Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herb Sendek

When you think of Tony, you think back to all that he's had to overcome in terms of injuries. What he's meant our team this year has really hard to calculate; he's been invaluable to us. Only now that we've seen how brilliant he has been you can't help but wonder what he could have meant to our team last year. In retrospect, we can now connect the dots and see what Julius was talking about when he could only practice with us that year.

Laura Carmichael

I've been really lucky because I've managed to become wonderful friends with a handful of very talented British designers. Christopher Kane has become one of my very good friends - also Erdem. Jonathan Saunders is another brilliant talent who's very kind. We all hang out.

Chris Gorog

There is no question that their execution has been less than brilliant over the last 12 months. Our business does rely on Microsoft's digital rights management software and our business model also relies on Microsoft's ecosystem of device manufacturers.

Neve McIntosh

I can't wait to work with Peter Capaldi as the next 'Doctor.' I know him from old; he's such a lovely man and will be brilliant in the role. As long as he tones down the Malcolm Tucker swearing.

Ken Lynch

Tom was a brilliant chairman who raised thousands of pounds for the association and I am sure Mitchell will also do a great job.

John Terry

What a great performance. We got a brilliant start. In the second half we pressed them and they didn't like it. We got our reward in the end.

Bill Gross

Ex-Fidelity mutual fund manager Peter Lynch was certainly brilliant in one respect: he knew to get out when the gettin was good.

Mark Cuban

With Nellie, we tried it the other way. Nellie was brilliant for what he did, but for whatever reason, it didn't work. All of our guys want to win a championship, and this is a system they understand and buy into. We've got guys who might not be great defenders, but they work hard at that end. Now, we're more geared to play defense.

Eric Kanagy

We're just not quite sure how it's going to turn out. Under pressure you can either produce something brilliant or crap. It's that creativity crammed into such a short time that makes it interesting.

Elizabeth Hardwick

the great is seldom a deterrent to the mediocre

Alfred Jarry

La mort n'est que pour les me diocres. Death is only for the mediocre.

Cyril Connolly

A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.

Carolyn Kwan

The overall tone of the report is pretty mediocre at this point.

Nitsan Hargil

They have nothing to celebrate. Revenues were just 'blah' all around. Very mediocre in all segments.

David Frost

Prospects for services are mediocre and the sector will struggle to regain dynamism.

Michael Arndt

My God, there are so many mediocre screenplays out there.

Oscar Wilde

To be popular I must be mediocre.

Ivan Turgenev

It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.

Charlie Chaplin

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

Charles Tupper

The human mind naturally adapts itself to the position it occupies.

Charles Dickens

New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.

Charles Caleb Colton

Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.

Charles Caleb Colton

As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed nor calls out his powers if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke.

Charles Caleb Colton

Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.

Charles Caleb Colton

Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.

Charles Stross

You know, if I tried to change the minds of everyone who I thought needed changing, I'd never have time to do anything else.

Mattias Norstrom

With the new rules, if you've got the puck with some speed, it's tough for the opposition to stop you.

Gilles Duceppe

I went around Quebec saying the same thing I just said to you, and I see no opposition at all,

Adam Weishaupt

Illuminate the opposition.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Opposition strengthens the manly will.

Brian Peterson

We've not run into very much opposition at all. Most people have been very supportive of the project.

Yulia Tymoshenko

We view the Party of Regions as an opposition party.

Pallam Raju

We are in a democracy, and I think for all issues, whatever matters that the opposition may have apprehension on, there is a forum, and it is called Parliament.

Jacob Owiti

The opposition is very stiff but I am optimistic.

Graeme Samuel

As a consequence, the ACCC proposes to withdraw its opposition to the acquisition.

Harvey Jackson

Our spirits are high. We're in it for the long haul.

Benj Steinman

Wine and spirits are outperforming beer. It's been a reversal of a decade-long trend.

Benj Steinman

Wine and spirits are outperforming beer, ... It's been a reversal of a decade-long trend.

Richard Jackson

Troubled spirits often are manipulated by other types of spirits.

Mary Hayes

Even the trees have spirits - everything has a spirit.

Alan Noble

Their spirits go up and down with the wind speeds, and right now the wind is up.

Aaron Spelling

But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.

Vladimir Putin

No one should be allowed to violently trample on the law.

Jasmine Guy

Anything that is non-violent is OK with me.

Donald Ray Pollock

I would like to write a book that wasn't so violent and weird, but I just don't think I can do that with my talent. I don't think it would come off.

Daniel Craig

I guess you could say I've been in my share of violent movies.

Adrienne Rich

An honorable human relationship ... is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.

Jose Maldonado

You'd think if he was a violent offender, they wouldn't let him be out.

Shaun Alexander

It is what it is. We play a violent sport.

Jon Jansen

It's a violent game, a violent place to play.