Famous Quotes & Sayings

Venus Williams

If the sun comes up, I have a chance.

Bill Gates

If you're low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn't seem entirely fair.

Chino Moreno

A chance to work with the guys from Isis sounded like a lot of fun. I've always been into the atmospheric sounds they had created with that project and felt my sense of melody would meld well with theirs.

Jeffrey Archer

I spent my first three weeks there on a wing with 21 murderers. I met some very evil people there but also some men who'd had no upbringing, no chance in life.

David Bailey

I think about death all the time. I know there's nothing out there, but I'm curious. There's a 300 billion-to-one chance that there might be an energy that goes somewhere else, but I doubt it.

Johnny Damon

The past two days we've had a chance to take them out early. As an offense, we have to find a way to keep it going.

Common

Man, if I get a chance to speak on the microphone, I've got to say something somewhere in there. You know, I'm going to laugh and have fun, too, but something has to be said that has some substance, because this is a platform, and the power that we have with words and with this microphone is phenomenal.

Brad Goreski

If you do a smoky eye, chances are you will not want to do a strong lip as well. It's never good to gild the lily.

Christine Keeler

He had a way with him. Before you had a chance to say no, he was there and done. That only happened to me once before, with a duke, who literally swept me off my feet, and before I knew what was happening, we'd done it. Another terrible mistake.

Brad Goreski

If you do a smoky eye, chances are you will not want to do a strong lip as well. It's never good to gild the lily.

Darell Hammond

This summer, we need to let our kids go play and we need to stop worrying about whether or not it's going to ruin their chances of getting into college.

Bill Cosby

If you have one of the worst schools in the city, then chances are the teachers are not going to care for you. Chances are the parents don't feel seriously about coming to meet with teachers.

Jeff Lebo

We played well enough to win the game - we just couldn't get it done. We had chances until the end.

Rafael Benitez

We played well, created chances and scored goals.

Hines Ward

We play them twice a year and we know them. We'll take our chances going to Cincinnati. ... It's not going to be easy, but we're more comfortable with them.

Tomas Vokoun

We played a little better, but we still have critical defensive breakdowns. You can't give a good team as many chances as we did.

Lindy Ruff

We played a good third period. We probably had five or six real good chances when we had them on their heels, we had some great opportunities.

Bruce Arena

We probably created more chances in the first half. We weren't able to finish the play.

Abraham Lincoln

When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.

Gerhard Schroeder

The pictures we've seen on TV are difficult to bear.

Susan Burke

The pictures are just the tip of the iceberg. I don't think we'll have difficulty because there's a heck of a lot of evidence.

Brian Cox

I enjoy acting now more than I ever have. I've had lots of difficult times when I was younger, but that was all tied up with thwarted ambition. It's hard being a young actor, because you don't realise until later that it's only ever about doing the work.

Nash Grier

You can play professional lacrosse, but they make less than a teacher's salary now. I always thought about that. And it's a very difficult career, a short career, as a pro athlete.

Eugene Debs

Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.

Gloria Estefan

My mom was a source of strength. She showed me by example that women, regardless of how difficult life may get, can do it all.

Nick Woodman

It's very difficult to get any footage of yourself doing what you love unless you have a friend who's a photographer or videographer and wants to document you. That was really the idea and the goal from the beginning: to help people get a good photo, and then it was to help people get a good video.

TobyMac

I just pinch myself, because I think if there's anything I can be proud of, I've survived success, which I think is difficult these days.

Tyler Farr

I've never been the type of guy that's ever needed a lot of things or any fancy things, but my lifelong goal has always been to have a piece of land and a house.

Adriana Trigiani

I care what my reader thinks. There is no fancy recommendation you can give me that would matter to me as much as Mary Jane from Youngstown writing me a letter. There is not one. Don't need it, don't want it, don't require it, does not fill up my soul. It's about her, not about the rest of it.

Philip Greenspun

Pilots enjoy the fun and challenge of handling the fancy machine.

Henry Irving

You speak into it and everything is recorded, voice, tone, intonation, everything. You turn a little wheel, and forth it comes, and can be repeated ten thousand times. Only fancy what this suggests.

Rudyard Kipling

We ain't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too, But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you; An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints, Why single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints

Charles Caleb Colton

The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness. The old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young for wisdom.

William Shakespeare

Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, than women's are.

Benjamin Franklin

Before you consult your fancy, consult your purse.

Charles Lamb

The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.

Eric Swensen

(The outlook) is fantastic. After this, we know that placing at states is a goal that's within reach.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there.

Martin Jol

We played well in the first half but needed a second goal because we did not kill them off, and Robbie Keane got it.

Buddy Carroll

We played well as a group. We had some nice goals.

Marty Miller

We play all year setting goals. Now our goal is to get to the (World Series) championship game.

Nick Nuttall

We are not going to meet the Millennium Development Goals on water or health unless we protect them.

Henry Thomas

When we raise these rates, people will use less. That's a goal we want to achieve.

Celia Weston

My goal has always been to make a living and to have the respect of my peers. It's never been about stardom. It's about a good and challenging part.

