Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Where one despises, one cannot wage war. Where one commands, where one sees something beneath one, one ought not to wage war.

Fra Giocondo

Life is so generous a giver, but we, judging its gifts by the covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the covering and you will find beneath it a living splendor, woven of love, by wisdom, with power.

Bill Cosby

She (his wife) is the wind beneath my wings.

Gerald Scarfe

So, I created these creatures called The Frightened Ones which in the film you see do have mask like kind of heads and they run beneath the ground to hide. Which is what in fact we did during the war.

Pedro Noguera

The fact is if a hurricane hit any urban city, you would have seen the same thing, ... Poverty is right beneath the surface.

Laurence Hope

Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, / Less than the weed that grows beside thy door.

Melvin Van

So I told everyone that I was making a porno film, ... Because the only films they (the union people) didn't bother (to check on) were porno films because that was beneath them.

Kathy Redmond

She was beneath them, that was their perception.

William Gibson

Science fiction was one of those places, particularly during the McCarthy era, where you could write whatever you wanted because it was beneath contempt. They didn't bother censoring it.

Michael MacCambridge

When everybody starts broadcasting games the way 'Monday Night Football' did, then 'Monday Night Football' is not as exceptional and unique as it once was. You can turn on ESPN 2 now and see the same techniques being used for the Kent State-Akron game.

Oscar Hoya

Lose this fight and you'll be fighting on ESPN on Friday nights.

Vivica A. Fox

First thing I do in the morning is give thanks to God for another day, and then turn to HLN News or ESPN to see what's going on in the world.

Richard Greenfield

Nobody could have anticipated how much of a financial juggernaut ESPN would become.

Tom Izzo

On ESPN in late February, that's all they talk about.

Stephen Rodrick

Celebs that hit the West Hollywood/Beverly Hills quadrant and places like the Urth Caffe are not exactly trying to keep a low profile; it's sort of like if LeBron James went to an ESPN Zone and then whined about being hounded for autographs.

Jeff Feagles

I'm a realist. I don't think they're going to open up ESPN the next day with my story,

George Bodenheimer

Monday Night Football is the premier property in sports television. All the players get up for it. All the teams watch. It's a national showcase. To be able to transition it to ESPN is an honor.

George Bodenheimer

Monday Night Football' is the premier property in sports television. All the players get up for it. All the teams watch. It's a national showcase. To be able to transition it to ESPN is an honor.

Jenn Davis

We want to take this as far as we can. We hope to play three more games. Right now, our goal is to win (Saturday) and get to the state tournament.

Louise Jameson

I only have three scenes and each is a turn and she gets progressively drunker. It's all terribly funny and its main challenge is that it's so far away from what I usually do.

Russell Crowe

The people who don't have a good relationship with me from a good performance point of view are very few and far between.

Dave Rose

We are a far better team when we get out and score in transition.

Flip Saunders

We are at the tip of the iceberg as far as where we are and where we could be.

Flip Saunders

We still only had 10 turnovers for the game. They were magnified as far as when they happened a little bit. When you're playing well, they try to throw everything at you. From that standpoint, as I say, the more things that are thrown at you, the better prepared you are come playoff time.

Jimmy Garris

We're in favor of (the recommendation); it just doesn't go far enough.

Lodrick Stewart

We're in (a tie for seventh) place, but that's not that far out of a really good spot this year.

Dave Haywood

We start a lot with melodies and instrumentation and trying to figure out good melodies for verses and choruses. We get to lyrics sometimes second, so we'll start humming a melody, finding something, and see where the music takes you as far as lyrics are and what you want to say and go from there.

John Owens

Since we're not making money, I think there is skepticism that is out there and it is legitimate skepticism.

Danny White

We still have a legitimate shot at going to the playoffs if we can get on a little run. Two teams will go to the playoffs from our division, so we still have a shot.

Diane Rodriguez

You don't pay money to get money. Those aren't legitimate scholarships.

Paul Ballew

There is legitimate pressure on some utility categories.

Scott Weiss

As a first-time CEO, I wasn't sure if I would scale to run IronPort long-term. But I wanted a legitimate shot at it.

Bob Martinez

But we told Mike we're not going to back off on what we see as our legitimate role as a party.

Matt White

I don't condone the use of EPO, but it does have a legitimate use in the treatment of a number of cancers.

