Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Davidson

Often people don't really have an awareness of these really successful Scots. One of the ideas behind the award show was to throw a bit of a focus on Scots who have had stellar careers.

E. O. Wilson

After years of hard work, Simmons is proud to be awarded this accreditation for our National Consumer Study. The NCS is a thorough measurement of the American consumer; from the products we buy, the brands we prefer and where we buy them, to our attitudes, lifestyles and the media we consume. Our adherence to the MRC Minimum Standards earned this accreditation and our commitment to quality will continue to earn our clients support.

Rob Miller

The NAIA is extremely proud of Brandon and happy to award him the Dr. LeRoy Walker Champions of Character Award. Brandon is a great success story in and out of sports and a great role model for youth and representative for the NAIA.

Scott Hettrick

The movie got great reviews, then it got six nominations. That drove DVD sales through the roof, and it landed the big award (best actor for Foxx). That was really the perfect storm for Ray .

Bob Horner

The older you get, things like this become special. You value every moment and memory you have. When somebody bestows an award like this on you, you reflect. It's pretty special.

Mark Ellis

Somebody told us before the game he has better stuff than (Cy Young award winner) Johan Santana, ... He doesn't know how to pitch like Johan Santana yet. But once he does, he will be real good.

Jon Huntsman

It was tough to keep the tears back, quite frankly. As you pin the award on, you salute them shake their hands.

Anil Kapoor

In India I've been to all the award functions, but that was in Hindi; now it's in English so it's a much bigger scale.

Patricia Clarkson

See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.

Dudley Etheridge

North Edgecombe will definitely be up for us. We're the defending champions and we have to play like that.

Rasaan Powell

Coach kept telling us that we're still champions and to start playing like it. We finally did that in the second half.

Rick George

The thing that stands out most about the 2006 Champions Tour schedule is its strength and continuity of our sponsorships. Within the last two years, many of our title sponsors have signed multi-year tournament extensions. As a result, the Champions Tour enjoys a very strong underpinning, with some contracts extending as far out as 2010. Our sponsors are committed to this Tour, and the Tour and its players are committed to them in return.

Alan Shearer

After being knocked out of the Champions League, which was a huge disappointment, the players sat down, had a meeting and said that the only way to get over that defeat was to win the UEFA Cup. That situation hasn't changed.

Marie Osmond

These champions have overcome more than many of us can even imagine. Each testifies of the strength of these kids and the outstanding caregivers who have changed their lives.

Giacinto Facchetti

These don't even seem like real matches. And they're counterproductive for whoever sells the Champions League product as a whole.

Michael Ball

They are a club of Champions League stature and, when someone like Guus Hiddink calls, you listen to what is said.

Vanderlei Luxemburgo

The way we played here, we could win the league, the Champions League and the cup,

Barbara Harsha

There are very few highway-safety champions in Congress, and he is definitely one of them.

James Franco

As far as... what they've given me so far, in the last two movies -- I feel like I have the most kind of tortured character in the movies and so it's always great to play as an actor,

Kirk Kennedy

A waterfront project must fit our town's character.

Greg Rucka

That people can be threatened by a fictional character speaks volumes about them.

Sister Parish

Our American forebears included Cotton Mather and Oliver Wolcott, who signed the Declaration of Independence, and we were told that a strong wire of character stretched from them through all generations of our family.

Chris Mitchell

People say sports teaches character but that's not true. Sports reveals character and then the word of God can come into a life.

Indian Proverb

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Jimmy Tubbs

Once we got it to overtime, I felt decent about our chances. To force overtime was a credit to character and that we played extremely hard.

James Nesbitt

Actually, I played Pontius Pilate as nice. An actor spends his life thinking he is Christ, and then he gets to play the character that killed him.

Jonathan Dimbleby

The moment seemed right to me for a full and, if possible, authoritative portrait of the life and character of the Prince of Wales.

Roma Downey

People really feel the need to share how the series has touched their lives, and that's been very moving. We're enormously grateful to the fans of the show. They've been extremely loyal to us season after season, and they make it all worthwhile.

Tim Buckley

Dennis is the heart and soul of our team. We are extremely disappointed for him, however his health and future is important. Time is the major ingredient in his recovery.

Kevin Evans

The staff has been extremely professional and extremely helpful,

Gary Woods

The shrimp love the heat; they do extremely well here.

John Ovink

The Tampa office has always been extremely helpful in emergencies. It shows that immigration has a friendly face.

Harry Groves

The throws were extremely bad. They had the discus, but it was too dangerous, so we didn't even throw. It was one of those days.

Melissa Bane

The suit that Barnes & Noble filed was extremely poorly timed.

Mary Archer

I value the privacy of my home and personal life extremely highly and am prepared to take appropriate measures to protect it.

Wellington Mara

I wanted a football man. Now I'm extremely happy the way it turned out.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Austin Mahone

The British fans are very intense, maybe even more so than fans in the U.S.! They're great.

Buck Showalter

The big thing was Curt Schilling, he was obviously on top of his game. We ran into a great pitcher today. It's disappointing.

David Lewis

The big question is: Is it too little, too late? I think in great part, yes.

George Savile

A very great memory often forgotteth how much time is lost by repeating things of no use

O. J. Simpson

Aw, Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless.

Josh Page

Avon had a lot to do with our shooting stats. They played great defense. They took away our inside game.

Heinz Jungwirth

Austria has great relations with the IOC. We don't want to put anything under the table.

James Coleman

A truly great hug comes when you squeeze just hard enough to share a heartbeat.

Kelsey Grabiak

No, she was happy for us. She was really excited.

