Famous Quotes & Sayings

Akon

I always want to set myself a challenge by doing something no-one would expect me to do! But, having said that, I don't feel as a musician you can steer too far away from what you normally do.

Chris Chocola

We are a nation that seeks out solutions and refuses to ignore challenges.

Chris Bauer

I love any challenge that comes my way, and I've been lucky to have many.

Chris Albrecht

The scripts for Marco Polo are absolutely, positively fantastic. The challenge of making that show in China has proved to be as formidable as we feared. It's not like making a movie in China where, once you load up and you leave, you're gone. We have to be able to come back and capture something that's going to feel like a major feature film, on a television budget, and do it, hopefully season after season, so we are taking more time than the producers thought.

Chita Rivera

I have always loved a challenge.

Rocky Jarvis

We knew they were going to be tough. They were strong and very deep in singles. It created some real challenges for us.

Miikka Kiprusoff

We knew they have a great power play. It was a good challenge for us and we did a great job tonight.

Mike Bair

We know what our program challenges are and we're working through them together.

Jim DiNello

We know we're going to have tough challenges in the second half. Our schedule gets significantly harder.

Richard McGrath

We want to set the right example and send the right message. Even though this money is coming from contributions, we still think it's very important to be cost-efficient and responsible with expenses.

Elton Brand

We knew they were white-hot and were winning a lot of ballgames, but we were confident coming in. Even down four at the half, we were still confident. We knew that once we made our adjustments, we'd be OK in the second half.

Doug Johnson

We knew they were going to wheel it over in his direction. We were yelling at him from the sidelines to watch out for the ball. But I don't know that he needed us to tell him that. He knew it was coming and just jumped in front of the receiver.

Julie Futch

We knew they were coming out for us. Especially after what happened last year.

Darnell Lazare

We knew they were a great defensive team coming into this. We knew it wasn't going to be easy. We just couldn't get our shots to fall to keep it close.

Bonnie Henrickson

We know who is coming in here and how much better we have to be.

Brian Reece

We know we have a good foundation coming back. The fact we got to this point and we're in position to do this hopefully puts a little thirst and a little hunger in our guys' stomachs for next season.

Ben Carlson

We know we can't continue like we have for years. We need more race days, higher purses, and we need to reduce the costs of the horsemen coming to the track. Unfortunately, we can't make a move in that direction in 2006, but hopefully in the future we can come out of it and continue.

Steve Smith

We know how good we are. This game that's coming up will just give us an indication: can we rise to the occasion when we need to?

Charlie Daniels

I've been to Iraq three times. I've been to Afghanistan, I've been quite a few places, and I want to tell you something, these kids, they're the best we've got. They're the best Americans, they're the most loyal Americans we've got. And we owe them when they come back.

Charles de Lint

All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom.

Alanis Morissette

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.

Alan Hansen

You'll never win anything with kids

Alan Alda

Kids are natural scientists.

Al Purdy

In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.

Al Madrigal

Near my house in Los Angeles is a waterfall. I love to take the wife and kids, but it's also near a sketchy neighborhood. So there's a lot of gang members that hang out at the waterfall. It's like somebody took an Ansel Adams photo and then put a Cypress Hill video inside it.

Al Lewis

I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.

Brad Lancaster

We want the kids to do as well as they can. There are so many opportunities (for various activities), and that's good. But, how do we make sure it's not a distraction.

Charles de Gaulle

In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.

Charles de Gaulle

I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.

Charles de Gaulle

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.

Charles de Gaulle

I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Métro.

Charles Dickens

The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making.

Charles Stanley

American foreign policy and military might have opened an opportunity for the Gospel in the land of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Akhmad Kadyrov

Military troops were withdrawn from Chechnya on Dec. 31, 1996.

Chris Christie

The first thing we need to do to make America stronger is to strengthen our military.

Chris Christie

We talk about our military being degraded over time and yet we've had folks who've been a part of Congress who have participated in sequester; who participated in the degrading of this military over time.

Charles de Lint

The thing I like so much about short stories is that there isn't as much of an investment of time so I'm free to experiment more. If it doesn't work out, I've only lost a week or two of work. If I screw up a novel I've lost at least a year's worth of work. But the nice thing is that those experiments with short stories can be carried over to novels when the experiments do work.

Alan Rickman

You can act truthfully or you can lie. You can reveal things about yourself or you can hide. Therefore, the audience recognizes something about themselves or they don't -- You hope they don't leave the theatre thinking that was nice...now where's the cab?'

Alain Robert

Sometimes doing the forbidden can be nice.

Alan Alda

I don't really worry about the size of the part much any more. It's nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there's something playable there, and if it's interesting to do, then that's nice.

Al Neuharth

Be as nice as possible and as nasty as necessary.

Chris Claremont

I'm the best there is at what I do but what I do best isn't very nice

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I am aware that I have been incredibly fortunate in my life to work with the people that I have worked with and pursue the projects that I have been able to do. There are so many films that I have done that I really, as a film person, as a film fan, that I like. And that is a nice place to think of a career in.

Renier Gonzalez

We know each other pretty well by now. He's a real nice guy.

Thomas Hutchinson

Waldrop, can you please go back in the office? I don't know how nice I should be to someone who's yelling at me.