Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zac Efron

I know I've been lucky. But it's what you do with that luck afterwards that really defines whether you stick around.

William Hull

In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards the aid of General Washington, that Captain Hale had been arrested within the British lines condemned as a spy, and executed that morning.

will.i.am

I will not start an initiative until I've spent my own money. Because if I spend my own money, people who want to get on board afterwards know that I am serious about it.

Baltasar Gracian

The pillow is a silent Sibyl, and it is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards

Thomas Malthus

Wherever there is liberty, the power of increase is exerted, and the superabundant effects are repressed afterwards by want of room and nourishment.

I was very lucky. I made a big mistake on the upper part of the course so I tried to find more speed afterwards but unfortunately, I was too fast.

Sally Potter

I was struck by the large number of men who came up afterwards to grill me on what I knew about Islam. But they were very respectful and serious.

I make shields that are reminiscent of what the Indians used in warfare. They could actually protect a person before guns came along, but afterwards it didn't do any good.

I have informed all the players not picked that they are still in with a chance for the World Cup. The Confederations Cup is an important milestone, but afterwards there will still be much to do for the World Cup.

Claire Tomalin

If I'm in a state about a book, I'll get up at 6 A.M. and write before breakfast, but usually I'll start afterwards and then work a full day with a break for lunch.

Tom Renney

He said he felt a little tight. By the time I left the ice, I wasn't aware there was much of a problem. But certainly talking to (trainer) Jim Ramsey afterwards he felt very uncomfortable.

Marisa Tomei

He was in a troubled time of his life, and regular therapy wasn't working. So there was this spiritual psychiatrist that I took him to, and afterwards I said, 'Can I ask her? Can I talk to her?' So I said to her, 'Well, what do you think?' She said, 'Well, you know, he thinks he's an alien,'

Susan Egan

He was big and brown and furry and my hair was brown. He kind of tossed it into the wings so it looked particularly ridiculous. I'm sure afterwards he thought about a million things he could have done, but it's always like that, isn't it?

Kirk Pengilly

He didn't give me any tips to my face he might have said to a few people afterwards that I should quit. I'm nowhere near the quality of anyone on their show!

He kept his composure. He got us practicing a day or two afterwards because he knew we needed it. He wanted us to be together.

Henry Fielding

I have found it; I have discovered the cause of all the misfortunes which befell him. A public school, Joseph, was the cause of all the calamities which he afterwards suffered. Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

I feel good. We had to win these two games, and we were successful. I'm fired up for next week, and then afterwards the fun begins.

Bernard Cornwell

I did a TV series for the British History Channel a few years ago and for a few weeks afterwards I was accosted by folk in Britain wanting to talk, which was flattering, but the memory faded and blessed anonymity returned.

I found it too upsetting to walk through Chinatown afterwards in case there was any recognition. It is not often you have a West End star stolen.

Kid Nichols

The day after we had pitched a game, it was our duty to stand at the gate, and afterwards to count the tickets. I remember counting 30,000 tickets one day at the Polo Grounds in New York.

Laila Ali

Pregnancy isn't 'I can eat whatever I want,' because you have to remember you're going to be stuck with a lot of that weight afterwards that you need to try to get off.

Jimi Hendrix

Yes, it was raggedy. Yes, it had its problems. Yes, he did some things that he probably felt afterwards it wasn't a great idea to experiment onstage in front of a half-million people,

Alessandro Nesta

We were disappointed afterwards when we went into the dressing room but then we were more enthusiastic as Barcelona won't change anything in the second leg. They will attack as usual and leave space at the back.

The people in the village were really friendly to us. I didn't know what to expect. They speak Ewe. I would say yeah, okay, because I didn't understand what they were saying. One lady put her hand on my shoulder and said, 'you are supposed to respond like this'. Afterwards I was all excited because I was able to greet everyone. I felt like I was part of the village.

Wilhelm Ostwald

Soon afterwards I studied the inversion of sugar in the light of these considerations and immediately found that this classical reaction, too, was determined quantitatively by the same property of the acids, as was of course to be expected from the previous results.

Luise Rainer

Happiness lies in moments, and while you have it, you're not even aware; only afterwards do you know you were happy.

Jonathan Swift

When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore

I saw a Star Wars double-bill when Empire first opened. I was 4 and I was on vacation in Dublin with my family, ... I was amazed by the Star Destroyer 's entrance and Vader's intro with the stormtroopers seizing the Tantive IV . We went straight to the toy store afterwards and got a Vader and a stormtrooper. I remember gazing at the back of the card wanting all the figures. From that point I was hooked.

I sang my heart out, and afterwards I was like, if I don't get this, that's OK because I gave them everything I had.

Elsa Lanchester

I thought she was a Method Actress. Afterwards somebody informed me that she was merely a manic-depressive.

Stephen Graham

I was 10, and I played Jim Hawkins in 'Treasure Island' at school, and this great Liverpudlian actor called Andrew Schofield - he was Johnny Rotten in 'Sid And Nancy' - came to watch it, and he had a word with my mum and dad afterwards and told them I should have a go at the Everyman youth theatre. I've never looked back.

Koo Stark

I went to my wardrobe afterwards and realised I had nothing to wear. I phoned my doctor and said, I'm having a crisis: none of my clothes fit.

Henry Bates

It interested me much afterwards to find that these climbing trees do not form any particular family.