Famous Quotes & Sayings

Theophile Gautier

Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Imelda May

I'm lucky to come from a very musical family. If you put a record on and turn the volume up, there's a pretty good chance you'll have a lot of people dancing very quickly.

Imelda May

Everybody told me that if I insisted on doing rockabilly music, I'd never have a chance of selling any records. In fact, I lost count of how many people told me to ditch it all together, in favour, I guess, of sounding like everybody else.

Ice T

When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting.

Ice T

'New Jack City' was a perfect marriage of music and film. They used a lot of musicians: myself, Christopher Williams. People that were popular because of their music were given the chance to act. And the soundtrack was incredible.

Gillian Armstrong

You rarely, in the professional world, have the chance to express yourself as an individual.

Venus Williams

If the sun comes up, I have a chance.

Bill Gates

If you're low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn't seem entirely fair.

Chino Moreno

A chance to work with the guys from Isis sounded like a lot of fun. I've always been into the atmospheric sounds they had created with that project and felt my sense of melody would meld well with theirs.

Virginia Postrel

Apocalyptic fiction, while ultimately about God's purposes, usually portrays an immediate, human world of competing conspiracies. Whatever happens is orchestrated, coordinated and planned in advance.

Jeff Schuster

The Patriot can end up cannibalizing or competing with vehicles in the Jeep lineup and not provide the incremental volume that they hope it does.

Pedro Marquez

That was three freshmen and a sophomore. Zach showed a lot of speed in his 100 leg of the relay, so he looks like he'll be a good competitor in the 100 for us, and could be competing for a top three spot in the long jump.

Jeff Collins

We have an 8-year-old doing gymnastics, and we have a gentleman competing in swimming who is 90 years old.

Brad Smith

We can settle this lawsuit tomorrow. We can get back to ... competing in the marketplace.

Mark Zuckerberg

When we are thinking about stuff like embeds, we are not thinking about how we are competing with YouTube. We are thinking about how are we going to make it more useful for people to share stuff on Facebook.

Vance Arnold

Tim did a great job of competing and hitting his spots. He's one of those kids, you tell him what you need him to do and he comes through.

Peter Mancuso

We've got so many cross currents competing right now, and we're in this trading range. And I think we're gonna have this volatile trading range for a while.

Joe Burke

We continue to see a rising demand for custom home and large-scale remodeling in Loudoun. We won't be competing with residential developers, however. Our goal is to help existing homeowners improve upon what they already have.

Irwin Rose

Initially, I thought problems on how the brain works to be the most interesting. But it was necessary to be practical and concentrate on less obscure matters when I entered Washington State College. Besides, there were no courses given in neurobiology.

Dev Hynes

It's funny because I think, as a general rule, that people seem to think that if you do lots of different things over the course of, like, a timeline, it means that you kind of disregard what you did before. But that's not true of me. I still genuinely like everything I did as much as I liked it when I released it.

Donald Trump

The USGA is terrific. I've designed my course in Bedminster to the highest standards of the USGA, and it's a very special course.

Anton Seidl

Of course, experience strengthens one later.

Morten Olsen

We have always kept the spot open for Jesper. Now he feels ready to join the squad and we are of course happy for his decision.

Omar Nelson Bradley

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

Roger Baird

We have worked on golf courses around the world but found that working in the serene setting of the Barona Indian Reseration was one one of the most inspiring projects we have been involved with,

John Hackney

We just didn't manage the course very well. It's a mental grind and we didn't handle it very well.

David Jennings

We can send up a request and of course we would send up a request after speaking with the elected officials, including the sheriff. It wouldn't just be my issue I would take input from each of those people and if that is what they wanted then we would request it. But just because we requested it doesn't mean the governor would issue it.

Steven Milunovich

The PC is not the driver of technology anymore, ... We are big believers, however, in handheld devices, such as those made by Palm and Research in Motion. A lot of applications are going to migrate to handhelds.

Tom Byrne

We need to know what happened, ... We haven?t ruled out anything, from vehicle malfunction to the driver being at fault.

Mark Zuckerberg

We have these services that people love and that are drivers of data usage... and we want to work this out, so that way, it's a profitable model for our partners.

Penny Marshall

I do talk like a truck driver sometimes, or I curse. What can I say?

Dietrich Mateschitz

We have more drivers than cockpits and we had only two possibilities,

Tim Collins

We're using every piece of equipment and every driver we have available.

Tim Cindric

You like to see someone like Sam do well. He's been in this series for quite a while, either as a driver or an owner. He's done a lot to get it off the ground and to see him get in the show is good for everybody.

Richie Gilmore

Junior wants to be the oldest driver at DEI. That's kind of one of the things he wants. I think the main thing we're looking for is a good teammate for Junior and Martin.

