Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis Navellier

I almost always recommend investors get fully invested, since it's better to put your money to work than to let it simply track the rate of inflation.

Louis Leakey

The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves.

Mika

As a teenager, in my songbook, I used to script what my lighting would be like. I used to dance in my roo;, it was like putting myself in a trance, and making myself feel good about things, almost like a private ceremony of begging people to like you.

Michael Strahan

I hate leg exercises. I hate one-legged squats. I hate the hurdles and the split squats. I hate all the leg exercises. I know they help me, and I'm able to move around and don't have knee problems, and my hip doesn't hurt anymore, but when my trainer tells me I have to do them, I almost feel like my body goes into convulsions.

Mohsin Hamid

Nothing good gets written without the writer suffering along the way, in my opinion. Writing should be a pleasure, but unless you feel almost broken many, many times in the journey to a novel, you haven't pushed yourself hard enough.

Madhur Bhandarkar

After 'Chandni Bar' there was a shutdown of such bars in Mumbai. After 'Page 3' people started avoiding such events. 'Traffic Signal' exposed the money flow through the mafia. I'm not apologetic about the brutal truth in my films. Almost 70% of my films are based on reality, and 30% I fictionalize or change to suit my film.

Margo Rodriguez

The percentage of fat in this product here is almost 50 percent fat. But it's turkey. But because it's turkey, we think we're doing a great job.

Kris Janowski

We are pretty much approaching the line of an almost Serb-free Kosovo, which is an extremely sad phenomenon. One exodus is following another.

Chuck D.

We've already talked to people and it's completely safe, ... And with the exception of a few odds and ends, we're almost done.

Troy Vincent

We want them to know what it's like to be a leader, what it's like to be a team player because those things carry on in everyday life.

James Collins

The point of that is, if you look at Walgreen's history, they've always been pioneers in the application of technology. They're the only drugstore chain that I know to have their own satellite.

Joe Frazier

We're in Manila. Come on, gorilla; this is a thriller.

Ben Hogan

Why that would be like challenging Bing Crosby to a singing contest,wouldn't it?

Latrell Sprewell

I think it'll be an emotional day. It'll be exciting for me, mostly it'll be exciting for them. I'm not going to get to come here a lot, so, it'll be a special day, hopefully.

Latrell Sprewell

I know just one thing is those guys, KG and everyone, they're hungry. They want it bad. Sam's the only one that's had that, has the ring. Other than him, everybody else over there, we want it bad.

Latrell Sprewell

I'm still going to have to go out and score, but defensively hopefully I can make them a little bit better.

Latrell Sprewell

Sam is there, Sam has been playing well, he has been doing great in camp.

Latrell Sprewell

You guys know the way I play. And what's so ironic is, KG is the same way. I'm looking at him in practice and going, 'Wow, I'm always that guy,' you know?

Cary Grant

A shot of brandy can save your life, but a bottle of brandy can kill you.

Aimee Bender

I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me, I am not happy, help me -- like a message in a bottle sent in each meal to the eater, and I got it. I got the message.

Joel Madden

We always go the French Quarter and watch the same little kids who tap dance with bottle caps on their shoes, ... When I saw this on the news, my first thought was, 'Man, I hope those kids are all right.'

Karl Malone

We were totally self-contained with our own food and everything. We didn't want to take even one bottle of water away from these people. When we told them we were doing this for free, they looked at us like we were crazy or something.

Alan Sugar

The entrepreneurial instinct is in you. You can't learn it, you can't buy it, you can't put it in a bottle. It's just there and it comes out.

Paul Heath

We're going to keep that portion of this bottle that we know we're going to have to keep with us forever. And from time to time, ladies and gentleman, you may want to fill your bottle back up, because you're life may be filled up with grief. But you can then take out that bottle and pour it out on any living thing.

Boyle Roche

Every pint bottle should contain a quart.

Boyle Roche

A quart bottle should hold a quart.

Alexandre Dumas

I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.

Charles Stross

I was Computer Shopper's linux columnist for more than half a decade, from the late 90s onwards. Yes, I know about Linux. (My first review of a Linux distro in the press was published in late 1996.)

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If I empty out half of my life, God can only fill half...God will fill as much of us as we allow Him to fill.

