Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herb Sendek

When you think of Tony, you think back to all that he's had to overcome in terms of injuries. What he's meant our team this year has really hard to calculate; he's been invaluable to us. Only now that we've seen how brilliant he has been you can't help but wonder what he could have meant to our team last year. In retrospect, we can now connect the dots and see what Julius was talking about when he could only practice with us that year.

Laura Carmichael

I've been really lucky because I've managed to become wonderful friends with a handful of very talented British designers. Christopher Kane has become one of my very good friends - also Erdem. Jonathan Saunders is another brilliant talent who's very kind. We all hang out.

Chris Gorog

There is no question that their execution has been less than brilliant over the last 12 months. Our business does rely on Microsoft's digital rights management software and our business model also relies on Microsoft's ecosystem of device manufacturers.

Neve McIntosh

I can't wait to work with Peter Capaldi as the next 'Doctor.' I know him from old; he's such a lovely man and will be brilliant in the role. As long as he tones down the Malcolm Tucker swearing.

Ken Lynch

Tom was a brilliant chairman who raised thousands of pounds for the association and I am sure Mitchell will also do a great job.

John Terry

What a great performance. We got a brilliant start. In the second half we pressed them and they didn't like it. We got our reward in the end.

Bill Gross

Ex-Fidelity mutual fund manager Peter Lynch was certainly brilliant in one respect: he knew to get out when the gettin was good.

Mark Cuban

With Nellie, we tried it the other way. Nellie was brilliant for what he did, but for whatever reason, it didn't work. All of our guys want to win a championship, and this is a system they understand and buy into. We've got guys who might not be great defenders, but they work hard at that end. Now, we're more geared to play defense.

Eric Kanagy

We're just not quite sure how it's going to turn out. Under pressure you can either produce something brilliant or crap. It's that creativity crammed into such a short time that makes it interesting.

Jerrold Nadler

The other thing that I wanted to say -- and that I will say at this point, even though the chairman is not going to listen,

The Edge

Bono is chairman and founding member of Over-Achievers Anonymous. He has an irrepressible drive to be great. He wants to achieve it all, which actually makes him very vulnerable.

Natalie Massenet

I am honoured and excited to be taking on the role of chairman of the British Fashion Council.

Kevin Yoder

To go from chairman of the House Appropriations Committee in the Kansas Legislature to one of 50 on the Appropriations Committee and one of 435 in the whole House, it is more difficult to directly impact policy here.

Ahmed Tugod

So far there's nothing new. We heard from the AU chairman the same proposals we'd heard before from the AU mediation team. It was very disappointing.

Gary Weiss

When the Securities & Exchange Commission settled securities-fraud charges against Richard Harriton, former chairman of the clearing subsidiary of Bear, Stearns & Co., there were smiles all around. The SEC was happy. Harriton was happy. Bear Stearns was happy.

Sen Freedman

Given the circumstances and given the experience CL&P has had in dealing with storms, I don't think they did as well as everyone expected. He's the chairman of the committee. I can't force a hearing, but I hope others request a hearing. Even if the utility company performed the way it should have, the public should be informed about how.

Ed Rollins

From my perspective, if getting 24 percent of the vote is a victory, than we probably need a new party chairman and we probably need a new thought process.

Anthony Chan

I think these numbers pretty much put a nail in the coffin of the notion that a 75 basis-point (three-quarters of a percentage point) cut will occur. I think (Fed Chairman Alan) Greenspan will get his wish for a move at the regular meeting, but they will do a 50 basis-point (half-point) cut.

Charlie Chaplin

There is greatness in everyone.

Charles Sumner

The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.

Charles de Gaulle

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Charles de Gaulle

France cannot be France without greatness.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Charles Dickens

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Bud Selig

Frankly, there is nothing for me to comment. I'm sure Senator Mitchell and his staff are monitoring everything every closely.

Gideon Meir

What we saw tonight in Tel Aviv was the Palestinian response to the Mitchell report,

Val McDermid

I did want to be Joni Mitchell for quite a long time.

Otis Rush

I picked all the tunes before I went to Memphis, and the band was all set. Willie Mitchell is an arranger like I am, and he let me do what I had to do.

Morrie Schwartz

Do you prefer Mitch, or is Mitchell better?

John Brady

You say they took Darrel Mitchell out. We took out Green. That's pretty much a tradeoff.

Dave Barry

A full-grown manatee, which can weigh more than 1,000 pounds, looks like the result of a genetic experiment involving a walrus and the Goodyear Blimp.

