Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kenny G

I was really amazed when I started hearing 'Songbird' on the radio. I couldn't believe that the record company promotion department had actually convinced radio music directors to play it -because there wasn't anything like it on the radio at the time.

KaDee Strickland

I can say this: You haven't lived until you've had to wear a triplet pregnancy belly. You would be amazed at what a girl can learn based on the different months of pregnancy to make her character more interesting.

Scott Shane

One thing that in my reporting that I found and was amazed to find was that, as far as I could determine, neither high-level White House officials in the Bush administration nor even the top brass at the CIA even knew the history of water boarding when they approved it.

John W. Thompson

My friends and family are amazed I've done so well. I was not a model student. No one expected that I'd build a Fortune 500 company at Symantec.

Julie Miller

She is very fun. And I am amazed at how well she gets around. She does a lot for herself. She's just awesome.

Sue Shipman

Most people are amazed at how they spend their time when they do this.

Warren Johnson

Most people are amazed that this is so loosely organized.

Richard Cook

MSL is like a chemist on Mars. From a technological point of view, people will be fairly amazed by both the size and the capability of MSL. It will certainly be able to drive circles around MER to a certain extent. Not speed wise. But from how long MSL can go every day...it will be able to do much more.

Greg Sprink

Matt sets a great example with the way he comes to practice every day and plays through pain. It's to the point now that he can barely walk after games. We're all amazed and impressed by his dedication and determination.

Ron Wilson

We actually got right down to the wire on both kills. I think maybe we let our guard down a little bit.

Jack Berry

We always hate to see employees move out, but we're always seeing movements, both in and out.

Atharva Veda

Wealth comes naturally to a person, who is endowed with both these qualities.

Plato

Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent

Kourtney Kardashian

My mom and both of my grandmothers have always been into fashion, so it's been around us our whole lives.

Kevin Rose

Since news breaks on digg very quickly, we face the same issues as newspapers which print a retraction for a story that was misreported. The difference with digg is that equal play can be given to both sides of a story, whereas with a newspaper, a retraction or correction is usually buried.

Kevin Kline

I vowed I would never do a commercial, or a soap opera - both of which I did as soon as I left the Acting Company and was starving.

Kathleen Battle

Wynton and Christopher were really great experiences for me because they are both very gifted artists.

Kathleen Sebelius

There's a digital revolution taking place both in and out of government in favor of open-sourced data, innovation, and collaboration.

David Icke

If you want to know the outcome of a game before the game has even started, you need to control each side.

David Duchovny

Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film.

Bear Grylls

Are you the sort of person who can turn around when you have nothing left, and find that little bit extra inside you to keep going, or do you sag and wilt with exhaustion? It is a mental game, and it is hard to tell how people will react until they are squeezed.

Barry Alvarez

We always talk about being a spark and swinging the momentum of the game and that swung it.

Audre Lorde

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never allow us to bring about genuine change.

Arnold Palmer

The game is so fantastic, and people who get into it love it so much...I'd be pleased with that. There's no game like it.

Arnold Palmer

I always said that if I have the perfect club then I should play the perfect game.

Wes Parent

We actually had a 3-1 lead in the first period and then we ran into penalty trouble and they (Port Perry) scored two power-play goals to even the game at 3-3 after the first period.

Bruce Reichman

We always have a good game with them. They're a tough team. They're very physical and very well-coached.

Deidre Hall

There was never a point in my life where I gave up. My marriage, as you know, fell apart.

Britney Spears

When I was at home it was weird, it was the same thing every week, ... God gave me a talent to perform and I know I have it in me. I can't just coop it up.

Ed McIntosh

We had a wonderful time. The weather gave us a break.

Roger Sherman

Let us live no more to ourselves, but to Him who loved us, and gave Himself to die for us.

Stephen Gould

Man, I gave you a brain. Use it, OK?

Randy Jackson

Man, every time Kelly opened her mouth she gave me chills!

Jim Ramstad

Let us always remember that wonderful trademark George Mikan smile that lit up a room, inspired us, and gave us hope,

Martin Brodeur

Letting in that first goal gave them some wind and it set us back.

