Famous Quotes & Sayings

Whitney Cummings

I remember my agent at ICM at the beginning of my career telling me that I wasn't pretty enough, that I was always going to be a quirky sidekick. And he was an ogre of a man. He should have been carrying a torch. If he was in a bar, he couldn't have come near me, and then he was deciding my fate.

Ursula K. Le Guin

It did not matter, after all. He was only one man. One man's fate is not important. "If it is not, what is?" He could not endure those remembered words.

Robert Hunter

Don't waste the breath to save your face, When you have done your best, And even more is asked of you, Let fate decide the rest.

Vladimir Nabokov

We hasten to alienate the very fates we intended to woo.

Zedd

Fate does not always seek our consent.

Ehud Barak

their own fate and the fate of their families, their children, all of us.

Andrew Lebow

The fate of these seven refineries -- you don't know how long they'll be out for.

Neal Stephenson

It is the fate of operating systems to become free.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Our destiny and ultimate fate depend upon our daily decisions. . . .Tomorrow's joy or tomorrow's despair has its roots in decisions we make today. . . . Those who stand at the threshold of life always waiting for the right time to change are like the man who stands at the bank of a river waiting for the water to pass so he can cross on dry land.

Tucker Carlson

I wouldn't say I'm happy now. My skepticism is warranted, given what I've seen over the decades.

Muhammad Yunus

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

James Salter

I think you can be taught to write. You can't be taught to be a good writer. For that, you have to bring something to it, yourself, something that can't be given to you.

Jerry Stracke

We're pretty balanced. I think that is what has gotten us this far. We have different players that can step up on any given day. It makes it hard for other teams to play us because we are so balanced.

Ed Comeau

We talk about winning as a team and on any given night we think we have the talent to get all our guys scoring. We want that type of balance; we don't want to rely on (Grant) and Willy to score seven between them.

Maria Semple

I think a novel has to be about where you are at a given moment in time. I think it really needs to represent some specific pain you're going through. it's not just a story.

Ken Hitchcock

I think that it's given a lot of people, including myself, time to pause and reflect,

Kazuo Inamori

I think that is the opportunity that is given by this event.

Phil Rosenthal

Laughs are in characters, and no time is being given to establishing them.

Bill Freeman

Just patriotism, ... No matter what went down, we were supporting our own nation and land.

Doug Miller

He comes up with a lot of big plays no matter where you put him.

Sally Field

The only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

Sloane Crosley

Going to a museum is one of those inexplicably tiring things. You're not actually doing anything, more shifting your weight from room to room than walking. And yet it is one of the more tiring things one can do, no matter how thrilled you are by the exhibits.

Brian Beckwith

His success is all to him. It's all a matter of how he thinks each night and how he prepares for each game.

Arlen Specter

I think it's more a matter for them than us because we've got ... a lot of matters which take precedence over this for our own time,

Rocky Juarez

I think it's just a matter of time before I get a shot at a world title or an opportunity to be back on television.

Steve Parrott

I think it's a matter of, that's the market.

Charles Grassley

I think it's a matter of accommodating people who see unfair competition,

Mike Kemp

I think that might have been a turning point in the game.

Ben Kay

I was worried I might end up on a pizza advert.

Fred Couples

Unless we get rain to soften it up, if it's windy then 2 or 3 under might not win.

Siri Hustvedt

Hysteria is something that I've been interested for a very long time. I thought I might have it, but it seems that it's unlikely.

Mike Hargrove

He might as well have been wearing a sandwich board, with 'Eat At Joe's' on one side, ... and 'I'm bunting' on the other.

Richard Paul Evans

Maybe, if we just accepted our deaths, we might finally start to live.

Richard Dawkins

I might respect you as a brilliant intellect, runner, musician or juggler. But respect your BELIEFS? Only if they're supported by evidence.

Samuel Beckett

All the things you would do gladly, oh without enthusiasm, but gladly, all the things there seems no reason for your not doing, and that you do not do! Can it be we are not free? It might be worth looking into.

Salman Khan

If the film is a hit then everyone shares the success. If it is going to be a disaster then it might as well be because of me, not because of somebody else.

Hope Schulte

I don't know what was going on. It just seemed like everything was just going in for me. I just did what I usually do, and (the shots) just seemed to fall.

Chris Williams

It went very well. It seemed to be pretty straightforward.

Nina Alimpic

It seemed to work for her, not for me if I talk.

Gregory Allen

It seemed to me that he was there for her.

Matt Foy

It was unbelievable. Everything just seemed to click. It seems like everything I did went right.

Aaron Miles

It was a long possession. It seemed like 20 seconds.

Fred Williams

I didn't see any survivalists; it seemed to be more for profit.

Lisa Tuttle

I can't remember a time when I didn't write or make up stories, because it seemed to come with reading.

Leonard Maltin

What she said seemed to matter. She provoked response, discussion, arguments. She was so passionate.

Brad Richards

I would say it was one of the better teams I've seen.

Trey Smith

Just the way they work together was really unique. A lot of other teams don't have that.

James Spithill

Going to the gym on my own I struggle with, but when I'm in there with a teammate or a group of guys, it's the ultimate environment.

Alejandro Canizares

He's a valuable player. He's one of the top three on the team, so we had a much weaker team this week.

Sergei Samsonov

He's a terrific player. He's tricky. He makes a lot of plays. He makes that team a lot better. Him being out of their lineup works to our advantage.

Matt Wichorek

I was down on myself. Our team was all over the place.

Stephen Cervantez

We treat every team the same. We just try to play our game.

Jeff Bourne

We?re now a team that is a threat to them walking away with a win.

Larry Pearson

Today in the Busch Series, the independent, one-car team doesn't have a chance.