Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Antin

I always wanted to be a filmmaker, but I started acting when I was 9 years old. I looked a certain part that I wasn't, really. I played, you know, a high school jock with a lot of attitude or a spoiled rich kid, and I was neither of those things. I was from a very working-class family in Van Nuys.

He scored a hat-trick for the reserves last week and his attitude showed me he wanted to play in the first team. Butler may find it hard to get back into the side.

He's come so far, but he reverted today. He needs to be able to sustain a level of concentration and an attitude that is representative of what we want at FAU.

He's certainly a tremendous young man and competitor. He has a great attitude and willing to do whatever he can to help the team.

Kerry Collins

He's caught so much grief up there the past four or five years. He hasn't changed. His attitude has been the same and (he) has kept doing the things he's believed in.

Mark Richt

He has a great attitude every day in practice. He works hard in the games. He's making plays, he's pushing the pile, he's making people double-team him. He's been keeping people off our linebackers and he's really playing pretty well so far.

He has a great attitude about getting healthy and strong for next season, and we are going to do our best to move forward minus his contributions.

He has a goal that he has and knows how to get there and will do anything to get there. He has brought a whole different attitude and that's what we needed at U-Dub. He's going to be there for a long time.

Lara Logan

He had that real Saddam attitude from the moment he stepped into that room, and he smiled at his codefendants, he smiled at the judge as he walked past,

He has been performing unbelievably. And he has a super attitude about it, too.

Bernie Williams

He has been one of our great players this season, ... Flashes of greatness and then doing things that are not as good. But I think his attitude is exemplary. He made a mistake. He didn't get down on himself. He got back up.

He has been less process oriented and less programmed than I've ever seen him. He has a much more easygoing attitude toward the world than I ever knew him to have.

He is a pretty serious young man. And there is no better attitude out there -- his attitude towards training is very good.

Joe Royle

He is a nice kid with a great attitude and wants to learn. I am pleased, it is good to see the good guys doing well.

Joe Horn

He has the attitude that it's do or die. We all know that. We want to stay with Coach Haslett. If we get on that football field and don't make plays and lose football games, then obviously Jim Haslett won't be here and we won't either.

Jack McMahon

He came to play every day. He was like Larry Bird in basketball. He was one of the first guys at practice and always put his work in. His whole attitude was contagious. You wanted to come to the ballpark and be around him. You knew you had a chance to win because he was on your team.

Rob Zombie

But I think bands that rolled in with a big attitude, like they were some big deal, I just found that very strange.

Richard P. Feynman

This attitude of mind - this attitude of uncertainty - is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire. It becomes a habit of thought. Once acquired, we cannot retreat from it anymore.

Richelle Mead

(Men without ambition are boring) And that attitude, mistress, is why the females of your kind continue to struggle for equality. And why they continue to fail.

Renzo Rosso

Different times call for different attitudes. But I love your generation because you are so creative and innovative in how you wear things, how you think, how you approach everything.

Russell Lynes

There are times when you just get down, you feel like nobody likes you. We're in high school forever. It's just what we do with it.

Russell Baker

Most English speakers do not have the writer's short fuse about seeing or hearing their language brutalized. This is the main reason, I suspect, that English is becoming the world's universal tongue: English-speaking natives don't care how badly others speak English as long as they speak it. French, once considered likely to become the world's lingua franca, has lost popularity because those who are born speaking it reject this liberal attitude and become depressed, insulted or insufferable when their language is ill used.

Roz Savage

I have learned to accept that, in the present moment at least, things are exactly as they are meant to be, and although I cannot control the future any more than I could control the wind and the weather, I can manage it and influence it in a positive way.

Roger Martin

I love that Toronto is demonstrating that a big, highly diverse, multicultural city can actually work and work well, if its residents have the attitude of Torontonians.

Umberto Eco

Religion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins of life and what happens after death. For many, the answer is a personal god. In my opinion, it's religion that produces God, not the other way round.

William Ruckelshaus

Industries and businesses that must operate in the marketplace of free choice know that they must change, they must adapt, they must accommodate to changes in public attitudes-or they will surely die.

Woodrow Wilson

If Freud had worn a kilt in the prescribed Highland manner he might have had a very different attitude to genitals.

William Whewell

A man really and practically looking onwards to an immortal life, on whatever grounds, exhibits to us the human soul in an enobled attitude.

William James

Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

William James

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity.

William James

Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task

William James

General scepticism is the live mental attitude of refusing to conclude. It is a permanent torpor of the will, renewing itself in detail towards each successive thesis that offers, and you can no more kill it off by logic than you can kill off obstinacy or practical joking.

Sara Blakely

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. Most people attach failure to something not working out or how people perceive you. This way, it is about answering to yourself.