Lynn Dooley

Liam was lucky. They gave him a gift.

David Brainerd

Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none

Audrey Hepburn

My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

Athenaeus

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

Arnold Palmer

Swing your swing. Not some idea of a swing. Not a swing you saw on TV. Not that swing you wish you had. No, swing your swing. Capable of greatness. Prized only by you. Perfect in it's imperfection. Swing your swing. I know, I did.

Willie Kemp

Wayne, he's a great player, but we're moving on. We're still going to be friends.

Denis Waitley

The seeds of greatness are ideas you learn from people who've been great in their service to others.

Alain de Botton

There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without being reminded of what a great artist noticed there.

Al Davis

Time never stops for the great ones

Blaise Pascal

All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch.

John Eldredge

You get guys around a campfire, and they start telling their stories. That's the fellowship that they want to be in.

Joe Wurzelbacher

I'm cynical by nature, but I am also very hopeful because I see people from the Left and the Right showing up to these tea parties. You have people, bikers, union members and guys in three-piece suits showing up to these things.

Scot McCloughan

When you're around him, he's one of those guys you want on your side." ()

Jeromy Palki

When you're around guys like that, you learn so much from the stories they tell and the way they handle hitters.

Fred Skrocki

When I looked at D.J., you just say 'Wow' and hope he's OK. But that's why you have eight, nine guys who can play.

Thomas Brodie-Sangster

I like to be on set and see what the camera guys are up to. I like to see all the jobs that come together to make the thing you are also making.

Maurice Jackson

We're going in there for a dogfight because we know those guys are going to be ready to play.

Nick Fry

We're going home now, the guys are packing up, everyone understands the situation.

Rip Torn

Let the other guys do the crybaby stuff. Go for the laughs.

Jared Leto

It was a real honor to be able to work with someone like that that I've been watching since I was a kid. I mean, to play his brother left some people scratching their heads but something about it really worked.

Tommy Shaw

It is all about being open and paying attention to the music in your head. I think most people have original music playing in their heads from time to time.

Jorge Cantu

This win was for Mexico. Now we can leave with our heads held high.

Paul Hewitt

My first year at Siena, my first year here, they were teams that people looked at and were scratching their heads thinking, 'How are they ever going to win a game?'

Allan Ray

Most teams would go, 'Oh, man!' and have their heads down. We just looked at it like it's just another obstacle we have to overcome.

Unknown

May the roof over your heads be as well thatched As those inside are well matched.

Phil Garner

We let them off the hook and let them keep their heads in the game,

Jack Nichols

We are pounding our heads on the wall trying to get a solution, ... It's just a little overwhelming.

Hayley Orrantia

I am a singer first and foremost. I was lucky enough to have a manager, when I was 15, who knew the heads of a lot of record labels at the time.

David Walker

Church should be a place where love is evident, God delivers, lives are changed, hearts are healed, and families restored.

David Henry Hwang

It's the stories that make my heart beat faster ...those are the ones to write about

David Horowitz

[E]ncouraging the Muslim world, and particularly the Arab Muslim world, which is the heart of the global terrorist threat - to adopt democratic ways and to shine the light of liberty into its culture of medieval darkness is a pragmatic necessity for the future security of the civilized world. That is the reality behind the President's address. Only people in serious denial can be blind to this fact. Only liberals.

David Icke

When mind and heart come together, mind serves consciousness instead of serving itself.

David Hume

The proper office of religion is to regulate the heart of men, humanize their conduct, infuse the spirit of temperance, order, andobedience; and as its operation is silent, and only enforces the motives of morality and justice, it is in danger of being overlooked, and confounded with these other motives.

David Hume

The great charm of poetry consists in lively pictures of the sublime passions, magnanimity, courage, disdain of fortune; or thoseof the tender affections, love and friendship; which warm the heart, and diffuse over it similar sentiments and emotions.

David Hume

The heart of man is made to reconcile the most glaring contradictions.

David Hume

The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian

David Duchovny

Linda Brewer's example is inspiring, colorful and potentially very funny. Her journey also exists firmly in the Heartland tradition of American success stories and comedies.

