Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Barry

Nobody understands how hard it is, being a captain.

Deb Gaines

We are getting close (to where we need to be). We are improving from week to week. I enjoy seeing them smile and reaching them (as a coach). They have all stepped up this year and we have a couple of captains who are very passionate.

Bruce Dickinson

I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!

Jamie Farr

I am not the captain of my ship. My ship is out there, but I don't have my course. You never know in this business.

Blaise Pascal

The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family.

Clive Woodward

Captain and coach must be seen to be banging the same drum.

Ty Crawmer

She's very disciplined. She has to be to keep the schedule she does. She doesn't necessarily say a whole lot, but she's one of our captains and a real leader on and off the court.

Steve Kellar

She's a veteran leader, one of our captains and she's just got a solid all-around game. It's nice having an extra player that can step up.

Daniel Lee

You are the captain of your ship that never comes in

Michel Onfray

I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read 'wildly,' and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.

Nell Newman

What I discovered was that just by eating normally, we all have background levels of contaminants.

Stefan Sagmeister

I had discovered that I'm much less special than I thought I am. So whatever I find true for myself, other people might also relate to.

Tom Cotton

At Harvard College, I discovered political philosophy as a way of life.

Octavia E. Butler

Most vampires I have discovered are men for some reason. I guess it's because of Dracula; people are kind of feeding off that.

Tori Kelly

My fans were the ones who discovered me on YouTube. I don't ever want to forget that.

Tift Merritt

In France, I discovered that I love writing in the city. There's such an intensity to being in the city that matches the intensity of what you're experiencing in your head.

Tina Fey

I think everyone's intentions are to become a performer at first. But by the time I was in high school and college, I discovered that I liked writing and that I was probably a little better at it.

Teilhard Chardin

Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for the second time in the history of the world, we will have discovered fire.

Scott Johnson

We have kept faith with the majority of the side that underperformed in Dublin and told them to go out there and put things right.

Caitriona Balfe

When I was 18, I left Dublin and moved to Paris. I didn't speak French. I didn't know anyone. I felt like a fish out of water.

Glen Hansard

Well, playing a guy who writes songs and busks on Grafton Street in Dublin and falls in love with Marketa Irglova wasn't very difficult for me. There was very little acting going on.

Louis MacNeice

Dublin was hardly worried by the war; her old preoccupations were still preoccupations. The intelligentsia continued their parties; their mutual malice was as effervescent as ever.

Michael Slaughter

Dublin is a hard team. We knew we would have our hands full.

Jim Paul

Around 8 million tourists from all over Europe visited Ireland in 2005, and Dublin is one of the top four destinations in Europe. There is a lot that Indians will like there.

Jim Kloepfer

I just want to take one game at a time, and our next game is Dublin Coffman, which is outstanding. We have to get better prepared for Dublin Coffman on Jan. 6.

Aidan Turner

I left the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin in 2004, and I did five years of theater after that.

Gary Kellough

They're perfect in our division, two games over Dublin Scioto. But we feel like, if we can play as hard as we can, we have the opportunity to give them their first loss in the Cardinal.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.

Chogyam Trungpa

One has to taste an experience for oneself and find out if the thing is genuine or helpful. Then, before discarding something, one has to go further, so that one gets firsthand experience.

Lukas Haas

It was a wonderful experience to work with Sylvia. She pushed me to be more powerful with my acting, and she told me scores of the most incredible stories I've ever heard. She is amazing.

Lorraine Toussaint

I hope that whenever my daughter has a negative experience, I'm there to talk about it and remind her how we feel when it's done to her so that she doesn't do it to others.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the longest, but the one with the richest experiences

Mike Cisco

We've all had experience to this point, which has been good.

Diana DeGarmo

West Side Story. It's a totally new experience for me. I've always loved theater.

African Proverb

We start as fools and become wise through experience

Dan Brooks

When you've got talent from top to bottom, everybody's playing to count. It's a tremendous experience to play without that mental cushion.

M. H. Abrams

Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition.

Ted Cruz

Those who hate Israel hate America. Those who hate Jews hate Christians.

