Famous Quotes & Sayings

Xavi

It will be difficult to finish my career here. I don't know if I am going to end it at Barcelona, although I would like to. I don't know what is going to happen.

Twyla Tharp

'The Creative Habit' is basically about how you work alone, how you survive as a solitary artist. 'The Collaborative Habit' is obviously about surviving with other people.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they are all alike in that they will one day die.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

One must know the so-called 'lesson of a downpour.' A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road not to get wet or drenched. Once one takes it for granted that in rain he naturally gets wet, he can be in a tranquil frame of mind even when soaked to the skin. This lesson applies to everything.

Yahya Jammeh

My fate is in the hands of almighty Allah.

Yahya Jammeh

My fate is in the hands of almighty Allah. I will deliver to the Gambian people and if I have to rule this country for one billion years, I will, if Allah says so.

Yael Naim

My first album was full of ideas and attempts to go in all kinds of directions. I was young. I loved making music, but I didn't have a clear path. I also lacked in confidence.

Yael Grobglas

Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.

Yanis Varoufakis

In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.

Emma Watson

I always have several books on the go at any one moment, so it's no good you asking 'What's on the bedside table at the moment, Emma?' because often I can't even see the table!

Mike Mahoney

The pay is not comparable to what we're asking people to do,

Brittany Curran

When I was seven, I gave a letter to Cinderella in Disney World asking if I could be in a Disney movie. So, working for Disney was really a childhood dream come true.

Victoria Osteen

Sometimes God presents opportunities that look insignificant or rather ordinary. Perhaps you don't see how they fit into the big picture for your life. But if God is asking you to do something, He has a purpose for it.

Naomi Wolf

What we should notice is that studies show that fathers' presence in their children's lives has a marked effect on how well their kids do later in life, so why aren't we asking how we can better liberate men from the workplace to be home with their kids more often?

Carl Reiner

I'm an entertainer and I entertain people and they entertain me back by asking questions. And some of them I answer.

Chris Capossela

The 2007 release is the productivity breakthrough that customers have been asking for. Today, we're revealing new products in the Microsoft Office system and a number of new options that provide customers with flexibility in how they purchase our products. That's great news for businesses eager to provide their workers with the best productivity tools possible for information management and collaboration.

Matt Smith

The asking price didn't mean anything. ... You can only get brushed off so many times. We stopped writing offers.

David Radford

The asking part of the prom date is going to be trouble.

Ian Mckellen

Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth.

Isaac Brock

Portland hardly got to have an identity before that identity became a joke - I live in a joke. Seattle at least got to wear out its identity before it became a joke.

Garry Hynes

I was born in Ballaghadreen, but I grew up in Galway, and when I went to the University College of Galway, I became involved in the drama society there and started directing plays.

George Allen

Election Day 2010 saw the culmination of years of aggravation and resentment toward a federal government that became disconnected and disdainful of the values and priorities of Americans.

Donald Trump

I was a Democrat for a period of time early on. And then I was also an independent. And then I became a Republican.

Vivek Wadhwa

After my health suffered due to the stress of running my second company, I had to switch careers. But I still didn't want to go back to the corporate world. So I became an academic.

Vivek Wadhwa

When I became an entrepreneur, I had the knowledge to develop and manage budgets, market products and review legal contracts.

Billy Graham

God never meant that people were to wear clothes. He meant we were to be nude. But we were in a state of innocence. Then sin came into the human race and became a blood poisoning.

Wynton Marsalis

I became a man in New York. New York made me the musician that I am and the person that I am, so it's impossible for me to say I regret having lived there.

Yanni

Actually, with 'Truth of Touch' I wasn't even intending on making an album. I was just having fun. I had about a six-month period of down time, and I'm not very good at sitting around. So I kind of started going into the studio and having fun with new core mendin sounds.

Des Browne

Before they deploy, they train for the specific operations, but there is a danger that the Army is not retaining the core of its full capabilities.

Patrick Fearon

The 1.9 percent December year-over-year rise in the core personal consumption expenditure index reflects a stable and modest inflation rate. That would support the idea that the Fed can stop raising rates soon.

