Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carine Roitfeld

Let the others have beauty. I've got the charisma.

Jon Voight

He had great charisma and he had great love for people in general, and a great regard for young people, ... He had real faith and real fervor, and he was a man of God. He did some great things, some controversial things.

Jim Rees

He had a charisma, and charisma is not just the way the face looked. It's how he moved, how he stood.

Frank Carroll

He grew up in St. Petersburg, Russia, where the greatest male dancers of all time have come out of. He has a way of moving and charisma about him that no one else can achieve.

Ed Sarpolus

Hendrix doesn't have the charisma the mayor has, and that's key. But the mayor doesn't have the trust right now. If he can regain the trust of the people, then he can close the gap. Detroit doesn't generally like kicking out incumbents.

Yossi Alpher

He was able to project charisma and give people a sense of security and stability at a very difficult time.

Dan Hill

I didn't have that thing that Michael Bolton did; my star power - my charisma - was not a match to my writing ability.

Solomon Burke

We've lost a giant, we've lost a legend, we've lost a man who created his own charisma and made it work around the world. It's just hard for me to really grasp that Wilson is already travelling towards the greater place.

The Beatles

with such wit, perception, insight, charm, cleverness and charisma

Lenny Roybal

We've won some close games this year, and that's made us better. We made a lot of mistakes late to let them back into the game, but we responded.

Gordon Hartwell

We want to try and shut down the inside game. We have to try and close the paint, which is what we tried to do all season, anyway.

Shafiq Rasul

We want to show the world what is happening there. We want the place to be closed down.

Mark Regev

We want to see maximum movement at the crossings, but that decision has to be weighed next to the very real security threats that there are, ... If we opened every crossing and there were a wave of suicide bombings, then we'd just have to close everything down again.

Matt Thomas

We know what to do in close games now.

Rodger Schlickeisen

We know we're getting awfully close to winning this and we think the momentum is on our side.

James Thomas

We know we have to work very closely together and we're hoping the situation we experienced Friday won't be replicated.

Ryan Smyth

We know we have a good hockey team in here. We have to match their intensity and close it out.

Tim Miller

We know we do have some young girls that have been missing for quite some time real close to this area.

Denis O'Hare

I was born in Missouri, but I was raised in Detroit. One of my stock and trades is accents.

Ted Sim

When we were fundraising to go down to the Detroit area, we figured we had to raise $10,000 to $15,000 to finance the trip. It's four nights in a hotel plus all the means.

Yorg Kerasiotis

We're so influenced by Motown and the mid-'70s and the rock sound Detroit had.

David Hall

We have a number of spots that we're looking for in the Detroit area. There are technical positions that are hard to fill.

Bernie Bickerstaff

Most teams have a go-to guy. Detroit has a go-to team.

Shaun Alexander

Mike says when you get to Detroit everything goes by so fast that you really don't even feel like it's real preparation.

Richie Adubato

I thought Detroit played very good defense, ... They picked up our picks and screens, and then, once we got behind, I think our players were just trying to do too much by themselves.

Gordie Howe

When I played in Detroit on a line with Sid Abel and Ted Lindsay, we got used to each other, but it took time. And the more we played together the better we knew where each of us was on the ice. Also, the players must have enough time to interact with each other.

Wade Cook

Our guys have heard a lot about their guys and (Brandon) Graham (the Detroit News' No. 1-ranked player in the preseason) and it kind of gets in their heads.

Brent Neiser

The perception is that it is more generous than it is. Grants are generally only for those that are completely wiped out or uninsured.

Leander Paes

If I have a reason to do something, and I have enough passion, I generally succeed.

Rick Glancey

When you think of the military that's generally what you think of, green style uniforms and green style armory.

Marcel Proust

The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity.

Richard Armitage

Yes, and it's generally on. And I won't tell you what it's on,

Jim Harrison

We're generally opposed. We feel there is already a high return rate.

James Sinegal

If you hire good people, give them good jobs, and pay them good wages, generally something good is going to happen.

Keira Knightley

What's nice about playing somebody real is that generally there's more information about them, so a lot of the questions that you'd otherwise have to make up the answers to are already there.

