Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Spurrier

We actually get along I think very well, ... I talk with Phil every time I see him.

Deshea Townsend

We always get along fine; that's never been a problem here. We all get along well. ... We just didn't get it done, and this time we got it done.

Kyle Busch

Whenever you're near Junior's car, you go faster. He just pulls you along in the draft.

Mario Testino

When I had photographed Prince William's mother, I brought along a CD of Dalida, a French singer, that we played on set all day to relax everyone. I decided to do the same thing for Catherine and William. The contrast of the contemporary informal music playing in the beautiful rooms with so much history caused a lot of laughter.

Willie Parker

When I came here, I wasn't even expecting to play. He (Bettis) was a type of guy who took me under his arm and saw something in me and he just helped me out along the way.

Jonathan Sehring

When the opportunity came along to partner with Bob and Harvey on 'Transamerica' we jumped at the chance, ... Having produced ' Boys Don't Cry ' and witnessing Hillary Swank 's transformation, we were immediately struck by Felicity Huffman's jaw-dropping performance here. She is nothing short of fantastic.

Donald Sutherland

Joe Wright called me and I also had some trepidation along those lines but he said no, it would work. He had a very clear and specific idea of what he wanted to do.

Tom Wolfe

I found a great many pieces of punctuation and typography lying around dormant when I came along - and I must say I had a good time using them.

Tom Stoppard

In the period before the arrival of Mrs. Thatcher, politics had been in such low esteem. Everything was so hedged, so mealy-mouthed. Then along came this woman who seemed to have no manners at all and said exactly what she thought. Everyone's eyes were popping and their jaws were dropping, and I really enjoyed that.

Audrey Hepburn

I have always had a reputation for being frugal - less kind people might call me cheap. But my interest in building up a nest egg goes back to those days in Arnhem when I learned that money can grow, just like trees.

Arne Jacobsen

With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.

Paul Coffey

Wayne was such a big part of my career here in Edmonton as well as everybody's that I think that having him in the building is just icing on the cake,

Alain de Botton

Let death find us as we are building up our matchstick protests against its waves.

Charles Darwin

Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.

Kesha Rogers

After graduating college in 2001 with a B. A. in Political Science and Speech Communications from Texas State University - San Marcos, I realized that my generation and those younger had been given no future and had been maliciously robbed of the knowledge of principles and methods necessary for building one.

John Krasinski

I want to start a Dunkin' Donuts in Los Angeles. I already have the perfect location picked out. It would be the old Tower Records buildings on Sunset.

Don Allen

When you put in the building and parking, it will take up all the area. All the runoff will go into the lake.

Richard Li

We had been busy building up fibre infrastructure under the ground in Hong Kong and underneath the homes of people, so when we launched IPTV, it was relatively smoother sailing than in other territories.

Mike Sirant

We accomplished what we set out to do. We had to continue a certain level of play from (Saturday) night, and for the most part we did.

Ron Agor

We always depended on her for information about people, certain organizations and their achievements.

Blaise Pascal

Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)

Kerri Strug

You always dream of going to the Olympics and winning gold. I've learned over the years that there are lots of gold medals, but certain stories stick out and make a difference.

Kevin Love

Randy Wittman told me not to shoot 3-pointers. That got me very uncomfortable. There were certain labels tagged on me very early in my career, spots on the floor where I felt uncomfortable.

Kevin Love

When you're on the court, there is certain things that you would do that you wouldn't do off the court. When you get off, you obviously have to be gracious and a humble person. When you are on the floor, be a team player. Championships are what you are defined by - legacy. Go about things the right way.

Katie McGrath

I wasn't born an actress, but I was certainly born dramatic!

Johan Cruyff

Italians can not beat us, but we can certainly lose against them.

Jason Ritter

I think at a certain point actors need to start taking responsibility for the kinds of stories they want to tell.

Red Cloud

When I was a young man, I was poor. In a war with other nations, I was in eighty-seven fights. There I received my name and was made Chief of my nation. But now I am old and am for peace.

