Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yotam Ottolenghi

It's hard to beat the rough texture of steel-cut oats, with their slight resistance against the teeth.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

You can't beat a Diane Von Fostenburg wrap dress; I always tend to go for the wrap dresses with a little more structure. I also love Prada shoes.

Chuck Palahniuk

I think a lot of people saw 'Fight Club' and thought, 'Right, here's our next Che Guevara, here's our next Fidel Castro, here's someone who's going to wave the flag.' And I was like, 'No, it's just a book. And if I beat that drum, if I play that song one more time, I won't have a career.'

David Bailey

Instead of putting someone in prison for being a hooligan, give him a choice. He may have beaten someone up and he's got eight years, but tell him you can do eight years inside or spend five years in the Army. Put him in the Parachute Regiment, they'd soon sort him out.

Elliot Mintz

The overall tone of her being this kind of Menacing being who would send people out to beat people up, and things of that nature, I just find all of that to be absurd.

Willie Anderson

The penalties hurt us but it's not the reason we lost. We committed a lot of penalties in games we won by blowouts. We just got beat tonight. I think this is the kind of game we'll look back on later in the year and become stronger because of it.

Willie Anderson

The penalties hurt us but it's not the reason we lost, ... We committed a lot of penalties in games we won by blowouts. We just got beat tonight. I think this is the kind of game we'll look back on later in the year and become stronger because of it.

Brendon Urie

There was a kid that used to pick on me... he used to drop my food and beat me up in little corners. Nothing serious, but tease me. I remember knocking his food out of his hand one time when he in the middle of explaining something to his friends, and they all laughed, so I thought that was pretty nice. 'Well, there you go buddy.'

Dennis Christopher

I guess once you've seen Uma Thurman beaten up endlessly in the 'Kill Bill' movies, you think, 'If Uma can take it, what's the matter with me?'

Tamer Hassan

Kids will come into my boxing gym with no discipline, and then you teach them how to focus and love what they're doing, which then travels outside into their home and work life.

Mike Caldwell

We didn't do a very good job boxing out tonight. You can't give them three shots at it and hope to win.

Patrick Cinotte

We didn't do a good job boxing out the first half.

Denise Nugent

We had some nice shooting tonight. We were also boxing out better. We have been having a hard time doing that this year, but tonight you could see them doing a good job locating an opponent on a miss and getting the rebound.

Dan Jenkins

The key to any good sports story is identifying the defining moment. In football games or a boxing match, it's usually pretty obvious. But in golf, sometimes it happens on Thursday. Usually it's Sunday, but guys who don't know the game, they can miss it.

Dan Fitzgerald

We could have done a better job of boxing out, screening them and being more physical with them. But they're a good team.

Jeremy Guthrie

Today was lights-out. At the start, it was kind of a boxing match. No one was really getting anything but then our offense opened it up and defensively, we made the plays.

Michael Mycko

We had a little problem boxing out in the second half, and that's how they got a lot of second-chance opportunities. That really hurt us in the second half.

Bob Hamilton

We've got some girls that are pretty disciplined about boxing out. We're quick to the ball.

Barack Obama

Since I'm the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it's understandable that people are saying, you know, 'What have you done?'

Shawn Stenger

We played well, but they had some good fast kids who did a good job defensively. We really controlled tonight's game, but we didn't finish probably as much as we should have.

Jack Strong

We pretty much controlled the game from the start to the end.

Trey Parker

How many times have you been watching an episode of 'South Park' and thought, 'I'd like to be able to watch this on my television while hooked into my mobile device, which is being controlled by my tablet device which is hooked into my oven, all while sitting in the refrigerator?'

Henry Giroux

The discipline, particularly in these urban schools for the poor, it's not controlled by the administration - they're controlled by the police. This is an expression of a racist logic that has now seeped directly into schools.

Ali Omar

We've got some big names on this team that get a lot of recognition, but Schumacher has been great for us. She pretty much controlled the midfield today and she was a big reason we didn't give anything up defensively.

