Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yotam Ottolenghi

Call me tacky, but I love the union of sweet and sour, even in some now-unloved Oriental dishes incorporating pineapple and ketchup.

Wesley Clark

I said the rosary, and I said the Our Father, as they call it in the Catholic Church. One of the things I learned in the conversion process was to say the rosary, and I had a set of rosary beads. So I said 'Hail Mary, full of grace.'

Viswanathan Anand

I honestly don't remember when and why I started calling my mom 'Momsi'. These are family things; it starts for some reason. It's not that I just call her Momsi; I call her other things as well!

Constance Marie

Family to me is foundation. It's the people that you can call on whether you love them or hate them. When push comes to shove, they're there for you, and that's kind of how this family is.

Chris Carter

If you look at 'The X-Files' generally, we did 202 episodes. About 80% of them are not 'mythology' episodes, which tend to be the epic episodes. They deal with the big conspiracies, the search for Mulder's sister. They deal with what I would call the 'saga' of 'The X-Files.'

Don Rickles

I call myself an actor. I always wanted to be one.

Rob Bishop

The political spin in Washington is revolting, just revolting. It's a callous political game.

Martin Lapointe

The overtime calls hurt the game. It's a big game, a big rivalry. the refs should let us play. I guess this is the new NHL. To lose a game on a cheap penalty is not the way to play hockey.

Constantin Brancusi

They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.

Colleen Atwood

It's often said that costume designers are a faceless group of people. But we can contribute to fashion in a way that might be new and different.

Tony Bates

There's a shift to mobile apps; I'd like to see a more pervasive communications experience, and I think Skype can contribute to that.

Lynn Schusterman

A high school and college degree are linked to greater employment prospects, higher earning potential, and the ability to contribute more to our communities.

Karin Slaughter

As voters and taxpayers, we must demand that our local governments properly prioritize libraries. As citizens, we must invest in our library down the street so that the generations served by that library grow up to be adults who contribute not just to their local communities but to the world.

Thaksin Shinawatra

Enough is enough. Six years you serve the countries. You been working hard. You sacrifice your time even your life. And, even your family life. So it's, it's time for me to go back as a private citizen. And contribute to the Thai society outside political arena.

Nikki Reed

My goal is to play characters that I feel I can contribute to and also ones I can contribute back to my life.

Evan Spiegel

There's this weird thing that happens when you contribute something to a static profile. You have to worry about how this new content fits in with your online persona that's supposed to be you. It's uncomfortable and unfortunate.

Lord Robertson

For years, we have heard warnings that Europe needs to contribute more to NATO's capability.

Craig Sher

We are grateful to have been able to contribute to the development of Tampa's historic Latin Quarter.

Werner Klemperer

But when they offered this little situation for me to do this voice in this special segment, I found it so incredibly humorous that I said yes, and I enjoyed it. It was fun.

Buck Owens

I enjoyed the Hee Haw people, but from 1980 on I didn't enjoy it and thought about leavin', and thought, hell, it's an easy job and pays wonderful. I kinda just prostituted myself for their money.

Erin O'Connor

I've enjoyed many camping holidays with my sister and her children, but we're pretty posh campers.

Muhammad Ali

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it - and I may come back.

Lalla Ward

I enjoyed the promotion with K9 on my introduction day.

Craig Sheffer

I enjoyed my 20s - they were torturous and beautiful. I learned so much about myself and about life and about the nature of people.

Chris Moneymaker

I used to sports gamble a lot and I was getting killed on that but then I found poker and really enjoyed it. But it was a hobby more than anything else. I played it every day but only on pretty small stakes.

Paul Thomas Anderson

I actually enjoyed the struggles that we had trying to shape 'Blood', to get the pacing right, the rhythm of it.

Marilynne Robinson

I really enjoyed my kids. They were good boys, you know, and interesting. And they didn't wear me out.

Virginia Postrel

I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother.

Jacek Tyszkiewicz

The pavement underneath the asphalt is crumbling. The drainage wasn't that particularly good. The planners back in the 1960's expect only 150,000 vehicles a day.

Mike Quade

The past two or three weeks we've pitched it the way I thought we would from the get-go. This is also the kind of pitching I expect from Mitre.

Paul Kantner

I wouldn't have expected an audience of ours to burn down our equipment.

Joe Kirk

We play physical. We take pride in not giving up many points. We expect great things for this year.

Nancy McDaniel

We play at Stanford at least once a year, so I expect our seniors to lead.

Pat Casey

We play 56 games. We expect to win them all, but we're not going to. We're just trying to find our way around.

H. Hart

We probably should have lost that game, really. We made a lot of mistakes. You don't expect them to miss two field goals and get that many chances, that's for sure.

