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.'

Heather Bruder

The only frustrating thing is that we have to put our fate in other teams' hands. ... But we've put ourselves in a situation where we're in third place, and now we have to let the chips fall where they may.

George Scalise

The oversupply of some semiconductor products, such as memory chips, has depressed sales revenue, ... However, we are still optimistic about the industry's position, because the demand for newer and more powerful chips continues to increase.

Jeon Woo

The outlook for the semiconductor industry this year remains positive and demand for memory chips will be sustained.

Brent Williams

We just didn't play well, and that's hard for me to accept. We just didn't have the intensity to match Rome. We had that look that all the chips were going to fall for us - and they didn't.

Matt McCoy

We were glad to get (three) wrestlers out to district. I'm very happy Chip made it through to district. I'm just happy they all got another week to wrestle." ()

Jaye Morency

We will see a differentiation between chip companies that are exposed to pure IT spending and those exposed to consumer and analog. IT spending is not going to be a barn-burner.

Michael McConnell

We've moved long past the U.S. being the indicator for the chip market," ()

Paula Garces

I did a lot of commercials early on, and I remember the first commercial I ever got was for a product called Funyuns. I had to eat these chips for, like, 12 hours straight.

David Kaefer

Microsoft didn't have enough chips on the table.

Gaines Adams

It really doesn't matter to me whether it's defensive end or linebacker. I just want to play the game of football. I've been working on linebacker drills since I got out to Fischer Sports in Phoenix.

Barack Obama

Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.

Joe Neff

That was the key play right there. He's a very good defensive pitcher, a very good all-around player.

Charlie Villanueva

That was the turning point in the game. That's definitely huge. I was struggling on the offensive end and a big defensive play made up for the offence.

Lisa Bluder

That was the difference. Our defensive intensity was there in the first half and non-existent in the second half. They just about scored at will. When somebody comes into your home floor and scores 48 points (in the second half), that's an embarrassment.

Heath Eliason

That was the difference in the game, we picked up the defensive intensity in the second half.

Kevin Browne

That would be a mistake (to play), a big mistake, but like I said, if it's a necessity, I'd do it, ... It would be if there were no defensive tackles (available). That would be the reason.

Mindi Winters

That was a huge thing, the defensive intensity. But I really feel like that experience with Highland the first time has matured us in a lot of ways. One thing about our season, we've had some 'necessary' failures.

Tucker Pappas

We need to keep playing together and keep up our defensive intensity. We just have to work for our shots.

Douglas Kmiec

William H. Rehnquist is by nature quiet and humble. His legacy is that he has shown us how to disagree with civility.

Bob Bennett

You can disagree with the message, but don't shoot the messenger.

Bruce Wasserman

We are not recommending a merger with a small portal. Carl Icahn ... reserves the right to disagree with us.

Howard Rogers

We don't disagree with raising taxes; we disagree with the way they (commissioners) are doing it,

Liz Viering

My tax dollars are being used in a way that I disapprove of. I think a majority of Americans would disagree with what is happening with our tax dollars.

Wesley Clark

No administration has the right to tell Americans that to dissent is disloyal and to disagree is unpatriotic.

Gary Thayer

I wouldn't disagree with some of the things he said, but I don't know why he said those particular things at this time.

Karen Hughes

I expected a lot of people to disagree with our policy and they did,

Jeff Gundy

I don't think it's a fact, actually, ... I think he's the same weight that he has been, and the lighter for him has been the better. When he's been able to keep his weight about 305 (pounds), I think he's better served. But he has worked hard to be stronger. I hate to disagree with Steve once again, but so be it.

Ruth Bernhard

My quest, through the magic of light and shadow, is to isolate, to simplify, and to give emphasis to form with the greatest clarity.

Ric Garcia

We're working on getting it to our big people. (Six-foot-two center) Nicole (Scott) hasn't been getting touches. That's been our emphasis at practice.

Van Orden

With the success Skyline has had you would think everyone in the state would be running the wishbone, ... It's a great high school offense with its emphasis on execution. It doesn't lose games for them. There are a lot of ways to win football games. It's just a matter of what works for you.

Jon Gruden

We just want to put an emphasis on getting better, period. Obviously, teams that win in this league usually have a better record at home than they do on the road. So, yeah, it's been a point of emphasis. But at the same time, before you can win games at home, you've got to improve your football team. We have made some strides.

Mike Bellotti

It hasn't been a huge emphasis so far.

Carolyn Peck

I think this was a very clarifying time for us as we've gone through right now. Now our focus and emphasis has to be maintaining that focus of what we want our M.O. to be.

Gretchen Rubin

One of my key realizations about happiness, and a point oddly under-emphasized by positive psychologists, given its emphasis in popular culture, is that outer order contributes to inner calm. More than it should.

Joe Gibbs

It has been a big emphasis for us this week.

Jamie Dixon

We don't put too much emphasis in scoring. I know it's going to be there at different times. Carl is making good decisions. He's playing good defense. He's rebounding. He's playing very well.

Inga Cadranel

When we were growing up, we had all these crazy, in-your-face guys around the house. For us, it was like, 'Ugh! Actors again.'

