Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jay Wright

We've won games that way. We've shot poorly and then got on the offensive boards and played defense. They were just too good.

Marcus Aurelius

The perfumes at our board last night - Were exquisite, I won't deny it, But we were starved, we were outright, For meat, could no how come by it

Paul Hodgson

The perception has been growing that it is better that there be a clear line of distinction between the people the board hires and the people hired by the corporation.

E. O. Wilson

The plight of the children on board this ship serves as a timely reminder that slavery and bondage are still realities in the world.

Kerry Killinger

We are pleased to welcome Regina to our Board of Directors. She is a nationally recognized leader in the legal, corporate, and nonprofit communities. Her leadership skills and commitment to promoting economic advancement for all complement the Board and make her a valuable addition.

David Wood

We usually send out information to board members to get their feel for whether we should disseminate information further.

Todd Tripp

We struggled on offense, but we kept playing defense and kept getting stops. I thought we controlled the boards and our defense was good tonight.

Fred Jacobs

There are board members who do not acknowledge the serious problems going on, and I do not know why,

Tim Dorsey

When you want something dumped you would point to the board operator, indicating to hit the button. I would say we use the seven-second delay button often. Everybody does. It's pretty standard in the business.

Charlotte Bronte

Everyone else is just cocktails.

Chris Johns

We're serious about this. We want to be great cocktail party chatter, a great informative read. We are not a textbook.

Alistair Cooke

Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.

Sara Sheridan

The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two.

Mark Pincus

People were hanging out in these places, and just like at cocktail parties, they needed something to do together. I thought, 'How can we fit games into someone's life?'

Jade Jagger

I have always made my own jewelry. I particulary love emeralds and black diamonds, and I'm always wearing large cocktail rings.

Oscar Isaac

That first play I did in New York, Rogelio Martinez's 'When It's Cocktail Time in Cuba,' I played a young Fidel Castro.

Charles Price

Hagen played in tournaments as though they were cocktail parties.

Gail Sheehy

Be willing to shed parts of your previous life. For example, in our 20s, we wear a mask; we pretend we know more than we do. We must be willing, as we get older, to shed cocktail party phoniness and admit, 'I am who I am.'

Charles Dickens

It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.

Charles Dickens

I am a neat hand at cookery, and I'll tell you what I knocked up for my Christmas-eve dinner in the Library Cart. I knocked up a beefsteak-pudding for one, with two kidneys, a dozen oysters, and a couple of mushrooms thrown in. It's a pudding to put a man in good humour with everything, except the two bottom buttons of his waistcoat.

Charles Stross

I don't want to permanently damage myself! On the other hand, a couple of days off the keyboard tends to make things somewhat better.

Charles Stross

I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others.

Alanis Morissette

Over the last couple of years, I've really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it.

Alan Moore

I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps as good or better than the original work. But the vast majority of them are pointless.

Alan Arkin

I played guitar. I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.

Alan Ball

There are times when I am directing, and there are a couple of moments I didn't get the way I wanted, but I know I still have other angles to shoot and I have to be done by noon; I move on.

Al Michaels

I still believe Emmitt has enough left in the tank to be a productive back over the next couple of seasons.

Shannon Johnson

We always get together every two weeks and have dinner or lunch at our house and it's not going to be good that we can't do that now. It's going to be hard and it's going to be tough.

Earl Derr Biggers

Careless shepherd make excellent dinner for wolf.

Ruth Walsh

We want people to not just sit at the dinner and not be able to participate. We want people to get up and have fun.

Alan King

One thing I've never said in my whole life is, 'Let's have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.'

Charles Lamb

Oh, the pleasure of eating my dinner alone!

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.

Nate Corddry

There are a lot of funny people in my family. Absolutely. There were a lot of jokes growing up around the dinner table, for sure. We didn't grow up in a creative family.

Ronnie Vannucci

We're just looking forward to getting home, but it's not going to be us not seeing each other or anything like that. We can't wait to get back into the garage, hammer out ideas for songs, go out for dinners together, work on the new album. You know, do sh-- like that.

Michael Drake

There are people who for years got together and had dinner parties who don't talk to each other anymore, ... All over how to handle our wastewater problem.

Billy Bob Thornton

These days and times you can't do eclectic records. In the '60s you could, but not anymore.

Billy Bob Thornton

I've led a very eclectic life.

