Famous Quotes & Sayings

Twyla Tharp

My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the world.'

Twyla Tharp

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Custard is controversial: what makes it a custard, how best to cook it and, crucially, is it to be eaten or put in a pie and thrown?

Yani Tseng

It's very easy when you have someone in front of you that you can chase. You want to be No. 1 but now I feel like I have to play well because everybody looks at you as a best golfer. So that's why I put more pressure on myself.

Thucydides

We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.

Timothy Noah

There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.

Thomas Friedman

I can see a day soon where you'll create your own college degree by taking the best online courses from the best professors from around the world - some computing from Stanford, some entrepreneurship from Wharton, some ethics from Brandeis, some literature from Edinburgh - paying only the nominal fee for the certificates of completion.

Idina Menzel

I used to take 40 minutes to warm up before going on stage. If you want to spend time with your child as well as having a career, you have to get up there even if your head's a mess. It's made me more relaxed, and I'm having some of my best shows.

Idina Menzel

I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'

Yotam Ottolenghi

Most fish require a short cooking time, but cephalopods are the exception to this fishy rule. As with some cuts of larger land beasts, the longer they're cooked, the more tender they get.

Igor Luksic

We are determined to improve the economic environment by getting foreign investors in and by cutting red tape.

Abraham Lincoln

In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.

Nancy Gibbs

The path of progress cuts through the four-way intersection of the moral, medical, religious and political - and whichever way you turn, you are likely to run over someone's deeply held beliefs.

Carrie Vaughn

It’s only a scratch, don’t cut my arm off!

Carl Safina

Try to cut down drastically on plastic. Recycle. Use less energy and more renewable energy. We can all live better by doing better for ourselves and the sea!

Antoine Fuqua

The violence you witness is Denzel doing it and we're taking some visual effects and doing some things and you see something happen it's happening in front of you as opposed to cutting away and doing a bunch of tricks. It's in front of you. So it's hard not to make it a hard "R" if you see a guy get punched and teeth wind up in someone's knuckles.

Bill Vaughan

The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.

Bill Burr

When you say, "there's no reason [to hit a woman]" that kills any examination as to how two people ended up at that place. When you say, "there's no reason," you cut out the build-up and you're just left with the act. How you gonna solve it if you don't figure it out?

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.

Tony Crescenzi

The pending home sales data feed right into the hands of those who expect the Fed to end its interest-rate hikes.

Carl Sagan

[N]o scientist likes to be criticized. ... But you don't reply to critics: "Wait a minute, wait a minute; this is a really good idea. I'm very fond of it. It's done you no harm. Please don't attack it." That's not the way it goes. The hard but just rule is that if the ideas don't work, you must throw them away. Don't waste any neurons on what doesn't work. Devote those neurons to new ideas that better explain the data. Valid criticism is doing you a favor.

Carl Sagan

With insufficient data it is easy to go wrong.

Antoine Lavoisier

Perhaps... some day the precision of the data will be brought so far that the mathematician will be able to calculate at his desk the outcome of any chemical combination, in the same way, so to speak, as he calculates the motions of celestial bodies.

James Niosi

We've got some pretty heavy data this week and I know people are holding off a little bit.

Bob McMurray

We've made it hard for ourselves because we didn't perform as well as we should have. Our engineers are digesting data now and will be discussing options well into the night I would think.

Mark Rosenker

We have to look at the event data recorder in more detail.

David Rosenberg

With the exception of the backward-looking Q4 GDP report, the data released today surprised to the downside.

Rick Anderson

The affiliation would gain us economies of scale, increased technology, marketing and promotions.

Howard Gorges

We could have another surge in the markets later in the year, around September or October, as the economies show further signs of getting stronger.

Mohamed El-Erian

For the next three years, we're going to see different economies work out different problems. For European economies, especially Greece, it would be through default.

Charles Hill

I don't think we're really seeing the impact yet of what's happening in the economies over there.

Gwyn Hacche

Growth in euro-land economies is starting to come through, particularly in the industrial sector. It looks to us as if there will be strong growth in the third and fourth quarter of around 1 percent.

Jay Pultz

There are some economies of scale that can be eked out primarily in people costs. But the real payoff is too far into the future.

Kenneth Fisher

When the economies of emerging markets don't just grow but beat expectations, there's scarcely a mention.

Kenneth Fisher

Global stocks bottomed in June 1921, but global economies didn't hit bottom for fully two more years.

Thomas Shannon

What we're looking to do is find ways to unlock some of these economies so they get the kind of investment they need, they get the kind of trade they need and they have the flexibility within their labor markets to generate employment.

