Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Nicholls

Fear and anxiety are great motivators for me.

Sandra Miller

We all remember the stunned look of the survivors, the anxiety as we learned of a second, third and fourth attack. The hours and the days after were a blur, filled with disbelief and despair.

Sharon Versyp

You have anxiety until you meet the person that is going to be a major impact in your life. I understand that. Once we meet and lay everything out and talk, things will be fine.

David Foster Wallace

It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.

Confucius

If you reflect within yourself and find nothing to be ashamed of, how could you have anxiety or fear.

Daniel Yergin

We are living in a new age of energy supply anxiety.

Ann Voskamp

The answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God.

Thomas More

Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich - for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?

Rita Coolidge

If I'm driving to L.A. and have anxiety about making the drive, if I've got Peggy with me, we're cool.

Edward P. Jones

The hitter can never be the judge. Only the receiver of the blow can tell you how hard it was, whether it would kill a man or make a baby just yawn.

Brigitte Nielsen

Im 48 now and I would like to have another baby. I would love to because of all the things I have learned. It would be like starting all over again. But am I too old? Im young at heart and I would be different this time round.

Charles Bukowski

After dinner or lunch or whatever it was -- with my crazy 12-hour night I was no longer sure what was what -- I said, "Look, baby, I'm sorry, but don't you realize that this job is driving me crazy? Look, let's give it up. Let's just lay around and make love and take walks and talk a little. Let's go to the zoo. Let's look at animals. Let's drive down and look at the ocean. It's only 45 minutes. Let's play games in the arcades. Let's go to the races, the Art Museum, the boxing matches. Let's have friends. Let's laugh. This kind of life like everybody else's kind of life: it's killing us.

E. Hurley

You don't have two 18-year-old kids go into a hotel and have a baby without medical training and say he's innocent. He did something wrong, but we're not sure what he did wrong.

Leonard Sax

There's no such thing as a child; there are only boys and girls. Even if you present a 6-month-old male baby with a choice between a truck and doll, he's going to choose the truck.

Adrian Fenty

There's no way in the world when I get elected that I will throw the baby out with the bath water,

Tim White

There's not enough Advil being made to keep baby boomers going forever. We're looking for their kids and grandkids to come.

Gina Jones

What was my baby thinking when he was down on the ground and they were doing those things to him? Was he thinking that 'my mom said it would be OK' when they had their knees in his back?

Lou Panzanaro

We weren't sure he would graduate on some days when he was a junior. I was worried he'd come back home if he got upset with his playing time. Coach Calhoun wasn't going to baby him.

Katherine Andrus

At this point we are comfortable with our relationship with the CDC and confident that they will inform us if the situation changes that mandates a different approach.

Derek Fisher

What is needed changes from night to night. It depends on who is healthy or how different guys are playing. If you put guys in a position where they know they will get their opportunities, then guys get the job done.

Ken Pace

To have the frame of mind to realize he missed, that changes the complexion of (the end of the game). Not only was that (rebound) huge, but it took two seconds off the clock. Give (Baptiste) eight seconds, and he might get a better look.

Mark Pendergrast

The reason the lights shimmers and changes in iridescence is that tiny holes that are exactly the wavelength of light being reflected, ... right now the size of chips is as small as it can be using lenses. The trouble is, as you go to higher wavelengths, the glass absorbs the light. The solution is to use mirrors, which will reflect most wavelengths until you get up into x-rays.

Bob Daniels

The town of Williamston is in a severe financial crisis bordering on collapse. In summary, if we do not make changes shortly, we will not be able to make payroll.

Greg Sullivan

We'll never be done fighting the security fight. But we've made a lot of significant changes underneath the covers in terms of security.

Buddy Bell

My expectations aren't real high for the first week to 10 days. We're just letting them get used to changes we've made. We did some good things.

Teddy Stewart

My concern is are they (the candidates) going to be willing to make the changes that really need to be made to gain the confidence of the troops again.

Ding Chaoyu

More selling is possible in the future, because of the changes in the demand-supply situation.

Justin Lane

I've been struggling, pulling my head out. The coaches have been working with me on changing to a stance where I could keep my head in better.

Marcus Tubbs

Coming here last year, I heard the fans hadn't had a whole lot to cheer for. We're changing that. We're giving back to the city, we're doing good things and we're making the fans happy. And those are the people that matter.

Edward Kennedy

The president has moved the goal posts. Americans understand changing the rules of the game; they don't like it,

Penelope Tree

Wearing the right thing, at the right moment, could actually change your life.

William Winter

Life is arched with changing skies: Rarely are they what they seem: Children we of smiles and sighs -- Much we know, but more we dream.

Jonathan Todd

Let me be clear, the Commission's position is that Microsoft is obliged to comply with the remedies imposed by the Commission's March 2004 decision, nothing more, nothing less. We are not moving goal posts, we are not changing our demands.

