Famous Quotes & Sayings

Willie Mays

And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5' 11". So I just picked baseball.

Wendell Phillips

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

William Wyler

It's eighty percent script and twenty percent you get great actors. There's nothing else to it.

William Scott

You just don't want to push people into doing things that they really don't want to do. I don't think it's going to produce much.

William Scott

There are certain authors that do not turn students on; it is the truth. Homer happens to be one of them.

William Scott

On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting.

William Scott

I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of an illusion.

William Scott

The one thing you've got to say about Columbia is that it has courses that are famous. It has alumni who come back and say it was the best thing they ever did.

William Scott

The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning.

Alice Smith

The police were kicking in doors and running right into danger and firefighters did a great job of preventing the fire from spreading and the mayor was here all night. They all deserve a lot of credit for doing a tremendous job.

Nelly

I think parenting these days is definitely different from when a lot of people grew up. As much blame as we give a lot of our kids for what they're not doing... I also try to give them as much credit for dealing with things that we didn't have to deal with. Bullying was one on one and face to face. Now it's all over the Internet.

Duwaine Ganskie

We probably focused on Kennedy a little too much then and didn't give McClatchy enough credit.

Steve Stone

We are delighted and honored to have her working in Edgecombe County. This process was one of the toughest, and through it all she gave a lot of credit to the students, parents and staff at Stocks. This school is doing great things, and Andrea is the epitome of that.

Steve Stone

We are delighted and honored to have her working in Edgecombe County, ... This process was one of the toughest, and through it all she gave a lot of credit to the students, parents and staff at Stocks. This school is doing great things, and Andrea is the epitome of that.

Nicole Jordan

I'd always been a big reader. I credit my mom for giving me my love of reading.

Rob Salter

We didn't play with the level of intensity I would have liked. But some of the credit for that goes to Kerr-Vance. They always play us hard.

Chris Kestner

We didn't play with a lot of enthusiasm. We never matched their energy. I'll give our kids credit for staying in it, but that hurt us.

Tom Izzo

We didn't play well, they played well. They deserve the credit that they get. That's an NCAA (Tournament) team, I don't think there's any question about that.

Zac Efron

I feel disconnected, like I don't know where I am, if I'm on my phone too much. I'm also just the type to call. I'm not good on text.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Salbitxada is a sharp and lightly sweet Catalan sauce that's traditionally served with calcots - spring or salad onions, grilled whole, make a good substitute.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Verjuice may not be the easiest thing in the world to find, but you should be able to track some down in good delis and online.

Yotam Ottolenghi

There is nothing like a good old recipe. If it has lasted, then it is good.

Walter F. Ulmer

We've got some very good things to do without screwing around with sleeves.

Valerie June

The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to be something I wasn't. I have tried to be a soul singer because someone else thought that a good idea. Not because I did.

Val Kilmer

The good reviews that people have told me about through the years haven't really helped me do my job. So it's kind of like, if your hair turns out right you want to go out, you don't just want to stay in and look in the mirror. That's kind of what reading a review is like to me; it's like reveling in something that's just one night.

Henry David Thoreau

Be not simply good - be good for something.

Abraham Lincoln

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

Carol Wood

We're living in a different world now. We have lots of security measures in place.

F. Sionil Jose

I can't understand Urdu, Bahasa or Russian, but when the Pakistani Faiz, the Indonesian Rendra and the Russian Rosdentvensky declaim, I can feel the living throb of rhythm and music, the warmth and passion of their poetry, as do the hundreds, not a mere roomful, of poetry lovers in the audience.

Laura Ahearn

Using the Internet, a sexual predator can be in any parent's living room without them knowing.

Christopher Ricks

The one thing worse than not living for ever would be living for ever

Lorraine Bracco

I'd be like, 'You're a young, vibrant woman. Where are you?' I realized that I had been living in denial.

Michael Franti

I'm not an idealist. I know we're not going to be living in a world that's peace and love all the time. But we can live in a world where we kill each other a lot less.

David Duchovny

I was about 26 or 27 and it was imperative that I make a living right away and it's hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film.

Axl Rose

In general, I usually don't really go by or live my life by a clock, and outside of touring, I don't really ask anyone else to. It's not out of lack of respect for anyone or intentional.

Carol Lewis

Throughout history, when our national security has been threatened, we have responded by reducing liberties, ... we ask: We not only want to survive, but survive living under what conditions?

Yuvraj Singh

People who don't know me, how will they know what I am really like? They will only see me on the field, only see me in an advertisement. People who know what kind of a guy I am will tell you I'm a very open person.

Yoko Ono

Most people like to hear sounds they are used to.

Yoko Ono

Many people do remember their births, but they deny it.

Willie Aames

I think there are people that have very addictive personalities.

William Shatner

I like making people laugh. It comes off and shines in everything I do.

Wentworth Miller

They told me at the end of that test that they wanted me to be a part of this project. I walked out and had a moment of clarity where I thought, not many people will ever have this moment.

William Clay Ford, Sr.

I think sports are a wonderful diversion. People can relate to sports very easily. It's a quick study.

William Sleator

Stories develop from things I read and also from my own experiences and experiences of people I know.

Will Poulter

I need to try and get away from that brat role, or people are going to think I'm a natural brat.

Felix Rohatyn

At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.

Dick Cheney

We are not going to simply stand by.

Phillips Brooks

Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.

Sammy Cahn

The one I tell everyone, the one I'm very, very proud of is 'Call Me Irresponsible.' Simply because I want to say and it's not as facetious as it sounds. It has five syllable words in it.

Paul Cleave

You simply couldn't make a living as an author if New Zealand was your only market.

Peter Berg

We were simply brushed off by MAF officials.

Conor McGregor

Trash talk? Smack talk? This is an American term that makes me laugh. I simply speak the truth. I'm an Irish man.

Howard Hawks

I try to tell my story as simply as possible, with the camera at eye level.

Martin Sheen

War at this time and in this place is unwelcome, unwise, and simply wrong.