Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stella Young

People get all up in arms when I describe myself as a crip because what they hear is the word 'cripple,' and they hear a word you're not allowed to say anymore.

Nick Vandewalle

Defense has been the key for us throughout the playoffs. We were able to able to keep (MCC) in check, and that allowed me to use some reserves in the second half.

Chris Wilson

Dealing with young people, it's always a new experience. You never know if they're ready until they get out there. As long as they play with great effort, I'm happy. The injuries have allowed us to give some guys opportunities.

Chris Duhon

Compared to this, things like my new contract don't mean that much, ... There are bodies floating in the water. A lot of houses have been destroyed. When all of this is over in another week or so and people are allowed to go back home, what will they go back to? It's a tough situation to handle.

Graeme Cox

Companies are hamstrung under the way they are allowed to operate. You have to just do your own thing. There will be opportunities to bid for work and to get a slice of the pie.

Mark Shapiro

Coco and Grady have similar skills, and we're extremely excited about Grady's future. Coco profiles best as a center fielder, which allowed us to be opportunistic and get a whole lot of value for him, which, in the end, was too much to turn down.

Mark Walters

Coach drew up a couple of plays in the huddle that allowed me to create a little more space.

Steven Drucker

Developing the technology was quite a complex challenge. The automated camera control wasn't too tricky. The automatic connection that allowed people to connect to the games as they were played was more difficult. But the most difficult was video distribution. Eventually we realized that a distributed model with no centralized server was the best route.

E. P. Thompson

Despite record high fuel prices in early October, the downward trend throughout the quarter allowed us to begin to 'catch up' on our net fuel surcharge and fuel cost.

David Waters

As he put it, 'the biggest nightclub in central London'.

Renaldo Wynn

Definitely, no doubt about it, this was the biggest game. Not only did we keep ourselves in the thick of things, but it's a division game. It's in our home place, it's the Giants. What other way would we want to have it? To get a win the day before Christmas, go home, spend time with our families.

Sukbir Khanijoh

Competition is another biggest challenge for Thai Airways. We are seeing very, very tough competition. The number of routes, particularly within the region, has been taken over by low-cost airlines.

Joe Lin

Compared to the size of its economy and the fact that it is the biggest broadband market -- with 30 million subscribers and growing -- in the world, IPTV hasn't been able to make much of an impact in China yet. But in about two years China is expected to the biggest market in the world.

Peter Larson

Coach prepares us. He tells us what we have to hit. He knows what he's doing, and we all trust him. That's the biggest thing right there.

Stephen Barton

Coach Mac is the biggest leader that I've experienced in my lifetime.

Daniel Yergin

Depending on what we learn in the next few days this may be the biggest oil-supply shock since the 1970s. We are now in the days of reckoning.

Daniel Yergin

Depending on what we learn in the next few days, this may be the biggest oil-supply shock since the 1970s. We are now in the days of reckoning.

Graham Nelson

The single biggest is to stop the player from getting stuck and getting bored; always think like the player as well as the designer.

Asahi Shimbun

A difference in the level of eagerness decided the outcome.

Ned Riley

A demon in the market decided to punish us on the last session of the year.

John Carney

After a couple of attempts at making shorts, I decided to make a feature film with a friend, Tom Hall, whom I've worked with ever since.

Epiphanny Prince

After I scored 29 points in the first quarter, I didn't think much of it. After I had 58 points at the half, and especially after having in the 80s after the third quarter, I just decided to go for it.

Steve Gray

After great consideration, and hundreds of requests from non-members wanting to know how they could join, we decided to make the change. These are very exciting times for our members.

David Coulter

After five great years at this company, I've decided it's time for me to go on to something else,

Steven Pressley

After our team meeting we decided unanimously to seek a meeting with Mr Romanov to try to resolve the situation.

Steven Sinofsky

After more than 23 years working on a wide range of Microsoft products, I have decided to leave the company to seek new opportunities that build on these experiences.

