Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Yaeger

Seeing the intensity and power she brings to the game, it's hard to imagine her being anything but single-minded in pursuing tennis. But Serena Williams has other passions, too. In fact, there doesn't seem to be enough time in the day, week or month for one of the world's most gifted athletes to chase her many interests.

Duane Joubert

We played a pretty good game. We played consistent, and we did a great job shooting. Hughes Springs has some great athletes on their team, but we came out ready to play and we led the whole way.

David Pelletier

We probably have a different viewpoint. But the one thing we have in common is that we were all athletes being thrown into this mess together.

Matt Cooke

We pretty much have an open invitation to any athlete that would like to try it, free of charge.

Fumie Suguri

We pledge to do our best to win medals while making efforts to deepen exchanges with athletes of other countries and contribute to world peace.

Ban Ki-moon

Not many countries establish a prize for peace. The Seoul Peace Prize has its roots in the 1988 Summer Olympics when this country opened its doors to people and athletes from more than 160 countries. Korea did so in part because it believes in the power of sports for peace and development.

Dennis Quaid

Athletes are sort of part of the community at large. They have to be dedicated to what they do, and go through lots of peaks and valleys. And there's a lot of training that goes into their careers. It's a struggle. Very dramatic.

Hank Tierney

When I got here (at West Jeff in 2002 following a sterling career at Archbishop Shaw), I heard there was this great athlete at the school, but I couldn't get him to come out.

Jim Nantz

When Dale Murphy speaks, everyone in sports should listen. Dale led a model life during his career, and still does. This book is a heartfelt attempt to help every professional athlete and I guarantee it will.

Jim Berry

The pellets take the color of the wood that they're eating. They're in a very distinct little pile, like gritty sand.

Dries van Noten

I'm a very big fan of winter-flowering shrubs and bulbs. You have the smell, you have the color - it's really like a present from God when something like that is in flower in the middle of the snow.

Patch Adams

I'm a clown, which could be a public health role. I'm really interested in moving our society away from a society needing Xanax and Prozac, and that is really feeling depressed, to one that is celebrating, and so I find just walking around in colorful clothes, people smile.

Paul Robeson

Four hundred million in India, and millions everywhere, have told you, precisely, that the colored people are not going to die for anybody: they are going to die for their independence.

Tyler Oakley

Once you dye your hair for the first time, you see other people with dyed hair, and you see them differently than you did before. And you're just like 'Yes! Live! Work that color! Yes, I love you in every way! You're killin' it! I want to do that color next!'

French Montana

I feel like, you know, some people like to wear colorful stuff. Some people like to be blacked down, and some people just want to be colorful. Some people just have weird problems. I'm never going to wear a pink sweater. Some people just do it because they feel like they can do it.

Carol W. Greider

As a kid, I thought of myself as stupid because I needed remedial help. It was not until much later that I figured out that I was dyslexic and that my trouble with spelling and sounding out words did not mean I was stupid, but early impressions stuck with me and colored my world for a time.

Leon Theremin

There was one man who was interested in the color of music, the connection between light and music, and that was Einstein.

Don Garber

This name and these colors forge an identity inspired by the city's entrepreneurial founders and worthy of its rich soccer history.

Alan Cohen

Be clear on where you are and where you want to go and you will get there. It can be the best year of your life.

Hilary Mantel

So many years of preparation, for what was called adult life: was it for this?

Dick Cheney

A little tough talk in the midst of a campaign or as part of a presidential debate cannot obscure a record of 30 years of being on the wrong side of defense issues.

Dick Cheney

In his years in Washington, Senator Kerry has been one vote of a hundred in the United States Senate - and fortunately on matters of national security he was very often in the minority.

Dick Cheney

I got to be White House chief of staff, ten years of congressman, secretary of defense, vice-president. If you're a political junkie like I obviously am - that was - every one of those was just a tremendous experience. I'm very comfortable with what I did and why I did it and how I did it. And I'll let others judge whether they liked it or not.

Walter Benjamin

We have to have a vision of the world we want to make in 100 years. And maybe when we have that vision, when we convince enough people that that is a realistic vision, and that the opposite vision is basically that if we don't do something in this 100 years, a hundred years from now this world is gonna be so destroyed, so raped and ravished that we won't HAVE much of a world to save.

English Proverbs

What will you do if your product still further increases next year? You should then destroy again the warehouses which you are now preparing to build, and build bigger. For the reason why God has given you fruitful harvests is that He might either overcome your avarice or condemn it; wherefore you can have no excuse. But you keep for yourself what He wished to be produced through you for the benefit of many - nay, rather, you rob even yourself of it, since you would better preserve it for yourself if you distributed it to others.

English Proverbs

If it is "daily bread," why do you take it once a year? . . . Take daily what is to profit you daily. Live in such a way that you may deserve to receive it daily. He who does not deserve to receive it daily, does not deserve to receive it once a year.

Mark Cuban

Business happens over years and years. Value is measured in the total upside of a business relationship, not by how much you squeezed out in any one deal.