Joe Spraggins

I'm hearing reports that a lot of tanker truck drivers won't come into southern Mississippi because they don't have hotel rooms. I'm just pleading to help us if you can.

Tina Brown

No one has put in harder training to become a royal bride than the glossy-haired Kate Middleton.

Frank Caliendo

With Twitter, it's a little harder to tell jokes that somebody hasn't heard already. You have all these people out there sharing their opinions and telling jokes in real time, and by the time you get on, somebody's already done some version of what you're trying to do.

Chris Lemerise

We have to work harder when we get those (power play) chances.

Angela Griffin

We have to work harder to show distinction.

Dan Waterman

We just didn't play hard, it's as simple as that. They worked harder than we did.

Jerry Daugherty

We have three solid scoring threats now. It's a lot harder for defenses to key on only one of our players.

Mark Schmidt

We were slow, sluggish. It was like we didn't have our legs. It was like the harder you try, the harder you play, the worse it gets. It wasn't smooth.

Kerry Smith

Using a shovel that is too tall or too short for you only makes working with that particular tool harder on you.

Patricia Richardson

I didn't want to do comedy again. It is way harder when you are doing comedy. You can't just concentrate on the character and the plot. In comedy, the writers, instead of obsessing about character and plot, obsess about the jokes.

Yakov Smirnoff

We have a choice - we can both think and feel, using our heads and our hearts.

Chuck Palahniuk

My teacher Tom Spanbauer, the man who got me started writing in his workshop, used to say: 'Writers write because they weren't invited to a party.' That always struck so true, and people always nod their heads when they hear that. Especially writers.

Taylor Twellman

We need to keep our heads up, because we played very well.

Gene Allen

We can't hold our heads down. I think that's good. We'll be fine.

Rocco Calo

We will return to our jobs with our heads held high.

Lynn Coady

Most don't live inside their heads as a writer does, having conversations with her own ideas.

Bethany Koch

We have one more step. We've been waiting for this game. We just have to realize this is it. Our season is going to be over by (next) Saturday, win or lose. We have to get our heads straight.

Bill Guerin

You keep your heads up and you never know what will happen.

Marcus Williams

I think it would be the same way if we were No. 4 or No. 20. I think Connecticut is Connecticut. They're going to want to take our heads off.

Webb Simpson

I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.

Fred Couples

The 14th hole was really a killer, but there were several other putts -- I just couldn't get one to go. I think if Phil was putting for me, I would have won with 9- or 10-under.

Fred Couples

The 14th hole was just really a killer. I couldn't get one to go in the hole and get any momentum.

Fred Couples

The 14th hole was just really a killer.

Mary Klinger

We can't get down in a hole like that.

Michael Dicks

Manufacturing is in a hole but the housing market is pretty buoyant,

Stephen Hawking

There are no black holes in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity.

Buddy Bell

We got back in the game, but it seems we never have enough. We have too many holes in the lineup to keep things going.

Tiger Woods

No. 7 is one of the narrowest holes on the course, if not the narrowest.

Mark Polansky

When the application sets are similar, there?s movement.

David Hallberg

When stress sets in, and pressure, I focus.

Gregg Marshall

It all sets up for a lot of drama.

Dinah Maria Mulock

It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.

Alastair Reynolds

I think the danger with using the term 'trilogy' is that it sets up particular expectations in the reader's mind.

Amy Cooper

When Kyra sets it makes her a lot more vocal and involved. She has a tendency when she's not setting to become an island. Kyra's a really smart player.

Kobe Bryant

They just have more sets now and more options. They are looser.

Shana Martin

I want to be the person who sets the curve.

Brent Pohlonski

We always say our team is like a family. With so many sets of siblings, it just makes it more like a family.

William Shakespeare

Be not too tame neither, but let your own Discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

Alan Shepard

I woke up an hour before I was supposed to, and started going over the mental checklist: where do I go from here, what do I do? I don't remember eating anything at all, just going through the physical, getting into the suit. We practiced that so much, it was all rote.

Alan King

I won't eat in a place that has suits of armor.

Chogyam Trungpa

Warriorship is so tender, without skin, without tissue, naked and raw. It is soft and gentle. You have renounced putting on a new suit of armor. You have renounced growing a thick, hard skin. You are willing to expose naked flesh, bone and marrow to the world.

Charlaine Harris

You might have been paid back enough to suit you" I said, "but I don't know if you've been paid back enough to suit me.

William Shakespeare

All is well ended, if the suit be won.

Anne Sullivan

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

Bill Nighy

If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.

Kristin Armstrong

I realize that I am typically vulnerable only when and where and how much it suits me. I can choose my writer words and even go back and edit.