Hiroshi Oshima

After discussing Honda's future F1 participation, we have decided that Honda should own 100 percent of the team.

Anika Noni Rose

I always dreamed of being a voice in a Disney movie, and even in those dreams, I never once dreamed of being a princess. I just wanted to be a voice.

Don Bowes

He skated with Disney on Ice for years.

Source Unknown

The values of the Walt Disney company: The four C s: Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, Consistency, and the greatest of these is Confidence.

Tony Kaye

I'd love to have done 'John Carter.' I'd love to work for the Disney Corporation.

Jane Walsh

Usually they wish for a trip to Disney World. We send the whole family for a whole week. All expenses paid, first-class, top-of-the-line. No worries that week about any financial problems, any medical visits or treatments. They just have a week to be a kid again.

Raini Rodriguez

'That's So Raven' was my favorite show growing up! I loved Raven so much! That show is what made me want to be on Disney Channel!

Phil Humber

I told my wife that since we have a little one on the way, maybe when he gets old enough, instead of just taking a vacation to the beach or Disney World or something like that, we go and do something that actually has an impact on other people. That would be neat for him to experience and for us to do as a family.

Peter Sis

If I would use anything from 'The Little Prince,' even some little quote, it's all copyrighted in France. Like Walt Disney in this country, it's a national treasure.

Greg Joswiak

We only told one network. You see that we have the top two shows on TV, as well as the top shows on the Disney Channel. We couldn't really start off with a better foot forward. This is just the beginning.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I used to think when I was in my teens I was very different from my father, but now I see that what we do is probably quite similar.

Ben Okri

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

Barbara Kingsolver

Once the rains abated, my father's garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper.

Barbara Kingsolver

Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as a form of holiday. In the Netherlands the first cutting coincides with Father's Day, on which restaurants may feature all-asparagus menus and hand out neckties decorated with asparagus spears.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

In view of the tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic it is refreshing to be reminded by Freethinkers that free thought and skepticism are robustly in the American tradition. After all the Founding Fathers began by omitting God from the American Constitution.

Ayelet Waldman

I was born in Israel, to Canadian parents. My father immigrated in 1948, part of a wave of young men and women who came as pioneers, to fight for a Jewish homeland. Their motive was in large part a reaction to the Holocaust, and their slogan was 'Never Again.'

Brad Meltzer

She wasn't tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.

Brad Pitt

With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you.

Jane Fonda

How would you like to have a father who keeps getting younger looking every year? Do you realize what that can do to a woman?

Erica Jong

I guess the thing that I'm most proud of is that I kept on writing poetry. I understand that poetry is sort of the source of everything I do. It's the source of my creativity.

Candace Cameron Bure

It was in the '80s, so I guess big hair and high bangs. And I had so many gummy bracelets! While we were doing 'Full House,' we were like, 'You know, in 10 years, we're going to look back on this and think this is horrible.' But everyone looked like that!

Jarvis Herring

We were down in the hole, and they were riding high a little bit. I guess they overlooked us.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

My guess is, over time, the young people and the women will find him, as well as his masters, unacceptable.

James Franco

I guess it is kind of a hard sell. But we didn't put the house on it.

Brandon Marshall

I guess it hurts a little more because this is my last game.

Roger Jones

I guess I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged.

Josh Rabe

I guess it didn't rain hard enough soon enough.

Rick Majerus

I guess I should've reached over as he was getting on the plane and said, 'Hey, you owe me $9.90 for the ham and eggs,'

Gary Sheffield

This is nothing to be talked about, to be honest with you. Turn the lights on and I'll be ready.

Ayelet Waldman

I'd written personal essays before, but never on this scale -- never so often and with such, er, honesty. (If by honesty I mean slashing my wrists and hemorrhaging all over the computer screen).

Ayn Rand

There must be only three supreme values which govern a person's life: Reason, Purpose, and Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of knowledge--Purpose, as his choice of the happiness which that tool must proceed to achieve--Self-esteem, as his inviolate certainty that his mind is competent to think and his person is worthy of happiness, which means: is worthy of living. These three values imply and require all of man's virtues, and all his virtues pertain to the relation of existence and consciousness: rationality, independence, integrity, honesty, justice, productiveness, pride.

