Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles R. Swindoll

Excellence-moral, ethical, personal excellence-is worth whatever it costs.

Dennis Rodman

I can score 20 points if I want to, but that's not my desire.

Dennis Rodman

The one thing I do that nobody else does is jump three and four times for one rebound.

Dennis Rodman

This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.

Dennis Rodman

I'm hungrier than those other guys out there. Every rebound is a personal challenge.

Democritus

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is like a parachute jump, you've got to get it right the first time.

Elbert Hubbard

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Charles Spurgeon

I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to sorrow and yet to be pure, I would choose the sorrow if I might win the purity, for to be free from the power of sin, to be made to love holiness, is true happiness.

Charles Peguy

It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.

Dick Van Dyke

I have also heard and read various accounts of why they [Sheldon Leonard and Carl Reiner] liked me. My favorites? I wasn't too good-looking, I walked a little funny, and I was basically kind of average and ordinary. I guess my lack of perfection turned out to be a winning hand. Let that be a lesson for future generations.

Diane Lane

I take comfort that aging happens to everybody. It's part of life. Aging offers great lessons in dignity, since the indignity wins in the end. Yes, it bothers me when I have lines or puffiness or droops. But it connects me with the human race. Like weather bringing people together, aging brings people together.

Eduardo Galeano

The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.

Ben Jonson

Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes. For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.

Bas Rutten

I am there for the best interests of the fighters, I want them to win. If they don’t accept that, bye bye.

Eddie Vedder

If 'little George Dubya Bush' wins, we are going to apply for Canadian citizenship.

Ed McBain

I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones.

Charles Olson

I have had to learn the simplest things last. Which made for difficulties.

Elbert Hubbard

It is not deeds or acts that last: it is the written record of those deeds and acts.

Peter Murray

If we can show this lasts weeks ... we've just tapped into probably a billion-dollar market. It's enormous.

William Shakespeare

Assure thee, if I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it to the last article." --Othello, Act III, Scene iii

Abel Ferrara

The last day of your life is still going to be a day.

A. J. McLean

Music first, music last, music always

Charles Dickens

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

Charles Simmons

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Alan Rickman

I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.