Famous Quotes & Sayings

Belinda Stronach

When I made the decision to leave I could have potentially been in an election just two to three days after. Mr. Emerson campaigned as a Liberal and just a few days after the election made the decision to leave.

Terry J. Lundgren

I'm on the road two or three days a week normally.

Nancy Brown

We're looking at sheltering and feeding people for three months, ... Consequently, we will need volunteers for not only a few days or weeks, but long term. We have hundreds of deaths and thousands homeless. It's just an overwhelming situation.

Sally Hawkins

Sometimes you go into a film and you have no time to prepare and have to compress the details into a few days and then rely on the instinct and what happens when you're in a scene with other actors and that chemistry or not.

Jay Leno

Magic Johnson, former basketball player, may run for mayor of L.A. in the next election. Remember the good 'ol days when only qualified people ran for office like actors and professional wrestlers.

Alice Wonderland

Mad Hatter: No wonder you're late. Why, this watch is exactly two days slow.

Thomas Powell

Life accumulates. The difference of accumulating days that we are proud of versus days for which we are regretful is in controlling our thoughts in each moment.

Phil Davis

Last year we had restaurants out of food two days after the event. This year we've even heard of a group that is planning a White Squirrel wedding.

S. Hughes

Leave on time at least two days a week. If you never have any free evenings you'll grow resentful.

Cappie Pondexter

We actually focused on getting stops and rebounding. And we definitely did that. There are signs of us peaking, and I think it will come at the right time.

Cappie Pondexter

We actually focused on getting stops and on rebounding. And we definitely did that.

Kourtney Kardashian

We're definitely honest with each other... if your sisters can't tell you that you look ridiculous, who can?

Kourtney Kardashian

Kids definitely grow out of their clothes really quickly, so I'm all about mixing and matching.

Kevin Zegers

I'm a jeans and t-shirts kind of guy, but there have definitely been moments where I'm like, 'You know what? I need to upgrade a little bit.' I've tried to snazz things up as much as I can, with me being as lazy as I am.

Kevin Love

I think any time you have Phil Jackson involved in any organization, you're going to definitely look at it, and it's definitely intriguing. The Knicks are definitely a place where anybody would like to go.

R. Ingram

We had been walked off the last two days, so it was good that we stretched the game to extra innings and pulled it out. It was a good win for us, especially starting a new month and being back at home. Definitely the kind of game that can get you started in the right direction.

Michael Kors

We had a very tough time with this, and if you're looking for a job, definitely give me a call, I'd love to hear from you.

Gina Bellman

When I had the wonderful occasion to play a goofball, Jane, in 'Coupling,' it was definitely an homage to Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who I just think is a genius.

Larry Ellison

My impression is that we're gaining share, ... More and more people are using Oracle.

Henry Ford

Many people think that by hoarding money they are gaining safety for themselves. if money is your ONLY hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a person can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. Without these qualities, money is practically useless.

Edgar Prado

She was in a good position but (Proposed) had quicker acceleration than my filly. I think that was the difference. But my horse was gaining and she galloped out good and strong.

Glen Davis

I feel we're gaining respect. We're doing something special here.

Chad Hurley

I feel like there's a lot of noise in the social space. The Vines and Instagrams of the world are gaining traction, and their solutions are perfect for their communities.

Corky Palmer

I don't even have one. I never even think about that stuff. I just want to keep gaining strength.

Cody Pickett

I'd better start gaining some more weight if I'm going to be tackling people. I've been losing all this weight playing Marvin Harrison and Larry Fitzgerald.

Sharon Stone

People are afraid of changing; that they're losing something. They don't understand that they are also gaining something.

Mike Ferda

I thought we were OK after we got that score in gaining some of the momentum back. The way things went in the third quarter, I wasn't sure how we would respond.

David Hyde Pierce

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

David Icke

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

Ben Whishaw

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

Bear Grylls

I don't like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sort of good luck cards for rare occasions!

Barry Diller

I never thought I was a very good manager.

Audrina Patridge

I love everything, but I really love rock music. Incubus, Augustana, Nirvana, Chevelle, iHi-Hi-Fi, they're my really good friends.

August Strindberg

It's risky to take anything on good faith where a woman is concerned.

Arthur Rubinstein

Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.

Gene Meyers

We actually had a little sunshine. It turned out to be a pretty good day. We had a lot of p.r.'s.

David Dunn

Take up giving-away as a hobby while you are young, and you will have a happy life. What is more, because you do so many thoughtful things on impulse, you will develop a lively and interesting personality- gracious, friendly, and likeable.