Benjamin Bratt

I've always felt that acting is acting at the end of the day, so whether you're doing comedy or heavy drama or anything else in between, you always have to bring a semblance of honesty to it. It's all make believe.

Brenda Ueland

You can write anything you want to,--a six-act blank verse, symbolic tragedy or a vulgar short, short story. Just so that you write it with honesty and gusto, and do not try to make somebody believe that you are smarter than you are. What's the use? You can never be smarter than you are.

C. S. Lewis

It takes courage to live through suffering; and it takes honesty to observe it.

Cesar Chavez

When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are.

Al Yankovic

Didn't have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.

Charles Kennedy

Three simple words - freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for.

Gina Lollobrigida

I have experience seducing nephews.

Charles Dickens

Come, then," returned the nephew gaily. "What right have you to be dismal? What reason have you to be morose? You're rich enough.

Carey Mulligan

I never get recognised here in London, which I like. Once a year, someone comes up to me and asks if I am 'so-and-so's niece' because they think they recognise me from somewhere. I like that.

E. M. Forster

Riposte of "that old lady in the anecdote who was accused by her nieces of being illogical," Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?

E. M. Forster

Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that that was the proper way to behave if any little thing went wrong.

Stevie Nicks

I hope that my niece in 20 years is going to say to me, 'Aunt Stevie, what was with your hair?'

Reba McEntire

The biggest challenge in my life is getting all these kids raised. I've helped with nieces, stepchildren and my own son, so the biggest challenge is making sure the kids are raised and finding enough quality time with them.

Jonny Lee Miller

The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I have no idea what I will be doing next, and I kind of like that.

Clive Woodward

This is an outstanding team for the tour and will be a tremendous opportunity for some other players to step up to the mark,

Mustafa Shakur

This is an opportunity to be around pros and watch Steve going around the court, trying to pick up some things.

Alexa Posny

This is an opportunity that only comes once in a lifetime.

Kate Buckley

That opportunity made me realize I wanted to be a director,

Arthur Miller

The witch-hunt was a perverse manifestation of the panic which set in among all classes when the balance began to turn toward greater individual freedom. The witch-hunt was not, however, a mere repression. It was also, and as importantly, a long overdue opportunity for everyone so inclined to express publicly his guilt and sins, under the cover of accusations against the victims.

Brenda Strong

We are all being called to be more present than ever, while dealing with a more challenging array of personal and professional challenges, opportunities and all-around growth.

Brad Pitt

When you first get opportunities, suddenly you get surrounded by a lot of people who want to make money off you but also are there to help. But they start telling you so much what you need to be and what you need to do to maintain some idea of career maintenance.

Jane Fonda

I know how gratifying it is not only to work in film but to be acknowledged by peers; producing '9 to 5' was an opportunity that I valued precisely because it's so rarely in the hands of women.

Mike Byers

That picture was taken at 8:27 a.m., May 18, 1980.

Willie Smith

Everything you can think of, he was there taking people's pictures and he was just an outstanding person.

John Shirreffs

I don't put a lot of pressure on a race. It's the big picture that counts.

Rob Johnson

I didn't understand it at all. It's not like Joe. I couldn't picture him being down there.

Anna Jones

The only thing I think about this is that it's big. I saw a picture (in the newspaper) and I wanted to see it.

Fred Dooley

He did the right thing. So, I thought it was the right thing to do to take the pictures down.

Hanna Salonen

I really want to go out there and take pictures of what I find interesting and not like, these set-ups of life.

Jessie Boylan

I know you from somewhere. I've got pictures of you.

Craig Barlow

I've got to look at the big picture here,

Robert Richardson

Any organization of reasonable size is going to be attacked.

Frank Lautenberg

This is a reasonable standard we know will save lives.

I. Stone

You want a reasonable standard so you can receive and send help.

