Famous Quotes & Sayings

Twyla Tharp

My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the world.'

Twyla Tharp

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Custard is controversial: what makes it a custard, how best to cook it and, crucially, is it to be eaten or put in a pie and thrown?

Yani Tseng

It's very easy when you have someone in front of you that you can chase. You want to be No. 1 but now I feel like I have to play well because everybody looks at you as a best golfer. So that's why I put more pressure on myself.

Thucydides

We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.

Timothy Noah

There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.

Thomas Friedman

I can see a day soon where you'll create your own college degree by taking the best online courses from the best professors from around the world - some computing from Stanford, some entrepreneurship from Wharton, some ethics from Brandeis, some literature from Edinburgh - paying only the nominal fee for the certificates of completion.

Idina Menzel

I used to take 40 minutes to warm up before going on stage. If you want to spend time with your child as well as having a career, you have to get up there even if your head's a mess. It's made me more relaxed, and I'm having some of my best shows.

Idina Menzel

I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'

Ivar Giaever

When I was 28 years old, I found myself in Schenectady, New York, where I discovered that it was possible for some people to make a good living as physicists.

Ismail Kadare

I work only in the morning from 10 to noon. I still write by hand. I interrupt my writing when I feel that I've discovered something beautiful or, on the contrary, when I feel discontent.

Abraham Lincoln

Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

Chris Crutcher

'Deadline' is the story of a young man forced to discover who he is, and what's important in life, during the short span of his senior year in high school.

Dave Brubeck

When you start out with goals - mine were to play polytonally and polyrhythmically - you never exhaust that. I started doing that in the 1940s. It's still a challenge to discover what can be done with just those two elements.

Natalie Massenet

As much as I love to shop online, I also love walking the streets on a beautiful day and seeing what finds I can discover in a small shop or vintage store.

Felicity Kendal

I think in the acting world you either manage that transition to older roles, or you stick with what you've always done and then discover nobody can bear you doing it as an older person.

Carl Sagan

In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that in some fields-mathematics, physics, some others-the great discoveries are almost entirely made by youngsters.

Carl Sagan

We have entered, almost without noticing, an age of exploration and discovery unparalleled since the Renaissance.

Antoine Fuqua

What I learned is, don't forget who you are, because that's what's going to make you a filmmaker.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend.

Kevin Constantine

We had our chances, they just didn't go in. It was a game between two competitive teams in a heck of a hockey series. We would have loved to have found a way to end it tonight, but we'll just have to forget it and be ready to play our next game.

Phil Horvath

Today was great, but let's not forget ? we're a running team. This was an unusual situation. We were going to take what they were giving us.

Holger Schmieding

Merkel is chancellor, and she is reform-minded; we shouldn't forget that.

Kelly Campbell

You kind of go back and you kind of forget the details, or you might think that there's something else that triggered the behavior.

Dakota Fanning

You just forget it's there, ... Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story.

Clint Burgess

Winning the state championship was a wonderful experience. We had a lot of great players and we had an undefeated season. I don't want to forget that, but it's time to move on.

Mayor Sabilia

We can't forget the basics. He's our employee.

John Entwistle

We were gradually playing larger venues and in the early days PA systems were kind of non-existent. So to play loud, we had to use louder equipment. The PA systems back then didn't mic the instruments - only the vocals.

David Murray

Where we spray it works. We are gradually tightening the noose.

John Russell

We haven't been able to stretch him out, so we're trying to gradually increase him.

Mark Cliffe

I think most of the staffing implications have already been taken on board. It has been happening gradually over a period of time.

Lindsay Bowen

We're getting better, for sure. It's just going to keep gradually coming. We have a lot of talent, a lot of potential. It's just a matter of putting it all together to get to that higher level.

Lillian Gordy Carter

Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Alice Sebold

I'm gradually working through my obsessions, and maybe, when they're all free and clear, I'll write a comedy. But I'm not there yet.

Al Madrigal

I don't really move onstage; all I do is just gradually hunch more and more and jut out at the people in the front row.

Steve Dunn

We are gradually showing people the value of our technology, but it is a tough market.

Ramana Maharshi

Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.

Kurt Knauff

That was the greatest thing she ever did.

Shimon Samuels

That was the greatest disappointment for a man who had invested his whole life in this.

Brian McCann

That won't sink in for a while. He's one of the greatest pitchers of all time.

Ralph Regula

You are embarking on the greatest marathon of your career,

John Warden

With the greatest respect for your Honor, that isn't enough time for us.

David Hudson

will be remembered as the patron of some of Mercer's greatest years.

Sidney Crosby

Who better to mould him than the greatest player ever.

John Capel

Justin Gatlin's on his way to being the greatest ever.

