Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yani Tseng

When you play good, everything is good, but when you don't play so good, everything is bad. Even when you think there are good things, they still say bad things.

Tina Fey

Sometimes people expect that I'm going to be tough. It's not a bad situation. People treat you better. People are on time.

Thomas Friedman

Lord knows there's a lot of bad news in the world today to get you down, but there is one big thing happening that leaves me incredibly hopeful about the future, and that is the budding revolution in global online higher education.

Isabella Bird

The Malays have many queer notions about tigers and usually only speak of them in whispers, because they think that certain souls of human beings who have departed this life have taken up their abode in these beasts, and in some places, for this reason, they will not kill a tiger unless he commits some specially bad aggression.

Ian Watson

It's bad enough being conned into singing an anti-war message by John Lennon when you think you're just wishing everyone a merry Christmas.

Gabriel Mann

The only description for Nolan in the script was that he's a very bad dresser. I put on a red windbreaker and every other ugly, ill-fitting thing I could dig out. He was potentially written as a clean-cut nerd, but I wanted a darker spin.

Glenn Tipton

You can have a bad day, but as soon as you set foot on that stage it's joyous.

Gin Wigmore

Writing music is such a freeing exercise, and it's really nice to play in that world of being confident, vengeful - getting back at all the bad boyfriends.

Will Rothhaar

I would love to do a good gritty drama, a romantic role. I tend to play bad guys for some reason.

John Sacchi

We need to keep taking small steps to improve. Our kids are young and fragile and we need to keep their spirits up and keep them moving in the right direction.

James Wolfensohn

Time is short, and optimism is a fragile commodity, ... miss this opportunity for change, we will regret it for the next decade.

Darcy Tucker

We gave up that first goal, and bang, it seems like we lost our confidence. Our psyche is fragile right now. We need to be mentally tougher.

Venus Williams

Her racket is actually fragile -- powerful but fragile,

Nora Ephron

Joan is very funny. I'm always telling her she's a fraud: Everyone thinks she's fragile and humorless, when we all know she's wildly funny and the last surviving member of the Donner party.

Sam Miller

We're at a critical, fragile stage here. (If) we have another hurricane season like we've had, who knows what's going to happen?

Jim Gillette

There are a lot of fragile suppliers out there.

David McKeown

Some people are fragile enough that they may still succumb to this.

Bill Carmody

But we will be a little more fragile this time.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'

Wendelin Van Draanen

Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!

Jose Diaz

The police are not very nice in Mexico. And you learn that growing up.

Sharon Doering

The patents that are expiring make up a significant portion of their results. They're not going to be one of the top growth stories -- probably only single-digit (percentage-wise) in 2000 and 2001.

Tiffany Shlain

The past year has been one of outrageous growth for the Internet, and it's not only become bigger, but better... more substantial and more mature.

Brooke Smith

I remember seeing 'A Moon for the Misbegotten' with Colleen Dewhurst, and that made a really big impression on me, and I remember wanting to be like her and I still want to be like Colleen Dewhurst! My mom took me to a lot of theatre growing up, and I also remember seeing Pippin and being like, 'Wow!

C. S. Lewis

If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally.

C. S. Lewis

When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. A man does not always say to himself, "hullo! i'm growing up." It is only when he looks back that he realises what has happened and recognises it as what people call "growing up.

C. S. Lewis

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

Gordon B. Hinckley

A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes.

Frank Quattrone

When we took Netscape public, if people wanted to invest in the web, that was the only stock that they could do it by investing in. So Netscape's market value was higher than it probably otherwise would have been if there were lots of other ways to play that theme.

Kurt Barnard

The 5.7 percent projection is not too much out of line, but it is at the higher end of projections,

Richard Doherty

That was higher than we thought they might have gone.

Chris Grisanti

That will surprise the Street and lead to a higher stock price.

Tisha Hill

We need to knock down some shots. We need to take smarter and higher percentage shots.

Eric Graaf

Today's surprise is not enough to warrant a substantially higher valuation.

Bill Carter

You'll look like you have lead weights strapped to your feet, ... The higher the heel, the more shape you're going to get to your calf.

Saddam Hussein

Will the performance of one who has sat an examination and passed it be higher and better, or lower and lesser?

Hal Stratton

We have a guideline that requires this rung to be at least 9 1/2 inches wide,

Jim Fischer

We're probably going to get several more inches of rain on this side of the mountain.

