Famous Quotes & Sayings

Earl Nightingale

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Rick Bayan

REVOLUTIONARY: An oppressed person waiting for the opportunity to become an oppressor.

Tiki Barber

Every day is an opportunity disguised as a challenge.

Tom Harkin

[A]s we celebrate 75 years of the minimum wage, we must also recognize that it is no longer achieving its potential impact in our economy or for America's working families. Every American deserves the chance to build a better life for his or her family - and raising the minimum wage will provide that opportunity.

Tom Hanks

And then it was like, wait, you can go to college and study theater? And act in plays? This is almost a racket, you know. And then when the opportunity came along to do it professionally, I thought I'd won the lottery.

Tom Brokaw

We were not just competitors and colleagues, we were friends. We had a lot of opportunities to reflect on this in the last year. It was a competitive brotherhood.

Tom Clancy

Every person you meet - and everything you do in life - is an opportunity to learn something.

Tina Fey

I don't know how many more movies I'm going to get the opportunity to make and I don't want to look back and go: "Man, I just floated through that one." Or: "I did that one for the money." I want to be able to say that I worked as a hard as I could and I did the best work that I could do.

Tibor Fischer

Stay cool, and wait for opportunity.

I think college administrators should encourage students to urinate on walls and bushes, because then when students from another college come sniffing around, they'll know this is someone else's territory.

Tom Rose

Once he adjusts to the college game, he's going to be a very good player. He's already very strong.

Brian Jeroloman

This is their College World Series. That's why you see that celebration.

Charles Hamilton Houston

The individual college youth cannot wait forever until the problem of his education is decided.

Bret Ellis

We were all such Didion junkies in college that might still be the highlight of my career.

Dennis Franchione

We are seeing far more one-back sets and far more need to be in nickel situations in today's college football than we are seeing two-back sets. We're just kind of basing it on what we are seeing the most and working the other direction basing with the 4-3 and working out to the nickel.

Mark Stout

We are recruiting in Detroit and getting resumes from Detroit, as we are in St. Louis and Atlanta. But everyone we're looking for will not have automotive experience. Some people will come from outside the industry. We'll also hire some recent college graduates.

Chuck Kearney

We are really excited for Shane; this was the perfect ending to his college career. He kept himself focused all tournament long.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Ray Stevenson

For me, because I've had classical theater training, when people say, "Oh, my god, the play is amazing!," I'll never get to see it because I'm in it.

Ray Knight

I don't know how to play easy.

Rashida Jones

A question I get asked a lot is 'What is it like to play the straight guy all the time?' And I'm totally okay with it.

Randy Castillo

I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.

Robert Herrick

The first act's doubtful, but we say, it is the last commends the play.

Robert Henri

Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.

Tony Abbott

Australia would play its role in taking displaced people from the Syrian conflict.

Tom Petty

No matter how long you play the guitar, there's always something else to learn.