Joe Lieberman

We have the largest economy and the strongest military in the world. Our core values of freedom and opportunity are ascendant around the globe.

Ashley Davis

We were short-dollar as our core view is that the Fed ended its tightening cycle on Jan. 31.

Frank Halish

We have a large core of returning players who have played together for a number of years. That's good. It makes things a little easier.

Dan Medina

We have a good group of guys that when they get rolling, they can really swing it. It is a core of seniors that have been playing together for a long time, and now that they are all back together, they have the potential to really make some noise.

Dennis Scott

We have a lot of our core runners back, so that was very helpful. We're a lot deeper than we have been as far as second-place finishes and third-place finishes.

Misty May-Treanor

I used to spend a couple of hours in the weight room, but really, an hour is long enough. I lift twice a week and on other days incorporate more core yoga and different exercises. It's important to listen to your body. I will shut it down if I'm tired.

Gore Vidal

Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.

Nancy Keenan

The American public deserves answers. Her record is so thin we don't know anything about her.

Steve Downie

That was huge by Dawson. He stepped up for this team. He deserves it because he works so hard for us.

Bill Sexton

Tyler's record speaks for itself. He now has 110 wins and stands in third place on our all-time list. He's a good, hard worker and really deserves this.

Craig Kelly

You are innocent until proven guilty. And I think Ernie deserves the same consideration regardless of whether he's a politician or a janitor in the street.

Christian Fauria

You just feel better when he's out there. He never really misses practices. He's never out of position. He's a force to be reckoned with. ... I think he deserves everything he gets.

Glenn Howard

I'm so happy for Russ. He deserves it.

Scott Macartney

I'm so excited for him. I'm his room-mate here. He deserves it, he skied great today.

Landon Donovan

I'm stunned, impressed and extremely happy for him. He deserves his reward.

Vikas Swarup

All I can say is that I am not one of those writers who want 100% of their book in the film. I recognize that film is a different medium and the filmmaker must have the right to bring some new elements to the table, provided the soul of the book is preserved.

Paul Johnson

When people talk about political correctness, the only element of any value is good manners.

David Walton

Hockey on roller skates is like MMA in a bounce house: the elements are there, but the medium makes the whole thing ridiculous.

Carl Rogers

It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens.

Ken Conway

We have always raised our levels of preparedness when hosting teams with elements of disappointing spectators, but in the Bulldogs case, history proves the problems are Sydney based.

Raven-Symone

I went to public school, elementary through high school. I went to homecoming, to football games, pep rallies, I got detention, I got an F. I've done it all.

Patricia Polacco

I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.

Rick Rubin

There's just a natural human element to a great song that feels immediately satisfying. I like the song to create a mood.

Andrew McPherson

We were hoping at one point to sell the (old) elementary school and use that money, but that's a contentious issue now.

William Shatner

I find the whole time travel question very unsettling if you take it to its logical extension. I think it might eventually be possible, but then what happens?

Chuck Palahniuk

Every author has to eventually write a food book.

Yayoi Kusama

You should create a work that is so valuable it might eventually sell at a high price, but you've got to concentrate on how you create that artwork.

Clint Eastwood

As much as I love the Western genre, I figured if I kept doing those, I'd eventually run out of steam on that, and that would've been the end of it.

Natalie Massenet

What seems like a crazy idea today eventually grows. It's a 'with hindsight' thing. One day, someone will turn around and say, 'That was genius.'

Sebastian Stan

I was born in Romania and later lived in Vienna, Austria, for a few years, and I eventually made my way over to New York in '95.

Rick Rubin

At 15, I started listening to hard rock and heavy metal, but I would say it was more hard rock because I liked Kiss, Aerosmith, Ted Nugent, and eventually AC/DC.

Brett Mackey

We have the firepower to do that. A lot of it is as long as the kids stay patient and keep executing, eventually it's going to go.

DeShawn Stevenson

We're way more talented than our record. After the trades we made, you can see that in the long term we're going to be a good team down the line. We've got a lot of young guys who are 23, 24 and even 20 years old, and we're eventually going to be a playoff team even though we're struggling now.