Bill Renner

We thought we had a mismatch at wide receiver and their cornerbacks because we're six inches taller, ... Peter can throw it deep.

Tommy Williams

From midnight to 4 a.m., we recorded about 2 inches of rain and over a half-inch more from then until 8 a.m..

Charles Spurgeon

Whenever you get one inch above the ground in your own esteem, you are that inch too high!

Bill Ryan

We're inches away from getting (the leases) completed.

John Gresiak

We're going with about three to six inches for the area, maybe more on the lower end of that range.

Tom Brokaw

I had four compression fractures in my spine. They were repaired, but it cost me two inches of height.

Harry Stockman

Traveling will be very slippery and treacherous. We could have 3 to 6 inches of snow by the end of Friday.

Bethenny Frankel

In life, no two days are the same for me. It's like a snowflake.

Willi Glanznig

Groomed isn't really what you want because when you go to the World Championships, the snow is heavy.

Vittorio Feltri

He has never skied in his life. He doesn't even know what snow is. He only understands football.

Dick Armey

Jamestown colony, when it was first founded as a socialist venture, dang near failed with everybody dead and dying in the snow,

Dave Barry

I now realize that the small hills you see on ski slopes are formed around the bodies of forty-seven-year-olds who tried to learn snowboarding.

Dave Barry

Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.

Cary Fukunaga

In snowboarding, you're constantly aware that people are so technically brilliant at what they do, and you feel like, "Ugh, I'll never be able to do that."

Charles Caleb Colton

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

Charles Simic

Only brooms Know the devil Still exists, That the snow grows whiter After a crow has flown over it

Van Cleve

We had only three weeks to make a totally life-changing decision,

Mark Erickson

We were still with them through three (quarters), though.

Peter Smith

Most of them did sell. I think only two or three are left.

Jim Tressel

Where we are at this moment, ... is not where you'd like to be after three games.

Adam LaRoche

I think I was 0-for-4 with three strikeouts,

James Toney

I thought I won it by two or three points. I thought we had the edge.

B. B. King

Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here

Brian Kerr

We got the three points. That's all you can say. ... We have to do much better on Wednesday.

William Shakespeare

Shall I never see a bachelor of three score again?

C. S. Lewis

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

C. S. Lewis

True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

Bertrand Russell

True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.

Anthony Fauci

We have to see if it is true and if we can do anything about it,

Diane von Furstenberg

The little black dress is the true friend...she travels with you...is patient and constant...you go to her when you don't know where else to go and she is ALWAYS reliable and timeless.

David Mitchell

True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance

Byron Katie

The WORK 1.Is it true? 2.Can you absolutely know that it's true? 3.How do you react when you think that thought? 4.Who would you be without the thought?

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

You know who your true friends are when things go wrong for you, but the opposite is also true. When things go well, the people who really love you are happy.

Wendell Berry

We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.

Ben Elliot

When you think about the word 'quintessentially', it's about trying to get to the very essence of something.

Becky G

It's really easy with makeup to look like you're trying too hard, like a clown. That's not what you want!

David Selby

Oh I am trying to remember, we would read the script after we did the show.

David Friedman

I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference.

Nayvadius Cash

I know I haven't always done things the right way. I'm just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist.

Nick Carter

I'm trying to make myself better. But I don't regret anything that I've gone through, because it makes me who I am.

Cecelia Ahern

I guess when you’re trying to find all the parts of yourself, it’s difficult to be with someone who’s already fully intact.

Carrie Underwood

I try to stay away from carb-y things at dinner.

Yotam Ottolenghi

The most important thing for me is to walk the little alleys of the city, to find the little alcove where someone is cooking something, and just watch them do it. That's my idea of fun.

Cecelia Ahern

Alone or not, you gotta walk forward.

Tony DeFrancesco

You just can't go out there and walk 12 guys. That is not the way to win.

Kathleen Farrell

I thought I was going to just walk in and walk out.

Richard Crashaw

Two walking baths; two weeping motions;/ Portable, and compendious oceans.

Harvey Korman

And I went to New York and died; for 10 years I walked those pavements. I can't think of New York without feeling uncomfortable and feeling like a failure.

Ray Brown

He walked into the storm. He's probably dead.

Pamela Dixon

He walked in just like us and walked out like a high-powered attorney.

David Hampton

He was walking with no problem. I was very surprised,