Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katrina Bee

Keep the end in mind and focus on that. Say 'I am at my ideal weight of...,' not 'I want to be...'. Focus on what it would feel like to you to have achieved that goal; Get in touch with that winning feeling.

David Champion

Just one in ten of the vehicles we tested achieved fuel economies as good as or better than EPA estimates.

Amy Gutmann

Jodie Foster is an eminent Ivy League graduate who has achieved tremendous success and influence in the powerful entertainment industry.

Ron Gatewood

Juan not only achieved his flight instructor rating but also had an advanced instrument instructor rating. After six months as a charter pilot, Juan became an airline transport pilot. He accomplished all of this while working at odd jobs to pay his living and flying expenses. Without a doubt, Juan is one of the hardest workers I've ever seen.

Lindy Ruff

I think it's a heck of an accomplishment. It's a mark nobody would have expected at the start of the year. ... It's something they should be proud of.

Madelyn Fernstrom

It also is important to note that blood pressure reductions occurred in patients even though they remained obese with (a body mass index) in the 35 range, which is still not ideal, further suggesting that weight loss itself -- in this study, achieved through gastric bypass surgery -- can improve health outcomes.

Sol Campbell

He was a great guy, he knew what he wanted and achieved it in his own way.

Jay Blanton

He values merit-based pay systems that emphasize and recognize individual achievement and rewards it, rather than a collective, regulatory scheme that does not.

George Arzt

He created a record of achievement. But he also gives off an aura that the city is getting better.

Alex Guerrero

I was like, 'I can't believed I missed that.' It was a one-in-a-million that I'd miss that. That goal could have taken us to OT. I wanted to win this one. I'm so bummed out right now. This one was tougher than our last lost to them. We had our chances, and that's what kills me. We had more chances.

Marcia Angell

Just look at herbal remedies. It's essentially a throwback. It's saying you go to a plant and you mush it up and you stick it in the jar and you sell it and you eat it and it's going to cure what ails you. And that's the kind of stuff that people believed in the early 19th century.

Tony Bennett

I always believed that we were going to be here. I never gave up.

Zahir Raheem

I always believed in myself when nobody else would, ... I worked hard. It wasn't a gift. I earned it.

Harry Aleman

When he said that, I believed him, that he didn't send me here.

Bobby Gonzalez

I think a lot of people believed we couldn't do it. These kids just believed in themselves. (The double-bye) is very important for this specific team because of the lack of depth.

Dan Monson

I think it was a real credit to our guys that they believed in the game plan and how they had to play to win.

Mack Whittle

It happened by getting up every morning and doing what we believed in and what we had passion about.

Joseph Canizaro

I think we all believed there would be more happening than is happening right now. One of the key problems is jobs. You look at the housing situation, and the schools situation, and you wonder where businesses are going to find the people they desperately need to get things going.

Ken Trump

Kids are much more tech savvy than many adults anyway. The challenge is how do we narrow the gap between the two.

Sena Lund

I think it's a decent choice, and with the challenges Merck faces, they needed someone who knows the company and knows the environment,

Doug Hattaway

He is trying to define his own vision for all the voters, and that can be a tough challenge for a sitting vice president. In a way the vice president actually has more work to do in introducing himself.

Kevin McGuff

Harry does a great job coaching the team. They have a peculiar style - they play a very small lineup and everyone shoots the ball. It's a real challenge to defend them.

Lynn Solomon

Have fun, work hard be safe. And realize the difference between hating a class because it challenges you and hating a class because you just don't like it.

Robert Mugabe

Having restored land to the people... We have learnt a host of lessons, all pointing to the challenge of ensuring food security for the people.

Maajid Nawaz

Having our fundamental assumptions about life challenged is never a comfortable thing.

Bill Doba

He's a good receiver. He's tall (6-3), 210 pounds and runs well. It will be a real challenge for our defense.

Bret Bielema

He's a guy that didn't hesitate at all, just jumped right into the challenge and looked forward to the opportunity. He's definitely a big guy that can move around and do good things.

Matt Simmons

I was looking for (opportunities). It was determination - trying to find the smallest little hole to get to the basket. When they started coming back a little, we had to step up our game. We weren't really worried though.

Arthur Sullivan

I would suggest the people from other counties here, they do have emissions tests. Not waste their time coming over here.

Kevin Boyd

Katie is a creative, technical player who can impact a game from any position. She is easily one of the top players coming out this year.

Chuck D.

Joey is a phenomenal talent and his knowledge of the sport and athleticism are off the chart. Now everything is coming together for him.

Nick Saban

I talked to Ricky and Ricky still seems to be very, very interested in coming back.

Steve Nash

I talked to him before that, too, and his heart wasn't into coming back,

Nate Harris

I think it's a combination of a lot of things. We have a good arena, we always get a good crowd, and the travel is difficult for teams coming in here.

Michael Brown

I think I told him that we were realizing our worst nightmare, that everything we had planned about, worried about, that FEMA, frankly, had worried about for 10 years was coming true.

Sen. Bell

I think it deserves a full hearing before the full House committee. Secondhand smoke is not just an annoyance. It is a health hazard, and Virginians are coming forward every day to tell us this is something they want addressed.

Tim Cleland

This was one of the toughest, if not the toughest, fields we've had.

William James

The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the 'pure' experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.

Sara Sheridan

We can learn so much looking outside our core field of expertise.

Robert Southey

The pulpit is a clergyman's parade; the parish is his field of active service.

Marshall McLuhan

Arists in various fields are always the first to discover how to enable one medium or to release the power of another.

Lillian Hellman

failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.

Hayden Fry

We changed our image. At least when we ran out on the field or broke the huddle, we would look like winners.

