Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kofi Annan

The Russian ambassador said, 'But what are you complaining about? You've had more time than God.' ... And I explained to him that God had one big advantage: He worked alone, without the General Assembly and the Security Council and the committees.

Tommy Bowden

I've been here seven years and he's been my quarterback for four. He's sitting up here with a college degree. ... what a great ambassador for college football. His leadership skills and how he responded after a disappointing year last year, which was my fault. The way he handled it to the media might have put a couple more years on my contract.

Raghu Sharma

This great man to whom the entire nation bows in respect is being used as a brand ambassador for eggs. This is an insult to Mahatma Gandhi and his principles and the Congress will not tolerate it.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Do you, Ambassador Zorin, deny that the USSR has placed and is placing medium - and intermediate - range missiles and sites in Cuba? Yes or no? Don't wait for the translation. Yes or no?

Mark E. Smith

Craig Parry is a great champion and ambassador for Schweppes

Allen Toussaint

Dr. John is phenomenal. Dr. John is a heavyweight and one of the nicest guys in the world -- unhurried, and he plays very unhurried. His life is that way. And as for being an ambassador for New Orleans sound and New Orleans music, he's doing it to the bone.

Kent Smith

Bill has had a lot of success on the field, but his character and integrity off the field and in the classroom is just as impressive. He's truly an ambassador for our school system and he does so many things that will be missed.

David Lang

You are the only ambassador in the world to race a horse named after your country's foreign policy.

Sean Maguire

We all have our ambassador that we send forward into the world. We all have people we are varying degrees of real with. There's a public face we all wear. As I get older and more comfortable in my skin, I am trying to combine the two so the real me is there all the time.

Greg Gibson

Ramon has had some offers for colleges and every meet that he does well in is another feather in his hat. We're proud of him.

Rachel Ingber

The name Douglass College for alumnae evokes awe-inspiring pride, a rich history and connectedness from one generation to the next. Diminishing Douglass College's name sends a disingenuous message about our commitment to women's education.

Nate Longshore

Definitely, he has a track record. But I'm not thinking about that right now. I haven't even played at the college level.

Mike Shanahan

Coming out of college he was a zone running back. That was his style and we run a system very similar to the one he ran at Wisconsin. I think he fits our system a little better than the other system.

Mike Shanahan

Coming out of college, he was a zone-running back. That was his style, and we run a system very similar to the one he ran at Wisconsin. I think he fits our system a little better than the (Giants) system.

Joe Smith

DePaul can make a statement. This is a game that can put them right up there with the big girls of college basketball.

Mark Evans

Any de-emphasis on standards that prepare our kids for college is going to be of great concern to us.

Tom Maeser

The state does not reimburse colleges for new programs or expansion of programs for three years. So, they have to start it themselves and have it up and running.

Richard Lapchick

The study shows that the vast majority of the most powerful people in college sports are still white.

Glenn Christenson

People come, they have a very good meal, for very good value for their dollar, they grab a couple rolls of quarters, play 'till they're gone and then go home.

Charles Pace

People end up having to pay cash. Last month Medicaid was covering them at $3 a prescription; this month it's not going through and instead of $3 they're paying $300. Maybe it will all shake out in a couple of months, but what are these poor people going to do in the meantime?

Peter Nowak

Of course, we learned our lesson from last season, when we (gave up) the third goal and the fourth goal and we lost at home 4-0. And we had a couple of games when we really had to track the deficit in the game. I don't want to have this kind of situation where we have to trail the result every game. We have to do better.

Tiffany Thompson

Of course, usually one or two doesn't fare too well during the trip. A couple are usually dead on arrival.

Tate Casey

Off-the-field issues the last couple of years killed us, just killed us. It's a trust factor. If you can't trust a guy to do what he's supposed to do off the field, how are you going to trust him when he's on the field.

Maureen Berk

After the first couple of weeks I was completely addicted. I loved it and I couldn't get enough of it.

Chipper Jones

After the first couple of innings, I would have probably called off the dogs. But it was nice to get a big lead and relax.

Jason Hammel

After the first couple innings I felt pretty confident. I'm disappointed with the outcome. I'm definitely looking forward to the next one.

Christy Scott

Again, we played a solid first game and then let down the second game. We struggled with hitting errors and a couple mental mistakes, but we regrouped and finished well in the third game.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

O. J. Simpson

Aw, Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless.