Jim Bush

The possession of a controlled substance was an off-white rock-like substance,

Rafa Benitez

We started off by controlling the game and were well organised and in the second half they did put some pressure on us but then we controlled the game at the end of the game,

Gillian Anderson

To my detriment sometimes. I can be very controlled - too controlled. It spills over into my life, and that's when it gets difficult.

Webb Simpson

I felt the Lord telling me just to be patient all year. Whether it happened this year, next, or never, everything was going to be okay.

Valerie June

When I was 15, I begged my grandfather to give me this guitar he'd always had in the back of his closet. I promised him I'd learn to play it, but I never did. Then my grandfather died, and I felt so guilty. So I started playing.

Chuck Palahniuk

A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainments were getting better, constantly, as technology allowed. Movies. Video games. Music.

Constance Marie

I never felt ready to have a baby until I was about 37 years old. I knew I always wanted kids someday, but I needed to be 'ready,' ya know?

Evangeline Lilly

It's so important for women to say to other women, 'I like myself how I am.' But it's hard because in your heart of hearts you are thinking, 'I don't really.' But you have to learn to say it. Imagine what a world it would be if people felt good about themselves the whole time.

Ellie Goulding

Breakups just hit you harder when you're younger. When I was a teenager, it felt like the most depressing thing in the world if a boy I was infatuated with didn't like me back!

Edward Snowden

I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression.

Dave Jones

The points target at the start of the season was 52 points because that we felt was the safety mark.

John Grahame

The past six games, I felt pretty well. I think everybody's intensity has picked up. I think mine has.

Willard Boyle

We lived in Northern Quebec, and the nearest school was thirty miles away, so my mother took on the task of home schooling me. She spoke to some friends, received some instructions from the provincial school board, and found some interesting books that perhaps I might find useful.

Viswanathan Anand

I was reasonably interested in mathematics in school. Typically what happens is... when you start playing chess, it takes up a lot of your attention. But about 10 years ago, I found that the Internet is very good to start learning about a lot of subjects.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

David Byrne

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

Ben Carson

Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.

John Daly

The people around me ... were hoping, of course, that the 'something' would be practicing golf. No such luck. What I found was gambling.

Nate Ruess

I think that I always thought that if my uncle was on Broadway, then I must inherently have a good voice. I don't think that for a while I did. Eventually, out of sheer will of never wanting to get a job or go to college, I found my way into doing music full-time.

Carly Fiorina

Our founders never intended us to have a professional political class.

Pat Conroy

Let me now praise the American writer James Dickey. In 1970, his novel 'Deliverance' was published. I found it to be 278 pages that approached perfection. Its tightness of construction and assuredness of style reminded me of 'The Great Gatsby.'

Anthony White

The police officer said, 'Drop the gun!' He said it four times. The guy just turned around and pointed the gun right at the cops.

Bruce Coville

I loved teaching. I used to teach fourth grade.

Big Sean

Kids that I went to school with didn't know how to interact with black people like that. There were only, like, three or four black kids in the class.

Bill Hader

I would say it wasn't until my fourth season on 'SNL' where people or my agent was saying, 'You're an actor.' I never thought of it that way.

Christine Keeler

I don't know if he was the fourth man or the fifth, but he was certainly in the top 10.

Denise Morrison

I am one of four girls and was inspired by my father to dream big. Some girls want to be doctors, but I wanted to run a company.

Natalia Vodianova

I raised my sister. I was six when she was born. My mother had to make a living for herself and it was very hard, so I was looking after my sister, cooking and cleaning, and she had four jobs.

Gore Vidal

No sooner does an American president take his oath of office than the speculation begins: Will he be reelected in four years' time? If not, who will succeed him? A member of his own party? The other party?

Pat Paulsen

You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can only make a monkey out of the voters every four years!

Bronson Pinchot

I go to the gym a lot, and I see these guys, these young actors or models there, really punishing themselves - I mean, just killing themselves. And then I'll see one of them on a billboard, with the artfully messy hair, looking as though it's just natural and easy to have a body like that.

Paul Pierce

I'm a competitive person. I love the game of basketball. I'm a gym rat.

Tyler Hoechlin

If I'm in the gym I'll stay for a while, and I'm not usually in a hurry to leave.

