Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Moore

All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day." The Joker - The Killing Joke

Al Roker

If I was having a bad day, eating was like self-medicating. But if you abuse food, you still have to use that substance that you abuse every day. You have to learn to use it responsibly.

Chris Cleave

The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at the keyboard and give it everything you have.

Chris Bangle

Designers think everything done by someone else is awful, and that they could do it better themselves, which explains why I designed my own living room carpet, I suppose.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context.

Chesty Puller

Where the hell do you put the bayonet?

Cathy Freeman

When I'm in a bad mood, I don't listen.

Casey Affleck

I have a very bad relationship with mice.

Michael Steele

You know, conservatism is not a bad thing. It's not a pejorative.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God's gifts are many; His best gift is one. It is the gift of Himself.

Bob Thomas

We want them to swim fast, and this is the best way to do it, in short races.

Farley Flex

We want them to be as comfortable as possible. So they can give us their best performance.

Steve Davies

We want to take care of our district games and then, game seven, eight, nine, 10 make sure we're playing our best football.

Jeff Matteson

We want to surround our families with as much support as possible. There are some great people working with kids in this town. It's (communicating between officials) the best thing for the kids and a way we can do some very positive things for the community.

Nick Saban

We want to support every player, and I think every player knows he has a responsibility for what to do and what not to do. As a coach, I also feel a responsibility to put a player in the best situation possible so he can have success.

Venancio Figueroa

We want to stay competitive and make sure we're providing customers the best value.

Galit Chait

We want to skate our best. I hope to skate well and give our best performance here in this competition.

Jeff Horner

We want to show people we're the best team in the conference. We want to win the Big Ten Tournament and show that maybe we did deserve a little bit of the Big Ten title.

Bill Cowher

We've all had heroes, and I know Jack Lambert was for me because I was a defensive guy.

Dennis Richardson

We are a hard working, defensive driven team. We were very competitive in all our matches this season.

Jim Elliott

We are a good defensive team and we are getting better. This is a team that hasn't played together for a long time and we are still trying to figure out who we are on offense. But we are getting there.

Sal Follo

We are a defensive hockey team and we have a system that we are going to stick to and it has kept us in game all year; even the games we lose are only by one goal.

Terri Holmes

We struggled early, but the nice thing about it we rebounded in the third inning on great defensive play.

Jason Mathenia

We strive to deny the other team any opportunities in the defensive third. We've taken pride in that this year and it's really paid off.

Jared Jeffries

We're in a rhythm right now, especially at the defensive end. We're getting stops, and we're getting out and running. And we're taking good shots. That allows us to get back at the defensive end.

Josh Smith

We started hot, but couldn't maintain it. We got tired and couldn't sustain our defensive intensity. They wore us down and killed us on the glass in the second half.

Kris Kalivas

We spotted them a good 10 (points) in the first quarter. We played a real nice second quarter, defensively. Unfortunately, we didn't duplicate that defensive effort the rest of the ballgame.

Charles Caleb Colton

There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.

Charles Dickens

Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not.

Charles Spurgeon

The repetition of small efforts will accomplish more than the occasional use of great talents.

Alan Bishop

There hasn't been a true breakdown or effort to break Thai music into genres. They're not into dicing and slicing everything up.

Alan Bennett

All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I'd got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.

Al Ries

If you want to build a brand, you must focus your branding efforts on owning a word in the prospect's mind. A word that nobody else owns.

Akio Morita

If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail. Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

In an effort to get the work of the Lord done we often lose contact with the Lord of work.

Childe Hassam

These small shows were decidedly a success. The exhibitions were not too large to be seen easily. It was not an effort, as larger collections of pictures usually are.

Charles Dickens

Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.

Charles Dickens

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

Charles Stross

I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer.

Alan Watts

The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

Alan Watts

Substances like LSD, which give away a secret about the nature of the social game - the human game and what underlies it - are potentially dangerous, of course, like any good thing is. Electricity is dangerous, fire is dangerous, cars are dangerous, planes are dangerous, but not so dangerous as driving on the freeway. The only way to handle danger is to face it. If you start getting frightened of it, then you make it worse. Because you project onto it all kinds of bogeys and threats which don't exist in it at all.

Alan Moore

They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away.

Alan Green

You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals.

Al Alvarez

The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.

Al Alvarez

Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.