Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tallulah Bankhead

Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right..

Rob Rooney

Seventh place is definitely an honor, and I think that right now we had a first-time state champion in Chris, and we had several kids in the finals ... not just the consolations. We're walking out of here with a lot of good experience from this year. But I am ecstatic about how we did as a team.

Mike Ryan

So many champions and good horses have come from this program; it's proven ground. These horses are on the come; they have so much upside to them.

Didier Drogba

Maybe we spend a lot of money, but this money is not spent for nothing. We won the League and Carling Cup last season, we went to the semifinal of the Champions League and this year we are top of the League. Sometimes you have to spend money for the good reason and this is the good reason.

Seve Ballesteros

My intention is to compete until I'm 54. So if I join the Champions Tour, it will only be for four years - no more than that. I'm in the golf course design business. This is my future. I'd rather go to a place where there is nothing and design a golf course. This will be a good legacy for me to leave.

Michael Sutton

Ocean Champions has the potential to be one of the most transformative things we've ever done in the whole conservation movement.

Pat Mayo

One year ago they (the players) were just happy to play. Some didn't even know what the Tournament of Champions was.

Lou DiBella

On June 17, everybody is going to see clearly who's the real champion.

Scottie Phillips

Mullins was the conference champion, but with an 11-9 record, we felt we had a shot and went after it. Our effort was there, but we couldn't pull it out.

Pankaj Mishra

My dominant feeling every day is one of great ignorance.

John Varvatos

Music has always been a dominant force in my life. As a young kid, it was a way for me to escape everyday life.

Scott Edgar

My goal now is to do what I did at Murray State, to be a great mid-major program. We can be regionally dominant and nationally competitive. It's a great fit for me.

Jake Herlihy

She was everything as advertised. She's a dominant player, very strong and physical.

Marc Walters

She has been our most dominant player. She's made herself into a marquee performer.

Joan Chen

To be an Asian, to be a minority, not to see ourselves as always me the minority, the victim, you the dominant culture. It's a shift of paradigm. Once you see things differently, you gain power. All of a sudden there is enlightenment.

Andrew C. Bradley

We played well in the first game, we just couldn't come up with the big hit. Eric was just dominant pitching today and gave us a big lift in the second game.

Jermaine Williams

We play the same position, so I really try to mark my game after his, ... He's so dominant at what he does.

Robert Vaughn

In the beginning, fear was the dominant motivating force.

Josh Beckett

Let's talk about the outing. I felt pretty good today, let's start with that. I don't want to fill it up with stuff like that, negative stuff. Let's be positive here.

Joel Parkinson

Losing one grounds you a bit. I learned a lot after losing the title in 2009, learned that I was probably too intense that year, and when I didn't win, I just felt horrible.

Brian Billick

Last year, we felt we were a Super Bowl-caliber team. I think in just about every measure you can put out there, we're a better team than we were last year.

David Chase

Last year, we felt we needed more teachers. I'm troubled that we're not going after personnel just because we don't have the room for them.

Tim Churchill

Last year, we felt like we didn't have any winnable games.

Forel Davies

Last year was the first year I really felt comfortable with my game.

Brian James

Last year was really demanding. I just felt that at the end of the year I didn't have a lot of fire left in me.

Liz Gliem

Last year the pressure was on Jackie, but this year I felt a little more pressure on me. I had to take a little more of a leadership role.

Jeremy Bonderman

Last year went so fast. I felt like I was in and out of that game in like a matter of minutes.

Chevy Chase

We never could have performed live for an hour and a half every week if we were doing drugs.

Erik Bruhn

It is important, even if you performed a role the night before, to think, 'This is the first time this is going to happen.'

Jenn Proske

I went to Boston University and got my BFA, and performed Off Broadway.

Ravi Shankar

One single raga can be performed for two hours, three hours.

Jerry Brookings

I actually had a little R&B group, and Tito performed with me once.

Patrick Kelly

I am so very proud of all my wrestlers. They performed like warriors.

Mary Jane

I think we did really well; as a whole we performed a lot better and we sounded a lot better.

Rob Willman

I think we could've done a little better. I'm not down at all. But we could've performed better.

Woody Johnson

I think he's performed fabulously. We're not winning, but he's doing everything he can to win, and I think the team's doing everything they can.

Tessa Hafen

Senator Reid has done nothing wrong and he doesn't see any reason why he would need to return the money.

Don Braunecker

Megan Richardson was a big reason for our success (Tuesday) night.

Charles Spurgeon

The only reason why anything virtuous or lively survives in us is this, 'the LORD is there'" (Ez. 35:10)

Charles Spurgeon

Faith is reason at rest in God.

Deborah Tannen

Part of the reason images of women in positions of authority are marked by their gender is that the very notion of authority is associated with maleness.

Edgar Allan Poe

As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.

Eleanor Holmes Norton

There is no reason to repeat bad history.

Taylor Vichorek

For some reason OTs haven't treated us as well as we hoped.

Ahmed Chalabi

Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they will be possible.

Levance Fields

Of course, I'll be ready. I think I could have done it this year if Carl hadn't come back.

Cory Sarich

One year I had about 14 different returns. That's a lot of signatures when it comes time.

Jose Theodore

Obviously, this year I didn't play up to my level, but the year's not over yet.

Chris Evans

If you want to be around in 10 years you've got to do something to differentiate yourself from the pack.

Charles Spurgeon

If we had to preach to thousands year after year, and never rescued but one soul, that one soul would be a full reward for all our labour, for a soul is of countless price.

Charles Spurgeon

In all of my years of service to my Lord, I have discovered a truth that has never failed and has never been compromised. That truth is that it is beyond the realm of possibilities that one has the ability to out-give God. Even if I give the whole of my worth to Him, He will find a way to give back to me much more than I gave.

Charles Spurgeon

Ten minutes praying is better than a year's murmuring.

Dick Van Dyke

All of us involved say 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the best five years of our lives. We were like otters at play.

Dick Van Dyke

I wanted to be Stan Laurel, then I wanted to be Fred Astaire and then Captain Kangaroo. I actually started out as a radio announcer when I was 17 and never left the business, so that's literally 70 years.