Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mufi Hannemann

One of the things we discovered is that we may have to do this periodically.

K. Chesterton

Nonsense is a kind of exuberant capering round a discovered truth.

Helen Keller

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

Tina Fey

I think everyone's intentions are to become a performer at first. But by the time I was in high school and college, I discovered that I liked writing and that I was probably a little better at it.

Tyler Oakley

I found a vlogger named William Sledd who talked about his life - it was very minimal edits. It was one of those things where I discovered him, and I was like, 'Oh my God, I'm obsessed with him.' I felt like I was friends with him. And he was a huge inspiration for why I made my first video.

Frank Caruso

From 8 to 80, she's hitting every market when you discovered her. I think people like to hold onto their childhood.

Drake Bell

I was raised on Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly and discovered the Stray Cats when I was 11 or 12 years old.

George Lucas

I'm also extremely grateful that I discovered my passion. I love movies. I love to watch them, I love to make them.

Cindy Busby

I have always enjoyed performing, but I think when I was in the fifth grade was when I discovered that I really loved acting.

Mark Bradford

Life, work - it's all very organic and fluid, a laboratory. I always tell people: whatever your thing is, you just have to be in it. Jump in; you'll figure it out.

Jamar Nesbit

Lucky enough, I kind of figured if it did flood, I was going to be gone at least a week,

Donald Lipski

liberating the figure from the marble that imprisons it.

Tom Murphy

Let's see if we can figure out a way out of here.

Cao Shengjie

Let's pray to God the figure will grow.

Jason Schrotberger

Last year, people wanted to get under the hood and figure out which products would wow us next.

Terrence Holt

leave it to y'all in the media to figure out who got singled out. This is still a team game and what's said between these walls stays between these walls.

Keith Dambrot

Mentally, you figure out that if you're not strong enough, you need to get in the weight room. The hard part is all that skill and knowledge and ability, and he's got that. It's a tribute to their staff to find a guy like that who slipped through the cracks.

Rasheed Wallace

Me and Chauncey were talking in the locker room. We are trying to figure out some way to recognize him.

Alexandra Adornetto

Sometimes you meet a person and you just click-you're comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life, and you don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything.

Italo Calvino

I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.

Roger von Oech

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.

Kurt Andersen

I think we tend to be kind of ahistorical, and think that life as we are living it in the moment is all we know.

Marcy Kaptur

I view myself as someone who is always trying to make life better in practical ways and putting the pieces together to do that.

Malorie Blackman

A film of my life would never happen!

Mamata Banerjee

I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.

Albert Schweitzer

Late upon the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset . . . there flashed upon my mind, unforseen and unsought, the phrase 'Reverence for Life'.

Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful . . . the artist to exist only for his art, even if he gives inspiration to many. . . . It refuses to let the business man imagine that he fulfills all legitimate demands in the course of his business activities. It demands from all that they should sacrifice a portion of their own lives for others.

M. Thompson

Now we really are going to Disneyland. I promised them if they won, we could go.

Charles R. Swindoll

To require God to prove that He is able and willing to fulfill His promises would be proof positive that one does not trust Him.

Ehud Olmert

A prime minister must not promise things that can't be fulfilled.

Michael Cooper

If we had him, it's a different ballgame, I promise you that.

Michael Wynne

If they testify, and we've been promised that, it is going to be one for the ages.

Russ Jewett

I don't know about his status for this weekend, but I can promise he won't be triple jumping.

Councilwoman Sanchez

We promised you a one-stop, streamlined process. We have not been able to do that for you.

Anthony Hitt

Keep every promise you make and only make promises you can keep.

Barack Obama

We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it - not by turning it over to Wall Street.

Ron Orlosky

Basically, she had a pretty rough time of it. She was always in and out of the hospital.

Greg Olsen

I had rough times. There were times that I wanted to give up and quit. Don't give up.

D. James

Today was a rough one for me but we got through it. I started off bad. We got the victory though, so I did enough to win.

