Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Wingfield

We want to take it to a community and give everyone a chance to come on board.

Chet Atkins

If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too.

Cale Yarborough

If you don't take a chance-you won't have a chance.

Luke Perry

It was a fun film. I had a great time doing it. I was looking for a role just like that for my first movie role. I didn't want to have a starring role, because I wanted a chance to learn. I didn't want the whole thing riding on me.

Louis Sachar

Every time I start a new novel, it seems like an impossible undertaking. If I tried to do too much too quickly, I would get lost and feel overwhelmed. I have to go slow, and give things a chance to take form and grow.

Mike Shanahan

The one thing we have in our division is everybody tries to get better. We've got ownership throughout the division where teams are looking to improve. . . . If you're not improving in our division, chances are you're not going to win.

Chad Hurley

The power of digital distribution over physical retail outlets is you have a chance to create a global audience.

Lee Scott

The potential right now for success at that school is very, very high. Of the 30 kids in my class, about 10 are Hispanic. It's very difficult for me to look at those kids that I'm teaching now and know that statistically there's a good chance some of them will drop out of school.

Martyn Thomas

The performance in Paris was unacceptable. We will do what is necessary to enhance our chances of doing well in the World Cup. If that means making changes, so be it, but we are not going into panic mode.

Charlie Hall

We started Big Muddy Records because we felt that there was a lot of good music happening in St. Louis that needed exposure and support.

George Shinn

We're going to have national exposure here; you don't want to have only 1,500 people in the seats.

Dawn Ostroff

Veronica Mars' is a smart, intelligent show with a fabulous star in Kristen Bell, and like many other great series, it simply needs more exposure to gain real traction. This is that opportunity,

Eve Plumb

In the early days of picture-taking, the exposure shutter had to stay open for a long time, so you had to stay really still.

Stephany Smith

The exposure that we'd get from possibly one of these people wearing a Frozen Ocean T-shirt, we'd take that as well.

Marisa Miller

So, it's kind of a big deal. This will result in more exposure and, hopefully, new connections, more shows and who knows what.

Bode Miller

My mom played the recorder. But not having electricity, we had minimal exposure to music. As I got a little older, we had Walkmans and things that were battery-powered, but it would have been nice to be growing up in the iPod era. A tape only has six songs on a side.

T.I.

I think my first hit was probably '24 is a Rubberband Man,' which was my second album. My first project, it was very well received in the Southeast region, all throughout the South and parts of the Midwest. It was very well received, but I didn't get national exposure on my second album.

Pamela Salsberry

We don't have physiological data, but our findings suggest that prenatal exposure can be seen as a risk factor. There's such a strong relationship.

Alan Greenspan

If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen.

Richard Wallace

The potential returns for BHP are enormous, even after the gains recently.

Kim Rupert

The post-auction gains were used as a selling opportunity.

David Hume

It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause.

Denis Waitley

It is a psychological fact that we cherish most what we have worked hardest to gain. The further we have come, the sweeter the celebration at the destination when we arrive.

Barry Trotz

We have to get as many points as can right now. We have to get some separation. We have a lot of teams playing each other in the Western Conference. We are going to gain some ground on someone.

Ken Hitchcock

We're starting to gain an identity and confidence. We're starting to build. You can hear it in the banter on the bench.

Scott Brown

We're seeing the productivity gains split up between wage increases and profits.

Kristin Cast

I've gained fans, fame, fortune, but I don't feel different. Am I supposed to?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

It is scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to attend a meeting where the only attraction is God

Randy Nixon

We want to see people come to this meeting who want to work, who want to see it happen.

Omar Epps

We're in Hollywood. I meet people like that every day.

Pat Schaumann

We staff about 4,000 meetings a year for the pharmaceutical industry.

John Lackey

When we have two jurisdictions, we have to have a meeting of the minds.

David Davies

We're going to meet up and have a training session before I go.

Tim Collins

We're doing everything we can to meet the needs of our customers, but things are going to be kind of crowded.

Amanda Brown

We're doing everything we can to meet that goal.

Robert Worthy

We're really getting into the meet of our schedule. This is really important.

Heikki Kovalainen

Danger is part of my job. It's always there, but you can't think about it too much otherwise you start to be too slow.

Ken Starr

I do not speak frequently or otherwise to the press.

