Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gene Ween

A few years ago, one of our singles got beaten out by Better Than Ezra. The label could only have one band at a time being taken to the right people at radio, and they opted for Better Than Ezra instead of us. Who knows.

Yotam Ottolenghi

It's hard to beat the rough texture of steel-cut oats, with their slight resistance against the teeth.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

You can't beat a Diane Von Fostenburg wrap dress; I always tend to go for the wrap dresses with a little more structure. I also love Prada shoes.

Chuck Palahniuk

I think a lot of people saw 'Fight Club' and thought, 'Right, here's our next Che Guevara, here's our next Fidel Castro, here's someone who's going to wave the flag.' And I was like, 'No, it's just a book. And if I beat that drum, if I play that song one more time, I won't have a career.'

David Bailey

Instead of putting someone in prison for being a hooligan, give him a choice. He may have beaten someone up and he's got eight years, but tell him you can do eight years inside or spend five years in the Army. Put him in the Parachute Regiment, they'd soon sort him out.

Elliot Mintz

The overall tone of her being this kind of Menacing being who would send people out to beat people up, and things of that nature, I just find all of that to be absurd.

Willie Anderson

The penalties hurt us but it's not the reason we lost. We committed a lot of penalties in games we won by blowouts. We just got beat tonight. I think this is the kind of game we'll look back on later in the year and become stronger because of it.

Willie Anderson

The penalties hurt us but it's not the reason we lost, ... We committed a lot of penalties in games we won by blowouts. We just got beat tonight. I think this is the kind of game we'll look back on later in the year and become stronger because of it.

Brendon Urie

There was a kid that used to pick on me... he used to drop my food and beat me up in little corners. Nothing serious, but tease me. I remember knocking his food out of his hand one time when he in the middle of explaining something to his friends, and they all laughed, so I thought that was pretty nice. 'Well, there you go buddy.'

Yahya Jammeh

What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.

Abraham Lincoln

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

Chris Carter

My brother is a scientist. He's a professor at MIT. He brought science fiction into my world.

Evangeline Lilly

'The Squickerwonkers' was the story I wrote when I was on 'The Hobbit.' And I brought it to Comic-Con and sold out a thousand copies I had printed.

Mike Perry

The peddler exhibit will show people how important their role was to society. People depended on them because they brought in supplies such as pots, pans, needles and threads.

Mikhail Margelov

The outrage that the Danish newspaper brought about is gaining such momentum that the world community must focus on the events.

David Selby

And it was so special, and to tell you the truth that's how I feel about the whole thing, I mean when I meet someone that has watched the show, and it has brought such joy to them, it just makes you feel so good.

David Suchet

I'd love to be remembered as a character actor who brought illumination to roles in wonderful plays and who delivered performances that made people think and rethink those roles.

Vladimir Prelog

An object is chiral if it cannot be brought into congruence with its mirror image by translation and rotation.

Yanis Varoufakis

Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.

Wayne Rooney

As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.

Viswanathan Anand

In Gujarat, we had the world record of largest number of chess games in a single venue - 20,500 - and in Tamil Nadu, I have been emphasizing on the positives of chess to the authorities.

Randy Petersen

The policy doesn't look overly generous, but right now this is the only game in town.

Age Hareide

The points mattered more than anything tonight. The results in the other games went our way, and now we can travel to Belarus knowing that we are in the play-offs. I hope our luck continues.

Malcolm Jenkins

The Penn State game was crazy. There were like 110,000 people there, and they were ready for it.

Ted Young

The pat on the back (for winning the regular season) is gone. The first do-or-die games for the girls are (today) and on Saturday for the boys. Everything you've worked for is gone on Saturday if you're not prepared for it mentally or physically.

Nolan Bushnell

'Pong' hit the fancy. It was sort of the perfect storm of a game which has two players highly social, a game that women could play better than a guy, and sort of an acceptance of this social nature of games in a bar.

Marc Savard

That was a game we were in. The score is not indicative of the whole game.

Yotam Ottolenghi

You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.

Yanni

The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.

Yanis Varoufakis

I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.

Thierry Henry

I've always loved New York; I've been visiting New York since 1996. People don't look at you like, 'What are you doing? What are you wearing?' There is also that thing that when people know that you have worked hard to get something, people have that respect for that here. You worked hard - good for you.

