Famous Quotes & Sayings

Avril Lavigne

I was signed by L.A. Reid on Arista Records when I was 16. He understood me and believed in me. Arista folded and I got put on RCA or whatever, then there were new people there, and every six months it changes and more new people come in.

Michael Bennett

I wouldn't have believed this, but it happened today, so we've got to get better and move on,

Andy Rooney

Because over the past few years, more money has been spent on breast implants and Viagra than is spent on Alzheimer's Disease research, it is believed that by the year 2030 there will be a large number of people wandering around with huge breasts an

I lost him, but, he was doing what he wanted to do, and believed in it.

I have a lot of friends that work for George Lucas, who spent 30 years of their lives making furry little critters run around and talk, ... And they've always believed that some of that technology should be used to tell a story that's slightly more real.

Ramon Hernandez

I have always believed that to isolate others or yourself because you disagree is not right.

Tim Johnson

I have long believed that the education of our nation's children should be the result of a strong federal-state-local partnership.

I have never believed in the European idea of national companies. They are inefficient. You want sharks, not whales. Big bloated companies don't do well.

I felt like I was supposed to make that putt. Two years ago, I don't think I would have believed I was supposed to make it. That may have been the biggest difference.

I felt from the get-go they believed in themselves, they believed they could compete.

Diane Setterfield

For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my ambition and settled down to a life of reading.

I don't think a great many people really believed that (the Delphi bankruptcy) was going to happen.

I expected more cooperation from him and believed he would be interested in some progression for the community and the opportunity to revitalize the downtown,

I e-mailed a picture of it to a friend of mine, Keith Belford, who works for Boone and Crockett, and he said he'd have never believed it, ... He showed it to some people out there (at B&C headquarters in Montana), and a lot of them said it looked like it was unscoreable.

I don't think Rick has ever believed he did anything wrong. I think that Rick's concern is over the family and what the eventual outcome will be for the family.

For those people who already believed we weren't careful enough as journalists, this gives them more reason to believe that.

Giving up field goals instead of touchdowns was big for us. Even when it seemed like everything was going their way, we kept our heads in the game and believed we would give the offense a chance to win it at the end.

Jesse Ventura

go by projections because if I believed in projections, I wouldn't be the governor of Minnesota today, because nobody projected me to win.

Loretta Young

What you don't know intrigues you more than what you do know. I believed all those love stories-the hero was the hero-because that's what I grew up with. I loved the romance and the roses, but when it came to a more realistic life, I would back away.

John Bradford

He obsessed about it ... he believed that it was true.

Jerome Bettis

Here we go, Pittsburgh! We set out a long time ago to bring this back home to Pittsburgh. You all believed in us, believed we could get it done. This is ours, but this is also yours. Every one of you.

God was always very important to her. She would look to God often for her place in life and she always believed God loved every one.

Terry Pendleton

He's always had the tools and talent. That's why he was here last year. He'll probably tell you he believed he could do it last year. But I think later in the year, he gained more confidence. You can really see it in him now that he has the idea he can walk up there and really make something happen.

Michael Ramsey

Ken did make optimistic statements. What do you expect the CEO to do in a situation like this? He was not lying. He was telling the truth as he saw it. He believed ... and he was fighting a battle.

Marcia Angell

Just look at herbal remedies. It's essentially a throwback. It's saying you go to a plant and you mush it up and you stick it in the jar and you sell it and you eat it and it's going to cure what ails you. And that's the kind of stuff that people believed in the early 19th century.

Shay Doron

It came down to Maryland, Harvard and Duke. Harvard for obvious reasons (it was her parents' first choice), Duke was a team that had not won a national title, but was already there (close to winning one). Maryland gave me a chance to do what nobody else in the country believed we could do. I like doing that, bursting people's expectations.

Gilbert Arenas

We took daggers early, but we knew if we stayed with it, we would come back. We just kept going at them, kept fighting, and believed in each other.

We're playing tough right now at the end, and that's what it takes. If somebody would have told me we'd have that big of a score separations, I wouldn't have believed it.

When he said that, I believed him, that he didn't send me here.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

I think, in terms of corporate philosophy, I've always believed that you've got to treat people in a very very egalitarian manner in the sense I like to treat people on a one-to-one basis. And I like people to take on a lot of responsibilities because I think with a sense of responsibility also comes a sense of purpose.

Eric Ries

I actually believed if you work hard enough it was inevitable you'd succeed. Then I lived the 'Social Network' movie, but only the first half. The hardest part is the grueling work of constantly being wrong.

Jane Badler

He wasn't really Method but he believed that when you did a role there were lots of things you could do with your co-star in order to create the right environment. You known, if you were supposed to be in love, to create that feeling between the two of you.

Kim Williams

He was one of those guys who believed in hard work, and he was one of the smartest people you ever met. Terry was a feisty guy. You'll find a lot of people who didn't like him. But it's a great loss to the community of someone of his energy and intellect.