Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Autry

We need innovation in education and dedication to the task before us.

Rosemary Scheele

She is a really neat kid. She is definitely a team girl. She excels at her sport and is dedicated.

Laurie Sikora

Modeling takes extreme dedication. You have to really want this to make it work.

Ayrton Senna

I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.

Bart Starr

Desire and dedication are everything!

Alex Garwood

The Pat Tillman Foundation is thrilled to be participating in this fundraising event. We thank Roy for his dedication to the foundation's efforts to keep Pat's leadership spirit of giving back alive.

Abraham Lincoln

As the chief speaker at the dedication of the national cemetery at the Gettysburg Battlefield, statesman Edward Everett wrote to Lincoln: I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes.

David Stern

We are saddened by the news of Jason Collier's sudden passing, ... He epitomized hard work, dedication and perseverance, and more importantly compassion, kindness and selflessness.

Tim Shea

We'd like to thank Tod Fitzpatrick for a job well done. Tod was influential in selecting his successor, and plans to work with Marc through the transition. We are grateful for his vision, dedication and success.

Norman Finkelstein

I voted for Nader, and I have no doubts at all that it was the right thing to do because the Nader candidacy was extremely energising and a terrific phenomenon in American life, and I hope he continues.

Natsuki Takaya

I'm the sort of person that doesn't really have specific 'inspiration.' It probably comes more from my doubts and my desires.

Reinhard Kurth

Unfortunately, it has been found that the swans were infected with H5N1 from Asia. We have no doubts whatsoever any more.

Charles Schumer

There are too many questions still to be answered, too many doubts still to be alleviated to say that this nomination is a slam dunk,

Tony Mosa

We had no doubts that we made the right decision. They violated one of the standard rules that we have. Every team knows that you can't do that.

Bill Rowe

I don't have any doubts at all how he's going to do here. I realize at the end of the year he could walk. We've just got to slide through this first year, and I think we will.

Jermain Taylor

I don't have to have a knockout. I just need to win this fight and leave no doubts in the minds of my fans or his fans,

Felipe Alou

I don't have doubts that he'll hit or that they'll walk him. The swing has always been there.

Robert Gossett

What effect am I having on this world? I'm not sure yet. I have my worries, doubts and fears, but the way I'm trying to affect the world is with positive, right action.

Charles Spurgeon

God has given no pledge which He will not redeem, and encouraged no hope which He will not fulfill.

Lee Janzen

The perception now is that (Woods) is still the guy to beat. But I don't think guys think it's a given that he's going to win.

Sharon Stewart

We've already given them an extension. It's really simple: The rules of the park have to be followed.

Nicolas Roeg

I hate it when people talk about Tony Curtis and say: 'His real name was Bernie Schwartz... ' That was just the name that he was given at birth. It's not the person he lived his life with, and became.

Nicolas Roeg

A lot of my movies have come to be thought about only years after the fact, and I'm sad about that but also happy about it in a way, as it's given them longevity.

Edward Gorey

I have given up considering happiness as relevant.

Sathya Baba

Wealth that you hoard is not yours; wealth that you have given is really yours.

Luc Robitaille

What the Sharks did, it shocked the heck out of me. We've always been rivals, but I think they know how much I love this game, and how much I've given to it.

Bill McKibben

We have assumed control where once we worked with what we were given.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Alan Moore

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

Alan Alda

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Akira Kurosawa

A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.

Brian Nicola

We want them all to go on, and realistically they all have a shot. They all want to be state-placers and they're all looking to be pretty tough. I just want them all to have a good time.

Cameron Mathison

Sometimes the most difficult, horrific things can be the greatest spiritual teachers.

John Riddle

To me, this is a film that really stands out. It's a very powerful film with horrific scenes from the camps.

Deval Patrick

This is a horrific day in Boston. My thoughts and prayers are with those who have been injured.

David Parkin

He's had a horrific run with injury, and now he's missing more games. I don't know whether that's too smart in your developmental years.