Katie McGrath

No actor can play a villain if they don't sympathise with him or her - otherwise the character just becomes a two-dimensional caricature.

Patricia Clarkson

She's all right, otherwise I wouldn't be here,

Ken King

We're activating relationships that otherwise wouldn't have been there.

Robert E. Lee

It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.

Paul Kantner

We printed all the words out because otherwise nobody would be able to understand them.

Alan Greenspan

The purpose of a politician is to be a leader. A politician has to lead. Otherwise he's just a follower.

Susan Minot

When I look through my sketchbooks, they bring back moments that I would otherwise have completely forgotten.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Charles Dickens

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

Charles Dickens

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Soule

Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows?

Diane von Furstenberg

Bali and the Aman resorts are all very luxurious, great places to go.

Dhani Jones

Turks and Caicos is one of my favorite places to go. I've been to some really cool places and it started out when I was young by wanting to go to different places.

Yotam Ottolenghi

There are tons of wonderful places to eat in London.

Cory Doctorow

It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it's just more reality bending, deliberately so. I think it's a lot more emotionally raw.

P. J. O'Rourke

The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor places in which they're living.

Darrel Hoffman

When I look back, there are so many places where we can improve.

Lynsey Addario

Most people, when they meet me, one of the first things they say is, 'Why would you voluntarily subject yourself to war? Why would you go into these places where you know there's a risk of getting killed?'

Dominic James

We have positive places around this community. One of them is Townsend Center.

Dave Ramsey

There's a great place to go when you're broke--to work!

David Krumholtz

I'm not sure I enjoyed doing [Gigi Does It]. I'm cool with just being an actor. If anything, I learned to be proud of being an actor.

Catherine Ashton

I was the first woman British commissioner, the first woman trade commissioner, so I am also proud to be the first woman High Representative.

Catherynne M. Valente

Respect me. Be proud, and if you love me, a little afraid, because love so often looks like fear. We are alike. We are alike.

Vickie Simmons

We are proud we can give teachers the kind of salary we do.

Justin Glover

We are proud of the improvements that we have made since 2004. We are going to keep striving to do better.

Stefan Pryor

We are proud of the effectiveness of our procedures.

Chad Bankston

We still, obviously, have a lot of work to do, but I'm proud of them.

William Shakespeare

Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud; but, God He knows, thy share thereof is small.

Ed Harris

When I decided to direct, never having done that before, is something I'm very proud of

Alan Moore

Who imprisoned me here? Who keeps me here? Who can release me? Who's controlling and constraining my life except...me?

Bruce Springsteen

The release date is just one day, but the record is forever.

Bill Hayden

Cosmoe is nearing the stage where I would feel comfortable doing a preliminary release aimed at developers.

Leslie Sloane

Yes, she has been released and she is doing better.

Lindsey Rice

She was just being released into a world of paranoia, and it wasn't good.

Rob Schneider

We're not getting released in Japan; I know that for a fact,

Wendy Raquel Robinson

When I'm having a really rough day, I take it out in the gym. It releases so many endorphins in your body.

William Scranton

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and EPA, et cetera, had worked out what allowable releases are.

David Wright

I had released all that was worst in me. It was a shame I had to kill them.

David Sedaris

I see you that have a little swimming mouse

Bruno Tonioli

I think a lot of people have a vision of L.A. in which TV executives and movie directors plan their latest productions by the swimming pool.

Eddie Marsan

I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said, 'You know, it's funny, it's when you've got no clothes on, no one recognizes you.' I said, 'What are you saying? That I should do more love scenes?

Eddie Izzard

I did bronze survival swimming. I could save people in a bronzey kind of way.

David Duchovny

Sometimes when I'm swimming, I think that maybe someday I'll put my red Speedo up for auction. Or maybe I'll donate it to the Smithsonian. They can stuff it with two plums and a gherkin and put it on display.

Denis Waitley

Losers let it happen; winners make it happen!

Denis Leary

Jerry Lewis has been married twenty times. He gets married on a Tuesday, they find his wife dead in a swimming pool on Thursday. Maybe if you married someone who's old enough to swim next time, Ok Jerry?

Dick Cavett

There were several things a Yale freshman was supposed to be able to do. You had to demonstrate in the Olympic-size Yale pool that you could swim 50 yards or be inducted into swimming class.

Diana Nyad

I think I'm going to my grave without swimming from Cuba to Florida,