Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles de Gaulle

For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.

Charles Dickens

Some philosophers tell us that selfishness is at the root of our best loves and affections. Mr. Dombey's young child was, from the beginning, so distinctly important to him as a part of his own greatness, or (which is the same thing) of the greatness of Dombey and Son, that there is no doubt his parental affection might have been easily traced, like many a goodly superstructure of fair fame, to a very low foundation.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God's gifts are many; His best gift is one. It is the gift of Himself.

Bob Thomas

We want them to swim fast, and this is the best way to do it, in short races.

Farley Flex

We want them to be as comfortable as possible. So they can give us their best performance.

Steve Davies

We want to take care of our district games and then, game seven, eight, nine, 10 make sure we're playing our best football.

Jeff Matteson

We want to surround our families with as much support as possible. There are some great people working with kids in this town. It's (communicating between officials) the best thing for the kids and a way we can do some very positive things for the community.

Nick Saban

We want to support every player, and I think every player knows he has a responsibility for what to do and what not to do. As a coach, I also feel a responsibility to put a player in the best situation possible so he can have success.

Venancio Figueroa

We want to stay competitive and make sure we're providing customers the best value.

Michael Goodling

We want to take a little bit of this frustration and turn it into some positive momentum.

Marvin Emerson

We knew they were solid. That team can play, and we knew that. We had a little bit of an off night, but they gave us all we wanted.

Kerry Janquart

We knew they were sagging off us a bit, so we knew if we could keep them honest a bit from the outside, it would open up the inside.

E. Hicks

We knew they were going to have great defensive pressure. I think they got us out of our offense a little bit. So I think in those situations we need to stay poised and execute our offense a little bit better. I think that's what we are going to work on as we continue Pac-10s.

Steve Edmiston

We knew they were going to bring pressure. Early on it took a little bit of adjustment, but once we made that we were fine.

Kevin O'Leary

We knew they were a good skating team. We came out trying to force their hand with some hitting and our guys got caught up in that a little bit too much. We lost sight of the puck and they're a very good team. They find their open players very well.

Mark Mugiishi

We lacked the consistent play throughout the game to win. We were too streaky. It's hard to win like that. You have to be able to sustain an effort a little bit better.

Brendan Morrison

We know we're not getting any younger. We're a team that gained quite a bit of experience here the last four years of the playoffs. We've also had early exits the last four years.

Mark Freeman

We know we're going to see eight or nine guys in the box, so we've got to throw it a bit to help our running game,

Buck Showalter

When you say 'ever' in our game, that gets your attention. That's remarkable. When everybody is counting on you and watching you to produce and you still do it, that's impressive.

Jim Myers

Let's face it, we did a great job getting back here. But we lost six seniors and now we're counting on two or three freshmen and a couple of sophomores to step up. And they did a great job for us this year.

Viktor Yushchenko

Let each deputy here display his courage. I am counting on you.

Shannon Sharpe

Short of them telling me there's something seriously wrong, I plan to be out there on Sunday, because I know that my teammates are counting on me to be out there,

Dave Hiatt

She's a great little set shooter with three-point range. She played a little last year, and we're counting on her for some leadership.

Angelina Chilaka

She's a four-year player that we're really counting on to have another solid season.

Jeff Maggert

Getting my wife and kids here put my mind at ease after going back and forth over the situation the past couple of days. I'm counting my blessings.

Lyne Lortie

From Friday to now, we're counting about $1 million lost in terms of revenue. We're giving compensation as well and there are cancellations.

Colin Shaha

I don't think a lot of teams were counting on him to be as fast as he is. He works hard. He hits two-a-days, and last year was really his first time swimming.

Tom Morong

Just before that shot, Cousins had fouled out, so I felt pretty good, but then they hit their first two shots and I said maybe I shouldn't feel too good.

Richard Rogers

I have a very big family, and that is my number one thing, and we go away for a month to see my cousins in Italy every year, but I need to work.

Del McCoury

This kind of situation is something most people don't expect, ... I know I didn't expect it back when I was young. I just played because I enjoyed it. And when my sons were little, it never dawned on me that they would want to play music, too. I always had lots of cousins that wanted me to show them things on the guitar to play. But a week later, they would always be into something else. They forgot about the music. I thought that's how my sons would be. But they found the interest to stay in there with it." ()

Larry Lewis

Our dads used to do this, and now us cousins always get together for it.

