Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Robson

We haven't paid 25 million and 10 million and all the dazzling figures you see being banded about for strikers at the moment. We've been very clever and frugal in our dealings. He's not cheap, he's not for nothing, but we're very happy with the deal.

Michael Ende

He wanted to be loved for being just what he was. In this community of Yskalnari there was harmony, but no love. He no longer wanted to be the greatest, strongest or cleverest. He had left all that far behind. He longed to be loved just as he was, good or bad, handsome or ugly, clever or stupid, with all his faults - or possibly because of them. But what was he actually? He no longer knew. So much have been given to him in Fantastica, and now, among all these gifts and powers, he could no longer find himself.

Rand Paul

The Paris attack was highly sophisticated, well-planned, very clever, took months in the making, very much like 9/11. And there is a 9/11-style attack coming to America.

Sienna Miller

I once used henna to dye my hair brown for an audition, thinking I was being clever as it's all natural.

Sholom Aleichem

Playing nuts is a game like any other, neither better than tops, nor worse than cards. The game is played in various ways. There are 'holes' and 'bank' and 'caps.' But every game finishes up in the same way. One boy loses, another wins. And, as always, he who wins is a clever fellow, a smart fellow, a good fellow.

Seth Godin

Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn't work.

Socrates

Is it not, then, better to be ridiculous and friendly than clever and hostile?

Mercedes Lackey

How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes.

Michael Scott

Fools lie, clever men stick to the truth.

Adam Carolla

People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'

Henry Rollins

Smart people make good choices. They dig science and say 'no' to the invasion of sovereign nations for the pleasure of corporations.

Henry Rollins

I always found the Chicago audience to be a smart, fast-moving, violent and cheerful lot, and it's always good to be back.

Henry Rollins

its no surprise to me that anyone hardly tells the truth about how they feel. The smart ones keep to themselves for good reason. Why would you want to tell anyone anything that's dear to you? Even when you like them and want nothing more than to be closer to them? It's so painful to be next to someone you feel so strongly about and know you can't say the things you want to.

Helmut Jahn

Critics are entitled to have an opinion, but how can they judge how comfortable a building is? No critic is smart enough to judge how a building will perform over time.

Hedda Hopper

Smart writers never understand why their satires on our town are never successful. What they refuse to accept is that you can't satirize a satire.

Malcolm Turnbull

Mitt Romney speaking to a $50,000-a-plate Republican fundraiser says he doesn't have to worry about the 47 per cent of Americans who don't pay tax. He was not counting on the smart phone recording his speech and then posting it on YouTube.

Malcolm Turnbull

Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.

John C. Maxwell

Although it's admirable to be ambitious and hard-working, it's more desirable to be smart-working.

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.

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.

Satchel Paige

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

Morgan Wootten

The big thing is to make a winning effort. Im not obsessed with wins.

Marat Safin

Don't get too excited when I am winning, and don't get too depressed when I am losing. Just keep it cool.

Kellan Lutz

I love competition. I thrive on it. I love being able to win the room over before even walking through the door.

Kellan Lutz

I bet on everything. Everything. It's just like, 'I bet you I can spin my chair longer.' Everything, I say 'I bet you.' I love to win.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I have noticed in every campaign that I have fought-that there is a key segment of time, somewhere between 13 and 15 minutes in which the battle is won or lost. I focus on that segment of time, and I win.