Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Moore

All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day." The Joker - The Killing Joke

Al Roker

If I was having a bad day, eating was like self-medicating. But if you abuse food, you still have to use that substance that you abuse every day. You have to learn to use it responsibly.

Chris Cleave

The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at the keyboard and give it everything you have.

Chris Bangle

Designers think everything done by someone else is awful, and that they could do it better themselves, which explains why I designed my own living room carpet, I suppose.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context.

Chesty Puller

Where the hell do you put the bayonet?

Cathy Freeman

When I'm in a bad mood, I don't listen.

Casey Affleck

I have a very bad relationship with mice.

Michael Steele

You know, conservatism is not a bad thing. It's not a pejorative.

Richard McGrath

We want to set the right example and send the right message. Even though this money is coming from contributions, we still think it's very important to be cost-efficient and responsible with expenses.

Luke Pasqualino

Pretty good, you know it's nice when you get people coming up to you saying 'Can I have a photo or an autograph'; it's a compliment, I think.

Michael Strahan

The great thing coming from sports is you understand the concept of a team. It leaves no room for being selfish, and that's something I picked up from home.

M. Night Shyamalan

I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end.

Michael Farr

The post-Labor Day rally, I wasn't sold on. The fact that we didn't really crash over summer, I thought was a terrific blessing. I think sentiment is going to drive the market from here. The numbers are there, the numbers have not changed. The economy has not changed, it is still good, slowing down a little bit. We've got a nice stable platform. Earnings for second quarter were fabulous. They ought to be pretty good, I think, coming in here to the third quarter.

James Awad

The positive today is that oil is coming down, the negative is that the housing numbers are worse than expected.

Mark Potok

The point of doing all of this is so that we as a society can move forward. And the time is really coming when we really are going to turn and face the future.

Terry Borr

The pleasant surprise was how our defensive line played. One question I had coming out of preseason practice was how we would play defensively.

Carly Rager

We are seeing a lot of the taffeta coming back with side pleats and drapes.

Mike Nelson

We?re going to have to go down there and really focus. We have to match their toughness and their intensity level. And do it the right way. It will be physical and we have to keep our emotions in check.

Sid Otton

There are two big emotions tonight. One of them is a downer. It was a great night for the kids except for what happened to Justin.

Erik Zabel

Magnifique!, ... It's a very good day for me and my team manager Walter Godefroot, as well as for Frans Van Looy. It's last race this season for them, and also for Aldag and myself, so to finish it with a victory here on Paris-Tours is wonderful! Of course, after 13 years of a lot of victories and emotions with Telekom and later T-Mobile, this is a very precious moment.

Tina Brown

What is new is the multiplying reach and volume of the Internet, concentrating the toxicity of destructive emotions and circulating them in the political bloodstream with unparalleled velocity.

Dorothy Rothschild Parker

She (Katherine Hepburn) runs the gamut of emotions from A to B

Ernest Hemingway

This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste.

Gary Bennett

We ran the whole gamut of emotion. We fed off these fans all the way.

Jill Pendley

Love in all it's emotion, surpasses the physical. Without even the faintest touch,it leaves it's imprint upon you.

Paul Dergarabedian

Love and loss are two emotions that everyone can relate to, and that's why these movies really pull at our heartstrings.

Clint Hurdle

We want to see his command, we want him to utilize his pitches, ... We also want to see him use his two-seam fastball and sinkerball.

Ned Yost

Tomo was very crisp today. He was sharp, he was throwing his fastball as hard as he has all year.

Chris Moore

Usually, I like to come in with a straight fastball and take it from there. Sometimes, I'll work in my slider. Everything seemed to be working today, so it was real good.

Joe Blanton

The (pitch to Rivera) was a fastball in and that's something I need to work on.

Scott Mathieson

When he hit that ball, it was a batting-practice fastball over the plate and he hit it on the screws. It went to the furthest part of the park.

Andruw Jones

When guys make mistakes you have to take advantage. He made a mistake with the fastball the first time.

Ron Gardenhire

Poise? I don't think we're talking about poise here. I think we're talking about a 97 mph fastball with a curveball from hell.

Mike Trapasso

Matt throws a plus slider, but the fastball is his foremost pitch.