Clayton Wilcox

We did not make the kind of leapfrog improvement we need to. While I wasn't ecstatic, I'm pleased with the trend lines.

Jared Diamond

All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using their product.

Dale Short

We've seen a big improvement at No. 2 and No. 3 doubles, and we've seen a big improvement at No. 4, 5, 6 singles.

Philip Greenfield

We're looking to realize savings and improvement from this innovation in three areas.

Carla Peterson

Six points is a lot to jump in one meet to the next. We are back on track to where we want to be. We are ready to see more improvement with each meet.

Patty Vavra

She had a monster throw. It was remarkable improvement in a year's time or less.

David Williams

We knew this was not an overnight fix. That's not realistic. We're not at all panicky. I have seen improvement.

Michael Dell

We are seeing a substantial improvement in the availability of flat-panel screens (from) two months ago,

Kevin Toney

The reason for his improvement was the work he put in in the weight room during the off-season.

Hugh Fountain

We actually got after it better. We played harder. It's a tribute to the kids. They've kept plugging away. It was important for them to see some results come out of the work.

Tyler Perry

My first show was called 'I Know I've Been Changed' in '92. I tried to do this show for years and years. It kept failing over and over and over again. Every time I went out to do the show, nobody showed up. I was like, 'What is this about?'

Gabrielle Zevin

In a way, publishing in 2005 was similar to publishing in 1950. Nobody kept blogs; that was still optional. I didn't even have a website then.

Elizabeth Wilson

I didn't want to give up my career. That's what kept me alive, kept me going. I couldn't stop - didn't want to stop - being all these different characters.

Eric Carr

We'd go through the whole story again, ... but when we got to that part, he kept saying, 'I don't remember.'

Scott Howell

At IBM, if we kept our same leadership for 36 years, we'd be bankrupt.

Ashwin Sanghi

Would the fish have ever been caught if it had kept its mouth shut?

Phil Anderton

We have kept in touch since then and he is somebody we respect for obvious reasons.

Leta Fickes

She has kept in touch with me ever since.

Robert Price

We had been at Warehouse C-11 in Atlanta, where we had played before,

John Calipari

Let me tell you, we played well. Don't think we didn't play well, we're not much better than they.

Dan Dersam

Leah played exceptionally well in the first half. In the second half, they did everything but tie her shoes together to try and stop her.

Tim Finchem

I've never played golf with Tiger Woods. To tell the truth, I'm not sure that watching him pound it 100 yards past me all day is something I'd like to do.

Erik King

I've played a lot of cops. In fact, my father was a cop.

Edmond H. Fischer

I thought I would reflect here on a theme most scientists enjoy recalling: the part luck played in their accomplishments.

Ed Speleers

The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'

Lesley Nicol

The first role I played was Madame Ranevsky in 'The Cherry Orchard.'

Jimmy Breslin

I played football. I played trumpet. I could draw.

David Duval

But you know, I'm just not a quitter.

Lena Headey

I'm small but quite tough. When incensed, I can swing a punch.

David Harsanyi

Let's be honest: nothing spoils 'The Walking Dead' quite like watching 'The Walking Dead.'

Kate Smith

Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.

Janis Joplin

I won't quit to become someone's old lady.

Bryant H. McGill

Quit saying you don't have time. You have time for what you make time for in life.

Stevie Jackson

When I'm making records, I like it to be quite fast. Don't let the band learn it too well.

Bob Hartley

We have a pond, and I've never seen it come up so fast. I haven't seen this much (rain) for quite awhile.

Bill Cunningham

We're hard-core solar people. We don't quit that easy.

Barry Commoner

No action is without its side effects.

Derek Bailey

I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business.

Alexandra Paul

I've always preferred food be on the blander side.

Carl von Clausewitz

The side that feels the lesser urge for peace will naturally get the better bargain.

Alan Furst

I'm basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.

Elie Wiesel

Take sides. Neutrality always serves the oppressor and never the oppressed.

Edward R. Murrow

I have always been on the side of the heretics, against those who burned them, because the heretics so often turned out to be right....Dead, but right.

Bai Ling

Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.

Monte Kwinter

There are usually two sides to every story, ... Now you have one.