Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Light

The person at the top matters most. You can shuffle the deck, but the president is the ace of spades, and he's not going to change.

Brian Fuller

We are proud to announce National Instruments as a 'Company of the Year -- Small/Medium' finalist for the ACE Awards. The EE Times judging panel chose NI as a top five contender in a very competitive category of over 35 submissions.

Brandon Flowers

We're holding on to it. It's our ace in the hole. It's a pop song, but when you hear it, it makes you feel dirty. Everybody's going to love it.

Desmond Dekker

The Four Aces asked me if I'd like to sing with them as they didn't really have a lead singer.

Eddie Rickenbacker

The obviously inexperienced pilot is the game the scientific air-fighter goes after, and the majority of victories are won that way. But, on the other hand, it is the novice usually who gets the famous ace by doing at some moment the unexpected thing.

Kent Conrad

There are large cooperatives all across this country. Land O'Lakes is a $12 billion club functioning all across America. There are rural electric co-ops in 47 states. Ace Hardware is a cooperative.

J. J. Johnson

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Ace Frehley

I have a lot of diehard fans. Ace Frehley fans and Kiss fans are the greatest fans in the world.

Ken Ward

We allowed too many walks today. We have our ace going tomorrow for us at home, so we're looking to bounce back.

Martin Freeman

Whenever someone says to my mum: 'How's your son doing?' she says: 'Which one?' If you're a parent, you're not going to go: 'Oh I'll concentrate on the famous one.'

Sharon Stone

There are a lot of good things about being famous but there are a few not so good things too.

Sharon Stone

I've been famous for a long, long time. So I don't think of it - I think of it very differently. It's the normal temperature of my room.

Tom Guiry

If you don't get famous when you're a kid, it makes the transition to adult actor easier.

Tobias Menzies

I'm largely interested in people who are just great actors, and they're not necessarily hugely famous.

Ted Ligety

I don't do ski racing to be famous.

Elizabeth Peyton

No one is famous when they wake up in the morning, so it's nice seeing people in moments when they're just being themselves.

Cameron Russell

Usually, TED only invites the most accomplished and famous people in the world to give talks.

Kacey Musgraves

A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.

Ken Holland

Whenever this gets done, there's going to have to be a long healing process with fans, management and players.

Mickey Rourke

When you're young, working in a warehouse or selling hot dogs, you look at work - at acting - as something precious. It gets you out of the stink.

Lorenzo Booker

When he gets to the league, people are going to wonder, 'Where did this guy come from? And we'll say, 'We knew it all along.

Bill Chavis

When he gets to college, I think he'll concentrate on academics. But he will still run. He has it in his blood.

Dan Hinote

When he gets the puck in those areas, he usually scores.

Travis Parker

When he gets the ball, you don't know what he's going to do.

Colby Armstrong

When he gets that puck, he makes things happen. It's pretty special to watch him play the way he does. When he's at the top of his game, he's up there with the top players in the league.

Tom Slater

When he gets on, it allows us to steal some bases, hit-and-run, do a lot of things in the small game. It really helps our offense.

Doc Rivers

When he gets it going like that, I don't know what you can do.

Brian Schweitzer

When he goes out to meet people, he doesn't come off real,

Charles de Lint

We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on.

Jessica Biel

When I'm working and I eat healthily all week, then I give myself one day - usually Sunday - when I eat just what I want. You have to; otherwise, your mind goes a little nutso.

Uzo Aduba

I grew up in a very small town in Massachusetts, and it goes without saying that there weren't many Nigerian families in that town, and a lot of people couldn't say Uzoamaka.

Jimmy Swaggart

I don't appreciate a preacher who commits adultery and then goes out and blames me.

Bill Brewer

We want that little patch that goes on our (letter) jackets.

John Fredriksen

When the market goes to hell, it's more of an opportunity than a problem.

Janice Dickinson

I was Versace's muse, I was Valentino's muse, I was Alaia's muse, Lancetti's muse, Calvin Klein's, Halston's. I could go on and on.

Alan Paton

It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.

Erin Morgenstern

I don't have any particular rituals, I sometimes like to write in longhand when I'm searching for ideas but I do the vast majority by typing, I can't always keep up with my thoughts longhand. I'm not a coffee shop writer because I feel obliged to order more coffee and then I end up over-caffeinated.

Chick Hearn

You can't please everybody all the time, but you can please a majority.

Bertolt Brecht

With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.

Benjamin Tucker

The right of the majority is absolute.

Ashleigh Brilliant

The majority is never right, unless it includes me.

Dennis Prager

The vast majority of those who are famous are not significant and the vast majority of those who are significant are not famous.

Robert A. Heinlein

Was there ever a time when the majority was right? Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A

Zalmay Khalilzad

Since no single party will have a majority there will be a need for a very broad-based coalition.

