Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Agosto

It's been one of the most exciting things for us to see, in the years that we've been competing, the level of interest growing, crowds being bigger.

P. T. Barnum

Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.

Larry the Cable Guy

When I look at my audience, I can tell better who's in the crowd and the kind of joke I shouldn't do. It's just complicated. I guess I sift through to make sure these jokes are a little different with not such a harsh edge to them. That's pretty much how I handle the crowd.

Kary Mullis

I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.

Laurell K. Hamilton

A crowd is an elemental thing. A word, a glance, and a crowd becomes a mob.

Ralph Stanley

I always enjoyed playing around Washington, because we always have a good crowd. I've never had a bad crowd in this vicinity from here [Alexandria], up to Washington and on to right around Baltimore. They've been some good fans.

Lara St. John

Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.

Theophilus London

Whatever I receive from a higher power gets me pumped, which gets the crowd pumped, which gets me more pumped, and then we're just pumped up.

Elvis Presley

I get sometimes; I get lonesome right in the middle of a crowd.

E. P. Thompson

I was disappointed that we lost. I would have thought that a draw would have been a fair result,

Terry Dietz

Today is a new day and new numbers are rolling through my head... if I can draw two of those people over on our side, the tables could turn. We'll see what happens, there's always hope.

Dom Capers

I think what they're doing is good for the game. They're drawing a lot of attention. They haven't really been challenged.

Phil Price

I think it stinks. Every other year, it's the luck of the draw who gets to host, and this year it was our turn. It's something you play for and hope for, and then it gets taken from you. I understand the state rule, but I think it stinks.

Tim Russell

I think it's terrible. Where do you draw the line?

Steve Bellamy

It is just complete, guaranteed, instant credibility. They are two of the most exciting player in the history of the sport. The real magic of our draw is that it is so deep.

Bob Mason

He was in the .920s most of the year. That's telling you he's done a pretty good job. But there's only so much you can draw from that. He got a win the other night, which is good for him to get some positive reinforcement.

Tim McAfee

He draws a salary and does not work.

Derrick Campbell

He needs good starts and good draws in the semifinals and finals. If he gets stuck in the back, he needs to stay cool.

James Chu

Jon is a very strong kid. I really feel that he's the one that's been victimized. But for the sake of Jonathan, I'm going to forget about what Mr. Wooden has told me.

Juan Rincon

He's a really nice guy. I'm never going to forget (the home run), but I don't take it personal.

Jim Caldwell

He's a very unusual person that has physical gifts and he also has great intellectual gifts. He has a memory that, without question, is sharp as one could have. He rarely forgets anything and he can recall things from eons back. But that helps him, I think, just in terms of being the detail-oriented person that he is. He's able to maximize his study and preparation for our opponents.

Robert Louis Stevenson

To forget oneself is to be happy.

Zhuangzi

The fish trap exists because of the fish: once you have gotten the meanings, you can forget the words.

Zhuangzi

The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.

Vladimir Putin

We should not forget either about the interests of the regular consumers who need the prices in supermarkets to be a little bit lower.

Sandra Cisneros

You can't erase what you know. You can't forget who you are.

Alkaline Trio

Remember when I said I love you? Well, forget it, I take it back.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

Herb Cytyrn

Jake is a very good skier and I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to sectionals.

Bill Walsh

I would say that we made a lot of good trades, but that may have been the best.

Mark Bailey

I would've preferred if ours was the last shot. But we had a good look, and we had the guy shooting that we wanted to.

Billy Beane

Ken did a great job for us. We've always said that. He was a good enough manager for us to want him back before, and he's still a good enough manager to come back.

Tim Crowder

Keeping them at their average, no, I don't think that's going to be good enough to win.

Alan Greenspan

Keeping out competitively priced goods would materially lower our standard of living.

David Parker

Keeping everything as lean as possible is a good thing in the long run.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

Alden Ehrenreich

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.

Chuck D.

Joey wrestled a great tournament, and we don't want him to get lost in the shuffle. He was solid all weekend.

Tim Ehresman

Joe was great tonight. He did things tonight he's been practicing all year. Come heck or high water, he was going to make it (to the regional tournament) again.

Ike Turner

Joe Louis is a great artist. He kind of helped me somewhat getting back to the blues.

Fay Vincent

John is the hero. He did a great job. Now Rose admits John was correct.

Mitchel McLaughlin

John Hume has, I think, demonstrated great sensitivity and judgment throughout this peace process. And I think it's hard to imagine a more inappropriate moment to make that suggestion.

Donnie Henderson

I think it's a great opportunity. You always want to hear your name, and now a team has actually called. It's exciting.

Mark Slotsve

It actually helps to have played them, we know a little of what they're about.

Sufjan Stevens

I think it just helps us to feel kind of unified,

Marcus Spears

I think it helps us a lot to know we can be better than we were, ... and we still played effectively.

Bobby Smith

It ain't easy. When you can't do what you want to do on the field, it's tough. But I still want to be able to help out the team.

Bouna Ndiaye

He wants to play for the Lakers, and I think he can help the Lakers. We can wait for the Lakers for about a week to make a decision. He has high interest from teams in Europe. But Ronny wants to play for the Lakers.

A. Hodge

He wants to do whatever it takes to help the team win a championship, whether it's two rebounds or whatever. That's admirable. We know it's going to be a process.

Kiki Vandeweghe

He wants to be helping his team. Let's just leave it at that.

Doug Mitchell

He did everything he could to help this team succeed.

Stephen Jones

He can really help solidify our offensive line. We needed some flexibility there as well.

