Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Izzo

The only reason I'd say no to that is because it's the type of player he is. We have other guys that can fill in in certain spots, but it's the athlete, it's the versatile 6-6, 6-7 athlete that can guard inside guys and guards, and that's where it creates some problems for us. It's not really replacing apples to apples. Anybody else that we replace him with is a completely different kind of athlete.

Roderick Wilmont

The positive today is that we just know we can play with anybody at any time. Going into next week, we'll start it all over again. Everybody will be back to 0-0.

Ron Wolf

The person I heard say it the best was Bum Phillips when they asked him about Earl Campbell. He said, 'I don't know if he's the best, but it won't take long to call the roll.' I think Reggie White is a charter member of that club right there. He was as dominating and as good a player as probably anybody who ever played the game.

Sean Rushton

The people who would know have not been talking to anybody but each other. The message broadcast by the White House up to this point has just been to focus on an orderly process for Roberts.

Jeff Haile

We've already played Lexington Catholic. We're not going to see anybody better than the teams we've already played.

James Denton

We've all been around love enough to know how lucky we are. I've never seen anybody have a cross word on the set, and I'm there a lot. All the women just got brand-new trailers, so they're happy.

Ricky Skaggs

We started the label basically to do roots-type music, whether it be Ricky Skaggs or, say, the Whites, or anybody that I feel has a heart for roots music and no real market or label that will give them an opportunity to do something like that.

Josh Miller

We started practicing the drop kick and I thought, with anybody else, you've got to be crazy. But everything he touches seems to turn up roses.

Sylvester Croom

We are a football team, and we will play as a football team this year. I'm not going to make any predictions, but we go into the season this year feeling like we can play with anybody on our schedule and have a chance to win.

Alan Hansen

I was surprised, the triple-stack package produced eight to 15 more bushels.

Alan Bennett

At eighty things do not occur; they recur.

David Guetta

My parents were extreme left so everything was against the system. I was walking barefoot in the streets of Paris when I was eight. When I started to DJ they hated it, because for them, nightclubs, and all of this life, was terrible and fake.

Bryan Ferry

I loved music from the age of eight. Jazz and blues. But also Little Richard and Elvis Presley.

Caroline B. Cooney

I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published

C. Northcote Parkinson

Deliberative bodies become decreasingly effective after they pass five to eight members.

Jim Waggoner

The percentages say that the day after Christmas, the market goes up. Eighty percent of the time, stocks rise.

Manu Ginobili

We are a team of (13 players) and we lost eight back-to-backs? It can't be that hard. The legs help, but it's in the head, too.

Bill Masse

We stole one in the eighth and then we stole one in the ninth with the squeeze. It was kind of nice.

Charles Dickens

Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

Charles Dickens

Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.

Alan Perlis

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.

Alain Prost

I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that.

Al Pacino

Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's bizarre, diabolical. It's exciting.

Akshay Kumar

I'm glad that I'm being acclaimed as an actor. Today, when my hard work has paid off I can chill out about it.

David McCullough

The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In what tone do you begin? I almost have to have a scene in my mind.

David McCullough

When the founders wrote about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, they didn't mean longer vacations and more comfortable hammocks. They meant the pursuit of learning. The pursuit of improvement and excellence. In hard work is happiness.

David Krumholtz

Hail, Caesar! is about, in my opinion - I love that movie - but I think it's about the idea that as glamorous as the business is, and for as much hoopla that surrounds moviemaking, ultimately it's just a job. If you focus on it, you can do it really well, and it takes a lot of hard work.

Jim Rash

Working out has always been a stress reliever for me. I don't know if it's so much vanity as it more just keeps my mind from going crazy.

Carol Carter

Working keeps us young. We don't want to be the type of people to retire and sit around and do nothing.

Leon Panetta

Unfortunately these days, there is a hell of a lot that keeps me awake.

Dan Porter

The polycarbonate keeps (broken glass) from spraying into your face.

Joel Madden

People can say or think whatever they want... so in my reality, it's kind of irrelevant. I'm always the kind of person that does the right thing and keeps my side of the street clean.

Michael Groves

When he keeps his shoulder down, he has a lot of pop. It's a matter of him remaining patient.

Eric Smith

Sir D is getting better and better each week. If he keeps improving, we should be good.

Mel Thomas

She keeps us busy. She doesn't want us sitting around getting sluggish.

Dave Laird

Mitchell just keeps getting better and better and better. Two months ago that kid would've pinned him.

Charles Caleb Colton

He who knows himself knows others.

Charles Dickens

I only know that it was, and ceased to be; and that I have written, and there I leave it.

China Chow

I'm so private and I don't know why!

David Mitchell

We are only what we know, and I wished to be so much more than I was, sorely.

David Murphy

You will never know your limitations until you find them.

Byron Katie

Ultimately, I am all I can know.

Jane Austen

Know your own happiness.

Scott Ishikawa

When you talk to the crews, everybody's tired, but at the same time everyone knows they rely on us to keep the roads open. I think we're doing our best. We're just going to keep trying.

Bill Joy

I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn't know it was in System V.

Greg Jackson

We were as fundamentally sound defensively during that stretch as I've ever seen us.

S. Walker

We wrote more tickets this week than I've ever seen on a Super Bowl.

Marc Morial

To outsiders, you are seen as a shining light. You are seen as a beacon.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

I think it was Elisabeth Shue who said that if you start a movie with a woman seen through a man's eyes, that woman is objectified by him throughout.

Verne Lundquist

Oh, wow! In your life, have you ever seen anything like that?

Brian Katz

Shocking. I don't know if I've seen something like that in a big game.

