Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amy Childs

I was always behind in class. There was people in my class who was amazing at art, amazing at maths, amazing at English, but I wasn't clever with anything, even though I tried my hardest.

Lily Cole

Kate Moss has had such a phenomenal career and I wouldn't even like to compare myself to her. It's amazing that people are going to put my name close to hers.

John Planamenta

Just winning two state titles in anything, any year is an amazing feat. So to have it done in the same sport by the same school is truly an impressive feat. I think it really speaks to the level of talent in the area.

Larry Walker

I think it'll get talked about a lot more if we win two more games. Obviously that's an amazing feat, but two more wins is going to make it even better.

Jimmy Tillette

He leads us in scoring. He leads us in rebounding. Most amazing to me is that everyone is guarding him and for the year he's shooting 52 percent in the league. To me Merritt is amazing.

Taylor Branch

He (Johnson) had an amazing spiritual quality about him,

Grant Achatz

Here's the irony in what I do: When I go out to eat, I like classic French food. I like amazing Japanese food that has such a history that it goes back hundreds of years. And I also like really innovative food as well.

Grace Gealey

I find that when I put too much makeup on, or I use a certain brand, my skin will break out. I tend to gravitate towards water-based foundations because my skin absorbs them a little better and it doesn't break out as much. I use Hourglass Mineral Veil. It's so amazing.

Sam Worthington

Actors get to go to these amazing worlds. In 'Terminator,' I was a cyborg with feelings; in 'Avatar,' I lived for 15 months on a fantastical planet, and in 'Clash of the Titans,' I get to fight a scorpion the size of a dump truck. It's a bizarre job, but you explore yourself.

Daren Beaudo

Knowing the impact area and getting it cleaned up, to us, is in a sense the most important thing.

Jon Lindhout

Just the vision of a revitalized Bellingham waterfront will make this place a desirable area for boaters. A new marina would also be big deal for the local boating industry, which plays an important role in this economy.

Douglas Porter

I suspect there will be enough positive news in other areas to persuade consumers there is a light at the end of the tunnel and that the economy is moving to better times, but it will be a gradual process, and confidence may be flat in the next couple of months.

John Eade

I think investors should be ready to buy on the dips, particularly in long-term focus areas like technology or health care.

Bruce Schneider

I think in general things are getting worse, not better. There are lots of little victories. Spam is one of our industries shining victories. But there are lots of areas where we aren't doing very well.

Kjell Bondevik

It can perhaps seem that this area is plagued by an endless string of crises and that it's impossible to do anything. Then I say that a human life is a human life... and we're obligated to help.

Alireza Jafarzadeh

It can carry a nuclear warhead and it allows the regime to reach areas in far distances,

Adam Dunn

He used to come into the weight room with about 35 of his people and work out. We talked about the football team and how I was doing and if I still live in the (Houston) area where I lived. It was small talk.

Chris Shelton

He didn't get it in as far as the first one. I just put a good swing on it. I can't quite tell you why it went out of the ballpark, but the pitch was in a good spot for me. It was in an area where I could hit it hard.

Barney Frank

I would say this: What I'm basically saying here is the federal government cannot and should not be the nanny of the states in everything here.

Dan Sharp

It basically reaffirmed the City Commission's ruling that we are the legitimate electric provider for Boulder Ridge.

James Sullivan

It basically proves what we suspected for a long time -- that kids will reach whatever expectation you set for them.

Michael Miller

It basically looks like the worst is over.

Fred Taylor

It basically doubles the property value of the county.

Jeff Liggins

It basically comes from a lot of hard work and dedication, and some good coaching. It's been our dream since we were kids to get to state.

Andy Palmer

It basically comes down to us defending and rebounding and not letting them have second opportunities. That's been the key for us. When we rebound, we usually have ... success.

Peter Banko

It basically caused him to have a minor heart attack.

J. Lewis

It basically came down to us not doing a very good job of getting off the field early on,

Jodi Benson

I am blessed to perform in the studio and on the concert stage.

Tyler Perry

Ever since I've been blessed with success, I've struggled a little with anonymity and even family. I've had people calling asking for money, and I have to ask them first, 'Are you working? Have you been trying to help yourself?' Then I feel like I can help.

William Wordsworth

That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world is lightened.

Rebecca De Mornay

I've never had a manager, and I've had various agents, and, fortunately or unfortunately, I've been blessed.

Richard Kiel

Not only did God deliver me from the bondage of alcoholism, he also blessed my family financially because of my commitment to honor what he had done for me and for not doing what I believed could possibly be destructive to others.

Richard L. Evans

One of the greatest accomplishments in this world would be that of lifting human hearts. Blessed are they who are kind and considerate of the feelings of other people.

Tupac Shakur

I truly believe I've been blessed by God, and God walks with me

Uma Thurman

I certainly know I have been blessed with much more empathy than I ever knew I would feel for other people.

Robert Redford

As an artist I just can't think of a better life than the one I've been blessed with. It's just a great ride.

