Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Lee

Second in state, definitely a good accomplishment. Nothing to be ashamed of. A lot of kids do well one year and the next year they do the same or worse. I was happy that I could at least say that I improved.

Scott Parrish

My kids played extremely hard and they have nothing to be ashamed of. They executed the game plan perfectly, but King's picked up their defense and made it hard for us to get good shots at the end.

Maureen McGovern

Of course I'm glad I've become known for other things, but I'm not ashamed of my past. I look back on those times as being very exciting for me as a performer and, in fact, I still sing some of those songs today.

Adam Vaccari

My goal was (to finish in the) top three. But after I found out the strength of this weight class, getting fifth . . .that's a good weekend and I'm not ashamed at all.

Jeremy Warren

Maybe Chris doesn't know the difference. This is a slanderous distortion of the record, and Chris Bell should be ashamed of himself.

Sammy Morris

When you're an athlete and can expose to people that you battle a lot of the same things that they go through, it helps them believe in themselves. You're talking about someone who is established as a very good player in this league who is able to relate that. Young people can see that he was brave enough to not only overcome it, but talk about it and show that he came out OK, that there's nothing to be ashamed of.

Tom Rachman

Many things embarrass me, but reading isn't one of them. I'm not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor the flaky meditation books. After all, I can pretend I never read those.

Erich von Stroheim

When you ask me why I do such pictures I am not ashamed to tell you the true reason: only because I do not want my family to starve.

Will Smith

So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

Italo Calvino

Rarely does an interviewer ask questions you did not expect. I have given a lot of interviews, and I have concluded that the questions always look alike. I could always give the same answers.

Robert Kazinsky

I'd watched every episode of 'True Blood' from the very beginning. The show's characters were in my blood, so when I started, I was really prepared. I made sure I wasn't the new guy asking stupid questions on his first day.

Robert Palmer

I hardly ever get asked about music. I do, however, get asked about the 'Addicted to Love' video and my suits on a daily basis.

Rohit Shetty

Jokes apart, people are constantly asking me, 'What are you doing for the industry?' When one makes a blockbuster, you plough back money into the industry. If my film makes 100 crore, I'm not taking the entire sum home! It gets distributed between the exhibitors, distributors, producers and actors.

Kevin Mitnick

When somebody asks for a favor involving information, if you don't know him or can't verify his identity, just say no.

Kris Gopalakrishnan

With a traditional human resources system, we would work with a company, select the product, customise and implement the system, and our job would be over. Some companies are changing and asking why do they need to own the HR system when they can connect to an Internet service and pay as you go?

Marc Benioff

If someone asks me what cloud computing is, I try not to get bogged down with definitions. I tell them that, simply put, cloud computing is a better way to run your business.

Marcy Kaptur

As I watch what is happening in the Middle East and the carnage that comes over our television screens every evening, I cannot help but ask myself, what is wrong with humankind that we cannot stop the killing?

Ron Hill

We're not completely satisfied. I don't think we ever will be. There are a lot of questions that we asked that were never answered. My wife and I never believed from Day 1 that this was an accident.

William Hazlitt

Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others.

John Grogan

I confess to being a CNN junkie. And when I'm driving, it's all NPR all the time.

Tyra Banks

I am protective of my own personal life, but I must confess that I enjoy watching people that don't mind telling it all.

Sue Kidd

I grew up in a small town in Georgia, and I must confess that I was mining my memories of that small town. I can vividly see a lot of the scenery in terms of my own place.

Lee Siegel

I have a confession to make. For years, I earned a living - or a sort of living - writing negative book reviews.

The Talmud

Silence (in court) may be equivalent to confession

Nimrat Kaur

I love cooking, and I can make real good rajma chawal. It is a time consuming process and only for the consumption of a select few very special people. Also, I can make delicious mutton biryani, but I must confess I have stolen the recipe from my mother.

Mel Torme

There isn't a dearth of it, but I will confess that it's harder for me to find songs on which I'm willing to invest anything from ten to fifteen hours writing an arrangement than it was in times past.

Peter Fleming

When I first met Stanley, I said, 'If you did this, you should confess to it, because it'll help. But he said, 'If my innocence will cost me my life, so be it.

Rig Veda

One should always strive for knowledge so that ignorance never touches him.

Dennis Prager

Given the unprecedented ignorance of the Bible in contemporary America, it is likely that more young Americans will only know the Noah of 'Noah.' We can only hope that the film offers even a fraction of the wisdom of the original.

Deng Xiaoping

Even if they're functioning out of ignorance, they are still participating and must be suppressed. In China, even one million people can be considered a small sum.

Denis Diderot

Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.

Denis Diderot

It seems to me that if one had kept silence up to now regarding religion, people would still be submerged in the most grotesque and dangerous superstition ... regarding government, we would still be groaning under the bonds of feudal government ... regarding morals, we would still be having to learn what is virtue and what is vice. To forbid all these discussions, the only ones worthy of occupying a good mind, is to perpetuate the reign of ignorance and barbarism.