Keyshawn Johnson

Since I've been in the NFL, I've never seen a team go 10-6 and not make the playoffs. I've seen teams that were 9-7 and 8-8 make the playoffs. It would be mind-boggling to be 10-6 and not make the playoffs.

Roy Evans

Since I have seen him play he has been stunning. He has unbelievable pace.

Scott Stoker

We've seen worse. We've come through a lot together.

Charles Spurgeon

Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

Alan Watts

Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way...

Mark Cuban

There are no shortcuts. NONE.

Beverly Sills

There is no shortcut to anyplace worth going.

Edith Schaeffer

We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life.

Brett Favre

We have to get something going and have a short time to get there, ... I couldn't go out like that. If you're going to go back in, do something good.

Charles Hazlewood

All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and meaning into every form of music that existed in his time.

Benjamin Hoff

A saying from the area of Chinese medicine would be appropriate to mention here: "One disease, long life; no disease, short life." In other words, those who know what's wrong with them and take care of themselves accordingly will tend to live a lot longer than those who consider themselves perfectly happy and neglect their weakness. So, in that sense at least, a Weakness of some sort can do you a big favor, if you acknowledge that it's there.

Avicenna

I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.

Dan Wakefield

I've always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem.

Baltasar Gracian

Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.

Baltasar Gracian

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

George Herbert

He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Sometimes you can do things with Spanish - like verbs and genders - easier than you can in English.

Gregg Bishop

(The sequel) would span its own time period. You wouldn't have to see the first one to get it.

Chris Faidley

I know how to say 'faster' and 'defend' in Bosnian, Spanish and Creole.

Lawrence Welk

I played a Spaniard. I looked about as Spanish as any other fair-skinned German.

Oscar Wilde

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

Mark Rey

We want everyone to be comfortable with every half-acre that stays on the list.

Leonardo da Vinci

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Hasso Plattner

Fans don't like owners. They know they are somewhere - actually, in Germany, some owners are anonymous. Fans don't sympathize with owners, so ownership stays in the back.

Isabel Allende

one of those unforgettable stories that stays with you for years.

Richard Barber

But it stays within bounds, and that's an unusual system,

John Motson

Its Arsenal 0 - Everton 1, and the longer it stays like that the more you've got to fancy Everton.

Pete Jeffries

whatever was said in the room, stays in the room.

Joe Frazier

He's good. I think he's still a young man. If he stays here and works with us on the basics, we'll make him better than good.

Alice Lowe

I think when a couple stays together, it's because of compromises they've both made.

Beau Bridges

Sometimes it's hard to know why networks will stick with something. Sometimes the ratings won't happen, but there's excitement at the network, so they'll stay with the show.

Denis Waitley

You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions.

Avril Lavigne

When I tour, I stuff fridges full of organic food and stick to that.

Bret Harte

Don't be too quickTo break bad habits: better stick,Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic.

L'Wren Scott

I think everyone evolves over the years, but I have always had the silhouette that I know suits me. I am never going to wear a frothy, poufy thing that sticks out because I have found a style that works for me, and I stick with it.

Dennis Quaid

If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously.

Natalie Gulbis

She grinds. She just sticks to her routine.

Barbara Sher

Find out what you love. Do it because you love it. Stick with it. Start now.

Dave Ramsey

When you create a basic budget and stick to it, it will suddenly seem like you have more money.

Alan Ball

I am a little suspicious of industry paradigms. I feel like so many movies and TV shows feel so familiar because of over-reliance on these paradigms.

Al Hirt

I've been glued to the TV. I am absolutely devastated.

China Chow

I don't want to do television. A TV show sitcom? I don't even watch TV.

Dave Franco

I can't say I was like a die-hard zombie fan, but I've definitely seen a few different zombie movies and TV shows.

Dave Franco

I definitely want to start my own production company at some point. I'm actually teaming up with Funny or Die to put together a TV show right now, that I can't really talk about because it's still in the very preliminary stages, but if it pans out this will be the first project under my production company, which I have yet to name.

Dave Chappelle

I don't care if I ever work in TV again.

David Krumholtz

It's really cool to know that you've put something together that isn't for a particular audience. It's so often that a TV show can really only speak to one sect of the population, and this really is something that appeals to a worldwide fan base. People who are into the pursuit of knowledge. Their reaction has meant the world to us.

Dave Barry

I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories.

Dave Barry

Here's my proposal, which is based on the TV show Survivor: We put the entire Congress on an island. All the food on this island is locked inside a vault, which can be opened only by an ordinary American taxpayer named Bob. Every day, the congresspersons are given a section of the Tax Code, which they must rewrite so that Bob can understand it. If he can, he lets them eat that day; if he can't, he doesn't.

Charles Dickens

Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.

Charles Caleb Colton

If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.

Charles Caleb Colton

In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.

Charles Caleb Colton

All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman, Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings.

Charles Caleb Colton

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

Charles Dickens

Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.

Charles Dickens

Ride on! Ride on over all obstacles and win the race.

Charles Dickens

Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.

Alan Moore

Now everything is wonderful and hazardous and nothing's hypothetical.

Alan Alda

I'm in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.

E. B. White

We've won here now so we don't have to worry about the 15-year thing.

Bryce Courtenay

Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to tales of wonder, love, and daring. When we cease to tell or listen, then we no longer exist as a people.

Catherynne M. Valente

And it's the wonders I'm after, even if I have to bleed for them.

Casey Stengel

It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like.

Jeff Murphy

We started off very slow. We had to refocus and get back to the things that won the first set for us.

Astrid Lindgren

Don't let them get you down. Be cheeky. And wild. And wonderful.

Bill Nye

When or if answers are found, you can be assured those answers will lead to more questions. Is the troubling or wonderful? It depends on your view of your place in nature, your place among the stars; I suppose.