Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.

Gregory Mankiw

would throw sand into the gears of human progress.

Charlie Sheen

I have one speed, I have one gear: go!

Anthony Rizzo

I have to go with the approach I had in Triple-A. I need to take a lot of those fastballs I am seeing to left field. Also must gear up for the changeup and take them up the middle.

Eric Maskin

I like to work on a number of things simultaneously. If you're working on a variety of projects and if you get stuck on one of them, you can move to another without grinding your gears indefinitely.

Dweezil Zappa

Modern records are all made with virtually identical gear, software plug-ins and everything. Everybody wants everything to sound like the last thing that was popular because they're chasing their tails.

Annie Dillard

Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.

Robert Frost

We disparage reason. But all the time it's what we're most concerned with. There's will as motor and there's will as brakes. Reason is, I suppose, the steering gear.

Ridley Scott

That's part of the policy: To keep switching gears.

Brooke Correia

New memberships in the month of January are at their highest number. The whole industry gears up for it.

Tom Brady

I think it was great fortune that night. I'm glad the referees got the play right,

William J. Clinton

What you earn depends on what you learn.

Walt Whitman

I do not seek good fortune - I am good fortune!

William Graham Sumner

The aggregation of large fortunes is not at all a thing to be regretted.

Winifred Holtby

If we haven't a grouch against Fortune, we seem unable to avoid one against ourselves.

Robert Buchanan

Clearly, Wal-Mart's fortunes over the next 12 to 18 months hinge on the quality of the job that Eduardo Castro- Wright does. He is the man on the hot seat.

Henry David Thoreau

Wealth can't buy heath, but heath can buy wealth.

Frank Darabont

It's been a great run of good fortune for me as a writer.

Arthur Helps

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.