Iggy Azalea

I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.

Ice T

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

Idina Menzel

I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?

Idina Menzel

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

Ivar Giaever

Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.

Clint Eastwood

Prime time for men is, say, 35 to 45. Then they level off and fall off.

Benoit Mandelbrot

I went to the computer and tried to experiment. I introduced a very high level of experiment in very pure mathematics.

John Pickett

The 8,200 level has become a point of support for the Dow,

Gary McCord

That would kind of level the playing field." ()

Dean Laidley

We have come from well back, when you talk about a level playing field. Some people in the media have very short memories.

George Voinovich

We have to level with the American people.

Yusli Yusoff

We've done an independent survey together with SGX to try to ascertain the level of interest. The survey results have been quite positive.

Tom Gorman

We've dismantled this organization and in doing that, you have to dismantle multi levels. We've done it at a local level and a state level.

Paul Singer

Opacity on extreme levels is not addressed anywhere, including Dodd-Frank.

Bertrand Russell

I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing. There are others, which, one must suppose, opponents of birth control would prefer.

Kelly Moylan

Unfortunately, we don't get another shot (at Shawnee Heights). But that's okay. We still have plenty of tough opponents waiting for us.

Helen Suzman

I represent all the enlightened people in this country, and that's a fine thing to be able to do. It infuriates my opponents when I say this, but it is true.

Joe Solmonese

It certainly, for me, raises the possibility that she's more fair-minded than our opponents are hoping.

August Bebel

If your opponent praises you: beware! But if he gets stuck into you, you are usually on the right way.

Bear Bryant

You have to be willing to out-condition your opponents.

Anthony Trollope

The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.

Bobby Fischer

Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me.

Carl von Clausewitz

The only situation a commander can know fully is his own: his opponent's he can know only from unreliable intelligence.

Carrie Fisher

Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolesence.

Arsene Wenger

When you represent a club it's about values and qualities, not about passports.

Bill Burr

When I was coming up the DC Improv was considered the best Improv out there. It's always been high quality stuff coming out of there.

David Waller

That would have been a water quality nightmare.

Dave Lamarre

We just can't seem to get enough quality shots on goal. It's been our nemesis all season.

Bob Bertini

We just can't get the quantity and quality of the tomatoes we want.

Beck

There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable.

Barry Lopez

Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.

Norman Edelman

The quality of the institution was getting better. The scandal will set it back. This is the tragedy.

Brian Butterfield

That was a tremendous play. Troy has been solid at third base.

Doug Mirabelli

He's been solid for us all year, and we need him now more than ever.

Rory Bruer

I think it's a good, solid start for us,

Lawrence Lau

He may have been transferring waste without a solid waste permit.

Tim Brewer

We've got a pretty solid team all-around. We like to get up and down the court.

Nate Moore

We're a solid staff all the way around. It's just one of those days.

Mike Bender

We worked a lot on his tempo and staying solid at the top, not hinging too much,

Josh Pais

My process is I try to learn my lines so they're so solid I don't have to think about them or how I'm going to say them.

Jim Schmidt

I think it was more nerve-racking for me than for Ellie. She put together 11 real solid dives.

Karen Evans

If it's useful and really needed, it will sustain itself.

Judd Terwilliger

We were never able to sustain (momentum). We'd get leads, but then they'd come back.

Paul Stone

We were never able to sustain a run.

Donna Griffin

We are trying to sustain or make more improvement.

Rick Adelman

He's in shape, much quicker. He can do the things he used to do. Now all he has to do is sustain it.

Carrie Fisher

You know how most illnesses have symptoms you can recognize? Like fever, upset stomach, chills, whatever. Well, with manic depression, it's sexual promiscuity, excessive spending, and substance abuse - and that just sounds like a fantastic weekend in Vegas to me!

Joan Bonvicini

That week was surreal. We were numb, we made it through it.

James Blake

It doesn't get better than this, ... If every week were like this I would never retire.

Dena Crews

We're celebrating it all week here at the library.

Joe Gibbs

Two weeks in a row, he's been pretty impressive.

Mike Holmgren

I was going to come out and wing it around. It had nothing to do with the week before.

Tom Chambers

I wish we could have been there a week before,

Brian Goorjian

It could be two weeks or it could be the season.

Mike Martz

He'll be back, but whether it's this week or not I don't know.