Kristy Curry

She was able to hit some big shots. She's just had a way of changing games for us.

Earl Blumenauer

I think this is an affirmation of the value of Public Broadcasting. I think it's going to lead this week to hundreds of people changing their wills.

Connor Franta

For someone in an alternative job, an alternative lifestyle, it's very hard to explain what I do. So I sometimes try and dumb it down as much as possible, so I'm changing what I do every time! So sometimes I'm in an Uber, and they ask, 'So what do you do?' and I say, 'I'm a comedian,' or, 'I'm a graphic designer.'

Arthur Conan Doyle

Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

Jose Rizal

There now exists a factor which was formerly lacking - the spirit of the nation has been aroused, and a common misfortune, a common debasement, has united all the inhabitants of the Islands.

Howard Jacobs

We felt U.S.A.D.A. made the proper ruling. It seems to me the anti-doping rules are lacking any notion of common sense.

Sam Atwood

Use common sense. It's better to take it easy and reduce physical exertion outdoors especially if you have a heart condition or lung disease such as asthma.

Gillian Alexy

You go to New York or L.A., and every waiter wants to be a writer, director or actor. But there's a common thread: everybody wants to do it because they love it.

Paul Watson

Sometimes we are separated by differences, and sometimes we are united by common ideals of respect and compassion.

Toba Beta

Feeling so rush to be proficient is a common temptation for newbies.

Daniel Valdez

There was a curiosity as to what the common denominators in all the stories are,

Bill Gates

There's still a lot of common technology and a common mission that spans all these different groups.

Maori Proverb

Persist as resolutely as you persist in eating

Francois Rabelais

Appetite comes with eating.

Bonnie Liebman

However, if you're eating two eggs or more a day, there could potentially be an issue with cholesterol and increased risk factors for disease.

Joe Koch

He's humble and polite. They're going to find him refreshing. I think he'll have them eating out of his hands after they meet him.

Kris Cox

This is one place I'd like to play every year. I get back here once or twice a year and it's always a real treat, seeing the people and eating the food.

Maeve Binchy

Everybody has always loved eating in Ireland and the family always gathered around the table - which was also where all the stories were told.

Dr. Saveanu

Exercise, eating right, and adhering to a schedule helps.

Georges Benjamin

People are eating out of (non-working) refrigerators. They think it's good because it's still a little cool.

Natalie Jeremijenko

Eating together is the most intimate form of kinship. By scripting a work where we share the same kind of food with fish, I'm scripting our interrelationship with them.

Sherry Sylvester

Neither man ever met a tax increase they didn't like.

Hans Trousil

We not talking about any major increases here.

Virgil

Go on and increase in valor for this is the path to immortality.

Gerhard Schroeder

I think we can say that in the past seven years, we have increased respect in the world for our country, our Germany, and I am sure that we will safeguard that together,

Doc Rivers

It's our job to support him, increase the talent, so he can be on a better team and become a better player. And the better we get, the better he is going to be.

Alan Hevesi

The new reforms have increased the value of the franchise,

Paul Burke

Taking into consideration that property values are increasing, I think the thing to do is to scale back to match the increase in values.

Naohiro Niimura

It's China's rate increase that is pushing down the market.

Robert Heaney

It's a marvelous campaign, but it didn't increase milk consumption.

Tom Stern

It was tough for every wrestler to get through (to state). There are a lot of kids that aren't going who could be.

Bow Wow

My fans saw 'Roll Bounce,' but also that older crowd who might not have been familiar with me on the music tip saw 'Roll Bounce' and loved it. 'Roll Bounce' opened up that door for me to have older people love Bow Wow and opened up that door so all of the kids would love Bow Wow. My fan base is really diverse; it's all ages and all colors.

Jason Dominick

This win is a real tribute to our kids. We lost a lot from last season's team and these kids really put in the time during the summer in order to get back to this point.

Butch Cassidy

Kid, the next time I say let's go someplace like Bolivia. Let's go someplace like Bolivia.

Busy Philipps

I've always liked being funny and making people laugh. I was a cut-up when I was a kid, and was always doing bits for my friends and family.

Jamie Oliver

Many kids can tell you about drugs but do not know what celery or courgettes taste like.

Jami Gertz

My kids and my family are number one; I enjoy them the most.

Janet Jackson

Add to the world's confusion, we teach our kids rules that we don't adhere to ourselves.

Miley Cyrus

I always love coming to Disneyland but celebrating my birthday here with my family, friends and the kids from YSA is really awesome!, this is a night I'll never forget.

Joe Flaherty

There's just something about youth and comedy that go together. Maybe it's that foolishness, that silliness that you can get away with when you're younger, that you can't get away with when you're older.

Edward Snyder

People were worried that like Lucent and maybe a little like Ericsson things were softening up for them. But it doesn't look like that.

