Famous Quotes & Sayings

Twyla Tharp

My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the world.'

Twyla Tharp

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Custard is controversial: what makes it a custard, how best to cook it and, crucially, is it to be eaten or put in a pie and thrown?

Yani Tseng

It's very easy when you have someone in front of you that you can chase. You want to be No. 1 but now I feel like I have to play well because everybody looks at you as a best golfer. So that's why I put more pressure on myself.

Thucydides

We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.

Timothy Noah

There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.

Thomas Friedman

I can see a day soon where you'll create your own college degree by taking the best online courses from the best professors from around the world - some computing from Stanford, some entrepreneurship from Wharton, some ethics from Brandeis, some literature from Edinburgh - paying only the nominal fee for the certificates of completion.

Idina Menzel

I used to take 40 minutes to warm up before going on stage. If you want to spend time with your child as well as having a career, you have to get up there even if your head's a mess. It's made me more relaxed, and I'm having some of my best shows.

Idina Menzel

I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'

Colin O'Donoghue

When I was younger, I was hopefully going to do animation and special effects.

Frank Lampard

I have made lots of mistakes on and off the pitch, and you can only learn from them. If I can get that across, then hopefully I am doing something right.

Steve Jaksa

That would be nice. Obviously that would be tough to do but hopefully someone can step up like J.T. did this weekend.

Mark Zuckerberg

I think Facebook is an online directory for colleges... If I want to get information about you, I just go to TheFacebook, type in your name, and it hopefully pulls up all the information I'd care to know about you.

Ray Winstone

On every job you do, you've got to raise your game. My ambition is to just get better and better every job you do - you should never stop trying to get better. You have to teach yourself new things - I don't think you necessarily learn them from other people because you have your own style of doing things, but hopefully you get better.

Greg Zipadelli

We'll race the way that got us here, and hopefully we can lead some laps, win some races and not make mistakes,

Allan Bristow

Well probably get it up to 18 players. We've got some young players (already on the roster), and hopefully they'll shine and show their potential that they belong.

Brian Barwick

We have the opportunity, if we want, to get the person in place hopefully before the finals.

David Gill

We have the fact we sell out every week to 67,500 and hopefully 75,000 in the future. We have a lot of assets.

Carrie Underwood

We don't have milk cows. People have so many stereotypes of people from where I come from - Oklahoma. We don't ride around in covered wagons, either.

Bethenny Frankel

If you're happy on your own you are going to be okay.

Chad Pennington

We have a lot of work to do, ... But as long as we keep making progress, we'll be OK

Rebecca Ferguson

I can do an OK manicure, but I need to stick to singing.

Jon Kyl

Well over 60 percent of Americans in all the polls I see think it's OK to have temporary workers, but you do not have to make them citizens.

Bill Gibbons

We have to keep stealing some on the road and we'll be OK in the second half.

Bill Self

I thought it was two teams playing really hard. I thought Oklahoma State played really tough and it rebounded well and pressured us out of what we wanted to do. We kind of did the same to them for awhile.

Jarrius Jackson

I think I had an off day shooting, but we still got the win. I did OK at the end.

Timothy McVeigh

Yes, ... That thing in Oklahoma City, I guess.

C. S. Lewis

It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual.

Berkeley Breathed

If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.

Alex Rodriguez

We're taking this (stretch run) as seriously as the playoffs.

William Shakespeare

There is nothing serious in Mortality

John Edward

I'm seriously considering it, but I haven't made my decision.

Scott Smith

We had discussions, but nothing serious enough to warrant any offers.

Mitt Romney

I read serious books, but every now and then, I read just for fun.

Christine Lavin

I was a very, very serious child, ... I was valedictorian of my kindergarten and eighth-grade class.

Steve MacFarlane

If all sides are serious about getting this done before the deadline, I think it can be done.

China Mieville

'Kraken' is set in London and has a lot of London riffs, but I think it's more like slightly dreamlike, slightly abstract London. It's London as a kind of fantasy kingdom.

Paulette Goddard

I'm always slightly embarrassed to meet other actresses of my vintage. We have so little in common. They're all so dedicated. I find - so desperate.

Lena Headey

I think I look slightly like a horse. Hand on heart, I think I'm pretty average.

Michelle Gomez

I'm always slightly worried if I do a film and we're filming it in Luxembourg. I know it's going to go straight DVD.

John Godfrey

I'm always for a weakened Conservative party, slightly or massively,

Rainer Guntermann

If anything it was a slightly more hawkish spin (than we were expecting).

Simon Doonan

Her style is gorgeous, provocative and ever so slightly deranged.

John Dingell

He has not made even the slightest inquiry,

Rasheed Wallace

I don't have the slightest (idea), but they better come up with something.

Ian Mckellen

Actors don't, in fact, retire, do they? It took me a while to remember that.

Jim Snyder

That was huge, it took away that 2-0 advantage.

Raymond Bonner

I'm not the only foreigner who took up golf while living in Jakarta.

Andrew Griffin

We had everything it took this year to get over the hump. We just didn't execute.

Steve Francis

I was trying to get to the basket, but I took what was there. It was a tough shot. I got enough arc, but it was a little strong.

Kurt Thomas

We clamped down on him. We took him out of his game.

Neil Callaway

Basically, we took him just because he's a big kid.

Donald O'Connor

Going up the walls doing somersaults, that trick took a couple of days.

Kenoy Kennedy

I think I took off before he started to slide. I'll take a look at it on the film.