Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lew Wasserman

Paul Newman's an old friend of ours out of Cleveland, Ohio. He used to sit around our house. He's the only man I've ever known to drink a case of beer all by himself. That's talent in a way.

When we know as much about people as hog specialists know about hogs, we'll be better off.

America had the message of freedom and democracy, but we haven't actually shown that to be what we do in the world. So I think that's a terrifying thing.

Les Baxter

I've been down there 6 times and there's nothing like Brazilian percussion.

Latrell Sprewell

I think it'll be an emotional day. It'll be exciting for me, mostly it'll be exciting for them. I'm not going to get to come here a lot, so, it'll be a special day, hopefully.

Latrell Sprewell

I know just one thing is those guys, KG and everyone, they're hungry. They want it bad. Sam's the only one that's had that, has the ring. Other than him, everybody else over there, we want it bad.

Latrell Sprewell

I'm still going to have to go out and score, but defensively hopefully I can make them a little bit better.

Latrell Sprewell

Sam is there, Sam has been playing well, he has been doing great in camp.

Latrell Sprewell

You guys know the way I play. And what's so ironic is, KG is the same way. I'm looking at him in practice and going, 'Wow, I'm always that guy,' you know?

Marianne Moore

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

Mark Spitz

If you fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail.

Mark Spitz

When I went to the Olympics, I had every intention of shaving the mustache off, but I realized I was getting so many comments about it - and everybody was talking about it - that I decided to keep it.

Mark Spitz

The memories of the Munich games for me are of triumph and tragedy.

Mark Spitz

All things being equal, if we could simulate the same scenario, he has a lot more difficult task. He's elected to swim six individual events, as opposed to what I elected to do, which was four.

Mark Rothko

This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale.

Mark Rothko

That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.

Merle Haggard

And then I have two children by Theresa, one boy 10 and one girl 13.

Merle Haggard

No, I had a back injury early on in my life.

Mia Love

This is the America we know because we built it.

Method Man

Yeah I'm telling real stories, but if you pick up a documentary on strippers, you're going to want to see some stripping, so we definitely got that in there.

Method Man

We just wanna see where we stand at right now with our fans.

Method Man

So to make those checks better, I used to steal lollipops and sell them at school - but I got caught.

Method Man

Now we just showin' and provin' that there's a ghetto everywhere you go.

Merle Shain

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Merle Shain

One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment.

Medgar Evers

Our only hope is to control the vote.

Nina Totenberg

I didn't know how much I cared about having a woman on the court until the day there was a woman on the court.

Nina Totenberg

Well no administration ever wants an independent overseer, and there are very good career people who are in charge of this investigation, but it could get hairy.

Nigel Kennedy

The Four Seasons was making me popular in Britain, but EMI America had no interest in making that happen in the States, so I just had a classical career there.

Wendy Kopp

When you think of the typical Teach For America corps member, soldiers and ex-bankers are probably not the people who come to mind. In fact, there is no such thing as a typical corps member. They can't be neatly pigeonholed or painted with a broad brush.

When you think 'bloody' in America you think the red liquid that flows from human bodies which is usually a sign of some kind of violence.

Eric Heiden

When you think about these single distances championships and these World Cup races, people can make a career out of skating one or two distances.

Paul Tagliabue

We appreciate the tremendous response of our fans and everything that our teams and players are doing to support the relief effort, ... We are going to stay at it because all of America is going to have to stay at it.