Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Elliot

Submitting myself for awards feels like a weird kind of horn-blowing that's not comfortable for me. I'm really happy when someone likes my work, but I don't like marketing myself, putting myself on display.

Chantal Kreviazuk

Actually, no, because awards don't spark sales as much as you'd think.

Jason Aldean

It's the only time that I'm ever nervous on stage, is when we're doing live TV. Especially an awards show, because I know you can't fix it.

Ben Gazzara

I love awards, especially if I get them.

Burt Reynolds

There are no awards in Hollywood for being an idiot.

Guy Pearce

The reality is that we have all these awards and all these festivals that give out awards, so you sort of go, 'okay, well, people liked the film, and I think it's a good film, and it's up for an award - well, I guess it should win the award then.'

Bobby Knight

For me to get an award from the press, I know there's been no favoritism.

Mark Kantrowitz

There are very few scholarships that give money simply for breathing. Probably most of the scholarships are merit-based. Awards that are need-based tend to be loans.

Pam Wilkins

She's a big team player. She knows she's not anything without the rest of them. She always thinks somebody else deserves the awards and all that.

Jodi Picoult

I think the reason these readers come back to me is because I represent their points of view. It may not be my point of view, but that's OK. Everyone still deserves to have their say.

A. Bush

This woman deserves to be on the bench,

Chad Comroe

Obviously we're frustrated. We don't like being down 2-0 to a team that we don't think even deserves to be on the same field as us.

Michael Franke

No one deserves it better than David. He was a great player when we had him. We're glad he's doing well at Roanoke.

Paul Carvel

Music deserves to be the mandatory second language of all schools in the world.

John Dryden

She deserves / More worlds than I can lose.

Natalie Ambeuhl

Since they had to put the first score in the paper in the 50s I said that was going to come down and it has. She has worked hard and she deserves this.

Budge Pountney

Sean went extremely well for the Wanderers on Monday night. He deserves his chance. We want to make the Wanderers competitive in that if a player plays better for the Wanderers than the player who played for the Saints, they will be up for selection.

Angie Kelley

She's really pitching well. This year she started off so much more consistent. She's worked hard. She makes it look easy but she works hard and deserves her success.

David Remnick

I'm not the slowest writer that you know.

David Icke

How much did Jim Morrison know?

David Hockney

I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.

August Strindberg

Necessity knows no rules.

Alan Dershowitz

I know Obama, I like Obama, I voted for Obama.

Billy Bob Thornton

If you love somebody let them know every day.

Pete Murray

We had been playing solidly for 18 months, everyone knows how to play together,

Andy Xie

We're going down to the bottom. No one knows where that is.

Spanish Proverb

Like a parakeet, that says what he knows but doesn't know what he says

Audre Lorde

I learned to read from Mrs. Augusta Baker, the children's librarian. ... If that was the only good deed that lady ever did in her life, may she rest in peace. Because that deed saved my life, if not sooner, then later, when sometimes the only thing I had to hold on to was knowing I could read.

Alan Dershowitz

Ed Koch will never 'rest in peace.' That was not his way. He was always nervously squirming, while making others squirm as well. Comfort was not his goal. He understood that to be a proud and assertive Jew meant never being able to leave a sigh of relief and say, 'It's over, we are at peace, we can now put down our guard and relax.'

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

The hardest thing for me is restraint.

Erin McKean

We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years.

Ben Fountain

I kept going back while I was writing the novel - which never sold, may it rest in peace - and by the time it was finished I had too many connections to Haiti to walk away.

Dave Baseggio

We're just trying a different approach. He wasn't going to play. We'll give him a little more rest and see if that makes the symptoms better.

Britt Robertson

When you're not the lead, you don't have as many restrictions.

Barbara Kingsolver

restraint equals indulgence

Christopher Shays

More is going to rest on his (Hastert's) shoulders,

Justin Timberlake

Make out in a club? I didn't do that when I was with Britney. Why would I do it with somebody I just met?

Justin Timberlake

Make out in a club? I didn't do that when I was with Britney, ... Why would I do it with somebody I just met?

Peter Schmitz

Let's put somebody in there that wants to stay and will be successful.

Merv Adams

One of the things that we stress is never talk to a stranger. We tell them, 'Run away and tell your teacher, tell your mother, somebody you can trust. Always trust a policeman.

Markus Gandler

Of course, the I.O.C. wanted somebody to be guilty, but there is no way I feel guilty.

Bhagavad Gita

Much better to do one's own work even if you have to do it imperfectly than it is to do somebody elses work perfectly.

Rich Rodriguez

Somebody just has to step up and take over. With our backs, somebody will do it.

Cliff Herberg

Somebody is supplying these lawyers. They've got an agenda.

Doug Adkins

Somebody is going to have to step in and take the load.

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.

Erica Cerra

I've always been a person who thinks it's really important to better themselves.

Michael Barrett

Whenever we lose, he thinks he's going to have cardiac arrest.

Von Joshua

He's a lot better than he thinks he is.

Shane Warne

I think everyone out there thinks that there's been hundreds and hundreds and thousands of women. That is not actually the case.

John Breaux

He'll tell it like it is. If he thinks something is not right, he'll holler about it. I'd be hollering at everybody, too.

Jim MacDonald

Whatever (Town Administrator William Keegan) thinks is right,

Walter Lippmann

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much

Dennis Ross

When one thinks about religion, one should think about peace.

Pope Francis

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.