Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Cowher

What the team did in the 1970s was kind of put Pittsburgh on the map. It became a city of champions, and you had the Pirates winning and the Penguins winning.

Mark Clarke

When he first started he had mostly an alpine background. Then he expressed an interest in skiing cross country. There were some learning years but he became a very good skier. He was a real treat to work with.

Steve Mariucci

We were a sick team at the start of it, and then I thought we became a banged-up team as well, ... A third of the team is feeling like it should be in bed. We need a bye right now. It was a long preseason. And now we're a little banged up on top of that. I just need to get these guys a break.

Braylon Edwards

We have so many guys who can make plays. We worked on getting a hard outside move because they like to go with the first move. We worked on it so much it became second nature. It was just like practice.

Morris Gleitzman

When I did finally live in the Dandenongs, the mountain ash forests became an important part of my life.

Julie Burchill

When I moved out of London 13 years ago, I found a whole other reason not to drive. This was because my new husband Dan, unlike my dad, did drive, and this became a great source of fun and adventure.

Jamaica Kincaid

When I moved out here to California, I became obsessed with geology. It's impossible not to be interested in the earth if you live in a place like this. I started to read a lot of geology, much to the horror of my friends.

Tamsin Greig

When I was 17, a neighbour I knew well died of cancer, and I became au pair to her three little girls. In circumstances like that, when you can't really help, I think it's a human response to do something beyond oneself. So I did a sponsored parachute jump for Cancer Research. It was exciting and ridiculous.

Clete Oaks

When I was 16 and 17, I used to follow the fire trucks on my bike. I was able to follow because they spilled water when they turned corners. When I turned 18, they changed the bylaws to let me volunteer, but I couldn't ride the trucks until I turned 21. I volunteered for the fire department for 37 years until Blue Ash became a village and they bought two trucks.

Li Zhaoxing

We want peaceful development, ... Stability and security of one country cannot be built on turbulence or crisis of another.

Richard Cross

The problem with Sarbanes-Oxley is that it means 20 different things to 10 different people. There's a tremendous wealth of folklore that has been built up around it in the IT sector. A lot of people are trying to push us into spending money on Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, but I trust our auditors.

Robert Talbut

There is a lot of good news built into equities ... they have had a good run.

George Maloof

The Palms set the standard for themed hotel rooms by creating the world-famous Real World Suite, ... With our expansion, we will design some of the most extraordinary and unique luxury suites ever built in the world.

Stefan Sagmeister

In running, I know that I can train as much as I want and I'm never going to break the world record for the five miles. It's partly genetics; I'm just not built for it. But if I worked really hard, I might be able to cut my time by half. Could I do the same thing with my mind and my well-being?

Gary Shapiro

The products have pretty much converged together. You are seeing simplicity built more into computers, and more memory built in TVs -- so that the clean division between the two doesn't exist anymore.

Michael Moore

The products built in the factories of G.M., Ford and Chrysler are some of the greatest weapons of mass destruction responsible for global warming and the melting of our polar icecaps.

Texas Battle

What interested me in doing 'Dragonball' was that it's a huge comic book series that has built a great fan base, and it's a great action movie!

Thomas Heatherwick

As a teenager, my father took me to the shows at the Architectural Association and to places like Milton Keynes back when it was first being built. But I couldn't find anything for me. There seemed to be despair at the possibility of the built environment possessing any imagination in the real world.

Aasif Mandvi

I think I discovered my first, you know, my first image of a naked woman was sort of sneaking a peek at one of those magazines that was in my dad's store.

Aasif Mandvi

For my parents it was all about getting a deal, my dad came to America and he heard of this concept of brunch. He didn't quite know what it was. And he thought it was this other meal that existed between breakfast and lunch. He was kind of like - I remember he sort of was like America has so much food that between breakfast and lunch they have to stop and eat again. They have brunch. It was completely legal it was, like, a legal meal that you could have. I mean, clearly it wasn't the only reason he came to America, but I think it certainly sweetened the pot for him.

Alan Shearer

I don't know what I'd have become if I hadn't been a footballer; I wrote down 'dustbin man' on a careers questionnaire at school till my dad made me change it to 'joiner'.

Joseph Califano

The fact that so many dads are AWOL (absent) in their teens' lives increases the teens' risk of substance abuse,

Meghan Trainor

When I was 13, I told my dad I needed to record myself because I sounded awesome, even though I didn't. By 18, I was a lot better. Then I got a publishing deal, so I was writing songs for other people professionally.

Shameik Moore

When I was 12, my dad took me to see 'You Got Served.' I walked out a whole different person.

Sharon Stone

I was lucky to have my dad in my life. As crazy as things got, I always had him to put his hand on my shoulder.

Tyler Ritter

I really got to see my dad enjoy every day that he was working. Everybody should be able to have this much fun when they go to work.

Tristan MacManus

I know when I'm not dancing, and I go home, I usually work with my dad, who's an electrician. So I do stuff like that. I used to be a landscape gardener. I loved that job. But I'd like to be involved with entertainment. Singing or something, I guess.

Scott Aukerman

I've always been fascinated with radio and broadcasting. I did fake radio shows as a kid, where I was a DJ and stuff like that.

Sharon Shinn

I'm fascinated by the idea of disparate, difficult people learning to trust each other when they're thrust into hellish circumstances.