Ghassan Khatib

He is pursuing a unilateral approach, which is not constructive, and he wants peace that is incompatible with our legitimate rights and with international legality,

M. Powell

I think it's a very legitimate issue, but I think it's way down on the priority list.

Richard Durbin

He has the right to say what he believes, ... but all of us should be denouncing these remarks as totally irresponsible.

Alan Watts

We get such a kick out of looking forward to pleasures and rushing ahead to meet them that we can’t slow down enough to enjoy them when they come.

Camilla Luddington

I'll make a horrible housewife. It's not like I'm disgusting, but I'm pretty bad about having a drink or eating something and then leaving the plate and rushing to go.

Camille Paglia

If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.

Ed Begley, Jr.

The environmental crisis is all a result of rushing.

Dawn Powell

Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must have days of rushing excitement.

Justin Jeffre

We're going to take our time and do what we feel is right. We're not rushing anything.

Demosthenes

Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Better start rushing before the rush begins!

Mack Brown

We didn't want to be stubborn, ... We rushed for 145. We'll take that.

Alan Watts

It is interesting that Hindus, when they speak of the creation of the universe do not call it the work of God, they call it the play of God, the Vishnu lila, lila meaning play. And they look upon the whole manifestation of all the universes as a play, as a sport, as a kind of dance — lila perhaps being somewhat related to our word lilt

Alan Parsons

I'm delighted about the track's success in the sports world, but the frustrating thing is, I don't think I got rich on it. The labels and publishers did very cheap deals on our songs.

Alain Prost

So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport its the longterm. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.

Alain Prost

I was looking at the history of the sport and I couldn't understand why there have been so many good South American drivers, especially Brazilians.

Alain Prost

When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good. There have been times when I have been flat-out to finish sixth, but you can't see that from the outside. In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place. I pushed like mad, yet everyone was gathered around the winner and they were thinking that I was just trundling around. But that's motor racing. So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport is the long term. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.

Al Oerter

I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at one another.

Al Michaels

I think the Cowboys are one of only two teams in all of sports that engender love and hate to that extreme. The other is the Yankees. You love the Yankees or you hate the Yankees.

Al Michaels

It's the bane of both the news and sports businesses, both electronic and print - 'You heard it here first!' Who cares? That's nothing but a vanity play. If it's not right, it's garbage.

Al Michaels

Do you believe in miracles?

Alan Paton

Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

Alan Bennett

Of course my standards are out of date! That's why they're called standards.

Coco Chanel

Keep your heel, head and standards high.

Coco Chanel

Keep your heels, head & standards high!

Jeff Olson

The expectations are very high. The standards were set long before I was born.

Eliot Spitzer

I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.

Iris Apfel

I get very involved with my things, and they are not standard equipment.

Aimee Mann

If your standards are low, you're going to stop pretty early on in the process.

Amber Heard

I have always been very rebellious and gone against the grain. I've always challenged the standards set before me.

David Quammen

Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come.

Casey Stoner

I'm very thoughtful, and when I make a decision I usually stick to it.

William Shakespeare

That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone.

C. S. Lewis

Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins." "It is very true," said Edmund. "But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did." And he looked very thoughtful.

Charlaine Harris

I snuck a look to see how Eric was taking this, and he was staring at me the same way the Monroe vampires had. Thoughtful. Hungry. "That's interesting," he said. "I had a psychic once. It was incredible." "Did the psychic think so?

Charles Baudelaire

The man who is unable to people his solitude is equally unable to be alone in a bustling crowd. The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself or some one else, as he chooses. [...] The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. [...] What men call love is a very small, restricted, feeble thing compared with this ineffable orgy, this divine prostitution of the soul giving itself entire...to the unexpected as it comes along, the stranger as he passes.

Charles Baudelaire

The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. The man who loves to lose himself in a crowd enjoys feverish delights that the egoist locked up in himself as in a box, and the slothful man like a mollusk in his shell, will be eternally deprived of. He adopts as his own all the occupations, all the joys and all the sorrows that chance offers.

Bob Rae

I hear [my Twitter followers] say, you know, 'Bob Rae, you're an asshole'. [...] I'm working my way and trying to represent the people and speaking in Question Period and here we have vox populi, the thoughtful man on the street, 'you are an asshole!'. Thank you very much. I read it on my Twitter and I get up and ask a question.

Bram Stoker

How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.