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.'

Scott Stossel

I had no trouble with strangers finding out about my anxiety. It was my friends and colleagues I was concerned about.

Alan Greene

We've lost a colleague and many people have lost a friend. This is a tragedy.

Sally Kroha

My colleagues at Quaker Oats gave me some referrals, since my product is in no way competitive with their food business.

Tim Palmer

My colleagues are developing our methods for Zimbabwe, South Africa, Swaziland and Zimbabwe. Some research is being done for the more complex terrain of Kenya, though here the results are less well developed.

Charles Hennekens

My colleagues and I were quite surprised that the FDA has taken such an extreme position,

David Owens

It'd be kind of nice, but it's already been enough to be recognized here by my colleagues in Northern Kentucky,

John Cornyn

is to make sure that my colleagues do not misrepresent Judge Roberts' views to the American people.

Ben Bernanke

When the economic well-being of their nation demanded a strong and creative response, my colleagues at the Federal Reserve... mustered the moral courage to do what was necessary.

Virginia Foxx

Like the rest of my colleagues joining me today, I am strongly in support of scientific research to save and improve human life.

F. Sionil Jose

The Japanese covet important symbols - their heroic past as enshrined in Yasukuni, the Imperial family which has never been sullied by scandal.

William Shakespeare

But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.

Charles Colton

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation

Gene Hall

There's a lot that happens (at the state Capitol) and we have a stake in most of it. We covet our seat at the table.

Lady Gregory

There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have some grandeur around them.

Thomas Harris

What does he do, Clarice? What is the first and principal thing he does, what need does he serve by killing? He covets. How do we begin to covet? We begin by coveting what we see every day.

Winston Churchill

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

Denis Villeneuve

I was at the premiere of 'Prisoners,' and I heard two thousand people scream at the same time. I turned to my wife and said, 'I love cinema!' It's the sharing of emotions together, and it's collective. It's one of the last communions we have.

Nick Vitucci

We've made this trek a little harder on us. But you can't expect to win every game and it may not hurt to get back to reality a little bit. We've overcome setbacks before and I'm upbeat about how our team will rebound. We have to have a strong game from start to finish. We can't take periods off and we'll have to keep our emotions in check.

James Hall

You can get patents on games, and what's the end result of a game? ... Laughter, tears, emotions--the same thing as a movie.

David Ansen

It has real passion, real emotion, real terror and a tactile sense of evil.

Emmett Davis

I thought it was a really intense, hard-fought game. Navy's seniors played with a lot of emotion, a lot of passion. I was proud of the way our guys matched their intensity.

Jason Schmidt

I thought it was a 50-50 thing. I have mixed emotions about it. I'm going back to a familiar team. I never said I didn't want to be here. It's just it would have been a good time to be a free agent.

Kevin Evans

We all need to step back from the emotion.

Terri Swaney

It feels like I'm going to Disneyland. No, I'm just ecstatic. I've got so many emotions going on right now. And I know the girls do, particularly with making it to the state finals.

Paul Netzer

It feels great. To go to state two years in a row is just phenomenal. My emotions are way up there. It's going to be great.

Cecelia Ahern

Love was one of those feelings that you could never control.

Carrie Chapman Catt

What is prejudice? An opinion, which is not based upon reason; a judgment, without having heard the argument; a feeling, without being able to trace from whence it came.

Carrie Underwood

Singing is just a feeling set to music.

Arnold Schoenberg

I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.

Bill Vaughan

One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.

Charles R. Swindoll

Lead with action and let the feelings follow.

Yoda

Use your feelings, Obi-Wan, and find him you will.

Beck

When I pull out vinyl - which isn't that often anymore - it's undeniable that I get a different feeling. There's a different physiology happening between the sound waves and the body that doesn't happen with music playing off the computer.

Becca Fitzpatrick

The more time I spent with him, the more I knew the feelings weren't going away.

John Ralston Saul

Everyone has an equal right to inequality.

Joseph Stiglitz

American inequality didn't just happen. It was created.

Jonathan Scott

We're on track to be one of the better teams in the nation. We got to keep working at it. It has been instilled in us that complacency kills. We've got to make sure that we work to get better.

Aaron Cook

He has instilled this, 'This is who you are, stick with it, be stubborn with it' approach. The sinker was working great. As long as I don't try to do too much with it, it is always there.

