Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Keegan

That decision, for me, was almost certainly definitely wrong.

Kevin Brownlow

The reason I put so much energy into it at the beginning was that while there were plenty of people looking after the talkies, almost nobody was doing the same for the silents. Now there are plenty of very good historians and restorers.

Keith Emerson

I've broken my nose, I've broken ribs. You name it. In fact, we just got back from South America, and I fell over a monitor speaker on the stage and almost ended up in the front row of the audience. I managed to sprain my wrist on that one but luckily nothing was broken.

John Cena

If you watch wrestling, you now know the hip-hop culture is being represented with wrestling. For the longest time, the cultures have almost been parallel.

John Cleese

I'm not saying Obama is right on everything. Of course not. He may be wrong on a number of things. But what I do know is that he behaves like a very, very sane man almost all the time.

O. Henry

It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain

John Green

When you go to a great concert, you feel this arc, almost like the music of a well-chosen set takes you on this trip through emotions and through various forms of intellectual engagement.

Jason Ritter

I think as far as I've been able to understand from my friends that I went to college with and things like that is that it almost seems like Russian Roulette when you're coming out of the closet to your parents.

Joel Edgerton

Whenever you're trying to do your own take on a classic piece of literature, it's almost like you're trying to swim up your own stream or drive down your own path.

Don Maestri

We accomplished a lot this year. We won 14 games, which I think is overachieving. We beat (ULL) twice and Western Kentucky, which was a big win for our program.

Shawn Flanary

We accomplished a lot of goals, especially winning the NCC after finishing second the last two years. All the teams that beat us were all ranked in the top 20.

Bob Jacoby

We always hope to put together a pretty good season, but I think for us our primary goal is to try to beat Watterson. It doesn't really matter if we win the state championship if we don't beat Watterson. That's kind of the way it's become.

Ruth Shields

We always have a nice little rivalry with them so it's a nice way to start the season, beating a county rival,

Jay Graham

We always had a (player) within an arm's length of (Kirstein). We respect his game. We wanted to make sure that he didn't beat us.

Jose Gonzalez

We always had a guitar at home, but it wasn't until I was 14 when I picked it up myself when my father handed me these sheets of music of the Beatles and some other classics. That's where I learned all the chords and learned how to play and sing at the same time.

Eric Devendorf

We always feel like we can beat (anybody). We have the talent. It's just the chemistry. We need to play together and play well on defense and then the offense is gonna come.

Jermaine Wallace

We always expect any team can beat you. Coach Mike stresses the fact that you can't underestimate anybody.

Bill Hybels

The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.

David Hockney

How difficult it is to learn not to see like cameras, which has had such an effect on us. The camera sees everything at once. We don't.

David Hockney

I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.

Audrina Patridge

I definitely feel much more comfortable in front of the cameras after 'The Hills.' Before, it was much more nerve-racking.

Richard Oster

We actually go to king school to learn to use the scepter. You first acknowledge the people upstairs who came to view.

Juror No

We actually challenged one another in the deliberation room. We challenged the issues, and we came to the decision that pointed to reasonable doubt.

Amber Smith

We actually came out pretty flat-footed. Even though we had a lot of goals, they had a lot of mental breakdowns today. ... But we're glad to come out with a win.

Joe Masleh

We accomplished what we came here to do due to great senior leadership.

Terry Butcher

Wayne Rooney is wasted switching between the right and left hand side. He's got to play through the middle, playing to his strengths. He came inside in the second half but didn't know what he was doing.

Kevin Lynch

When television came out, there was concern it would kill radio.

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.

Paul Spear

We had chances, but didn't capitalize. (Cathedral) needed three points to get in; so they played well. They certainly weren't playing for the tie.

Robert Pearson

We had certainly hoped for a favorable decision by the parliament, but I want to emphasize our relationship and the importance of the work we have done thus far, and the fact that the United States is still a friend of Turkey and we consider this relationship to be very important.

Rick Carlisle

We had a whole scheme set up to double-team him. He goes out of the game, it certainly changes the complexion of the game for their team.

Uday Kotak

In equities, you price the risk. As far as debt is concerned, if the markets get more sophisticated where, for the levels of risks that you take, you get the debt returns, we will certainly look at it. It's back to a philosophy of risk-adjusted returns.

Todd Rundgren

I certainly have a fascination with pop music as a musical form, not necessarily as a lifelong commitment. I guess you could say I'm like a Casanova of music. I can't seem to settle down with one musical form.

Stephanie Marquis

We're glad we have the money this year. We certainly hope to get more money next year.

Kara Lawson

We're looking at this as a must-win. We're looking at this as the only game left and we certainly hope it's the only game left. We don't want to fall into the trap of saying you've got two to win one. ... We know they didn't win 26 games because they laid down and quit, or because they laid down and died. So I expect it to be, if we are to win, our toughest win of the season.

Andy Roberts

When you put your heart and soul into something for 10, 15 years, it's a career. You do it in the hopes you can be fairly evaluated and make it to the major leagues.

Kylie Minogue

I have always had a separate walk-in wardrobe, so I have the luxury of a fairly sparse bedroom.

Lee Westwood

Yeah, two or three weeks ago I was fairly snappy. I've never been injured before and this year it feels like I've hardly played.

