Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Diaz

It is a mental game, and as much as you hate to admit it, you do start pushing after a while. It was good to get it and good to be part of that rally that almost brought us back.

Ron Hira

I think the report was a bit overly optimistic. I find it strange that although they admit there's no good data, they come out as very optimistic that this isn't that big a deal.

Adrian Fenty

I think even the mayor will admit that the schools have been so neglected that we're really talking about peanuts in terms of making them look like we want to educate children.

Mike Flowers

I said on the bus that I wasn't going to give up any easy lay-ups in the paint and that somebody was going to have to dunk on me. That's the first time I've ever been dunked on and I'll admit it, I got dunked on.

Jerry Carroll

I respect NASCAR. But the situation is, we've got something here that is begging, that is yelling out, that is successful. This is a different kind of situation than exists anywhere in the country. So admit that.

Nikki Giovanni

I resent people who say writers write from experience. Writers don't write from experience, though many are hesitant to admit that they don't. I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.

Wendy Seltzer

Stepping into the spotlight to admit your guilt is probably not a sensible course for most people sharing music files online.

Manfred Nowak

My particular concern is the strong interest of the system that people finally admit guilt.

Mark Latham

My mind turned to the Beazley/Ray smear and I must admit I felt sick in the stomach,

Jeff Nobers

Once we get the permits, it's about 120 days to get the store built, stocked and open.

Sherri Coale

After 30 days of practice and three wins now, it was not something I expected. I was very surprised there was a lack of poise from particularly my point guards.

Lora Ho

The sequential decline is mainly due to three fewer working days in February.

Eric Zorn

I've been retired for about four days now.

Ray Visneski

You might get two days off without any snow or ice.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.

Mark Richard

We have approximately 1,800 field personnel working 16-hour days to restore power to all of our customers. Our priority is to restore service not only in a timely manner, but in the safest way possible.

Ricky Craven

The fact is that some days are not your days and some days you get lucky. Over the long haul, that probably evens out.

Albert Pujols

I'm in the gym three to four days a week, depending on how I'm feeling. With chest, legs and back being the most important parts of any athlete's body, I try to train these on separate days with at least a day off in between.

Philip Howard

What is special about Fisher is not the tedious stuff about six teaspoons of dry mustard, but the literary dressing around the sides of the recipes.

Brad Davis

We feel like the stadium is second-to-none, and we like playing on the surface. They have redone the dressing rooms, and Abilene is a very hospitable place.

Tony Greig

Only ever had a dress on once, mate.

Ian Poulter

He was, and probably is to this day, the best-dressed man in golf for the time he was around. His dress sense was awesome.

Patrick Robinson

She no longer needs the big shoulders of the '80s; she no longer needs the pin stripes. She can wear these softer, easier, more feminine silhouettes. She can wear just a dress to the office and look very professional.

Linda Hale

She just loved to dress up in jewelry. And (she loved) Dora (the Explorer, a popular children's cartoon). We just had the whole family together. We didn't realize it would be the last time.

Chris Hughton

I feel for the lads and they are all bitterly disappointed in the dressing room.

Jeaniene Frost

Is that a stake, Bones, or are you just happy with my new dress?” “In this case, it’s a stake. You could always feel around for something more, though. See what comes up.

Michelle Gomez

I was quite bright, but I didn't do much with it, and I thought acting was dressing up and shouting for a living - which, of course, it isn't.

Bruce Dickinson

Life on the road can get a little one-dimensional. I didn't want to reach 40 and have to say all I'd done was look out the window of a tour bus and get drunk.

Edmund Burke

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

Confucius

With a heavy load and a long journey

Confucius

Every journey starts with a single step.

Confucius

roads were made for journeys not destinations

Andrew Dice Clay

I'll always push myself because that's the journey of life. We do go through things. Some of it's incredibly great and some of it's really bad.

Alicia Silverstone

The risk is only in the outcome. You're going on a journey. You're going somewhere to play. And at that time, it felt right to spend that 11 or 12 days exploring this kind of role because it was so different and so challenging for me. It was really exciting to be able to show people, "Look, this is very different. Isn't it interesting?"

Alice Meynell

Terrestrial scenery is much, but it is not all. Men go in search of it; but the celestial scenery journeys to them; it goes its way round the world. It has no nation, it costs no wearinesss, it knows no bonds.

Alice Munro

I would ... go up to the mailbox and sit in the grass, waiting. ... Till it came to me one day there were women doing this with their lives, all over. There were women just waiting and waiting by mailboxes for one letter or another. I imagined me making this journey day after day and year after year, and my hair starting to go gray, and I thought, I was never made to go on like that. ... If there were woman all through life waiting, and women busy and not waiting, I knew which I had to be.

Tom Mashek

We wanted to be aggressive. We can't sit back and let things happen. I really liked our aggressiveness. We really went after it.

Ann Richards

I think in the immediate days after 9/11, the administration acted very, very well. I liked the decisiveness of it.

Terry Stotts

I really liked the way we competed in the second half. With Michael and Mo out, I was really proud of the way our team competed.

B.o.B

I met will.i.am in the studio and played him a couple of songs and he liked them. We're similar but there's nobody in my lane doing what I'm doing.

Ridley Scott

I try to make films, not movies. I've never liked the expression 'movie', but it sounds elitist to say that.