John Sinclair

My house was traditional, very boxy and lacking architectural interest. I wanted it to be eclectic European,

Paul Simpson

Historically, there has always been a lot of people in Champaign-Urbana that have the wherewithal to travel and experience food and wine from all over the United States and all over the world. There is a worldly, eclectic view when it comes to food and wine in this community.

Jack Falahee

Up until recently, I've always been a vintage store guy. I get a lot of my clothes second hand. I really enjoy being able to look through different styles you can find and how eclectic the vintage store vibe is.

Michael Dunne

Jerry Garcia has an eclectic style, ... It's pretty abstract. Bright. Colorful.

David Baldwin

Somehow, during reviews of us, the Smiths always come up and we can't quite place it. We grew up listening to the Smiths, but never thought we sounded like that. We have an eclectic mix of influences and hopefully that shows.

Matt Passmore

It doesn't matter how much I think I know about Florida, it still flips me on the head every time. It's just an absurd, eclectic place, and the stories that can come out of that place just never stop.

Christina Milian

People that you wouldn't even imagine that I would hang out with. It was weird, but I like hanging out with different, eclectic people.

David Sedaris

I've never made up events, but I've always been a big exaggerator. It's written on my humorist license that I'm allowed to do that.

Mike Aresco

We are pleased to present the excitement of the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships live to our viewers. We look forward to a great event and the opportunity to highlight the outstanding achievements of the track and field student-athletes.

Roger Wilkins

We are looking forward, and already planning for an even greater event for 2006.

Marilyn Fitzgerald

We still need to strengthen ourselves in the sprints. We're pushing hard in those events this week in practice.

Todd Rogers

We're in a great place to win. Everyone is gunning for us. We played really well in the last two events and for the most part, when one of us wasn't hot, the other did well. When we put it together, we really handled the teams.

Roland Swenson

We started out planning the event hoping we'd get 150 people, so we were happy.

Jacques Chirac

Where is the president when such serious events are taking place?

Mike Schnur

We actually didn't swim very well tonight. West Chester won seven individual events out of nine. We were just tired and not as up for it.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Sometimes a single phrase of testimony can set events in motion that affect someone's life for eternity.

Charles Dickens

Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.

Charles Dickens

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

Charles Stross

I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer.

Alan Watts

The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

Alan Watts

Substances like LSD, which give away a secret about the nature of the social game - the human game and what underlies it - are potentially dangerous, of course, like any good thing is. Electricity is dangerous, fire is dangerous, cars are dangerous, planes are dangerous, but not so dangerous as driving on the freeway. The only way to handle danger is to face it. If you start getting frightened of it, then you make it worse. Because you project onto it all kinds of bogeys and threats which don't exist in it at all.

Alan Moore

They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away.

Alan Green

You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals.

Al Alvarez

The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.

Al Alvarez

Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.

Mariel Hemingway

I've known for years that you're supposed to be present. I know that thinking about what's happened or thinking about what I want is not going to get me anywhere, but until I quit doing it I'm not present.

Delos Smith

When you take a look at what's happened in the last month, you see the same kind of pace?right on down the line. It shows a nice, steady moderate pace, which is what you want.

Holly Holm

It doesn't matter what odds are on paper or what's happened before. It matters what happens that moment.

Jon Gruden

We're not going to sit here and try to justify what happened two or three years ago and what happened last year,

Nicholas Burns

We remember what happened in March 2004, ... There is no place for that in U.N.-sponsored negotiations.

Zell Miller

What has happened to the party I've spent my life working in?

Edward Keon

What has happened over the past several months is valuations have come down a lot to where we think stocks are pretty reasonably valued here.

Kapil Sibal

What has happened in Gujarat has shocked us all. We don't want the situation to worsen and spread to other parts of the country.

Kapil Sibal

What has happened in Gujarat has shocked us all, ... We don't want the situation to worsen and spread to other parts of the country.

David McCullough

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

David McCullough

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.

C. Wright Mills

History is the shank of the social sciences.

Cesare Pavese

For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

Cary Grant

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

E. Hicks

When you think about it, history is made to be broken. That's the way we look at it.

Kurt Vonnegut

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

Kurt Vonnegut

History! Read it and weep!

Edward Gibbon

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

David Krumholtz

I came away from that set [ Hail, Caesar !] super inspired, and like I said, it ruined all future endeavors. I'll never have as good an experience as that.

