Famous Quotes & Sayings

Theophile Gautier

Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Imelda May

I'm lucky to come from a very musical family. If you put a record on and turn the volume up, there's a pretty good chance you'll have a lot of people dancing very quickly.

Imelda May

Everybody told me that if I insisted on doing rockabilly music, I'd never have a chance of selling any records. In fact, I lost count of how many people told me to ditch it all together, in favour, I guess, of sounding like everybody else.

Ice T

When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting.

Ice T

'New Jack City' was a perfect marriage of music and film. They used a lot of musicians: myself, Christopher Williams. People that were popular because of their music were given the chance to act. And the soundtrack was incredible.

Gillian Armstrong

You rarely, in the professional world, have the chance to express yourself as an individual.

Venus Williams

If the sun comes up, I have a chance.

Bill Gates

If you're low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn't seem entirely fair.

Chino Moreno

A chance to work with the guys from Isis sounded like a lot of fun. I've always been into the atmospheric sounds they had created with that project and felt my sense of melody would meld well with theirs.

Jennifer Glass

The allegations are entirely without merit and will be defended vigorously.

Eric Davis

Mike got his turn (on Thursday). He hadn't played much lately but he went out there and defended the heck out of people.

Andy Palmer

(Williams) was a handful because of the way we defended him. We just tried to switch everything on Terrill and make sure we had a hand in his face.

Jimmie Johnson

I thought if I could get to the outside of Matt, I had a shot. But as soon as I got outside him going into the first turn, the tires started chattering and I knew I could have a problem. Once I knew I couldn't get past him to the outside, I defended second.

Larry Brown

I was thrilled. The young kids have been working hard and it shows. They played together well and they defended well, made some big plays and that's a reward in itself.

Dave Hollenbeck

I was happy with the way the guys played tonight, they played hard, and I thought we defended well at times.

James Davis

We dropped passes and there were times I thought he should have thrown the ball. I don't know if they defended him or if he defended himself.

Jimmy Dowell

We played much better as a team this weekend. We defended and finished much better. Now it's time for district. These are the matches that count.

Eddie Jordan

We played a very good team tonight. They were at .500 and they're very competitive so our guys played well. We have to play smarter at times, but for the most part we defended very well and we shared the basketball.

Victor Hugo

The peculiarity of prudery is to multiply sentinels, in proportion as the fortress is less threatened

Heinrich Himmler

I would like to give it a name: it is the great fortress of Europe.

Marguerite de Valois

It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Ian Mckellen

I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'

Gene Ween

Forty minutes in front of Beck isn't really where it's at.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I'm a guy of 92kg. I haven't got the physique of someone who can work back and then sprint up front again throughout a match!

William Shatner

The problem is I don't know anything or anyone. I am so focused on the immediate picture in front of me.

Emilia Fox

Every day I fantasise about situations and little themes I see in front of me that would make a good beginning of a story. But one has to be disciplined and just sit down and do it.

David Stern

All I can say is you don't know what's going to be on the front page of tomorrow's newspaper. So I take no joy in what happens to another sport, whether it's about a perfect game or an issue of conduct.

David Horsey

Global warming is the foreboding thunder in the distance. Ocean acidification is the lightning strike in our front yard, right here, right now.

Christopher Guest

I rarely joke unless I'm in front of a camera. It's not what I am in real life. It's what I do for a living.

Clint Eastwood

In 'Changeling,' I tried to show something you'd never see nowadays - a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest.

Ian Mckellen

I'm only an actor. I'm not a writer. I'm not going to leave any legacy. All I've ever done is learn the lines and say them.

Gloria Gaither

When we're in trouble, it's usually a line from a song that saves us. I wish it was sermons, but, I'm sorry, it's not. When you're in crisis, what comes to mind is 'O love that would not let me go.' You know?

Clive Thompson

A textbook requires a consistent sense of style and a linear structure, hallmarks of a single authorial presence. An encyclopedia doesn't.

Cecelia Ahern

Any tightrope walker can walk in a straight line and hold a cane at the same time. It's the balancing on the rope at those dizzying heights that they have to practise

Carrie Vaughn

I punched to line. "Yes? What?" "Norville. It's Cormac. If you don't change the subject right now, I'm going to have to go over there and have a word with you.

Carrie Fisher

Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.

Carrie Fisher

My favorite films are ones that have my lines in it, and I like those lines. And I like to hear them.

Sidney Crosby

That would be unbelievable, but I'm not going to have any expectations going in. I'm not sure how the lines are going to shape up but, if I had the opportunity, it would be a dream.

Bryant McKinnie

That will make our line a lot better, especially having Birk back. Having (Hutchinson) next to me is going to make me a lot better.

Mark Tinker

With the multiple storylines and recurring characters, they took storytelling for the masses and made it into something sophisticated, intelligent and emotionally complicated.

Kevin Eastler

We're talking 100 miles a week, which is significant over what I used to do.

Kyle Busch

Literally, I swear we could run 600 miles on this tire, I don't think we're going to need pit stops, the tires are going to be that durable.

Michael Smith

You always have people going past me going 60 to 70 miles per hour.

Dirk Benedict

I have my routine. I'm running 3 or 4 miles a day.

Torii Hunter

He was throwing gas. He was throwing 96, 97 miles an hour.

James Logan

I'd just say make sure you go 10 miles per hour, then 40.

Allan McNish

I don't do much driving - about 5,000-6,000 miles a year. And most of that is to the airport and to the racing circuits.

Steve White

We want more people using the trail systems. We've got miles of trails. Let's use them.

Jason Biggs

Anyone wanna buy my Malaysian Airlines frequent flier miles?

Don Miguel Ruiz

For thousands of years, there have been lies about being gay or not being gay. If you know they're lies, you're free.

Jake Shulaw

He's doing a lot more wrestling now. But sometimes it comes back because he's drilled in thousands and thousands of times.

Eddie Compass

thousands of people, who want to voluntarily evacuate at this time.

Ron Redmond

There are tens of thousands in there who are probably going hungry,

Mark Schultz

Wrestling will be around forever. It's been around thousands of years. It's going to be around till the end of time.

Kay Nehm

There will be thousands of dead. You will all think of me.

Hal Lindsey

Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

I don't want any more vicissitudes, I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I've had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.

Gordon Strachan

Twenty years. They've crept up on us. They've gone, just like that.

Bob Dylan

Twenty years of schoolin' / And they put you on the day shift.

Benjamin Franklin

At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wife; and at forty, the judgment.

Jane D. Hull

In twenty years, the Lottery has raised over $1.4 billion. It has been run successfully and efficiently.

Randeep Hooda

I think 'method acting' is a widely abused term.

Willie Parker

I thought it was going to come back to me. But Hines was wide open.

Larry Krantz

When it's all said and done, it's probably going to be more than $10,000 because it's pretty wide spread.

Quentin Moses

With me, with my decision, I'm wide open.

Anthony Brown

If they're going to have that rule, they should make wider streets.

Eskinder Nega

I am jailed, with around 200 other inmates, in a wide hall that looks like a warehouse.

Richard Hyung-ki Joo

We write for those who get the musical jokes. But for those who don't, there is always something else going on. That's why we have such a widespread audience.

John McCarthy

His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.

Jamie Redknapp

Arsenal's width comes from wide areas