Brian Harper

We probably did 25 percent of the sales we were expected to do.

Robert Clark

The overall message we received from teachers is they are extremely pleased the program is available.

Sharon Johnson

The pendulum has just been swinging back and forth with the fundamentals in the market, ... This is an extremely short crop, but the big negative has been questions about demand.

Ian Stannard

The PCE deflator will be extremely important today. The market looks at this very much as one of Fed's main indicators. If it's strong the market will not only be looking for a rate hike at this meeting but next time around as well.

Ian Stannard

The PCE deflator will be extremely important today. If it's strong the market will not only be looking for a rate hike at this meeting but next time around as well.

Brian K. Vaughan

I was only ever part of 'Lost' - a very small part of an extremely talented writers' room, where as a writer, it's sort of your job to sublimate your ego and work in the service of the show and the show's voice.

Christien Meindertsma

Even if you are genuinely interested in what is in your products, it is extremely difficult and often impossible to find out.

Denis Napthine

I am extremely proud to have the honour and privilege to be the Premier of this great state of Victoria.

Jose Gil

We play pretty good at home. Actually, we play extremely well at home. But away from home, we just aren't comfortable. I'm plain tired of watching us lose in the first or second round.

Kurt Vonnegut

Younger scientists are extremely sensitive to the moral implications of all they do.

Bill Hader

I've always admired Jeff Bridges. I really like how one can never get a handle on what he's doing.

Mavis Staples

The kids today have these fresh faces. It's like they're on pins and needles, waiting to see what I'm going to do. They've never seen me. In the 1960s, those were hippies. They were wired up already. The kids today know me because I've worked with Jeff Tweedy and other young producers.

Jay Johnson

Where Jeff could score 25 or 30 points now we're getting 12 points from this post player, 12 points from this post player and maybe six from another. It's more evenly distributed.

Bob Stanley

We got word that they're looting on Jefferson Highway, which is our neighborhood. We've quit worrying about the water. Now we're worried about the looting.

Mike Ricci

The only two teams we didn't see were Jefferson and Princeton.

Chris Christensen

Rocky Mountain National Park, Winter Park and the mountains were very important to Jeff. We are at peace knowing that Jeff was doing something he loved and we are proud of him.

Darren Maynard

Our No. 4 through 6 really stepped it up. Especially Jeff Snyder.

Rick Comley

I thought Jeff was really sharp, and the puck is starting to go for us.

S. Hughes

I thought Jeff was in the zone today. His passes were crisp; they were on the money.

Anthony Chan

The overall trend is that we're making progress,

Peter Morgan

The overall trend is still that the recovery is weak. I wouldn't say that this is a turnaround yet.

Dean Ornish

What matters most is your overall way of eating and living.

John Abizaid

There are peaks and valleys that you go through, but overall the trend is good,

Greg Aiello

We're very pleased with the overall state of our officiating.

Al Groh

What we really need from an overall personnel standpoint is we need our veteran players to play better and we need our younger players to step up,

Carlos Asilis

Yes, it's an unambiguous positive. But in terms of its overall importance, it's only marginal.

Ken Read

Overall it's disappointing. I think that disappointment is shared by the athletes. I think their expectations was they wanted to do better.

Michael Lawson

Overall it is pretty much the same procedure.

Paul Simpson

We are not in a position where we have to let players go and we have let Livingston know that.

Al Kaline

Players shy away from talking to announcers today.

Joanne Bracker

We're at the end of the season now, so we're going to regroup with the players we have.

Wes Welker

I go out there with whatever the coaches call, and whatever they do, I just go out there, and I'm the player. Coaches coach, and players play.

Bill Parcells

So if the players trust the coach, it's not a problem. If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.

Colin Lee

There are not a lot of players who want to come here,

John Bernett

We know that we have players who could be at other schools scoring 20 points. For us, we are just here to win.

Heather O'Reilly

Our journey has taken 21 players but our goal is still the same, to win the World Cup.

Kirk Cheney

We got to 22 points in a hurry, and then how many two-footers did we miss? It's all about a team effort, and who's going to step up. And we had some players do that for us tonight.

John Lopez

We still are proud of who we are. But we're not the rah-rah school we were.

Nick Swisher

We battled to get in this spot, and we've got to feel proud about what we've accomplished, ... We just want to keep it going right now; we just need to keep riding that wave.

Philip Hoffman

We're at the party, mom. Be proud mom, because I'm proud of you.

Liz Darger

We could end the season right now and I'd be happy. I'm proud of this whole team.

Tommy Swanson

We had our chances. It was still a solid year for us, one we can look back on and be proud of.

Tom Renney

We were sloppy, but we didn't give up. I'm proud of that.