David Brainerd

If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.

Audrey Hepburn

You can only hope to get a combination of happy work and a happy life.

Denis Thatcher

What it meant to me: a happy life, of course, companionship, of course. A common objective, I think.

Denis Waitley

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned or worn.

Diego Della Valle

When you work too much, you are boring - that is possible. But to have a happy life, if you can do several things in the correct way, that is perfect.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

May I invite you to rise to the great potential within you. But don't reach beyond your capacity. Don't set goals beyond your capacity to achieve. Don't feel guilty or dwell on thoughts of failure. Don't compare yourself with others. Do the best you can, and the Lord will provide the rest. Have faith and confidence in Him, and you will see miracles happen in your life and the lives of your loved ones.

Kevin Williamson

Hey, I'm happy someone is hiring me. It could be all over. I'm so lucky to have a job.

Ernie Els

When I got to my ball, I was like, what's going on? I've never seen that happen. I was very happy to make a 4.

Audrey Hepburn

If you ever need a helping hand, it is at the end of your arm. As you get older you must remember you have a second hand. The first one is to help yourself. The second hand is to help others.

Arnold Palmer

I enjoyed the fans thoroughly, and they were always helpful. They were the reason that I tried so hard over the years.

Diego Maradona

The Lord helps those who help themselves.

Al Gore

I'm going to be focused on doing everything I possibly can to help solve the climate crisis.

Kevin McHale

'Talk to me,' it's what you say to someone to let them know you're there. Just three simple words. But saying them out loud could help save a life.

Adam Everett

Whenever you've got your pitcher out there throwing strikes, you've got to come up with some big plays sometimes to help the pitchers out.

Jim Cramer

When I come to work each day, whether as a commentator for TheStreet.com or a host of Mad Money With Jim Cramer, I have only one thought in mind: helping people with their money.

Gary Payton

When I come into camp, I'm going to try to help him,

R. Robinson

We're going down there to help however we're needed.

Charlotte Bronte

It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment.

Jay Christie

We really have to chock this one up to a lapse in procedures.

Ransom Antoine

When we were up by 10, I thought we had it, but we couldn't get it together. We had the mental lapse that we normally have.

Jeff Gordon

We know that after Richmond (the 26th race) comes, we've got to be in the top-10 and when we are, we'd better be set on 'kill' to go out there and lead laps and win races.

Ben Gordon

We can't come out and have all these lapses. If they get two, at worst we're going into overtime. It was just a mental lapse on our part.

Kyle Busch

With about 40 laps to go, it's time to race and time to get after it and that's what I was doing. If I did something and aggravated Stewart, well, I'm sorry.

Greg Biffle

It would have been a different race if we could have pitted for tires with 16 laps to go, but that just didn't happen,

Christian Silk

Fernando was also very productive in the laps he was able to run.

Michael Andretti

I've led so many laps before, but it took me six years to understand that it's the last one that counts.

Tom Odell

I think I subconsciously put myself in these situations where the girlfriend isn't pleased with me. I'm useless as a boyfriend. That's how I managed to write all these songs.

Bob Easton

Obviously, we are very pleased with (Clinton's visit).

Boone Pickens

Mr. Pickens is pleased to have some skin in the Barnett Shale game.

Joanie Ewing

She had a lot of one putts for par. That's a solid round for her, and she was pleased with it.

Barney Bishop

We are pleased with the turnout. We have some legislators, but we'd like to have some more.

Stuart Rose

We are pleased with the progress we are making but there remains much to do.

Tasia Scolinos

We are pleased with the jury's ruling in this important case.

Don Horner

We are pleased with the bank's first-quarter performance.

Mitch Kupchak

We are pleased to welcome Kareem back to the organization.

Bobby Flay

My first trip to the racetrack was with my grandfather, Willie Flay, and it was at Belmont Park,

Jeoff Hall

I wouldn't say that's spectacular, but I would say it's on trend, especially considering the shocks like energy-price increases.

Miles Austin

It kind of shocks you a little bit.

Fede Alvarez

It doesn't matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie's not entertaining, if the story's not entertaining.

Ben Gibbard

I've always had a soft spot for Phil Collins. He's a great vocalist.

Brian Eno

I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.

Archibald MacLeish

History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can't be heard.

April Bowlby

I wanted to be a ballerina so badly. You can be seen and take over the spotlight without speaking. I had a fear of speaking in public back then.

Chase Utley

I don't really like the spotlight.

Chad Henne

I go to the spot I'm supposed to be and turn around,'' he said.

