Famous Quotes & Sayings

Morris Gleitzman

When I did finally live in the Dandenongs, the mountain ash forests became an important part of my life.

Nancy Peterson

It became increasingly evident that we needed to do something in terms of a financial turnaround plan, or the place wasn't going to be a viable organization anymore.

Nicola Sturgeon

For me, personally, it has been humbling since I became First Minister to speak to women and girls and have them tell me how much it means to them to have a woman in the top job in politics in Scotland.

Skip Laper

I thought early on we missed a few shots that we'd been making normally. We lost a little composure early on and became hesitant.

Otto Rehhagel

It is great that soccer can unite all people for one day. It is something politics has often tried, and we were able to do it today. All people became brothers.

Jim Webb

I was counsel on the full veterans committee, the first Vietnam veteran to serve as a full-committee counsel in Congress. It stunned me that there was a 600,000-case backlog of claims. During my time in the Senate, it became 900,000.

Steve Hawkins

I was concerned when I found out his parents had both gone to Central Michigan and his high school coach had graduated from Central. I knew Central was recruiting him and became very concerned. Brian let me know early on that he was very interested in Western, and he was true to his word. That put my mind at ease that he was going to look at things openly.

Mark Farley

We took him out of high school hoping he'd develop into a player in two or three years. But within the first year he started to make an impact and, in 2003, he became a starter on special teams and made some big plays.

Richard Garnett

When he was first on the court, he was challenging the dominant way of thinking. But when he became chief, he decided his role was different. The chief has a stewardship obligation, in his view, and is the face of the court and caretaker of the institution. That's bound to change the way you do things.

Kenenisa Bekele

It was a little bit difficult for him he is very young. I help him, we train together. I hope for him in the future he has a lot of talent.

Chris Mooney

These days, things are different, and young women and middle-aged women would like to see a woman governor. That's why I say this kind of gives her a bit of an edge in that direction.

Firas Askari

The stock market declines are a little bit scary. People want to take the dollar weaker.

Donald Selkin

The statement wasn't that negative, but it was a bit clumsily worded. They reminded people of the dangers.

Bruce DiVaccaro

I spend quite a bit of time looking at ducks. I gaze around and spend a lot of time there.

Kelly Reilly

I started freaking out before it went in. If it hadn't gone in, I would have been a little bit embarrassed.

Richard Petty

I see two or three cars that are really good, but they're not dominant. There's usually somebody who's got one that's a little bit better than everybody.

G. H. Hardy

I see things a little bit differently now because of my son.

Nicolas Massu

I see some videos the last days from Chile. The people get a little bit crazy because they are very happy. They are the first two gold medals in the history of Chile. Tennis now maybe gonna be the most important sport in the country. There are a lot of kids now trying to play tennis.

Sarah Hall

Writers cannot simply have a go, imagining it's easier to produce a story than a novel because fewer words are required. Have a go by all means; be intrepid, but be equipped.

Bill Gates

We need to make it easier for people to visualize information that comes from different directions,

Megan Ronhovde

It is a lot of thinking and every game we make some minor adjustments. You go man-to-man it's a little more simplistic. I think it's been a little easier for the younger girls.

Bobby Bowden

As I look back on my 51 years of coaching, ... that is the hardest thing to explain.

Dusty Baker

At this point, it's hard to imagine him not pitching forever.

Terri Lemos

(Diver) Ryan Jones qualified for State in El Dorado last weekend. So Cody is working hard so he can qualify for State.

Rob Sanderson

DirecTV is having a hard time getting compensated appropriately for what they've delivered,

Mark Greenberg

Could they be a little more aggressive? Yes. Should they be a lot more aggressive? It's hard to say.

Patty Griffin

I don't actually have to think very hard when I'm writing. I mean, there are times where it's a task, and you have to plug away and plug away. But then there are times when a song writes itself in 15 minutes, and you're just struggling to keep up with it.

Paul Arden

I've now discovered that if you know what you want and try hard to achieve it, everyone else will try hard, too.

Steve Buscemi

I didn't really like the aloneness of doing stand-up. The comedians by nature weren't very - I mean, they were sociable, but they hung out in cliques, and it's very hard to get accepted; lots of competition.

Robert Allenby

Towels are the worst. They're hard to sign and the strings get stuck on the pen. Then the next one you sign is smudged.

Paula Creamer

I just have to keep working hard.

Peter Thiel

What nerds miss is that it takes hard work to make sales look easy.

Karl Popper

[Great scientists] are men of bold ideas, but highly critical of their own ideas: they try to find whether their ideas are right by trying first to find whether they are not perhaps wrong. They work with bold conjectures and severe attempts at refuting their own conjectures.

Tom Lewand

We put the tag on Jeff Backus with the intention of keeping him here not only in 2006, but beyond.

Rajneesh

Religion is nothing but a science to attain wisdom, understanding, to know what life is, and to live it in utter celebration.

Isaac Asimov

The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.

David Shuster

There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

S. I. Hayakawa

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

Marie Windsor

So, I certainly subscribe to what Bette said about acting being very hard work.

Ted Turner

The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.

Morris Chestnut

I'm an R&B and Hip-Hop type guy. When I work out, which I do at least four or five times a week, I love to get the latest Hip-Hop because it really pumps me up and inspires me to get that workout on.

Mark Twain

I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.

Mason Cooley

Sensuality takes planning and work.

Robert Gottlieb

Nobody could call the work of Noche Flamenca & Soledad Barrio pallid.

Matthew Goode

I'm always pretty tense about everything when it comes to work.