Benjamin Rush

A belief in God's universal love to all his creatures, and that he will finally restore all of them that are miserable to happiness, is a polar truth. . . It establishes the equality of [humanity]. . .

Anthony Storr

With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.

Antoine Rivarol

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

Bertrand Russell

Human life, its growth, its hopes, fears, loves, et cetera, are the result of accidents

Vanna Bonta

Poets can't worry about popularity since loving humanity involves saying what some people don't want to hear.

Sathya Baba

My task is the spiritual regeneration of Humanity through Truth and Love.

Aaron Brown

I have been incredibly impressed by the humanity of the coverage.

Atharva Veda

Humanity is in spiritual ignorance; people see things that do not exist.

Charlie Skelton

He was very, very talented. In the beginning, he is a little obnoxious, but he learns humanity near the end.

Chino Moreno

I always enjoy rhythms and melodies, but I always use my voice as more of an instrument and less of a soapbox for me to say or to preach.

Clyde Tombaugh

You wonder about it and wonder how will I make an instrument that can handle this kind of a problem.

David Norman

Just about anything that could be wrong with the instrument is probably wrong.

Enrique Pena Nieto

Politics is an instrument that can transform society.

Jason Falkner

I love building a song up from nothing and jumping from one instrument to another.

Jerry Hunt

I taught myself to play the piano. I've always been able to play, the minute I could get my hands up. I've always wanted to play the piano. It's the only instrument I've ever really liked, and it's the only one that's ever interested me.

Mark Rechtin

He could pretty much pick up a musical instrument and play.

Jesse L. Martin

We want to start a 'Flash' band. Everyone can play an instrument and sing.

K'naan

It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know.

Nile Rodgers

I'm always swimming forward like a shark. You just keep going and you don't rest. I love waking up knowing that I have a problem to solve.

Carrie Underwood

I'm a private person, and I don't want people knowing what kind of underwear I like. It's creepy!

Carl Sagan

We are a way of the universe knowing itself.

Beth Riesgraf

I would say, being a parent is what makes me vulnerable. Loving someone so much it scares you. Knowing you'd do anything for them and then realizing there will come a time when you have to loosen the reins and let them figure it out on their own, and then trusting that you/they are making the right decisions.

Benjamin Rush

The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.

Chris Chambers

That was with no promotion, without people knowing that the show was there.

Claude Julien

That was uncharacteristic of him. For me, it's about him knowing we've turned the page on that and that we just want him to use his skills.

Charli Turner

We have the mentality and we understand the expectations that have been set. Knowing you can do it and actually doing it are two different things, but for now, I know we can repeat from last year.

Michael Mills

Members and VIPs don't have timed slots. We have no way of knowing when those people will show up.

Bobby Bowden

I think our schedule is now so tough, and with a playoff game, I ain't going to look out for no Ohio State. You want to get somebody to come to your school and play, like some of our neighbors maybe.

Tony Diggs

You all are the key. They trust their neighbors and their child's teachers more than any of the rest of us sitting up here.

Frank Pasquarello

We evacuated neighbors for safety precautions for threats he was making.

Robert Rhodes

Go back to your neighbors and talk to them as quickly as you can.

Chris Browning

we feel it is very important to reach out and do what we can for our neighbors who have not been similarly blessed.

John Galloway

We're having just a wee get-together with neighbors.

Marco Rubio

My neighbors aren't millionaires. They're retirees who depend on Social Security and Medicare.

Michael W. Smith

Our neighbors respect our privacy, but they are always supportive and helpful.

Chris Fox

But we feel the safety of the neighbors to the pipe is more important.

Bill Uttley

This won't resemble anything that is in Hilliard now.

Jason Aldean

The only person that anybody's ever said I resemble is a young Elvis. It used to happen a lot more when I was younger, and more when I don't wear a hat.

Tiffany Moulton

Everything you'd find in a floral arrangement, we have something to resemble it in fruit.

Coco Chanel

I am no longer what I was. I will remain what I have become.

David Fink

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Shirley MacLaine

If I could know me, I could know the universe.

Carl Sagan

We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world.

Bill Buford

The most important knowledge is understanding what you can't do.

Rick Wakeman

I always say that it's about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place.

Emma Stone

I was very lucky with the parents I was blessed with. I don't think it could have worked out any better. They've always been so understanding of me and understanding of what I want to do.

David Blunkett

My sense is that there is a new understanding, yes.

Gene Orza

My understanding is that Pedro, very frankly, is doubtful.

Crystal Chappell

My understanding is that Olivia had no idea what was going on.

Ray Nelson

My understanding is that he didn't have a weapon when he was arrested,

John Sweeney

I have a very understanding wife, and she understands this is part of the job.