Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mindy Grossman

I've always been a risk taker; I've never believed in following the expected path.

I am afraid that people will think I re-illustrated 'The Little Prince,' when really, it was more a tribute to him as a dedicated pilot and a man who believed in the goodness of people.

Phil Everly

The '60s weren't my cup of tea. I never bought that philosophy that, you know, we're all brothers and that'll solve everything. And I never believed that music dictated the times. I always thought it reflected them.

Matt Birk

(Wilf) decided he wanted to sit down with me at some point later on and talk about some stuff. All he said is he was concerned about my physical health and he wanted to sit down and talk with me about it. He looked me in the eye and told me that and I believed him, which made me think also that I'm in the long-term plans here, the long-term thoughts, which is great, because I want to be.

Allen Iverson

We just believed in each other, got defensive stops when we needed them and executed our offense. We were able to make something happen.

Gary Bettman

Who ever believed it could come back this strong? Actually we did.

Who believed we were going to go the whole year and not have a game (like that)? That was our game.

I thought it was an outstanding comeback, ... I don't think we've ever been down two games to nothing and came back and won it. The team never gave up and believed they could win, and they did it.

Johnny Cash was plenty good enough to fool his fans. They believed he felt it in his soul when he sang the Gospel while stoned on drugs.

Richard Jewell

Just imagine your own mother turning to you, and for that instant, believing the media before she believed you. I'll never get back to that point where I was before they took that all away from me.

MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines. Malthus believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could not be done by talking. One of the most practical exponents of the Malthusian idea was Herod of Judea, though all the famous soldiers have been of the same way of thinking.

We came this far, so close, but everybody in this (locker) room believed it. The non-believers stayed in South Carolina. Everybody in this room believed we were going to win it.

We had expected a sale price of $200 million in our previous target. The $900 million price even exceeds what we believed to be the high-end of any sale range.

Mary Lambert

Before I got on full-time medication, I believed that my mental disorder was the reason I could create so much and create well, because it made me crazy. I could go to these dark places and then come out of it and just be human again.

Robert Kiyosaki

My rich dad believed we should all learn to take care of ourselves.

Zainab Salbi

In every single culture I encountered, there were always women who defied cultural norms to do what they believed was right for them. This phenomenon has never been related to how rich, poor, successful or not successful the woman may be.

(Watkins) believed he could play at Division I all along, ... and it worked out great for him.

Rosemary Mahoney

My mother had faith in me, had more faith in me than I had in myself, and knowing that she did made me try to find faith. She believed in trying things.

Lynsey Addario

I was undeterred by the danger of traveling as a single American woman through Taliban-governed land. I believed in the stories I wanted to tell, the stories I felt were underreported, and I was convinced that that belief would keep me alive.

John Wright

I was very fortunate from the point of view that we always believed what goes on in the changing room stays in the changing room,

Tom Vilsack

I was very concerned about what I believed and what a lot of my citizens believed were unfair prices at the pump,

Michelle Kwan

It feels awesome. When I first put in the petition I believed I would be 100 percent at the Olympics, and I still believe it.

We really believed in ourselves. Once we reached districts and kept winning, we didn't think we could lose.

Malik Rose

We're capable of more than that. We believed we were going to win.

Red Schoendienst

You always believed that as good as you knew you were, there was always somebody who could take your place. I tried to work as hard as I could to make sure that didn't happen.

We really thought we would be making history (last night). We wanted to be here saying we got Pittsburgh into the NCAA Tournament for the first time. This has been a magical season, and we aren't going to let not being selected to the NCAA Tournament take away from what we have accomplished this season, even though we really believed we would be invited.

Two years ago, three years ago, we would've gone down in flames. There was no point when we believed we'd lose.

We were just as suspicious of the second communication as the first. We didn't know what to think. Rightly or wrongly, we believed it was important to make factual statements to the family.

The research I have been doing - studying how foodstuffs yield energy in living cells - does not lead to the kind of knowledge that can be expected to give immediate practical benefits to mankind. If I have chosen this field of study, it was because I believed in its importance in spite of its theoretical character.

Howard Fast

I was part of a generation that believed in socialism and finally found that belief corroded and destroyed. That is not renouncing Communism or socialism. It's reaching a certain degree of enlightenment about what the Soviet Union practices.

Howard Shore

I always believed 'The Fly' to be a classic opera story. It's a tale of love and death, true love surviving in the face of physical decay and ultimate sacrifice.

I was fortunate both as a player and a coach to have worked and played for people who stayed true to what they believed in.

I was saddened and disappointed. I always believed he was quite happy in Baltimore.