Clifford Heinzer

In 2001 at this time of year, those hills would have been a sea of pink and white.

Keith Carradine

I was actually filming in Atlanta when I got a call from Walter Hill saying, "Well, it could be your turn to play Hickok." I said, "Oh, well, great!" He said, "What's your hair look like?" I said, "Well, it's short, Walter, but... I've still got that wig!" . He said, "Well, bring it!"

John Hiatt

He's on a mission of mercy to the new frontier, he's gonna check us all on out of here. Up to that mansion on a hill, where you can get your prescription filled.

Jim Erickson

With the rovers we've actually been able to go look and pick the things we wanted to see whether it was up on top of hills or whether it was down inside the craters, you name it.

Keith Cole

We have really pushed them to get stronger on the hills and running longer distances. This race, in my mind, really showed that the training is starting to pay off handsomely.

William Shakespeare

Graze on my lips, and if those hills are dry, Stray lower where the pleasant fountains lie

George Herbert

Praise a hill, but keepe below.

Patrick Swayze

I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.

Alexandre Aja

I think the violence in 'The Hills Have Eyes' and 'High Tension' is much more traumatic than 'Piranha.'

Mychal Williams

Kendra stepped up and played a solid game, nearly getting a double-double.

Fletcher Smith

He was nowhere near the scene of the incident. But unfortunately the vehicle is registered under his name.

English 14th Century Proverbs

The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat.

Scott Cross

It's an opportunity. We're going to have to play a near perfect game. But it can happen. You never know. We're going to have to shoot real well because they're going to rebound.

John Joyce

Services now represent nearly 50 percent of IBM's revenue.

Lance Penny

It really started to become a problem near Edson about 10 years ago.

John Challenger

It's accelerating right now. I don't think we're near the end of it,

Dottie Dalton

People can think anything they want. We are nonviolent, we are non-confronting, we don't even want to go near them.

Joe Ismail

Any corrective phase that will come in the near term could be a shallow one.

Ken Dodd

I told the Inland Revenue I didn't owe them a penny because I lived near the seaside

Randy Johnson

You can't do that. This is a pennant race game. ... This is a disgrace. This is disgraceful.

Jesse Ventura

I have every right to know how my taxes are spent, how every single penny of it is spent. I have the right to know that.

Donte Whitner

Penn State's using (Williams) like we use Ted.

George Cooper

Penn Singers is well established, so we're lucky. We have a regular rehearsal space. But I hear stories from other groups. There's a lot of competition.

Jim Tressel

We always look at Penn State as good,

James Jones

We did not play fundamentally sound defensively, and we got out-rebounded 34-29 by a minus-two Penn team.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gale Norton

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Sam Rockwell

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

Sam Worthington

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

Richard Madden

I was at a rough high school where admitting you were an actor didn't go down well.

Ruben Blades

Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69.

Ronnie Dunn

I went to 13 schools in 12 years. We moved all over the place. Music was the only thing that I could get behind... I wasn't that good at socializing. I'm still not.

Umberto Eco

The west has decided to channel money and effort into studying other customs and practices, but no one has really given other people the chance to study western customs and practices, except at schools maintained by white expatriates, or by allowing the rich from other cultures to study in Oxford or Paris. What happens then is that they return home to organise fundamentalist movements, because they feel solidarity with those of their compatriots who lack the opportunity for such education.

Tyler Hilton

Getting on stage, for me, was a huge thing when I first started. And back in high school, everyone was in rock bands and I was a singer/songwriter. It just seems kind of lame.

Tyler Blackburn

High school is a really strange time - you're not a kid, you're not an adult. You're about to be an adult, you're going to have to make some really intense decisions. It's a really pivotal time to have as much self-confidence as you possibly can. Even if that means you have one friend who supports you completely.

Tyler Blackburn

I was kind of a floater [in high school]. I got along with different types of people but I just was not cool, and definitely a late bloomer.

Tyler Hoechlin

I will never be as busy as I was in high school and college.

Tyler Oakley

I came from a pretty accepting community, and my school had a lot of openly gay and LGBT-plus people. When I joined YouTube, I saw a lot more hostility than I saw in my everyday life.

Sally Ride

Ever been to Disneyland? That was definitely an E ticket!

Will Rogers

There isn't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket.

Marcel Proust

A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has the ticket that shows its price.

Jerry Only

It's not how many tickets can we sell, it's where do we want to play, not where should we play to make the most money. We don't really care about that.

Edward Kennedy

It's a ticket of strength; it's a ticket of hope; it's a ticket of opportunity. It's a ticket for victory, and I couldn't be happier.

Edwin Louis Cole

Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast.

Maya Angelou

Life offers us tickets to places which we have not knowingly asked for.

John Perry Barlow

Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.

George McGovern

I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket.

Mary Pierce

I think it is possible. Whether it happens, I don't know.

Susumu Tonegawa

It doesn't matter whether it is chemistry or immunology or neuroscience: I just do research on what I find interesting.

Nick Cave

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.

Tom Woods

I don't know whether 3-3 would do for us, I don't know if 4-2 would do. But I know 6-0 would do.

Deirdre O'Kane

You worry about whether you are match-fit, coming back to the stand-up stage.

F. Schumacher

That has to be our target. Whether it's realistic, we'll find out in Bahrain.

Sabrina Davis

I want everyone to get their say, whether they say yes or no.

Lucy Hawking

I wonder whether being a scientist's daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate.

Silas Lee

There's a lot of frustration. Whether or not all the incumbents get defeated, that is to be seen.