Thomas Heatherwick

An interest in ideas is a sign of human life. People are fascinated by what the future is going to be - and the future is going to be an accumulation of ideas.

Thomas Schlamme

I'm a voyeur. I say that with no embarrassment. If I could have a superpower, being invisible would be it, no question. I'm fascinated by human behavior; observing people and seeing how much story gets told without a lot of dialogue, and how much our brain fills in.

Eric Kandel

Memory has always fascinated me. Think of it. You can recall at will your first day in high school, your first date, your first love.

Carl Hiaasen

We've always been fascinated with movie stars and singers, but the fascination with people who really have nothing to offer is something new.

Nina Hoss

As a kid, I remember crying and then noticing myself in the mirror and being fascinated by how that looked.

Ken Goldberg

We're fascinated with robots because they are reflections of ourselves.

Ronald D. Moore

When I grew up, I saw the moon landing, and I was fascinated watching them as a child, and that's what really turned me onto space and science fiction, and I started watching things like 'Lost In Space,' and that led me to 'Star Trek,' which was a major influence on my life.

Agnes Repplier

History is not written in the interests of morality.

Agnes Repplier

History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.

Agnes Repplier

If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.

Charles de Gaulle

Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.

Therese Fowler

The history of storytelling isn't one of simply entertaining the masses but of also advising, instructing, challenging the status quo.

Sugar Ray Leonard

There will always be something about two men in the ring - a mystique because it's pure man-to-man competition. Because of the history boxing has and the tradition it holds, boxing will always have a that mystique.

Ashwin Sanghi

Mythology is a set of primitive lies that people rarely believe. This is rather different from history, which is a set of lies that people actually believe.

Toyin Odutola

When I was in school, I conceptually didn't want black people to have context, to take it out of all that history. I wanted nothing to indicate where they are or what time it is, to place them anywhere.

Thomas Starr King

What a year to live in! Worth all other times ever known in our history or any other.

Plutarch

Another such victory over the Romans and we are undone.

Joe Battista

We've spent the whole week working on defense. Everything we've been doing has been working on defense.

Roger Wilson

We've spent more time at the tent than at the games.

E. O. Wilson

We've spent a lot of time together. If it works out, it would be great.

George Chapman

We've spent $300,000 and it doesn't look much different.

Emma Thomas

We've spent almost ten years of our lives making 'Batman' films.

Libba Bray

I grew up doing theatre and spent a long time as a playwright. I still think very visually when I write.

Ernest Cline

I spent most of my childhood welded to my Atari 2600, until I got my first computer, a TRS-80.

Italo Calvino

I have spent more time with other people's books than with my own. I do not regret it.

Michael Heisley

I have spent my career making a difference with underperforming assets.

Charles Taze Russell

The Temple will not be completed until every living stone is there. And then what? The next thing will be that which our Masonic friends make so much of, and which we make so much of namely: the glorification of the temple.

Lucretius

If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can't lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.

Charles Spurgeon

If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave; they will never rise again when you have committed them to Him. If you roll your burden anywhere else, it will roll back again like the stone of Sisyphus.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

I keep telling you the future isn't set in stone. It's not all decided yet. The future is just what's down the road we decided to walk on today. You can change roads anytime. And that changes where you end up.

Bob Marley

The stone that the builder refused shall be the head corner stone.

Bill Wyman

The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could.

Arianna Huffington

Failure is a stepping stone to success.

Demetri Martin

My policy is no stone throwing regardless of housing situation.

Elizabeth I

The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.

Rekalin Sims

We know how terrifying he can be. He can kill us himself.

Twyla Tharp

Nothing is more terrifying to me, really, than the status quo. I'll make mistakes before I keep doing something the same way.

Richard Flanagan

Companies that are terrifying to a writer are companies like Amazon.

Sandra Tsing Loh

In my case, when it arrived at 49, perimenopause was terrifying and like nothing I had ever before physically experienced.

James M. Cain

I write of the wish that comes true - for some reason, a terrifying concept.

K. A. Applegate

Gorillas may seem terrifying because of their bodies, but they are really magnificent and very gentle.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

Charles W. Chesnutt

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Charles de Lint

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Carlos Castaneda

For an instant I think I saw. I saw the loneliness of man as a gigantic wave which had been frozen in front of me, held back by the invisible wall of a metaphor.

Carlos Castaneda

Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.

Carlos Castaneda

Warriors do not win victories by beating their heads against walls, but by overtaking the walls. Warriors jump over walls; they don't demolish them.

Carlos Castaneda

Intent is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated. It operates in spite of the warrior's indulgence. Intent is what makes him invulnerable. Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.

C. S. Lewis

When the police arrived and found no lion, no broken wall, and no convicts, and the Head behaving like a lunatic, there was an inquiry into the whole thing. And in the inquiry all sorts of things about Experiment House came out, and about ten people got expelled. After that, the Head's friends saw that the Head was no use as a Head, so they got her made an Inspector to interfere with other Heads. And when they found she wasn't much good even at that, they got her into Parliament where she lived happily ever after.

Agnes Macphail

The way to get things out of a government is to back them to the wall, put your hands to their throats, and you will get all they have.

Aaron Sorkin

We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns.

Aaron Sorkin

Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.

Charlotte Bronte

Too often do reviewers remind us of the mob of Astrologers, Chaldeans, and Soothsayers gathered before 'the writing on the wall' and unable to read the characters or make known the interpretation.