Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Barry

A long memory is the most subversive idea in America. A tautology is a thing which is tautological. A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention. If your kids look like you, it's hereditory. If they look like the neighbor, it's the environment. Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.

Earl Nightingale

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Rick Bayan

REVOLUTIONARY: An oppressed person waiting for the opportunity to become an oppressor.

Tiki Barber

Every day is an opportunity disguised as a challenge.

Tom Harkin

[A]s we celebrate 75 years of the minimum wage, we must also recognize that it is no longer achieving its potential impact in our economy or for America's working families. Every American deserves the chance to build a better life for his or her family - and raising the minimum wage will provide that opportunity.

Tom Hanks

And then it was like, wait, you can go to college and study theater? And act in plays? This is almost a racket, you know. And then when the opportunity came along to do it professionally, I thought I'd won the lottery.

Tom Brokaw

We were not just competitors and colleagues, we were friends. We had a lot of opportunities to reflect on this in the last year. It was a competitive brotherhood.

Tom Clancy

Every person you meet - and everything you do in life - is an opportunity to learn something.

Tina Fey

I don't know how many more movies I'm going to get the opportunity to make and I don't want to look back and go: "Man, I just floated through that one." Or: "I did that one for the money." I want to be able to say that I worked as a hard as I could and I did the best work that I could do.

Tibor Fischer

Stay cool, and wait for opportunity.

Scott Westerfeld

it's not called the Rusty Ruins because some guy called Rusty found them.

Richard Serra

Now when you have administrators deciding what sexuality is, and whats a taboo and whats not in terms of content, you got guys, like, Trent Lott who equates homosexuality with a disease.

Rafael Nadal

I am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court.

Sean Bean

I'd been trying for a while to get parts that weren't just the English bad guy, so it was quite refreshing to be playing someone who was a compassionate, decent guy.

Sean Bean

I sometimes find that playing the bad guy, or villains, or psychopaths tend to be much more psychologically rewarding. And you can really push it, you can push the limits, and get away with it.

Scott Bakula

Well, I'm... first and foremost I'm a theater guy and everything that I know comes from the theater.

Michael Vartan

I'm not a bling-bling guy; I can't pull it off. I just look like an idiot

Michael Phelps

I'm the same kind of guy before all this happened.

Seth Rogen

I remember, when I was an up-and-coming comic, how annoyed I would be when the famous guys would show up and just take everyone's spots.