Louise Nurding

I would be upset if I was on the 'worst dressed'. It would make me think, 'Surely I haven't done anything that horrific - have I?'

William Cataldo

This was a horrific crime. The torture took place over a period of several hours.

Jon Gruden

I was really impressed with the strides that he made and the poise that he showed after a horrific start, a rough start. He showed me a lot. He showed the whole league a lot.

Sean Greene

We'll be looking into traffic studies and the planning of the roadway. This was a horrific incident.

Mike Bettiga

The weather has been so horrific our record is 1-1. I can't tell you how many matches have been rained out.

Luciano Spalletti

Watching him walk today after seeing his injury really moved me.

Brad Childress

When I look at that, I don't see that. Did he miss some throws that he should have made? Sure, and I'm sure he will tell you that as well. I don't see where that injury is doing something specifically to his throwing mechanics. I wish I could tell you I saw that.

Kelly Kephart

She just went down screaming. It was probably the worst sports injury I've ever seen. Her leg was at a 90-degree angle, from her knee to her ankle. It was snapped in half.

Barbara Mandrell

It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.

Tim Zasada

We're an injury away from being mediocre or bad.

Mark Cooper

Tommy suffered the injury in training. He could be out for a month, which wouldn't leave much of the season left.

Bill Cowher

Tommy had the MRI and right now it looks like he has a non-surgical injury to his elbow. He will not be able to throw for six weeks and then at that point he will be able to start throwing and we will see where he is.

Terrell Owens

I've sustained a meniscus injury, shortly after that I sustained an ACL injury so really just going through that and going through some personal issues, personal problems within myself.

Eric Shelton

My understanding is the injury was very similar to the Mike Minter injury in the Super Bowl, and to my recollection Mike spent about two months in a cast/boot.

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.

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.

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.

Keyshawn Johnson

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

Bruce Chen

We won, so obviously I feel very good.

Joey Fatone

Some days I'll cook, and then some days my wife will cook. For me, obviously on Sundays a lot of times we do the sauce and the meatballs and pasta, the whole thing.

Jim Ratcliffe

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

Ron Walker

She is obviously distraught and is at an undisclosed location.

Gary Williams

We're in a tough situation right now. We'll find out what we're made of.

Herman Edwards

We're in a situation where time is of the essence,

Dennis Kavelman

We're in a situation now where you have to play it out and fortunately we have very strong contingency plans.

Deborah Norville

There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.

Beth Moore

Forgiveness doesn't make the situation OK, it makes you OK.

Gary Hoffman

We got to this situation not overnight. We're not going to turn it around overnight.

Brian Eno

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

Brian Eno

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

Jim Roberts

This was a situation where everybody's got to step up and do what they do.

Alan Rickman

It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.

Alan Ball

I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip through the ads, because the culture of advertising is so false and phony that I just... ugh, you know?

David Tennant

How galling to watch someone who looks like you, who basically is you, do all the shagging you didn't get to do.

Carolina Kostner

I could sit here in the tribunes and watch Michelle Kwan skate for hours...

Charles Lindbergh

When I watch species other than my own, their instinct's wisdom is what most impresses and disturbs me.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We boast in the Lord but watch carefully that we never get caught depending on Him.

David Brin

You don't have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally!

Benh Zeitlin

I don't watch trailers, I like to go into every movie fresh.

Audrey Hepburn

I have learnt how to live…how to be in the world and of the world, and not just to stand aside and watch.

Alan Watts

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

Alan Clark

Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

Alan Bennett

If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.

Alan Ayckbourn

A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.

Al Kaline

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Akio Morita

Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.

Chloe Sevigny

I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment.

Dave Chappelle

If I put forth a legitimate effort, then I feel like, if that doesn't work out, that's all I can do.

Dave Chappelle

I always take a relationship to the next level. If that works out, I take it to the next level after that, until I finally reach that level when it becomes absolutely necessary for me to leave.