Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Nighy

I'm always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!

Charlie Munger

I won’t bet $100 against house odds between now and the grave.

Bruce Feiler

The bottom line: if you want a happier family, create, refine and retell the story of your family's positive moments and your ability to bounce back from the difficult ones. That act alone may increase the odds that your family will thrive for many generations to come.

Benjamin Graham

No matter how careful you are, the one risk no investor can ever eliminate is the risk of being wrong. Only by insisting on what Graham called the "margin of safety" - never overpaying, no matter how exciting an investment seems to be - can you minimize your odds of error.

Gayle Lynds

Our only solace as writers is in the work itself, and perhaps also in a penchant for blissful ignorance that allows us to gamble, to risk, to keep going where others would tote up the odds and stop.

Charles Bukowski

We are here to laugh at the odds.

Charles Bukowski

I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers.

Elizabeth Emken

I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds.

Abby Wambach

You never know if you can actually do something against all odds until you actually do it.

Elizabeth Banks

I love stories about misfits and underdogs.

Halle Berry

There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.

Barry Goldwater

I'm the most underdog underdog there is.

Billy Lunn

We're underdogs here. We have to work for it.

Ben Roethlisberger

We're the underdogs going into their place. Now we get to see what we can do.

Adrian Gonzalez

We're the underdog in a lot of matches, which makes us tougher.

Bernie Taupin

We may have limped onto Broadway as the underdogs, but underdogs bite back occasionally.

Yogi Berra

Yogi called the 1969 New York Mets: "Overwhelming underdogs

Jessica Hagedorn

I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.

Bryce Courtenay

Small can beat big, but you must have a plan.

Nayvadius Cash

I can't leave home without certain movies. 'The Godfather' is a big one for me. And I've gotta have my beats so I can write new music.

Luca Parmitano

Is there any other job that beats being an astronaut? Who didn't want to be an astronaut? That is my question.

Robert Krulwich

When you talk or write or film, you work with the music inside you, the music that formed you. Different generations have different musics in them, so whatever they do, it's going to come out differently, and it will speak in beats of their own generation.

Earl Sweatshirt

My beats are pretty s - - y, though. I don't know how they work.

Michael Egan

We want our customers to have fun. I tell everyone that any (customer) who beats me in a game of horseshoes gets 15 percent off.

Demi Lovato

When you start to beat yourself up, remind yourself of how worthy you are of love.

Lev Grossman

When it comes to true humility in the face of history, nothing beats complete silence.

Rick Perlstein

There's a lot of surplus rage from the '60s that was never really worked through publicly. I think a lot of that rage still exists, and I think you see that when John McCain runs a commercial that beats up on Hillary Clinton's earmark for a Woodstock museum.