Famous Quotes & Sayings

M. Night Shyamalan

Being insecure - I'm a master, a virtuoso - they can be handing me the keys to the kingdom and all I can think is, I hope I don't drop the key.

Ken Warwick

Why should you take a drop in money?

Laurie Metcalf

You know, if a TV show dropped into my lap out of the blue, I would have a hard time turning it down because there just isn't the money in theater that there is on TV.

Arianna Huffington

You can complete a project by dropping it.

Gavin Grant

We have to have a strong ACC Tournament. We were supposed to be like a 3 seed (in the NCAA), but I am pretty sure we are going to drop down from there. I think we have to go into the ACC Tournament like we did last year, knowing we had to win to get in. We have to win games. We don't want to be an eighth or ninth seed.

Ahmad Khatami

We want our rights and nothing more, and we will resist until our last drop of blood.

Matt Lanter

I honestly try not to eat a whole lot of fast food, so it wouldn't kill me to drop it all together.

Steve Stinson

Whether they are talented or not they know what has been done before and they expect to win. These guys find a way to win. Part of that is the tradition of Flower Mound. They are going to do what it takes to make sure they are not the ones to drop the ball.

Guillermo Cole

We're monitoring the situation. We have an inspector dropping by every day.

Edith Sitwell

It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.

Bertrand Russell

Science, by itself cannot, supply us with an ethic.

William Shakespeare

Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you?

Jimmy Roy

We're going to have to have a real strong work ethic and that 'never quit' attitude. I see us being a hard-working team.

Alain Badiou

There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.

Aristotle

For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are the highest things that can be known), and also it is the most continuous, because we are more capable of continuous contemplation than we are of any practical activity.

Trinity Morgan

She's just a hard worker and a natural talent. She just needs to keep her work ethic up. We'll give her the workouts, and she'll hit the times like I know she will.

Ashley Edgar

She's everything you can't put on a stat sheet. I'd rather have a Sarah than girls who have that lucky touch. Her hustle and work ethic is infectious. It's that heart muscle. She's our quintessential leader by example.

Ray LaHood

The only part of the formula they have going for them right now is some of our people are ethically challenged, ... The rest of it doesn't fit--they don't have ideas, they don't have people on our side retiring.

Jorge Gallent

We need a go-to guy and he's trying his best, not only in offense, but in other facets of his game.

Marisa Berenson

When I get in front of a camera all my fears and my inhibitions just go away. As a model, I feel that I am acting, too, playing different parts and showing different facets of myself.

Vusi Mahlasela

Faith is a really important part of my life and inspires me in all facets of my life, including my songwriting and my singing.

Matt Adams

We haven't been able to put together all facets (hitting, pitching and defense) of the game yet. One game we'll play poor defensively and hit well. The next game maybe we won't be hitting but our pitchers will pick us up. It will come.

Pat Brown

We come from separate facets of the community, but we're not tripping over each other all the time,

Gordon Eakin

We seemed to put together all facets of the game today. Our pitchers did a nice job shutting down a very potent Southern Utah offense.

John Tortorella

We tried to win it. So we'll take the point and go from there. In all facets of our game, I was pleased.

Scott Roy

We got a pretty solid pitching performance from our guys, so I was pleased with all facets of the game.

Ben Mendelsohn

I think difficult characters are very rewarding to do. They often have facets to them and this and that.

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.

Bruce Marthaller

The outcome may not have been the best, but our girls tend to think it's better to lose by 30, rather than to lose by one.

Marcia Gay Harden

There are certainly a billion, ker-trillion girls out there more attractive than I am.

Hayley Orrantia

I really don't understand jelly shoes - those see-through, glittery, sandal-type things that girls wear. I cannot, for the life of me, understand why they were ever popular.

Joe DeBruyne

We've got a two-game win streak now. The girls are starting to play with passion and desire.

Jeff Armstrong

We've got a strong girls' team. I think we will be competitive in the WPIAL. We've got a group of juniors who are very talented. I think they are the strength of the team at this point.

Chris Wielgus

We've won 15 of the last 26 Ivy league tournaments. So the girls have been down this road before, they're battle-tested and ready to go.

Ron Reichle

We have to go out now and win our last two games. I think our girls are playing a little nervous the last two games. We just have to go out and relax and play basketball. We're thinking too much rather than just playing.

Lauren Pittman

We were at our own school and watching all these other girls play for something that we had worked all season long for. That was a worse punishment than any kind of running or conditioning.

John Franceschi

We were too one-dimensional. They knew to stop Karen and Katie, and they got their points, but the other girls need to step up.

Charlie Chaplin

There is greatness in everyone.

Charles Sumner

The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.

Charles de Gaulle

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Charles de Gaulle

France cannot be France without greatness.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Charles Dickens

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Terry Kukesh

She stepped it up and got them going.

O. Henry

She really stepped it up and said enough of this.

Anthony Gonzalez

I was just tired. When he took me down I said, ?this kid's tough.' So I stepped it up.

Robert Garcia

I think you really have stepped it up a notch, and it's been noticed.

Derrick Jackson

I thought today was the first day that we stepped up and kind of had a little nastiness to us.

Randy Johnson

I got a little tight. So, I just stepped out and let someone else pitch. Everything is fine.

Charlie Bell

I think this woke us up. As a team, we stepped it up a bit.

Ernie Rosseau

He has really stepped up for us down the stretch.

Darren Testa

He was a big surprise. He really stepped up for us.

Alan Watts

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

Alan Clark

Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

Alan Bennett

If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.

Alan Ayckbourn

A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.

Al Kaline

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Akio Morita

Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.

Chloe Sevigny

I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment.

Bill Schmidt

Very enthusiastic and very intelligent. I know he'll work at it.

Dmitri Mendeleev

Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.