Paul Gillis

I think it's going to do a lot of good for the city. I think that it's going to help out by cleaning up the houses, some of the streets.

R. Inge

I think it's great. I'm glad they're cleaning up the sport. I don't like it that anything can be tainted with an illegal substance. It's just going to make the playing field a little more level.

Tracy Bowen

It isn't getting better. We just keep cleaning it up every year.

Peter Evans

If you've got a switch underwater obviously it won't operate. It's also difficult to repair. There's so much potential damage from static discharge, dirt and algae that the cost of cleaning it would likely exceed the cost of replacing it.

Mike Stevens

It's slow going, ... As far as serious snowfall in and around Buffalo, we'll be cleaning up for four or five days. When we see sufficient progress on the side streets, we'll lift the ban.

Vickie Schmitt

It makes me wonder if I still got some dry cleaning out there. I don't know.

Sean Moore

Forget corporations--for NGOs, for whom an important part of their revenue is government money, the cost is tremendous. When we talk about cleaning up the procurement system, it's very important that you don't create an environment in which it simply isn't worth it to try to work with the government.

Charles Dunn

It saved us (Marion Union Station Association) $10,000 by cleaning it ourselves, ... The guy who's working on it (Bill Bowers, Quality Masonry) said they have to do it one-eighth at a time. One-eighth of the skylight is in place. He is planning to put up two more in December.

John Pescatore

The spreading of the worm has slowed down slightly, but the real cost is going back and cleaning computers.

Brad Turner

Jacksonville was faster and Forney was bigger, so we've seen different types of defenses, ... We feel like we can do some things.

Dan Hendricks

He can run, that's all there is to it. There hasn't been any faster horses in the races so far, and the next one there will be and it's a whole new game.

Michael Litzinger

He returned from a mission and got back to good form a lot faster than we expected.

Odell Thurman

I guess the quarterback is a little faster than I am.

Steve Murdock

If you look in the 1990s, in every one of the 50 states, non-Anglo Hispanic populations grew faster than Anglo populations. It's a very pervasive pattern.

Rhonda Jefferson

In our league, the teams play quicker and set faster so it is hard to defend. We have to raise our tempo, we're not quite there yet.

Paolo Iorio

It has been much faster than they thought ... He must now be extradited within 10 days.

Seth Thomas

I'm happy with that. I was faster than this morning and in the top ten in times so I can't complain.

Giorgio Rocca

I'm happy for this podium finish. It was fun. I want to go ever faster as we head to the Olympic Games in Italy.

Jim Calhoun

Kentucky gave us a great shot, but we're going to D.C..

Joyce Majewski

Just look at this watch someone gave to me.

Jason Calabrese

Joel gave another strong performance, of which there were many in the two seasons he played for me.

Joe DeSantis

John is the kind of player who can give us something positive or something negative. Tonight he gave something very positive.

Ken Lucas

I think in the long run it will prove to be a good thing for the team and myself that we gave it a week off and let it heal. I hate to miss any game, but I think it was the right thing to do.

Gary Defina

He usually swallows his rebounds or hands it off to the defense. The other night (against Rampart) he gave up a goal with 50 seconds left in the game, and it went into overtime. In the first shift of overtime, he made a great save, and we went back down and scored.

Ned Colletti

He didn't have a lot to say. I just gave him the information, and wished him well. That was it.

Alan Magnani

He'd been struggling and I'm so happy for the lift he gave this team as a senior in a championship game. You couldn't script it better than that. I'm so proud of the way he stepped up in this game.

A. Johnson

(Greenspan) gave those words of reassurance. Today will set the tone, and, on balance, tomorrow should be positive.

Tucker Carlson

I wouldn't say I'm happy now. My skepticism is warranted, given what I've seen over the decades.

Muhammad Yunus

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

James Salter

I think you can be taught to write. You can't be taught to be a good writer. For that, you have to bring something to it, yourself, something that can't be given to you.

Jerry Stracke

We're pretty balanced. I think that is what has gotten us this far. We have different players that can step up on any given day. It makes it hard for other teams to play us because we are so balanced.

Ed Comeau

We talk about winning as a team and on any given night we think we have the talent to get all our guys scoring. We want that type of balance; we don't want to rely on (Grant) and Willy to score seven between them.

Maria Semple

I think a novel has to be about where you are at a given moment in time. I think it really needs to represent some specific pain you're going through. it's not just a story.

Ken Hitchcock

I think that it's given a lot of people, including myself, time to pause and reflect,

Kazuo Inamori

I think that is the opportunity that is given by this event.

Phil Rosenthal

Laughs are in characters, and no time is being given to establishing them.

Bradlee Pelt

Jake knows that he's not John Elway, and I don't think he wants to be. He's Jake Plummer.

Philip Purcell

John and I have never disagreed about the businesses.

John Gartland

John always has a vision, with great, broad-stroked kinds of goals.

Susanne Bier

John le Carre's 'The Night Manager' is a relentlessly exhilarating thriller with profound emotional depths.