John Major

Well British troops are superb in the field in terms of conflict.

Anthony Lewis

Americans who visit Tuscany or Umbria love the landscape: the silvery olive groves, the fields of sunflowers, the vineyards, the stone houses and barns.

Jerry Colangelo

He wants to win a gold medal. He said that very clearly. He said if asked, he would be honored.

Thomas Morgenstern

It is a dream. Two gold medals within two days.

George Babicz

He says his gold medal glows, and his silver medal sparkles.

Andrew Marvell

He hangs in shades the orange bright, / Like golden lamps in a green night.

Richard Barnfield

Gold is a deep-persuading orator.

Tracy K. Smith

time never stops, but does it end? and how many livesbefore take-off, before we find ourselves beyond ourselves, all glam-glow, all twinkle and gold?

Robert Plant

I can't moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl.

Samuel Johnson

The dangers gather as the treasures rise.

Virgil

The accursed hunger for gold.

Kay Redfield Jamison

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

Mack Strong

Just things that I've never experienced in my life.

Tom Arnold

I swear on my life that is true.

Quentin Blake

You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.

William Ellery Channing

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

Chris Stapleton

I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paintsville.

Cate Blanchett

It is so interesting when you meet an actor in real life and they look completely different.

Carine Roitfeld

I think when I became a grandmother my life changed a lot, and I think I changed personally.

Ron Shock

It has been a wonderful life for me. It's just been a blessing. I can't say I would have done it any other way. I have no regrets. I like what I do.

Bode Miller

The stuff after the Olympics was pretty aggressive.

Don Kardong

Prior to the 1976 Olympics, I was a 5,000m runner.

Andy Murray

For me, by far, the Olympics is the biggest sporting event in the world.

Cindy Klassen

The Canadians have really stepped it up these Olympics. It looks very promising for Vancouver.

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.

Jeff Buttle

If we can make it through the Olympics without any scandals, we'll be all right.

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.

William Safire

Gridlock is great. My motto is, 'Don't just do something. Stand there.'

Richard M. Nixon

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Walter Cronkite

Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.

Sandra Day O'Connor

It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.

Will Rogers

We all joke about Congress but we can't improve on them. Have you noticed that no matter who we elect, he is just as bad as the one he replaces?

Will Rogers

And, when the votes are counted, let everybody, including the candidates, get into a good humor as quick as they got into a bad one.

Will Rogers

Course, that's the trouble with politics, it breeds politics! So that makes it pretty hard to stamp out.

Zora Neale Hurston

The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.

Michael Ignatieff

In politics, there's a kind of literal-mindedness. It's what you say, not what you mean, and you have to say only what you mean.

Ryan Baker

I think it's from each other and pushing each other and having fun. If somebody does well, then we'll give him some support.

Arthur Johnson

We've got to push our way through. We need a new school.

Sally Ride

Studying whether there's life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there's something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. That's something that is almost part of being human, and I'm certain that will continue.

Grady Jackson

I'll be ready for Detroit. I just have to get the footwork down, get used to pushing and everything again.

John Niven

If pushed to say what I like about Elizabeth, who, as I'm sure most of you know, overtook Queen Victoria this week to become our longest-serving monarch, it would be her uncomplaining, getting-on-with-it ethic.

Alicia Keys

I push them (offensive lineman) out of the way to tackle someone,

Steve Raab

They want to have a competitive solution, but they don't want to push the transition now.

Mike Mihalus

They push themselves. You'll see one person out there alone, practicing.

Leigh Morris

This is going to push it up a little further.

Geoff Stults

In sports, every day you can be the hero or the goat.

Dick Enberg

He was the first superstar of sports television.

William Law

If you attempt to talk with a dying man about sports or business, he is no longer interested. He now sees other things as more important. People who are dying recognize what we often forget, that we are standing on the brink of another world.

Vinny Testaverde

First you have to spread on the rust performer, then you add a coat of protective enamel, and then you spray on the satin finish so you look good.

William Wilberforce

Watering places - the sports of the field - cards! never-failing cards! - the assembly - the theater - all contribute their aid - amusements are multiplied, and combined, and varied, 'to fill up the void of a listless and languid life;' and by the judicious use of these different resources, there is often a kind of sober settled plan of domestic dissipation, in which with all imaginable decency year after year wears away in unprofitable vacancy.

William Wordsworth

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

William James

Effort is a measure of a Man.

William Finnegan

Hawaii is the birthplace of surfing, and many Hawaiians or part-Hawaiians surf, but in the rest of the United States it's a pretty white sport.

William Gilmore Simms

The effect of character is always to command consideration. We sport and toy and laugh with men or women who have none, but we never confide in them.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Mona Singh

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.

John Shimkus

It is a bittersweet time for many of us to be here,

Jack Smith

It is a long season, we have a long time to get at them.

Lorrie Moore

I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.

Scottish Proverb

What may be done at any time will be done at no time

Lorena Ochoa

There is going to be a time when they come my way.

John Oates

I've been asked to do various types of cruises.

Kevin Hall

We will be considering the views of the various stakeholders.

Ed Gillespie

Our party may have swung too far right at various times.

William Wordsworth

We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.

Sargent Shriver

The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should.

Willa Cather

It is cremated youth. It is all yours--no one gave it to you.

Salvador Dali

The problem with the youth of today' is that one is no longer part of it.

Samuel Johnson

It is not easy to surround life with any circumstances in which youth will not be delightful.

Narendra Modi

Coming out of indecisiveness and being determined is the pre condition for being called young.

Ellen Glasgow

Cynicism is a sure sign of youth.

Joey Ramone

The Ramones own the fountain of youth. Experiencing us is like having the fountain of youth.

P. D. James

Youth goes caparisoned in immortality.