Halston Sage

I like the simplicity of a halter-top or plunging neckline, but I'll rough it up by wearing studded shoes and my leather jacket.

Chauncey Billups

If it ain't rough, it ain't right

Edy Ganem

I like being a woman, but I'm a little rough around the edges. I've been bungee jumping twice, but I was scared.

Jarvis Herring

We talk about it a lot. It has been a rough road. But if we end up with at least a 10-win season, it will have been worth it.

Jack Wilson

We've been through some very rough times. But we survived. Now we're on the rebound.

Drew Goddard

With horror movies, a bigger budget is actually your enemy. You want to feel the rough edges, the handmade quality to good horror films. Its a genre that benefits from not having everything at your disposal.

Elizabeth Bishop

Ports are necessities, like postage stamps or soap, but they seldom seem to care what impressions they make.

Alexander Wang

I'm not like most designers, who have to set sail on an exotic getaway to get inspired. Most of the time, it's on my walk to work, or sitting in the subway and seeing something random or out of context.

Dave Barry

He's a boating enthusiast, although that phrase seems too weak to describe the level of his interest, kind of like describing someone as a heroin fancier.

Dave Barry

You have to be careful on the deck, because of the "hatches," which are holes placed around a sailboat at random to increase the insurance rates.

Dave Barry

Sailboats are the slowest form of transportation on Earth with the possible exeption of airline flights that go through O'Hare.

Edward Heath

I have no interest in sailing around the world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so.

Lily Nicksay

I sailed around Europe and lived with the Karen tribe in Thailand for a month.

Verron Haynes

We're still sailing right now. We've done nothing yet.

Charles Kingsley

Three fishers went sailing away to the west,/ Away to the west as the sun went down.

Gerald Anderson

Now our team is back to where we want it to be. We should have success like we were having at the start of the season when we were all healthy.

Russ Witzig

I can't say enough about Brandon. He wrestled really well today, and all season long.

Keith Willis

on paper, we'll be okay, but we can't play the season on paper.

Dan Grunfeld

If we keep working, anything can happen. We want to be in New York and we're going to try to make that happen. The season is still going. That's the important part.

Cate Blanchett

I look forward to the holiday season every year.

Penny Hardaway

I feel great. I can't wait for the season to start.

W. S. Gilbert

She's been killing it all season and is only getting better.

Steve Spurrier

Six and five, ... We thought 6-5 would be a wonderful season for this team.

Andrew Strauss

If we can get 370-plus I think we are very much in the game. I think there will be a result. If we keep working as we have done all season I think we can win it.

Edsger Dijkstra

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

John Boyles

I have a vision for the way students can be represented.

Annie Dillard

When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life.

Edward Hirsch

There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes distressing to my students when I tell them this.

Paul Kohn

We're going to take a look at all the qualifications that all of the students bring.

Carol Kane

It's very hard to remain a student in life.

Steve Gray

Three years ago, I had 18 students, ... and this year I have 44.

Elizabeth Olsen

I've always loved being a student.

Peter Flynn

We want students to take these tests very seriously,

Robert Osborne

I think there's something about traveling in airplanes all the time that's not the healthiest thing in the world for you.

Albert Schweitzer

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

Jerry Costello

Make no mistake, our troops will be in Afghanistan and Iraq for a long time.

Jack Rio

So it was a valuable time for us.

Scott Ellis

My first time ever on the Tony Awards was in 1984, the year of 'The Rink.'

Anwar Robinson

One Moment in Time because I think it describes me as a person and how I felt about being on the show.

Rick DiPietro

Obviously, you're going to have jitters the first time you play in this event, but at the end of the day, it's still the same game.

Phil Lesh

Of course, in the band, we all interpreted in our own way simultaneously, so this time I'm just going to do it all by myself and see what comes out.

Denise Bottcher

No one got confirmation that she was napping. There was no time for napping.