Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Kinniebrew

Way before it was popular, he said that I could go far in this business. He kept saying I'd be president and then I said I'd be state president. He encouraged me, and I never thought that I, a little boy from Brooklyn, New York, could do those things. Mel was always ahead of the curve.

Kathe Kollwitz

Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways. But the good artists who follow after genius - and I count myself among these - have to restore the lost connection once more.

Kevin Thuman

When you?re 4-16, gaining a little confidence is everything and getting ahead early really gave us a boost and allowed us to play our tempo.

Adam Everett

We had (Carlos) Beltran and (Jeff) Kent and (Jeff) Bagwell, and they could all put us ahead with one swing. This year, we rely on pitching, we play defense and we look for timely hitting. The biggest thing is, we're not relying on one person.

Scott Baker

When I have a good game, that's that I do, ... I'm able to get guys out with the fastball. I was able to locate it and was able to get some guys chase it up. You just want to work ahead and stay ahead and let the guys get themselves out.

Ashwell Prince

When I had been left out of the national team it was disappointing but I never gave up. I was only in my mid-20s. I'm 28 now so... there are still another seven years ahead of me.

Lev Grossman

When I got to college I simply decided that I could speak French, because I just could not spend any more time in French classes. I went ahead and took courses on French literature, some of them even taught in French.

David H. Donald

When I made the decision to go ahead with the project, I said I was going to try and write as if no other biography of Lincoln had yet been written.

Tim Trantham

When I looked in Aaron's eyes during the timeout, I knew he would make those free throws. He looked very confident. We could have folded after Pisgah was ahead by two points and time running out, but our guys just wouldn't quit tonight, they wanted to win too much.

Baroness Orczy

...but in every century, and ever since England has been what it is, an Englishman has always felt somewhat ashamed of his own emotion and of his own sympathy.

Derek Jacobi

It was doing very well; it was doing particularly well outside of England. It was a very big seller for Carlton Television. But it was getting more and more expensive to do.

Denis Thatcher

When it comes to saving England, Maggy is Ball's Deep

Charles Kingsley

Oh England is a pleasant place for them that's rich and high, But England is a cruel place for such poor folks as I

Manolo Blahnik

The greatest shoemaker in England for many, many decades; he used to be the royal shoe-maker for the Queen Mother. This is where I learnt my trade.

Bernard Laporte

Luckily England lost. Otherwise they would have come to Paris with the Grand Slam in mind and been even harder to beat.

David Roach

Madison is the quintessential New England town. And it's because of our secluded wooded areas. Preserving this would ensure higher property values.

Tao Okamoto

I remember when I saw 'X-Men' the first time, I was living in England as an exchange student, and my first boyfriend, who's an Englishman, made me watch the movie... He was very jealous that I liked Hugh Jackman so much.

Charles E. Wilson

Furthermore, the spirit of enterprise which had its first intellectual development in England has especially flourished here as well as throughout all of Canada, while the same spirit has become less virile in the land of its origin.

David Hume

Even after the observation of the frequent conjunction of objects, we have no reason to draw any inference concerning any object beyond those of which we have had experience.

Billy Bob Thornton

I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had.

Kevin Rose

We have a huge tech following that do nothing but Digg tech stories, and then there's another pool of users that remove the tech section from their view of Digg, because you can go on and customize your own experience and remove sections you don't like.

Rory Kinnear

When you're 15, you're not really talking about the vicissitudes of fate and failed love and poetry and swordfighting - not a lot is necessarily touching on your own personal experience.

Thomas Brodie-Sangster

To be a good director, you have to have good life experience. I'm getting there.

Tao Lin

I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes.

Tyler Perry

As I experience life and go through things, that's what I write about.

Twyla Tharp

Unfortunately, I think we've probably all had the experience that if we're in a relationship where one of the partners is doing it 'my' way, that relationship is not going to survive.

Phil Holden

We're going for a richer experience. Basically, more for the same price.

Michael Jackson

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons. The truth will win this marathon in court.

Mark Twain

I am different from Washington. I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't.

Cassandra Gash

I don't know where the responsibility lies, but I know I've done everything I can do.

David Garrick

Here lies Nolly Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll, Who wrote like an angel, and talkd like poor Poll.

William Williams

It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages.

