Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eddie Vedder

Competition is healthy, if you can turn it off and on. When someone gets too cocky in victory, that can ruin the positive aspect.

Buddy Hackett

If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.

Brett Brooks

We just didn't show up to play today. We were a little cocky instead of confident.

Buddy Hackett

Ninety-nine percent is in the delivery. If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.

Benedict Cumberbatch

[Doctor Strange] is still quite cocky by the end of the film. No, I'd say the major curve for him is that he learns that it's not all about him, that there's a greater good. But what he thinks he was doing as a neurosurgeon, that was good because it benefitted people's health was really just a furtherment of his attempts to control death and control his own fate and other people's, but that's still driven by the ego.

Ozzie Guillen

When you're world champions, you (can) be cocky or try to rub it in their face. It's nice. You have the ring, you have the trophy. I always said last year, 'We're not that good.' This year it's the same way.

ASAP Rocky

I don't want people to get the impression that I got money and now I'm cocky, because I'm not. I'm just a little overly confident.

Lawrence Taylor

He's a cocky sumbitch. That's what makes him such a great player.

Jerry Pate

I think you're not as tough and cocky as when you're young and full of energy. I got humbled. I had to reorganize my life. I had to put my faith first, my family second and my golf third.

Donald Trump

Let's see how Buchanan does and then maybe we'll step in,

Michael Schaffer

Maybe you need to look at your student evaluations.

George H. W. Bush

Maybe you know something I don't know. I've been working,

Larry Brown

Maybe when you play Miami, you need 36 fouls in the middle; I don't know,

Chris Shelton

Maybe when the season is over, I can realize what I did to start the season and that I did something special. Right now, it's about getting some wins.

Evan Needham

Maybe when I'm not playing well I can get sick of golf. But then I get back into it again.

Donald Lowe

Maybe what we'll find is that you really need a combination of two tests, again, because not one test does everything for everybody.

Sam Singer

Maybe we should trade in our supervisor for somebody up in Seattle.

Brian Urlacher

Maybe we shouldn't get a bye week anymore.

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.

Mallory Ortberg

Did you know that, pound for pound, the moose is the leanest ruminant on Earth? It's true. Moose are very in tune with their natural surroundings.

Stuart Gauthier

One tree can make 300 pounds of fruit.

David Parton

She weighed 16 pounds when we got here when she should have weighed 45.

Tom Ford

Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It's just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.

Neil Cavuto

If Edwards gained 60 pounds and lost all his hair, he'd look like Dick Cheney!

Eric Shanteau

I don't know what cancer did to me but I put on probably 10 pounds of muscle and got a lot stronger in the weight room and during our dry-land stuff.

Dave Barry

A full-grown manatee, which can weigh more than 1,000 pounds, looks like the result of a genetic experiment involving a walrus and the Goodyear Blimp.

Bryce Harper

I'll lose about 20 pounds during the season.

Benjamin Franklin

Take care of the halfpence and pence, and the shillings and pounds will take care of themselves.

Efraim Levy

Signs in the marketplace are showing it is not having the punch that it once had,

Steve Yzerman

I don't know much about the techniques of fighting, but I know throwing a punch on skates is a lot different than throwing a punch from the ground.

Al Madrigal

I'm not much for setup... punch line. I talk about my kids. I talk about my wife.

Frank Luntz

One of the things that you have trouble with politicians, particularly in Washington, is when you get mad at them and you can't touch them; you can't punch them; you can't yell at them.

Mike Lorello

He tends to remind me about that a lot. You just have to roll with the punches around here.

Chuck Palahniuk

The joke is, we all have the same punchline.

Sylvester Croom

There's not a day where he just comes out to punch a clock.

Brian Metcalf

We knew. We didn't want that knockout punch to come.

Jamar Butler

We wanted to throw the first punch and come out like we did.

Dutch Proverb

One should not put of thing untill tomorrow, that one can realize today.

Joel Madden

When we were 15, my brother and I were getting really into Nirvana, Green Day, and The Beastie Boys. We started going to shows and realized we really wanted to be on stage.

Mohammed Ali

I feel sorry for the Shiites. They have been deceived. They don't realize Saddam will be released again. Look at Saddam. He is an eagle,

Joe Perry

For years I've wanted to find some guys that I could work with, because I realized a long time ago that I can do a lot of things other than Aerosmith.

Luciano Spalletti

Francesco also realized it, and immediately said 'I'm broken.

Burmese Proverb

Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old

Denise Albrecht

She's never been here and she doesn't realize that it will come down to her. She's about to puke.

Zack Greinke

I don't even realize how long it's been,

Walter Isaacson

He said, 'From then on, I realized that I was not just abandoned. I was chosen. I was special.' And I think that's the key to understanding Steve Jobs.

Marco Tempest

Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but I'm more interested in telling a story.

Chris Roberson

My 7-year-old daughter is not shy of telling me she can draw better than me, and she's right.

Charles Bishop

No! ... You're telling me if three commissioners tell me I've got to sign, I've got to sign? I don't think so.

Robert Barnes

What I am telling you is that Matta had a way of making you feel comfortable and that's probably why he had nine wives because he made them feel comfortable and then uncomfortable later.

Michael Brown

I was screaming, telling him, don't die, and that I'm sorry.

Jose Antonio Vargas

I'm a journalist, and I'm a filmmaker. I have an organization that's all about telling stories.

Jussie Smollett

I feel the weight of just telling the truth. There really is no weight to telling the truth. It's a little scary sometimes, but if you tell the truth, you don't have to be looking over your shoulder.

Sabrina Carpenter

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

Vera Farmiga

I hate being manipulated by song. Don't tell me what I should be feeling. I don't want cellos or violins to be telling me that I should be bawling right now.