Peter Schroecksnadel

Maybe they were scared of the police, we don't know. They got in touch and we're going to talk about it.

Chris Beatty

Maybe the senator should think about when he was 17 years old.

Frank Sciolla

Maybe there was something today that was different. Maybe it was a momentum thing, but they had us so out of character.

Stephen Merchant

Maybe there's a sort of veneer of optimism about U.S. comedy, whereas perhaps in England, we don't mind ending it on a sourer note.

P. J. O'Rourke

Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.

John Radcliff

Maybe next year we'll play just one preseason game.

Todd Helton

Maybe next year I'll have a better hunch.

Jeremiah Jeremiah

a pervasive problem in our society of how people look at older workers.

Bill Jones

We did not have many seniors, so most of our team is returning. We're a year older and we should be bigger, stronger and faster.

Joss Whedon

I had older brothers, and I don't think there's anything worse than an older brother. They pretty much told me the end of everything they got to see before I did.

Willie Randolph

When you don't get calls, then you don't pitches where you want them to be. But overall he pitched pretty well.

Baruch Spinoza

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

Art Buchwald

Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week

Damon Lindelof

I always remember liking school.

Diane Ravitch

Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police department

Dikembe Mutombo

I created the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation back in 1997 for the purpose of going in and improving the living conditions of my people on the African continent, especially in the Democratic Republic of Congo where I came from. Out first mission was to go and build a new hospital. Our next mission was to build a school.

Anton Yelchin

I've always loved punk music, since I was in my early teens, since middle school.

Bruce Boxleitner

I started in high school and then I went onto professional training after that.

Edward Abbey

Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues.

Edward Abbey

Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that every critic requires.

Cardinal Richelieu

I do not sleep to let others sleep in the shade of my waking.

Arianna Huffington

I have one piece of advice for you: sleep your way to the top.

Diane Cilento

I never used to sleep much. I think we all go through a bit of a time like that where we rage about. If we don't, I don't think you've ever really lived.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I can't sleep very well at night. It takes me a while to get to sleep. I could just be nocturnal. I have my nighttime witching hour where I hang out, listen to records or watch TV.

Bill James

A chart of numbers that would put an actuary to sleep can be made to dance if you put it on one side of a card and Bombo Rivera's picture on the other.

Bill Hicks

Nonsmokers--this is for you and you only. Ready? Nonsmokers die every day. Sleep tight.

Elbert Hubbard

Insomnia never comes to a man who has to get up exactly at six o'clock. Insomnia troubles only those who can sleep any time.

Ben Huh

The worst thing in the world is to be bland.

Tom Ferrell

Tonight, I will think about it a lot before I go to sleep. That is if I can get to sleep.

Elena Dementieva

I usually start to play well when I'm in trouble.

Rashard Lewis

We showed some fight, but it wasn't enough. We need that from the start and not just wait until the end.

Seth Godin

Keep starting until you finish.

Frank Robinson

One thing he has to start doing, he has to start being productive. He has to, because you can't keep going 0-for-3, 0-for-4, 0-for-4, 1-for-4, that type of thing, from the top of the lineup.

Melissa Carlson

Get out there and start talking to people.

Marcello Lippi

From here on it's serious, no more expanded rosters. I have to start working on the team for the World Cup.

Jim Backus

If at the end of this year, if we have money, we may start replacing some of them,

Ai Miyazato

I don?t think I will start worrying all of a sudden after I get there.

Henry Lewis

If it's not there when I get back, ... I'll just have to start over.

James Hansen

There's no win for us in talking about this.

Dorothy Allison

I wanted her to to go on talking and understand without me saying anything. I wanted her to love me enough to leave him, to pack us up and take us away from him, to kill him if need be. (107)

Adolf Hitler

I don't talk for the sake of talking. I do become intoxicated with sound. When I open my mouth, it's to say something.

Allen Ginsberg

You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening. If you're grasping to get your own voice, you're making a strained attempt to talk, so it's a matter of just listening to yourself as you sound when you're talking about something that's intensely important to you.

Martin Edwards

We'll talk about it when we get back to the jail,

Anthony DeCurtis

Interviewing is a lot like talking, but you have to guide the conversation. You have to know what you want and go about getting it.

Andy Stanley

Learning never takes place while you're talking.

Robert Barry

I usually, if I give a talk, I don't usually prepare anything. I just say - you know, I may stop talking by showing some video or slides of what I do but mainly I try to respond to what problems people have with my work.

Sri Chinmoy

How do we meditate silently? Just by not talking, just by not using outer words, we are not doing silent meditation. Silent meditation is totally different. When we start meditating in silence, right from the beginning we feel the bottom of a sea within us and without. The life of activity movement and restlessness is on the surface, but deep below, underneath our human life, there is poise and silence. So, either we shall imagine this sea of silence within us or we shall feel that we are nothing but a sea of poise itself.