Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wayne Dyer

Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts that weaken you.

Jonah Rapino

It seems like it's the classic of classics. I think we had been avoiding it for a little while.

Bob Dozier

It's a tough area. South of the school, there are high- and upper-middle-class citizens - lots of doctors, lawyers, teachers and principals. North of the school, where Jerome lived, you have the inner city. It's a pretty tough area. Jerome and his parents did a great job avoiding the pitfalls of that.

Jon Daniels

Avoiding the arbitration process for the next two years with a core player such as Mark is an important step for both he and the club. We're hopeful the contract is the continuation of a relationship that will last well beyond the term of this agreement.

Bob Motzko

That (pass) was a great play. You guys have been following me with Hooton, and I just can't explain it. He just can't get points. I've never seen anything like it and I can't figure it out because he doesn't have a lot of flaws. He's got great hands, shoots well and competes his tail off, but he's just got a way of avoiding points.

Fred Thompson

That should be an example for us: You can't buy peace by just wishing it and avoiding the challenges that other nations present to you.

Boethius

If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.

Dave Marzano

We could very well be 3-1. With a couple of breaks or avoiding some costly errors, we could be off to a strong start.

Jennifer Rowland

We do not think Murphy is out of the woods yet operationally and still recommend avoiding the stock.

Courtney LaVere

Knowing it's the end of the season and the end of my career possibly, I don't want to regret anything.

Walt Jocketty

I would think it's a good fit, ... but that's not something for me to decide. He started his career there, and he's obviously one of the top managers in the game that's not employed as a manager. Jim is going to manage somewhere in 2006. Definitely.

Jim Fuglie

He dedicated his professional career to kids, and his retirement years to volunteer work, especially work with the credit unions.

Colin Lee

He scored two vital goals for us but was unlucky that we had to play him out of position and he should be able to further his career elsewhere.

Lance Armstrong

I think it's better that way. I'm happy with the way my career went and ended and I'm not coming back.

Flip Saunders

It didn't matter if (Bryant) had 50, 40, 20, 10 ? the idea was for us to win. The idea was not to try to expose our defense where all the sudden, you have other guys that have career games.

Ricky Proehl

I was just mad because if it was earlier in my career I would have scored. Parts were starting to fly off of me a little bit. I was trying, praying, and hoping to get in, but at 37 years old, it just kind of catches up with you a little bit.

Nick Ferguson

He's going to be dancing with a hot woman. Who wouldn't want a second career like that?

Caron Butler

He's followed my career through high school, college and through the NBA. You want somebody who knows your game inside out, who knows what you like to do in certain situations. I'm excited about this opportunity and truly blessed.

Evan Bayh

This proposal emphasizes accountability. That is something that is long overdue. The fragmented structure that my colleagues have mentioned has prevented us from having accountability,

Johann Rupert

When I tell my colleagues that I remember 1969, 1974 and 1987, their eyes glaze over, but I'm afraid I do remember them, and I therefore err on the side of caution.

Tim Palmer

My colleagues are developing our methods for Zimbabwe, South Africa, Swaziland and Zimbabwe. Some research is being done for the more complex terrain of Kenya, though here the results are less well developed.

Joanne Harris

I was convinced I'd hate Twitter - but I've come to like it very much. I use it mostly to keep in touch with friends and colleagues I wish I could see more often - I sometimes feel a little isolated living in Yorkshire, and it's nice to have the contact.

Martin Meehan

At a time when so much of the world questions our commitment to our own values, I urge my colleagues to show the American people and the world that we will defend our country but we will do so in a way that protect those rights that make it worth defending.

Nick Park

My colleagues and I have to constantly remind each other that we must keep our own view on the world while making films. With 'Chicken Run,' we learned how easy it is to be influenced by outside forces, but you mustn't lose the heart and soul of what you are doing.

Roddy Smith

We would be delighted to share our experiences with our colleagues south of the border.

Ted Manning

I think it's a great concept. It's something unique to the market and something that hasn't been done before. I think they've created a niche people are going to understand.

Michael Cohen

I think it's a giant waste of money. I don't see a huge (environmental) downside to it, but the science still doesn't show whether it actually works. If they can create another 1.1 million acre-feet of water, that's a huge amount. I wish them luck.

Billy Donovan

He created and made some things happen. He made some very timely 3-point shots when they were trying to make a run.

Gilbert Arenas

He (Davis) bailed me out a little bit. Because then I'd have had to try and create and finish over a big man, which I probably would have done.

Eva Saint

He left it to me to create the character. Sometimes he would have a comment, and it was always right on the mark. Hitchcock worked the same way.

Jared Leland

What you have here is an equal protection issue. There is a trend in land use to prefer entities that create tax revenue and jobs.

