with returning to the house you grew up in every now and again. It's good for the soul.

Carrie Brownstein

For a while I had somebody that came to clean my house that turned out to be in a band that I really loved.

Carrie Fisher

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

Bernard Berenson

[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.

David Miller

The performance of the stock is going to come down to the movies. It's that simple. And there are no sequels in store for next year.

Carolina Kluft

Everything I do is geared towards improving my next performance.

Peter Moody

We've got some work to do, ... but we'll go back and do that and get ready for the next one.

Hubert Astier

We have to plant new ones for the next centuries.

Jessie Evans

We have to live for today. We can't worry about next year.

Pat Metheny

If you come to my house, you won't see a wall of trophies or things like that. I'm sort of 'on to the next thing' all the time.

Larry Phillips

We'll work on it. We're going to try to get our numbers back up next semester.

Andy Reid

We will know a lot more in the next 48 hours.

Sidney Crosby

We want to use that as momentum. It's important to keep that going as we prepare for our next game.