Stephen Faris

One mistake is all it takes with these kind of bats. It was supposed to be a fastball in, but it wasn't in enough.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.

Lisa Gansky

I've felt a little culpable that we entrepreneurs often invent businesses just to drive people to buy more things.

M. Night Shyamalan

'The Exorcist' is the scariest movie ever made. It just felt dead-on real, like you were watching the existence of the devil.

Ledawn Gibson

We started off kind of sluggish. I felt like we could've come out better to play, but after we made some adjustments we were able to get things going.

Barnett Newman

From the very beginning I felt that I would do a series,

Matt Hasselbeck

We actually felt we had the momentum after that. It was good for our offense.

Stan Clark

We always felt we did the proper thing.

Shirley Manson

We always felt like we've never specifically fitted in with anyone; there's never been a movement surrounding what we're doing.

Petr Sykora

We have to finish the season on a good note. It doesn't matter what the outcome of the game is, but we have to feel good about ourselves. I don't think we felt like that tonight. We have a lot of guys who are injured so we need to get healthy and ready.

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.

Twyla Tharp

Who a dancer is physically feeds into character for me. Always has.

John Bromley

We really haven't physically merged the railroads at all,

Chris Forster

We have to play strong, you have to give it back. We're not used to being physically pushed around and you have to push back. In the state tournament, when you get pushed you have to push back.

Orlando Anaya

She's so personable, nice, and sweet, plus she's not that big for a swimmer, so she can relate to the swimmer's who aren't physically gifted.

Leila Janah

It's really helpful to be physically engaged in something that's completely different from my day-to-day work.

Jon Gruden

You'd have to take a big yellow excavator to get me out of here. I'm here for the long haul, unless someone comes and physically removes me.

Mary-Kate Olsen

We did many of our own stunts. We had our hands full. In fact, the roles were physically demanding.

Joost Hiltermann

But at the same time they play an important role because they physically stand between militias that are at each other's throats.

Devin Harris

I don't think it's going to be physically possible.

David Richardson

We stand ready to support any organization that shares Scout values.

Liane Balaban

I want to be an actor, and I am being an actor. I'm not ready to run off on a road trip. Yet.

Jeff Bambule

We have to get ready now for Plainfield South. They are another scrappy, tough team. We'll have to be ready.

Natalie Chanin

We have so many reasons to be here tonight. I'm also ready to do some shopping!

Charles de Lint

If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?

Charlaine Harris

I was embarrased, horrified and absolutely ready to jump him!

Mariano Rivera

Tomorrow? We have to go there and do it, ... Don't worry, I'll be ready for tomorrow.

Cliff Lusk

We're sitting there on go, ready to respond if we have to.

Larry Southard

We're sitting on a ticking time bomb. This town is ready to ignite.

Tim Tebow

Regardless of whatever I do, I know what my purpose is: to make a difference in people's lives.

Alex Newell

Singing is my passion, regardless of anything else that I've ever done. That's the one thing that no one can ever take away from me is my voice, and that is what I really want to do.

Debbie Smith

No one should be doing this to another person, regardless of whether they're students.

Luke Hudson

I didn't want to get better any more just because I was out of the rotation. I wanted to get better regardless of where I was.

Edward Witten

Regardless of any deviations, it was clear I was supposed to end up in math and physics.

Ichiro Ozawa

I will do my best, regardless of whether I would be running at the top or at the bottom.

Donald Johanson

Regardless of what we look like on the outside, genetically, on the inside, everyone is an African.

Jeffrey Fieler

Regardless of the (earnings) metric, they're on the right path.

Ben Wallace

That's how we've been all year. We don't panic, regardless of the situation.

Alan Perlis

We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.

Al Sharpton

Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it, we must do better.

David Graeber

States created markets. Markets require states. Neither could continue without the other, at least, in anything like the forms we would recognize today.

Byron Katie

Place only your kindest thoughts on everything you experience today. Meet yourself.

Randy Waynick

We're in a much different place today than we were a year ago.

Edward Gorey

I've never had any intentions about anything. That's why I am where I am today, which is neither here nor there, in a literal sense.

Loretta Young

Way off in 2060, I wonder what we do today will look like in perspective, and after it's been sifted through the objectivity of time.

Edward McKendree Bounds

Bread for today is bread enough.