Famous Quotes & Sayings

Flip Saunders

I got to know him when he was a player and he had season tickets right next to our bench. I didn't know him just as a season-ticket holder but as a friend. It's a great loss to the sports world and Minnesota. He always had a smile on his face and cared about kids. He always took time to sign autographs and talk to kids and try to help them.

Rickie Fowler

I love being able to sign autographs when I get that extra free time after a round just to be able to give back to the fans.

Bronson Pinchot

'Beverly Hills Cop' opened up a whole world. I got the television show and movies, and I would go sign autographs for one hour and get paid $25,000.

Zachery Ty Bryan

Well, when you get into the business, what you have to realize is that signing autographs and getting 'bothered' is just part of the deal. It's not a bother to me at all. That's part of being an actor and that's something you have to realize before you ever get into this business.

Minnie Pearl

Elvis walked over and signed a few autographs over the fence. They were screaming. I had never seen this.

Paul Henderson

I get as much fan mail today and sign as many autographs as I did when I played. It's mind-boggling to a certain degree.

Andy Pafko

Where is everybody? ... Are you kidding? You know where they're at. They're outside signing autographs for a thousand bucks or something.

Lexi Thompson

I really enjoy being with my fans. They offer great support and encouragement to me. I like signing autographs and posing for pictures.

Brooks Robinson

We lost the most beloved Oriole of all time. Not only was Elrod loved here in the Baltimore area, but all over the country. Every ballpark that we would go into, he'd be the first one on the field signing autographs and saying hello.

Jake Hutton

Last year was like a different language. This year we all knew what we were doing.

Dan Monson

Last year's team, you didn't know if we were going to win or lose, but you knew we were going to fight. We have some different ways to score now, but do we have the same type of personality?

Cameron Bennerman

Last year you kind of knew what was coming, from whom. But this year, you're not really sure who's going to do what.

Bob Cavanagh

Last year we knew we were going to be on par with the year before. This year we're going to have to make more adjustments and people are going to have to step up.

Howard Stern

Les said, 'I knew I could sue you later.

Kevin Osborn

Mom told me last night that every time you get the ball, when you let go of it, you've got to know it's in and you're making the next one. I didn't know when my night was going to come, but I knew I just had to come in with confidence.

Susan Bennett

Mrs. Rucker enrolled before she knew whether we would have the program.

Matt White

Obviously, you don't want to go back down, but I knew I was going back down, ... It isn't a shocker.

Chris Collins

No one nationally thought it'd be a year where BC would be No. 1. We knew we would be.

Will Montgomery

Man, I'd like to lose about 50 pounds.

Egyptian Proverb

Making money selling manure is better than losing money selling musk

Steven Monaco

Making friends is easy, losing them is what's hard.

Debbie Pace

Madison never incorporated and didn't get its own government. We don't want to get lost in the shuffle.

Sara Stern

Losing two students is a shock to the school and to the school community.

Bradford Cohen

Losing to me is like Kryptonite to Superman.

Ronald Koeman

Losing three internationals in this match were the reason for our poor second half,

Natalie Cole

Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.

Pat Summitt

Losing is one thing. Losing the way we did tonight is unacceptable.

E. O. Wilson

Let's not make this a black-and-white issue. It's just a name change.

Granth Sahib

Serving the Guru, the Name is obtained, and one remains absorbed in the True Lord.

Eric Antebi

So long as he wears the name tags.

Louise Mensch

Menshn is a play on the word mention, and in the U.S. that's how it'll be perceived. Like Tumblr or Flickr. People in the U.K. thought that I'd named it after myself.

Judy Carter

My first recollection is of a nurse telling somebody would you please get this woman a bed. The name is Carter, C-A-R-T-E-R, yes, just like the president.

Steve Farhood

One out of 15 was able to give me the name of one of the heavyweight champions. So that tells you a lot not only about the state of the heavyweight division, but also about the state of boxing.

Elizabeth McCracken

New Orleans is still the place where you find out that you have a doppelganger and feel lucky - but somehow unsurprised - to learn that his name is Mad Bottom.

Charles Spurgeon

If you simply take the name of Christ upon you and call yourself His servant, yet do not obey Him, but follow your own whim, or your own hereditary prejudice, or the custom of some erroneous church-you are no servant of Christ. If you really are a servant of Christ, your first duty is to obey Him.

Dennis Prager

More people have done good in the name of God than any other way

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Calvin Trillin

I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.

John Fitzgibbons

We're starting to see something out of the restaurant sector now.

Bobby Flay

Nothing goes perfectly, especially when you're opening a restaurant.