Ariana Grande

I was definitely inspired by Madonna.

Malorie Blackman

A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.

Boy George

I'm always being inspired .

Kenneth Branagh

I choose to be inspired by things that have been done well in the past. So, I don't worry about being compared, because I think that does paralyze you.

Brenda Valdes

She really inspired us to do what we are doing.

Jessie Miller

She is what inspired me. I was so angry.

Rachel Johnson

Mr. Milner not only taught us, he inspired us to make a difference.

Rinko Kikuchi

When watching movies, I was always inspired by the performances of the cast. Of course, the story and the direction and all that intrigued me. But what actors would propel themselves to do, and be, was awesome. It was like, how could these people give so much?

Charles Stanley

Yieldedness is vital in listening to what He has to say.

Charles Spurgeon

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

Alan Rickman

All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.

Alan Alda

When I started out as an actor, I thought, Here's what I have to say; how shall I say it? I began to understand that what I do in the scene is not as important as what happens between me and the other person. And listening is what lets it happen. It's almost always the other person who causes you to say what you say next. You don't have to figure out how you'll say it. You have to listen so simply, so innocently, that the other person brings about a change in you that makes you say it and informs the way you say it.

David Sedaris

I went from having 50 listeners to 50 million listeners.

Buddy Guy

I can't learn nothing from listening to me. That's something I already know.

Campbell Newman

The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening.

Ben Mitchell

Why should you listen to any of us?

Denis Waitley

Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person.

Lance Lattin

We struggled to clog up the middle and prevent shots from outside the 18.

Kurt Vonnegut

Rabo Karabekian: I'm in the middle of a sentence. Circe Berman: Who isn't?.

Madeleine Albright

It takes more than one dove to make peace in the Middle East.

Randy Simmons

When I was a middle school principal it disgusts me, some of the things I had to work through at that young age.

Rodney Atkins

I think my songs are singing to the rural heart. It's not whether you're from a big city or the middle of nowhere in a small town.

Diane Sawyer

I get involved in the beginning, less in the middle, and very much at the end.

Anthony Rapp

Everyone tells us you really don't know what you're capable of till you're in the middle of it.

Bashar al-Assad

Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.

Jiggs Thomason

We treat it no differently than a rainout in the middle of the season. We never make up a points race.

Bob Marley

Your recipe, darling, is so tasty, and you sure can stir your pot.

Bernie Worrell

The Pigtronix Envelope Phaser pedal is a definite 'must have' for your Funk recipe cookbook......it adds definite Funkaliciousness to your WOO stew.

Colonel Sanders

To me, my recipes are priceless.

Donald Kennedy

It is a recipe only in the sense that 'catch a turtle' is the recipe for turtle soup,

Emeril Lagasse

I had these recipes that say do this, do that. Who MAKES these rules?

Heidi Klum

I'd say I'm a good cook. I have a lot of German recipes that I can make - schnitzel, meatballs and things with cabbage. I love cabbage.

Jeremy Jackson

I tested a lot of old cornbread recipes and most of them were bland or tough.

Dave Favre

They're all recipes from things that worked at fund-raisers.

Christopher Hitchens

Evolution has meant that our prefrontal lobes are too small, our adrenal glands are too big, and our reproductive organs apparently designed by committee; a recipe which, alone or in combination, is very certain to lead to some unhappiness and disorder.

Denise Levertov

Images split the truth in fractions.

Deepika Padukone

Comedy is the most difficult. Comic timing is something which you either have it in you, or you don't. You have to have a good sense of humour to be able to understand it. A split second can make you lose the punch.

Edwin Land

You cannot separate the composition from the life of the moment. It is all one thing, to be decided in a split second while you're living through it.

David Allen

The hardest thing about being productive is not the work, but the split second it takes to decide to take control.

Boy George

The band never actually split up - we just stopped speaking to each other and went our own separate ways.

Jay Wright

Old school, split the house... It was cool.

Charles Bukowski

it was like any other relationship, there was jealousy on both sides, there were split-ups and reconciliations. there were also fragmented moments of great peace and beauty. I often tried to get away from her and she tied to get away from me but it was difficult: Cupid, in his strange way, was really there.

Brian McClung

We're not trying to split anything up. They're not together right now." ()

Adrienne Rich

I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from "Splittings