Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and coaxed, is invariably a bitterly disappointed woman. A game of chess will cure such a conceit forever. The woman that knows the most, thinks the most, feels the most, is the most. Intellectual affection is the only lasting love. Love that has a game of chess in it can checkmate any man and solve the problem of life.

Alan Watts

Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.

Alan Ritchson

I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic.

Alan Moore

A lot of the critique of our growing mechanization was actually at its strongest, and arguably at its most perceptive, during the late '60s.

Alan Moore

There's been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly reputable imprints now owned by big conglomerates.

Alan Moore

Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until I got to the grammar school.

Alan Moore

A world grows up around me. Am I shaping it, or do its predetermined contours guide my hand?

Alan Bradley

Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben, I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about. I always woke up before the plane landed.

Alan Arkin

Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying.

Catherynne M. Valente

Family is a transitive property.

Jon Brion

We're so used to everything being properly manicured, like you can hear every footstep in a movie, you can hear every bit of dialogue, and everything is in its place.

Jim Ratcliffe

Unions do have a proper role in negotiating for employees and advising employees, but they have to engage with the employer.

Donald Trump

I've become very successful over the years. I think I own among the greatest properties in the world.

Errol Morris

I think an interview, properly considered, should be an investigation. You shouldn't know what the interview will yield. Otherwise, why do it at all?

Louis Post

The proper way to welcome him would be to slap handcuffs on him.

Mike Cohen

The property is zoned agricultural-residential. This is not agricultural or residential.

Peggy Moriarty

The property is rare. It reminds you of Camelot. It's just perfect.

Betty Wright

I respect women that have a voice and use it for a proper reason.

Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Fox said that restorations were the most bloody of all revolutions; and he might have added that reformations are the best mode of preventing the necessity of either.

Charles Stanley

When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.

Boris Diaw

We still want to win and see which team we've got to play (in the post-season). We got a little tired because we didn't play with Steve and Raja, and they usually play a lot. Sometimes we get to rest up because Steve is doing all the work.

Doug Flynn

We're in inning 2 of the new ballgame. So get in and let it go the rest of the innings.

Jim Tracy

We're not going to say we're not going to see him for the rest of the year, ... We're going to take it day-by-day.

Daymond John

Make sure you're doing something that you love, that you're willing to do for the rest of your life. If you're doing it for money, that's the only thing you won't make.

Audre Lorde

I learned to read from Mrs. Augusta Baker, the children's librarian. ... If that was the only good deed that lady ever did in her life, may she rest in peace. Because that deed saved my life, if not sooner, then later, when sometimes the only thing I had to hold on to was knowing I could read.

Edgar Cayce

Death is only passing through God's other door.

Edgar Cayce

Let's learn to live! Then there is no death, save the transition, when desired. Many live who have never died as yet.

Earl Campbell

I did some good things as a rookie.

Adrian Beltre

I'm not a rookie anymore-no more excuses about being young.

Michael Boulware

I had a stellar rookie year. This year has to be better.

Don Shula

And my rookie contract, my first rookie contract was for $5,000.

Ken Jr.

I also need to get some deodorant. Which rookie wants to run out and get me some?

Josh Towers

He could be the Rookie of the Year. He should be here a long time.

Gilbert Arenas

He's going to be an All-Star quickly. He's my rookie of the year.

Larry Brown

I thought they were a little tired, ... and then I thought down the stretch, I don't want to put the rookies in a tough situation like that.

Mike Grier

I think once you play 80 games, you're not a rookie any more.

David Ginola

I loved being back out on the pitch. Although I have not been in full training, I felt pretty good.

Bernie Mac

I've been in training for stardom.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I didn't mind basic training. It taught me that something that seems impossible at the start can be achieved.

Deena Kastor

I simply adore the exhaustion that comes with training hard.

Bill Nye

I always liked show biz and got to make a few training films at Boeing.

Alan K. Simpson

The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.

Alan Kay

I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.

Bernard Lagat

You benefit from getting in enough volume at the beginning of your training.

Bill Wilkinson

We've been trying to sell cyclists of all ages and abilities on very detailed and demanding education and training programs designed to make them more like motorists. Bicyclists have shown they don't want this. What cyclists repeatedly tell us they do want is more safe places to ride, and it is time we listened to that message.