Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Stross

For a sampler, you could try my short story collection "Wireless". Which contains one novella that scooped a Locus award, and one that won a Hugo, and covers a range of different styles.

Frederick Moran

The cable division came in with 13 percent cash-flow growth, which is basically the strongest we're going to see out of the whole cable industry this quarter, ... They're showing some real power.

Norman Cook

The whole British Hip Hop scene basically happened through word of mouth and through people like you sort of spreading the word in different cities.

Daniel Horowitz

You scream, you cry. But I just basically sat with her, and I just told her, 'I love you, and you're beautiful,'

Bobby Shelton

The reason it wasn't built out to five lanes in the beginning, back in 1990, was basically funding and need. There's probably no need at this point for five lanes in each direction. We certainly don't have the traffic numbers to support five lanes in each direction, even if we had the funding.

Bob Taylor

SCRAP has been successful, basically because it gives residents the convenience of getting their materials recycled at a school nearby. They don't have to go a long way.

Michael Moskowitz

Basically there are 25,000 registered voters in the district, about 4,000 will vote in this election, and whoever gets 2,000 votes will win. Can someone who's been on TV get 2,000 votes? We'll see. Am I worried? No.

Mark Fogel

Basically in the fourth quarter the offense just seemed to really click, pretty much that was the difference.

Maurice Drew

But I think I'm a versatile back, someone who can do a lot of different things. I can run, catch, block, return, basically anything you want me to do, I'm going to go out there and do. I'll make plays for you.

Sheryl Swoopes

I was at a point in my life where I am just tired of having to pretend to be somebody I am not. I was basically living a lie. For the last seven, eight years, I was basically waiting to exhale.

When you die, if you get a choice between going to regular heaven or pie heaven, choose pie heaven. It might be a trick, but if it's not, mmmmmmmm, boy.

Kamala Harris

My mantra about everything that has to do with public policy is: identify and reject the false choice.

Ron Hill

You have more choices on defensive linemen for the 3-4, ... There's such a premium on 6-5, 285-pound defensive ends and defensive tackles. It's hard to find those guys. You don't have to find big, big guys in that defense because it's all movement. There's more movement than toe-to-toe stuff. You can be more flexible with their movement.

Jim Gray

The team that won last year prides itself on being the last team to register. So they usually register around 4:30 p.m. on the Friday of the competition and they have won the last four or five years that they've been playing.

Steve Smyers

We've got a big golf course here, but what we've got are 16, 17 and 18, that if you come out and play a friendly match or if we have a competition here, there can be a huge spread of scores.

Terry Grant

They want me to play running back. Wherever you go, you've got to work to be the best. Competition is good.

Maria Cantwell

Lets embrace productive capitalism, not casino capitalism, by restoring transparency and true competition in the commodities markets.

Lily Collins

A lot of my friends aren't working, especially since fewer films are being made now and there's more competition.

Laurence J. Peter

Competition in academia is so vicious because the stakes are so small.

Marc Benioff

You never want to be completely alone at what you do. Competition is good for everyone.

Lee Kuan Yew

India is scared of the competition... because Chinese goods will go into India and compete.

John D. Rockefeller

Competition is a sin.

Perhaps, if I am very lucky, the feeble efforts of my lifetime will someday be noticed, and maybe, in some small way, they will be acknowledged as the greatest works of genius ever created by Man

John Barrymore

The way to fight a woman is with your hat - grab it and run

Bobby Scott

Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.

Derek Smith

We're at a fork in the road. You have a choice. You can go out and fight or you can lay down.

Clara Barton

While soldiers can stand and fight.I can fight and feed them

Jeff Greenfield

Men and women in my lifetime have died fighting for the right to vote: people like James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, who were murdered while registering black voters in Mississippi in 1964, and Viola Liuzzo, who was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in 1965 during the Selma march for voting rights.

John Abizaid

We must fight the terrorists together so that we can have a free and prosperous future for the Iraqi people,

Van Jones

Will the new environmental leaders fight for eco-equity in this new "green economy" they are birthing?

Robert Palmer

The fight to make ends meet, keeps a man upon his feet.

Witold Gombrowicz

If he [the Artist] were to take up the pen it would be...to better express his individuality and explain it to others; or else to put his internal affairs in order...to deepen and sharpen his relationship with his fellow men because other souls exert an immense and creative influence on our soul; or to try to fight for a world as he would like it to be, for a world that is indispensable to his life.

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Urban Meyer

But what I didnt want to have happen, and I made this clear to Jeremy (Florida AD), if I am able to go coach, I want to coach at one place, the University of Florida. It would be a travesty, it would be ridiculous to all of a sudden come back and get the feeling back, get the health back, feel good again and then all of a sudden go throw some other colors on my shirt and go coach? I dont want to do that. I have too much love for this University and these players and for what weve built.

Rogers Hornsby

Players who stand flat footed and swing with their arms are golfers, not hitters.

Warren Moon

I was always geared towards either wanting to finish number one or be number one as far as the best player that I could be, or be the best player at my position in the league. I wanted that to be a constant reminder to my teammates that they looked to their leader who is wearing that number, this is what you should strive for as well.

Will Oldham

I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything.

Zakk Wylde

Without a doubt, Eddie Van Halen is the greatest guitar player who has ever lived.

Yusef Komunyakaa

I like what Oliver Lakes does on the saxophone. The saxophone comes pretty close to the sound of the human voice and when Oliver plays with other sax players, it's like a dialogue.

William Golding

Ralph... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.

Roy Keane

You shouldn't have spoken to the players like that. No, you should have.

Amy Winehouse

I always try to write a song to work things out with myself and I want to do it with a little punchline at the end, because I never want to remember anything bad in my life.

Amy Winehouse

I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and atmospheric. You'd have an entire story in song. I never listen to, like, white music - I couldn't sing you a Zeppelin or Floyd song.

Amy Winehouse

I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.

Amy Winehouse

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

Amy Winehouse

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.

Alexa Chung

DJing for people is fun until someone comes up with a phone screen that has 'PLAY SOME RIHANNA' written on it. I prefer to play older songs because they're the ones I personally enjoy dancing and singing along to and modern dance music bores my brains out.

Drew Carey

I wish I could end every rap song I didn't like with a buzzer.

Dr. Dre

Engineering and mixing are absolutely key. Once a song is done, for me personally, it's usually two or three days to get the mix down.

Dr. Dre

I want to set the record straight for everybody who's been waiting to hear my music. The song that's on the internet is an incomplete song that I'm still working on. When it's ready, you'll be hearing it from me.

Barack Obama

I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

Douglas Conant

Learning to celebrate success is a key component of learning how to win in the market.

Dontrelle Willis

Whatever I can do to win, I'll do it, even if I have to get hit by a pitch, whatever it takes.

Ami Ayalon

Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.

Matt Mullenweg

I drive a Prius and drink $10k bottles of wine. The wine isnt on Instagram. The Prius is.

Mark Martin

I've turned over a new leaf. On TV, Kenny Wallace said I was a pessimist after Charlotte, so I got mad. Now I am so excited about coming back that I just can't stand it. I wish we were starting tomorrow and I'm going to win! That's the new me.

Mark Brunell

If we don't win this one, we're done.

Satchel Paige

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes you get rained out.

Mark Gorman

Marriage isn't about winning. It's about lasting.