Mike Nichols

My first memory in the world is my gym teacher ripping my mother's necklace off her neck and throwing it out the window and her running downstairs to go after it. I have no memory before that. I was 4. My father had a lot of girlfriends and my mother had a lot of boyfriends.

Bobby Fischer

I was never invited to the White House. They invited that Olympic Russian gymnast - that little Communist, Olga Korbut.

Amy Chow

When I compete, I tell myself to be calm. It's not something that's the rest of your life. You're in gymnastics for fun.

Pamela Anderson

I was a gymnast when I was little, like 8, 9, 10.

Bill Cowher

Yeah, we went into the gym to save their legs, and James hurt his knee, ... But I think he'll be back out here tomorrow.

Ken Norton

When I first quit all those years ago, I missed going to the gym as it had become such a habit.

Agnes Obel

I'm very happy that I got introduced to music only as something you got pleasure from.

Tommy Dolde

These kids get introduced to it in our Junior Olympic program.

Kathryn Lasky

I think, first and foremost, Marie Antoinette was intellectually impoverished. She really had never been introduced to the notion of abstract thinking - of thinking at all in any profound way.

Jeff Ulbrich

Last year, we introduced the 3-4, but at the same time, we retained all our 4-3 calls, we practiced them. It was kind of always like, I don't know if it was inevitable, but it kind of seemed like that at times, that we were going to go back.

Erich Leinsdorf

When I was introduced to Johnson he was a freshman Congressman.

Mike Collins

We just introduced it, and we sold three right away, ... This will become a very big model for us.

John Szabo

What's a joke? ... The referendum is non-binding. You object to an ordinance being introduced to make that binding?

Richard Gardner

By year end, Microsoft will have introduced a major upgrade to every one of its significant platform and application products.

John Hurt

Everybody, I think, that was in 'Harry Potter' was certainly introduced to an enormous lot of young people.

William Shakespeare

Truth hath a quiet breast.

Bryan Ferry

But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.

Bob Newhart

I am a minimalist. I like saying the most with the least.

Ed Begley, Jr.

You cannot be quiet about things that you know.

Dee Dee Ramone

Because I'm quiet, people think I'm really cold, or rude, or snobby. But I'm literally scared to talk to them.

Diego Della Valle

When it is possible, I choose to have a quiet life.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

She lived, we'll say, A harmless life, she called a virtuous life, A quiet life, which was not life at all (But that she had not lived enough to know)

Edna St. Vincent Millay

A grave is such a quiet place.

Barry Sanders

I really love peace and quiet.

Ban Ki-moon

A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.

Larry Craig

We came to Iraq to liberate them and to make our world a safer place.

Jacek Tyszkiewicz

When we're all done, it's going to be a safer expressway.

English Proverbs

It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.

Adam Foote

Yeah, you don?t want to do that. You want to play safe and get it out. But those things happen.

Fred Espenak

Unlike solar eclipses, lunar eclipses are completely safe to watch,

Charles Caleb Colton

They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning hears no noise; but the thunder-clap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety.

Alan Watts

What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.

Alan Guth

It's actually safe to create a universe in your basement.

Don Yaeger

In sports, championships often define a person's legacy.

Peter Steele

We're the only species who hunts for sport.

Tora Berger

When I was about 18, I started to think that I could have a long sporting career.

Jerry Seinfeld

I think of myself more as a sportsman than I do an artist.

Nikki Reed

I'm into outdoor sports like hiking, windsurfing, water-skiing.

Stephan James

Growing up, I was always into sports - basketball and volleyball - but I wasn't really a runner.

Larry King

Sports are my favorite. It's the first thing I turn to every day.

Wilson Bethel

I do like all different kinds of sports and stuff. I've taken up gymnastics and slacklining - you know, tightroping, basically.

Pete Rose

You don't dominate any sport when you're over 40.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.

Donatella Versace

At that time of the supermodels, celebrities didn't want to be in fashion; they thought they were more intellectual and interesting than anyone in fashion.

David Bailey

I could develop a picture by the time I was 12.

David Byrne

I've got nothing to say most of the time.

Brittany Howard

The first time I learned how to play, my guitar was out of tune. I didn't know it; I just started writing songs.