Famous Quotes & Sayings

Perry Miller

would be like not spraying your fields and hoping the weeds will stay away.

Gal Luft

There is a lot we can learn from Brazil. They are doing great things,

Butch Harmon

The reason I stand before you today the man I am is because of my brother. A lot has been written about what a great teacher Dick was. He was my teacher. He was more than a brother. He was more than a friend. He was a mentor.

Judy Gold

There is nothing - nothing - like writing a great joke and having that joke kill onstage.

Stacey Bendet

Theory did a great work pant, and everyone was doing denim. But no one was making a trouser sexy, or the focus of an outfit... So, that's what I set out to do.

Domhnall Gleeson

There is something wonderful about turning up every day and knowing that not just the character but the whole movie kind of rests on your shoulders. And there's great satisfaction when you think it's going well and then real terror when you think it's not.

Mo Charlo

We had a great year. We won the regular-season championship, we won the tournament and we won 27 games. You can't take that away. We accomplished a lot.

Herb Sendek

We had a great understanding of what we were trying to accomplish. But we do understand we have a long way to go.

Amy Stewart

We had a great turn out, we had perfect weather, and all the kids ran great today,

Jim Koch

We had a great tournament. The new national rankings should put us about seventh or eighth.

Octavio Dotel

This is huge in my country. Just huge.

Earl Nightingale

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Sam Elliott

The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.

Sam Elliott

I love the fact that I'm having an opportunity to make people laugh and you actually get to hear it.

Sallie Krawcheck

I'm really putting my life towards helping women to invest, and there's a circular reference here because if women can invest and give themselves the opportunity to earn higher returns, they can start those businesses. They can go to work with a little more confidence to ask for that promotion, to ask for the new assignment, etc.

Sallie Krawcheck

What I saw a thousand times during the downturn was, 'We'd like to give her that opportunity, but we need to go with the sure thing - we can't afford diversity right now,'

Ryne Sandberg

I don't expect any red carpet to the big leagues. If the opportunity comes, then it comes. But I don't think I'm owed anything.

S. I. Hayakawa

English is the key to full participation in the opportunities of American life.

Russell Peters

We tell ourselves that the more time we have at our disposal, the more opportunity we will have of finding greater happiness. But again we are looking to the future, to the times we will create. Again we miss the enjoyment of the present moment.

Russell Simmons

The old world is quickly disappearing, and the new opportunities are opening up.

Roy Keane

You shouldn't have spoken to the players like that. No, you should have.

Wayne Dyer

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Alanis Morissette

When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.

Alan Parker

Have a go. Anybody can do it.

Alan Alda

People who laugh together generally don't kill each other.

Chin-Ning Chu

The mind is easily distracted; it loses its focus and becomes restless. If it is not directed positively, its power will be diffused.

Cher

Women have to harness their power - it's absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.

Bobby Knight

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

Morgan Wootten

To be successful in coaching you have to treat your team like a family. The leader needs backing from everyone.

Joe Morgan

I still have very close ties to Houston and the Astros because that was my first team.

Joe Namath

I've figured out that life in general is a team effort; it's a team game.

Joe Namath

I wanna kiss you. I couldn't care less about the team struggling. What we know is we can improve. Chad Pennington, our quarterback, missed the first part of the season, and we struggled. We're looking to next season. We're looking to make a noise now, and I wanna kiss you!

John Green

I'm a good person but a shitty writer. You're a shitty person but a good writer. We'd make a good team.

Mike Richards

Hopefully someone on their team addresses it, because, uh, I'm not saying I'm going to do it, but something might happen to him if he continues to be that cocky.

Landon Donovan

I miss driving to Goodison Park. I miss just the positive energy of the fans walking into the stadium and how much they care about that club and the team. And I miss the players a lot.

Lionel Messi

It's not so easy for us when we play teams who have a different mindset, like Chelsea or Inter Milan, because they have the intention of trying to stop us rather than playing a game that is more attractive for the spectators to enjoy.

Barack Obama

I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

Douglas Conant

Learning to celebrate success is a key component of learning how to win in the market.

Dontrelle Willis

Whatever I can do to win, I'll do it, even if I have to get hit by a pitch, whatever it takes.

Ami Ayalon

Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.

Matt Mullenweg

I drive a Prius and drink $10k bottles of wine. The wine isnt on Instagram. The Prius is.

Mark Martin

I've turned over a new leaf. On TV, Kenny Wallace said I was a pessimist after Charlotte, so I got mad. Now I am so excited about coming back that I just can't stand it. I wish we were starting tomorrow and I'm going to win! That's the new me.

Mark Brunell

If we don't win this one, we're done.

Satchel Paige

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes you get rained out.

Terry Goodkind

Over the millennia the seed of stories planted in the fertile soil of bits and scraps of facts was watered by wishes and began to take root and grow. Eventually, a bountiful fruit of rumors burst forth, to be spread on the wind of whispers that said we hid a fabled hoard of gold. Nothing could convince the believers that it was not true. The truth does not glitter for these people like gold does.