Ric Ocasek

People tell me all the time that I look forbidding or aloof. That doesn't bother me much - I am fairly private, withdrawn, and... distant, I guess. But, um, I think that's okay.

Robert Garrison

We did fairly well considering we've only had most of the girls for about a week and the Texas schools were in their third or fourth meet.

Pansy Tlakula

The process has been fairly smooth with only minor hiccups.

Mark Goddard

The only person who had any control was Jonathan Harris. His character was so flamboyant that he was able to make things happen. My character was fairly one-dimensional, so I had my relationship with Dr. Smith and with the family.

James Vincent McMorrow

More often than not, changes had to be made in order for a song to make sense, and by the end of it, it would just be something different. Lyrically, I am usually fairly confused until something is finished, and then it makes perfect sense to me.

Adam Lamberg

Memorising my lines is actually something I do fairly well. I look at it a few times and it is pretty much there. When your shooting on TV, they do it in such a way that it is pretty easy.

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.

Tina Fey

I feel like it's harder to get women to show up for movies.

Michael Hirschorn

The pond is getting pretty well fished, and booking (someone fresh) is getting harder and harder, ... somebody who is just depressing.

Brandon Jennings

The harder you work when nobody’s watching the less you bleed when it’s time to perform.

Angus King

One of my life principles is that if something isn't working, doing something harder isn't necessarily going to produce the same result.

Natalie Cole

One thing that stays the same is my passion for music. Other than that, I've become more dedicated. I think that I really work much harder than I ever did when I first started at my craft; I'm more dedicated, and I have become a perfectionist.

Kevin Connors

She has that potential to get better. She's a quick player, and she's worked a lot harder on her shot.

Jessica Martinez

Missing them is a big deal, but I think the rest of the team, the rest of the players knew what was on the line, and everyone just stepped it up and played harder throughout the second half.

Michael Hurst

Many POWs went home and were discouraged from talking about their time in Taiwan. Therefore, we must work harder to make sure these men are never forgotten.

Kim Jones

She shot a real nice, solid 44 on the back nine which I thought was the harder nine. One hole really got her.

David Ricardo

If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.

David Hockney

With watercolour, you can't cover up the marks. There's the story of the construction of the picture, and then the picture might tell another story as well.

Barnett Newman

I know that it is impossible to talk about my work. And since it's impossible for me or anybody else to talk about my work, I feel I might as well talk about it.

Audrey Tautou

It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight.

Deb Caletti

They never told you that stranger might be someone you knew.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Lifting where we stand is a principle of power. Most of the priesthood bearers I know understand and live by this principle. They are eager to roll up their sleeves and go to work, whatever that work might be.

Diana Gabaldon

While the Lord might insist that vengeance was His, no male Highlander of my acquaintance had ever thought it right that the Lord should be left to handle such things without assistance.

Charles Darwin

It occurred to me, in 1837, that something might perhaps be made of this question (the origin of the species) by patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it

Bill Hicks

Let's do some comedy. I always like to add some comedy to my show. Those who've seen me before might know that.

Arthur Adamov

Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.

Kathleen Glynn

This really is a pleasure, and I thank all of you.

David Brooks

Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure

Agnes Repplier

To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.

Juvenal

Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.

Juvenal

Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence.

Baltasar Gracian

Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.

Diana Vreeland

Pleasure is everything.

Charles Lamb

There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.

Denis Waitley

Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example!

Alan Dershowitz

If we move away from the American tradition of lawyers defending those with whom they vehemently disagree -- as we temporarily did during the McCarthy period -- we weaken our commitment to the rule of law... So beware of an approach which limits advocacy to that which is approved by the standards of political correctness.

Charles Kingsley

If you wish to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you, what people think of you; and then to you nothing will be pure. You will spoil everything you touch; you will make sin and misery for yourself out of everything God sends you; you will be as wretched as you choose.

Blaise Pascal

We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be esteemed by it. Man, in fact, places all his happiness in this esteem.

Keyshawn Johnson

How can you not respect somebody like me? If you don't respect me, it's because you got hatin' all over you. If you don't like me, you don't like yourself.

Tom Stoppard

A free press needs to be a respected press.

Albert Schweitzer

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.

Albert Schweitzer

Today it is considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form of life as being the serious demand of a rational ethic. But the time is coming when people will be amazed that the human race existed so long before it recognized that thoughtless injury to life is incompatible with real ethics. Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life.

Albert Schweitzer

Only those who respect the personality of others can be of real use to them.

Olli Jokinen

We're just trying to get as much of shots as possible,

Greg Williams

She was really huge. We've been watching her make 3s all year in practice, but we haven't been able to get her to look for her shot in the games.

Erlana Larkins

Shots like that just take everything out of you.

Adam Haluska

Shots going down. That's what it's all about.

Phyliss Willis

She got the shot we wanted. But unfortunately she walked.

Peter Edwards

The other, the Klingensmith's cat, he'd shot and buried,

Mitchell Davis

We started out well, and we made them take shots that we wanted them to. But Trinity's very good. And we just couldn't make any shots.

Scott Wilson

We struggled offensively all night. The shots just rolled off the rim.

Joevan Catron

We started off really sluggish. That shot got us going and started us rolling.