Famous Quotes & Sayings

A. J. Foyt

I guess John Wayne would be one. I just respected the way he acted.

A. J. Foyt

I'm no where as tough as my father. I really think that I am more open to change than he was.

A. J. Foyt

My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong.

Ashley Jensen

I made some flippant remark about not wanting my son to grow up with an American accent, and the next thing I knew, there were people in America suggesting I head back to Britain if I was unhappy at such a prospect.

Amity Shlaes

Young parents in America are holy and not to be messed with. If they say something is correct, we all acquiesce. And is there any man, woman or canine who doesn't leap out of the way when one of those giant, all-terrain Bugaboo strollers comes barreling down the sidewalk?

Alvin Dark

In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that.

Andy Williams

We teach about how to drive in school, but not how to manage finances.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

What if lawmakers never spoke to their constituents? Oddly enough, that's exactly how corporate America operates. Shareholders vote for directors, but the directors rarely, if ever, communicate with them.

Art Blakey

Music washes away the dust of every day life.

Arthur Godfrey

He asked if I was a songwriter, and I said yeah, that I was in town because I'd won this contest. He said, okay, then he was gonna play me his hit, and started singing 'When it's time to relax, one beer stands clear... '

Abe Lemons

One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.

Abe Lemons

I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.

Abe Lemons

It was a hole in one contest and I had a three.

Abe Lemons

There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball in the basket.

Abe Lemons

You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'

Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

I believe America is the most powerful country in the world and is a country that stands on principle. Its principles are enshrined in its very foundation and constitution, and it has a duty to serve humanity. America has a duty to follow its conscience to reject repression. It must reject oppression. It must reject humiliation.

Ahmed Zewail

America was and still is able to make the necessary changes to maintain research institutions that are the envy of the world.

Adrian Cronauer

Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag.

Adlai Stevenson

In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes!

Aaron Sorkin

Our responsibility is to captivate you for however long we've asked for your attention. That said, there is tremendous drama to be gotten from the great, what you would say, heavy issues.

Aaron Sorkin

There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearinghouse for anything that goes on in the world. So you're not at all limited.

Afrika Bambaataa

There are certain things that they say you can't do, there are all these secret people behind the scenes who make things available for you to do. That's why you have so much crime and violence.

You are not, nor ever will be, better than anyone else besides the person you are now.

If you are only doing what you are getting paid for, and doing it no better than the average employee, then your pay is most likely right where it should be.

While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.

Be friendly to everyone. Those who deserve it the least need it the most.

Communication is about being effective, not always about being proper.

Value people on their potential, not on their history.

People who come from dysfunctional families are not destined for a dysfunctional life.

Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities a person would like to have.

Remember that it is not where you come from, or not even where you are; it is where you are going that matters most.

Most of us are consumed with our own thoughts and desires and are not always thinking about what other people may want. This is not necessarily being egocentric; it is just being human.

Untapped potential is the difference between where a person is now and where he or she can be.