Ice T

We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.

Paul Little

The outlook for the group is very positive.

Kate Becker

We can't let it be cut. They're just a really powerful group of people. It's going to have a ripple effect.

Scott Rudin

I love work. I love putting together a group of people who are all doing the same thing. The commonality of purpose.

Raymond Kelly

A small number of people and groups control the Democratic primary.

Bob Wright

We hadn't been on the line more than 30 minutes when we spotted our first group of seven.

Terrance Haywood

To lose all of those guys and to come back with a group of young kids, none of them having any varsity experience. And just to see where we started from, and where we're at now, it was huge.

Jeff Tageant

We have a laid back group of kids.

Phil Savage

We have a group of linebackers now and we will sort through them and see which ones serve us best.

Armand Salmon

Tolerance for pain and suffering is no measure of strength.

Chris Gibson

We have a lot of safety measures in place already, so I feel pretty comfortable with those,

Li Yizhong

We've met unprecedented safety pressures and all in all, all the iron-handed measures should be implemented thoroughly.

Thomas Flynn

It'd be that much more if we didn't have some of the conservation measures we have here,

Robert Green Ingersoll

No writer must be measured by a word or paragraph. He is to be measured by his work - by the tendency, not of one line, but by the tendency of all.

Ed Loyd

I think overall there has been a very measured reaction to the announcement.

Sudhir Kumar

We have taken all measures to see that passengers are not affected. Security has also been tightened.

Mike Helton

We don't want to react just for the sake of reacting. We want to measure all of the possible ramifications before we make a decision.

Xu Shiquan

Personally I think the mainland's reaction this time has been very measured and moderate.

Ice T

When I was in the 12th grade, I got my girlfriend pregnant. I just got out of school, she was a 10th-grader. I'm a teen parent, and I'm at a point where I'm like, 'Man I've got to do something.'

Sebastian Thrun

That was a turning point in the race.

Dwane Casey

That was a turning point in our season. I think it took a little starch out of us.

Nick Burgess

That was a turning point in his career. He had the ultimatum to quit or work harder. You can see which one he picked.

Bruce Bochy

That was the turning point of the game.

Jeff Lebo

We could never really get it to that point where we made it interesting.

Joseph Garcia

We could have had 50 points in the first half.

Curtis Shaw

We have a lot of Marriott points that we'll never be able to use.

Pat Metheny

Somehow, trumpet is the reference point for me - it was actually my first instrument.

Giles Foden

My father was an agricultural economist. In 1989 he was posted to Mbarara, a small town on the Uganda-Rwanda border.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

I started working on ribosomes when I was a post doc, in 1978, when it would have been impossible, really, to solve it. But, it was just a fundamental problem in biology.

Des Browne

I am sorry to be leaving the post of secretary of state for Scotland.

Dick Wildt

We need to have that out of our post player.

Tim Roemer

We have had our first post 9/11 test and we have miserably failed,

Cristy McKinney

I'm starting a senior in the post and they just whipped her.

Peter Kruse

Two years ago we started the big integration process within Deutsche Post World Net,

Joshua Cohen

You know you're a fool when what you're doing makes even the post office seem efficient.

Bradley Cooper

Our posture NOW defines our portion later!

Chris Bates

We have to wait another quarter to see if it continues.

Elliott Schlang

The quarter was substantially better than what we had anticipated.

Mary Bukovac

We really struggled from the field, especially in the third quarter when we had only two points.

Alex Kellogg

We really stepped it up from the second quarter to the end of the third.

Sammy Willis

We got better every quarter but couldn't get going in the first quarter. We just couldn't make our shots.

Jack Coit

I wish we could just skip that second quarter though. We get a little wrapped up in what we're doing sometimes.

John Chambers

I would summarize the quarter as a solid quarter,

Eric Ross

We're in for a rough quarter with Intel.

John Eaton

Nevertheless, one doesn't have time to think, oh, well, this is a quarter tone sharp, or flat.

Brian Higgins

The only risk we run, ... is by doing nothing.

Carrie Mae Weems

It's very important for me to really use this body as a barometer of a certain kind of knowledge--to take the personal risk of exposing my own body in a certain kind of way. I can't ask anybody else to do something that I don't do first myself.

Carl Sagan

All inquiries carry with them some element of risk.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed.

Bill Vaughan

Improving efficiency on the farm is not only a risk-reduction strategy, it's a profitability strategy.

York Chow

We need to have some time to investigate to be sure that this is a new virus and has the risk of human-to-human transmission.

