Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes you have to be careful when selecting a new name for yourself. For instance, let's say you have chosen the nickname "Fly Head." Normally you would think that "fly Head" would mean a person who has beautiful swept-back features, as if flying through the air. But think again. Couldn't it also mean "having a head like a fly"? I'm afraid some people might actually think that.

Catherine McCartney

We've spoken out and said you can stand up and you don't have to be afraid of anybody. But it won't mean anything unless the people in the communities take that opportunity the next time the IRA comes to their door and say to them 'I'm not going to allow you to bully me'.

Chinese Proverbs

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still

Rob Varley

Bob cares a lot about the success of Cocoa Beach. He's a regular guy who isn't afraid of hard work. Let me tell you -- it was very difficult for the tourism industry after Sept. 11. We were hurting.

Stephen Stanley

There's a game of chicken going on with traders wanting to go short but too afraid of month-end demand to risk it. Anyway, nobody wants to be short in a holiday week when anything might happen geopolitically.

Geno Auriemma

There's some seniors that would be afraid to take that drive. You can't become great unless you're willing to suffer the consequences if it doesn't go in. You've just got to know it's going in.

Marcus Spears

There's no question he would have been a great offensive lineman. He would have been an All-American ? if he had wanted to play. Back in high school, he'd rag-doll those poor kids. Guys were so afraid they'd run over him that they'd just stand there and Glen would put a little move on them and shake them out of their shoes.

Ben Romans

There's loud guitars, there's harmony, but even more importantly, this is a really positive album. I don't think we're afraid to put a really happy album out there. It's a party in a package.

Bobby Robson

There's nothing we won't do to try to bring success to Irish football. We need to spread our net, we need to find out where there are any more (players). We know what we should keep; we know what we need to collect. We've got to look further than the present crop. There's an awful lot of scouting to do but we're not afraid of that.

Scott Browne

Strip away inventories and the government sector, and private-sector demand really wasn't that strong -- private-sector sales were up just 0.8 percent. We're still in a transition phase and not on a sustainable growth path yet.

Spencer White

Vietnam is one of the last frontier emerging economies in the region that will demand serious investor attention.

Abby Bellows

The 17 students sitting in Madison Hall are not sitting for arrest. We're demanding a living wage; we're not demanding to get arrested.

Al Hubbard

It's sort of Economics 101. The demand for fuel and gasoline has been ... growing dramatically and the supply has not been growing as rapidly.

Jon Tremayne

It's simple supply and demand equations. The greater the supply, the more effect it will have on prices.

Douglas Duncan

Supply will grow less rapidly than demand and that will support housing prices.

Colen Garrow

It's a modest number but it could be better were it not for the rand. The sector is growing on strength of local demand and it does look as though global manufacturing is pulling itself out of a slump - but we are not out of the doldrums yet.

Greg Brown

It seemed like something I'd like to do, and there's a great market demand for a good product out there.

Joseph Wu

It's time for us to open our testing and packaging technology to the mainland. There is a demand by the industry to make these investments.

Michael Beasley

It was an honor to be a part of history, but honestly I don't remember all the games we've played. I do remember the trips, though, and that's what we will miss the most ? all those good times.

Daniel Barrow

Brantley did a great job keeping his composure. He read the defenses well and made some nice passes. As the game progressed, I thought we did a better job up the middle with our fullback trap and isolation plays.

Dick Jauron

(Bettis) is the kind of player that the game needs, the game thrives on, and the game grows around.

Dane Fife

Everything I know of Kelvin Sampson is positive. What I can remember is his teams were very disciplined, they played hard and they played the game the right way.

Shawn Chacon

Everything leading up to this (start), it matters, ... But it doesn't when you're in the playoffs and it's win or go home. Nothing else matters. You don't want the last thing people remember you by (is) you lost the playoff game and your team got sent home.

Lofa Tatupu

Everything is structured. He gives you a number of things to prepare for the week. You go to the game knowing what to expect.

Dwan Hurt

Even though we lost, we're confident. That game made us a better team.

Riley Wallace

Even though we lost the game (to Penn), I think it will help us get ready for the league.

Jeff Neal

Even though we lost the game big, it was good for us to upgrade the schedule.

Jack Kerouac

Nothing ever happened - Not even this

George Roosevelt

These incidents don't happen very often here. We take is very seriously.

Harry Wu

This human rights violation is very unique. It does not happen in any other country, only in China,

Koyie Hill

This is all very weird, but I've got a smile on my face. There's a lot of worse things that can happen to a person, you know.

Gary Bartlett

This is a huge undertaking. There are a lot of things that have to happen, and they have to happen right and happen in a short period of time.

James Mathis

All I can tell you is this: That won't happen again.

Jamie Pollard

All I will say is that something could happen quickly.

Mel Angelstad

You can speculate what's going to happen, but upsets happen in sports all the time.

Michelann Ooten

We're kind of bracing for that to happen tomorrow.

Merrill Markoe

Of the things I know to be true in life, right at the top of the list of irrefutable truths is, "No one ever listens to anyone." It might even be No. 1.

Merle Shain

Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.

Oscar Wilde

You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

If it is your duty to croak like the toad, then go ahead! And with all your might! Make them hear you!

Michel de Montaigne

As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine unto it, but the thred to binde them. Certes, I have given unto publike opinion, that these borrowed ornaments accompany me; but I meane not they should cover or hide me...

Michel de Montaigne

Might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me.

Gunther Cunningham

Let's not talk about it. I might throw up while I'm talking.

David Carr

Seven weeks might sound like a short time. But I can get a lot done in that span.

Mike Stiller

Seventy-five a week might sound like a lot of fish, but it isn't.

Anne Lamott

Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do?

Emerson Fittipaldi

I have to accept risk as a racing driver.

Edie Sedgwick

You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate.

Holbrook Jackson

When in doubt, risk it

Henrik Ibsen

There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.

Herta Muller

If you live with death threats, you need friends. So you have to risk that they might spy on you.

John L. Phillips

If I wasn't doing this kind of exploration, I'd like to be doing some other kind of exploration. It might be more risky, or less risky, but, in the business of exploration, risk is part of the territory.

John Lahr

Criticism is a life without risk.

John Barrowman

I live my life openly and freely every day anyway, and do what I want to do, but I don't take any great risks.

Marilyn Monroe

When I was five, I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn't like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.