Famous Quotes & Sayings

Reed PhD

Leadership without support is like trying to make bricks without enough straw. True leaders reinforce their ideas and plans with strategic partnerships, alliances and supportiveaudiences.

Johnson Honimae

Mobs and looters have been hurling rocks and bricks at passing patrol police vehicles.

D. James

Of course a sports psychologist can help - it's certainly helped me. People think you must be crackers if you've got a psychologist but psychology is part of the building bricks to make a top athlete.

Gerry Purdy

No one likes to carry a brick around, and this is the smallest, thinnest, lightest device that has all those combined features.

John Barlow

I fought it hammer and tong, but the drummers had inoperable bricks in their head about it. What's worse is that they now want to remove all Dead music from the Web.

Wren Elhai

Getting in touch with Iraqis has not been the insurmountable challenge it seemed to be at the start. You run into more brick walls trying to get someone in the U.S. military to talk to you.

Buster Perkins

I had hit a brick wall. I had gotten injured, and my grades were failing and I had to do something.

Shannan Bergen

She's a kid that'll go through a brick wall for you.

Bill Jr

Time marches on. We've got a wonderful new facility under construction and it's Busch Stadium - it's just different bricks and mortar.

Felix Magath

Let's not get too carried away with this loss. The outcome of the title race is still in our hands and we won't let it slip away.

Thomas Doll

Let's not get carried away about this loss, we played well in stretches, we just didn't score when we should have.

Gary Fifield

Last year, she carried us on her back all the way through the tournament. She's that kind of player. She'll take the ball.

Mike Anderson

Momentum. A lot of momentum that I think carried over from game to game.

Justin Cage

My freshman year, we could really depend on three players that kind of carried us. We could screen or do whatever we were asked. Now, we have to try to lead and put some points on the board. It's changed a lot since our freshman year.

Joe Reints

One of our players really stepped up and made some plays. Meghan Fuqua saddled up and carried us with about 10 minutes left.

Malcolm Forbes

One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is worth half-a-hundred half-finished tasks.

Cherie Blair

My advice to organizations I work with is always to be proactive rather than simply reactive when it comes to human rights issues. After all, the important process of improving company policies and practices must be carried out without having to be prompted by a labour strike, factory collapse or other crisis.

Lindy Ruff

Maybe Jochen needed to be carried off the ice, and then that's a suspension. That's sad, but maybe that's what it is.

Good Vietnam

Lt. Steven Hauk: Sir, in my heart, I know I'm funny.

Susan Danly

Magnum photographers can take a very somber picture but they can also take a very funny picture. I do hope people come away with a sense of humor about this.

Aaron Williams

Liam is real cool. He's a funny guy. He's real smart, and he shows real good leadership on and off the court.

Ed Reed

Let it play. It's funny. I'm glad I got that highlight if they are going to keep playing it and put me on TV like that.

Yoda

Lost a planet Master Obi-Wan has. How embarrassing

Michael Keaton

My first manager, he had left Germany when he was five, but he would joke about the Nazis. And I'd laugh, but I'd look at him, and he was the first one who told me, 'You know, funny is a powerful thing; it's a wonderful weapon.'

Gerard Way

One time, Bert and I were making out for so long it wasn't even funny..But then it was funny.

John Krasinski

A good part's a good part. You can play serious and funny moments with a well-written role.

Jane Elliot

I love playing smart and tough and having funny lines.

Samuel Coleridge

Life is but thought; so think I will, That youth and I are house mates still

Kathy Griffin

Look, you guys, I know I'm not Courteney Cox. But I'm telling you, the house is better than me. They were like, 'I don't think so.'

John Ford

So many houses - you feel like there's a lot of unusable space. We don't have that.

Eddie Murphy

My life is nothing like the "Daddy Day Care" life. Me around the house is nothing like the "Daddy Day Care" dad.

Waris Ahluwalia

My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith, his apprentice, his stone setter - and that was where it began.

Derek Ambrose

My dad's house got washed away in the flood. He has nothing to go back to.

Jamie Wyeth

My aunt Caroline was really a character. She lived and worked in my grandfather's old house and even wore some of his clothes.

Judy McDermott

More than 350 million households all over the world watch this tournament.

John Tesh

My house was really like 'It's a Wonderful Life.' I sang in the choir and was very involved in the church.

