Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. O. Wilson

We want to take this and teach our athletes that there is a bigger picture. We are thankful we still have a gym and a football field. We are trying to get the kids to learn a life lesson.

Ian Gray

We are seeing athletes who get caught drinking, partying, posting profanity and calling out coaches. Student-athletes feel it's spying ... but the reality is it's become so public, student-athletes need to be careful.

John Guppy

We are proud and delighted to work with Chicago's educational and recreational leaders within the Latin American community. We are determined in our goals to help create a better environment for many gifted students and athletes through our Foundation and community programs so that they can enjoy a better and more productive life. The Hispanic community and the Mexican American community in particular have greatly supported us for nine years and we are happy to be able to give back.

Donna Orender

We strive to do all that we can to help emphasize the importance of sports and athletics for women and young people. National Girls and Women in Sports Day recognizes female athletes that came before us, and encourages future generations of girls to make physical fitness a regular part of their lives.

Maggie Dixon

West Point graduates love everything that has to do with West Point. As much as it is male-dominated in terms of numbers, there is a great respect for female athletes and the females who go through here.

Roberta Anthes

We started off well - I'd like to build off of that. I see no reason why these athletes can't do better. We've had good performances off of base work. In a perfect world, we have a lot of room to improve.

John Papa

We have a special group of athletes on our team this year with a strong nucleus of athletes that compete to the best of their abilities every single meet.

Scott Jackson

Whenever you have people in the community knowing that all the professional athletes are interested in the community and not just here part-time, that they care, I think it helps. And I think it helps that the Devil Rays are here for Spring Training and the regular season.

Scott Cowen

We want our athletes to carry the torch, face, and name of Tulane University during this difficult time.

Dana Reeve

I look to him as the ultimate example of defying the odds.

Gwendoline Christie

I love a challenge. And I love defying limitation, gender stereotypes, and people's expectations of me as an actress.

Hailee Steinfeld

The rivalry between the Montague and the Capulet kids seems very modern to me. Juliet is a free spirit, full of untapped love and passion. I think a lot of girls can relate to her. And it's very relevant in terms of kids defying their parents.

Khaled Hosseini

I don't know whom or what he was defying. [...] [M]aybe the God he had never believed in.

Scott Brown

Rarely have elected leaders been so intent on defying the public will.

Fidel Castro

also means defying the powerful forces inside and outside our country.

Mark McKinnon

This president has a real pattern of defying conventional wisdom.

Steve Pearson

The story of 2005 was the dollar defying an overwhelmingly bearish consensus. The dollar has little to fear from a slowdown in U.S. consumption growth as this will eventually lead to an improved external trade position.

Jack Straw

In respect to Iraq, Saddam is defying every one of us, ... He questions our resolve and is gambling we will lose nerve rather than enforce our will.

Rachel Sklar

What's more important to 'SNL': comedy or buzz? To the writers, players and guest hosts, it's probably the former; to Lorne Michaels and the suits at NBC, it's ultimately probably the latter.

Sean Faris

Working with Michael Chiklis is a lesson in professionalism and staying focused. That's what Chiklis brings all day long.

Loretta Lynch

Michael Grimm never met a tax he didn't lie to evade.

Akiva Schaffer

Nothing is better than the moment you have Michael Bolton dressed as Forrest Gump and you see it in action.

LaVerne Knox

Phillip's done that all year. He has stepped up when Michael hasn't been in there.

Michael Cohen

I am Stephen Michael Cohen and I'm the person who is on that warrant,

John Salley

I'm a Michael Jordan fan just like everyone else. I just don't think he's the greatest player ever.

Sven Eriksson

From what I know about Michael Owen, he would never say things like that. It's not his style.

Jeff Overton

I don't even know what to think yet. Michael Putnam and I waited all summer to turn pro to play in this. Man, it was worth it.

Chris Bosh

I learned very quickly that the NBA is a very rough place, physically and mentally. There's no mercy.

Chris Bosh

I want to go get a stop on defense so James can do it again. It was a big spurt for him. That made then get out of their game plan and play him closer. But when he does that, we want to make sure we capitalize and get timely stops. And that's what got us right back in the game.

Mark Cuban

Can't say no one makes money from Twitter now. The NBA does.

Bess Myerson

I really don't like talking about diets.

Chandler Parsons

We're a walking billboard... You want to look good to everyone who is watching.

Bill Walton

Where else but the NBA could people like Bill Russell, Spencer Haywood, Ricky Barry, Dennis Rodman, and Allen Iverson come in and be allowed to be who they are?

Derrick Rose

When I was younger, I just thought about playing in the NBA.

Danny Ainge

With the NBA scheduling, a lot of times it puts the onus on teams traveling. You play Utah one night and a team like Phoenix is resting and waiting for you the next night. That's tough. So you run into some circumstances like that more, it seems, on the road than you do at home.

Bob Costas

If that's the last image of Michael Jordan...how magnificent is it!?