Clive Sinclair

For me, Jews and football go together like a horse and carriage.

Yitzhak Shamir

In this part of the world, Jews and Arabs will live together forever.

J. C. Watts

I have a black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple. And we have talent.

Ben Feldman

Here's the thing about Jews in Hollywood. Not to stereotype, but the Jews I know here are the funniest, most self-deprecating people I know. And it's rare to find a Jew that is actually offended by comedy about them.

David Novak

A fully positive relationship between Christians and Jews is one that would elide all differences.

David Novak

The relation between Judaism, Zionism, and Messianism is one that is often hard for Jews to get straight. Needless to say, it is even harder for non-Jews.

Shaul Goldstein

On this square meter that I am standing on, Jews will not be able to step in the future,

Charles Caleb Colton

Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.

Charles Caleb Colton

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

Charles Spurgeon

economy is half the battle of life; it is notso hard to earn money as to spend it well.

Alan Watts

So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

Alan Watts

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

Alan Paton

And money is not something to go mad about ... Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.

Alan Greenspan

As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.

Alan Greenspan

Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.

Van Coleman

He has a lot of the same skills, just isn't as polished and refined at this point.

Jonathan Todd

We will look at the Polish response carefully.

George Black

We think we've got a system that will work and we'll try to get it as polished as we can.

Eric S. Raymond

Prototype, then polish. Get it working before you optimize it

Bret Boone

I'm not like Ichiro. I don't polish my glove every day,

Alice Cooper

I promise every time I walk down this street I will polish that little star,

John Fitzgibbons

This has taken a little polish off the apple, but it's still an apple.

Lucas Till

It was awesome and liberating to play a Russian spy.

Natan Sharansky

There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.

Anna Kournikova

When I play, I feel like I'm in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player?

Soundarya

I'd like to be known for my character.

David Letterman

The Russian economy is tanking. It's gotten so bad that today Vladimir Putin had to pawn his stolen Super Bowl ring. And Putin will finance his next invasion on Kickstarter.

Mikhail Bakunin

The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.

Anatoli Boukreev

There are many questions, but I cannot answer because I'm not a businessman, I am a climber.

Anatoli Boukreev

I want this book to be facts, to be important, to be history.

John Sparkman

We've got to do something. You can't play Russian roulette on this.

Jim Schaus

We're going to have three of these pep rallies here. Nothing's going to stop this team now.

Kevin Nursick

Vehicles are being stopped and inspected as they should be.

Isaiah Tucker

We're going down there and going down to win and we're not stopping until we do that.

Joe Spraggins

We're just trying to get them all up because we want to stop another problem.

Enrico Colantoni

You know what, I'm a big, big fan of 'Heroes,' but the day they told me that the end of the world was coming, and that day didn't come, I stopped watching.

Alanis Morissette

How about not equating death with stopping?

Charles R. Swindoll

Learning more truth is a poor and cheap substitute for stopping and putting into action the truth already learned

Barbara Warren

She wouldn't be around if she hadn't stopped smoking,

Dietric Slater

We thought we could win. We started executing, slowed it down, got on a little run. Then we couldn't stop them from scoring.

Charles Dickens

If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish.

Charles Caleb Colton

None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are two things which ought to teach us to think but meanly of human glory; the very best have had their calumniators, the very worst their panegyrists.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much that they do not think of him.

Charles Caleb Colton

A thorough-paced antiquary not only remembers what all other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other people think is proper to remember.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who have finished by making all others think with them, have usually been those who began by daring to think with themselves.

Charles Dickens

I never thought before, that there was a woman in the world who could affect me so much by saying so little. But don't be hard in your construction of me. You don't know what my state of mind towards you is. You don't know how you haunt and bewilder me. You don't know how the cursed carelessness that is over-officious in helping me at every other turning of my life WON'T help me here. You have struck it dead, I think, and I sometimes wish you had struck me dead along with it.

Charles Dickens

"As I think I told you once before," said I, "it is you who have been, in your greed and cunning, against all the world. It may be profitable to you to reflect, in future, that there never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death."

Charles Dickens

Don't you think that any secret course is an unworthy one?

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.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.