Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Sirant

We accomplished what we set out to do. We had to continue a certain level of play from (Saturday) night, and for the most part we did.

Ron Agor

We always depended on her for information about people, certain organizations and their achievements.

Blaise Pascal

Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)

Kerri Strug

You always dream of going to the Olympics and winning gold. I've learned over the years that there are lots of gold medals, but certain stories stick out and make a difference.

Kevin Love

Randy Wittman told me not to shoot 3-pointers. That got me very uncomfortable. There were certain labels tagged on me very early in my career, spots on the floor where I felt uncomfortable.

Kevin Love

When you're on the court, there is certain things that you would do that you wouldn't do off the court. When you get off, you obviously have to be gracious and a humble person. When you are on the floor, be a team player. Championships are what you are defined by - legacy. Go about things the right way.

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.

Jason Ritter

I think at a certain point actors need to start taking responsibility for the kinds of stories they want to tell.

David Hume

Habit may lead us to belief and expectation but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations.

Bear Grylls

You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.

Audre Lorde

For we have built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression and these must be altered at the same time that we alter the living condition which are the result of those structures. For the master's tool will never dismantle the master's house.

Frederic Bastiat

Nothing is more senseless than to base so many expectations on the state, that is, to assume the existence of collective wisdom and foresight after taking for granted the existence of individual imbecility and improvidence.

Derek Jacobi

Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on.

Alan Dundes

Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.

Al Gore

I have absolutely no plans and no expectations of ever being a candidate again.

Jane Austen

..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself

C. S. Lewis

True faith is never found alone; it is accompanied by expectation.

Todd Rundgren

If I have an opportunity to do something safe or something challenging, I'll often choose the latter. Sometimes, the objective is to submerge my viewpoint with the artist.

Lisa Gansky

For most jobs, especially those in the digital economy, there is no objective standard for being 'qualified.' If you and the team you're working with think you're qualified, you are.

James E. Faust

Secularism does not accept many things as absolutes. Its principal objectives are pleasure and self-interest. Often, those who embrace secularism have a different look about them.

Carlos Mesa

It is a resignation that has one objective and that objective is to let the Bolivian people know that this is genuine,

Evan Bayh

Our objective is not to oppose the president; it's to do what's right for America.

George Jackson

Our objective is a permanent transformation of the city. We've got a long way to go, but I think we've turned an important corner.

Jim Johnson

Our objective was to put an end to what we view as infringement of our package designs.

Rob Dyson

Our objective is to win the (ALMS) championship. It's the way we take each race and the way we run the team.

Janet Yellen

I support the idea of a quantitative objective for price stability.

Richard C. Armitage

Monet was like a conductor. He painted with quite a straight arm and used bold strokes.

John Burnside

Many of the birds Audubon painted are now extinct, and still we go on killing them, more or less casually, with our pesticides and wires and machinery.

Morgan Fairchild

I get really tired of getting painted up all the time. Basically, I'm a bum.

Billy Hughes

When having my portrait painted I don't want justice, I want mercy.

Kathleen Carroll

While it's true that power is being restored and schools are being painted and progress is being made

M. Wolfe

We painted him a shirt; it was still wet when he put it on.

Blake Anderson

I just bought a Jeep painted like an American flag. No one better question how patriotic I am.

Greg Peterson

As an old, jaded, painted whore of the theatre once told me: 'Just BE THERE, F**K!'

Tracy Morgan

The most romantic thing I ever did to my woman? I painted her toenails!

Michael Robinet

When the new vehicles arrive, you don't want too many of the old ones on the lot. I see this as a specific case, not a wide-ranging trend.

Todd Phillips

When I'm writing, I'm writing for a particular actor. When a lot of writers are writing, they're writing an idea. So they're not really writing in a specific voice.

Bob Hamilton

We?re still proceeding at best-possible speed and we?re still trying to get the specifics on the street.

Chris Benz

I have specific playlists for arrivals in different cities. Tokyo skews new wave, Paris more jazz, and New York is Top 40.

Walter Salles

I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films.

David Gilmour

I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.

Gustavo Torres

We are going to target them in a specific way.

Brendan Coyle

By the time you've been single for quite a long time, you can get quite specific about what you can and can't put up with.

Sara Zarr

Readers want a story, not a pattern. It's the specifics of a story that make it really ping our various reader radars.