Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it's blowing up; and then they lengthens it out.

McKayla Maroney

I wasn't expecting two seconds of me on the medal stand to go viral after the Olympics. I came back to my room after the medal ceremony, and my dad said this picture of me doing a face I don't even remember making is blowing up.

Michael Walker

With the wind blowing like it is and the direction it's blowing in, yeah, I'm very concerned.

Billy Mayfair

You don't know what you're going to get, but we got a nice day. Monday, it was blowing 30-40 mph here. You get one of those days in the next couple days, and the guys playing here are going to be at a big disadvantage.

Cliff Robinson

We're not blowing the whistles. We're not committing the fouls. We're not the ones making the calls.

Jamie Sharper

Mack? He's strong. He's out there every time blowing up the linebacker.

Donna Martin

On our field, it's blowing left to right. As a pitcher you just have to pitch your game.

Steve DeLuca

I was shocked ... because everybody was blowing it off like it wasn't going to be a big deal.

Charles Dickens

I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.

Ken Holland

Whenever this gets done, there's going to have to be a long healing process with fans, management and players.

Mickey Rourke

When you're young, working in a warehouse or selling hot dogs, you look at work - at acting - as something precious. It gets you out of the stink.

Lorenzo Booker

When he gets to the league, people are going to wonder, 'Where did this guy come from? And we'll say, 'We knew it all along.

Bill Chavis

When he gets to college, I think he'll concentrate on academics. But he will still run. He has it in his blood.

Dan Hinote

When he gets the puck in those areas, he usually scores.

Travis Parker

When he gets the ball, you don't know what he's going to do.

Colby Armstrong

When he gets that puck, he makes things happen. It's pretty special to watch him play the way he does. When he's at the top of his game, he's up there with the top players in the league.

Tom Slater

When he gets on, it allows us to steal some bases, hit-and-run, do a lot of things in the small game. It really helps our offense.

Doc Rivers

When he gets it going like that, I don't know what you can do.

Doug MacGregor

We have no interest in a name on a masthead. With any partnership, you want the whole to be greater than the sum of the parts.

Bill Buckner

We want it to be a great destination year-round, make it a place to go play and stay.

Dusty Baker

We were trying everything to get him his victory. It was a great run by Greg. The guys wanted to win for him, and we left him in in the ninth to have that opportunity.

Alan Ladd

I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me

Charlie Chaplin

There is greatness in everyone.

Charles Sumner

The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.

Charles de Gaulle

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Charles de Gaulle

France cannot be France without greatness.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Carlos Ghosn

Business is tough; you need tough guys.

Carlos Ghosn

If guys try to make a bigger company for the sake of size, they don't create value in most cases.

The Eagles

We want to put it on the defense's shoulders. More than anything we want to score on defense. We weren't able to do that, but we held on long enough so those guys could pick it up. They got in their rhythm and they did their thing.

Kevin Garnett

We have to hang on to our leads. We give them away like they're candy. It's frustrating. You have to understand the personnel. We have a young team. Our guys haven't been in these situations, and they're learning.

Jen Kirkman

We have to get women's stories out there so a guy will read it, laugh, and think, 'I'm not laughing at a chick story but a story.'

Sean Payton

We have to get some of these heavy guys up to speed quick.

Michael Young

We have to get better. It comes down to every guy looking at themselves and seeing how we can get better, from veterans to rookies. There are no excuses. We have to find a way to get it done.

Brian McClennan

We have no stars in our camp. For us to win we have to have 17 guys playing well." ()

John Tortorella

We have no problems with those three guys being in the lineup this time of year.

Carol Vorderman

Everything has to be organised for kids in London - you can't just walk three roads to see a friend.

Carol Vorderman

My commitment is to my kids and my mum and I'm having a whale of a time.

Carlos Mencia

I grew up in the projects and I know how important it is for kids to have hope.

Carlos Ghosn

It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars.

Carl Barks

I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.

C. S. Lewis

Kids like us don't often have the chance of meeting a great warrior like you. Would you have a little fencing match with me? It would be frightfully decent.

Tommy Amaker

We have no one to blame. That's what I wanted the kids to know.

