Famous Quotes & Sayings

Orlando McGuire

As Cro-Magnon as it sounds, the problem with attitudes is some people have just never had their ass kicked -- and I don't mean necessarily in the physical sense.

Stan Bergman

As always, our main goal is to go out and compete with a positive attitude and to have a good experience.

Tammie Adair

The big thing was just getting them to focus. We just want them to take with them a positive attitude and still have their goals and dreams in focus.

Sufjan Stevens

program. ''It puts us in the attitude of respect for our audience. I think it's important on every level to have a kind of attitude of unification in some way. . . . I don't really have that naturally. I'm not a great performer, so we have to do everything we can, do the exercises, to prepare.

John Concannon

The strength of our team is our defense. Their attitudes have been wonderful.

Steve Yzerman

After Game 5 was over, everybody was upset and kind of thinking about the game and what went wrong, trying to figure it all out. Then gradually you start realizing, oh, we've got to get ready for the next game. So your attitude changes, your mood changes. We got in here Saturday night, and by the time everybody went to bed, I think everybody had gotten their frustration out.

Chris Matthews

The most incredible thing about Austin is how far been his attitude and work ethic have come. I'm really proud of the way he's taken on the leadership role.

Budge Pountney

The most important thing was the attitude we took into the game,

John Ortberg

The most important criterion is this: hire someone whose character and humility and attitude you would like to have reproduced in your church and in yourself.

James Hamilton

a very clever pick, because nobody knows anything about her.

John Hodgman

People forget how outcast 'They Might Be Giants' can be. They have a reputation for writing really deft, funny, clever melodies, and they also make a lot of music for kids, which is terrific, but when you see them in concert, they can rock the house.

Brandon Sanderson

Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize the world. (p 2)

Brandon Sanderson

The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something.

Brian Kernighan

If you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?

Charles Darwin

I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley

Anton Chekhov

Try to be original in your play and as clever as possible; but don't be afraid to show yourself foolish; we must have freedom of thinking, and only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.

Baltasar Gracian

Two kinds of people are good at foreseeing danger: those who have learned at their own expense, and the clever people who learn a great deal at the expense of others.

Arundhati Roy

Going to Oxford didn't necessarily make a person clever.

Irish Proverb

A questioning man is halfway to being wise.

Robert McCullum

The start of the second half is probably the worst we've opened the second half all year." ()

Henk Bekedam

Roughly half of the new infections are sexually transmitted. The other 48 percent comes from intravenous drug users, and the remaining 2 percent are vertical transmissions from mother to child.

Jay Frye

The score right before the half was a huge key. We got a turnover late and were able to take it in for a score just before the half. That was a turning point, no doubt.

Mike Herakovic

It was ugly the first half of the game. It was ugly, but it was a win.

Jane Austen

Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)

Miley Cyrus

I love my music so much, and I love what I'm doing so much that that has become my other half-rather than another person.

Boris Kodjoe

We shoot 12 to 14 hours a day. To do all that physical stuff yourself, you have to be on a nutritional plan. I have six or seven meals a day. I eat every hour and a half, and make sure it's all clean. I have absolutely no sugar at all.

John Grisham

Wrongful convictions happen every week in every state in this country. And they happen for all the same reasons. Sloppy police work. Eyewitness identification is the most - is the worst type almost. Because it's wrong about half the time. Think about that.

Mike Bauer

We're holding our own pretty well. I thought we'd be depleted, but the meltdown is more at road level.

Kris Grawitch

We're holding a pre-construction open house so people can see what we don't have.

Russ Tanner

Big Dan's kind of holding it over our heads.

Rick Soracco

Those two are going to score. It's just a matter of holding the other ones down a bit.

Estella Olguin

We think his name is David, but we don't know. He doesn't talk. He is very clingy. He will not let go of whoever is holding him.

Jim Haslett

What am I going to do about a holding call?

Gary Edwards

We were just holding on. When we tried to get that push, we just didn't have it.

Peter Cardillo

Obviously, Alcoa really disappointed the market today. But we've also had a big run-up since the start of the year, and considering that, I think stocks are holding up pretty well.

Robert Kenny

He was a strong person. He looked after his kids. We're holding on OK.

Richard McLaren

As a spy, under the laws of war, and his house being designated a military target, we are perfectly under international law in our right to do this,

Richard Gordon

Of the 300 houses in the area, only three are left that are not covered.

Bible Bible

And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering for ever.

Grover Norquist

I've been in the White House more in the last two weeks than I was in the last two years.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.

C. S. Lewis

Imagine yourself as a living house.

Bella Abzug

This woman's place is in the House - the House of Representatives.

Arundhati Roy

Perhaps it's true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house---the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture---must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. Preserved. Accounted for. Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstitutred. Imbued with new meaning. Suddenly they become the bleached bones of a story.

Coco Chanel

It's not houses I love, it's the life I live in them.

Ken Starr

Whether the story reflects the facts is obviously a different matter.

Brad Barkley

I want to show you something,” I say. What?” He dabs at his lips with the napkin, and for a moment I’m wishing so hard that I am that napkin that I can almost feel myself changing, becoming thin and papery and white. “Cal?” I sit back and feel myself blushing, feel it from the tips of my toes all the way to the heat at the backs of my ears.

Juvenal

Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor.

Al Green

I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that'll give you the shirt off their back. And I've also found people that won't give you a piece of bread if you're starving to death.

Janis Joplin

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

bell hooks

It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of the movement; but rather than resigning myself to this appropriation I choose to re-appropriate the term “feminism,” to focus on the fact that to be “feminist” in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation from sexist role patterns, domination, and oppression.

bell hooks

When liberal whites fail to understand how they can and/or do embody white supremacist values and beliefs even though they may not embrace racism as prejudice or domination (especially domination that involves coercive control), they cannot recognize the ways their actions support and affirm the very structure of racist domination and oppression that they wish to see eradicated.

bell hooks

Feminist pedagogy can only be liberatory if it is truly revolutionary because the mechanisms of appropriation within white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy are able to co-opt with tremendous ease that which merely appears radical or subversive

bell hooks

We don't hear much from revolutionary feminists who are white because they're not serving the bourgeois agenda of the status quo.

bell hooks

Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis.