Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gene Ween

A few years ago, one of our singles got beaten out by Better Than Ezra. The label could only have one band at a time being taken to the right people at radio, and they opted for Better Than Ezra instead of us. Who knows.

Yotam Ottolenghi

It's hard to beat the rough texture of steel-cut oats, with their slight resistance against the teeth.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

You can't beat a Diane Von Fostenburg wrap dress; I always tend to go for the wrap dresses with a little more structure. I also love Prada shoes.

Chuck Palahniuk

I think a lot of people saw 'Fight Club' and thought, 'Right, here's our next Che Guevara, here's our next Fidel Castro, here's someone who's going to wave the flag.' And I was like, 'No, it's just a book. And if I beat that drum, if I play that song one more time, I won't have a career.'

David Bailey

Instead of putting someone in prison for being a hooligan, give him a choice. He may have beaten someone up and he's got eight years, but tell him you can do eight years inside or spend five years in the Army. Put him in the Parachute Regiment, they'd soon sort him out.

Elliot Mintz

The overall tone of her being this kind of Menacing being who would send people out to beat people up, and things of that nature, I just find all of that to be absurd.

Willie Anderson

The penalties hurt us but it's not the reason we lost. We committed a lot of penalties in games we won by blowouts. We just got beat tonight. I think this is the kind of game we'll look back on later in the year and become stronger because of it.

Willie Anderson

The penalties hurt us but it's not the reason we lost, ... We committed a lot of penalties in games we won by blowouts. We just got beat tonight. I think this is the kind of game we'll look back on later in the year and become stronger because of it.

Brendon Urie

There was a kid that used to pick on me... he used to drop my food and beat me up in little corners. Nothing serious, but tease me. I remember knocking his food out of his hand one time when he in the middle of explaining something to his friends, and they all laughed, so I thought that was pretty nice. 'Well, there you go buddy.'

Timothy Noah

The central con of the political coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan and maintained by his successors was that government was a common enemy.

Ice Cube

South Central is just who I am. Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out.

Zubin Mehta

I endeavor that all orchestras I conduct sound Central European.

Christo

And the most unusual and surrealistic place in New York City is Central Park.

Bill Cosby

Comedy Central is what these young people are viewing. The network speaks to their audience, which is saying, 'Give me fast jokes. Give me party stories and party language.'

Noah Feldman

Every generation gets the Constitution that it deserves. As the central preoccupations of an era make their way into the legal system, the Supreme Court eventually weighs in, and nine lawyers in robes become oracles of our national identity.

Chris Nelson

The 1980s was the last decade of large suburban expansion. The '90s were a re-sorting era, with the central city gaining population after decades of decline. Now we're in a decade trending toward a fairly large-scale re-sorting of the housing market away from the far reaches of suburbia.

Stephanie Dietz

That was a good redemption game for us. The girls knew that they played poorly the night before and wanted to show Central what we are really made of.

Mark Shand

In the central Indian state of Orissa, mining has scarred the landscape, and it is already too late to secure most of the traditional elephant corridors.

Brad Goreski

I love my dad. There is no doubt about that. He is a wonderful man and a good person. Like many father/son relationships, we have our struggles, our misunderstandings, and our miscommunications. We are very different people, but also very similar at the same time.

Carrie Newcomer

Never doubt or question the power of love or one woman with a shovel.

Carrie Underwood

I don't want to listen to everybody's problems all the time. And I doubt anybody wants to listen to mine.

Antoine Rivarol

It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it.

Bertrand Russell

Tobacco . . . is not prohibited in the Scriptures, though, as Samuel Butler points out, St. Paul would no doubt have denounced it if he had known of it.

Ryan Sanchez

That was a tough one, no doubt about it. Afterwards, I told the kids to just keep their heads up. We have to move on.

David Hawkins

We need to increase capacity, there's no doubt about that,

Joe Bryant

We just didn't make the right decisions. We missed two or three point-blank shots. Could we have won the game? No doubt about it. They can be beaten.

