Famous Quotes & Sayings

Whitey Herzog

You sweat out the free agent thing in November then you make the trades in December. Then you struggle to sign the guys left in January and in February I get down to sewing all the new numbers on the uniforms.

Henry David Thoreau

If an injustice requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the government machine.

Steve Katz

The policy was $250 a month cheaper than what other agents quoted us, ... And, it was as easy as buying a CD or a book.

Barton Gellman

In the wealthy industrialized nations, effective drug therapies against AIDS became available - AZT as early as 1987, then combinations of antiretroviral agents in 1996. The new drugs offered hope that fatal complications might be staved off and AIDS rendered a chronic condition.

David Thewlis

After Cannes, my agent told me to get the next flight to LA. He was right. I had a part in 'Prime Suspect 3' by the end of the week.

Victoria Justice

I was almost 8 years old when I was watching a kid on a TV commercial, and I told my mom that I wanted to do the same thing. She said that I would need to get an agent and that she would research it.

John C. Calhoun

The two great agents of the physical world have become subject to the will of man and have been made subservient to his wants and enjoyments; I allude to steam and electricity, under whatever name the latter may be called.

John C. Calhoun

It is a universal and fundamental political principle that the power to protect can safely be confided only to those interested in protecting, or their responsible agents - a maxim not less true in private than in public affairs.

Mike Holmgren

That was very distasteful to me, to retaliate so to speak like that (against the Vikings). I do believe the commissioner should look into these kind of clauses. We work so hard on trying to gain labor peace and a new collective bargaining agreement and then we as clubs allow agents to get cute and circumvent it. On the playing field there are rules and there are unwritten rules about how the game should be played in the spirit and the fairness of it all. It doesn't make sense to me that we had to lose such a fine football player this way. I was surprised by the ruling.

Yael Naim

I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.

Glenn Tipton

It'll be basically a live album, but it will also include songs, Judas Priest songs, the audience have never heard before, because we felt we wanted to give the kids something else, something they haven't already bought.

Ze Frank

The naked mole is, like, the ugliest freakin' creature in the world. It is so radically, unbelievably disgusting. And the star-nosed mole is also. It looks like it snorted a firecracker. They live way underground, and to get footage of them is basically impossible.

Zac Efron

I think the only real knowledge I had before I went to Iowa was what I learned from 'Food Inc'. But once I got there and developed these extensive relationships with the farmers, I realized that we're basically made of corn.

Will Yun Lee

My father was one of the first Tae Kwon Do Masters to come to the states in the '60s. He had one of the first all-African-American fighting teams, and I was basically raised in a karate studio since I was 3. It's part of my blood, competing, and all that stuff was responsible for a lot of me just growing up.

Warren Stephens

It's difficult to make your clients understand that there are certain days that the market will go up or down 2%, and it's basically driven by algorithms talking to algorithms. There's no real rhyme or reason for that. So it's difficult. We just try to preach long-term investing and staying the course.

Vivek Wadhwa

You have to live in Silicon Valley and hear the horror stories. You go and hang out at the cafes, and you meet entrepreneur after entrepreneur who's struggling, basically - who's had a visa problem who wants to start a company, but they can't start companies.

Ben Affleck

I have a lot of influences. I like to sit down with the cinematographer a month before, and we'll watch pieces of 20 or 30 movies. You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.

Scott Olson

The only real configuration work is basically just deciding what policies you want to enforce in your network and configuring our device to help you do that.

Gail Carson Levine

Most of my job life has had to do with welfare, first helping people find work and then as an administrator. The earlier experience was more direct and satisfying, and I enjoy thinking that a bunch of people somewhere are doing better today than they might have done if not for me.

Gene Ween

We had been working. We had a bunch of songs written and it came time to make the record, so we had our lawyer make the call to Elektra and ask for our advance. Then, we got dropped. It was actually exciting.

Will C. Barnes

'Mustanging' was like trout fishing. It is always the big ones that get away. When you did get a bunch of them into a corral, you found they did not look half so large and handsome as when they were first sighted on the prairie.

