Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

S. I. Hayakawa

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

Stan Lee

When you work with people whom you like and you admire because they're so good at what they do, it doesn't feel like work. It's like you're playing.

Stephen Vizinczey

As a rule, the most dangerous ideas are not the ones that divide people but those on which they agree.

Roy Orbison

Saving nickels, saving dimes, working 'til the sun don't shine, looking forward to happier times.

Rosanne Cash

Work ... is redemption.

Tom Peters

He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!

Tom Peters

Hire disrespectful people.

Steve Wozniak

Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.

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.

Sam Lewis

During the playoffs the teams really come at you and we're going to be the team to beat.

Alex Ferguson

If we can play like that every week well get some level of consistency.

Alden Ehrenreich

I've definitely been spoilt. Every movie I've done, it's always the same criteria: finding a great story, and finding a great part to play.

Aldrich Ames

The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?

Alec Baldwin

When I get onstage in a play, I feel very safe, very protected, very fulfilled.

Alec Baldwin

I wish I could play the lead role in one movie, one great movie.

Alec Baldwin

If I add a negative element to the piece, you are not a villain necessarily but you bring a stronger, more negative aspect to the film, and if you don't do that, the film goes off balance where you can't worry about likability, you have to come in and play the part the best way that you can.

Aldous Huxley

Words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore deserving of the closest study.

David Horn

Some people like to go fishing, ... We like to work cattle.

Linda Pierce

Some people know how to teach, and some know how to do.

Elizabeth Jones

Some people just like the simplicity of a single ring.

Wynne Wakley

Some people just can't take the pressure or the stress. Those are the people who we try to weed out.

Martin Freeman

Some people have that roar in their head, but I'm not sure I ever did. That live-fast-die-young thing. No one wants it really.

Bill Bullard

Some people have spent a lot of time on this proposal already,

Richard Prince

Some people are better at handling the limelight than others.

Suzan-Lori Parks

Someone yelled at me once, 'You never write about yourself.' People used to get so mad at me for that. But my definition of myself is completely up for grabs. I'm everywhere, just like we all are.

Ian Jackson

Some people would've shut themselves away, and she was never like that, ... She was very willing to go out and talk about it.