Famous Quotes & Sayings

Theophile Gautier

Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Imelda May

I'm lucky to come from a very musical family. If you put a record on and turn the volume up, there's a pretty good chance you'll have a lot of people dancing very quickly.

Imelda May

Everybody told me that if I insisted on doing rockabilly music, I'd never have a chance of selling any records. In fact, I lost count of how many people told me to ditch it all together, in favour, I guess, of sounding like everybody else.

Ice T

When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting.

Ice T

'New Jack City' was a perfect marriage of music and film. They used a lot of musicians: myself, Christopher Williams. People that were popular because of their music were given the chance to act. And the soundtrack was incredible.

Gillian Armstrong

You rarely, in the professional world, have the chance to express yourself as an individual.

Venus Williams

If the sun comes up, I have a chance.

Bill Gates

If you're low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn't seem entirely fair.

Chino Moreno

A chance to work with the guys from Isis sounded like a lot of fun. I've always been into the atmospheric sounds they had created with that project and felt my sense of melody would meld well with theirs.

William Cullen Bryant

Wild was the day; the wintry sea Moaned sadly on New England's strand, When first the thoughtful and the free, Our fathers, trod the desert land.

Viggo Mortensen

I have never been in a natural place and felt that was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

Sorin Cerin

There is no greater desert than that of life.

Thomas B. Macaulay

He . . . felt towards those whom he had deserted that peculiar malignity which has, in all ages, been characteristic of apostates.

Margaret Atwood

In the desert there is no sign that says, Thou shalt not eat stones.

Baltasar Gracian

There is no desert like being friendless.

Arthur Symons

The desert of virginity Aches in the hotness of her mouth.

Benito Mussolini

I am not a collector of deserts!

Suzanne Somers

I was actually going to be a chef before I got sidetracked. I used to make deserts for restaurants as a young teenage mother to make money.

Will Davison

That was really disappointing. I was trying to stay out of trouble and gave him room to get by me, so to be taken out like that seems so pointless. It was very frustrating as we had moved forward and I think we could have scored some good points.

Dennis Hogue

That whole region is good. They've got two key midfielders, one really strong forward and one really strong defender.

David Peterson

We have a lot of young guys and new faces, ... I'm looking forward to seeing what we can do.

Paul Edwards

We need to have some forward thought with all of this development.

Marissa Jaret Winokur

I can honestly say - not proudly, but honestly - before I had a child, I would see things on TV or hear the news, feel sad for the people and move forward with my day. Now I see everything through a mother's eyes.

Dalai Lama

Time is always moving. The important thing is to learn from the past and then look forward to the future.

Steve Tew

We have a good relationship with the players and we look forward to talking with them again.

Terry Wallace

We wanted to have a look at him as a forward and see how he handled himself and I thought he went all right.

Paul Pierce

We've got something to look forward to next year.

Donald Trump

Ronald Reagan became, you know, not only a Republican but a pretty conservative Repub - not the most. But a pretty conservative Republican. And he's somebody that I actually knew and liked. And he liked me. And I worked with him and helped him.

Will Chase

In acting, you have to know that you are worth something. I knew I had some talent somewhere.

Clint Eastwood

I knew Billy Wilder socially and would have loved to work with him.

Neil Simon

Nathan Lane always wanted to play Oscar. When he came in the first day, he already knew his lines. He said he'd known them since he was 18.

Dan Hinds

That was the turning point right there. We knew right there we'd be able to punch it in.

Jeff Hawkins

That was the turning point right there. That's when we knew we had them.

George W. Bush

That woman who knew I had dyslexia: I never interviewed her.

Pam Schild

We have always been supportive of his decision. We knew he would never do anything half-heartedly.

Matt Baker

We could have won the game. We knew we were in position. We took a shot and lost on it.

Craig Brown

Michael Owen - he's got the legs of a salmon.

S. Hughes

I thought I was going to die, my legs were seizing up. And then when I could move, I started crying, I was just so happy.

August Wilson

I'm standing! I'm standing! My legs stood up!

Bebe Neuwirth

When I was born, they put casts on my legs 'cause I had some kind of dysplasia or something. My legs were all messed up.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I need to get back to work,” Patch said. He gave me a once-over that lingered a bit below the hips. “Killer skirt. Deadly legs.

Matt Lojeski

We get a little rest, get a lot of time to prepare, get our legs back a little bit.

Leon Bridges

My mother and my great-aunt told me stories, like how when my grandfather first met my grandmother at a party, he noticed her long legs and was like, 'Woo woo!' I like to incorporate those stories into my music. They just seem to fit.

Julie Miller

I think our legs just weren't with us in the final.

Andrew Griffin

We got fatigued (from the press). I think our legs started getting out of our shots and they were rimming out.

William K. Sessions

Looking back on my life, I wish I'd stepped forward and made a fool of myself more often when I was younger - because when you do, you find out you can do it.

Marshall Wittman

The overall problem the Republican Party has is it is increasingly looking like Tammany Hall, ... An odor of sleaziness is enveloping the Republicans and seeping into the administration.

Maurice Greene

The world record will come to me when I run the world record race. I'm just trying to perfect my race. I'm looking for perfection.

Pedro Almodovar

My first memory is of the eyes of my brother; he was looking at me all the time.

Steve Violetta

You are always looking for something that has the wow factor.

Diane Davey

We've had everything from 80-degree weather to snow on the ground. We're looking for two nice sunny days.

Sgt. Phillips

We're really wide open in terms of looking at some things.

Molly Smith

We're really looking at our target as urban nomads.

Julie Bell

We're really looking at decision-making and problem-solving at the same time.

Raymond Kelly

I don't stretch enough. I know I should do it more, and I'd like to do yoga, but I just don't have time.

Lewis Carroll

He taught us Drawling, Stretching and Fainting in Coils.

Joshua Bell

I think it's really important to always kind of stretch your boundaries and your limits and get out of your comfort zone. And for me, that's very important.

Nancy Brown

What it's going to do is stretch us thin, personnel-wise.

Doris Lessing

I am interested only in stretching myself, on living as fully as I can.

Geno Auriemma

She's stretching it out. She does whatever she has to do.

Brian Martin

We'll be able to stretch it (fuel) out a little.

Scott Spencer

They just outplayed us, and they had that stretch of 3-pointers in the third.

Catherynne M. Valente

I try to hurt myself, to sprain something, writing every novel and story, because I'm stretching for something new and difficult that I haven't done before.