Orlando Jones

Sort of like the March of Dimes, the kids get sponsors uncles, classmates, older sisters and brothers, cousins to say, 'Hey, I'll give you a dollar or five dollars for one lap around the track. The kids do a quarter-mile lap, which is one lap around the track at Drake Stadium, and the kids raise money for other children.

Eric Henderson

I've still got cousins missing though, and they've all got kids. To me, this was just fitting in one piece of a puzzle.

Melvin Taylor

Is there any way to get back? ... I've got two aunties, Rosemary Parker and Bernice Taylor, and some cousins I can't find. I don't like it here.

Jeff Day

I've dropped a wanted poster for Dr. Slepian in the police department washroom. Our cousins in the U.S. have their list. We have our own.

Alan Barton

The girls have cousins and sisters with state championships so they know what it takes.

P. J. Harvey

We know what he can do now. It's been a long two days for Jake, but it was worth it.

Graeme Souness

The other pleasing points are that we've got through and won a tie 5-1 when we've played, first after only two weeks, and then after only 17 days of training.

Robert Kabushenga

The posters are depicting government in a negative light and this comes only a few days to the polling day.

Rick Michaels

We are pleased that we were able to reach record production levels, despite losing several days due to the holidays.

Dusty Baker

There are days when you don't have your premier stuff,

Donna Wisniewski

There are days they pick up two or three, but there's days that they come in with over 40 of them.

Walt Harris

There are days the offensive line looks like they're putting it together. At times we see the light at the end of the tunnel. They're starting to respond, but they've got to grow up fast.

Jody Conradt

There are days it's really been fun. And there are days when it's really been, well ... trying.

Karen Allen

There are days he just reads my mind.

Nate Emge

We started slow and really dug ourselves a hole with the doubles losses. We knew we had to win.

Michael Starke

We struggled with the weather and our doubles were hot and cold.

Rocky Jarvis

Losing Jared was the toughest part of all. We had to use a different first doubles team and had to move everyone else up. It was a real deflating start.

Gary Wagher

We're playing pretty well right now. We have a quality team, and when we play a tournament like we did today with reduced numbers - two singles matches and three doubles matches - we're pretty competitive.

Taylor Dent

I feel like it would be a shame to get rid of doubles, but I guess it's on the doubles players' responsibilities to find a way to make it lucrative.

Daryl Lee

Fundamentally, I would say our doubles are improving and the No. 5 and 6 singles positions are doing respectably. That said, we need to be more competitive in the other positions.

Victoria Vaynberg

I think they can do really well if they keep playing together. They also understand each other's games already, and if you have that so quickly then there's a lot of potential for a really good doubles team.

Dana Trumm

Jamie Link played at number one for us today and got a real good win and all the doubles teams played well.

Marty Durand

I saw some weaknesses there in doubles and their lower singles seeds. We have something to work at, and we've got a week to work at it.

Daniel Handler

You must be all a-tingle with excitement.' 'I guess so,' I said, but I did not feel a-tingle. I did not feel a-anything.

Bertrand Russell

Every housemaid expects at least once a week as much excitement as would have lasted a Jane Austen heroine throughout a whole novel.

Sherry Murphy

What a huge opportunity for our community. We're just giddy with excitement over this.

Craig Heinselman

The real excitement will be when the first face is up and running. That's when the Wow' stuff is going to be appearing.

Kevin Corrigan

I don't really pretend to know what's going on, but I've been immersed in the excitement of watching sports, particularly football. I like baseball, probably more than football.

Andy Stern

We have reached a decision, and we are hopeful that there are other unions who share our members' excitement for Dr. Dean's candidacy.

John Major

I can't remember an occasion when there was so much excitement and anticipation about a game of cricket. It has been a truly phenomenal series.

Ned Yost

I think there will be a lot of excitement in spring training next year.

Ricardo Clark

Just from the talk in the city, I think Sunday is going to be a good day to experience what the season's going to be like and see the excitement in the fans. They'll get to see what our team is about and I think we're going to have a good season here.

Shelden Williams

We knew they were a team that wasn't going to go away. They saw that scoreboard and saw they were only down a few points.

Sara Parson

Very few of my opponents underestimate me. It doesn't matter if I can see them if they're on their back.

Tod Ruhstaller

Very few miners got rich. It was the businessmen who made the money.

Ross Levinsohn

Very few companies can perform at scale over the course of decades, and Yahoo has done that.