Shaun Alexander

We have a lot of things to be proud of. We took Seattle to a place it's never been before.

Chad Alan

We're very proud of where we come from.

Rick Hendrick

We're really proud of the team and the effort.

Ludwig von Mises

The tricks and artifices of advertising are available to the seller of the better product no less than to the seller of the poorer product. But only the former enjoys the advantage derived from the better quality of his product.

Paula Beall

We were just enthralled by the quality of the space that we could see through the storefront windows,

Norman Edelman

The quality of the institution was getting better. The scandal will set it back. This is the tragedy.

Charles McClelland

The quality of play is much improved." ()

Charles W. Pickering

The current lack of a national standard for operators of medical imaging and radiation therapy equipment poses a hazard to American patients and jeopardizes quality health care.

Charles Dickens

It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has, and not by the qualities she may not have.

Alan Chadwick

We need to create the beauty and the quality first. The quantity will follow.

Akio Morita

Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.

Camille Paglia

Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them.

Walter Brower

The PD is over now. We've got a new season to play now, and we need to go 3-0 to get to where we want to be.

Derrick Brooks

(We) still have a lot to accomplish. That's something to think about when the season is over.

Ricky Ford

This season has really been a tale of two seasons for me,

Daunte Culpepper

We can still do what we set out to do. We have a lot of season left.

Rohit Sharma

Every first-class season is important; every game is crucial, irrespective of whether you are in the Indian team or not.

Willie Randolph

We'll probably be going back-and-forth all season with these guys.

Dema Kovalenko

We didn't come out to play, we didn't come out with any urgency. We've got to do better because, if we do this in the playoffs, the season is over.

Neil Warnock

We had to stand strong in the second half, and this season we are showing more composure.

Sam Madison

Usually this time of the season takes a nosedive.

Chet Faker

All my ego wants is to be sitting by a lake in Italy. It doesn't want to be backstage, warming up.

David Zayas

There's not too many things I'm afraid of, but I'm not too brave when it comes to sitting in a chair getting my teeth drilled.

Neneh Cherry

To me, a song is a song when you can sit in a room and just sing it from end to end.

Tony Fernandes

I don't care about failing because I do not want to sit down in my older years and say, 'How come I didn't try?'

Sarah Hall

Dystopian novels, such as Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four,' often tend to site their despotised or deformed civilisations in urban environments.

Kim Zimmerman

We are not going to have a lot of time to do things outside, but a lot of teams are in pretty much the same situation this time of the year.

Liz Vassey

Don't paint a nasty picture of your exes. We'll justifiably wonder what made you stay in those heinous situations in the first place.

Imtiaz Ali

If a person wants to enjoy attention, he will create situations to get it.

Andy Goldsworthy

I have walked around the same streets so many times, and then seen a place that had been hidden to me. I now know the sites in a way that makes me think I could have made better use of the connections between place and snowball.

David Steinberg

When I talk to Steve Martin, he's joyful when he talks about comedy.

Xavier Niel

I don't think Steve Jobs had much desire to share his fortune.

Bus Cook

We have to get some things resolved. I'm sure the Titans want to keep Steve, and I'm sure they will. Steve wants to stay, and we want to keep him in Tennessee.

Tom Muller

One job, one wife, one house. That's Steve Flores.

Allen Iverson

Steve set the tone for them and everyone else just followed.

Matt Birk

Steve Hutchinson, in my opinion, is worth that money.

Jim Heath

We think Steven (Duncan) will make it (to state) in the 100 back.

Rafael Benitez

It is only a possibility that Steven can play.

Digger Phelps

If this happens, this is time for Steve to make that move.

Ben Barnes

Sometimes success comes in ways you don't expect.

Edward James Olmos

Success is a matter of one's own feeling about oneself.

D'Brickashaw Ferguson

Sometimes you have success and not so much success versus certain people.

Vonda Shepard

Success was overnight, but it was a very long night.

Susan Sontag

Self-censorship, the most important and most successful form of censorship, is rampant. Debate is identified with dissent, which is in turn identified with disloyalty. There is a widespread feeling that, in this new, open-ended emergency, we may not be able to 'afford' our traditional freedoms.

Kathleen Edwards

I know I'm not the 'Indie It Girl' and I'll never have a big breakout, big runaway success. And that's okay.

Alan Cohen

The point of life is not to be married or single - it is to be. We are human beings, or humans being. It does not matter so much what lifestyle we choose - it's what we make of the opportunities to grow, that counts.

Alan Cohen

True champions are team players.

Alan Cohen

We learn early on that, in order to be a winner, you have to believe in yourself. You have to have the confidence to make things happen. And you have to have personal pride.