Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Moore

All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day." The Joker - The Killing Joke

Al Roker

If I was having a bad day, eating was like self-medicating. But if you abuse food, you still have to use that substance that you abuse every day. You have to learn to use it responsibly.

Chris Cleave

The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at the keyboard and give it everything you have.

Chris Bangle

Designers think everything done by someone else is awful, and that they could do it better themselves, which explains why I designed my own living room carpet, I suppose.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context.

Chesty Puller

Where the hell do you put the bayonet?

Cathy Freeman

When I'm in a bad mood, I don't listen.

Casey Affleck

I have a very bad relationship with mice.

Michael Steele

You know, conservatism is not a bad thing. It's not a pejorative.

Charles Stross

The chip that functions abnormally will be desoldered, as they say.

Chris Beals

The perception is that Philadelphia firms come in with a chip on their shoulder and have this 'why Philadelphia?' mentality. I was told by more senior students not to tell them that I was interviewing in other cities. I think at one firm it really hurt me when I mentioned it. I know a lot of people leave those interviews frustrated that they have to prove their allegiance, and they don't want to work at those firms.

Tisha Hill

We've also got a chip on our shoulder, because all our hard work in practice still hasn't produced wins. We can't really worry about our opponents, we need to focus on ourselves first.

Rasheed Wallace

We started the season with that chip from last year. We had to wait all summer and then wait through this long regular season. All of that other stuff was just in the way. This, the playoffs, is what we've been waiting for.

Roni Java

The reason for that is that organic material is 30 percent of California's waste and a good use for that waste is to chip it up and turn it into compost.

Doug Johnson

Where the chips fall, they fall. It's not my decision.

Scott Phillips

We have to finesse people. We've had different people step forward each week. More than one person chips in.

John Lutz

Writing is hard work: it is like doing homework for the rest of your life. You are always chipping away at it.

Chuck Darby

We've always had a chip on our shoulders.

Jon Garland

When it comes down to it, it's one in the win column for the team. That's what really matters.

Mike Williams

We gutted the entire building, ... The only things left were the exterior walls, the columns and the floors.

Theo Van Gogh

I want to warn against the Fifth Column which is trying to hinder our free way of life in Holland.

Candace Bushnell

Since I had to write every week, I knew the column had to be about something I know.

Hollis Thomas

This stopped the bleeding. You've got to get into the win column first. It was just sweet. We've got to savor the flavor of this one for a few days and then get ready for the Seahawks.

Hollis Thomas

This stopped the bleeding, ... You've got to get into the win column first. It was just sweet. We've got to savor the flavor of this one for a few days and then get ready for the Seahawks.

John Davidson

When you're on the wrong side of the ledger column like that, it's just fate. It's unexplainable.

Allan Sloan

If a column is crying out for a good line and I can't come up with it, I troll for help. Communal humor is good, especially if you involve your boss.

Ruth Rendell

I am interested in names and what they say; it is true. I like to look at the columns of baby names in the newspapers. But I don't run out of new ones for my characters.

Bruno Walter

It is glorious to become a learner again at my time of life.

Bela Lugosi

To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.

Atharva Veda

O Nanak, serve the Lord forever; He is the treasure of glorious virtue.

Sallust

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

Granth Sahib

Night and day, I sing Your Glorious Praises, God. I praise You, O my Beloved.

Granth Sahib

Give me that understanding, by which I may meditate on You. I sing Your Glorious Praises with each and every breath. Nanak takes the Support of the Guru's Feet.

Cameron Mackintosh

I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.

Al Gini

The glorious thing for you always has consequences for others.

Conor Oberst

It's glorious to be able to go onto the Internet and hear any kind of music anywhere, from anywhere, and get it instantly. But there's also something glorious about having a record with a sleeve and looking at the artwork, putting it on the turntable and playing it, there's still something romantic to me about that.

Arthur Erickson

There is an increasing awareness of the interrelatedness of things. We are becoming less prone to accept an immediate solution without questioning its larger implications.

Barbara Kingsolver

Now, see, that's why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy...the trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn't agree with you, all that's left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.