Constance Wu

The more you know about somebody's back story, the deeper you can delve into that well, and the more your comedic choices resonate full-body instead of just being quick, quippy one-liners that are just like a bunch of people trying to be clever. Because after a while, cleverness is just really obnoxious!

Jennifer Jones

The pieces can be difficult, but he teaches you how to feel the music and not just play a bunch of notes.

Ben Elliot

In summer, my Sundays are often taken up with cricket. I play with a bunch of other over-competitive and overenthusiastic guys who I have known for a very long time.

David Crosby

I gave up bread, and I've lost a bunch of weight, which is very good because I'm diabetic.

Dave Grohl

I love to play. And fortunately, I don't know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they're always up for playing.

Wanda Sykes

I'm shy. I am. I mean, if I get around, you know, in a room of a bunch of people especially I - you know, I don't know or - it takes me a while to warm up. I'm - and the real me, I'm not as witty as, you know, as the comic Wanda. The comic, she's had time to work on some things.

Brittany Snow

I wish I was 100 percent confident in my own skin. It's always a process, but getting older, I've become more confident.

Natalie Imbruglia

I'm quite confident with the way that I look but you find something else to focus on don't you if, I mean I, I have body issues that's my thing so you find something to focus on when you're a perfectionist, I think.

Nayvadius Cash

'I Won' is not a love song. It's just me uplifting women in general. I'm giving women the power to treat themselves as a trophy - to show that and know it in yourself and be confident - because when they do that, whoever they're with is winning.

Tom Ventura

The 2-year-old market is now a force. I am real confident going in that we have a good group of horses to continue that trend.

Kevin Rohrich

We have two stellar big guys and we are very confident going to either one of them. They did a great job of positioning low, getting good shots and they also did a great job on defense. When they come ready to play, they are tough.

Ed Smith

We just didn't come out and played focused tonight. We won't win a state title if we play like this. But I'm confident that we will play better.

Paul Bremer

I leave Iraq gladdened by what has been accomplished and confident your future is full of hope.

Ross Vecchio

We'll really miss Ryan. He has been a part of the Wild Things' family since the first year. We'll miss his enthusiasm and his many talents, but we know this is a good move for him. I'm sure he'll do well as the head coach, and I'm confident this will lead to even better things for Ryan.

Rob Oertel

We have the talent. I feel very confident that it could happen.

Yang Lan

In 1994, after four years of talking about travel on my first show, I realized I knew so little about the world - I knew so little about myself. I decided to quit my job and pursue a postgraduate degree in New York.

Thom Yorke

We toyed with the idea of making it a double album, but I think that would only have confused everybody even more, so we decided to stick with the songs we picked.

Ike Barinholtz

We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.

Irving Paul Lazar

Sometimes I wake up in the morning and there's nothing doing, so I decide to make something happen by lunch.

Vivek Wadhwa

Writing a book is usually a full-time job that takes years. I didn't have years. So I decided to crowdsource content for the book.

E. O. Wilson

We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.

Becky G

When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.

Bethany Mota

I decided to launch a fragrance because Aeropostale approached me about creating one, and it's something that I kind of always wanted to do but didn't think it would actually happen. So when I heard I had the opportunity to create my own perfume, I got super excited.

Vidya Balan

Promotions can be seen in two ways - either you hate them, and they're a burden, and you are getting through with it, or you can enjoy them. I decided early on that I was going to enjoy them. I did 43 interviews in a day for 'Kahaani.'

William Shatner

I find the whole time travel question very unsettling if you take it to its logical extension. I think it might eventually be possible, but then what happens?

Chuck Palahniuk

Every author has to eventually write a food book.

Yayoi Kusama

You should create a work that is so valuable it might eventually sell at a high price, but you've got to concentrate on how you create that artwork.

Clint Eastwood

As much as I love the Western genre, I figured if I kept doing those, I'd eventually run out of steam on that, and that would've been the end of it.

Natalie Massenet

What seems like a crazy idea today eventually grows. It's a 'with hindsight' thing. One day, someone will turn around and say, 'That was genius.'

Sebastian Stan

I was born in Romania and later lived in Vienna, Austria, for a few years, and I eventually made my way over to New York in '95.