David R. Brower

There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side and to simplify matters, I base my calculations on the worst one and that's plutonium.

Linda Flohr

We started slow today. In the second half we played with better intensity than we did in the first half.

Kristy Curry

We are at the turn, we are halfway around the track. It's just about respecting Michigan State and approaching like we have the other seven (Big Ten games).

Jim Mott

We struggled a little and they made it very hard to penetrate the middle. We made some adjustments at halftime and played better.

Robert Bates

We started off slow, ... but in the second half we really pulled away.

Dean Montzingo

We started each half missing a wide-open lay-up, and that kind of set the tone. My top three scorers couldn't find the basket.

Jeff Carter

We spent the whole second period in the box. It wears half the team down. We can't be doing that. It kills us.

David Kim

One of the fundamental premises of this Bible is that the gospel changes everything. If this is true, how does the gospel change the very thing we spend most of our waking hours doing - work.

David Cummings

Imagine working 20% smarter instead of 20% longer...Work-life balance and startup success at any stage aren't mutually exclusive. There are enough hours in the day to be effective and present.

David Cross

I would say just stop watching me, I guess, at this point. That is what I do, and it probably is, in some way, a bit of a lecture. I can see how that's not something that would be enticing for you to watch in a stand-up hour.

David Suzuki

All those hours exploring the great outdoors made me more resilient and confident.

Mark Adams

We spent thousands of man hours tracking down the problem,

William Shakespeare

To be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour.

Gwyneth Paltrow

I love acting, but I have two little kids, and it's 14 hours a day out of the house. You don't get that time back.

Bill Rodgers

No one who works a forty hour week will ever beat me.

Bernie Mac

The Bernie Mac Show' is my life. It's the truth, and I'm not ashamed of a minute, an hour, or a second of my life.

Alan Rickman

You can act truthfully or you can lie. You can reveal things about yourself or you can hide. Therefore, the audience recognizes something about themselves or they don't -- You hope they don't leave the theatre thinking that was nice...now where's the cab?'

Alain Robert

Sometimes doing the forbidden can be nice.

Alan Alda

I don't really worry about the size of the part much any more. It's nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there's something playable there, and if it's interesting to do, then that's nice.

Al Neuharth

Be as nice as possible and as nasty as necessary.

Chris Claremont

I'm the best there is at what I do but what I do best isn't very nice

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I am aware that I have been incredibly fortunate in my life to work with the people that I have worked with and pursue the projects that I have been able to do. There are so many films that I have done that I really, as a film person, as a film fan, that I like. And that is a nice place to think of a career in.

Chet Baker

I don't believe that jazz will ever really die. It's a nice way to express yourself.

Dave Franco

Recently I've been looking for something new. The past few projects I've worked on, I keep getting cast as the asshole. I promise I'm a nice guy and not the asshole that everyone keeps seeing.

David Schwimmer

I think I'm a very very nice director. Very supportive, very nurturing. I definitely try to challenge my actors but I think I'm very supportive.

Gary Williams

We're in a tough situation right now. We'll find out what we're made of.

Herman Edwards

We're in a situation where time is of the essence,

Dennis Kavelman

We're in a situation now where you have to play it out and fortunately we have very strong contingency plans.

Ed Bradley

The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.

Deepa Mehta

I've never seen or heard of a mob sitting down to read a film script.

Deborah Norville

There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.

Celia Cruz

If I don't work, I'll be sitting on the couch watching TV, eating popcorn and getting like a cow.

Beth Moore

Forgiveness doesn't make the situation OK, it makes you OK.

Andy Brandt

When we get a lead, we have a tendency to sit back.

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.

Buffalo Bill

We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.

Artie Lange

Whiskey will always be a part of my life.

Billy Sunday

Whiskey is all right in its place - but its place is hell.

George William Russell

Whiskey: a torchligh procession marching down your throat.

Peter Cole

He told me I had to have a whiskey every day to get better,

Hillary Scott

You pretty much can't get away from bacon or whiskey in the South. Put a doughnut in it and you'd be good to go.

Linda Howard

Hormones were as potent as whiskey, and twice as sneaky.

Kevin McKidd

I love whiskey and haggis. I can't get enough of either.

Sebastian Bach

I can't drink whiskey like I used to back then, that's for sure.