Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barry Gibb

Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.

Barry Gibb

He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.

Thomas Hobbes

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.

Peter Hermann

Language patterns solidify at 10, 11, 12, so I was able to learn English fairly easily, with no accent. I didn't do speech or vocal work to get rid of the German accent; I was just lucky.

Barry Gibb

We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.

Barry Gibb

Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.

Barry Gibb

We had to leave Australia to become international stars.

Nick Zito

Sometimes running a rabbit works, sometimes it backfires. People have been using rabbits for hundreds of years. The rabbit has to be a good horse because they might not necessarily be able to do the job.

Billy Wagner

Sometimes it's good to just be thrown into the fire, Did he even know it?

Mark Johnson

Sometimes it's good being the underdogs. We don't mind that role.

Don Baylor

Sometimes it's a real good thing. But once you get it out, the next day it has to be over. Over. If it's not, if it festers, then you can't repair it.

Karen McCabe

Rubin and Doherty play really well together and have done some good things this year. They started to shadow Danielle in the second period and Jessi played even better.

Andy McDonald

Ryan did a good job getting it started. I thought we had really good puck movement on that, and it wound up not being a pretty goal, but we'll take it.

Holly Ismail

Samantha is such an unselfish player. That's what makes a good player great ù making everyone around her better.

O. Singh

I've played pretty good for the last two years. I'm just trying to win tournaments, plodding along, and here I am.

Andrew Brunette

I've played on teams where there were more (injuries). But I don't know if it was so many key players and players that were having good years.

Graeme Smith

We all know the skills that Polly brings, and it will be great to have him back.

Catrin Nilsmark

We all know that we're going to have to win over here at some stage. And I think this is a great opportunity because they're all playing really well. We have nothing to lose.

Javy Lopez

We all knew they had great pitching, ... but with our offense, we should have done better than we did.

Earl Boykins

Tonight we showed that you don't have to shoot great to still get the victory. As long as you do all the other things on the court, you can be OK.

Eddie Jones

Tonight was one of those nights where things didn't go my way. I got great looks at the rim, I just couldn't knock them down.

S. Walker

To see that the work is still going on is a blessing. Being able to be communicate with the kids and make friends was also a great blessing.

Tracy Byrd

We all just hope a third of these people show up. It will make for a great show.

Mike Shula

We all hope that Brodie stays healthy because we think he's a guy that can do some great things for us this year,

Steve Hogan

Tom did a great job of training his managers and the staff on how to work, how to work together and how to keep pushing forward. That's what we're doing.

Tony McCoy

I think I'm skilful enough, but I don't consider myself a naturally talented, gifted sports person.

Henry David Thoreau

The voice of nature is always encouraging.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no man of Nature's worth In the circle of the earth.

Louis Agassiz

As long as men inquire, they will find opportunities to know more upon these topics than those who have gone before them, so inexhaustibly rich is nature in the innermost diversity of her treasures of beauty, order and intelligence.

Louis Agassiz

It must be for truth's sake, and not for the sake of its usefulness to humanity, that the scientific man studies Nature. The application of science to the useful arts requires other abilities, other qualities, other tools than his; and therefore I say that the man of science who follows his studies into their practical application is false to his calling. The practical man stands ever ready to take up the work where the scientific man leaves it, and adapt it to the material wants and uses of daily life.

Louis Agassiz

I now never make the preparations for penetrating into some small province of nature hitherto undiscovered without breathing a prayer to the Being who hides His secrets from me only to allure me graciously on to the unfolding of them.

Logan Pearsall Smith

What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?

Lois Lowry

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.

Mao Zedong

Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

Kathleen Huddy

Unfortunately, over the years, manufacturers and retailers, in order to sell more sheets, have pushed thread count.

Thomas Browne

There is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony.

Robert A. Heinlein

A motion to adjourn is always in order.

Mark Parker

Designers are by nature more inquisitive, more connected. They dig a little deeper in terms of insights. They turn those insights into innovation. That connection to the consumer is absolutely critical in driving innovation. It’s critical that design isn’t subjugated to the back room as a short order cook for marketing or for merchandising or sales. It has to be up front.

Frank A. Clark

Most of us must learn a great deal every day in order to keep ahead of what we forget.

James Packer

New management at Nine has launched a concerted attack on its cost base in order to restore margins through eliminating waste, improving efficiency and lowering programming costs.

Russell Rasco

This is a very tall, big order for us. It's a stretch for us.

Bill Gates

Now everyone takes it for granted that you can look up movie reviews, track locations, and order stuff online. I wish there was a way we could take it away from people for a day so they could remember what it was like without it.

Abigail Breslin

What's my favourite food? One you order out.

Tacitus

A bad peace is even worse than war.

Mona Sutphen

If I'm going to be staying up until 3 A.M., it should be for world peace and not shampoo sales.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

War leads to peace. [Lat., Cedant arma togae.]

Kid Rock

I don't rock for Cancer. I rock for cash, and the topless dancers.

Benjamin Disraeli

At the present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statements, but by capitalists

Meister Eckhart

Only those to whom God is present in everything and who employ their reason in the highest degree and have true enjoyment in it know anything of true peace and have a real kingdom of heaven.

Mary McLeod Bethune

I leave you love. I leave you hope. I leave you the challenge of developing confidence in one another. I leave you respect for the use of power. I leave you faith. I leave you racial dignity.

Mary Pipher

Prayer is vastly superior to worry. With worry, we are helpless; with prayer, we are interceding. When I hear sad news, I try to say a prayer for the victims. When I am troubled, I will say a prayer that asks for relief for myself and for all those who suffer as I do. When I am concerned about my relatives or friends I say a short prayer to myself - "May they be happy and free of suffering."

Mark Martin

I'm far from perfect but I have managed to earn a good deal of respect by trying to implement the kinds of things you learn about.

George Washington

A lottery is the perfect tax...laid only upon the willing.

George Meredith

Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.

Frank Sinatra

You can be the most artistically perfect performer in the world, but an audience is like a broad--if you're indifferent, Endsville.

George F. Kennan

Perfect discipline requires recognition of infallibility. Infallibility requires the observance of discipline.

Fernando Pessoa

But I am not perfect in my way of putting things Because I lack the divine simplicity Of being only what I appear to be.

Henry Miller

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Helen Keller

If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought.

Cassandra Clare

Alec looked horrified, as if she'd asked him to put on a tutu and execute a perfect pirouette.