Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francis Bacon

The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

Martin Brodeur

I've played enough in the NHL to know most of these guys. Most of the time I know their tendencies. I've been lucky. I've been fortunate to make some saves and help us win some games.

Jaycee Carroll

I've been very fortunate two years in a row. I couldn't be happier. ... The one thing I remember about last year's tournament, it was a little too short. I know everyone wants to come and compete.

Sean Connery

I've been very fortunate and have never had any real problems with people. But I've also had the guts to tell them, 'you're a bore'.

John Steinhilber

That's why we do conditioning. That helped us in the overtimes. It was an odd night, and we are fortunate to get a tough road win.

Herb Sendek

That's from a guy with a lot of experience. We were really fortunate he was able to come back. He was really ready to play tonight.

Al Bernstein

That's fortunate for the rest of us, because if it wasn't, Gil would have won it every year.

Erin Morgenstern

I go back and forth between input phases where I'm reading a lot or trying to get out and explore the world a bit and soak up inspirations and then I'll get back into output mode and write and write and write.

Marty Simmons

We were fortunate that we did knock it loose. We scored a lot from out defense. That's kind of been our trademark up to this point.

Steve Alexander

We've had nine people, but that's the max.

Charlie Warner

We had seven of nine players get a hit. I'll take that every time.

Kevin Heise

There's not much we can do about what has been done. But I'm going to be optimistic and say we'll be able to play nine or 10 games, at The Cage.

Albert Einstein

Ninety nine failed solutions equals a gain of 99 pieces of information.

Victor LaValle

I weighed 25 stone, and I didn't stand nine feet tall, so the weight didn't sit well on me. As big as a house? No. I was as big as an estate.

Ray Floyd

There are more bogeys in the last nine holes of the U.S. Open than in any other tournament in God's creation.

Ray Bradbury

You'd type like hell. I spent $9.80 and in nine days I had Fahrenheit 451.

Neil Gaiman

Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does ... Ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent.

Dave Clark

Nine times out of 10, he catches that ball,

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

Johnathon Schaech

People recognize me on the street for all kinds of different things that I've done. 'That Thing You Do' remains to be my favorite film in which I played my favorite character. That role is the one that I'm most recognized for.

Karlos Dansby

People really dont know or they really aint watching, ... Got to give them something to see.

Howard Dvorkin

People spend what's there. If it's not there, they're not going to spend it.

Kevin Spacey

People sometimes have to be reminded, I'm not Frank Underwood. I'm an actor named Kevin Spacey.

John Abraham

People talk about the money, but it had nothing to do with the money,

Dr. Seuss

Whats the point of fitting in, when we were meant to stand out?

Johnny Christ

If I ever wanted a gnome, I guess Id just stand out on my lawn for a while.

Brandon Marshall

I try to live by the principles the Bible speaks on.

Brandon Sanderson

Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.

Brad Paisley

I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?

Brad Feld

While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

Jane Jacobs

It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams.

Jane Hirshfield

Zen taught me how to pay attention, how to delve, how to question and enter, how to stay with -- or at least want to try to stay with -- whatever is going on.

Cameron Diaz

I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.

C. S. Lewis

You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.

Alan Dundes

In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.