Evan Bayh

Like all Americans regardless of party, I hope and pray that he will be a great chief justice. Time will tell,

Sathya Baba

Love must flow not from the tongue or from the head only, but chiefly from the heart.

Charles Eastman

The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe.

Reggie Miller

We want the chief to be able to make good decisions. If the first 10 officers are all male whites and the chief says he needs more diversity, he should be able to pick another qualified officer from the list to represent this department and community.

Marty Schottenheimer

We did not lose today. We got beat. We're obviously disappointed. This was a difficult game, and the Chiefs did everything they needed to in order to win.

Edward Kennedy

There is clear and convincing evidence that John Roberts is the wrong choice for chief justice, ... I oppose the nomination, and I urge my colleagues to do the same.

Ted Cruz

We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.

Walter Dellinger

one of the three most important chief justices in history.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Self-confidence is something caught and not taught. And, risk-running and chance-taking are the only ways to catch it.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I set out to be the best and I am.

Chris Barclay

We always have confidence but to have the success that we did on the ground today was a little surprising. The line provided a lot of holes and seams. We did a good job of keeping them guessing.

Gary Bettman

We always had confidence in the game and our fans,

Charles Darwin

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.

Stephen Roach

When he leaves ... he will take away 18 years of confidence the markets have invested in him.

Flip Murray

When he has an off night like that, he has to have confidence that we can pick him up. That's what we did.

Samuel Johnson

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of 21, little did I suspect that I should be at 49, what I now am.

Kelly Scott

We had a very solid game. We played well and feel very confidence on the ice. Hopefully we can just keep rolling with that momentum.

Phil Drosdick

We accomplished our goal this season, which was getting to the state tournament. I'm proud of that. These kids worked really hard this season, and we continued to improve all season.

Fisher DeBerry

We also understand that standards have to be maintained. We have to move on with our preparations for this season, but we'll do all we can to help Marcus continue his education at another school.

Kevin Brady

And again, President Obama's health care plan really is another drag on the economy. Until we get Washington out of the way, this president's recovery is going to continue to rank dead last.

Gene Engelkes

We had a very good freshmen/sophomore game. They looked pretty promising and I expect that to continue throughout the season.

Dustin Moskovitz

As with Google, Facebook was a place that just concentrated a lot of top talent. It's just sort of natural that those people would go on and continue to be successful.

Tom Stoppard

The whole excitement for writing anything is quite intense. And for a day or two, you think you've done everything extremely well. The problems start on the third day, and continues for the rest of your life.

Tina Brown

I'm impressed with how 'Newsweek's' outstanding staff has continued to put out a lively, well-informed magazine after the departure of their tireless editor, Jon Meacham.

Kevin Kelly

The system continually has to make this choice: it can either continue to exploit a known process and make it more productive, or it can explore a new process at the cost of being less efficient.

William Gerstenmaier

We're 'go' for the crew exchange and 'go' to continue flying to the space station.

Jim Cheney

We're looking at late spring or early summer to deliver the lots to the builders.

Isaiah Mustafa

Writers sometimes write things for me and I like to see what they write because I want to see what their take on my delivery is or what they think that I can do with something. So I kind of leave that to them.

Anthony Anderson

Leo couldn't deliver Mr. Martin Scorsese his Oscar with The Aviator, but I will go on record to say I will do so in The Departed.

George III

Lord Chancellor, did I deliver the speech well ?' 'Very well indeed, sir,' was the enthusiastic answer. 'I am glad of that,' replied the king; 'for there was nothing in it.'

John Jacobs

We are hearing some pretty good news, but we have to take a wait-and-see stance and see if they deliver when they report.

Charles Jr

We did not deliver in the fourth quarter and that was unacceptable.

John Varley

The profit growth in the first half demonstrates that our strategy is delivering strongly.

Rick Adams

We use him as a role model to deliver socially responsible messages to children, ... We take him just about every place we go.