Robby Davis

We're happy with the jump we had. We've got work to do, but we're moving in the right direction.

Gary Cole

We're happy to see them. We hope they're here for a long time.

Rene Portland

We're happy to be here (at least) one more night.

Hines Ward

We're happy to be going to the Super Bowl, but we want to win. We plan to go there and win the whole thing.

Jud Honaker

We're happy to be able to help, and we wish them the best.

Randy Nelson

We're happy they're willing to sponsor us since we couldn't get sponsorship here.

Baruch Spinoza

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

James Kelleher

There are a lot of reasons why (Wall Street) just isn't happy about this restructuring.

Paul Kemp

That's what modeling does, it makes something real before it happens.

Robert Mintz

He was a model of contrition on the stand.

James Allan

It is a reasonable model which could be used in other ways.

Gigi Hadid

In California, I'm more of a beach chick, and I kind of take on a model city girl when I'm in New York.

Wade Lange

It's really a model for how to do these things.

John Mozeliak

It may seem like it, but it's not a strategy. Is there a risk to running that model year after year? Sure.

Shannon Elizabeth

When I was modeling, I worked out every day or other day.

Toshizo Tanaka

The IXY model sold well without steep discounts,

Nils-Axel Morner

Geologists don't do that! We go out in the field and observe, and then we can try to make a model with computerization; but it's not the first thing.

Ray Baumbach

I served because I wanted to. I was proud to be a soldier.

Tracy Byrd

The whole state of Texas has really stepped up on this thing, and I'm especially proud to be a Texan today.

Doug Light

That's what we've been working on. I was so proud of how we were patient.

Charlie Smythers

You're never satisfied. Like I told the guys, I'm disappointed. But we are very proud of the season we had. And I'm real proud of those guys.

Bai Ling

You have to be proud of who you are.

Asa Butterfield

I can clap really fast. I can beatbox. I can type the alphabet in under 2 seconds. That's probably the one I'm most proud of.

Dennis Eckersley

I'm proud of the fact that I pitched almost 3,300 innings.

Jane Garvey

We have, I am proud to say, successfully transitioned in a very uneventful way.

Britney Spears

Yes I'm a virgin and proud of it.

Benigno Aquino III

I remove a lot of the pressure from myself by saying I'm not competing with my parents. They are the persons who taught me my ideology. They actively practiced what they preached. They're the exemplars and the role models. So how does one compete with a mentor?

Eric Walters

I wrote my first 30 books as a teacher. I would read to my classes, and they'd give me feedback. I was trying to role model.

Carroll Quigley

In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible justification could be made that the activity was seeking to resolve a problem.

Charles Barkley

I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.

Asa Butterfield

For every role you get, there are five roles that you don't.

Ben Foster

The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict - conflict of interests.

Donna Mills

You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

It's always the script first choosing roles. [Then] whoever else is attached. I never like to be the first person attached, because I don't really trust what's going on, unless there's a really good director.

Anthony Hopkins

I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.

Brett Hull

I'm realistic. And realistically, I'm not that type of player that earns that type of money any more. So I'd be willing to take a little cut to get a couple of extra years.

Brett Hull

If you have an active mind, it always helps. You know, people who don't do crosswords, their minds fall asleep. That's why I do them-my mind is always working. One day my brain is going to explode through the top of my head.

Brett Favre

It's a difficult job to do, but that is why we do it. Only so many people can do it. But it, it enables you to... for a brief period of time to kind of get away. You have to go back and deal with, but it's a good escape.

Brett Favre

Well even before she was diagnosed with the cancer, I would have said that she was a lot tougher than me and most guys would probably say that about their wives and it's probably true in most cases.

Babe Ruth

I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

Babe Ruth

If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.

Babe Ruth

What I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me - all this I owe to the game of baseball.

Babe Ruth

Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

Ashton Kutcher

I don't understand shopping, it doesn't make any sense to me. As guys, we decide we want something and then we go out and buy it. Women go to the store having no idea what they're going to buy, or what they're even doing, it's like a whole different sport. It's like going to a football game to maybe watch a game. I don't get it.

Bob Freehan

This is not a new thing. It has been successful in other schools.

Brett Hull

I think the biggest thing for me is being able to adjust to the way the game has changed. It's basically a 180-degree turn from the style I like to play. That's what I think I'm most proud of, being able to fit into this style of game and still be fairly successful.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

It's even harder to stay at the top in sports than it is to get there.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

There are no shortcuts—everything is reps, reps, reps.

Bertrand Russell

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

Benjamin Disraeli

Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.

Brian Tracy

Make a decision to be successful right now. Most people never decide to be wealthy and that is why they retire poor.

Brian Tracy

Successful people save in prosperous times so they have a financial cushion in times of recession.

Brian Tracy

If you could find out what the most successful people did in any area and then you did the same thing over and over, you'd eventually get the same result they do.

Frank Melton

The whole thing with Walker was for his own protection. It had nothing to do with getting his testimony.

Charles McDonald

Even the slowest walker will be done by noon.

Red Herring

Walker Digital's going to be around for a long, long time,

Douglas Coupland

Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience.

Anita Brookner

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

David Cronenberg

All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true.

Confucius

A youth is to be regarded with respect.

Ambrose Bierce

Youth is Gilead, in which is balm for every wound.

Albert Camus

Youth is above all a collection of possibilities.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Thornton Wilder

He regarded love as a sort of cruel malady through which the elect are required to pass in their late youth and from which they emerge, pale and wrung, but ready for the business of living.

Thomas Paine

Youth is the seed time of good habits, as well in nations as in individuals.