Douglas Brinkley

John Kerry only went to prep schools because he had an aunt who had the money to pay for his way into those prep schools.

Michael Meehan

John Kerry has a record in the military that he's running on, not from. Everything the U.S. Navy sent to Sen. Kerry, we'll post on the Web site.

Nicholas Burns

John is working very hard, hand-in-glove with Washington on this.

Jerry Slocum

John has been a work in progress the last two weeks. We need him.

Clem Labine

John had confidence. He might have, he really might have said it.

E. Hicks

We may never find it. It may be on the top of another mountain by now.

Richard Paul Evans

Without great mountains we cannot reach great heights.

Rick Danko

I'm here in the mountains, in the foothills of the Catskills.

Rich Mullins

Sometimes my life just don't make sense at all. The mountains looks so big and my faith just seems so small.

Zig Ziglar

You can't climb a smooth mountain

Pat Boyd

I really didn't they were going to make a mountain out of a molehill.

Quinn Spitzer

I'm going to set the strategy, we're the consultant, we're going to walk down from the mountain and we're going to give it to people.

Friedrich Schiller

The mountain cannot frighten one who was born on it.

Joichi Ito

You're not going to be on top of mountain all by yourself with a #2 pencil What we need to learn is how to learn.

Ryan Baker

I think it's from each other and pushing each other and having fun. If somebody does well, then we'll give him some support.

Sally Ride

Studying whether there's life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there's something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. That's something that is almost part of being human, and I'm certain that will continue.

Grady Jackson

I'll be ready for Detroit. I just have to get the footwork down, get used to pushing and everything again.

Albert Einstein

I have also considered many scientific plans during my pushing you around in your pram!

Ann Aguirre

He is not the same person as when we met, but . . . neither am I. Time has refined us, but instead of pushing us apart, we’re closer than ever.

Thomas Reid

I sit in my loft with the haves and look out at the have-nots - the bottom of the bottom - and I have to rationalize it, ... Am I pushing out the homeless?

Simon Sinek

Pushing yourself to be the best is unsustainable. Simply push yourself to be better than the day before.

Susan Jeffers

So commit! Commit yourself to pushing through the fear and becoming more than you are at the present moment. The you that could be is absolutely colossal.

Sherilyn Fenn

They're pushing me to do Howard. Howard's a trip. My friend made me watch the Lesbian Love Connection and I was like, Oh God, get me out of here!

Odette Annable

I love all sorts of music. I'm really into Damian Rice and Amos Lee.

Jon Gruden

It's done with. We need Simeon Rice back.

Rose Fong

We are the new Rice Bowl, second generation.

Brent Sutter

I think what everyone underestimated about us was our skill level.

Will Ferrell

Everyone I know who skis is dead.

Robert Duncan McNeill

I directed an early episode of 'Supernatural' the first season called 'Skin.'

Roger Ascham

To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill.

Sarah Wayne Callies

Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick - it seems like a decent skill to have.

William Congreve

There are come Critics so with Spleen diseased, They scarcely come inclining to be pleased: And sure he must have more than mortal Skill, Who please one against his Will.

Sandra Cisneros

I am obsessed with becoming a woman comfortable in her skin.

Mitchel Goldman

If you want anything more than that, you'll need to come to us for more than a skin cream,

Mila Kunis

If you imagine whipping your skin every day, that's what it does and it's a full prosthetic piece.

Alex Villalobos

I think that if we play our style and do what we have to do and make them play our game, we'll be OK.

Ronnie Brewer

We've got to play our style of basketball. (Being physical) is not our style of basketball.

Richard Whately

Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.

Toyo Ito

I will never fix my architectural style and never be satisfied with my works.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning also.

Vinnie Vincent

I agree with you about the music of today. It lacks style and emotion.

Robert Pattinson

I am a big fan of music and clothing style of the 1960s. Whether in England or the United States, I like everything from that time.

Voltaire

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

William Strunk, Jr.

To acquire style, begin by affecting none.

Van Jones

A green jobs bill would include both job creation and job training.

Kristanna Loken

I worked with a mime coach. I did weapons training. I did weight training.

Kerry Bishe

I was a mime. Im not kidding. I went to Northwestern University and they have a mime company, so we did a lot of training and then a lot of mime shows around Chicago.

Kerri Walsh

I'm doing mental training as well. So, you know, body, mind, and spirit - everything is being addressed, every single day. Generally I'll have three training sessions a day.

Marvin Hamlisch

I never took any vocal training

Mark Twain

There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.

Marguerite Yourcenar

The landscape of my days appears to be composed, like mountainous regions, of varied materials heaped up pell-mell. There I see my nature, itself composite, made up of equal parts of instinct and training. Here and there protrude the granite peaks of the inevitable, but all about is rubble from the landslips of chance.

Miyamoto Musashi

The Way is in training... Do nothing which is not of value.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I don't have any training in dance. I can convince an audience that I know how to dance because I'm a convincing actor.