Ben Horowitz

For example, the vast majority of security break-ins occur as a result of problems with known fixes. With an automated system, you can keep up to date.

C. S. Lewis

It is always the novice who exaggerates.

David Cameron

I'm all for apprenticeships, but this is no time for a novice.

James Earl Jones

I consider myself a novice film actor.

Harry Carey, Jr.

You can always tell a novice rider; they aren't comfortable in the saddle and have to hang on.

Jerome Robbins

We were all novices. We really were. We didn't know a goddamn thing about doing a show.

Jean Toomer

Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.

Keith Jarrett

Ideally, I'd like to be the eternal novice, for then only the surprises would be endless.

Howard Dean

We have no idea what this woman's record is about. She's obviously an accomplished attorney. The question is what does she believe. We have no idea, ... This Week.

Antony Sher

When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well.

Eliza Taylor

Being on Twitter and social media, you obviously get to see a lot more of what people are thinking of you and of your show.

Eula Biss

Bram Stoker's 'Dracula,' in my reading, is really obviously about disease and our relation to disease.

Ryan Kolb

We're still struggling with the first period and I don't know what to do about that. But obviously we were able to regroup in the second period.

Keyshawn Johnson

The championship, in my eyes, in television, is obviously an Emmy.

Bruce Chen

We won, so obviously I feel very good.

Billy Coleman

We're going to obviously put a lot of thought into this. You don't want to keep shifting in and out, especially through intersections.

Jim Ratcliffe

Shale is one answer to the U.K.'s energy problem, and it has obviously worked extraordinarily well in America.

Alan Shepard

You know, being a test pilot isn't always the healthiest business in the world.

Dave Barry

Never board a commercial aircraft if the pilot is wearing a tank top.

Chesley Sullenberger

Each generation of pilots hopes that they will leave their profession better off than they found it.

Brandon Jay McLaren

You read a lot of pilots during pilot season, and not all of them really grab you.

Bo Jackson

I always wanted to be a pilot.

Craig Ferguson

My pilot's license. I'm proud of that.

Deyon Pitter

You are the pilot of your life, be sure that you do not crash.

Jason Alexander

The pilot of 'Seinfeld' was made and dropped. 'Seinfeld' was not supposed to go to series.

Peter Murray

The pilot never stopped. He never slowed down,

Edward Abbey

Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.

Louise Lippincott

When someone is doing scientific illustrations, that person is an artist.

Wayne Murdy

There has never been a scientific study showing that we have polluted the bay.

Alan J. Heeger

I started out as a physicist; however, I am what I have become. I have evolved, with the help of many colleagues in the international scientific community, into an interdisciplinary scientist.

Ray Comfort

Creation is absolute, 100 percent scientific proof that there was a Creator.

David Greene

We need independent scientific breakthroughs in each of these three areas.

Robert Lanza

Without any scientific data, one has to be very, very skeptical.

James Smith

That's where I don't go, ... That's not a scientific question.

Harold Varmus

We were overwhelmed by the scientific community's response,

Daniel Handler

Sometimes the things you’ve lost can be found again in unexpected places.

Barbra Streisand

Love comes from the most unexpected places.

David Brooks

Often, I go and see films where I can see the beats coming. So, if I read something where I don't see the beats coming and it takes me somewhere unexpected, that's a great thing to build upon.

Charles Kennedy

The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.

Jeff Goldblum

I was thinking, Why am I doing this, do I really want to go... it was unexpected thing after another, but I made a lot of friends.

Alex Flinn

Sometimes, unexpected things can happen.

Aaron Klug

One cannot plan for the unexpected.

Ambrose Bierce

PROVIDENTIAL, adj. Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing it.

Alice James

Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.

C. S. Lewis

You see, Aslan didn't tell Pole what would happen. He only told her what to do. That fellow will be the death of us once he's up, I shouldn't wonder. But that doesn't let us off following the signs. - The Silver Chair

Kent Kersten

We have some bruises and we may have one or two wrestlers out. We were injury-free when we won the duals championship in 2003. It's not the same this year.

Abby Wambach

I would trade all the individual awards I've won for a World Cup.

Diane von Furstenberg

We all have a Wonder Woman inside us.

Bryce Courtenay

Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to tales of wonder, love, and daring. When we cease to tell or listen, then we no longer exist as a people.

Elizabeth Wilson

It's one thing to be talented, but the other thing is connections - with agents, with people; that's what makes a difference, and from the beginning, I've had wonderful representation.

Alan Moore

Now everything is wonderful and hazardous and nothing's hypothetical.

Alan Alda

I'm in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.

E. B. White

We've won here now so we don't have to worry about the 15-year thing.