Rick Rubin

At 15, I started listening to hard rock and heavy metal, but I would say it was more hard rock because I liked Kiss, Aerosmith, Ted Nugent, and eventually AC/DC.

Brett Mackey

We have the firepower to do that. A lot of it is as long as the kids stay patient and keep executing, eventually it's going to go.

DeShawn Stevenson

We're way more talented than our record. After the trades we made, you can see that in the long term we're going to be a good team down the line. We've got a lot of young guys who are 23, 24 and even 20 years old, and we're eventually going to be a playoff team even though we're struggling now.

Ellen Key

The serious questions that are talked out or strangled with red tape are more numerous than those that are killed by silence; the number of people whose ideas are knocked on the head in societies is greater in our day than that of the solitary fighters who go under.

Donald Trump

Years ago, I predicted that Iran would take over Iraq. Iran and Iraq used to fight back and forth.

C. S. Lewis

To fight in another man's armour is something more than to be influenced by his style of fighting.

C. S. Lewis

Well, you know how it feels if you begin hoping for something that you want desperately badly; you almost fight against the hope because it is too good to be true; you've been disappointed so often before.

Carrie Brownstein

I would not call myself an optimist, even though I would aspire to be. I am innately a skeptic. There's kind of an incessant dissatisfaction that I have, that I'm always trying to either expose or fight against or wrestle with.

Carrie Underwood

I'm fighting a losing battle here: I'm trying to lose some weight. I love chocolate; that's one of my biggest downfalls. I haven't gotten a whole lot of chocolate, thank goodness, because I'd probably be about 300 pounds.

Carl Reiner

I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.

Carl Reiner

When you denigrate people, they have two ways to fight back - with their fists and guns, or their mouths. And mouths are seemingly the easiest way to not get hit back. If people are laughing, they're not going to hit you.

Bill Vaughan

The voters of Brookhaven Town made a clear choice to turn away from the corruption and problems of the past, .. I will end corruption in Town Hall once and for all. I've been fighting for this all my life.

Yousuf Karsh

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

Todd Rundgren

It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.

Idina Menzel

I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

Idina Menzel

I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.

Ian Frazier

I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.

Ian Mckellen

Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.

Ismail Kadare

In antiquity, there were three regions in southern Europe: Greece, Rome, and Ilyria. Albanian is the only survivor of the Ilyrian languages. That is why it has always intrigued the great linguists of the past.

Gaines Adams

I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.

Gad Elmaleh

There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.

Inga Cadranel

When we were growing up, we had all these crazy, in-your-face guys around the house. For us, it was like, 'Ugh! Actors again.'

Val Kilmer

I've been very fortunate and met the guys that have become, basically, philosophers and have a kind of sensibility about life that's very precious.

Chuck Palahniuk

When I first used to tour, guys would come up and say, 'Where's the fight club in my area?' and I would say, 'There isn't one.' And they'd say, 'No, no, you can tell me, you can tell me.'

will.i.am

When you think about the guys who started Twitter, and the Google guys, and the Facebook guys and the Napster guys, and the Microsoft guys, and the Dell guys and the Instagram guys, it's all guys. The girls, they're being left behind.

Alberto Martinez

The overriding theme of these numbers is that these guys are pretty much tied, and will likely stay that way for a long time.

Brian Bell

The guys in the Twins understand that the better Weezer does, the more people will probably care about us.

Wade Henderson

We have a lot of young guys who haven't jelled yet. It's tough when you lose (last year's seniors), but you have to learn to play without them.

Mark Marquess

We have a lot of young guys and we'll see where we stand.

Lindsey Hunter

We need to have our showers, there's some guys in here who should be showering more often than they are.

Jim Jennings

We are where other leagues, the NFL and NBA and NHL, were in the 1950s and 1960s.

Pat Riley

Frustration is part of this game. You have to press on. That's it. You can't let that get to you. Welcome to the NBA playoffs.

Todd Speer

I can't overemphasize how important that relationship with the NBA will be to our league.

Chris Bosh

I learned very quickly that the NBA is a very rough place, physically and mentally. There's no mercy.