Ashwin Sanghi

The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for disappointment with every success that you deliver because with every success you raise your readers' expectations.

Audre Lorde

To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society

William Blake

Mechanical excellence is the only vehicle of genius.

Kevin Wilson

We want excellence in every area. We don't want excuses.

Charles de Gaulle

There can be no other criterion, no other standard than gold. Yes, gold which never changes, which can be shaped into ingots, bars, coins, which has no nationality and which is eternally and universally accepted as the unalterable fiduciary value par excellence.

Bruce Schneier

There's an entire flight simulator hidden in every copy of Microsoft Excel 97.

Brian Tracy

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

Brian Tracy

Set excellent performance as your standard and strive to achieve it each day

Bill O'Reilly

It's an excellent movie. Really excellent.

Bill Gates

Hey, size works against excellence.

Carl Peterson

Since he joined us in 1999, he's been an exemplary player on and off the field.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Valued companionships begin with a personal commitment to be an exemplary companion.

Olivier Theyskens

He is exemplary because he has such a modern and sharp spirit.

Beeban Kidron

Our children, manipulated to become exemplary consumers, increasingly admit they do not feel 'in control' of their own Internet use.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The most persuasive gospel tract is the exemplary life of a faithful Latter-day Saint.

Gary Hufbauer

While she has an exemplary career, she doesn't have the political weight that Portman had.

Ron Ruman

Something of this nature is extremely rare. Our experience is that the mammography facilities in Pennsylvania are doing an exemplary job.

Michael Quinn

He's an exemplary figure for all Americans. He's mentioned often at school.

Source Unknown

Wealth is what gives you the right to preach about the virtues of poverty.

Jennifer Warnes

In a song, you have to have a lyric that gives us new ideas on how to live, a lyric that makes us feel, and a melody that gives you some kind of body response and emotional response.

Suzanne Isidor

When I look at it on paper, it can look scary, but watching them play every day gives me confidence.

Suzanne Isador

When I look at it on paper it can be scarry that we're so inexperienced. Seeing them play every day gives me a lot of confidence.

Tina Brown

Owning news makes you important; it gives you a seat at the table.

Mick Foley

Love wrestling? On October 1st, Spike TV gives you more of what you love! Total Nonstop Action.

Lawrie McKinna

Losing Nick is a big blow, but it gives other players in the squad an opportunity to show us what they can do.

Cameron Russell

I work hard, but my modeling career gives my views undeserved attention.

Lark Voorhies

I thrive with fashion and shopping and imports and things like that. It gives me a rush. I love Barneys New York and Neiman Marcus and all the top-of-the-line houses.

David Vitter

D energy - Domestic jobs; Domestic energy; Deficit reduction.

David Rockwell

But what makes my job so great is there's no one answer that's right for every restaurant.

David Remnick

I'm a journalist - I'm not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one - a joyfully consuming one.

David Horowitz

My parents called themselves progressives. The agenda was a Soviet America...the slogan of the communist party in those days was peace, jobs, democracy. Sound familar? The communist party is the democratic Party.

David Dinkins

I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through law school. And so when I got to the point where I could give up the night job, I joined the political club.

David Dinkins

I finished law school in '56, but I was working two jobs.

David Duke

And affirmative action is a very nice term for racial discrimination against better-qualified white people in jobs, employment, promotions and scholarships, and college admittance.

David Duke

A black...gets a job with a white-owned company. He is the only black at the firm. He works hard, but he's fighting a losing battle against his genes.

David Duchovny

My whole life, Ive wanted things before I was ready. I was always pushing for the next job, the next success. I was so focused on achieving and the path that I was missing some great point about life.

Lykke Li

When I was very little, I was into Michael Jackson. At six or seven, it was Madonna, but she's not what she used to be. I've been into everything from Edith Piaf to Joe Strummer to the Velvet Underground to Suicide to A Tribe Called Quest to African music.

Danny White

One thing we don't have to worry about with Joe is his toughness. If there is any way for him to do it, he'll play.

