Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

David McCullough

It was an utterly phenomenal achievement.

Clive Davis

Unplugged debuting at number one is yet another amazing milestone achievement for Alicia, ... That makes it three in a row -- three out of three. You just can't beat that! What makes it extra special is the live format of Unplugged for the true musician -- the public really has to be passionate about the artist and the music to buy the album in these numbers.

Caleb Dolan

We are pretty intent on opening more campuses in North Carolina because the achievement gap is so great, whether you are talking about the difference between blacks and whites or the difference between eastern North Carolina and Chapel Hill.

Alexis Strauss

We are pleased to celebrate this achievement with the Navajo Nation. We'll continue to work together to protect and restore vital water resources on tribal land.

Chad Latch

There are some high-caliber teams here and placing anywhere in the top six is a great accomplishment. Matt Stephenson wrestled really well and was in every match. It's a good point in the season for Matt to realize that he can wrestle well at a tournament like this.

Samuel Smiles

''Where there is a will there is a way.'' is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so -- to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.

Michael Gove

Unfortunately, the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising the tractor production figures when we know that those exams were not the rock-solid measures of achievement that children deserve.

Heather Watts

Misty Copeland is making history. During American Ballet Theatre's current season at the Metropolitan Opera House, Copeland will alight on that storied Lincoln Center stage, making her New York debut as the Swan Queen in the iconic masterpiece Swan Lake - a crowning achievement for any dancer, regardless of the color of her skin.

Tom Connelly

What he had in mind was something in the government, but he never mentioned FEMA.

Kathleen Kenyon

It has been mentioned that in Trench I there is evidence of three successive stages of these defences.

Pat Summitt

I don't think I've mentioned it to the players one time,

Mark Fallon

I thought they were great, but I didn't think much about them until this year when another teacher mentioned remembering them.

John Panciocco

I was shocked. I didn't know anything about the cyst. He never mentioned it and I never really noticed it.

Mamata Banerjee

We have talked about the infiltration problem but not mentioned any community.

Father Thomas

I already have plans, Stephen, ... but thanks for the offer. Are you sure you have time for pizza, Mark? I thought you mentioned a project you had to work on tonight.

Adrian Joseph

A lot of people have mentioned that I'm the X-factor on the team. I'll try and do what I've been trying to do all season - be that third-leading scorer on the team.

Eric Parker

Some people have mentioned it. But I'm just going out to win this game.

Byron Katie

Put your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

It's curious how easy it is to tell a piece of paper what you don't dare say to someone's face.

David Ricardo

Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power.

Bertrand Russell

The Ten Commandments should be headed like an examination paper: No more than six to be attempted.

Agnes Smedley

In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will.

Charlie Munger

If all you succeed in doing in life is getting rich by buying little pieces of paper, it's a failed life. Life is more than being shrewd in wealth accumulation.

Bill Watterson

I'd like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make.

Demetri Martin

Automatic paper towel dispensers are a solution to something that was never a problem in the first place.

David Krumholtz

I'm not sure I enjoyed doing [Gigi Does It]. I'm cool with just being an actor. If anything, I learned to be proud of being an actor.

Catherine Ashton

I was the first woman British commissioner, the first woman trade commissioner, so I am also proud to be the first woman High Representative.

Catherynne M. Valente

Respect me. Be proud, and if you love me, a little afraid, because love so often looks like fear. We are alike. We are alike.

Vickie Simmons

We are proud we can give teachers the kind of salary we do.

Justin Glover

We are proud of the improvements that we have made since 2004. We are going to keep striving to do better.

Stefan Pryor

We are proud of the effectiveness of our procedures.

Chad Bankston

We still, obviously, have a lot of work to do, but I'm proud of them.

William Shakespeare

Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud; but, God He knows, thy share thereof is small.

Ed Harris

When I decided to direct, never having done that before, is something I'm very proud of

Sean Fleming

He is the type of wrestler who can be ranked in the state and do some big things in tournaments.

Zac Sandvig

To come up here and shut out a ranked team like this is really something.

Rodney Tention

Give them credit. They compete. That's why they're ranked No. 5 (now 4). They toughened up when they got down.

Bill Castle

We've got a bulls-eye on us. I think we're ranked because of tradition and our past. Everyone comes after you.

Jonny Moroni

To be ranked sixth internationally our first time out was pretty great.

George Crooks

Marysville is ranked in the state and they have seven state qualifiers back. That's going to be a tough one.

Bill Richards

Northwestern is always very good. They are ranked 51st in the nation.

Jason Shelton

It's a situation where we'll have to play very well just to stay in the game. There's a reason why Union is ranked so high. They're very, very good.

Regina Rogers

We were pumped. They're ranked third in the state, so it was a big test for us.

David Levithan

I was sixteen and equipped with the appropriate genitalia, so I cleared that hurdle nicely.

Hunter Parrish

I started making music for myself when I was sixteen.

Charles Caleb Colton

It has been well observed that the tongue discovers the state of the mind no less than that of the body; but in either case, before the philosopher or the physician can judge, the patient must open his mouth.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!

Alan Watts

People often say to me, 'I understand what you are talking about intellectually, but I don't really feel it, I don't realize it,' and I am apt to reply, 'I wonder whether you do understand it intellectually, because if you did you would also feel it.'

Alan Watts

We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I'm talking and you're listening, is eternity.

Alan Rickman

If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.

Alan Rickman

What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.

Alan Moore

I genuinely like the people I meet at signings or the bits of public talking that I do.

Alan Greenspan

I don't know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we've been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.

Alain Resnais

It was repugnant, but it was the only way to communicate.

Charles Stross

Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.

Charles Spurgeon

If I knew I had 25 years left to live, I would spend 20 of them in preparation.

Alanis Morissette

I'm a bit of an alchemist sorceress. I've collected probably 1500 oils from around the planet over the last ten years. I'm kind of obsessed with the sensuality of it.

Alan Watts

...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white.

Alan Mulally

Although the quality of the vehicles is tremendously improving year after year but the underlying reasons that people are buying cars have really gotten focused. It's for high quality vehicles, reliable, fuel-efficient, and safe of course.

Alan Moore

I've known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.

Alan Moore

It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.

Alan Moore

It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they're related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there's a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the old faces are fading away and vanishing, never to be seen again.

Alan Hovhaness

I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.