Chris Dyer

Back then, youth issues were not very visible even in the nationwide organizations. Youth had consistently not been a priority in any of the Pride celebrations and we thought, here's a great way to help.

Don Shula

As long as they stay healthy, I think they've got a great shot at it.

Benjamin Franklin

A small leak can sink a great ship.

Mark Melton

A sloppy win is a lot better than playing great and losing.

John Wozniak

A song called Never. Which we never play. But it's a great song.

Robert Brooks

That park is great for trails and hiking. I don't really see home sites in that park.

Roger Federer

Rafael played a great match, it was tough to lose.

Camilo Villegas

You never know. I'm sure she's down about it. She's only 16 and she's going to keep learning. She's got a lot of pressure on her, but she handled herself well out there.

Scott Gernander

Even though we haven't seen a lot of it, I was a little disappointed at how we handled their press.

Steve Novak

We understand that any small thing like that needed to be seriously looked into. It was handled the right way.

Jason Terry

We'll sit back now and see what San Antonio and Sacramento do. We handled our business.

Tom Edwards

Two years of trying to win this race, it just didn't happen. We struggled in the conditions, they just handled it better than us.

Adam Schultz

We want to make sure things are handled appropriately and fairly.

Stew Morrill

Obviously, Nevada speaks for itself, a Top 25 team. They handled us pretty well in Logan. We played well the last time we were here. We've played pretty well in this building.

Rick Barnes

I didn't think inside we handled the pressure and the physicality of the play.

Donald Copeland

It is disappointing, but the way he's handled it shows what type of man he is. He's never made any of this about himself. For him, it's all about the team.

Rob Neyland

That's where the rubber meets the road in this - the lasting impact.

Atharva Veda

See yourselves in all; See all in yourselves; that is the road to lasting peace and joy.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Michael Redd

I've thought of guys, whether they were here last year or not, and doing something special for them.

Shane Olivea

This is probably the worst performance we've all played, together, in the last two years.

Sylvia Hatchell

This is the 11th time in the last 13 years we've played for an ACC championship. I wish we'd won all those, but just being there is an honor.

Brooks Bollinger

This is so tough, ... People on the outside don't realize how tough it is to get to the playoffs. Last year, we were one victory away from a championship game.

Julie Vallese

This isn't the last lead-jewelry recall you will see.

Gennady Onishchenko

The vaccine has undergone immunizing power tests, and sterility tests have been launched to last until mid-March. Then we will try it on a limited number of volunteers.

Michael Panzner

You normally don't find new leadership until you get washouts and corrections.

Babe Ruth

The most important thing that a young athlete must do it pick the right sport. Not one that they like just a little bit, but one that they love. Because,if they don't really love their sport, they won't work as hard as they should. Me? I loved to hit.

Arthur Ashe

We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities.

Brian Tracy

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.

Jan Schakowsky

The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.

Cesar Chavez

There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.

Carl Yastrzemski

I loved the game - I loved the competition. But I never had any fun. All hard work - all the time.

Charles R. Swindoll

This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to do and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody thought Anybody would do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.

Desiderius Erasmus

God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.

Jane D. Hull

Safety on our highways has improved significantly, with the help of the Legislature and the media.

Charlene Li

Some of the power has shifted from companies to people. Using social media tools (blogs, wikis, tagging, etc.) more individuals are creating semi-spontaneous 'groundswells' of opinions to which companies and other institutions are realizing they must respond. From marketing to consumers organizations are being pulled into engaging with individuals.

Billy Connolly

Outgrew the media... The negativity felt like a disease.

Elif Safak

Words are heavy in Turkey, and every writer, every poet and every journalist knows that, because of a word, because of a sentence, because of a tweet or even a retweet, you can be sued, you can be demonized by the media and you can even land in prison.

Edward Ruscha

I don't do social media of any kind. If I did, I may as well join Scientology.

Eduardo Galeano

To narrate is to give oneself: it seems obvious that literature, as an effort to communicate fully, will continue to be blocked so long as misery and illiteracy exist, and so long as the possessors of power continue to carry on with impunity their policy of collective imbecilization through the mass media.

Bobby Miller

Even though the media has dubbed me America's most controversial writer, occasionally my words find an open mind and I end up with a new friend, and at least on that day, I win.

Bernie Sanders

Sometimes the media says, well, this state had an election, it's the end of the campaign. It is not. We have dozens of more states to go. We're feeling good about the future.

