Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gunther Grass

The patience of poverty. In rice fields, backs bent forever.Amazing, man outoxens the oxen and still smiles.The mystery of India, say Indologists.

Clive Sinclair

My own zigzag path through life led me back to Santa Cruz in the early Eighties, and I have revisited regularly since. The place hasn't changed: head in the clouds, backside on the hills and feet in the ocean - one of the most decent and beautiful places on earth.

Adam Rapp

Film directing has perfected my theater directing. I think when I first started directing, a lot of my stuff was very lateral; I was afraid to have the actors' backs turned away, afraid to put them too far upstage, and I think once I did more things with film, I got more interested in composition.

Bill Resler

When we're down big, we're resilient. When we have our backs to the wall, we go crazy.

Christopher Atkins

I sat backstage and had a beer with Richard Chamberlain, Paul Newman, and Princess Grace.

Shari Sebbens

One of my earliest memories is being backstage at 'Bran Nue Dae' in Darwin when I was about eight. It's such a fun, happy show and a real celebration of being Aboriginal... it felt really great and achievable as a career. It all felt normal.

Bo Burnham

I was doing theater in my high school, and I started writing sort of silly songs on the piano backstage in summer theater. I eventually put them online and started getting this little following.

Bruce Perry

Tom Heckert (vice president of player personnel) and my running backs coach (Ted Williams) both called me and told me they still want me here,

Wendy E. Long

I am the candidate of tax cuts, repealing Obamacare, repealing Dodd-Frank, letting the markets work, coming up with patient-and-doctor-centered healthcare solutions instead of more big government - and just generally getting government off the backs of small businesses.

Yotam Ottolenghi

As is always the way with pancakes, the first hotcake to come out of the pan will probably be a bit misshapen. Just scoff it, and carry on with the rest.

William Fichtner

It's not that there aren't people who care creatively in the world of television, but there's always a bit more time in making a movie. I always feel films are more of a creative journey.

William Thomas Green Morton

That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a sense of ethics and decency was one of the bitter ironies of history.

Chuck Palahniuk

Your life isn't about doing one perfect 'thing' and then falling down dead. It's more like going to church or writing a book. You do it over and over, always trying to be a little bit better. Then you die.

Bill Gates

To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

Clotilde Hesme

I am very organic; I eat a lot of seeds. At home in the morning, I eat muesli with a banana. At noon, I mix a little bit of all the seeds I can find. I love quinoa. It's great - it cooks like rice and is better than caviar.

Chris Carter

Writing is a little athletic for me. I get worked up a little bit when I do it. So I guess I'm a little bit like that composer conducting. There are a lot of things that go into what I do, but I think athletics really sort of shaped my ethic.

Evangeline Lilly

I have been a bit of a reluctant actress since the get-go, since the beginning of 'Lost.'

Ellie Goulding

I'm a bit grungy - I love wearing boots. But I also love putting on a beautiful white dress and jewels. I have those two alter-egos.

Wayne Rooney

As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.

Viswanathan Anand

In Gujarat, we had the world record of largest number of chess games in a single venue - 20,500 - and in Tamil Nadu, I have been emphasizing on the positives of chess to the authorities.

Randy Petersen

The policy doesn't look overly generous, but right now this is the only game in town.

Age Hareide

The points mattered more than anything tonight. The results in the other games went our way, and now we can travel to Belarus knowing that we are in the play-offs. I hope our luck continues.

Malcolm Jenkins

The Penn State game was crazy. There were like 110,000 people there, and they were ready for it.

Ted Young

The pat on the back (for winning the regular season) is gone. The first do-or-die games for the girls are (today) and on Saturday for the boys. Everything you've worked for is gone on Saturday if you're not prepared for it mentally or physically.

Nolan Bushnell

'Pong' hit the fancy. It was sort of the perfect storm of a game which has two players highly social, a game that women could play better than a guy, and sort of an acceptance of this social nature of games in a bar.

Peter Nowak

We played well in the first half, and made all of the adjustments we had to make in the second to win the game. I am very pleased with the way we played our first game here tonight.

Mark Fox

We played well in spurts and didn't play well at times. Often games in March aren't pretty, but we were able to find a way to win.

William E. Conway, Jr.

I'm the luckiest guy in the world, and I am going to give away every penny before I die.

Chuck Palahniuk

I get a lot of letters from women who insist that 'Fight Club' is not just a guy thing. They insist that women have the same rage and need the same outlet.

Chuck Palahniuk

When I first used to tour, guys would come up and say, 'Where's the fight club in my area?' and I would say, 'There isn't one.' And they'd say, 'No, no, you can tell me, you can tell me.'

will.i.am

When you think about the guys who started Twitter, and the Google guys, and the Facebook guys and the Napster guys, and the Microsoft guys, and the Dell guys and the Instagram guys, it's all guys. The girls, they're being left behind.

Clay Shirky

Whether it's long-form journalism or investigative journalism, it's no fun to just be the guy diagnosing the problem.

Evel Knievel

Nothing's worse than a guy who loses fair and square and then whines about it.

Evel Knievel

The saddest thing is when a guy is paying so much attention to the world and everything going by that he can't take the time for his own mother.

Ben Affleck

When I watch a guy I know is a big Republican, part of me thinks I probably wouldn't like this person if I met him, or we would have different opinions.

Alberto Martinez

The overriding theme of these numbers is that these guys are pretty much tied, and will likely stay that way for a long time.

Chris Carter

Producing a series is like being Lewis and Clark: You know where you're going, you just don't know how you're going to get there. When people say, 'You should create a bible for your show,' I say, 'You don't want a bible. It'll prevent you from making discoveries along the way.' And that's what happened on 'The X-Files.'

