Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Gavin

People make errors. The problem here was not the error. It was the failure of us to look at it end-to-end and find it. It's unfair to rely on any one person.

William Feather

Success makes us intolerant of failure, and failure makes us intolerant of success.

English 20th Century Proverbs

Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.

Jerry Patterson

I think the state has failed. The failure goes back decades. The culpability goes back decades. We just didn't pay attention.

Marty Bahamonde

I think there was a systematic failure at all levels of government to understand the magnitude of the situation.

Julia Louis

I think there's pressure, period, regardless of the past successes or failures of any of my friends,

Gene Orza

I think there has been a failure by some people in the press to distinguish between a player who's not playing because he feels he can't and the guy who's not interested in playing in this kind of tournament. The latter kinds of guys are very few in number.

Tim Taylor

Last week we were set up for failure from the get go. We had three games in four nights. Monticello played really well. There guards really pushed us to the limits, but we need games like that. We need to be in those situations to understand how to win.

Riley Wallace

The plane to Boise had some kind of mechanical problem; we were actually on the plane before they sent us back. And then we just sat and waited and there was no other way to get us to Boise, so they sent us to Seattle and put us up for the night.

Philipp Meyer

I like mechanical things; my first book was a mechanics guide - that was what my parents couldn't pry away from me; that was the blanket.

Mark Frauenfelder

My problem with mechanical pencils is that I break the lead tips constantly.

Christian Silk

It was a tough day for us because of mechanical problems.

Morris Gleitzman

Melbourne is my type of city, much more so than Sydney.

Beck

I didn't even have a computer until like 10 years ago. I was still using a typewriter until 2002.

Barry Lopez

When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.

B. J. Novak

Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.

Simeon Rice

That's the type of thing we can do on defence. We want to do something special.

Michael Rispoli

That's what I play - blue-collar Italian-Americans. You got to be typecast in order to work. I've been blessed.

Phil Jackson

I think he must have some type of injury.

Larry Coker

I think he can be that type player.

Jeremy Kreitler

It allows users to do things without having to type anything.

Cecelia Ahern

Our minds do unusual things sometimes, Tamara. When we’re looking for things it takes it upon itself to go down its own route. All we can do is follow

Lance Randall

That's unusual for us. I like to see more balance. But I'll take where we're at.

Mark Grossman

It is kind of an unusual thing to see happen.

Dan Hill

My wife is unusually kind and generous, but she's no fool. You don't mess with her.

Mike Owens

I wrote 'white, back of wing.' It was unusual enough that I wrote it down.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

I kind of have never thought about a career path, which is an unusual approach.

E. M. Forster

One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.

Curtis Hanson

Samuel Fuller pictures were both written and shot in such an unusual way that his voice came through loud and clear, and it made a big impression on me.

Deepak Chopra

Don't simply dismiss a coincidence and let it drift away. Life is totally interconnected. These unusual 'things' are simply connections that surprise you because you aren't used to seeing life except in fragments. Now it is beginning to piece itself together.