Henry Ian Cusick

I'd imagine if there were more Scottish people making Scottish movies about Scotland, it would not only be educational, but it would instill a sense of pride.

Jason Silva

I want big ideas to have aesthetic relevance. I want to tickle people's intellectual sensibilities and instill a sense of wonder.

Amber Riley

My parents always instilled knowing that your beautiful, that your fearfully and wonderfully made, and that you know who you are.

Rick Mitchell

My parents instilled in us that you need to give back to the community.

Chris Quinn

My family's always instilled that in me, just having integrity. There's been a lot of tough times throughout this year, throughout my career, but it's important to stick with it and keep battling.

Chris Eigeman

My first show was 'No Exit.' You couldn't find a more pretentious beginning, but it also instilled some sense of quality.

Homaro Cantu

Almond Joys are a childhood favorite, but most of us could do without all those grams of sugar, especially when trying to instill healthy habits in our kids.

Bill Vaughan

I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.

Petrarch

Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.

Nisha Singhania

If they had a profession at all, it had to be a noble cause. Now, it is about glamour, money, and fame.

Cat Deeley

There actually isn't anything better than a noble failure. It will always teach you something and you will always learn from the experience.

Charles Kingsley

For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.

Blaise Pascal

Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.

Brandon Sanderson

Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?

Baha'u'llah

Noble have I created thee, yet thou hast abased thyself. Rise then unto that for which thou wast created.

Jane Goodall

And I thought how sad it was that, for all our sophisticated intellect, for all our noble aspirations, our aggressive behavior was not just similar in many ways to that of the chimpanzees - it was even worse. Worse because human beings have the potential to rise above their baser instincts, whereas chimpanzees probably do not.

Sean Howard

It has outraged the community. He should be ashamed.

Richard Grubman

If this is correct, your shareholders should be outraged that such a transaction was not consummated.

Bella Abzug

I always had a decent sense of outrage.

Calvin Klein

We're not doing outrageous fashion; I make sports clothes that are relatively conservative, clothes that everyone wears.

Bill Richardson

I will not tolerate security lapses and I'm outraged at what happened,

Christopher Shays

I will just say to you that I think it's really outrageous that we at least don't warn passengers that the cargo on a passenger plane has not been checked,

Daphne Guinness

There are a lot of people who do a lot of things to be outrageous with fashion, hair or makeup.

Charlie Skelton

Every version of it still has the lovers, outraged parents and fairies.

Mark Teixeira

I'm not offended. It's outrageous and an outrageous claim.

Andy Serkis

I've always been really in touch with my primal instincts. In my profession, you have to be.

Martin Henderson

There's something incredibly primal about facing something treacherous but doing it anyway.

Neil Kinnock

I'd like to be remembered as somebody who tried to promote justice.

Patricia Edwards

If they promote this correctly, it could be huge.

Karine Vanasse

When I have to promote things now, sometimes I realize that I had a movie in mind, but in the end, it's a vision of somebody else, so I have to promote their idea.

Casper Dien

When I do a film I go out and promote it.

Lydia Lenker

Those are agricultural products. We do promote Tennessee products.

Kate Michelman

It is a pure sham. It is sponsored and promoted by those who want to take away a woman's right to choose.

Bob Ray

I went out and really promoted it (the tournament) this year. It's our third year and we got everything together in our heads.

Charles Pickering

Mississippi, in trying to promote racial harmony, is on the right track at the right station doing the right thing.

Dale Groutage

Sen. (Craig) Thomas has had at least 17 years to promote that technology.

Kris Janowski

Virtually all of the 28 have received verbal threats and begged to be evacuated.

Sen. Nass

I think it will receive an even more overwhelming reception in the Senate.

Robert Lawson

I was unaware of water in garages in The Vineyards until I received these letters. That's disturbing.

James Rubin

We received assurances at a variety of levels.

Chris Beard

We received a lot of user requests for this.

Eric Dubin

When you received Rosie, did you say, 'It's now you and me, kid?'

Horton Foote

I've lived long enough to know things go in and out of fashion, and things not well received now can be totally reversed years later.

Harold Williams

I was going through various hypothetical situations: What if we receive a stolen object? What if it turns out one of our dealers say someone like Symes turns out to be a fence?

Hariadi Wibisono

I have just received confirmation from Hong Kong.