Sophie B. Hawkins

Very few artists are as independent as I am mentally, physically, spiritually and technically. I sit in my home studio and record things by myself. I don't need to get anybody's approval or validation.

Adam Mansbach

Ultimately, very few people parent their kids in ways that strike anybody else as reasoned, appropriate or sane.

Bryan Adams

With few words, one can speak the truth.

Luke Pasqualino

I don't think I've ever properly been in love. I've had a few girlfriends and have liked them loads, but I'm not sure it was love.

Michael Weatherly

Those three years on 'Loving' were instrumental in helping me move through the next few years of work, where it was hit or miss. I was on series that would get canceled, then I would be a movie that wouldn't come out or do as well as I hoped. You learn that you have to just keep plugging away and never take anything for granted.

Ed Walker

We want to see that he gets some national recognition.

M. Hopper

We know if a team gets 60 on us it's not going to be good. So the tempo was good for us with it in the 50s, and the guys never quit.

Ed Smith

We know everything gets started with that press. If we can't make shots and get into the press, we struggle.

Pat Gillick

Wait until the championship season gets going and judge for yourselves.

Michael Specter

There is a major problem with reliance on placebos, like most vitamins and antioxidants. Everyone gets upset about Big Science, Big Pharma, but they love Big Placebo.

Sasho Cirovski

The other team starts to feel, 'It's just not our day.' And our team gets that great save as a lift. I think that's what happened at that point.

Bob Stoops

We're in good shape and the guys understand the plan. It just gets down to making plays and handling the different wrinkles.

Joe Tereshinski

Where Shock is now, he is light years away from where he was back then. He could play back then, but now he gets in there and he doesn't hesitate. He can play, and he knows that. That's what makes him so dangerous.

Alyn McCauley

Where it gets really complicated is some player reps are on different teams now and some aren't even playing. Some executive-committee members have retired. So who gets a vote? Who still has a say in the matter? Without those guys in there, should somebody be promoted?

Charles Holliday

Ultimately, it will be higher prices for the consumer.

Dave Chappelle

The higher up I went, the less happy I was.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

I was president of the schools in junior high and high school, got a scholarship to New York University, played a little basketball, and was a celebrity.

Shinzo Abe

The other side has not responded to any of our requests regarding the abduction issue, so it is highly regrettable.

James Browning

The potential profits are so high there's a win-at-any-cost mentality.

Mark Thompson

The perception is that it's too high end, too futuristic, but I think we will see prices and use models to support it.

John Connaughton

The people who pay the highest income tax are also the most mobile. They simply leave North Carolina.

John Remington

We are always trying to look for unique ideas, and we wanted something new for New York. We thought that hey, it's an island, let's do something on the water...New Yorkers have pretty high expectations.

Marty Natalegawa

We've always been on a high state of alert. The perpetrators of the previous bombings are still very much at large and the risk is still very much with us,

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Only the redeemed have the ability to like what God likes and to be pleased with what pleases God.

Buddy Valastro

Everybody likes pizza! It's a quick and easy clean-up meal

Martin Jacques

No one likes to admit they are racist or bear prejudices. Nor do they even like to be open and honest when they witness racist behaviour.

Benjamin Franklin

He that best understands the world, least likes it

Miley Cyrus

Hannah in the show is enormous, like a Hilary Duff of TV. I hope everyone really likes her. She's a great person!

Celine Dion

I don't know if the camera likes me, but I do like the camera.

Bret Easton Ellis

No one ever likes the right person.

Timothy Noah

The white working class likes being pandered to even less than it likes being insulted.

Barbara Bush

Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.

Charlie Chaplin

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Charles Dudley Warner

There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.

Charles de Gaulle

I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money." (On Vietnam War)

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.

John Curry

We are getting ripped off. We are not getting what we are paying for.

Kevin McHale

People aren't paying to see the Kevin McHale show, they're paying to see the cast of 'Glee.'

Charles Payne

I don't like paying taxes, same as everybody else.

Chris Sheridan

So far, we haven't had any trouble getting it, but we're paying 10 percent to 15 percent more for plywood,

Chris McKay

So, I got stuck reading for them and paying the bill.

Sandra King

When we see a possible discrepancy, we need to investigate to make sure the taxpayers are not paying for something that simply doesn't exist. It's our responsibility to investigate that discrepancy. It's our responsibility to the people, really.

