Famous Quotes & Sayings

Willie Mays

And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5' 11". So I just picked baseball.

Wendell Phillips

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

William Wyler

It's eighty percent script and twenty percent you get great actors. There's nothing else to it.

William Scott

You just don't want to push people into doing things that they really don't want to do. I don't think it's going to produce much.

William Scott

There are certain authors that do not turn students on; it is the truth. Homer happens to be one of them.

William Scott

On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting.

William Scott

I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of an illusion.

William Scott

The one thing you've got to say about Columbia is that it has courses that are famous. It has alumni who come back and say it was the best thing they ever did.

William Scott

The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning.

Yuri Milner

Google never knew how successful key words would be. Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.

Vivek Wadhwa

When my generation grew up, our only sources of knowledge were books, teachers, parents and friends. The encyclopedia was an item of luxury. We faced big limits in what we could learn, where we could be and who we could reach.

Bill Hader

Let's face it: I look pretty out of shape.

Dennis Crowley

Facebook is about sharing experiences that you've had. Foursquare is more about the present tense and the future tense.

Vladimir Potanin

It is not good to demonstrate your luxury and your wealth: to rub it in the faces of others is insulting. So you should be modest; try not to insult people by showing that you can do what they cannot.

Brittany Murphy

Life presents you with so many decisions. A lot of times, they're right in front of your face and they're really difficult, but we must make them.

Dallas Roberts

I remember walking out in front of that crowd, all the parents' faces and the applause, and folding my little self in half and thinking, 'I could get used to this.' And I just never stopped.

Steven Sinofsky

When faced with something complex, spend the time to think about some structure, write down sentences, think about it some more, and then share it.

V. E. Schwab

Young people like to think they're invincible. They don't like to face any situation where they've gotten weaker instead of stronger.

Ramana Maharshi

Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.

Ethel Waters

You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.

Barbara Corcoran

My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever?

Zac Efron

I might not be the greatest actor, but I walk into every project willing to work hard.

Lubna Olayan

I think that Saudi women are very powerful. And I think that Saudi men are the greatest support to Saudi women.

Andrew Lansley

Especially some of the poorest in our society need to have the greatest support because health inequalities are too wide.

Judy Gold

To have a job making people laugh really is the greatest thing.

Anthony Wilson

We're not the greatest businessmen in the world. And this place stands as a testament to that.

Vance Joy

I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.

Tony Kaye

When I started my filmmaking journey 17 years ago, I honestly didn't know what a documentary film was.

Nikki Sixx

I think - I honestly think that my story is not 100 percent that unique. I think that I'm - just the whole rock star part kind of throws an interesting twist on it.

Evan Rachel Wood

I've honestly fallen in love with a man and I've honestly fallen in love with a woman. I don't know how you label that, it's just how it is.

Lorie Kessler

We recognize that some process improvements will result in some workforce reductions. We will communicate openly and honestly when the process is finalized.

Angie Harmon

I left 'Law and Order' because I really honestly did want to do movies and did want to be a movie star since I was a little girl.

Wayne Rooney

I play the game as honestly as I can. If the referee gives a penalty there is nothing you can do.

Tom Reeves

We didn't even go. We honestly thought that $4 million was pushing it, so there wasn't any missed opportunity.

Diablo Cody

Honestly, this will never happen because she's so much classier than me, but I would love to work with Sofia Coppola.

David Cross

[If Donald Trump does get elected, I will be] probably Secretary Of Reeducation. Or I don't know. I'll probably end up working in the cafeteria.

David Brooks

It's rare in an administration for a secretary of state and a secretary of defense to get along really well.

Leon Panetta

You know, one thing I've learned over 40 years is that when you have jobs in Washington, you do it day by day and that's what I'm doing as secretary of defense.

Bill Richardson

My view is that the secretary should step aside.

Hillary Clinton

My work as secretary of state was not influenced by the outside forces.

Hillary Clinton

When I was secretary of state, we actually increased American exports globally 30 percent. We increased them to China 50 percent.

Hillary Clinton

I have a lot of experience dealing with classified material, starting when I was on the Senate Armed Services Committee going into the four years as secretary of state.

Michael Bloomberg

Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can't control.

Suranne Jones

She worked in one as a secretary when she was 21 or 22,

Joe Farmer

We're standing by, waiting for them to tell us what to do.

Norma Aviles

Wake up. See what's happening. Today it's me, tomorrow it could be you standing here. It's a place you don't want to stand.

Mike Lynch

I really didn't think we'd be able to be standing here. I never really thought I'd be able to do something like this.

Johnny Christ

If I ever wanted a gnome, I guess Id just stand out on my lawn for a while.

Ayn Rand

You don't know how hard I've tried to be left standing all by myself.

Bruce Lee

We have more faith in what we imitate than in what we create

Ben Howland

I was uncomfortable standing there. I'm wanting water after water out of the machine.

Christina Milian

There hasn't been one highlight that stands out... but touring and performing has been great.

Jeff Ross

Charlie Sheen is to stand-up what Larry Flynt is to standing up.

Alan Cohen

No matter what has happened, let today be new.

J. Stoltzfus

Today was a make-nice day, and I think it went well.

Ted Jr.

Today was a big, big win for us.

Paul Roos

Today that didn't happen, we've got to work out why?

Ludwig von Mises

What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.

Peter Diamandis

Today we have made history. Today we go to the stars.

Giselle Davies

Today we have a totally different and accountable system.

Thomas Froehlich

We've made an announcement today and there is no other decision.

Alan Perlis

We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.