Pierce Brosnan

It's the ultimate goal every day you wake up, to be happy. At the end of the week, you want to be happy. Happy in love, happy in work, happy in life, happy with yourself. It's pretty simple.

Buck Leonard

I was not bitter by not being allowed to play in the major leagues. I just said, 'The time has not come.'

Bryan Cogman

I hate when the major event of a show I watch is spoiled for me. And I'm wracked with guilt when/if I spoil something for someone else.

Bridget Kelly

For me, the majority of my music is really dark and to the point.

Frank Pierson

There's no question that the '70s themselves were really wide open. There was just so much being done at that time. Every year, the major studios were commissioning things that they would never touch today or even thought of touching in the 1950s.

Nuno Bettencourt

It's just a bunch of songs. I'm not trying to cure any major disease.

Troye Sivan

I have a majority girl audience on YouTube.

Carolina Herrera

I prefer clothes that are simple, well-cut, but with one major extravagance. Something with the sleeves, with the skirt, but nothing too fussy, too flashy.

Adrian McKinty

I used to get a lift to school every day with a man who was a major in the British Army.

Lilly Singh

The majority of people call or message me because they need something or they want something. You never know what people's intentions are.

Bill Hader

I'm a huge fan of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.

Paul Sabatier

During the period 1901 to 1905, together with Senderens, I showed that nickel is very suitable for the direct hydrogenation of nitriles into amines and, no less important, of aldehydes and acetones into corresponding alcohols.

Patrick Schwarzenegger

My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.

Charles Spurgeon

I have my own opinion that there is no such thing as preaching Christ and Him crucified, unless we preach what nowadays is called Calvinism. It is a nickname to call it Calvinism; Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else.

Alan Alda

Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname.

Demetri Martin

Cottonballs are an example of something I'd want to buy, but not have as a nickname.

Snoop Dogg

Ain't nothing greater than an x-rater with a nickname like Vibrator.

Nicolas Chamfort

Chance is a nickname for Providence.

Laetitia Casta

I was very excited to work with Nick Jarecki and, of course, to be in a film with Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon!

Bob Boughner

When the votes come in, the results will speak for themselves.

Gordon Campbell

We can't look at the results we've had and say those are the results we want.

Hariadi Wibisono

We got the results back from Atlanta, and they were positive.

Aaron Mokoena

We must win. No other result will do.

Gustav Humbert

We're very satisfied with the test results and are on target.

Edward Gibbon

Rational confidence [is] the just result of knowledge and experience.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

If you don’t find the time, if you don’t do the work, you don’t get the results.

Jason Terry

We accomplished most of our goals, and now it's time to put it all together. The results will be sweet if we do.

Romeo Crennel

When we get the results on that, we'll let you know.

Luis Gomez

We are not going to wait for the storm to hit.

Peter Fontaine

We have to wait and see how this storm develops, going into Texas,

Joe McCormick

We have to make sure that one or two storms are not going to wipe out the company." ()

Charlotte Bronte

I soon forgot storm in music.

Charles Caleb Colton

The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Bill Johnson

You only have control over the storms you are able to have peace in.

Bill Johnson

Abiding in peace makes us a threat to any storm.

Athenaeus

I have heard a greater storm in a boiling pot.

Antonin Artaud

It is not a certain conformity of manners that the painting of Van Gogh attacks, but rather the conformity of institutions themselves. And even external nature, with her climates, her tides, and her equinoctial storms, cannot, after Van Gogh's stay upon earth, maintain the same gravitation.

Tom Anderson

We've got the coolers at 18 degrees. This weather isn't helping.

William Shakespeare

. . . it is impossible you should take true root but by the fair weather that you make yourself it is needful that you frame the season of your own harvest.

Charles Dickens

"It's nothing," returned Mrs Chick. "It's merely change of weather. We must expect change."

Charles Spurgeon

Now and then there comes a crash of thunder in a storm, and we look up with amazement when he sets the heavens on a blaze with his lightning.

David Suzuki

The increasing frequency of extreme weather events, droughts and floods is in line with what climate scientists have been predicting for decades - and evidence is mounting that what's happening is more severe than predicted, and will get far worse still if we fail to act.

Catherine Bell

I love cold, rainy weather.

Carole Lombard

Do you laugh in the right places? Then, you’ll get along, in fair weather or foul. Humor is nothing less than a sense of the fitness of things. Something that’s out of proportion, like an inflated ego, should strike you funny, particularly if it’s your own inflated ego. Otherwise you are pathetic and quite hopeless.

Kurt Vonnegut

The economy is a thoughtless weather system.

Bear Grylls

Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.

Samuel Butler

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

Samuel Butler

Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

Shaquille O'Neal

It matters in a fatherly way.

Junior Seau

We did what we had to do. Getting a win was key.

James Long

When the window shattered, you can't see through it.

Brad Halsey

We didn't play well and we didn't win the ballgame. That's what happens. I really don't know what else to say about it.

Vicente Fox

We are going to win this battle. We'll see who is tougher, we'll see who is more stubborn,

Dear Abbey

It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

Sharon Allen

We're just going to try and win another game.