Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jodi Picoult

Just because a person didn't admit that something had changed didn't mean it hadn't happened.

Dontrelle Willis

I'm still excited to be here. The bottom line is, I'm just not playing good baseball. I'm a man and can admit it. ... I'm hoping we advance so I'll get another start.

Pankaj Mishra

The advocates of retaliatory wars will continue to assume a much simpler reality with their hoary oppositions: Religious and secular, backward and enlightened, free and unfree. But if we are to admit how deeply and irrevocably interconnected our world is, then we must find new ways to break the cycle of counter-productive violence.

Charlie Glavin

That would be an old dog learning new tricks. This is not a company or a management team that has been willing to admit they are making mistakes.

Louis Gerstner

I would admit to you that we could take some credit, but there's a fair amount of luck in that too,

Michael J. Saylor

I basically got an education in software on DuPont's money because they were too stubborn to admit that a recession was coming.

and City

I admit it's tempting to wish for the perfect boss - the perfect parent - or the perfect outfit. But maybe the best any of us can do is not quit, play the hand we've been dealt, and accessorize what we've got.-Carrie (Sex & the City)

David Delainey

Having to admit we were a very large trader, and frankly a good one, would put significant pressure on Enron's stock because the investment community does not put a significant multiple on trading revenues.

Joe Biden

I think we have a six-month window here to get it right. But I have to admit that I think the chances are not a lot better than 50-50.

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.

Jacques Rogge

We are very pleased with the preparations. Like any Games, the final stretch of days is the most difficult one.

Marc Habscheid

We just felt that our start was going to be real important because this was their fourth game in four days and they'd been eliminated from the tournament. So we wanted to make sure our pace was real high early and our tenacity was good early to try and get them disheartened.

Christine Durante

Two days is not enough time to get ready. Things are packed away and the supplies I ordered in the spring have to be unpacked.

Melinda Hendrix

This team has spent over 1,100 man days in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Persian Gulf since the programs' inception in January 2004.

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.

Andy Partridge

Come English Settlement, I had it in my head that I didn't want to tour.

Amanda Palmer

I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame.

Annie Dillard

There is always the temptation in life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for years on end. It is all so self conscience, so apparently moral...But I won't have it. The world is wilder than that in all directions, more dangerous...more extravagant and bright. We are...raising tomatoes when we should be raising Cain, or Lazarus.

Anna Quindlen

I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that, if I had my druthers, it would never have been changed at all. What I learned from it is that today seems to be the hardest lesson of all. I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that it is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is the only guarantee you get. I learned to look at all the good in the world and to try to give some of it back because I believed in it completely and utterly.

Amy Smart

I like any story that starts one place and really takes a huge journey to a whole new place; that people in their life want to take that journey. They want to be able to find things in their life that aren't working and work through them to a new place of change.

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.

Brian K. Vaughan

I never liked working on editorial-driven comics. I just didn't see what was the point. They don't pay well enough for me to write other people's ideas.

Vanessa Marano

I've been on plenty of sets where I have not liked the people that I work with, but you suck it up and be professional.

Gracie Gold

In skating there's always another jump or another spin variation or another thing to learn, and that's what I liked about it.

Robert Budi Hartono

I've never liked playing golf. I prefer to be on the treadmill to keep in shape.

Donald Sparrow

We had conversations about the type of music he liked and the type I liked. But they were always friendly.

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.

Riley Wallace

Second half, when (Idaho) went man-to-man, we ran everything to Julian. That's why he got all those dunks.

Inaki Saez

So I have put another man in at the back.

John Nicks

Only one thing has changed. I was an old man then and she was a young girl, and I'm an old man and she's a young lady. That's the only difference.

E. P. Thompson

only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.

Robbie Williams

I am the only man who can say he's been in Take That and at least 2 members of the Spice Girls.

Arcadi Gaydamak

I am the most popular man in Israel.

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.

Carlos Zambrano

Maybe next Spring Training, I will work on that.

Robert Anderson

Maybe my son can get some rest now.

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'.

Miley Cyrus

I have four shelves covered with journals that I've written. Dad and I are writing songs together. I've probably written 100 songs.

Arundhati Roy

When she listened to songs that she loved on the radio, something stirred inside her. A liquid ache spread under her skin, and she walked out of the world like a witch.

Demetri Martin

There are very few songs about just liking someone as a friend.

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!

Pablo Neruda

White bee, even when you are gone you buzz in my soul You live again in time, slender and silent.

Paula Deen

I found that when I went from Albany to Savannah, that I needed to put that white rice away, and I needed to turn that into Savannah red rice because they were big into that sausage, tomato-y, bell pepper-y rice mixture.

Mary E. Pearson

I created an icicle sculpture in the snow. White on white.