Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sara Blakely

I failed the LSAT. Basically, if I had not failed, I'd have been a lawyer and there would be no Spanx. I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating.

Roger Rosenblatt

No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. In even their least sympathetic characters, one senses a kind of helplessness to passion quivering between the poles of good and evil.

We've looked at all the other options ... but they all have different financial numbers attached to it. The objective is to position Michigan Stadium so that it will serve our constituents for the next 50 years.

We have been very blessed with the people who have vacationed here and ... are so attached to the store they bring their children in.

We have been very blessed with the people who have vacationed here and . . . are so attached to the store they bring their children in.

Orhan Pamuk

My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions.

You have to do something right to be able to play in a big match at this point in the year. It definitely has some significance attached to it for us.

You'll notice that the program interface resembles a telephone with a video screen attached to it. The keys on the telephone can be tapped with the mouse. It's designed to be user-friendly.

It didn't take much to get attached to him. I can honestly say he's one of the funniest guys I'd ever met. Every time he walked into a room you just wanted to start laughing because you knew he was going to say something funny.

Hillary Clinton

I'm somebody who gets up every day and says, 'What am I going to do today, and how am I going to do it?' I think it moves me toward some outcome I'm hoping for and also has some, you know, some joy attached to it.

Caitriona Balfe

I think every credit you get and every film you have your name attached to makes things a little bit easier. It definitely opens doors up, but it's still a grind.

Hugh Dancy

Specifically, we talked about making the character of the prince not so charming, at least in the beginning, and I'm playing around with the preconceptions attached to a character. That's really what intrigued me as well because I thought it would be fun to do it.

Darius Khondji

I have lived most of my life in Paris, but I have a connection with Rome that I have with no other place. I'm attached by invisible strings.

Sandra Lerner

I farm - there is something visceral about being attached to the land. I am a recording engineer. I do my own laundry most days, and I get on with the business of living.

Rand Paul

For too long, we've attached some mythic notion to government solutions, and yet, 40 years after we began the War on Poverty, poverty still abounds.

What we have now is terrible. Just a thin telephone wire with a speaker phone attached to it.

Philip Treacy

Hats are attached to special moments in people's lives - weddings, or the races. In difficult times, people still get married; they still want to look their best.

He's attached to the strike zone. His stuff stays in the zone. It's fun to watch, because he gets the defense involved. With him, he has deception to his delivery.

Deborah Norville

Katie will be the brand of CBS News...You will see her face attached to every CBS product out there. Katie has 15 years of history with people...That's the power of celebrity. The challenge for CBS will be to produce a compelling enough newscast to keep those curiosity seekers who sample the show coming back.

Garrett Hedlund

Just personally, I've been attached to 'On the Road' since 2007 and it was the greatest thing in my life when I got cast in it. I couldn't believe it. When I was 17 and read the book, I looked it up on IMDb and it said that Francis Ford Coppola was going to direct it.

Matteo Renzi

Italy remained attached to conservatism. It had a political class that lived in the past and didn't build the future. The past is our strength, but it risks becoming our ruin if we walk with our heads turned backwards.

There is evidence that the explosive materials were attached to the body.

He got attached to that, watching that. We talked about that in eighth grade, ninth grade.

Ralph Goodale

Having experienced them for one year, they're something Canadians are likely to get quite attached to and would not take kindly to seeing that ripped away from them.

If they're emotionally attached to a house they do like to hear all that stuff.

I have designed a few new tools to help me with my work. They are both in the prototype stage at this point, but the most promising has a rake front attached to a PVC pipe and garbage bag at the back, and after you scoop, you just tilt the tool back so that it slides into the bag.

Earl Watson

I didn't really spend enough time there to get attached to any one thing or anyone. So for me, it's another game, another trip.

Jim Sturgess

I didn't want the words 'Spider-Man' attached to my name in any shape or form. Especially a singing one.

Mariella Frostrup

Whenever the party-girl tag gets attached to my name, it makes me want to snort with derision.

Lorraine Toussaint

I find I often do my best work when I'm not attached to the outcome of the audition.

Lev Grossman

Growing up in the '70s and '80s, science fiction and especially fantasy had such a stigma attached to them. I felt so punished and exiled for being devoted to these things.

To our shame a woman is never so much attached to us as when we suffer

Lou Boudreau

There's so much attached to playing shortstop that you lose your concentration on hitting, unless you're a natural hitter. There's so much to think about in the field, you don't have time to think about what you did at the plate last time. 'How did he get me out?'