Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jamaal Tinsley

He's one of a kind. He's going to go out and tell it how it needs to be told. He's the kind of guy everybody likes to hang around. He's a people person.

How indeed? He copes, like everybody else, as well as he can, that's all. And it's usually deplorably enough.

However long it takes, that's how long he's going to be away for. We're going to hold it down for him. Everybody hopes his mom gets better.

I can see the snow-capped mountains, see true native Eskimos, native Indians. And everybody is just warm and open-hearted. It's like everyone is trying so hard to help you, ... But the minute I can move back, I will. I lived my life there. New Orleans is home, and I'm going back home. But by the grace of God, I made it out.

Kobe Bryant

I don't miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn't that serious in the first place.

Lady Gaga

I don't like L.A. It's just not fun. I don't know why, but I just don't get it. You have to drive to get everywhere, and when it rains everybody freaks out.

Jack Baker

People are feeling better. The perception of investors is that, if Dell and Cisco are correct, even though everybody knows that the fourth quarter is going to be terrible, the thought is this could be the tone of other corporations looking forward to 2002.

People are ready for a new vision and we see that everywhere we visit.

Tubby Smith

Our kids seem to feed off of Patrick when he's making the outside shot like that. It does get everybody fired up.

Our team is so deep. Our press eventually wears people down and when they start to get tired, we pounce.

Our field events did great. We got a first in the throwing. ... We used some freshmen and sophomores in the (400 relay) and got second. That is nice.

John C. Calhoun

A revolution in itself is not a blessing. The revolution accomplished by the French people is, indeed, a wonderful event - the most striking, in my opinion, in history; but it may lead to events which will make it a mighty evil.

Barack Obama

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

Wolfgang Puck

Everybody has to put purees underneath everything now. It's like people think we need the steak, and then we need some baby food with it.

Neil Kinnock

My first real experience of ambition was as party leader. It was my ambition for Labour to win, in which event I would be prime minister.

Neil Kinnock

I'm the guy everybody wanted to live next door. They just didn't want me to be prime minister.

Ricky Martin

I've performed in China, France, New Delhi, and Indianapolis, and everybody just allows themselves to go at it and have a good time. I think that's what I'm doing through music. It's not about 'I'm from here and you're from there.' It's about unity.

Nicolas Roeg

I made a film called 'Bad Timing' that I thought everybody would respond to. It was about obsessive love and physical obsession. I thought this must touch everyone, from university dons down.

Frank Lowy

The loss of my father was the most traumatic event in my life - I can't forget the pain.

Bram Stoker

It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?

Bobby Knight

The key is not the will to win... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.

Eric Burdon

People we've encountered at pivotal moments who profoundly influence our direction are not necessarily the people whose names everybody knows. More often, they are the people who say or do just the right thing, at the right time.

When I get up there, I say, 'This hole has always been good to me,' rather than going, 'It's hard to hit this green.' I'm thinking positive thoughts. When you have a place where you're comfortable, it makes it easier. I feel good everywhere on this course.

Steven Pinker

Everywhere you look for comparisons of life under anarchy and life under government, life under government is less violent.

I always had a feeling when I was a kid that I didn't really know what was going on. Everybody else knew stuff that I didn't know.

Nicholas Stoller

A big part of being in a relationship or marriage or whatever is you have to eventually compromise. Your life doesn't end up exactly the way you think it's going to, and if it's the right relationship, you might have to compromise what you're doing professionally.

We did some good things in the first half. We knew that we just had to stick with it and good things would eventually happen.

Bob Beamon

Basketball is big stuff in New York. If you're good in it, everybody respects you. Nobody would want to ruin your shooting eye or your shooting arm.

Andy Garcia

Everybody has a dream, and everybody knows people who have a dream that they don't want to share with anybody because they're too embarrassed to share.

Confucius

To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue. They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.

George Wald

To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it.

Waite Hoyt

I was so naive in radio technique that I knew nothing about timing. I would write pages on Honus Wagner and then get only half through by the time the show ended. I eventually learned, but there was nobody there to school me.

William Forsythe

'The Waterdance' was made for all the right reasons. Everybody that was involved in the film gave it their all.