John W. Thompson

What the Snowden scenario proved is that the weakest link is not the technology, the weakest link is the individual; we shouldn't kid ourselves.

Jim Allen

When your kids get on a bus, you want...

Carl Friedrich Gauss

To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings.

C. S. Lewis

No more I do, your Majesty. But what's that got to do with it? I might as well die on a wild goose chase as die here.

Richard DeKaser

What the shock might be next time is unpredictable.

Aasif Mandvi

Because to Americans, Chechnya might as well be a suburb of Narnia.

John Gibbons

We were already down two there. If we were tied, we might have done something differently.

Charlie Chaplin

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

Charles Dudley Warner

What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!

Charles Dickens

Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord.

Charles Stuart Calverley

But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sunshiny...

Carre Otis

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

Carol Roth

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Carol Kane

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

Carol Kane

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

Carol Leifer

They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

Carol Shields

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Carol Moseley Braun

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.

Carol Moseley Braun

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

Carlos Beltran

I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do.

Carl Relyea

We have a solid pitching staff and should be solid defensively. We should be a competitive team in a very strong division.

Bruce Bochy

Woody has been pitching better than Brian. We'll talk about it.

Bob Feller

I just reared back and let them go.

Bob Gibson

I owe the public just one thing - a good performance.

Bob Gibson

When I gave up a grand slam to Pete LaCock, I knew it was time to quit.

Johan Santana

Most of the time it's going to take the whole team to do what you want to do, to see this team succeed and go to the playoffs, ... Yeah, pitching is a big part of it, but we haven't been able to put everything together.

Dizzy Dean

I ain't what I used to be, but who the hell is?

Early Wynn

I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.

Early Wynn

A pitcher is only as good as his legs.

Charlotte Bronte

But I feel this, Helen: I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly. It is as natural as that I should love those who show me affection, or submit to punishment when I feel it is deserved.

Charles Caleb Colton

God is on the side of virtue; for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it, dreads it .

Richard G. Scott

Repentance is not punishment, it is the hope filled path to a more glorious future.

Bram Fischer

I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me.

David Shore

The saying within the writer's room, which were my words of wisdom, if you will, was, "The punishment doesn't have to fit the crime, but there has to be a crime."

Bryan Stevenson

Embracing a certain quotient of racial bias and discrimination against the poor is an inexorable aspect of supporting capital punishment. This is an immoral condition that makes rejecting the death penalty on moral grounds not only defensible but necessary for those who refuse to accept unequal or unjust administration of punishment.

Cesare Beccaria

Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment

Charles Spurgeon

Death is no punishment to the believer: it is the gate of endless joy.

Chanakya

Punishment when awarded with due consideration, makes the people devoted to righteousness and to works productive of wealth and enjoyment.

Stevie Jackson

When I'm making records, I like it to be quite fast. Don't let the band learn it too well.

Richard Cook

We're in a state where we're not quite sure what's happened,

Bob Hartley

We have a pond, and I've never seen it come up so fast. I haven't seen this much (rain) for quite awhile.

Kate Smith

Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.

Buddy Bell

Woody wasn't throwing at him. But, quite frankly, Doug did what he had to do to keep things from escalating.

Ruth Asawa

Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done.

E. B. White

She stayed until her shift was over at 6. She's fine, but she was quite shook up.

Rudyard Kipling

She was as immutable as the hills. But not quite so green.

Elizabeth Hardwick

She was extraordinary. She had her own voice and her own tone and her own subject matter. There was no one quite like her in American literature.

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.

Dave Franco

I'm a tough critic on myself.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Condi Rice talks tough but she cannot be tough herself.

John Stemberger

We're in a tough place. This is a Herculean task.

Ashton Irwin

If things are going bad and life is tough, hang in there. Ride it out. Come out on top.

Todd Graham

This (program) was tough to turn around, but that's what I do.

Jan Karon

I have confidence that God is with us in all things, both tender and tough

Scott Cross

We've got a tough draw, but what the heck. They're all tough at this point.

Bikram Choudhury

I am tough, and sometimes I tell it like it is. Tough love can work wonders.

Demi Lovato

Don't let anything or anyone define you. You are what you are because of what you make of tough situations in your life.