Amy Carlson

I'm a restaurant junkie.

Ed Nemec

I think we are a much better restaurant today than we were one year ago.

Ben Crane

To this day, the first thing I do when I walk into a restaurant is take off my cap.

Rob Stevens

When I went to school, I didn't think I would have a restaurant so quickly, but I always wanted to get back downtown. Paine's is kind of a place for everyone.

Tim Hall

We'd have to look at the way our restaurant is configured as to whether we could serve or not.

Bob Fox

We would have a sitter. And the two of us would take off. We used to spend a lot of time at a restaurant in town. Sometimes we would go to a movie, sometimes we'd just drive.

Alastair Reynolds

One of the big breakthroughs I had as a writer was when I stopped agonising over every word.

Dave Wood

I feel that I got stopped (because I'm black),

G. H. Hardy

Basically, it's been wars that have stopped Mardi Gras.

Barbara Warren

She wouldn't be around if she hadn't stopped smoking,

Kyle Chandler

I've stopped racing to get to the red light.

George Allen

Before I was governor, tuition was skyrocketing, and we stopped that. We capped and then we froze college tuition.

BeBe Winans

I stopped singing for a long time because it just wasn't something I was very passionate about.

Kevin Nursick

Vehicles are being stopped and inspected as they should be.

Enrico Colantoni

You know what, I'm a big, big fan of 'Heroes,' but the day they told me that the end of the world was coming, and that day didn't come, I stopped watching.

Matt Lauer

Making sure you're on the straight and narrow?

Douglas Alexander

I think politicians who suggest they are uninterested in the support of newspapers are not being straight with people.

Cheyenne Jackson

Nobody is ever just a straight up protagonist or antagonist - everybody's morally ambiguous.

Carol Berg

Write. Write. Write. Learn how to revise. No story is perfect straight from the keyboard.

Ang Lee

I find it hard to deliver straightforward things.

Kathleen McCarthy

When you see it straight on, it collapses into a straight line. And from the side, it will look voluminous.

Pierce Brosnan

I can still run in a straight line, and I can still throw a punch.

Rochelle Cancienne

We can't get a straight answer. There's just a lot of unknowns right now.

Ron Polk

A lot of things need to go right to win 14 straight times. But I think a lot of it isn't because we've been lucky. A lot of it has been because we've been pretty good.

David Nicholls

I've only ever been recognised in the street once. In Sweden, strangely.

Alexander Skarsgard

We don't have paparazzi following you in Sweden.

Daniel Ek

I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services.

Bill Bryson

Eating in Sweden is really just a series of heartbreaks.

Eva Gabrielsson

Marriage is not common in Sweden.

Milton Friedman

What is not forbidden in Sweden, is obligatory.

Marcus Samuelsson

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite American traditions. I quickly picked it up when I moved to the U.S. from Sweden.

Izabella Scorupco

You're not really supposed to like ABBA in Sweden. It's nerdy.

Nancy Heaton

I can't really talk as to what they're considering doing because there's too many things on the table right now.

Ted Saskin

I can't see anything worse than what they put on the table today.

Boomer Esiason

I got the title for you, ... Table For One.

Hector Ruiz

In this new world, with smartphones and tablets and cloud computing, things are moving around fast.

Alan Cooper

Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair. If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.

Chris Bauer

I'm not one of those actors who sits around the table and intellectualizing anything, or discusses much of anything. Everything for me is intuitive and instinctive.

Caio Fonseca

My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.

Denis Leary

I'm not saying being a comedian is brain surgery, but it is definitely - it's like being a carpenter. You learn how to make tables and chairs. You have to have the right tools, and you have to know how to put the thing together, right?

David Hilbert

Keep computations to the lowest level of the multiplication table.

Ken Sawyer

My first thoughts were we need a new arena.

Edgar Allan Poe

It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.

Edgar Allan Poe

Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.

Edgar Allan Poe

A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul.

Edgar Allan Poe

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Edgar Allan Poe

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.

Edgar Allan Poe

To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

David J. C. MacKay

We can't be anti-everything - we need an energy plan that adds up. But there's a lack of numeracy in the public discussion of energy. Where people do use numbers, they select them to sound big and score points in arguments, rather than to aid thoughtful discussion.

Abdu'l Baha

Let them at all times concern themselves with doing a kindly thing for one of their fellows, offering to someone love, consideration, thoughtful help.

Robert M. Pirsig

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Chloe Grace Moretz

I love going to Topshop, Urban Outfitters and American Apparel, I'm in love with their jackets.

Patrick McVerry

Defensively, again, we are going to be tops in the league.