Benjamin Disraeli

There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.

Charles Darwin

We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.

Diana Wynne Jones

Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.

Brendon Burchard

Optimists are happier in life for a reason.

Aristotle

If something's bound to happen, it will happen.. Right time, right person, and for the best reason.

Nabil Sha'ath

We do not know what is the reason for this coma and when will he come out of it.

Bill Clarke

That's where we are now. You take what they give you in this offense. That what we saw and worked with it.

Carl Sandburg

The buffaloes are gone. And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.

Alan Vega

It was when I saw Iggy Pop, that's what did it for me. That changed my life pretty much.

Bob Dylan

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

Dennis Rodman

If I die young, everybody's going to say they saw it coming.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour.

Willie Smith

Every time I saw him, he had a smile on his face, and that put a smile on my face.

R. Ingram

We all saw what happened. I just took him out.

Buck Showalter

We didn't like what we saw from (Young). In warmups, he didn't look like we had it. His velocity was down, and it wasn't worth the risk.

Mitch Hedberg

I sick of "soup of the day" it's time we made a decision, i want to know what "soup from now on" is

Doris Wallace

You're just sick to your stomach, wondering who in the world can come, because everyone is busy; everyone who's touring already has dates.

Elizabeth Scott

There's no good way to die, you know? No way I've seen, anyway. It all ends with tubes and bedpans and IVs and I just-- smoking gets me out of there. Gets me outside, gets me away from all the--" "Sick people?" I say, and she shakes her head. "Away from my life.

Edward Abbey

Jack Kerouac, like a sick refrigerator, worked too hard at keeping cool and died on his mama's lap from alcohol and infantilism.

Andre Leon Talley

I'm so sick of mermaid dresses, trains, borrowed bling-bling, and a pose.

Anais Nin

I'm sick of my own romanticism!

Ann Aguirre

I'm not sick, Deuce. You don't know your own charm." My charm? I hadn't been aware I had any. It must be the dress, I thought.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.

Rupert Murdoch

I'm not ashamed of any of my papers at all and I'm rather sick of snobs that tell us that they're bad papers, snobs who only read papers that no one else wants. I doubt if they read many papers at all.

Rick Riordan

Sadie got up and kissed Amos on the forehead. “Leave it to us, Uncle. I’ve got a plan.” “That,” I said, “sounds like very bad news.

Norm MacDonald

Back in the old days, a man could just get sick and die. Now they have to wage a battle. So my Uncle Bert is waging a courageous battle, which I've seen, because I go and visit him. And this is the battle: he's lying in the hospital bed, with a thing in his arm, watching Matlock on the TV.

John Muir

Uncle Sam is not often called a fool in business matters, yet he has sold millions of acres of timber land at two dollars and a half an acre on which a single tree was worth more than a hundred dollars. But this priceless land has been patented, and nothing can be done now about the crazy bargain.... a bad, black business from beginning to end.

Theo Rossi

My uncle who helped in a big part of raising me from when I was young, had moved from California, and would just tell me these legendary stories of these motorcycle clubs that he was around and that he used to ride with.

Melissa Marr

I've read Reverend Kirk, in fact. My uncle's library has quite a few books of your people. I have read Mr. Lang's fairy tales as well. (Katherine Rae O'Flaherty) "Books are not the same as reality," Devlin stared at her. "My world is not always kind to mortals.

Max von Sydow

The offers I get are for grandfathers, uncles - and they often die very quickly in the script.

Mark Sanchez

As competitive as I am, I want to get the best of a play and make sure to use it's full potential even when things break down. But sometimes you need to just say 'uncle' and let it go and avoid a hit

Patricia Briggs

She sees ghosts,” said Samuel, impatient with my whining. I see dead people,” I deadpanned back. Oddly, it was Uncle Mike who laughed. I hadn’t thought he’d be a moviegoer.

Laura Lippman

My family is really, really Southern - I had two uncle Bubbas, and grandparents that we called Big Mama and Big Daddy.