Ray Winstone

Every job I take, within minutes I'm thinking, 'I can't do this.' I think it's what makes me work. People think I just swagger in and do it. But I doubt myself all the time. It's what pushes me, what makes me work harder. The older I get, the less I take for granted.

Yotam Ottolenghi

You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.

Yanni

The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.

Yanis Varoufakis

I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.

Thierry Henry

I've always loved New York; I've been visiting New York since 1996. People don't look at you like, 'What are you doing? What are you wearing?' There is also that thing that when people know that you have worked hard to get something, people have that respect for that here. You worked hard - good for you.

Iggy Azalea

I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.

Ice T

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

Idina Menzel

I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?

Idina Menzel

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

Ivar Giaever

Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.

Bill Hader

When you're performing, you're playing to the back row. With acting, you have to be more nuanced.

Rosario Dawson

That was something that we really worked on, not repeating ourselves. But I was like, 'This is not going to be a problem because I'm playing a woman.'

Chris Masoner

That was really important for us. We really wanted it ... It's so important for us to go into the playoffs playing like this.

Tiger Woods

We need to keep playing more in Ohio. It's that simple. We don't have enough tournaments here.

Kobe Bryant

We have to understand that we're not playing for right now; we're playing for the long haul. It's important to be patient. It will come.

Paul Eenhoorn

I walk into a scene, and I do the scene. That's my job. I don't have an objective. I have the words, and I have whoever I'm playing with.

Landon Donovan

We were getting slaughtered, ... We weren't playing well at all yet we're up, two-zero. But that's soccer.

Kevin Williams

We were still playing for a title, because we were playing for second.

Colby Armstrong

Typical Devils-type game. They wait for you to make a mistake. They've been playing that way for a long time.

Keith Primeau

From the travel standpoint, it's a lot better for the players. From the rivalry standpoint, it's a lot better for everyone.

Ryk Neethling

What makes it important is the kind of rivalry we've been talking about with Australia, with England, with New Zealand, with Canada.

Elbert Hubbard

Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.

Frank Robinson

A rivalry has to be cultivated. This, in time, could be.

Bruce Arena

This is probably the fiercest rivalry in the group.

Bill Womack

It's a pretty big rivalry all the way around I think. They want to come up here and play well, and we want to play well.

Aaron Williams

Honestly, you always have to put the teams with tradition up there, ... It's always a big rivalry for us.

Bob Hall

It's a rivalry from the old Westside League,

Justin Marshall

The rivalry between those two is on a different scale to the one New Zealand have with South Africa, which has more tradition and respect.

Arsene Wenger

I do not think about the national team too much because footballistically it is not of too much interest.

Arsene Wenger

I think in the future we need to look at our youth department to provide more players for the first team think it is important for a club to have a good amount of players that have roots with the club and region.

Arsene Wenger

One of the things I discovered in Japan was from watching sumo wrestling. At the end you can never tell who has won the fight, and who has lost, because they do not show their emotion because it could embarrass the loser. It is unbelievable. That is why I try to teach my team politeness. It is only here in England that everybody pokes their tongue out when they win.

Bill Bradley

We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly.

Bill Bradley

Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous

Roy Oswalt

The 20 wins is nice, but it's a whole lot better that this team is in the playoffs,

Craig Biggio

The '98 team was probably the most disappointing.

Aaron Small

The 7-0 thing is nice, but more importantly, it's a team win,

Jim Pace

That was the most disappointing thing about this game. We have a veteran team and we should know what to do in those situations.

Bob Lutz

That was a tough one for them to lose.

Paul Mainieri

That was a tough decision, but I think I would have done the same thing.

Dan Snyder

That was a tough day. We had ups and downs, but we worked it out.

Phillip Fulmer

We have a lot of work to do when we go back home.  It's a tough loss, but it's not the end of the season.

Tommy Lee

We need to regroup. It's been a tough road.

Jim Beattie

I think it would be very tough for him to come back in an Oriole uniform.

LeBron James

I thought I was in the right position. It was a tough call.

Tyler Arnason

We've talked, and we've come to the understanding that he wants more from me. It's been a tough year on all of us.

Flip Saunders

We made him take a lot of tough shots.