Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Owens

We want to throw high percentage stuff this year, but it's like I told Gary the other day, if we call a pass and it's not there, pull the ball down and run with it and we'll come back and call another play. We just don't want him trying to force things and make mistakes.

Sam Allen

We want to show that we're just like our neighbors. We go to ball games, we go to the grocery store, we go to church. We just happen to be Democrats.

David McCullough

Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.

Buddy Ebsen

You get more negative reactions than positive reactions as you go through life, and the big lesson is nobody counts you out but yourself...I never have; I never will.

Camille Paglia

Ballet is the body rising. Ballet is ceremonial and hieratic. Its disdain for the commonplace material world is the source of its authority and glamour.

C. L. R. James

Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance.

Eric Foust

The other thing that killed us was that punt. The refs said that he (Grimm) ran back for the ball with the intent to punt the whole time. How's our kid supposed to know that that this guy's intention is to punt? That was the turning point in the football game.

Howard Davidowitz

The performance of the company over the last few years has been very erratic. It's also a smaller player. It was time for Milstein to take it easy and make a gigantic pot of money and turn the ball over to someone else.

Marty Schottenheimer

The point I've made very clear to him, and I made very clear to you: You will not play quarterback or any other position that possesses the ball for me. You have to take care of the ball because it's the difference between winning games in this league.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that they do despise it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.

Charles Caleb Colton

Imitation is the highest form of flattery.

Alan Bradley

To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.

Lydia Leonard

Broadway is the actor's Mt. Everest - but with more flattering frocks.

Charles Lederer

Flattery'll get you anywhere.

Carolyn Wells

Invitation is the sincerest flattery.

Charlotte Bronte

I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery.

Benjamin Franklin

Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.

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.

Don Samuel

When you tell a lie, it's always harder to remember what you said.

Holly Lisle

Writing, for all that it's harder than nursing ever was, is also more joyous and more fun and a lot less dangerous. And the major themes of my life have become the major themes of my writing, too - so it has all worked out pretty well.

Charles Grodin

Everyone is having a harder time than it appears.

Maggie Shayne

Whether labeled as such or not, I think every book I've ever written has been, more or less, a romantic suspense. I have always put tremendous effort into making each book a page turner: The harder it is for the reader to put it down, the better I've done my job.

Rob Davis

What this is all about is getting a taste of success. It doesn't matter who you beat, once you know what it takes to win, you'll work harder and that opens up other opportunities.

Freddy Sanchez

What he needed to do was to work harder than the normal person just to get back to where he needed to be. This is probably the strongest I've ever seen him.

Tyrell Thompson

We know Woodlands is going to be hungry. We have to come out and play harder or this will be it for us.

Howard Schnellenberger

There are two kinds. The ones that have no clue, and those that are willing to work harder than scholarship athletes, and those are the ones that become very important to the team.

Joe Girardi

There are times when you have to learn to pitch with the lead. To me learning how to pitch with the lead is harder than learning how to pitch when you're behind. That's what we need to learn how to do.

Joe Farmer

We want to sure that if that storm hits South Carolina, people will have ample time to get out of its way.

Becky Harrold

When we got the passes, we could not get our hits to fall. We were doing all the things we needed to do, but were not doing them well enough.

Stephanie Carroll

Were just not getting hits when we need to.

A. N. Wilson

We're getting a million hits a day on our site,

Rod Carew

Three thousand hits is something that should stand for itself.

Donald Lowe

When the meteor hits the surface, it instantaneously melts and vaporizes rock, and that rock vapor is sucked right back up the hole into the atmosphere,

Greg Sims

We're hitting the ball. Just not at the right times. We haven't been able to put together a combination of hits in the same inning.

Ron Gardenhire

We did our part on the pitching but didn't get it done offensively today. We have to keep playing to see if we can put together some hits and get going.

Stephen Ryan

We have had 6,000 hits in the first 24 hours,

Bob Odenkirk

If you're committed enough, you can make any story work. I once told a woman I was Kevin Costner, and it worked because I believed it.

Kevin Mitnick

When I read about myself in the media, even I don't recognize me. The myth of Kevin Mitnick is much more interesting than the reality of Kevin Mitnick. If they told the reality, no one would care.

Kevin Mitnick

The myth of Kevin Mitnick is much more interesting than the reality of Kevin Mitnick. If they told the reality, no one would care.

Daniel Gillies

Kevin Smith is so great in 'Kingdom Come,' isn't he? He's kind of this very earthy poet. He just has this immediate gregariousness, like, you kind of just want to be his pal.

Bruce Barnes

We ran our spread offense to Adam. He can do what he wants with the ball. We had Zach (Weismann) and Kevin (Brush) on the perimeter. He can also take the shot if he's open.

Trevor McDonald

I'm much more on the phone to Mr. Kevin Pietersen these days than anybody else I know.

Jamie Martin

I did just enough. I'm not a lineman, I just tried to shield him and let Kevin do what he wanted to do.

Chris Pine

I've worked Keira Knightley quite a bit and Kevin Costner.

Amanda Peet

Whenever I was with Kevin Pollak, I had to leave the room.

Alanis Morissette

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.

