Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scottie Somers

A wise man once told Me that an overnight success takes 10 years. But I may not have 10 Years. I might have to settle for a naptime success.

Edward Fitzgerald

Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! / That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close!

Baltasar Gracian

At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing.

Marcus Terentius Varro

What, if as said, man is a bubble.

David Packard

Management by Walking Around

Robert Green Ingersoll

The American people do not like neutrality. They would rather a man were on the wrong side than on neither.

Tyrus Thomas

Let them think what they want. Like my big man said, we are still hungry, we still have a lot more to prove.

Pius Ncube

Let the man get banished if you don't want Zimbabweans to die,

William Shakespeare

Let every man be master of his timeTill seven at night.

Claudio Fava

Somebody paid the bill. But this is my question: Who paid?

Kathleen Sebelius

If your voices are not heard, you can be sure that many others will be - in particular those who are paid to present a point of view, and often do it most effectively.

Marvan Atapattu

He's been doing a lot of work on his fielding and tonight it paid off in a final.

Russ Adams

He doesn't talk as much as (Hudson) did. But it's all really the same techniques we're using. It's all about repetition and getting to know each other. We're out there every day before and after practice getting our work in and the work has paid off.

Mary Bennett

I paid $400 for these seats and they are no good.

Robert Blake

Paid him? ... Don't put words in my mouth, junior.

Jacques Martin

We did some of the little things well and that paid off tonight.

Walter Dean Myers

I didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school. They don't say Shakespeare got a check.

Fabio Barbosa

We have that right and we paid for it. We're not going to give it up without compensation.

Phil Simms

The team performed even better than I thought they would,

Brian Tracy

Persistence is self-discipline in action.

Jamie Redknapp

I am a positive person and do not allow things to get on top of me.

Aung San Suu Kyi

The four basic ingredients for success are: you must have the will to want something; you must have the right kind of attitude; you must have perseverance, and then you must have wisdom. Then you combine these four and then you get to where you want to get to.

Brent Weeks

The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets.

Edward Norton

As we say in the sewer, if you're not prepared to go all the way, don't put your boots on in the first place.

Aristotle

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

Ben Jonson

True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.

Eleanor Smeal

She [Carolyn Maloney] knows the financial issues, that's why we thought she was perfect because we're in a - we're in, as you know, a financial crisis, an economic crisis, and I know that she'll see the whole picture.

Ambrose Bierce

A chop is a piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants.

Morris Chestnut

I remember when we were in rehearsals and we were going through it, because we rehearsed before we went to Toronto, and it's more of the same. She and I had to deal with a lot of stuff in this movie and we really have to take ourselves there. It actually started in rehearsals, and just revisiting that piece of it all. Just the way Monica is and what she says and the way she looks at me, it really affects me throughout rehearsals and throughout the scenes.

Richard Gere

I do my work as an actor, but another part of my work goes to the piece as a whole. I can be fairly detached looking at my work and be brutal on myself.

Ronaldo Ronaldo

It was a piece of stupidity on my part,

Chelsea Cain

Memory is a fiction we tell ourselves: just a piece of the truth.

Kim Capllonch

Try to remember what they were wearing, possibly a piece of jewelry.

Ben Mendelsohn

For mine, the villains of the piece were always important. In a traditional sense, that's always an important role.

Gillian Alexy

'West' is one of those scripts that, when it came out, everyone wanted a piece of it and everyone wanted to be involved in it.

Ellsworth Kelly

When I see a white piece of paper, I feel I've got to draw. And drawing, for me, is the beginning of everything.

Ryan Church

Shocked. Only word I can say. That's it: shocked.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.