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Charles Dickens

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

Charles Dickens

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Soule

Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows?

Edgar Mitchell

I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and the UFO phenomenon is real.

George Magliano

We think the Scion is a phenomenon unto itself.

Drake Johnstone

This tracking stock phenomenon doesn't make sense. I wouldn't be surprised if they went down to $0.

Bill Gates

The live phenomenon is not just about Microsoft. It's partners, it's competitors...the whole space is being transformed.

Jonathan Sacks

Islamophobia is a complex phenomenon.

Steve Bonney

A phenomenon has happened. We've tapped into the trucker network.

Jack Fultz

Running is a new social phenomenon in our country.

Ted Smith

This convergence phenomenon is very real, and it's getting more real.

Craig Fugate

You're in a phenomenon ... it's sort of like a hurricane, you're not going to stop it with what the (existing) resources are.

Norman McLaren

I don't know whether it ever comes back to the same thing; it does return to the spirit of a previous period in some way, but it's different, it's new.

Hideo Kojima

As a game creator, I'm not 100% satisfied when looking back at the previous game that I released.

Chris Tarrant

Of course, completely, ... My previous producer always said we were there to learn.

Kim Yuna

Watching previous figure skaters, I always wondered why they cried after their performance.

Michael Giles

Yes, there was a sort of underground cult following, which came from nowhere, and grew, and grew. It was quite surprising to us all, because all of us had spent probably the previous five to ten years without it. So it was quite overwhelming. Overwhelming and humbling.

George Foster

We'll have to go back and resample all the previous sampled locations.

George Papandreou

Previous governments, particularly the one before I took over, mismanaged the economy quite badly.

Henrique Capriles Radonski

This is what happened to me when I received the governorship. The corrupt previous governor didn't do the handover. We received the Miranda governorship completely dismantled.

William Mosher

That was surprising to us. The previous studies had not shown as much.

Dennis Miller

Everybody has to sell out at some point to make a living.

Bernard Ebbers

I have some assets that over time will be worth something. I've been in the process of selling others.

Craig Parsons

We've been able to sell more series than we had planned, but they take capital.

Brian Lucas

We're getting supplies of all of these, and we're selling out as soon as we get them,

Don Cooper

Selling more of what you sell has nothing to do with what you sell. It has everything to do with your prospect's wants, needs, fears, goals, values and priorities.

Bruce Springsteen

Elvis is my religion. But for him, I'd be selling encyclopedias right now.

Benjamin Graham

Never buy a stock immediately after a substantial rise or sell one immediately after a substantial drop.

Chrissie Hynde

Look, as long as we can make records and sell enough so we can do some shows, that's all I want. You know what? I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.

Erin O'Connor

It's like recycling: selling old clothes to help make new ones.

Alan Watts

It is interesting that Hindus, when they speak of the creation of the universe do not call it the work of God, they call it the play of God, the Vishnu lila, lila meaning play. And they look upon the whole manifestation of all the universes as a play, as a sport, as a kind of dance — lila perhaps being somewhat related to our word lilt

Alan Parsons

I'm delighted about the track's success in the sports world, but the frustrating thing is, I don't think I got rich on it. The labels and publishers did very cheap deals on our songs.

Alain Prost

So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport its the longterm. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.

Alain Prost

I was looking at the history of the sport and I couldn't understand why there have been so many good South American drivers, especially Brazilians.

Alain Prost

When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good. There have been times when I have been flat-out to finish sixth, but you can't see that from the outside. In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place. I pushed like mad, yet everyone was gathered around the winner and they were thinking that I was just trundling around. But that's motor racing. So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport is the long term. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.

Al Oerter

I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at one another.

Al Michaels

I think the Cowboys are one of only two teams in all of sports that engender love and hate to that extreme. The other is the Yankees. You love the Yankees or you hate the Yankees.

Al Michaels

It's the bane of both the news and sports businesses, both electronic and print - 'You heard it here first!' Who cares? That's nothing but a vanity play. If it's not right, it's garbage.

Al Michaels

Do you believe in miracles?

Charles Dickens

The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity, dripped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves.

Alan Watts

Black implies white self implies other

Alan Bennett

It's the one species I wouldn't mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth. I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.

Al Sharpton

There are white n*ggers. I've seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.

Al Sharpton

Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.

Al Sharpton

What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?

Chico Hamilton

And I'm happy to say that I'm able to find people wherever I go that are not black, not white - they're just human beings. That's where I am, where I've been and where I intend to stay.

Chiang Kai-shek

My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic.

Dave Chappelle

All white people talk about when they get high is other times that they got high.

Charles Dickens

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

Charles Caleb Colton

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Mystery is not profoundness.

Charles Caleb Colton

The next thing to having wisdom ourselves, is to profit by that of others.

Charles Caleb Colton

Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error.

Charles Caleb Colton

Perfection doesn't exist... only good attempts.

Charles Caleb Colton

The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody's watching.

Charles Caleb Colton

What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?

Charles Simmons

Most of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.