Famous Quotes & Sayings

Judith Martin

The more skillful the performance of false cheer, the more pleasing the effect is upon one's public and on that private audience to whom one owes even more.

John Millington Synge

They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.

Gabriela Mistral

Writing tends to cheer me; it always soothes my spirit and blesses me with the gift of an innocent, tender, childlike day. It is the sensation of having spent a few hours in my homeland, with my customs, free whims, my total freedom.

Lord Byron

Which cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires The young, makes Weariness forget his toil, And Fear her danger; opens a new world When this, the present, palls.

Maggie Stiefvater

Tommy grabs my waist and swings me around in a circle. I drag my feet because i am opposed to people touching me when I'm not expecting it. Also because it will take more than dancing to cheer me up.

James Patterson

His face flushed, and I felt like cheering. "Yes," he said stiffly. "Besides de vings." "Hmm. Besides de vings." Nudge tapped one finger against her chin. "Um..." Her face brightened. "I once ate nine Snickers bars in one sitting. Without barfing. That was a record!" "Hardly a special talent," ter Borcht said witheringly. Nudge was offended. "Yeah? Let's see YOU do it." ... ... "I vill now eat nine Snickers bars," Gazzy said in a perfect, creepy imitation of ter Borcht's voice, "visout bahfing."

Ella Fitzgerald

Every time I look down on this timeless town, whether blue or gray be her skies, whether loud be her cheers, or whether soft be her tears, more and more do I realize that...I love Paris.

Henry Ward Beecher

Christianity works while infidelity talks. She feeds the hungry, clothes the naked, visits and cheers the sick, and seeks the lost, while infidelity abuses her and babbles nonsense and profanity. 'By their fruits ye shall know them.'

Hans Zimmer

The main thing the composer needs to do is it needs to remember that the director is there to cheer you on. The director wants you to succeed because if you succeed, you'll be helping the film. And they are truly your conscience. And they're truly your guide.

George Matthew Adams

I said to myself that I shall try to make my life like an open fireplace, so that people may be warmed and cheered by it and so go out themselves to warm and cheer.

It's just so sad. He always had such a loving and kind personality, always had a cheerful smile and always had a warm greeting for everyone he met.

Juli Inkster

They're very energetic. You're loving the feeling out there. Hopefully, by Friday, we'll get the full crowds out there, and we'll hopefully give them something to cheer about.

It's not necessarily about making every shot. It's playing extremely hard and I know that's a way to get the fans to cheer for us.

They earned an opportunity to cheer in a parade in London, England. All-Stars spent a week in London practicing their routine and sightseeing.

It's about time. We owe that to them to give them something to cheer about. They come out every game and supported us every game even though we were losing.

It?s a different kind of tennis here. With seven courts, you can all go out there together and relax. With four courts, there?s more cheering and more pressure.

It's a holiday, there's a lot of people there to cheer you on. There are not many empty spaces where there isn't anybody. It's good to feed off the crowd.

They're part of the SEC. We can cheer each other on, even though when the season starts, we hate each other.

Charles Spurgeon

I would go to the deeps a hundred times a cheer a downcast spirit.

Ed Balls

You could get a cheer by saying: 'Let's withdraw from Afghanistan', but I don't think that's where the public's at. It wouldn't be responsible.

David Duke

When the American people saw the LA riots and crowds of Blacks cheering O.J. Simpson (who was acquitted by the almost all Black jury), they received a peek into their future.

Kurt Vonnegut

Having a yacht is a reason for being more cheerful than most.

Bernard Goldberg

There are some programs on FOX that are not only fair and balanced, they're commentary shows. They don't have to be. But they brag about how fair and balanced they are. They don't cover rallies and tea parties. They cheer lead for rallies and tea parties. And as a journalist, I am totally against that.

Charlie Munger

Is there such thing as a cheerful pessimist? That's what I am.

Bikram Choudhury

Cheer up, things will get worse.

Bill Belichick

The only thing I can cheer for in Philadelphia is the national anthem.

Madeleine Albright

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

much of the possibility of being cheerful comes from the faculty of throwing oneself beyond oneself ...

Billy Horschel

What's disappointing about @usopengolf is the fans not being about to walk around the course/get close enough to most of the greens to cheer. Fans are having a hard time walking the course. They can barely see anything from outside the ropes. I would be pissed if I paid a lot of money for tickets and could barely see the top players hit golf shots.

Aeschylus

My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.

Agatha Christie

I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up." - Hastings

Chris Chelios

Triple highlights. Even though we're (on the opposing team), we were cheering on the bench.

Sanya Richards

When I saw her jumping so well I was cheering her on, too. Back in the village, I told her if she kept with it, she could win a medal. I'm so proud of her, that really motivated me.