Edgar Mitchell

Space exploration must be undertaken not only out of simple human curiosity but also to further the survival of the species. The twentieth century has seen the unprecedented development and proliferation of magnificent technologies. Many of them, through design, ignorance, or misuse, are capable of destroying life as well as enhancing it. Space exploration alone holds the promise of eventual escape from a dying planet, provided we wisely manage our resources in the meantime and actually survive that long.

Edgar Mitchell

Our ignorance, and it is based on the egos we have. It is the unwillingness to go beyond ego.

Edgar Mitchell

There are no unnatural or supernatural phenomenon, only very large gaps in our knowledge of what is natural... we should strive to fill those gaps of ignorance.

Elbert Hubbard

Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.

Kevin Fisher

Mayor Coble likes to talk about the knowledge economy. Maybe what we need first is more knowledge about how to plan and manage public works projects.

Darin Strauss

My knowledge of trains - and love before first sight, love at negative-one sight - comes from Alfred Hitchcock.

Daisy Ridley

My film knowledge is pretty shocking. I'm trying to correct that.

Denis Diderot

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

Elbert Hubbard

It does not make much difference what a person studies-all knowledge is related, and the man who studies anything, if he keeps at it, will be learned.

Eleanor Roosevelt

To appear to be on the inside and know more than others about what is going on is a great temptation for most people. It is a rare person who is willing to seem to know less than he does ... Somehow, people seem to feel that it is belittling to their importance not to know more than other people.

Eduardo Chillida

Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.

William Butler Yeats

I would be -- for no knowledge is worth a straw --Ignorant and wanton as the dawn.

Bob Berg

Somebody in their 50s is going to have a lot more not only technical knowledge, but also street knowledge than somebody in their 20s who's still on a learning curve.

Busch Series

Man, I had no idea what to expect.

Rashad Bobino

Man, I can see why they're No. 1 in the nation.

Mario Bailey

Man, he's a senior. He's worked hard, and this is for him.

M.I.A.

Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.

Rae Rosen

Manhattan is unique; the rest of the region is more like the nation.

Toba Beta

Man has to postulate weirdness, before reaching the new science.

William Burroughs

Man has sold his soul for time, language, tools, weapons, and dominance.

Pat Connors

Man has a very poor track record when it comes to nature.

Barry Alvarez

Man did he play. I was really proud of him. . . . I really thought he played exceptional for a young kid.

Finding Nemo

Seagulls: Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine. Nigel: Oh would you just shut up? You're rats with wings.

Julie Foudy

I got underneath the sheets to go to sleep, ... and there's a 'W sign. Oh well. Cat's a minister's daughter. And she's from the south.

Robert W. Service

I haled me a woman from the street, Shameless but oh so fair, I bade her sit in the model's seat, And I painted her sitting there.

Terry Zwigoff

Oh yes, I've been approached to do all sorts of nonsense. How about a remake of 'West Side Story?'

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Oh yes, I studied dramatics under him for 12 years.

Jean Brown

Oh yeah, we've been celebrating here. Shirts for every child. Oh, we've been partying,

Curt Dobbs

Oh yeah. We got back to reality real quick.

Daniel Cabrera

Oh yeah, just muscles, ... It hurt, but I'm okay.

Al Horford

Oh yeah. If you forget, they make you run for those.

Albert Schweitzer

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.

Charles Spurgeon

Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk.

Charles Spurgeon

Get a friend to tell you your faults, or better still, welcome an enemy who will watch you keenly and sting you savagely. What a blessing such an irritating critic will be to a wise man, what an intolerable nuisance to a fool!

Charles Spurgeon

God is too good to be unkind, too wise to be mistaken; and when you cannot trace His hand, you can trust His heart.

Charles Spurgeon

The true way for a Christian to live is to live entirely upon Christ... Christians have experiences and they have feelings, but, if they are wise, they never feed upon these things, but upon Christ, Himself.

Charles Spurgeon

God is too good to be unkind and He is too wise to be mistaken. And when we cannot trace His hand, we must trust His heart. When you are so weak that you cannot do much more than cry, you coin diamonds with both your eyes. The sweetest prayers God ever hears are the groans and sighs of those who have no hope in anything but his love.

Charles Spurgeon

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Charles Spurgeon

Is not the gospel its own sign and wonder? Is not this a miracle of miracles, that 'God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish'? Surely that precious word, 'Whosoever will, let him come and take the water of life freely' and that solemn promise, 'Him that cometh unto Me, I will in no wise cast out,' are better than signs and wonders! A truthful Saviour ought to be believed. He is truth itself. Why will you ask proof of the veracity of One who cannot lie?

Diane Ravitch

When you realize that your history books and your science books and your literature books are not the result of experts sitting down and making it a wise decision, but of political pressure groups coming to the state textbook hearings, this is wrong.