Famous Quotes & Sayings

Twyla Tharp

My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the world.'

Twyla Tharp

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Custard is controversial: what makes it a custard, how best to cook it and, crucially, is it to be eaten or put in a pie and thrown?

Yani Tseng

It's very easy when you have someone in front of you that you can chase. You want to be No. 1 but now I feel like I have to play well because everybody looks at you as a best golfer. So that's why I put more pressure on myself.

Thucydides

We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.

Timothy Noah

There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.

Thomas Friedman

I can see a day soon where you'll create your own college degree by taking the best online courses from the best professors from around the world - some computing from Stanford, some entrepreneurship from Wharton, some ethics from Brandeis, some literature from Edinburgh - paying only the nominal fee for the certificates of completion.

Idina Menzel

I used to take 40 minutes to warm up before going on stage. If you want to spend time with your child as well as having a career, you have to get up there even if your head's a mess. It's made me more relaxed, and I'm having some of my best shows.

Idina Menzel

I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'

Mosiuoa Lekota

will take the Ivory Coast into a dark period in which there is no clarity ...

Martti Ahtisaari

We have now come to the point when the clarity has to be sought from Yugoslavia,

Brad Smith

It finally gives us the kind of specificity and clarity that we need in order to work in a constructive way and to move all these issues forward.

Christopher Hill

we really need clarity on the principles, it is precisely the clarity that we are seeking. That is so necessary.

Robert Barnett

I have been in contact with HUD on more than one occasion. I'm going to meet with them in the next few months, and I hope to gain a little more clarity as to what HUD expects of us.

Sophia Drossos

What you really need for the yen to strengthen is some clarity on when ZIRP will end. ZIRP is key.

Sam Donaldson

He can take a story, compress it into nine or 10 words, and have a greater clarity and punch then when I write two paragraphs.

Michael Pond

I don't expect the market to gain momentum in either direction until it gains new clarity about the possibility of a May rate hike. The overall trend in housing demand remains relatively weaker compared with 2005.

Friso Abbing

if only to get as much clarity and transparency as possible.

Wynton Marsalis

What I've learned how to do as I've gotten older is to take all of the information that I have, and push it aside, and try to distill each song into an emotional theme. The hardest thing that I've ever had to learn how to do in playing music is use the sound of my instrument to create an emotional effect.

Laurie Pirtle

The overtime was an emotional issue. Our kids were shell-shocked that we were in that situation.

Ben Bass

The way I navigate scenes is through what I perceive to be the emotional truth of the character: what he wants from moment to moment.

Carl Rogers

The state of empathy, or being empathic, is to perceive the internal frame of reference of another with accuracy and with the emotional components and meanings which pertain thereto as if one were the person.

Carl Rogers

I realize that if I were stable, prudent and static; I'd live in death. Therefore I accept confusion, uncertainty, fear and emotional ups and downs; because that's the price I'm willing to pay for a fluid, perplexed and exciting life.

Carl Sagan

Curiosity and the urge to solve problems are the emotional hallmarks of our species ...

Carl Sagan

It goes with a courageous intent to greet the universe as it really is, not to foist our emotional predispositions on it but to courageously accept what our explorations tell us.

Anthony Storr

In a culture in which interpersonal relationships are generally considered to provide the answer to every form of distress, it is sometimes difficult to persuade well-meaning helpers that solitude can be as therapeutic as emotional support.

Bill Hicks

Sixteen years I've pounded my head against the mentality of America, which...I'd say it's about an 8th grade emotional level.

Gina Bellman

I think there was a petition online to get me involved in 'Doctor Who.' I'm not a 'Doctor Who' fanatic, but I am a Steven Moffat fanatic.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

Sometimes I'll be reading something online and just get so frustrated because of what people are saying.

Nev Schulman

The idea of finding your soul mate, whether it's online or not, is what people want.

Amy Heckerling

There's a whole vampire community online - those are some crazy people.

Kacey Musgraves

I do try to shop online and support people who hand-make their stuff, and because you can find stuff that nobody else has.

Timothy Simons

We live in a world in which whatever you do has a parody account online in moments.

Chris Moneymaker

Not having the online game has made it more difficult. There are a lot of young and upcoming players in poker. But you don't get to see them because TV has sort of been taken away.

Trent Reznor

I watch people, friends of mine, and see how they portray themselves online and I find interesting that it's kind of a hyper-real version of yourself, how you'd like to be seen, in a way.

Geoff Johns

The truth is, we're all cyborgs with cell phones and online identities.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

No, I never - no one ever - I never learned anything when I was a kid. Honestly, my parents had nothing to tell me - like, no wisdom, nothing.

C. S. Lewis

I will not be at the mercy of the telephone!

Bergen Evans

Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.

Bergen Evans

Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken.

Confucius

To know that you know, and to know that you don't know - that is the real wisdom.

Maurice Maeterlinck

The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Wisdom requires no form; her beauty must vary, as varies the beauty of flame. She is no motionless goddess, for ever couched on her throne.

Theodore Roosevelt

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.