Alan Hansen

You'll never win anything with kids

Alan Alda

Kids are natural scientists.

Al Purdy

In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.

Al Madrigal

Near my house in Los Angeles is a waterfall. I love to take the wife and kids, but it's also near a sketchy neighborhood. So there's a lot of gang members that hang out at the waterfall. It's like somebody took an Ansel Adams photo and then put a Cypress Hill video inside it.

Al Lewis

I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.

Brad Lancaster

We want the kids to do as well as they can. There are so many opportunities (for various activities), and that's good. But, how do we make sure it's not a distraction.

Chris Colfer

It doesn't matter how old I get, I always act like an excited five year-old kid with severe ADD and a waddle at Disneyland.

Chris Colfer

My life is an awkward visit from the kid's table while awaiting a History Channel special.

Brian Billick

Make no mistake, Kyle is responsible for the way he reacted,

Brian Cashman

We've got to surround Kyle with a lot more in the bullpen.

Ian Wale

I think we started wearing them down a bit. We said on the side that our pressure was going to get a goal, and fortunately for us, Kyle stepped up.

Lorraine Randall

Kyle was great. He was my only living child.

Larry Coker

Kyle seems to be doing fine. Everything's positive there.

Gregg Williams

Kyle Orton was playing better than any of the quarterbacks,

Lovie Smith

Kyle needs to go through a situation like that, ... From the way I see it, he'll come back stronger from it.

Micah Roberts

Kyle is probably going to be somewhere around the top 10 most of the day.

Brian Tate

Kyle had a remarkable race in the mass start classic. He started in the 57th pin position, which is toward the back of the pack.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Only the redeemed have the ability to like what God likes and to be pleased with what pleases God.

Chick Corea

I've noticed that the more adventurous and in that mode that I am, it seems that the more the audience really likes it.

Buddy Valastro

Everybody likes pizza! It's a quick and easy clean-up meal

Martin Jacques

No one likes to admit they are racist or bear prejudices. Nor do they even like to be open and honest when they witness racist behaviour.

Charles M. Schulz

I'm depressed! I'm completely depressed! I am firmly convinced that there is no one in this world who really likes me!" "So what else is new?

Benjamin Franklin

He that best understands the world, least likes it

Abraham Lincoln

Everybody likes compliment.

Mallory Ortberg

Everyone wants to be liked; everyone wants approval. No one likes being ignored.

Bret Easton Ellis

No one ever likes the right person.

Clive Sinclair

You have to turn a blind eye to politics in nearly all Westerns.

Gary Roberts

Nearly all our blokes are locals, but a lot of them work out of town during the week,

Romola Garai

There are people who you see on screen and think, 'Wow, that's a slim person,' and in the flesh they look nearly dead.

Tony Haffer

For rain fans, it's going to be a nearly perfect day.

Mychal Williams

Kendra stepped up and played a solid game, nearly getting a double-double.

Paul Gillmor

To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000 in public debt riding on our backs.

Thomas Powell

What you do is not nearly as important as who you are.

Mark McKinney

It is so cold out there, my head nearly fell off.

Jami Attenberg

I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.

Charles Caleb Colton

The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.

Charles Caleb Colton

We make a goddess of Fortune ... and place her in the highest heaven. But it is not fortune that is exalted and powerful, but we ourselves that are abject and weak.

Charles Caleb Colton

Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of our heads, where, having blinded the two watchmen, it readily descends into the heart.

Charles Stanley

One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. And the biggest lie is that there are no consequences to our own doing. Satan will give you whatever you ask for if it will lead you where he ultimately wants you.

Charles Spurgeon

We declare, upon Scriptural authority, that the human will is so desperately set on mischief, so depraved, and so inclined to everything that is evil, and so disinclined to everything that is good, that without the powerful, supernatural, irresistible influence of the Holy Spirit, no human will ever be constrained towards Christ.

Charles Spurgeon

In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.

Alan Watts

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

Alan Colmes

People tune in to the Fox News Channel because it was founded on the premise that all sides should be presented fairly. This has upset the 'media establishment' but has made Fox the most powerful name in the news. I'm proud that Hannity & Colmes has contributed to this success, an achievement that has been often dissected by liberal media pundits who argue that Sean is more aggressive than I am and therefore dominates the show.

Charles Spurgeon

Do not begin to teach others until the Lord has taught you.

Alan Watts

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.

Alan Paton

Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.

Dave Barry

I was a middle-of-the-road Democrat more than anything else. I know I voted for Carter. Watergate taught me how bad the Republicans were.

Bryan Stevenson

My parents, who grew up in terror and dealt with segregation and humiliation, nonetheless taught us to be hopeful and open and loving and not hateful toward anyone.

Charles Koch

To be happy you have to fulfill your nature. That's what Aristotle taught so many centuries ago, that the road to happiness isn't to go drink more or consume more. The road to happiness is to fully develop your abilities, and then apply them to do good.

Audre Lorde

If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I, who thought to sink, was caught up into love, and taught the whole of life in a new rhythm.

Cass McCombs

When I was young, I used to go to Baha'i camp, and they taught me a lot about the equality of religions.