Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Bangle

Designers think everything done by someone else is awful, and that they could do it better themselves, which explains why I designed my own living room carpet, I suppose.

Michael Steele

You know, conservatism is not a bad thing. It's not a pejorative.

M. Night Shyamalan

For instance, 'The Sixth Sense' had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.

Jim Murray

The only bad thing about Spokane is that there's nothing to do after 10 in the morning

Lorraine Bracco

The only bad thing is that I've been smoking cigarettes. I smoke in the play, so I've limited myself to smoking only in the theater.

David Land

The potential for going through $70 a barrel is certainly there, it wouldn't take a lot of bad news. You've got the U.S. hurricane season in the not too distant future, as well as the driving season.

Ron Aldy

The postseason depends on who's playing better that night and you don't have to have but one bad night.

Jeff Gundy

The positive is they found something they can fix. It's been a string of bad fortune for him injury-wise, but we're happy the doctor has been able to locate something we can do something about.

Ashley Josephson

We are pretty disappointed we didn't come out right away and play our 'A' game. We had a pretty bad first half, not intense enough. ... The first half is what killed us.

Charles Caleb Colton

Criticism discloses that which it would fain conceal, but conceals that which it professes to disclose; it is therefore, read by the discerning, not to discover the merits of an author, but the motives of his critic.

Tony Dungy

We want to see if we can get that done, ... So our focus is winning the first one. This is a very critical two-week stretch for us.

David Walliams

I can't see why anyone would want to be in politics because you get so much criticism.

Glen Davis

We are a team that likes to use selective hearing. Day after day we have to go out there and compete. What the critics say: thanks for the pub. But it is for the birds.

John Broughton

We are at a very critical stage in our negotiations,

Pat Sullivan

We're in that critical time that people can be rescued, ... If we don't get out thereto and do it now, then they're going to die.

Bob Bennett

We spent more than the president requested, and we were criticized for pork-barrel spending,

Carlos Ghosn

When your results are good, you are obviously going to have a lot of press. And when you start to falter a little bit, you are going to have some criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that.

Dave Wannstedt

We have no room literally to spare. Every game, every day is critical to us.

Charles Dickens

Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

Charles Dickens

Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.

Ed Bradley

There was no one around me who didn't work hard.

David Riesman

There is evidence that young men in the big law firms, although they still work harder than most of their clients, do not glory in putting in night work and weekend hours as they once did.

David Hockney

Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.

Derek Fisher

You have to work hard at things.

Derek Jeter

It doesn't take talent to work hard.

Derek Jeter

I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.

Dee Dee Ramone

It's very hard to tour.

Jack Nichols

We are pounding our heads on the wall trying to get a solution, ... It's just a little overwhelming.

Hayley Orrantia

I am a singer first and foremost. I was lucky enough to have a manager, when I was 15, who knew the heads of a lot of record labels at the time.

Michael Turner

We have to get our heads and telescopes around that.

Charles Rhodes

We're going to play through it. I know it. It's just, we got to keep our heads up. It's frustrating. I'm frustrated. But we're going to learn from our mistakes.

Jim Steets

When we first got these findings we were scratching our heads because it does raise questions about what the source (of the leak) really is.

Matt Murphy

We're still scratching our heads over that one. We'll have to re-measure.

Phil Garner

We let them off the hook and let them keep their heads in the game,

Maura Harty

a big heads up that this is a big management concern.

Joe Crede

It's just a matter of us putting things together. We'll be fine. We know things will turn around. We've seen enough to know that we just have to keep our heads up.

Lorraine Bracco

You know, last season I didn't do anything on the show, so I was frustrated. I mean, don't get me wrong: It's nice to get a paycheck. But if you don't really do anything it's not very satisfying.

Mike Heffernan

We're in significantly better shape than we were last year,

Gene Stephenson

We're in last place now in the league. Twenty-nine years we've never been in this situation in this league at 2-6, I know that. Right now, we're just not very good.

Bill Trumbo

We're in a much-improved spot from a year ago. At this point last season, we were 0-4.

