Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Jenkins

Historians tell us that a gentleman named John Ball once captured eight British Amateur titles.

Tom Shannon

It didn't matter where the amateur hit his shot on that hole, the place went crazy. It was really neat. We'd like to get something like that going.

Kathryn Kelly

It is a fun way to promote Yahoo Video Search and acknowledge amateur videophiles,

Susan Harris

We Three Apples, we try to cater to a range of people in the storytelling community - from the listener to the amateur to the professional.

Jacob Ruppert

I was always interested in baseball. In fact, in my younger years, I played it in an amateur way. But up to the time when I became identified with the Yankees, I was a strong National League rooter.

Harland Williams

Well, you know, I just did the old 'let's go down to amateur night,'

J. J. Johnson

I am deeply saddened by the passing of Charlie Yates. Charlie was an outstanding amateur golfer and a member who was linked to Bobby Jones and the club's history, attending every Masters through 2003. He will be greatly missed.

Jeff Allen

I am headed to the World Amateur Championships in Myrtle Beach, ... I will be leaving next Sunday and the tournament goes from late August to early September.

Scott Simon

I am a product of technology. We now have cameras available to the consumer that were of the same caliber in observatories only 10 years ago, ... Now amateurs can have a camera aperture unheard of 10, 20 years ago. An amateur can now do what scientists were doing five years ago.

Robert Webb

I was in the play 'Fat Pig in the West End,' which is a comedy but has dramatic moments.

David Halliday

It had a dramatic effect in the commodities market.

Spencer Waller

I was a little surprised at the tone. It was stark, dramatic and unequivocal.

Jessica Lowndes

I have enough drama in my career, and then always playing dramatic roles and storylines... I like to lead a very low profile.

Joanna Trollope

I don't always set stories in villages, more often in towns. But always in smallish communities because the characters' actions are more visible there, and the dramatic tension is heightened.

Kimi Raikkonen

I am hoping to have a less dramatic race this year.

Richard D. Zanuck

Portnoy's Complaint' was very far out there, and movies have always worked when you have either a funny situation between two or more people or a very dramatic situation. There's not that much difference.

Wayne White

Exposing something that's painful or raw or not so pleasant. That seems to be the dramatic motor of documentaries, exposure.

Sally Ride

The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.

William Bolitho

General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.

Ronald Reagan

Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies and benefiting from their success - only then can societies remain economically alive, dynamic, prosperous, progressive and free.

W. Somerset Maugham

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

William Makepeace Thackeray

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

Juli Inkster

In this society, it's 'What have you done for me lately?'

Shohreh Aghdashloo

Cinema is a reflection of its own society.

Roustam Tariko

I launched Imperia at the Statue of Liberty because I wanted to use something symbolic. I like American society because it always wants to do something new and better.

Malcolm Muggeridge

A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.

James Russell Lowell

The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.

Zeke Jones

I think in some spots we competed well and there were some spots where we could have done a little better.

Riccardo Muti

I'm not shy in the spotlight. I might seem austere and even arrogant, but far from it, I'm actually shy.

Sarah McLachlan

I didn't get hugely famous really quick. It was a slow, gradual process, so I was able to sort of grow into myself and figure out who I was and what I wanted without the glaring spotlight on me telling me who I was.

Vincent Cassel

I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.

Harvey Fierstein

I just don't like politics. My rule is if I can put a spotlight on something, I'll do that.

NeNe Leakes

I have arrived, and the spotlight is on me, honey!

Nelson Mandela

It is your duty to examine the conduct of public figures and to place them in the spotlight - that is your duty.

Kirsten Dunst

I don't live in the spotlight, and I don't live my life in front of the paparazzi. I live very comfortably and quietly as possible.

Marion Cotillard

It's pretty refreshing to be in a situation where the spotlight is on someone else.