Famous Quotes & Sayings

Simon Cowell

I find Paula patronizing. It's as simple as that. Paula is more damaging than I am to these contestants because a lot of people just shouldn't be singing for a living.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

People talk about the pain of defeat, but I think defeat has a lot of value. I think the wound of victory can be even more damaging than defeat. Very few people really know how to win.

Gordon B. Hinckley

My heart goes out to a missionary who does not receive regular mail from home. Generally, a letter once a week is a good rule. But on the other hand, too much mail can be damaging to a missionary's morale.

Pat Conroy

I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'

Enric Sala

I have touched coral, and it feels hard like a rock, with a little slimy thing on top of it. But it is better to not touch coral, to prevent damaging it.

David Vise

We are talking about the most prolific and damaging spy in U.S. history. Secrets sold, not only from the FBI where he worked, but also from the CIA, the White House, the Pentagon and the National Security Agency.

Paul Dretsch

Her offensive rebounds are what is so damaging to a team. She scores a lot of her points getting offensive rebounds.

John Cridland

It could have the perverse effect of throttling private sector investment, thereby damaging the UK economy - putting the very pension schemes the regulator is trying to protect under even more pressure.

Joel Fuhrman

Hypertension is an important risk factor for kidney disease, but dietary sodium has other damaging effects on the kidneys. High salt intake drives the production of oxygen radicals, leading to oxidative stress in kidney tissue.

Atharva Veda

Let us not seek the outer empire; let us become the rulers of the inner empire. Let us not try to defy the outer enemy, leaving the inner foe to grow in striking power. We have Krishna with us, and so, who can defeat us? We shall win through winning His Grace.

Steve Tilson

Losing isn't the end of the world; we have enough quality to be fine. One defeat in nine games isn't bad.

John Snow

Many stand waiting to defend their breaks, deductions and loopholes and to defeat our efforts.

Mark Kirk

Secretary Rumsfeld used to represent parts of our district in the 1960s. I think that he and his team have done a masterful job in defeating Iraqi forces quickly and decisively.

J. J. Johnson

My job is just to defeat the guy on the other side,

Hanan Crystal

Netanyahu has already defeated a sitting prime minister (Peres in 1996), and he can do it again.

Vitali Meschoulam

Needless to say, a victory of the most left-leaning factions of the party would be a significant defeat for Lula.

Pat Hill

getting a lot of big payday games in big venues, which is great for those programs. I think that has defeated the purpose for us, anyway, of getting really high-profile games, even though they're on the road.

Kamisese Mara

From where I stand, I do not see the lost people of the South Seas, the defeated and the despairing, shrunken shadows of those who went before.

Richard Rogers

If I remember rightly Holland for instance has something like 45, and it's a much smaller country. In comparison we have very few and they are very badly financed.

Richard P. Feynman

Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories.

Robert Wilson

One of the few things that will remain of this time is what artists are doing. They are the journal and the diary of our time.

Ron Wood

Jo left me a few months ago for 10 days. I get this note: I'll come back when the real Ronnie comes back.

Stuart Anderson

Like any other day, you feel like you leave a few out there. But any time you shoot 68 with a hole in one, you can't complain.

James Kilts

Mach3 will remain No. 1 for the first few years, but Fusion will become our flagship brand.

Kelly Martin

Magdalena's beatable, but they're tough. Our girls got stuck a few times, but they never gave up.

David Margolick

Louis was a man of few words. And unfortunately most of the other guys were not great diarists.

David Margolick

Louis was a man of few words, ... And unfortunately most of the other guys were not great diarists.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

John Dingell

Let's look at the system. First, the characteristics they're talking about they say is a fingerprint. In fact, it's more like a tire print.

Tom Coughlin

Let's talk about winning. Let's talk about winning first before we talk about anything else,

Jack Ford

mediated. We still talk about her every day, but she's doing better.

Lindy Ruff

No, no. We haven't talked about that. Until you're in, you're not in.

Felipe Alou

No, no, no, I don't want to talk about Bonds. I'll see you later.

Richard Flanagan

My father, unusually for a PoW, talked about his experiences, but he talked about them in a very limited way.

Kenneth Rice

No, I didn't want to talk about that.

Eddie Perez

No, you don't talk enough to be boring.

Chris Cornell

I'm not usually in a talkative mode.

Billy Joel

She can kill with a smile, She can wound with her eyes.

Gary Scelzi

I have chills. I've been wound up all week.

Aisha Tyler

Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.

Demi Moore

Don't let your wounds make you become someone you're not.

Martin Meehan

The psychological wounds can be much more destructive,

Dennis Quaid

I went out for the football team but, you know, I was too small. That's how I wound up in drama.

Erwin McManus

Love never comes without wounds; faith never comes without failure.

Paul Dergarabedian

Nothing salves the wound of controversy like money.

Sherman Alexie

Humor was an antiseptic that cleaned the deepest of personal wounds.