Chris Bosh

I want to go get a stop on defense so James can do it again. It was a big spurt for him. That made then get out of their game plan and play him closer. But when he does that, we want to make sure we capitalize and get timely stops. And that's what got us right back in the game.

Chandler Parsons

We're a walking billboard... You want to look good to everyone who is watching.

Mark Cuban

Can't say no one makes money from Twitter now. The NBA does.

Bess Myerson

I really don't like talking about diets.

Bill Walton

Where else but the NBA could people like Bill Russell, Spencer Haywood, Ricky Barry, Dennis Rodman, and Allen Iverson come in and be allowed to be who they are?

Oscar Wilde

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.

Michael Jackson

I love realism. I don't like plastics. Deep down inside we're all the same.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.

Manuel Puig

I only understand realism.

Zane Grey

Realism is death to me. I cannot stand life as it is.

Richard M. Nixon

Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.

Al Smith

We have a starting point. We've come this far, we shouldn't scrap it.

Megan Myles

(The Owls) are a scrappy team. We're going to have to come out and play.

Laura Cameron

I wasn't about to let them just scrape by... if there was anything I could do about it.

Tim Bowman

Lecanto's a scrappy team, and we had to play well.

Confucius

A picture is poem without words.

Corey Davis

Prescott was a scrappy team and stayed in many rallies.

Maurice Ager

They're a small team. But they're scrappy and they play hard.

John Pardue

Are the schoolyards and people's yards going to be so contaminated that we're going to have to scrape them up? That's the big unknown right now. It's not a very rosy picture, I'm afraid.

Tom Petty

They are a scrappy team and they didn't quit. They battled the whole way.

Evel Knievel

I can't keep track of my hospital time. It all sort of blurs together.

Rosamund Pike

Looking back, I just think I was a really average sort of girl.

Peter Cardillo

We'll probably see some sort of a pullback.

John Byrd

We're waiting to see what happens. It's still sort of experimental.

Penn Badgley

You know, as an only child, you're kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I still can't really place.

Pablo Schreiber

I got nominated for a Tony in my Broadway debut, which was fascinating and thrilling and sort of unbelievable all at the same time.

Peter Jackson

'Bad Taste' was - it was, in many respects, my sort of, my, I guess, my single-minded desire to want to break into the film industry when New Zealand didn't really have a film industry to break into.

Jay Frank

We have one person in custody. They are still trying to sort things out.

Glen Mathison

I think it would be irresponsible to speculate at all that this was some sort of attack.

Wes Anderson

And Hackman had really choked up when he was telling it. It was very moving.

Michael Brown

I was screaming, telling him, don't die, and that I'm sorry.

Jose Antonio Vargas

I'm a journalist, and I'm a filmmaker. I have an organization that's all about telling stories.

Jussie Smollett

I feel the weight of just telling the truth. There really is no weight to telling the truth. It's a little scary sometimes, but if you tell the truth, you don't have to be looking over your shoulder.

Brad Arnsberg

He's already telling me how much more comfortable he feels.

Jim Crace

Humankind has been telling stories forever and will be telling stories forever.

Reginald Delk

He just told us the truth. He was calm, just telling us what we were doing wrong and what we were doing right, how it is and how we need to play. Then we went out and did it.

Benedict Lucchesi

He is telling Merck that you have to be careful. You can't just give (Cox-2s) to everybody,

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.

Beck

I didn't want to do something typical.

Maisie Williams

Going out is the typical thing when you turn 18, but it's not really much fun when you have a recognisable face.

Tim Banner

He was just typical Josh. There are things he could have done better, but he was all right.

Luis von Ahn

I put a lot of weight on feelings and am weirdly in touch with them, which is not typical for an engineer.

Ben Bernanke

If current trends continue, the typical U.S. worker will be considerably more productive several decades from now. Thus, one might argue that letting future generations bear the burden of population aging is appropriate, as they will likely be richer than we are even taking that burden into account.

Barbara Mertz

stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.

Kirk Smith

We don't know what a typical year is. There may never be such a thing.

Adam Sandler

I'll continue to make the typical Adam Sandler comedies.

Adam Lambert

I don't like to look typical.