Bernie Sanders

To be honest with you, I worry about concentration of ownership in media, where you have a handful of media conglomerates largely controlling what we see, hear and read.

Jim Tracy

A very wonderful note, I might add. A very professionally done thing.

Adelaide Anne Procter

No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been.

Peter Beattie

The money might be better off used for things like law-and- order initiatives, schools and hospitals,

Pat Davis

The technician will see if the AC system is an old one or in need of repair. A suggestion might then be made to upgrade to a more energy-efficient system.

John Butler

See, I might have screwed the whole thing up in Buffalo,

Eric Desjardins

I've tried to play with the composites, and I still might go to it eventually, ... But I'm used to the feel of the wooden sticks and I like them.

Don Haskins

I spent 18 months, off and on, with the script writer. I might as well have not spent one second with him.

Ben Dattner

You should be truthful, constructive and not personal, vindictive or petty. You might say, 'Here are some suggestions for the next person who has this job.

Dave Duncan

You never know when you might need help.

David Ishii

Really? I don't remember. Seventeen under? That's pretty good.

Kim Devlin

Well that's seven more votes than we expected.

Richelle Nice

We were in there for seven months. We wanted to see it through to the end.

S. Truett Cathy

If it takes seven days to make a living, you ought to be doing something else.

Tom Evans

Get transported back to the seventies !

Shaun White

I was sponsored when I was about seven by Burton Snowboards.

Michael Ian Black

The Atkins' diet is where you eat bacon for six or seven months...and the end result is that you lose weight. Because you're dead.

Miguel de Cervantes

I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.

Teri Garr

Seventy-five percent of MS sufferers are women

Amanda Lamb

Do you think it's a waste to have all this stuff sitting here?

Jennifer Hill

It was weird not having him sitting there telling us where to stand. It was hard, but the team stuck together.

Robert Anthony

Do something whatever you do, it will be better than sitting and hoping things will improve.

Soren Kierkegaard

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, & the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.

John Steinbeck

I would like to sit still for a while but I'm restless you know and sitting still is only an ideal like celibacy and complete cleanliness.

Nora Roberts

Dinner's in one hour. If you're not back, sitting at the table, I'll beat you all unconscious with a spatula.

Mark Richardson

When walking, just walk. When sitting, just sit. Above all, don't wobble.

Mark Cuban

We all have a history of digital texts, posts, messages, reposts/tweets that are sitting out there and can be used by anyone for any reason.

Michael Jackson

I feel guilty just sitting around when I know I can be doing something.

Brian Tracy

Your ability to set and achieve goals is perhaps the most important skill you can ever develop.

Brian Jacques

Any weapon is a good weapon as long as ye can use it with honor and skill.

Diane Cilento

I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.

Daniel Goleman

There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse.

Daniel Goleman

Empathy represents the foundation skill for all the social competencies important for work.

Artur Davis

Mitt Romney, happens to have the exact skill set that the next president's going to require.

Brittany Daniel

If you've been told all your life that you're good-looking, people just flock around you and you never really have to try or have to learn an interesting craft, skill or hobby - or even have depth.

Brian Van Holt

Meryl Streep's got talent, she's got skills. I'm sure she wants to be on 'Cougar Town,' right?

Eckhart Tolle

To make money, to gather knowledge, to learn a new skill, to explore new territory, even to get from A to B - for all these things you need time. For almost everything you need time, except for one thing: to embrace the present moment.

Brett Ratner

When I was 13, Eddie Murphy was to me what Chris Tucker was to 13-year-olds when I made 'Rush Hour.' And 'Rush Hour' really came out of the fact that I grew up watching 'Beverly Hills Cop' and '48 Hrs.'

Brett Ratner

I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.

Brandon Sanderson

People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN'T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort.

Ayn Rand

He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning...

Benjamin Cardozo

The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more.

Benjamin Cardozo

More truly characteristic of dissent is a dignity, an elevation, of mood and thought and phrase. Deep conviction and warm feeling are saying their last say with knowledge that the cause is lost. The voice of the majority may be that of force triumphant, content with the plaudits of the hour, and recking little of the morrow. The dissenter speaks to the future, and his voice is pitched to a key that will carry through the years.

Benito Mussolini

If I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep!

Brad Paisley

Willie Nelson, out there 200 days a year, calls his band family. And it is.

Brad Pitt

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all