Ed Garland

His oath should have been, 'I Tony Harwood swear to lie, I say you should reject Tony Harwood 100 percent. Throw him out. He ain't worth nothing.

Fernando Rospigliosi

He can't be believed. He's a man who lies systematically.

William Cowper

When this poor, lisping, stammering tongue/ Lies silent in the grave.

Tom Nalen

Playing doesn't lie, you've got to go out there and get it done. And if you do, it doesn't matter how you got there, they'll find a place for you to play.

David Brooks

One of the things capitalism does is, it does enhance and exacerbate the sin of pride, making yourself, the material world the center of your universe, instead of God's will.

Benazir Bhutto

The people who resent me do so because I'm a woman, I'm young, and I'm a Bhutto. Well, the simple answer is, it doesn't matter that I'm a woman, it doesn't matter that I'm young, and it's a matter of pride that I'm a Bhutto.

Bear Grylls

A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.

Bear Grylls

Above all, I feel a quiet pride that for the rest of my days I can look at myself in the mirror and know that once upon a time I was good enough. Good enough to call myself a member of the SAS. Some things don’t have a price tag.

Diego Rivera

Looking back upon my work today, I think the best I have done grew out of things deeply felt, the worst from a pride in mere talent.

Alan Dershowitz

There will never be another Ed Koch. He was an original, but he represented a significant, if shrinking, segment of American Jewry who refused to compromise their liberal values, their support for Israel or their Jewish pride.

Al Yankovic

In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I've been able to hang around longer than most "serious" acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.

Alain de Botton

William James once made an acute point about the relationship between happiness and expectation. He argued that satisfaction with ourselves does not require us to succeed in every endeavour. We are not always humiliated by failing; we are humiliated only if we first invest our pride and sense of worth in a given achievement and then do not reach it.

Charles Churchill

The Scots are poor, cries surly English pride; True is the charge, nor by themselves denied. Are they not then in strictest reason clear, Who wisely come to mend their fortunes here?

David Robinson

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

David Brin

For all its beauty, honesty, and effectiveness at improving the human condition, science demands a terrible price - that we accept what experiments tell us about the universe, whether we like it or not. It's about consensus and teamwork and respectful critical argument, working with, and through, natural law. It requires that we utter, frequently, those hateful words - 'I might be wrong.'

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Nobody gets muscles by watching ME lift weights.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Bodybuilders and fitness people have been using chiropractic very extensively in order to stay healthy and fit. I found it was better to go to a chiropractor before you get injured. We are a perfect team, the world of fitness and the world of chiropractors.

Bengie Molina

I'm a pretty easygoing guy. I'm not hard to get along with. I never had anybody that I had trouble with. On the other team, sometimes you don't like players because of the way they act, but then you get to know them and then they're very good people. But I never disliked anybody.

Benazir Bhutto

Democracy needs support and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies. Democratic nations should come together in an association designed to help each other and promote what is a universal value - democracy.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I never was obsessive about anything I watched when I was a kid, except maybe 'The A-Team' and 'Airwolf' And I loved 'Knight Rider' and then later 'Baywatch.'

Bear Grylls

My work is all about adventure and teamwork in some of the most inhospitable jungles, mountains and deserts on the planet. If you aren't able to look after yourself and each other, then people die.

Barry Alvarez

Everybody has a role on the team, and some have a role as a scout team player. They have to emulate the offenses that we are going to face. Those players still have to go through the out-of-season work and they work hard.

David Brooks

[Donald Trump] will be the one on offense. He will be the one serving volleys, and it may be some weird stuff about the Russians, but he will be controlling things a little more than he probably did over the last two weeks.

Derek Jeter

You know what I want to do? Wake up one weekend and not have to go anywhere and do nothing.

Denis Waitley

Each week set 1 day aside to do something you've always wanted to do.

Dennis Miller

In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that that computer has ever linked up to.

Denise Van Outen

At weekends, I've been going on long but steady-paced four-and-a-half-hour bike rides.

Al Yankovic

I'm watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.

Billy Boyd

The club thing is a world people can associate with, letting your hair down at the weekend.

Gail Sheehy

Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.

Jason Blum

I think there's a limit. People want to be scared, but not every weekend, maybe every third weekend.