Bryce Harper

I'll lose about 20 pounds during the season.

Benjamin Franklin

Take care of the halfpence and pence, and the shillings and pounds will take care of themselves.

Baltasar Gracian

An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness.

Carnie Wilson

Going from 300 pounds to 150 pounds was the biggest change of my whole life.

Billy Bob Thornton

I’m not much of a drinker, so I’m going to eat seven pounds of pork.

David Parton

She weighed 16 pounds when we got here when she should have weighed 45.

John Gunter

I would've never thought that 40 pounds would make that much of a difference.

Brian Anderson

He runs a 4.9 in the 40, bench-presses 450 pounds and squats and dead-lifts over 600,

Janet Yellen

This suggests a presumption that the rate (now at 3.75 percent) will need to be raised further,

Bridget Fonda

I was raised on Bruce Lee.

Robert Milmore

If another bidder comes in the stakes could be raised on TWA to where AMR doesn't think it's worth it.

James Gimpel

He hasn't spent that much because he hasn't raised that much.

Grace Gealey

I was raised by a single black deaf woman, so I am as independent as they come.

Jessica Stroup

I'm such a tomboy - I was raised in the South - and I also really wanted to work in New York, being so different from California, though it was a freezing-cold winter.

Robbie Robertson

My mother was a Mohawk, born and raised on a reservation, and when I was a kid, she would take me there to visit her relatives.

Ron Gardenhire

That was (coach Paul) Molitor yelling at the umpire, not me. I just raised and said, 'What?' and he told me to get out of here.

Tim Matheson

I was born and raised in L.A. My father was born and raised in L.A. So we're old hands here.

Veronica Corpuz

We're going to try and work through this to make sure no more productions will be canceled or postponed.

I. Stone

What we're really trying to do is to make sure when they get to kindergarten, they are better prepared, because for many of them, there is nothing until they get to kindergarten.

Jamie Shea

When we are sure what happened, we will tell you what happened.

Rich Rodriguez

What makes it tough is they're better for sure than they were two years ago,

Ralph Neas

We're going to make sure that Americans understand what is at stake.

Ed Paulk

We're just making sure there is nothing we are missing. It's just being proactive.

Abby Wambach

I'm not sure if I'm going to get into coaching. I'm sure I'll stay in soccer somehow.

Rick Adelman

We're just trying to make sure somebody's on him all the time.

Larry Bloom

When he has time off, he isn't really sure what to do with it. He's a little lost.

Ron Redmond

There are tens of thousands in there who are probably going hungry,

Jake Shulaw

He's doing a lot more wrestling now. But sometimes it comes back because he's drilled in thousands and thousands of times.

Don Miguel Ruiz

For thousands of years, there have been lies about being gay or not being gay. If you know they're lies, you're free.

Eddie Compass

thousands of people, who want to voluntarily evacuate at this time.

Mark Schultz

Wrestling will be around forever. It's been around thousands of years. It's going to be around till the end of time.

Kay Nehm

There will be thousands of dead. You will all think of me.

Charles Dickens

At the great iron gate of the churchyard he stopped and looked in. He looked up at the high tower spectrally resisting the wind, and he looked round at the white tombstones, like enough to the dead in their winding-sheets, and he counted the nine tolls of the clock-bell.

Charles Dickens

The cold hoarfrost glistened on the tombstones, and sparkled like rows of gems, among the stone carvings of the old church. The snow lay hard and crisp upon the ground; and spread over the thickly-strewn mounds of earth, so white and smooth a cover, that it seemed as if corpses lay there, hidden only by their winding sheets.

Charles Spurgeon

No one served God by doing things tomorrow.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If we make provision for sinning tomorrow, we will be sinning tomorrow.

David Brenner

I want my tombstone to read: If this is a joke, I don't get it.

Earl Weaver

On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'

Eliza Coupe

I cannot feel my legs from the waist down any longer. But who cares? I look good and that's all that matters. And when I die of hypothermia for wearing formal shorts in winter, tell them to put that on my tombstone.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Earth has scarcely an acre that does not remind us of actions that have long preceded our own, and its clustering tombstones loom up like reefs of the eternal shore, to show us where so many human barks have struck and gone down.

Benjamin Franklin

The Body of B. Franklin, Printer Like the Cover of an old Book Its Contents turn out And Stript of its Lettering & Guilding Lies here. Food for Worms For, it will as he believed appear once more In a new and more elegant Edition corrected and improved By the Author.