Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Calzaghe

This is the first time a champion has put his title on the line, but I've got injured,

Vanderlei Luxemburgo

The way we played here, we could win the league, the Champions League and the cup,

Bobby Fischer

FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.

Anthony Pettis

There are a lot of champions out there, a lot of great guys, but I think that the way I compete and my fighting style makes me perfect for Reebok.

Hernan Crespo

First of all, I have to thank Milan, but I know that the result has been the fruit of my efforts and my hard work. It has been a fantastic season, and I'm happy. It's a pity about the Champions League final.

Jonathon Power

The Tournament of Champions in New York is where I won my first tournament. It is where I wanted to retire.

Daniel Kahneman

We know that the French are very different from the Americans in their satisfaction with life. They're much less satisfied. Americans are pretty high up there, while the French are quite low - the world champions in life satisfaction are actually the Danes.

Daniel Tammet

Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.'

Andy Roddick

There have been great champions in every generation.

Aulus Gellius

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said Truth is the daughter of Time. [Lat., Alius quidam veterum poetarum cuius nomen mihi nunc memoriae non est veritatem temporis filiam esse dixit.]

Ayelet Waldman

[T]here is an inverse correlation between the cleanliness of a bathroom and my 3-year-old daughter's need to move her bowels.

Brenda Strong

My grandmother was the daughter of pioneers, as was my grandfather, and they were farmers. And they worked the land, and there is a grounded value system that becomes inherent in knowing what's real and what's powerful. And understanding the material nature of not only man, but beasts and profit and all of those things that you fight for.

Jane Austen

He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.

Brandy Norwood

I'll be a nun, raise my daughter, and make albums.

Bruce Willis

I think I'm much more afraid of making a mistake in raising my daughters than I would be with any work that I do, as an actor. It's a much higher scale of fear, raising kids.

Frank Martin

When I'm home with my wife and daughter and we're sitting around and my mind is away from the game, I wonder about that. I wonder how many more days I'm still going to be around the University of Cincinnati, whether it's going to be another week or another 10 years.

Elizabeth Edwards

My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them.

Donald Trump

I told Sarah Palin it would be absolutely fine. I thought it would be appropriate. There was tremendous press, and I think it`s something that`s very important to discuss.Not even for her son, but for so many other sons and daughters that are coming back from the Middle East, where they have traumatic problems. They have tremendous problems.

Bob Crawford

Dreams do come true, but you have to work for them.

Emily Dickinson

Dreams are the subtle Dower/ That make us rich an Hour/ Then fling us poor/ Out of the purple door.

Damien Chazelle

I've always wanted to make movies that are fever dreams.

Nicolas Cage

One day, one of my dreams is to someday get to do Nemo in '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.'

David Healy

It would be a dream come true to score and incredible to score the winner.

Carl Pettersson

It was a little easier in the dreams, ... It's nice to finish it off the way I did.

Carl Pettersson

It was a little easier in my dreams, ... It's a fantastic feeling and tough to describe.

Dan Jancevski

It was an unbelievable experience - a dream come true to play my first NHL regular-season game.

Warrick Dunn

These women can't be my mother, ... In a sense, I live through them. My dreams come through them.

Eve Plumb

I came to acting as a sort of fluke. I really enjoy it, but I think I'm different from the people who dreamed about it.

Terry Crews

I just want to say what a tremendous honor it is to be on a show like 'The Newsroom.' I've always dreamed of being on something this important and being on a show that really resonates with a lot of very, very intelligent people in the world, and I've gained such a loyal fan base.

Jane Doe

I have always dreamed of being a Marine. I thought they were the elite, the ones who stepped in when everyone else failed.

Rob McClure

I was a huge fan of 'Avenue Q' long before I ever dreamed of being a part of it. I saw it off-Broadway at the Vineyard and waited at the stage door for autographs!

Mickey Goulet

A lot of these guys, when they were kids, dreamed of playing in the NHL.

Toby Dawson

It was everything I dreamed it would be. It was just so much fun. This was my first Olympic Games, and it lived up to every expectation.

Samantha Fox

As a kid, I dreamed of being a pop star, a glamorous woman and traveling the world. And I've done that all my life.

Hilary Mantel

I once dreamed a whole short story. Wrapped in its peculiar atmosphere, as if draped in clouds, I walked entranced to my desk at about 4 A.M. and typed it on to the screen.

Steve Alford

The Olympics is nothing I ever dreamed about. I dreamed about playing for Coach Knight and Indiana.

Bode Miller

The stuff after the Olympics was pretty aggressive.

Jin Yan

Safety and quality of all the Olympic venue projects are under control.

Mike Lambert

I wish he was younger or the Olympics were this year. I wish he picked me up earlier, but he didn't think too much of me then.

Sara Parson

One of my friends went to the Olympics in '04. So a lot of us are working towards getting on the Olympic team as well.

Jessica Ennis

I was around 15 when I first wanted to compete in an Olympics. I even remember the first time I got to wear a GB kit as a junior. I've even kept it. It's in my mum's loft somewhere, probably gone mouldy by now.

Jackie Chan

Olympics for me is love, peace, united.

Dennis Tomasevicz

How many people do you know that are on a bobsled in the Olympics from Nebraska?

Jim Scherr

His appointment to the Olympic team is our issue.

Sammie Henson

I want to be the Olympic champion. . . . Then I'll have peace that no one can ever take away from me.

Ben Okri

If we are true, if we can love, if we have vision, if we can have courage, we can, we should, we ought to, we will...

Ashton Kutcher

From a purely entertainment point of view, to create a movie with a female lead that is empowered with her own sexuality I think is a really powerful thing.

Bertrand Russell

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

Benjamin Disraeli

The depositary of power is always unpopular.

Brendan Fraser

I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash

Brenda Ueland

Science and vivisection make no appeal to a theological idea, much less a political one. You can argue with a theologian or a politician, but doctors are sacrosanct. They know; you do not. Science has its mystique much more powerful than any religion active today.

Ken Starr

Rights are in the power of the people.

Carl von Clausewitz

Of all the passions that inspire a man in a battle, none, we have to admit, is so powerful and so constant as the longing for honor and reknown.

Bryant H. McGill

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.

Anton Chekhov

It always seems to the brothers and the father that their brother or son didn't marry the right person.

Alfred Nobel

To his sister-in-law: What a contrast between us! You live a warm and glowing life, surrounded by loved ones whom you care for and who care for you; you are anchored in contentment. I drift about without rudder or compass, a wreck on the sea of life; I have no memories to cheer me, no pleasant illusions of the future to comfort me, or about me to satisfy my vanity. I have no family to furnish the only kind of survival that concerns us, no friends for the wholesome development of my affections, or enemies for my malice.

Dorothy Hamill

I was a bratty little sister. I was the youngest of three, and I often felt as though I didn't fit in.

Alvin Lee

There is a big age gap between my sisters Janice and Irma and myself so I didn't know them that well when I was younger although they have been very supportive in later life.

Anais Nin

Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.

Steve Case

I had an older brother who passed away recently, an older sister and a younger brother.

Suzanne Collins

The anguish I always feel when she's in pain wells up in my chest and threatens to register on my face.

Robert Burns

Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman; Though they may gang a kennin' wrang, To step aside is human.

Sister Parish

It has not been an easy cross to bear. It has caused considerable confusion. My husband constantly complained about the awkwardness of being married to a woman whom he called Sister.