Aaron Paul

I grew up all over Idaho - I was born in Emmett, a very small town.

Douglas Coupland

I've given up wanting to make a killing or be a bigshot. I just want to find happiness and maybe open up a little roadside cafe in Idaho.

Andy Stern

Employers need to recognize that the world has changed and there are people who would like to help them provide solution in ways that are new, modern and that add value to companies.

H. Hart

What we have here in Idaho is so precious. I don't think we have the same interests at all.

Art Larson

Our target market for this project is Idaho and the Pacific Northwest.

Barbara Harris

Statewide, Idaho is 44th in income. Women are 50th. Idaho women are sitting on the bottom.

Barbara Harris

Statewide, Idaho is 44th in income, ... Women are 50th. Idaho women are sitting on the bottom.

Jonny Gomes

Yes, he's kicked back. He has a lot of positive thoughts, positive things to say.

Scott White

When the second season rolls around, you throw the records out. If you have too many preconceived notions about your opponent, you can get your butt kicked real quick.

Jerome Harrison

We really kicked their butts all the way 'til the end.

Chris Hemsworth

I'm lucky. 'Thor' has kicked off everything I'm doing, and it's been the greatest thing for me, but I am aware that I need to mix it up a bit.

Ben Barnes

I was heavily into sport from 10 to 15, I was in all the teams, and it was everything to me. But I was very young for my school year and when puberty kicked in for my classmates I got left behind.

Robert Shea

To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to get one kicked out - or worse.

Victor Koo

Youku Tudou kicked off 2014 in a positive direction. Mobile has become the number one screen for Youku Tudou, and we are the undisputed leader in all of the important mobile video traffic metrics.

Rick Peterson

I felt, ... like I got kicked in the soul.

Pat Croce

I feel like I got kicked in the stomach.

Charles Dickens

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

Charles Simmons

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Alan Rickman

I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.

Eric DiBiase

We've won nine of the last 11, so I like our chances.

Andrew Palmer

We want to show that we're no joke. People thought last year was a fluke. We can make improvements from last year. We're ready to see what's out there.

David Mitchell

We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing.

David Sanborn

You're only as good as your last record.

Camille Paglia

The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

I need some kind of... like... last minute, poorly-set-up deus ex machina!!

Chuck Hatfield

We want to try this to see if we can make a difference. We just don't want to lose (the students).

David Millar

I was awarded 'Most Aggressive Rider of the Day', generally given to the most spectacular loser of the day.

David Korten

So, there is enormous instability in the global economy with a shift of winners and losers.

Newt Gingrich

When you wake up in the morning and lose 14 marines, people say, 'What's going on?'

Nick Flynn

Here's a secret: Everyone, if they live long enough, will lose their way at some point. You will lose your way; you will wake up one morning and find yourself lost. This is a hard, simple truth.

Lauren Worsham

I love rock and opera, and I love musical theater, and I don't want to lose any of that.

Norman Mineta

We're not going to lose sight of safety,

Edith Piaf

Money? How did I lose it? I never did lose it. I just never knew where it went.

Edmond Rostand

I loved but once, yet twice I lose my love!

Elizabeth Hardwick

the great is seldom a deterrent to the mediocre

Carolyn Kwan

The overall tone of the report is pretty mediocre at this point.

Cyril Connolly

A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.

Alfred Jarry

La mort n'est que pour les me diocres. Death is only for the mediocre.

David Frost

Prospects for services are mediocre and the sector will struggle to regain dynamism.

Nitsan Hargil

They have nothing to celebrate. Revenues were just 'blah' all around. Very mediocre in all segments.

LL Cool J

He's only mediocre, jealousy can't get with me.

Pope Francis

Let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life.

Oscar Wilde

To be popular I must be mediocre.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

When I am praying the most eloquently, I am getting the least accomplished in my prayer life. But when I stop getting eloquent and give God less theology and shut up and just gaze upward and wait for God to speak to my heart He speaks with such power that I have to grab a pencil and a notebook and take notes on what God is saying to my heart.