Val Kilmer

I've been very fortunate and met the guys that have become, basically, philosophers and have a kind of sensibility about life that's very precious.

Chuck Palahniuk

When I first used to tour, guys would come up and say, 'Where's the fight club in my area?' and I would say, 'There isn't one.' And they'd say, 'No, no, you can tell me, you can tell me.'

will.i.am

When you think about the guys who started Twitter, and the Google guys, and the Facebook guys and the Napster guys, and the Microsoft guys, and the Dell guys and the Instagram guys, it's all guys. The girls, they're being left behind.

Alberto Martinez

The overriding theme of these numbers is that these guys are pretty much tied, and will likely stay that way for a long time.

Brian Bell

The guys in the Twins understand that the better Weezer does, the more people will probably care about us.

Wade Henderson

We have a lot of young guys who haven't jelled yet. It's tough when you lose (last year's seniors), but you have to learn to play without them.

Mark Marquess

We have a lot of young guys and we'll see where we stand.

Lindsey Hunter

We need to have our showers, there's some guys in here who should be showering more often than they are.

Ivern Ball

The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Bertrand Russell

When we perceive any object of a familiar kind, much of what appears subjectively to be immediately given is really derived from past experience.

Tom Ridge

We could go back over the past two years and pick out threat reports of pretty much the same substance,

William Shakespeare

Come, go with us, speak fair; you may salve so, Not what is dangerous present, but the los Of what is past.

William Shakespeare

Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.

William Shakespeare

Remembrance of things past.

Avery Johnson

We'll get past this. But it's just the beginning.

Alex Jones

The economy is a ponzi scheme. People are working harder than they ever have for less wages, but we have so many bobbles because manufacturing has come up so quickly over the past hundred years that people have the illusion of wealth.

Hannes Smarason

What we've said in the past is that we look at this as an investment. We didn't have any specific plans for making a bid, but there was just a lot of speculation out there.

Mike Lorello

He tends to remind me about that a lot. You just have to roll with the punches around here.

Steve Yzerman

I don't know much about the techniques of fighting, but I know throwing a punch on skates is a lot different than throwing a punch from the ground.

Jamar Butler

We wanted to throw the first punch and come out like we did.

Frank Luntz

One of the things that you have trouble with politicians, particularly in Washington, is when you get mad at them and you can't touch them; you can't punch them; you can't yell at them.

Al Madrigal

I'm not much for setup... punch line. I talk about my kids. I talk about my wife.

Chuck Palahniuk

The joke is, we all have the same punchline.

Efraim Levy

Signs in the marketplace are showing it is not having the punch that it once had,

Brian Metcalf

We knew. We didn't want that knockout punch to come.

Troy Dayak

There was pushing and a lot of talking but I did not punch him,

Rick Anthony

We are scoring in bunches and getting them from everywhere.

Jason Tapp

I don't think I've ever had a three-game scoring streak before.

Ray Allen

For most of us, when we see them scoring fast, we feel like it's all right to do the same thing on our end. It doesn't get any better.

Billy Donovan

He hasn't had big scoring nights. But he's also done other things.

Mike Eaves

Three of them (in the second period) were Grade-A scoring chances.

Jeff Ackermann

I think we're a better scoring team than we showed tonight. I know we're a better shooting team than we showed tonight.

Mike Ward

She did things for us that will not show up in the scoring column.

George Gwozdecky

If we did, it wasn't a scoring chance. I'm not disappointed at the loss, I'm disappointed in the way we performed.

Dave Allison

Everyone contributed. We had scoring from every line.

Heber J. Grant

If you have ambitions, dream of what you wish to accomplish, and then put your shoulder to the wheel and work.

George Robertson

We stand shoulder to shoulder in a new kind of struggle and a struggle that we have to win,

Bruce Springsteen

If you're good, you're always looking over your shoulder.

Jim Moeller

I think we all stand on the shoulders of those who went before us in many ways, not only politically but also in our own communities.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

C. S. Lewis

I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.

Randy May

Still, after 27 years, he'll stand over my shoulder and watch.

Francisco Cordero

I'm really disappointed. My shoulder just doesn't feel right.

Francisco Cordero

I'm really disappointed. I've been waiting as long as I could to make the decision, but my shoulder just doesn't feel right.

Arsene Wenger

I do not think about the national team too much because footballistically it is not of too much interest.

Arsene Wenger

I think in the future we need to look at our youth department to provide more players for the first team think it is important for a club to have a good amount of players that have roots with the club and region.

Arsene Wenger

One of the things I discovered in Japan was from watching sumo wrestling. At the end you can never tell who has won the fight, and who has lost, because they do not show their emotion because it could embarrass the loser. It is unbelievable. That is why I try to teach my team politeness. It is only here in England that everybody pokes their tongue out when they win.

Bill Bradley

We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly.

Bill Bradley

Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous

Roy Oswalt

The 20 wins is nice, but it's a whole lot better that this team is in the playoffs,

Craig Biggio

The '98 team was probably the most disappointing.

Aaron Small

The 7-0 thing is nice, but more importantly, it's a team win,

Jim Pace

That was the most disappointing thing about this game. We have a veteran team and we should know what to do in those situations.