William Shakespeare

This act is an ancient tale new told; And, in the last repeating, troublesome, Being urged at a time unseasonable.

Shawan Robinson

When you think of those overtime games, some of the others that were ours to win going into the last minute or so, I know ? we all know ? it would a be a different season if we had him.

C. S. Lewis

Here at last is the thing I was made for.

C. S. Lewis

Ah, poor Pole. It's been to much for her, this last bit. Turned her head, I shouldn't wonder. She's beginning to see things.

Jimmy Johnson

We have to find some speed and turn things around. Thankfully, we had a strong start to the season, so this last month we really didn't have to race our way in. But we've got to find it in a hurry.

Bernard Williams

We are potentially looking at tens of thousands of pounds. The Hirst and the McCartney are star lots.

Cheryl Brown

We've already started looking at what we could do different and better for next year's show.

Monique Currie

We are looking to get into the No. 1 spot because that would mean we won the game.

Craig Barrett

We are looking to be the preeminent building-block supplier to the World Wide Web economy,

Bill Ryan

We are looking to be competitive with the middle of the league.

Mike Williams

We are looking into this matter, we have made no decision.

Mary Osako

We are looking into the report. We would not know the nature of an investigation.

Doug Gay

We are looking into it. There was something that did transpire out there.

Dave Rose

We are looking into installing them because of a rise in vandalism and graffiti at the schools during off hours.

Nick Harkaway

I am an avid reader of comics, though I came to them late.

Kathryn Stockett

The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how it's going to make the reader feel.

Bobby Ghosh

'Time' is an internationalist publication catering to internationalist readers who are not only interested in their own backyard.

Julie Kenner

'Dirtiest Secret' is Dallas Sykes' story. And it is a stand-alone trilogy that readers can come to completely fresh.

Anne Tyler

When I read, I'm purely a reader

Dan Brown

It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.

Andrew Pyper

To make the reader afraid, I had to be afraid.

Andrew Wylie

Unless you're a terribly bad writer, you are never going to have too many readers.

Barry Eisler

If the reader cares, I don't think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.

Jason Calacanis

I don't want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me... Just too much risk.

Mal Peet

A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.

Winston Churchill

Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.

Sandi Gibbons

This was the sentence that was allowable under the law.

Douglas Hofstadter

This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.

Amy Poehler

Make no a complete sentence.

Amy Hempel

I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence.

Anatole France

The best sentence? The shortest.

Victor Hugo

We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.

Scott Barbee

There's enough tree shaking going on. This is not going to be a situation that persists.

Golam Maola

I see that my wife is on the floor, so I'm shaking her, saying, ?What happened? What happened? Tell me what happened.? She had no response.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

C. S. Lewis

I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.

Dusty Baker

Sometimes when you're 40 years old, it taps you on the shoulder and it's time to get out.

Victoria Wood

If God had meant them to be lifted and separated, He would have put one on each shoulder.

Tom Robbins

…he glanced over his shoulder at her, regarding her, as he often did before they made love, as if she were a lost continent about to be rediscovered.

Miranda Lambert

I was always suspicious and looking over my shoulder because that's how I was raised.

Michel de Montaigne

And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.

Federico Garcia Lorca

Those who are afraid of death will carry it on their shoulders.

Eric Church

I have a huge chip on my shoulder.

Adriana Cruz

These are all things that can be turned into a brand.

Tubby Smith

We really got rattled. They really had another gear; they turned it up.

Kris Britton

And they went in there and turned it up.

Jay Wright

At the end, he was just exhausted. I turned to him and asked: Have you got one more in you?

Steve Burgess

To be honest, I thought this should be a very comfortable win, and that's how it turned out.

Monty Python

-She turned me into a newt! -A newt?-I got better...

Maj. Nester

More or less, residents just turned their neighborhood over to us.

Huston Street

Ginter and Elly, they turned it so quick. Off the bat, I thought they had no chance. That right there is the game. It's another run.

Heath Sager

I think so. I thought we were much better than an 0-3 team. Now we've kind of turned the corner.