Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry Cornett

(Atchison) made a couple of blunders on the infield and we just got some timely hits from freshmen. I think the other girls were thinking if they can do it, it's time for me to step up. That helps.

Darryl Paulson

It's the most dismal campaign that I've ever seen. It's been one set of missteps and blunders after another.

Ron Zook

You normally don't have two blunders like that on special teams and win a game. Our thing was we're not going to lose a game because of special teams. That's a great lesson to be learned.

Scott Anderson

Iraq is going to go down as one of the greatest blunders in American history.

Anatoly Karpov

Blunders rarely travel alone.

Mark McCormack

Talk less-you will automatically learn more, hear more, see more-and make fewer blunders.

Alexander MacLaren

Our blunders mostly come from letting our wishes interpret our duties

Kendall Coffey

It was one of the most bone-headed blunders ever seen in a high-profile federal case.

Ted Kennedy

It's an indictment of the lengths Administration officials were willing to go to cover up their failed intelligence, their distortion on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, and their serious blunders on the war,

Charles Dickens

Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.

Charles Dickens

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

Charles Stross

I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer.

Tim Short

We've won playoff games before, but not down 18 on someone else's home court. Yeah, this is pretty special.

Mike Pomerenke

We've won more games this year than we'd won all of last year already. And you know, that's a huge improvement.

Chris Bosh

You don't have to appreciate me - I hope you underestimate me. That way, when I have a good game, it'll hit you even harder.

Chris Bosh

I've modeled my game after Kevin Garnett and Tim Duncan.

Chris Bosh

I know how the game is played, and I'm always working on it.

Eddie Kaye Thomas

If I have the TV on, it's either a Mets game or 'SportsCenter.'

Alan Bean

One of the great things about the universe is that it's fair.

Susan Gibson

We want to show people how they can look great for very little money.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Greatness depends on where you are coming from.

Edward Gibbon

[The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought.

Audrey Hepburn

My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

Athenaeus

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

Arnold Palmer

Swing your swing. Not some idea of a swing. Not a swing you saw on TV. Not that swing you wish you had. No, swing your swing. Capable of greatness. Prized only by you. Perfect in it's imperfection. Swing your swing. I know, I did.

Willie Kemp

Wayne, he's a great player, but we're moving on. We're still going to be friends.

Denis Waitley

The seeds of greatness are ideas you learn from people who've been great in their service to others.

Al Jourgensen

Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.

Chris Colfer

No matter what you do, you can never please everyone. And that was the hardest lesson to learn. In fact, I'm still learning it.

Eartha Kitt

I used to teach dance lessons.

Bear Grylls

The lesson is, the rewards in life don't always go to the biggest, or the bravest, or the smartest. The rewards go to the dogged; and when your going though hell, to the person who just keeps going.

Denis Waitley

Success is a process that continues, not a status that you reach. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.

Charlie Munger

A Lesson on Elementary, Worldly Wisdom As It Relates To Investment Management & Business

Charlie Munger

The more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better.

Lindsay Lohan

When I was younger, I started taking singing lessons and dance and acting. I just started acting first because that's how everything happened.

Eliza Haywood

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

Edith Piaf

Money? How did I lose it? I never did lose it. I just never knew where it went.

Denis Waitley

Losers fix the blame; winners fix what caused the problem.

Newt Gingrich

When you wake up in the morning and lose 14 marines, people say, 'What's going on?'

Lauren Worsham

I love rock and opera, and I love musical theater, and I don't want to lose any of that.

Norman Mineta

We're not going to lose sight of safety,

Oscar Michelen

You don't lose all your rights in prison.

Alberto Fujimori

With this peace, there is no loser but (only) winners,

S. Walker

We're still at a point where we don't want to be. Obviously, we've got to come out and really lose a lot of the penalties.

Mark Parker

We're going to lose this nice little spot here.

Jerry Conway

We're going to find seals in places they're not normally at, and where people are.

Brian Deedrick

This is a big deal. Normally this is produced around the world.

Charles Moore

It's normally between 30 and 40 (degrees latitude) north and 130 to 155 (degrees longitude) west.

Trent Dilfer

They feel so sorry for me because I am so old that I think they are playing a little better than they normally would.

Savannah Cowley

It was really low, relative to where slides normally happen.

Tom Verica

Most shows are normally 40 or 50 pages.

John Gifford

Normally you don't find 9,500 year-old wooden artifacts.

Jane Goldman

Normally with film, it's normal for the screenwriter to never be seen again after finishing until the premiere.

Jim Shelhorse

Normally we wait and give them about two or three weeks leeway.

Frederic Bastiat

There is not a tool, an implement, or a machine that has not resulted in a decrease in the contribution of human labor. Labor is not made permanently idle [though]; when replaced in one special category... it turns its attack against other obstacles on the main road to progress.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Regular geometry, the geometry of Euclid, is concerned with shapes which are smooth, except perhaps for corners and lines, special lines which are singularities, but some shapes in nature are so complicated that they are equally complicated at the big scale and come closer and closer and they don't become any less complicated.

Carl Hiaasen

Like Richard Price and the late, great Elmore Leonard, Matt Burgess is one of those cool, quick and funny writers who can turn a seemingly routine crime caper into something special.

Carl Jung

Special knowledge is a terrible disadvantage.

Edward Furlong

Jim Cameron used to call me 'Special Ed.'

Edmund Wilson

They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.

Edna Ferber

I suppose it is a gift, being young, but it isn't special. We've all got it, early in life.

Berenice Bejo

I feel very honored and special really. You can't imagine, to arrive at the Oscars when you arrive so low, and you can't go further than the Oscars.

Bill Gates

Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it's just there as a gift for the rest of time.

Herman Edwards

They said 2-5 teams don't make the playoffs, either, but we did it,

Mike Berg

They're one of the top two or three teams in the state, without a doubt.

Patrick Sparks

We play two top-10 teams (this) week. It's in our hands.

Camelia Sams

We play a lot of tough teams out of the district. It's tough, but we need the practice.

Richard Jefferson

Our expectations are high. But we're just like a lot of teams at this time of the year. We're going to try to win 16 games.

Daniel Snyder

Some teams are contributing a little more than others. It's really a win-win situation.

Jamie Dixon

Teams lose. It's how you respond, and we've always responded well.

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

Jim Calhoun

Teams do get into ruts. (Other) teams do play defense.

Charles Caleb Colton

If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.

Charles Dickens

One disagreeable result of whispering is that it seems to evoke an atmosphere of silence, haunted by the ghosts of sound - strange cracks and tickings, the rustling of garments that have no substance in them, and the tread of dreadful feet that would leave no mark on the sea-sand or the winter snow.

Charles Dickens

The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution.

Charles Dickens

The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.

Charles Dickens

"It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. "It was the salmon."

Charles Spurgeon

You will win as many souls as God gives you, but no one will be converted by your own power.

Charles Spurgeon

The diver plunges deep to find pearls, and we must accept any labor or hazard to win a soul

Charles Spurgeon

The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win

Charles Spurgeon

Our great object of glorifying God is to be mainly achieved by the winning of souls Do not close a single sermon without addressing the ungodly.