Reed Hastings

It turns out that all Netflix streaming peak on Saturday night can fit inside a single fiber optic, which is the size of one human hair.

Benjamin Graham

It must be fundamentally wrong to reduce production of food and fiber while one-third of our population is still ill fed and ill clothed.

Billy Porter

You can't ever put yourself in a position where someone is requiring you to inhabit somebody else's energy. You have to own your thing, or own it with very fiber of your being.

Tom Connor

Our team is neat. They're the fiber of a lot of people in the United States. They're the little guy who got knocked down and kept getting up again.

David Hill

I will fight this with every fiber of my being.

Albert Schweitzer

Nature compels us to recognize the fact of mutual dependence, each life necessarily helping the other lives who are linked to it. In the very fibers of our being, we bear within ourselves the fact of the solidarity of life.

Jackie Lang

Fiber utilization is important, we use every part of the tree and don't waste anything.

Dale Dutt

Fiber is important, as long as you keep it down.

Bill Price

The optical fiber unit is still for sale. We're still working with multiple bidders.

Arsenio Hall

You never get rid of something that has a positive foundation.

Matt Lucas

We were friends for four years before we started writing together, so that is the foundation on which our partnership is built.

Adam Ereli

We've made significant progress in funding projects throughout the region. We will be using MEPI money to fund our contribution ... to these two funds, the Foundation for the Future and the Fund for the Future.

Adam Ereli

We've made significant progress in funding projects throughout the region, ... We will be using MEPI money to fund our contribution ... to these two funds, the Foundation for the Future and the Fund for the Future.

Erskine Bowles

will lay a strong foundation for further action.

Azzedine Alaia

The foundation of beauty is the body.

Rocky Hager

We have a very good offensive line returning. That will be the foundation for how things are constructed offensively.

Steve Koonin

We have not been able to leverage our foundation at TBS,

Alonzo Church

I was generally interested in things of a fundamental nature. As an undergraduate I even published a minor paper about the Lorentz transformation, the foundation of (special) relativity theory.

Gore Vidal

I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.

Cybill Shepherd

Gore Vidal has been a friend of mine for years, and he's one of the greatest writers in American history.

Teller

If you read Shakespeare's stage directions, all the gore and violence is right in there.

Jeffrey Toobin

There were times when David Souter thought of Bush v. Gore and wept,

Zach Johnson

I don't know if I have a brand. I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf. I guess I'm kind of the feel-good story who's seen every level of professional golf.

Warren Zevon

So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on.

Whitney Cummings

After school, I'd wait for someone to pick me up and no one would, so I'd be like, 'I guess I'll walk home.' I had to be a hustler, because nobody did anything for me.

Connie Mack

I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself.

Chris Bohjalian

I loved all ghost stories. So I guess it was only a matter of time before I wrote one.

Brian De Palma

I guess what's most surprised me in most of the reviews is that they don't seem to get the noir story in the dream sequence, so they analyze it like a straight noir movie.

David Cone

I guess it kind of stemmed from my father. He was a union guy working for the meat plant down in Kansas City. He was a union guy, and I guess it was just in my blood.

Vidya Balan

I remember someone telling me that when he saw the back of a woman's head, he knew that was the woman he was going marry. I laughed that away as silly talk. But I guess when a relationship has to happen, it happens seamlessly. Your partner just walks into your life.

Clint Eastwood

I guess I'm living in the present more than the past.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

When I started to play football, when I was around 15, 16, I remember the players that played on the national team and noticed that it was only typically Swedish guys.

Darell Hammond

The national nonprofit I founded, 'KaBOOM!,' is on a mission to save play for America's children, and has long been championing the cause in high-need communities.

Francois Arnaud

I started studying theater in school, and then I got into drama school at, like, 19, and it was a national drama school in Montreal, and so it was just you and nine other students for three years, and it was really intense.

Jalal Talabani

We have the right to be proud in saying that today was a day of national consensus, ... So congratulations to our people for their constitution.

