Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Gordon

In California, especially Northern California, the fans really cheer for me.

Jeff Gordon

I definitely get pumped up when I hear a crowd cheering for me.

Horace

He possesses dominion over himself, and is happy, who can every day say, "I have lived." Tomorrow the heavenly father may either involve the world in dark clouds, or cheer it with clear sunshine, he will not, however, render ineffectual the things which have already taken place.

Horace

The sad dislike those who are cheerful, and the cheerful dislike the melancholy.

James Gates Percival

The recollection of one upward hour Hath more in it to tranquilize and cheer The darkness of despondency, than years Of gayety and pleasure.

Gloria Gaynor

My audience is often hands-up, standing and cheering and on tables and all of that kind of things.

Jim Butcher

You're dead, son. Cheer is contraindicated.

Jim Butcher

You know the law, Dresden." "He who kills the cheer springs for beer," chanted the rest of the table.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

I kind of cheer the presence of any gay characters at all - I think the more we can saturate television with any gay character or lesbian character or transgender character, I think that's a really great thing. We're kind of getting past the fact that they're the punchline or that they're the novelty.

Irvin D. Yalom

I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit.

Isaac Marion

We eat and sleep and shuffle through the fog, walking a marathon with no finish line, no medals, no cheering.

Isaac Asimov

All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Give, and thou shalt receive. Give thoughts of cheer,Of courage and success, to friend and stranger.And from a thousand sources, far and near,Strength will be sent thee in thy hour of danger.

Geraldo Rivera

Am I the only one who thinks Nancy Grace's relentless cheer leading for Jodi Arias' death gross & excessive? The anchor as executioner?!

J. K. Rowling

Ginny Weasley, who sat next to Colin Creevey in Charms, was distraught, but Harry felt that Fred and George were going the wrong way about cheering her up. They were taking turns covering themselves with fur or boils and jumping out at her from behind statues.

J. K. Rowling

You’d think a bit of kissing would cheer her up.

H. G. Wells

Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.

Charles Dickens

I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.

Huey Lewis

It's true, I do like cheering people up.

Ruth Rendell

People always tell me my books are so dark; I don't think they're particularly dark. I'm not like that. I'm quite a cheerful soul.

Nancy Gibbs

Runners exalt the marathon as a public test of private will, when months or years of solitary training, early mornings, lost weekends, rain and pain mature into triumph or surrender. That's one reason the race-day crowds matter, the friends who come to cheer and stomp and flap their signs and push the runners on.

James Keller

During a rehearsal of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony the members of the orchestra were so overwhelmingly moved by the conducting of Arturo Toscanini that they rose as one man and applauded him. When the spontaneous cheering has subsided, Toscanini turned to his men, tears glistening in his eyes. "Please . . . please! Don't do this! You see, gentlemen, it isn't me you should applaud. It's Beethoven!"

Shirley Temple

At the end of the Depression, people were perhaps looking for something to cheer themselves up. They fell in love with a dog and a little girl. It won't happen again.

To have all those thousands cheering for us made it a lot easier. But we know we won't get anything like that tomorrow night.

Derek Jeter

We didn't really give them much to cheer about.

We are sad and worried with what has been happening. People need to go to the stadium only to cheer for their clubs, to enjoy the (matches).

Ruben Studdard

Yeah, I'd go sleep and I'd have my headphones on in my sleep. I would just always dream about being on stage and people cheering and screaming.

Ashley Greene

When I was a kid I did marshal arts, and then I did all-star crazy competitive cheer and dance, and then I swam so I was very muscular. You know, healthy, but not quite as thin as I am.

Aberjhani

Millions cheer the warriorspilling blood across the ringwhile the one who stands for peaceis ridiculed and shamed.Must hearts forever sufferfrom ignorance and greed?Can bombs heal our soulsor set our spirits free?

Aaron Rodgers

I know a lot of friends and family who were Joe Montana fans, where it didn't matter how well Steve Young did. They weren't going to cheer for him because he wasn't Joe Montana.

A. N. Wilson

In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all.

Abby Wambach

If we can trust each other and leave everything-all our hearts-out on the field, I think we're going to have something to come home to and cheer about.

A. E. Housman

And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.