Famous Quotes & Sayings

Diane Arbus

The discouragement masquerades as the impossibility.

Les Claypool

I've had fish come up on stage, and it's pretty disgusting. I try and discourage that. I discourage anything flying up on stage, actually.

Kyle McKenzie

I feel like I'm NFL material. Just because I didn't get invited to the combine, it doesn't discourage me. It just makes me want to work harder and prove myself.

Jamie King

I would think the networks would look to partner and encourage experimentation with techniques that involve the viewer and discourage them to skip the commercials.

Michael Hunter

What you did was not done to discourage looters, but for the key reason of producing trophy photos.

Katherine Harris

limiting the mortgage interest deduction would discourage home ownership and stifle economic growth.

Chris Chelios

That's the most obscure place you could have it. Most players won't go. I think he set up to discourage as many people as possible from going.

Gregg Brown

But this doesn't discourage me from living here at all. This could have happened anywhere.

Todd Fox

I don't discourage anybody. If you want to wrestle, you can wrestle.

Tyrell Thompson

We know Woodlands is going to be hungry. We have to come out and play harder or this will be it for us.

Don Samuel

When you tell a lie, it's always harder to remember what you said.

Holly Lisle

Writing, for all that it's harder than nursing ever was, is also more joyous and more fun and a lot less dangerous. And the major themes of my life have become the major themes of my writing, too - so it has all worked out pretty well.

Maggie Shayne

Whether labeled as such or not, I think every book I've ever written has been, more or less, a romantic suspense. I have always put tremendous effort into making each book a page turner: The harder it is for the reader to put it down, the better I've done my job.

Rob Davis

What this is all about is getting a taste of success. It doesn't matter who you beat, once you know what it takes to win, you'll work harder and that opens up other opportunities.

Freddy Sanchez

What he needed to do was to work harder than the normal person just to get back to where he needed to be. This is probably the strongest I've ever seen him.

Steven Wright

We have run the hydro system harder than it was supposed to be run this year.

Michael Hirschorn

The pond is getting pretty well fished, and booking (someone fresh) is getting harder and harder, ... somebody who is just depressing.

Tina Fey

I feel like it's harder to get women to show up for movies.

Ron Gibson

Until you do one, you don't know if it's the right thing to do. If I wanted to get the money and run, I would have invited everyone to come with their blankets so they could rock on and get loaded.

Michael Sullivan

We've been invited to meet with them and we're considering it at this stage.

Kevin Stallings

From what you read and what you hear, it sounds like we should've been invited to the women's tournament.

Stephen Hess

I think the president might have defused the situation if he had invited her in instantly.

Fred Funk

I'm still in shock that I was invited to be in this thing,

Akinori Otsuka

Manager Oh is the one who invited me to be on the team. So it means a lot to me personally to win for him tonight.

Chris Eigeman

I was going to be in an acting school in London, and then I promptly got thrown out of an acting school in London. Well, it wasn't that I got thrown out as much as I was not invited back, which is the same thing, just more polite.

Charlie Hunnam

I get invited to literally every single movie premiere that's going on.

Carl Jung

Invited or not, God is present.

Dhani Jones

I found out that changing the perception of myself and the NFL, and reestablishing the notion of being a gentleman was important to me.

Buddy Ryan

Trade him for a six pack; it doesn't even have to be cold.

Bill Parcells

I'm not really in the excuse business.

Bill Parcells

You don't get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.

Barry Switzer

The key to his success? He's just faster than the guys chasing him.

Bo Jackson

It is better to give a lick than receive one.

Chad Pennington

Sitting let me learn what the NFL is all about.

Bill Walsh

Flying by the seat of your pants precedes crashing by the seat of your pants.

Bill Walsh

Failure is part of success, an integral part. Everybody gets knocked down. Knowing it will happen and what you must do when it does is the first step back.

Jozef Stumpel

We know we can play with any team in the league. We've proven it before, and when we play hard, we play desperate, we're one of the top clubs, too.

Thomas Keller

ultimately, the system proved instrumental in fostering an undeniably unified restaurant staff.

Daniel Handler

It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right.

Ralph Nader

We're going to prove them wrong in November,

Beth Moore

God often proves Himself when we feel we have the least to offer.

Jewish Proverb

What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.

Lee Hamilton

We're getting better at this. But we still haven't proved we are safe.

Cameron Diaz

I never felt I had to prove myself with anything.

William Davis

When I had money, money, O!My many friends proved all untrue;But now I have no money, O!My friends are real though very few.

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.

Bill Schmidt

Very enthusiastic and very intelligent. I know he'll work at it.

Dmitri Mendeleev

Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.