Marie Brennan

When I'm working on a novel, I generally do write every day, but in between those marathons, I take breaks. My brain needs time to recharge.

DJ Jazzy Jeff

QBert is pretty much the Jimi Hendrix of DJing. He is so far advanced. So far ahead of everybody else. He's like Yoda! Like the guru.

Eddie Money

Ive always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.

Cassandra Peterson

I ended up spending some time with Jimi Hendrix and hanging out with him, and that was beyond awesome.

Anthony Bourdain

Just because you like Jimi Hendrix doesn't mean you can play like Jimi Hendrix.

Mark Gottfried

Hendrix today was a big key on the backboard.

Charlotte Rampling

I was very friendly with Jimi Hendrix because my boyfriend at the time, Tommy Weber, was making a film about him, so I would go to all of his shows.

Nigel Kennedy

Maybe it's egocentric or whatever, but when I'm playing Beethoven, Bach, Hendrix, or whoever it is, in the end, it just feels like my own music and I'm making it up as I'm going along.

Perry Farrell

Jimi Hendrix's music was escapism.

Alan Moore

Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as a poet today, and you'll find it's very different!

Mark Cuban

I like being involved in businesses where you are kicking ass.

Dave Ramsey

Let some one else take the butt kicking on devaluation.

Neil Dougherty

When things are going well he's patting someone on the butt. And when they aren't going well, he is kicking them there.

Tom Bradley

keep it in perspective and tend to their knitting. The same people patting you on the back were kicking you in the butt not too long ago.

Paul Edinger

I think I proved in the preseason, kicking the last two weeks, that I could do it.

Bill Belichick

He's played safety. He's played in (the Dolphins') sub defense. He's played down in a linebacker type of role. He has some flexibility and has played in the kicking game.

Quintin Mikell

He'd been kicking low all day and we were getting pressure off that side,

Samir Haj

Panic kind of set in, and we just started kicking the ball. The kids were nervous, because they had a lot to lose.

Ed Koch

I'm not an author, but before I became mayor, I wasn't a mayor.

Greg Nickels

The people of Seattle know I'm a mayor willing to make tough decisions.

Martin O'Malley

If any mayor reduced school funding by 33 percent and called it the 'Strengthening Our Schools Initiative,' I think they'd be excoriated.

Joseph J. Lhota

I was involved as deputy mayor in New York City on 9/11.

Marianne Bichsel

I will say the mayor was very disappointed.

Jerrold Nadler

I don't think she's pandering. She's saying what she believes. I don't think she's pandering any more than the mayor could be said to have been pandering when he said the same thing.

Charlie Morris

He is a mayor for all the people.

Gregg Harris

He is the only mayor that ever sent pink slips to cops.

David Gudgel

It is my opinion that most probably I will be getting a recommendation from my mayor pro tem (today),

Russ Danielson

We want to regain the trust of our patients.

Lenny Walls

I will regain my 'A' game. I will keep going.

Elliott Abrams

The Assad regime has lost the consent of the governed, and it is difficult to see how a replacement Alawite regime would be able to regain this consent.

Phil Jackson

We need to try to regain some home-court advantage.

Pattie Boyd

I think I lost my sense of identity when I was married. I know I did. And it took me a very long time to regain it and find out who I was.

Johvonne Hernandez

I want to come back and regain my titles.

Charles de Gaulle

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

Charles Dickens

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

Charles Spurgeon

I would sooner walk in the dark, and hold hard to a promise of my God, than trust in the light of the brightest day that ever dawned.

Charles Spurgeon

Trust in God alone, and lean not on the needs of human help. Be not surprised when friends fail you; it is a failing world. Never reckon upon immutability in man: inconstancy you may reckon upon without fear of disappointment.

Charles Spurgeon

Trust in the person's promise who dares to refuse what they fear they cannot perform.

Alan Watts

If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself - so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed

Alan Perlis

It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

We do not trust the goodwill of the U.S. They have cut the ties.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

I believe the main solution is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful nature of our nuclear industry and to assure them that there will never be a diversion to military use.