Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Robinson

What I need to do is have a great positive attitude and a great work ethic. Those two things validate me. Yes, it's important that I have good numbers, and I'm well-respected as a player. But I think it's more important that I'm respected as a man.

David Riesman

In preindustrial cultures leisure is scarcely a burden or a "problem" because it is built into the ritual and ground plan of life for which people are conditioned in childhood; often they possess a relatively timeless attitude toward events.

David Horowitz

Liberalism teaches those who have fallen behind in the economic scramble to blame others for their failure. This attitude stimulates juices of resentment and deprives its holders of the power to change their condition.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

If you have the attitude of a young person and you work like a young person and you keep your body in shape, and if you believe that you can do it, then you can actually make other people also believe that you can do it.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The secret is contained in a three-part formula I learned in the gym: self confidence, a positive mental attitude, and honest hard work.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

For me, life is about continuously being hungry. It's meaning is not simply to just exist or to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer. Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. We all have great power. That power is self-faith. There's really an attitude to winning. You have to see yourself winning before you win. And you have to be hungry. You have to want to conquer.

Bear Grylls

Success almost always follows great attitude. The two attract each other!

August Wilson

Blues is the bedrock of everything I do. All the characters in my plays, their ideas and their attitudes, the stance that they adopt in the world, are all ideas and attitudes that are expressed in the blues.

August Wilson

Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.

Bob Coombes

Let us take up the burden of the fallen, set our hand to the task they left unfinished. Let us, with God's help, make the world a better, happier and brighter place.

Johnny Kidd

Yes, the future certainly looks brighter now. I'm very happy with my group.

Frank Wolf

Many around the world are enduring these hardships simply because they practice their faith. They endure mostly in silence and away from the public spotlight and with little hope for a brighter tomorrow,

Noel Gallagher

Some might say, we will find a brighter day.

David Stockman

Now that the storm has passed and rebuilding will restart, the future is even brighter for Biloxi,

Jon Snow

Bush is perhaps a brighter man that we imply, but on the other hand he's probably just as narrow a man as we report him to be.

Unknown

From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven. And when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, their streams of light flow together, and a single brighter light goes forth from their united being.

Bill Walsh

I would have expected this. He's a brilliant person, and he's got emotional integrity. He was one of the most unique people I've ever known. He was a kid, and it was like he was 35 or 40. He was 19. He was a totally mature adult, and he was brighter than I was.

Jason Mraz

I encourage the players to simply feel what they feel and relay that on tape. The outcome was brighter than I could have ever imagined.

Belinda Stronach

When I made the decision to leave I could have potentially been in an election just two to three days after. Mr. Emerson campaigned as a Liberal and just a few days after the election made the decision to leave.

Terry J. Lundgren

I'm on the road two or three days a week normally.

Nancy Brown

We're looking at sheltering and feeding people for three months, ... Consequently, we will need volunteers for not only a few days or weeks, but long term. We have hundreds of deaths and thousands homeless. It's just an overwhelming situation.

Sally Hawkins

Sometimes you go into a film and you have no time to prepare and have to compress the details into a few days and then rely on the instinct and what happens when you're in a scene with other actors and that chemistry or not.

Jay Leno

Magic Johnson, former basketball player, may run for mayor of L.A. in the next election. Remember the good 'ol days when only qualified people ran for office like actors and professional wrestlers.

Alice Wonderland

Mad Hatter: No wonder you're late. Why, this watch is exactly two days slow.

Thomas Powell

Life accumulates. The difference of accumulating days that we are proud of versus days for which we are regretful is in controlling our thoughts in each moment.

Phil Davis

Last year we had restaurants out of food two days after the event. This year we've even heard of a group that is planning a White Squirrel wedding.

S. Hughes

Leave on time at least two days a week. If you never have any free evenings you'll grow resentful.

Antony Garrett Lisi

Ninety-five per cent of my time is virtually wasted.

Eddie Perez

Ninety percent of the people I grew up with didn't succeed.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Between your faith and my Glock nine millimeter, I'll take the Glock.

Booth Tarkington

Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Gossip goes on about every human being alive and about all the dead that are alive enough to be remembered, and yet almost never does any harm until some defender makes a controversy. Gossip's a nasty thing, but it's sickly, and if people of good intentions will let it entirely alone, it will die, ninety-nine times out of a hundred.

Gerald Ryan

She has only been out of a place once in nine starts.

Holly Derrick

She slept for nine solid hours. She was emotionally spent.

Carolyn Maloney

Nine out of ten adult Americans have a checking account. It's the most widely used financial services product in the United States.

Arianna Huffington

Ninety nine percent of the time it's not urgent and to create a culture where you are constantly plugged in and expected to be always-on is to create a culture of burnout.

John O'Connor

My understanding was that he was one of the nine hostages, not that he took nine hostages.

Audrey Hepburn

I speak for those children who cannot speak for themselves, children who have absolutely nothing but their courage and their smiles, their wits and their dreams.

Denis Waitley

SMILE! In every language, in every culture - it is the light in your window that tells people there's a caring, sharing individual inside and it's the universal code for "I'm O. K. - You're O. K., too!"

Denis Waitley

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.

Dennis Miller

Liberals should not overplay this weapons of mass destruction card, because you want me to tell you the truth? Most of us are not going to care if they don't find these weapons of mass destruction. It's enough for a lot of us to see those kids smiling on that street again.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

Right now, I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass.

Billie Holiday

There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.

Dan Castellaneta

When I look at the smiles on all the children's faces, I just know they're about to jab me with something.

Augusten Burroughs

He continues to smile expectantly. I take a step back. I don't want to catch whatever he has. He is a disturbing out-of-uniform Santa.

Arthur Miller

Willie was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life?. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back - that's an earthquake.

Dan Castellaneta

When I look at the smiles on all the children's faces, I just know they're about to jab me with something.

Jim Lucas

There are so many smiles, ... It?s just like, ?Wow.?

Joe Hale

Our son was so happy. He was precious, he always had a smile.

Blaine Taylor

Our commissioner has been walking around with a smile. How many other conferences have two teams still playing?

Anne Byrn

When you look at a cupcake, you've got to smile.

Keith Urban

You look at me and give me that 'come here baby' smile. And I know we can make it through anything.

Kevin Appier

They always say, 'Smile!' and sometimes that just ticks me off. I'm not a smiley guy.

William Shakespeare

The robb'd that smiles, steals something from the thief

Chris Paterson

You only need to look around at the smiles on the guys' faces,