Carl Sagan

Goddard represented a unique combination of visionary dedication and technological brilliance. He studied physics because he needed physics to get to Mars. In reading the notebooks of Robert Goddard, I am struck by how powerful his exploratory and scientific motivations were - and how influental speculative ideas, even erroneous ones, can be on the shaping of the future.

Chad Harbach

Looking at and shaping your own work is a very intuitive process. You see something you've written in your notebook. It's there on the page and either feels right or it doesn't, and it's hard sometimes to go beyond that and discover why it feels that way.

Chad Harbach

Writing on a computer feels like a recipe for writer's block. I can type so fast that I run out of thoughts, and then I sit there and look at the words on the screen, and move them around, and never get anywhere. Whereas in a notebook I just keep plodding along, slowly, accumulating sentences, sometimes even surprising myself.

David Stern

The only record we have are your notes and your recollection.

Sunny Murray

When you take two notes on the piano, an octave apart, and play them in rapid alternation, you get a third tone.

William Shakespeare

There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting.

Charles de Lint

I write on a computer, but I've run the complete gambit. When I was very young, I wrote with a ballpoint pen in school notebooks. Then I got pretentious and started writing with a dip pen on parchment (I wrote at least a novel-length poem that way). Moved on to a fountain pen. Then a typewriter, then an electric self-correct. Then someone gave me a word processor and I was amazed at being able to fit ten pages on one of those floppy discs.

Charles de Lint

Growing up, I'd already decided I wanted to be a beatnik. A Bohemian poet, I thought. Or a musician. Maybe an artist. I'd dress in black turtlenecks and smoke Gitanes. I'd listen to cool jazz in clubs, getting up to read devastating truths from my notebook, leaning against the microphone, cigarette dangling from my hand.

George Robertson

We stand shoulder to shoulder in a new kind of struggle and a struggle that we have to win,

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

C. S. Lewis

I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.

Bruce Springsteen

If you're good, you're always looking over your shoulder.

Heber J. Grant

If you have ambitions, dream of what you wish to accomplish, and then put your shoulder to the wheel and work.

Jim Moeller

I think we all stand on the shoulders of those who went before us in many ways, not only politically but also in our own communities.

Jackie Chan

I have a metal plate in my head, and can pop my shoulder and pop it back.

Federico Garcia Lorca

Those who are afraid of death will carry it on their shoulders.

Alan Curbishley

Spector popped his shoulder out - he went straight to hospital.

David Allen

Things rarely get stuck because of lack of time. They get stuck because the doing of them has not been defined.

Tom Renney

We stuck with it. Definitely, we had to compete.

Shirley Manson

There's nothing I've done that I feel a lot of regret over because I stuck to my guns, even when it got uncomfortable - and it will get uncomfortable because you're going up against the wall.

Phil Garner

No, ... He snow-coned it. Stuck to the top of his glove.

Alan Lightman

Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.

Dave Eggers

I'll always be working on five things at once, usually with those documents open at the same time because if I get stuck somewhere I'll jump over to something else. That's how my head has always worked.

Anthony Nelson

First half, it was back and forth. They are a tough team, but we stuck in there.

Mike McCabe

There have been spotty things here and there. It's a surprise that we stuck it all together.

Leon Johnson

Our spinners bowled well as they stuck to the task and bowled well to their fields.

Alan Pardew

I don't like people who drain my time and energy. If you've seen the Harry Potter films, we use the term 'dementors' - people who can draw the life out of you in terms of your energy. So we eradicate the 'dementors', encourage the positive people, and that spreads around to create the team spirit we have here

Alan Hansen

I played against the Brazilians in '82, who were definitely the best team never to have won the World Cup.

Alan Hansen

The World Cup needs a brilliant Brazilian team.

Alain Prost

A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best.

Alain Prost

It's always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone - sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.

Alain Prost

When I drove for British teams... they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.

Alain Prost

You can't always have the best team. It's always a compromise.

Al Michaels

There are a number of teams that would become vastly improved with Drew Bledsoe.

Al Michaels

The Miami Dolphins have to be taken seriously. Here's a team that seems to be jelling.