Maurice Ager

Winning a national championship. You really can't top that. ... I feel like I'll be kind of underachieving within myself if I don't win a championship before I leave.

Rod Wright

We made a pact that we were going to win a national championship. Now, we need to get it done.

Zell Miller

John Kerry, who says he doesn't like outsourcing, wants to outsource our national security.

Alfonso Scanio

The problem of railway safety has by now become a national emergency.

Rod Smith

Those are tragedies that have to be addressed on a national level.

Matthew Felling

That was really a retelling of an old tale at that point, and that's not what most people turn to news networks for.

Doug Gay

It hasn't really surfaced in official networks but that is something we have heard,

E. Hicks

It does make people more vulnerable. The wires aren't there to be seen. ... Wireless networks are much less secure.

Kara Swisher

Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.

Ralph Nader

should be stripped of their non-profit status, and television networks who work with them should realize they are working with a political organization, not an educational organization.

Mark E. Smith

Seventy-five percent of our networks are storage related.

Andrew Heyward

Each of the networks is in a period of transition. It is extraordinary.

Shari Brill

They need Thursday to be their strong night, ... Thursday was such a strong night for them so long that they used to get by without winning any other night of the week. The other networks used to roll over.

Stuart Levey

Identifying and designating supporters of WMD proliferation disrupts the networks that are vital to illicit weapons programs.

Alan J. Heeger

In spite of the evidence for the disorder-induced M-I transition as inferred from the transport and optical measurements, the metallic state of conjugated polymers has been a subject of controversy.

Jenna Marbles

There’s no cure for ugly, but you can make yourself into a human optical illusion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

Jan Caldwell

We have the same questions about that as well.

Julie Martineau

We will screen questions for relevancy for the position.

Craig Harris

Most of the questions were about the stage of development we are in.

Vanderlei Luxemburgo

We can't be talking about changes. There are questions to which I say 'next question' and this is one of them.

Mike McCurry

Those who are undecided are still seeking some of those fundamental questions answered. Who you are, what your values are, is something these voters really look to." ()

Colin Falls

I don't think it's mental, I just think that questions our toughness.

George Daley

I would say they also raise more questions than answers.

Sonny Jackson

He was in there long enough to raise questions.

Larry Sabato

He is very sharp. No one has any questions that he is well-qualified.

Ivar Giaever

Science is to find something unknown, while invention is to make something new out of the known theory.

Ivar Giaever

'Incontrovertible' is not a scientific word. Nothing is incontrovertible in science.

David Hanson

I was always into science fiction as a kid. I loved science and tinkering with things.

William Gibson

Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes.

Carl Sagan

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Its goal is to find out how the world works, to seek what regularities there may be, to penetrate to the connections of things-from subatomic particles, which may be the constituents of all matter, to living organisms, the human social community, and thence to the cosmos as a whole.

Carl Sagan

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

Carl Sagan

When a honeybee dies it releases a death pheromone, a characteristic odour that signals the survivors to remove it from the hive. The corpse is promptly pushed and tugged out of the hive. The death pheromone is oleic acid. What happens if a live bee is dabbed with a drop of oleic acid? Then no matter how strapping and vigourous it might be, it is carried kicking and screaming out of the hive.

Carl Sagan

The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown'.

Carl Sagan

I'd like the [Cosmos] series to be so visually stimulating that somebody who isn't even interested in the concepts will just watch for the effects. And I'd like people who are prepared to do some thinking to be really stimulated.

Igor Ivanov

We have turned the corner, ... any deviations or surprises.

Norv Turner

We had opportunities. There were little things that turned into big things.

Heath Sager

I think so. I thought we were much better than an 0-3 team. Now we've kind of turned the corner.

Mainbocher

To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.

Sheldon Danziger

I was surprised. I thought things would have turned around by now.

Dudley Etheridge

He kind of turned it around for us.

Tom Lochner

Has it turned the world upside down? Probably not.

Madeline Albright

He has to be turned over. We want to see him in The Hague,

Huston Street

Ginter and Elly, they turned it so quick. Off the bat, I thought they had no chance. That right there is the game. It's another run.