Benny Gray

We were going to get the people. We take risks all the time firefighting, but we didn't want to get shot.

Joe Girardi

I wouldn't do that. You don't want to risk him getting hurt. The only way I would do that is if it's something like the 19th inning and we're out of people.

Jason Giambi

I would give it a try, but they said don't even try. It's not worth risking it. I'm walking a little better. It's not so tight.

John Gibbons

He wants to pitch, but you know it's not worth it. You've got to look at the big picture. If this was September and we're in the thing . . .

Chris Chocola

Legislation passed in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 enhanced our intelligence capabilities and strengthened our national defense, but until now our nation's immigration policies have not adapted to the needs of a post-September 11th world.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

There are so many great moments in Yankee Stadium. There is nothing better or no better place better to compete when you are good and the Yankees are good and you are playing a big series in September in Yankee Stadium, four game series, there is no greater excitement anywhere than the Yankee Stadium.

Bob Taft

Whether we knew many who died on September 11 or personally knew none, we all lost something on that day. Innocence. Security. A trust that our homeland would always be safe.

Barbara Olson

What do I tell the pilots to do?

Jane D. Hull

We emerged from the events of September 11 more steadfast in our beliefs, more courageous in our actions and more determined to protect our values than ever before.

Bill Gerstenmaier

We probably won't make the September 22 window.

Ali Khamenei

No, we did not do this, and we are not with you.

Dick Cheney

We have no intention of ignoring or appeasing history's latest gang of fanatics trying to murder their way to power.

Bill Bryson

... it occurred to me that never again would he be seven years, one month and six days old, so we had better catch these moments while we can.

Mark Walters

We jumped on them by seven and that's when we started making those unforced turnovers.

Chris Palacios

The prelims went really well for me. I was kind of surprised at how well everything went. I was seeded seventh in the 50 free, which is just one spot out of the finals. Actually now I'm seeded third for the finals, which is good. I was seeded 11th in the 100 and now I'm fifth.

Richelle Nice

We were in there for seven months. We wanted to see it through to the end.

Jesse Moore

He said, 'You will take the test.' So we took the test, the whole class, all seven of us.

Shane Filan

We've been together seven years and we're pretty much like family.

Diane von Furstenberg

I loved the seventies.

Dave Chappelle

Listen, here it is: Technically, I never quit. I'm seven years late for work.

John Powell

I wanted to play music from the age of seven. I suddenly fell in love with it and that's what I was going to do, or to be involved with music. It was just speaking to me at a level that as a seven year old I suddenly realized the world was capable of supporting in my head a lot more than what I was understanding verbally and visually.

Whitey Ford

The way to make coaches think you're in shape in the spring is to get a tan.

Benoit Mandelbrot

If you look at a shape like a straight line, what's remarkable is that if you look at a straight line from close by, from far away, it is the same; it is a straight line.

Benoit Mandelbrot

There are very complex shapes which would be the same from close by and far away.

Sylvia Hatchell

We know that we can't let down in any way, shape or form. You've got that big zero on you.

William Shakespeare

so full of shapes is fancy

Richard Valdez

Most of them aren't in shape at all at the beginning.

Clint Hurdle

Mesa's shape is not an issue, never has been.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.

Patrick Fitzgerald

whether I thought Mr. Libby had tried to shape my testimony.

Dmitry Medvedev

We do not want Ukraine to default. On the contrary, we need an economically viable partner. However, debts should be paid, and this includes state and commercial debts

Al Jourgensen

Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs.

Charles Krauthammer

To go into Ukraine and to take over, to invade Crimea, is a huge step. And [Russian President Vladimir Putin] would only have done it with a president who has shown from the very beginning that [President Obama] is living in a fantasy world...They imagine the world as a new interconnected world where climate change is the biggest threat and they are shocked that the Russians actually are interested in territory.

Brigitte Bardot

I started out as a lousy actress and have remained one.

Arthur Koestler

There is an abundance of ancient place names in the Ukraine and Poland, which derive from 'Khazar' or 'Zhid' (Jew).

Angela Merkel

The G7 and former G8 group has always viewed itself as a community of values, the annexation of Crimea, which is a blatant violation of the principles of international law, and the events in eastern Ukraine are serious violations of these common values.

Cindy Crawford

Most of the reason I work out now is not for the external - it's for how I feel. I find working out gives me more energy. I started eight days after he was born.

Ben Linder

Anything you can do needs to be done, so pick up the tool of your choice and get started.

Eddie Vedder

I learned so much about music by playing this little, miniature songwriting machine [ukulele], especially about melody. The motto is less strings more melody.