Kevin Connolly

The thing that everyone liked about 'Entourage' is that these are fish-out-of-water guys living this dream.

Brett Gallagher

The markets obviously liked it. For a day.

Paul Stone

I told him I liked the looks of the town and would like to settle here,

Reggie Larry

Out of all the schools that I was recruited by, they stuck with me from the beginning. I really liked them. I like it out in Idaho. Going up and meeting everybody, I liked all the coaches. It was not just about basketball, they're very sociable and you could talk to them about everything.

Michael Cohen

People responded to Sandy. At public hearings, which can be so contentious, people would listen to Sandy's presentation and stand up and cheer.

Chris Sullivan

I've been listening to them my whole life.

Brett Ratner

Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.

Barbara Bush

You get nothing done if you don't listen to each other.

Brian May

I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.

Joe Zwilling

What it is we may have overlooked, and why we might want to reconsider. We'll listen to what they have to say.

Amy Sedaris

If you see a shy person, ask them some questions like, 'Why are you so shy? Tell everyone, we're all listening.

Rick Owens

I almost cried the other day listening to ‘Vogue’ by Madonna.

Robert Anton Wilson

part of the humor of living on this backward planet is listening to the hominids rationalize their predations.

Scottie Somers

A wise man once told Me that an overnight success takes 10 years. But I may not have 10 Years. I might have to settle for a naptime success.

Edward Fitzgerald

Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! / That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close!

Baltasar Gracian

At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing.

Marcus Terentius Varro

What, if as said, man is a bubble.

David Packard

Management by Walking Around

Robert Green Ingersoll

The American people do not like neutrality. They would rather a man were on the wrong side than on neither.

Tyrus Thomas

Let them think what they want. Like my big man said, we are still hungry, we still have a lot more to prove.

Pius Ncube

Let the man get banished if you don't want Zimbabweans to die,

William Shakespeare

Let every man be master of his timeTill seven at night.

Joe Flaherty

There's just something about youth and comedy that go together. Maybe it's that foolishness, that silliness that you can get away with when you're younger, that you can't get away with when you're older.

Edward Snyder

People were worried that like Lucent and maybe a little like Ericsson things were softening up for them. But it doesn't look like that.

Peter Schroecksnadel

Maybe they were scared of the police, we don't know. They got in touch and we're going to talk about it.

Chris Beatty

Maybe the senator should think about when he was 17 years old.

Frank Sciolla

Maybe there was something today that was different. Maybe it was a momentum thing, but they had us so out of character.

Stephen Merchant

Maybe there's a sort of veneer of optimism about U.S. comedy, whereas perhaps in England, we don't mind ending it on a sourer note.

P. J. O'Rourke

Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.

John Radcliff

Maybe next year we'll play just one preseason game.

Todd Helton

Maybe next year I'll have a better hunch.

Alfred North Whitehead

To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.

Peggy Lee

Sometimes I want to revive a song or medley I did that went over with the crowd.

Brandon Heath

You're the hope in the morning, you're the light when the night is falling, you're the song when my heart is singing, it's your love!

Ben E. King

It doesn't take me long to write songs.

Cameron Crowe

I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me.

Miley Cyrus

I write in my sleep. I don't know how, but I'll work on a song, go to sleep and it's finished when I wake up.

Miley Cyrus

A true friend is someone who is always there during the ups and downs, I actually have a song called 'True Friend'.

Jamie Lynn Spears

I think sometimes I forget that I'm 25, and I can have fun, and be flirty, and be confident, but still be completely in control. All of my new songs are empowering, but at the same time they're fun. I think that's important for women. You don't have to take yourself so seriously all the time.

Janet Jackson

All those songs reflect all the people that live within me.

Miley Cyrus

It's hard to imagine that our love is a story with an end. But you know, at least I'm getting some really good songs out of it

David Steinberg

When I talk to Steve Martin, he's joyful when he talks about comedy.

Maria Sharapova

I surprised myself in the first round, that's for sure.

Kathy Pulley

He's a whole lot better than we ever imagined. I am surprised that he wasn't just shattered.

Jordan Leopold

I was actually kind of surprised but it's OK. We get all of the attention.

David Hayes

I'm surprised to see him doing so well

Colum McCann

The Irish are great for their tunes, but all their lovesongs are sad and their warsongs happy.

Daniel Handler

The moral of Snow White is never eat apples.

Doug E. Fresh

Scientology is not a White religion. It is not just for White people

Ta-Nehisi Coates

To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good. To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.

Ronald Reagan

The White House is the leakiest place I've ever been in. (On special measures to ensure secrecy of plans to bomb Libya)

Sherman Alexie

I know a lot about being white - because I have to, I live in the white world. A white person doesn't live in the Indian world. I have to be white every day.

Matsuo Basho

Just washed, How chill The white leeks!

Patricia Hill Collins

That which commands admiration in the white woman only hastens the degradation of the female slave.

Patricia Briggs

Bran was stripping her futon down to the bare mattress when she entered her apartment. It was sort of like watching the president mowing the White House lawn or taking out the trash.

Pat Paulsen

Having a comic in the White House will assure stability in foreign relations. The world will continue to respond to foreign initiatives by saying, 'You must be joking.'