Jacoby Jones

My favorite team while I was growing up was the New Orleans Saints. My favorite player was Joe Horn.

Ken Marino

The stuff I write with Joe Lo Truglio tends to lean towards horror-comedy and horror.

Steve Nash

Obviously, I'm going to miss Joe a lot. He wanted to try something else. What can you say? You wish him the best.

Gregg Williams

From the day that Joe Gibbs walked in here, he had their trust because of what he had accomplished in the past.

Susan Cook

I don't remember Little Joe ever stealing a car,

George Burley

We have plenty of back-up on the left-hand side so we have let Joe speak to Leicester.

Jack Warner

I give notice that Joe Public will be back on the scene in a big way. You won't have a two-team league no more.

David Vitter

We do not need international help to stop corruption, we need strong Louisiana Leadership.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.

Arthur Scargill

The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain.

Antony Jay

You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles... Other people can cope with the waves, it's his job to watch the tide.

Antony Jay

The only real training for leadership is leadership.

Denis Waitley

The five most important words a leader can speak are - 'I am proud of you' The four most important are - 'What is your opinion?' The three most important are - 'If you please' The two most important are - 'Thank You' And the most important single word of all is - 'You'

Dee Hock

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

Charles R. Swindoll

This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to do and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody thought Anybody would do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.

Charles R. Swindoll

Fortunately, God made all varieties of people with a wide variety of interests and abilities. He has called people of every race and color who have been hurt by life in every manner imaginable. Even the scars of past abuse and injury can be the means of bringing healing to another. What wonderful opportunities to make disciples!

Lawrence Eagleburger

In a time of constrained resources we will have to shift emphasis. but not necessarily from the traditional Political Officer to the traditional Economic Officer.

Katia Winter

I had a dream, when I was little, to become a police officer and a crime investigator.

Mike Sheffield

Mr. Torres tried to kill Officer Brenda Bermudez.

Bill Dunn

She was D.O.A. when officers got to the scene.

Hector Tobar

You cannot bribe a Chilean police officer - I know this firsthand.

Linwood Norman

But we are, too. We're putting 50 more police officers on the streets.

Ron Moran

But the reality is that we don't live in Mr. Rogers' neighborhood anymore. The reality is that our officers should be armed.

Jay Wright

Getting on the bus, police officers know everybody. People walking down the street know all the players' names. It is fun, but it is a challenge.

Robert Patton

I wouldn't use the word embarrassed. The officers performed admirably, so I'm proud of them.

Mark Klein

We're just operating at a slow rate of production. We'll just resume regular work tomorrow.

Jay Kim

From an operating point of view, the result was slightly better than what we expected.

Steve Donner

From that point of view, the taxpayers are well protected, and there is a risk and a reward for us operating the stadium.

Charles Petzold

To a programmer, an operating system is defined by its API.

Christopher Hill

What is the purpose of operating it at this point? ... The time to turn it off would be about now.

Christopher Hill

We're operating from a piece of paper now, and we'll see what we can do.

Atul Gawande

My vantage point on the world is the operating room where I see my patients.

Koichi Ogawa

The operating result was good, but the company's hedging policy didn't work out this time.

Paul Curlander

Currently, these operating results are not reflective of where we want to be.

John Byrne

Ultimately it's going to be better for the patient. It's going to transform otherwise high-risk operations into lower-risk operations.

Mark Cooper

Basically, you've got one and two in programming and one and two in system operations now all interconnected in a little knot.

David Moffett

I feel that the operations could and should have been performed a lot sooner,

Paul Costa

There is a possibility that we will have to stop operations by the end of the year.

Kofi Annan

when it comes to operations on that continent, we tend to do it on the cheap.

Max Mathurin

Voting operations (in the countryside) are normal, with some exceptions.

Hong Zhijian

We've been preparing for such operations ever since 2003.

Ajay Singh

But since they have been a part of similar operations previously we are not ruling out the possibility.

