Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes you have to be careful when selecting a new name for yourself. For instance, let's say you have chosen the nickname "Fly Head." Normally you would think that "fly Head" would mean a person who has beautiful swept-back features, as if flying through the air. But think again. Couldn't it also mean "having a head like a fly"? I'm afraid some people might actually think that.

Catherine McCartney

We've spoken out and said you can stand up and you don't have to be afraid of anybody. But it won't mean anything unless the people in the communities take that opportunity the next time the IRA comes to their door and say to them 'I'm not going to allow you to bully me'.

Chinese Proverbs

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still

Rob Varley

Bob cares a lot about the success of Cocoa Beach. He's a regular guy who isn't afraid of hard work. Let me tell you -- it was very difficult for the tourism industry after Sept. 11. We were hurting.

Stephen Stanley

There's a game of chicken going on with traders wanting to go short but too afraid of month-end demand to risk it. Anyway, nobody wants to be short in a holiday week when anything might happen geopolitically.

Geno Auriemma

There's some seniors that would be afraid to take that drive. You can't become great unless you're willing to suffer the consequences if it doesn't go in. You've just got to know it's going in.

Marcus Spears

There's no question he would have been a great offensive lineman. He would have been an All-American ? if he had wanted to play. Back in high school, he'd rag-doll those poor kids. Guys were so afraid they'd run over him that they'd just stand there and Glen would put a little move on them and shake them out of their shoes.

Ben Romans

There's loud guitars, there's harmony, but even more importantly, this is a really positive album. I don't think we're afraid to put a really happy album out there. It's a party in a package.

Bobby Robson

There's nothing we won't do to try to bring success to Irish football. We need to spread our net, we need to find out where there are any more (players). We know what we should keep; we know what we need to collect. We've got to look further than the present crop. There's an awful lot of scouting to do but we're not afraid of that.

Ben Roethlisberger

I have a lot of confidence in my offensive line, ... I think (it) will do a great job of protecting me.

Ted Carson

I have a lot of confidence in here because I know what she can do.

Gary Turcott

I have a lot of confidence in Dallas.

Harvin Moore

I have a low level of confidence in our human resources effort. I think we're very closed, very incestuous.

Nick Ursitti

I have a lot more confidence this year. I was a little intimidated last year. You're gonna get hit around, but it's how you handle it. And I think I did OK.

Valerie Fleming

I have all the confidence in the world of Shauna.

Doug Brown

I have all the confidence in the world in those guys. We're all excited, knowing that this is our last year together. We're finally ready to reach our potential.

Miguel Olivo

I have all of my confidence back. The manager gives me an opportunity to play. He trusts me. I feel like I'm part of the team. I feel so comfortable. I needed something. I needed new faces, a new team. I'm glad I'm here.

Shelby Gross

I have a sense of confidence that I've never had before. I know I've done the work and am twice the fighter today than I was even a year ago.

Bobby Bowden

He started kicking better, ... He went 7 for 7 the other day in our last kicking scrimmage. That's what you want - the consistency part of it.

Brian Littrell

Marriage can be work, it can be difficult, it can be hard, but I think working through those times makes you stronger as a couple and as a unit.

Bruce Summerhays

The day started out kind of bland, then I made a couple of good par putts early and got things going, ... You always feel good when you play like this. I'm going to have to put up some similar numbers the next two days.

Kevin Systrom

You can be a couple in London who happen to take pictures of their breakfasts every day - it's called @symmetrybreakfast - and you can gain hundreds of thousands of followers overnight because people are genuinely interested in your unique angle on the world.

Matt Stone

I went to a couple Academy Awards parties and I was definitely like, 'Whoa, no one will talk to me.

Max Beesley

Who would I marry? I know, my ego. We'd make the perfect couple.

Philip Larkin

I think a young poet, or an old poet, for that matter, should try to produce something that pleases himself personally, not only when he's written it but a couple of weeks later. Then he should see if it pleases anyone else, by sending it to the kind of magazine he likes reading.

Johnny Depp

I'd worked with Marlon [Brando] a couple of times, and he was a practical joker. He was far more interested in getting jokes out than getting the words out. We laughed all the time.

John Sentamu

The virtue of the civil partnerships scheme lay in the attempt to treat the needs of gay and lesbian couples as what they are, not to bundle them into some other category.

Nas

Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.

Travis Paquet

We were down by two with eight seconds left to go, but they made some foul shots and we couldn't convert.

Theo de Raadt

So the HP guy comes up to me (at the Melbourne conference) and he says, 'If you say nasty things like that to vendors you're not going to get anything'. I said 'no, in eight years of saying nothing, we've got nothing, and I'm going to start saying nasty things, in the hope that some of these vendors will start giving me money so I'll shut up'.

Michele Bachmann

The law limits anyone from serving as president of the United States for more than eight years. And in my opinion - well, eight years is also long enough for an individual to serve as a representative for a specific Congressional district.

Meg Cabot

I've only been gone a week," I reminded him. Well, a week's a long time. It's seven days. Which is one hundred and sixty-eight hours. Which is ten thousand, eighty minutes. Which is six hundred thousand, for hundred seconds.

John Olver

We all know we have a problem, a broad problem. Ninety-eight percent of the fuel that is used by our vehicles, our autos and trucks for personal and commercial purposes, for highway and air travel operates on oil. The world has the same problem.

Peter Diamandis

As you may know, I'm the co-founder and co-chairman of an asteroid company called Planetary Resources that is backed by a group of eight billionaires to implement the bold mission of extracting resources from near-Earth asteroids.

Peter Drucker

The first organization structure in the modern West was laid down in the canon law of the Catholic Church eight hundred years ago.

Tennessee Ernie Ford

Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it.

Nicolas Cage

I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green.

Daniel Handler

All cannot be lost when there is still so much being found

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself:""Mankind."" Basically, it's made up of two separate words - ""mank"" and ""ind.""What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.

Kyle Lohse

Maybe I'll try to skip (the start) next time it comes up. I'll go have a talk with the manager.

Jack McKay

Maybe I'll shop. If I'm going to be shopping around those days.

Doug Miller

Maybe I'll always be searching for an answer.

Dave Roberts

Maybe if we could have put them away, he wouldn't have come back. We made a mess of this, and we took two big punches on Monday and Tuesday. But we're still standing.

George Karl

Melo has got to go through this. We can't teach with film. We can't teach it with books. . . . Maybe the year he's had we have too much responsibility for him. But he's listening. . . . He's trying to become special.

Chris Capuano

That was a sloppy inning. Take it away, and maybe we win.

Alex Rodriguez

That will never end. Maybe when I retire it will stop. I use it as a motivation.

Toni Lydman

That was my worst period maybe in the game.

Tubby Smith

When a team shoots 72 percent, you're not really playing much defensively.

Beck

There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.

Gwen Stefani

Every record that I've ever made, I listen to it so much before it comes out. As soon as it comes out, I never listen to it again. It's, like, over.

Bill Bryson

Most of what has lived on Earth has left behind no record at all.

Kate Smith

In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed.

Shelby Lynne

Well, I had a record deal since I was 18, and it got me where I am.

Seth Godin

Keep starting until you finish.

Bobby Labonte

If we start off and we're not in the top 10, we're going to be there before long,

Jack Rio

If Byron doesn't have any setbacks, he's our starting quarterback.