Paul Parker

What will reinvent Alpine is if we create too many rules, create too much of a scene that obscures the value of a very cool, elegant, free sport.

Bob King

What we want to do is create a reference guideline.

Mike O'Cain

What we want to create with SSF is doing it the sportsmanship way.

Will Ferrell

I would tend to shy away from that, only because hosting those type of things is an extremely difficult task. I'd rather watch at home.

Speedy Claxton

He's a great player and he made some difficult shots for them.

Jeff Ruland

He's got the heart of a lion. We have a difficult task in front of us.

Jay A. Sekulow

I think they'll have a difficult time getting a filibuster. You have to be realistic here.

Chip Hanlon

He's going to find it difficult to distance himself from his printing press comments.

Andrew Friedman

He's doing well. I think the most difficult thing he faced was preparing to play games on March 7 and trying to rehab at the same time. I think the rest has helped a lot.

Craig Jackson

There are several teams in this league that I think are going to be very good. And I feel like we're going to be one of the them. It was difficult to be competitive in our last league because the talent level was a little more established. I think we can be very competitive in this league.

Charlie Cox

The rain made it difficult at times for the golfers. It made it difficult because you couldn't judge how hard to hit your ball.

Ben Braun

When they're scoring, they're a very difficult team to beat.

Tony Raines

Knowing how we ran early in the race and how I think we could have run, I was disappointed. But at the same time, I went there knowing I was going to race for a finish. I didn't race anybody.

Rich Brands

Just looking at their results, I think it will be a pretty even match. We want to come out and not make any mistakes early on. We want to try and exploit some of the free kicks and throw-in stuff we've been working on.

Isaac Stern

His style of playing, particularly in his early years, was a stunning patrician elegance with a very natural musical line which fitted the style of whatever composition.

Ned Yost

His workload has been real heavy. To be thrown into that, even though you're big and strong, it's still a little early to have that type of pressure put on you.

Ben Dell

It could be better than the Barnett. It's in the early days, and I don't think the investment community's really woken up to that yet.

Rob Schimmoeller

I thought we set the tone early defensively.

John Gibbons

I thought Wright looked really good. It looked like he got his fastball back. We didn't see that early in the year.

Drew Stafford

I think when they got out to an early lead it was tough for us to get back on track, but we did. We battled to the end, but when you get down like we did right away, it is hard to get back into it. I'm really proud of the guys for sticking with it.

Roy H. Williams

We talked about this (entering the draft) as early as January and Rashad was able to maintain his focus throughout the season. I think he will be remembered as a player who helped us win a national championship and as a nice young man.

William Feather

Getting along with others is the essence of getting ahead, success being linked with cooperation.

Rodney Carrington

If I do the same act that I did in 1995, in essence you're saying (in a robotic voice), 'My mind has never changed'

William Arthur Ward

The essence of life is to care. The beauty of life is to give.

Wyclef Jean

No matter how far you go, if you can't go back to the essence, you're not sayin' nothin'. The essence for me is hip-hop. But the hip-hop community I came up in isn't a loyal community.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Melody is the essence of music.

Ansel Adams

In some photographs the essence of light and space dominate; in others, the substance of rock and wood, and the luminous insistence of growing things...It is my intention to present-through the medium of photography-intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to spectators...

Mike Leigh

It's important to be true to the events, but the most important thing is to get to the essence of the experience. Not to be bogged down in an academic way by a notion of the truth. First of all, the truth is an illusive and spurious concept.

John Stevens

the essence of the game has been shot-making.

Marva Collins

The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.

Jonathan Spira

Knowledge sharing and collaboration are a key foundation of research and development.

Sakie Yokota

I survived this hardship for 20 years until I found out she had been abducted by North Korea.

Aaron Boone

He's a good dude. I found that out right away. Obviously, he's going to be a good player, and he knows how to act, too. I want to be there to help him out. But I don't want to overkill him with Johnny Veteran stuff. We're all men here and we're all teammates here. Plus, I like him.

Justin Scott

He's a very good player, a very good player. I found out he couldn't go right, so toward the end of the game I tried to make him go right. We tried to go around screens and help a lot.

Kyle Lowry

He shot horrible -- not horrible, but not as well -- last night, and we still found a way to win. This is what this team is made of. If everything is not going our way, we still are going to find a way to get the win.

Jan Roberts

He's a wonderful person. He's a positive role model for all these kids. He found his passion and worked for it.

Navtej Sarna

There is need for genuine dialogue. The solution has to be found by the people of Nepal through a peaceful but political settlement. We are ready to help in any way we can.

David Chang

I think we were lucky on that one and found it pretty quickly. If you had a large infestation, you probably couldn't get rid of it.

Geoffrey Russell

I think it started a little slow, but I think then it found its pace.