Rob James-Collier

Obviously, I play a villain in 'Downton Abbey'. As an actor, you want to get a variety of roles, so to be offered the part of Joe, it was perfect.

Mike Casey

I did what they wanted, and they offered it, so I think I have it coming,

Logan Marshall-Green

When I was told that I was being offered a role in 'Miss Julie,' I already knew I wanted to do it.

Zach Braff

I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.

Bill Hader

I was offered a lot of supporting crazy parts in comedies because that's all I had done.

Nicole Holofcener

I have a stack of scripts that I've read - I'm in the lucky position where I get offered things - but I haven't wanted to direct many of them.

Chris Snyder

We've done a lot of research on it, and we don't know which way we'll go if offered one or the other, or both. We'll have to wait and see who wants us.

O. J. Simpson

You know he didn't have a caddie, so I offered to caddie.

Don MacAdam

We'd end up in the office talking hockey. He offered (to coach), and I'm not one to turn down help.

Albert J. Nock

Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.

Winston Churchill

This is the sort of pedantry up with which I will not put

H. L. Mencken

The pedant and the priest have always been the most expert of logicians -- and the most diligent disseminators of nonsense and worse.

George Orwell

Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.

Josh Billings

Pedantry is paraded knowledge.

Winston Churchill

This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.

Mark Latham

Macklin is as useful as pockets in your underpants.

Charles Spurgeon

Feel for others - in your pocket

Edgar Allan Poe

I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief.

Eddie Vedder

Gave her love away, put it in my pocket when it should of been framed!

J. Horton

If they want to get into the pockets of this school district, I am not going to vote for it.

Charles Lamb

Tis unpleasant to meet a beggar. It is painful to deny him; and, if you relieve him, it is so much out of your pocket.

Jane Austen

Portable property is happiness in a pocketbook.

Andrew Jackson

I carried $5000 when I went to Washington. I returned with barely $90 in our pockets.

H. Hart

I tell him all the time, 'Play your game, don't stay in the pocket for us,'

Sam Claflin

Get yourself into every audition that you can. Even in those for smaller roles, you'll never know when someone may recommend you for a bigger one.

Helen Oyeyemi

I can recommend wearing blue mascara whilst writing. I'm telling you, it really adds something.

Marcia Cross

I think she would be a very interesting patient. I'd recommend she come three times a week.

Mike Hammond

We don't recommend just everybody. We don't want to be a rubber stamp.

Donald Rumsfeld

I slept on it, and I'm not going to recommend that it be vetoed.

Elias Hicks

To this light, then, would I recommend all, with mine own soul, - to this sure way of salvation.

Kenny Smith

We recommend you do it from a ladder, it's safer.

Mike Hohensee

We'll be sure to recommend him when the time comes.

Johannes Laitenberger

It is not up to us to recommend anything to the press.

Jim Kerr

She's a leader, and she doesn't have to say much to be one. She's been selected as our teammate of the year for several years, and that's something that's voted on by the players.

Stefan Hell

Calling on each molecule one by one? No way. I just told all of them to be quiet - except for a selected few.

John Davies

But the way it happened, after it was all over, it was unanimous that we select Erskine.

Donald Trump

[We need to ] select immigrants based on their likelihood of success in U.S. society and their ability to be financially self- sufficient.

Peter Agre

Natural selection is not an inflammatory phrase; evolution is.

Dion Harris

We said from Selection Sunday, from that day on, whatever happens, we're going to come out to play to win.

Don Morrow

Variety selection is most important of all factors.

Bryan Sykes

We will select volunteers from those two branches,

Bergen Evans

There is wisdom in the selection of wisdom....

Abdul Kalam

Without your involvement you can't succeed. With your involvement you can't fail.

Aaron Hill

Trust me--with women worth the being won, The softest lover ever best succeeds.

Alan Cohen

Everything that you need to succeed has been given to you.

Akhenaton

In all thy undertakings, let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavors if thou despairest of success, thou shalt not succeed.

David Cunliffe

Those who are flexible in thought, will inevitably succeed.

Barry Diller

The only way anyone's going to succeed is to build the product.

August Strindberg

When is revolution legal? When it succeeds!

Denise McCluggage

To succeed, you must be able to concentrate, and to know what to concentrate on.

Elizabeth Olsen

You want everyone to succeed in your family.