Chino Moreno

I just happened to wind up in a metal band when I was 15.

Errol Morris

We all know that yellow journalism didn't just happen a week ago or a month ago, that yellow journalism has probably been with us as long as journalism has been with us.

Edmund White

I lived through the Fifties in the Midwest when everything that was happening - the repression of homosexuality, for instance, the demonization of the Left, the giggly, soporific ordinariness of adolescence, the stone-deafness to the social injustice all around us - seemed not only unobjectionable but also nonexistent.

D'Brickashaw Ferguson

You don't have to worry about what happened last year; you can start fresh.

Dylan O'Brien

I just happened to step into acting. And now I can't imagine myself doing anything else.

Trent Strickland

We probably need (Gray) to be 22 for 22. We all know that can't happen every night, and we're going to need different players to step up.

Chipper Jones

We pretty much got dominated. What happened (Monday) night was just incredible. I would've never thought that could happen to us.

Terry Gilliam

It's been interesting how kids have had hardly any problems watching it, but adults have more trouble. This happened way back even with Jabberwocky and Time Bandits.

Phil Jackson

You have to be able to psychologically help your players, support-wise, be in touch with them, so I think managing people is very important.

Robert Kiyosaki

Managing your own property can be a full-time job.

Joe Paopao

My primary role is really the on-field product, which is our players, ... Most of my managing priorities are there, and rightfully so. That's enough on my plate.

Olivia Mitchell

When it comes to managing their portfolio on an ongoing basis, participants were otherwise occupied.

Mike Moser

We wanted to concentrate on those businesses, and not worry about managing real estate.

Mickey Arthur

We'll have to keep managing that throughout the test match ... he'll be fine.

Tom Brookens

When I played for him at Evansville, I wasn't the only one who thought the next stop for him would be managing the Tigers.

Eric Kobren

It's not like they were just sitting there with no one managing the store,

Ellen Siminoff

It's the same math you use in managing a portfolio.

William Shatner

If I'm given an opportunity to do something, I do it. Or else I fool around with it.

Frank Marshall

I'm a big fan of documentaries. I've always loved them, and I've just never had the opportunity or the time to make a feature.

Boris Johnson

What I worry about is that people are losing confidence, losing energy, losing enthusiasm, and there's a real opportunity to get them into work.

Douglas Conant

You have the opportunity to make a tremendous impact on the lives of the people with whom you work and live. Make the most of it.

Tommy Lasorda

You get an opportunity to do something for your country, you better get out and do it.

Tom Rooney

As a prosecutor, I've been in prisons. I've had the opportunity to see what they're like in America.

Alexa Von Tobel

Tax time is the perfect opportunity to jumpstart your spring-cleaning by tackling your financial to-do list.

Steven Spielberg

The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.

Doug Ewell

We had an opportunity to end it in overtime, but it didn't fall.

Ben Barnes

No one wants to be with a girl that your mother would pick for you.

Paul Anka

Things began to pick up for me record-wise when in 1971 I wrote 'She's a Lady' for Tom Jones.

Sevyn Streeter

I swear I pick up little gems from every artist that I work with. That's why I'm so appreciative that I've been able to be a songwriter first.

David Chang

Any processed chicken from any place - I'll order it in a heartbeat. I'm very picky about my pork, though.

Nicky Hilton

When I signed the license, I thought the media wasn't going to pick up on it if I used my real name, Nicholai Hilton.

Garrett Jones

When the winds picked up, they'd go right through you.

Spike Lee

Where are the slaves? Who's picking the cotton?

Christy Romano

At this point, I can't say what network would be picking it up, but I know that it would be a success.

Evelyn Glennie

Anything you strike, anything you shake or rattle, or just anything that can be picked up, and you can create a sound.

Dustin Hoffman

And that's another reason to make this movie: We can put plays on film now, at a relatively small cost, and they will reach an audience they would never have reached otherwise.

Pam Edwards

We probably could have won that game. It was 2-2 at the half. Who plays lacrosse and has a 2-2 first half?

Grant Wistrom

When Goings went out, that really dampened things for them. Then they have to be one-dimensional and that plays right into our hands.

Charles Ramsey

Those are just not winning plays, and you've got to make those plays down the stretch.

Jeff Jackson

Those are difference-makers. Those are plays we need to finish.

Maryann Mitts

We just didn't connect. We didn't make the plays and they did.

Kelly Sears

We just didn't come up with the plays at the right times.

Brian Hill

We had our chances. That's what it comes down to in tight games. Who is going to make the shots, make the plays at the end of the game.

Rhett Bomar

We have the plays that will work and we know what to do.

Carl Sagan

Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.

Mark Cuban

I was lucky. I grew up knowing that hard work and smart work has a greater impact on results than being passionate about something.

Mitchell Baker

Humanity is smart. Sometime in the technology world we think we are smarter, but we are not smarter than you.

Eoin Colfer

I am so sick of you smart kids. Why can't you just boost cars or steal stuff like normal kids?' 'We do steal stuff. Just bigger stuff.

Alan King

My father was a dreamer - my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady's handbags, an old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: 'Don't end up like me.'

Charlie Cox

We had no idea that this show [Daredevil] would be as popular as it was, but with the benefit of hindsight, one thing I can say is that I think that was a really, really smart move.

Charles Stross

Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient in smarts.

Charles Stross

Life begets intelligence, intelligence begets smart matter and a singularity.

David Crosby

I have a pretty clear picture of the whole weight of my life, and there are things that I've done that are good, and I'm proud of them. There are things that I'm really not proud of, and that they, you have to look at me with a perspective, and I try really hard to do that, to keep from thinking I'm cool and ever so smart.