Bob Bathalon

The only trouble spot is parking, and we are working on that.

David Garman

We're approaching 7,500 megawatts. So, we're in a sweet spot with wind and there's more we can do.

Brad Thor

There are writers who go their whole lives and never hit that No. 1 spot.

Kevin Kaminski

Bump-outs are probably not in Steamboat Springs for a reason.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don't need.

Bear Grylls

But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it's always when you're least expecting it.

Dido Armstrong

I went to study some orchestration stuff because I got so inspired working with all the orchestras.

Al Yankovic

As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.

Alain de Botton

We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.

Lisa McGiffert

When you read stuff like this, you wonder who you can trust.

Alexandre Aja

That is the limit of IMDb. You can get into any IMDb page and hack stuff.

Kevin Mitnick

I keep my stuff updated all the time. Being in the security industry, I keep up to date with securities.

Jamie Luner

I love playing the vamp, and I get sent out for a lot of that stuff, maybe because I do it well.

Patti Smith

We are testing things all the time on the site.

Eartha Kitt

I have to keep testing myself.

Jim Alexander

We'll do the beta testing in June. That will be your ticket.

Carl Crawford

We would do start-up testing in 2014 or 2015.

Emile-Auguste Chartier

Every idea I get I have to deny, that's my way of testing it.

Brian Hall

Third-party testing is a validation of the process,

Mark Williams

There will be a long and testing time for him, but we'll wait and see how he comes through,

Larry Schnall

It's a state-of-the-art vehicle that we're testing right now.

David Wright

It's not as though they can say we've done a lot of testing without the beacon.

Al Gore

Judge Roberts is a brilliant lawyer, a brilliant judge. He is a very careful judge, a thoughtful judge. I would agree with what the President said earlier. He is a decent man. I think everybody who knows him likes him.

Blaise Pascal

Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.

Blaise Pascal

Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.

Eric Maskin

Through meteorology, we know essentially how hurricanes form, even though we can't say where the next storm will arise.

Daniel Day-Lewis

Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.

Louis MacNeice

I do not envy any animal, though I envy many of their capacities.

C. S. Lewis

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Carson Kressley

We came, we saw, we bedazzled! You know, and it's hard to be serious and thoughtful when you're dressed like a Skittle.

Bram Stoker

How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.

David Viscott

Once a person says, "This is who I really am, what I am all about, what I was really meant to do," it is easier to decide how to spend one's time.

David House

People overestimate what they can accomplish in the near term and underestimate what they can accomplish in the long term.

David Hilbert

How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.

David Hilbert

Before beginning [to try to prove Fermat's Last Theorem] I should have to put in three years of intensive study, and I haven't that much time to squander on a probable failure.

David Hume

Time is a perishable commodity.

David Brainerd

Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose.

David Brainerd

Be careful to make a good improvement of precious time.

Beatrice Wood

The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn't mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him.

Arthur Rimbaud

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

Kylan Robinson

She tried to make it, but it was too late.

Flip Saunders

We wanted to win big right away. We didn't let things happen, we tried to make too many spectacular plays.

E. Hicks

We were trying some a little different. We didn't play well in the other ones, so we tried those.

Jennifer Dunn

We've tried to make it very visual and interesting.

Nate Robinson

I am going to go at him (Iverson). I am going to make him play defense. That is what I tried to do tonight.

Grant Hill

I would probably say yes. I don't see getting another surgery. We tried it. It didn't work. I don't see doing another.

Doc Sadler

We tried some things. A triangle-and-two, some zone. And they made some shots.

Craig Biggio

We tried some of that the other day. That's hard,

Maureen Brunt

We tried not to think about it and just play our game.

David Viscott

You don't have to try, you just have to be.

David Viscott

Lists today are a way of trying to get through the day, because we are losing a sense of time.

David Heyman

Making the films is never easy, but actually that aspect of trying to make a better film or to keep the standard high is something that comes organically.

David Heyman

All we try and do is make the best films we can. If you do that then hopefully the audiences will come, and they have. Everything else is gravy.

David Hyde Pierce

On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when it's also funny.

David Douglas

It's so off the charts and off anybody's radar screen, that place. It might as well be another planet. Just try to find somebody who's been to Madagascar. Nobody has been to Madagascar.

David Duchovny

I enjoy trying to figure out the best way to compliment the picture and not overpower it.

David Duchovny

Usually, when I act, I try to forget the words and let them come, and just find my way through them.

David Brooks

I learned I'm not a science writer. I'm not very good at describing how something is happening. I try to describe "So What?"