E. O. Wilson

We think that cross-border operations would be unwise.

David Brooks

President Obama was the first president not to abide by the limits in the general election.

Al Franken

When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation.

Al Franken

I want a president who can handle a cream soda.

Al Gore

I don't have the illusion that there's any position or role in the world with as much potential for bringing about change as that of president of the United States.

Al Gore

I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.

Jan Brewer

President Obama and Hillary Clinton, every time you disagree with them it doesn't matter which subject it is, you're a bigot or you're a racist.

Augusto Pinochet

Executive power is exercised by the President of the Governing Board who, with the title of President of the Republic of Chile, administers the state and is the Supreme Chief of the Nation.

Vladimir Kozhin

The public can and should speak up, but the president will make a decision, because this is a unique compound.

Calvin Coolidge

I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ass for president, so I went along with them.

Joy Couch

We're glad. We're proud of it. It's something we've talked about, but it's not our ultimate goal.

Jason Bay

I don't denounce being Canadian at any point, but I'm definitely proud to be an American.

Jane Garvey

We have, I am proud to say, successfully transitioned in a very uneventful way.

Britney Spears

Yes I'm a virgin and proud of it.

Ben Parr

I'm proud to call myself a Mashable alumnus.

Bai Ling

You have to be proud of who you are.

Nancy Morris

One woman said it was things like this that made her proud to be a resident of Watertown.

Marco Sullivan

She skied like a rock star. I'm proud she represented Squaw like that.

Fernando Ferrer

should be proud of the race he ran.

Michael R. Bloomberg

We have six weeks to go, ... With your help, we can make it happen.

Tori Kelly

My first competition, I guess, singing-wise, I was six years old, and there's a video of it, too. I'm just, like, stick straight. I'm not moving at all, and I'm just singing.

Carla Ponte

My disappointment - my big disappointment - is because six fugitives are still at large, most probably in Serbia, and that includes, of course, Mladic,

Bob Eastwood

Sixty is just a number. I don't feel 60.

Jessie Pettit

Six times now, huh. That's not too bad.

Bryan Clay

I train six to seven hours every single day. I wake up six days a week and know that it's going to be the same thing.

Anthony Trollope

There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.

Bam Margera

Actually, I've always wanted to be a professional skateboarder ever since I was about six.

Linda Price

We're going to be with them a lot for at least the first six months, then slowly wean them. We're not just going to throw them into an apartment.

Craig Venter

My genetic autobiography can be found throughout my body.

Karen Minton

We'll see showers off and on throughout Saturday.

Tom Ross

Throughout the first week of grand-opening festivities, well over 100,000 visitors are expected,

Guru Nanak

Throughout the ages, know Him as the One.

Mystikal

I guess I reinvented myself about 18 times throughout my career.

Tara Strong

We really have a lot of fun at these sessions, we all get along and kid around with each other throughout the job.

Bob Mayer

I think the philosophy that we don't know as much as we think we know resonates throughout my work.

Kelly Price

My weight has been one of the most challenging things that I've had to deal with throughout my career.

Phil Harrison

It doesn't put us at a competitive disadvantage at all. Throughout our history, we have never been the first to market.

Jane Gardam

Mum was a tremendous Anglo-Catholic. Very impressive, actually. She made me go to church for years - I still don't want to because of that.

Jim Gresh

She's just a tremendous athlete. She can do it all. She's very versatile, and she can really play any position.

Robert Matthews

I had many, many wonderful conversations with her about everything under the sun. She was one tremendous person.

Joel Quenneville

He's had a tremendous year, I'll tell you,

Michael Foley

There is a tremendous untapped marketplace here in Mexico.

Russ Boyer

He's a tremendous defender. He does a lot for us back there.

Lloyd Carr

He has a tremendous attitude. He's very optimistic. He's very positive.

Norm Chow

I think he's a tremendous player. He's so explosive.

Chris Jordan

I think there's a tremendous amount of unacknowledged hostility in American culture.