Chris McConnon

Having three lines has helped us out a lot." ()

Willy Taveras

It helped my body, ... My wrist is not sore anymore, and I'm not tired.

Jessica Smith

I learned a lot from them and it has helped my offense and mainly my passing. I have made all-around improvement.

Frank Thomas

You know, I went through a very public divorce. He helped me out in a spot there, of course. But it was nothing loaned. It was more of my contract.

Linda Jay

These GDP numbers helped us out a lot.

Willie Randolph

Any time you have to be helped off the field, you're not going to make your next start.

Mike Williamson

It's helped us in a lot of areas.

David Gore

It's helped greatly. Now we can talk about things. Before we just we didn't go there. We didn't talk about them. Now it's more open. It's helped her a lot.

Pete Johnson

It's helped a lot. It really made a change.

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.

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.

Geno Auriemma

I think this is the first time in my life I have been rendered speechless.

Sylvia Fraser

It is one of the ironies of my life and in many lives that whenever you are the happiest, all of this stuff from the past will come pushing up and demand to be noticed.

Jason Robert Brown

I think that when you write for stars, I think that you have to be very specific about what they do beautifully and let them bring it to life.

Sophie Winkleman

I tried to go to the gym a while ago and hurt my foot. I thought, 'Well, exercise and I just aren't meant to be.'

Bill Walton

It is a big deal, because it is money and it's money we always meant to be able to pay (the state), but the money was never there to pay them.

Lorraine Kelly

I think we were meant to be painting outside originally,

Joe Wilcox

It is meant to be an idea factory.

Josh Harding

I went outside and talked to Manny a bit. He said that every goalie has to go through it. It meant a lot for me that he was there.

Peter MacKay

This was not meant to be a slight to anyone.

Shawn Williams

It's like this team was meant to be together.

Karl Pilkington

I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.

Kim Novak

And I went through a lot of detours and I took a lot of roads and things so yes, that's all there, but it's not meant to be shocking or telltale.

Rodney Melville

I will look for ways to restrict testimony.

Shayne Ward

I have been to see a specialist and they have told me that singers often suffer from this problem, but that it's nothing to worry about and that I need to rest my voice for a week or so.

Wasim Akram

First of all, convince yourself that you are the best because the rest of your life is going to go proving this to others.

Alain Vigneault

Rest is as important as anything else right now.

Richard Sanchez

I just talked the whole time and didn't let them rest,

Meg Mallon

I'm going to take the saddle and spurs off, and let Rosie have a rest.

Nick Swisher

You can't really look at what other teams are doing. The rest of the season's in our hands.

Jeff Arnold

They will probably be there the rest of the week,

Jody Williams

The rest of the time is up to the rest of us,

Tim Hudson

There's more than one way to do things. There's always different points of views and styles of pitching.

Sarah Brown

The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.

Kim Brown

It could be synergistic, to buoy the success of that program,

Jim Beattie

He's getting away from what made him a successful pitcher.

John Gibbons

He does all the things successful lefties do,

Rob Reiner

You never know if anything is going to stand the test of time or going to be successful.

Richard Dawkins

The replicators that exist tend to be the ones that are good at manipulating the world to their own advantage. But other replicators are also successful otherwise they would not be common. The world therefore tends to become populated by mutually compatible sets of successful replicators, replicators that get on well together

Rebecca West

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

Ron Conway

As an investor I cannot tell that. We cannot predict the success or failure.

Troy Vincent

Together we knew that we could have success.

Amy Jordan

I wanted to do something totally out of the ordinary,

Janet Johnson

When I got the assessment, I went into total meltdown.

Keith Olbermann

And the White House, totally off the script.

Marcia Gay Harden

They tell us in magazines and in ads, 'Oh, you should look like this, you should wear this, you should look like this movie star, or you're nothing.' And so we're all totally unsatisfied.

Iain McGilchrist

We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000.

John Howard

She was very distressed. She was very angry, she was very upset, and all of that is totally understandable.

Andray Blatche

Right now, I'm totally back, because I can do everything.

Albert Young

But we had 500 or something total yards, so we're not about that.

Ronnie Spector

From that first meeting, I totally loved working with Joey, it was a real collaboration.

Jonas Jennings

Have you ever tried to write with one hand?

Jim Gallagher

I didn't get a sense of what the temperature is on that. I tried to allay the fears, and there are significant fears.

Nate Robinson

I am going to go at him (Iverson). I am going to make him play defense. That is what I tried to do tonight.

Marc Grossman

had some questions, we tried to give some answers... it was not negotiations.

Travis Garrison

I just tried to do what I could.

Kwame Brown

I just tried to play the right way.

Bill Laimbeer

I tried hard, it was close, but it didn't happen.

Tom Johnston

I tried to deport him once because he's Canadian.

Jeremy Shockey

I tried it their way and now I wanted to try it my way,