Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cameron Diaz

I think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for. And I've worked very hard in the last ten years of my life, definitely, and I can tell you that hard work pays off. It's not just a cliche.

Al Franken

Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you'll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor. Medicare was established to secure that promise.

James Woods

Achieving success as an actor has not been easy for me. My biggest, probably most irrational complaint has been that I've had to work harder for what I've gotten. I've seen other people with nepotism or wealth or cheesy good looks on their side who've had.

Diane Cilento

I was a hard worker, and I always knew my lines.

Diane Ackerman

I think that very often younger writers don't appreciate how much hard work is involved in writing. The part of writing that's magic is the thinnest rind on the world of creation. Most of a writer's life is just work. It happens to be a kind of work that the writer finds fulfilling in the same way that a watchmaker can happily spend countless hours fiddling over the tiny cogs and bits of wire. ... I think the people who end up being writers are people who don't get bored doing that kind of tight focus in small areas.

Dan Totheroh

Hard work. Well, that=s all right for people who don=t know how to do anything else. It=s all right for people who aren=t lucky. But once you==re lucky, you don=t have to work for other people. You make them work for you.

Dan Uggla

If you live your life the right way, you work hard, you go about things the right way, eventually something good's going to come of it.

Bret Michaels

As far back as I can remember, I am one of those guys that works hard and plays harder. I have to have both.

Bobby Knight

We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.

John Grammer

As coaches, we tell the players to make plays and that's what they did. We made some big plays to win at the end, especially Derek Carver.

Jessica Valenti

As a kid, I wasn't sure that I would ever get married - I was not the kind of little girl who played at being a bride.

Bob Ladouceur

The team we saw on film was not the team we played out there tonight.

Willie Randolph

The team's been playing well and we'll just start another streak tomorrow.

Don Baylor

I've always viewed it like this: If you take that player away from the team, where does it finish?

Donna Cowing

I've always played for him. I think about him every day.

Johnny Marr

I've almost never played the 'Smiths' records, once they've gone out. I was always like that and probably always will be.

Sydnee Wyss

I've always been the smallest player on my team. I'm just used to it. I don't think about it anymore.

Shane Warne

The one thing I'll remember from this series is the way it's been played and the spirit it's been played in.

Arthur Conan Doyle

So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson in the other chair which he has so often adorned. - Sherlock Holmes.

Barbara Mandrell

That's what I loved about show business, no two days were alike. It's an exciting life.

Barbara Mikulski

Look how Bill Cohen and George Mitchell worked together. It's the stuff of legends. And now it's the stuff of almost ancient history, regrettably, but the way those two really worked together.

Arthur Koestler

Two half truths do not make a truth.

Ayn Rand

There are two side to every issue.

Bertrand Russell

It is likely that America will be more important during the next century or two, but after that it may well be the turn of China.

Benjamin Disraeli

Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.

Brian Bosworth

People never understood that there was Brian and The Boz. They were two completely different people.

Jane Elliott

White people’s number one freedom, in the United States of America, is the freedom to be totally ignorant of those who are other than white. We don’t have to learn about those who are other than white. And our number two freedom is the freedom to deny that we’re ignorant.