Shawne Merriman

I wouldn't be paying what I'm going to end up paying just for LaVar's number.

Tom Ahola

We took a piece of property that was getting $800 a year in (real estate) taxes. Now we're paying $17,000 a year. We think it's ridiculous, but what are you going to do?

Audrey Singer

Paying for it now is going to pay off later.

Alan Watts

The question is not what I should do in the future to get it, but rather, what am I presently doing that prevents me from realizing it right now?

Alan Watts

I too realize that the less I preach the more likely I am to be heard.

Don Cheadle

One truth that I know for sure, for me anyway, is that the more you know, the more you realize that you don't know.

David D. Burns

Accept yourself. But realize your behaviors can be bad.

Byron Katie

You can’t change what you haven’t realized yet. Once you realize what you were asleep to, the change happens on its own.

Cary Elwes

The things that you know intellectually when you're young become internalized as you get older. You realize all those clichés.

Kurt Vonnegut

You realize, of course, that everything I say is horseshit.

Mark Cuban

I'm a big believer that you always reiterate, you always learn, you always realize your business is evolving.

Edith Stein

Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.

Charles Edward Merriam

[T]he influence of the German school is most obvious in relation to the contract theory of the origin of the state and the idea of the function of the state. The theory that the state originates in an agreement between men was assailed by the German thinkers and the historical, organic, evolutionary idea substituted for it.

Alan Watts

You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it.

Alan Paton

But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.

Alan Moore

I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself.

Alan Moore

I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose any more. Having had a truncated school life myself, all of my education from the age of 17 has been self-taught. I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.

Alan Bennett

I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.

Alan Bennett

My experience came before most of you were born. My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn't normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge. But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge. So, half a dozen of us tried - not all of us in history - and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.

Alan Ball

I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

Alan Alda

Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn't sing in tune at the time. I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don't exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.

Alan Arkin

My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.

Bryan Ferry

As you get older, you get a bit more serious.

William Shakespeare

In persons grafted in a serious trust, Negligence is a crime.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I understand from those who adore him, he [Julian Assange] has a great sense of humor which rarely gets an airing because he's dealing with such serious issues.

Arthur Rimbaud

No one's serious at seventeen.

Dee Dee Ramone

Visuals are as artistic as sounds, so being serious about both isn't a contradiction to me.

Benjamin Franklin

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.

Donald Rumsfeld

We've got a very serious problem, ... Wolf Blitzer Reports.

Bill Nye

The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.

Al Leiter

I like starting. It's pretty cool.

Brian Gionta

We know we need to start scoring. We just have to stick with it. We know we're doing the right things.

Bryan Ferry

It must be really hard to be starting out in music now.

German Proverb

When you sweep the stairs, you start at the top

David Seiders

When you start to see cancellations, you really get worried.

George White

When you start to know what you're doing and why you're doing it, it makes it better.

Grady Fuson

When you start talking about prospects, it's a very subjective term. The way I look at it is as long as you've got a uniform on, you've got a chance.

Kurt Vonnegut

We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten.

Billy Dee Williams

Originally I planned on starting a teapot collection. I really like them.

Denzel Washington

Talent comes from God. If you have been given some, then value it, cultivate it, work and develop it.

Dick Cavett

Greatly talented performers don't know - often spectacularly - what's best for them, don't know what their talents really are, and don't know what's just plain wrong for them.

Edgar Degas

It's easy to have talent at 20 but what is difficult is to have talent at 50.

Ben Affleck

I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It's not easy being me.

Anton Chekhov

Brevity - the sister of talent.

Elyse Bogaert

We're getting better and have a ton of talent. We're trying to just get things down.

Steve Saviano

When you get to shootouts, it comes down to who has the most talent. Usually the team with the most talent wins. We have a lot of talent on this team and we're pretty talented up front.

Britt Ekland

There are so many young women who throw their talent away.

Edvard Munch

My will exceeds my talents.

Charles Dickens

And therefore, Uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that [Christmas] has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!

Charles Dickens

They whirled past the dark trees, as feathers would be swept before a hurricane. Houses, gates, churches, hay-stacks, objects of every kind they shot by, with a velocity and noise like roaring waters suddenly let loose. Still the noise of pursuit grew louder, and still my uncle could hear the young lady wildly screaming, "Faster! Faster!"

Charles Dickens

Christmas a humbug, uncle!" said Scrooge's nephew. "You don't mean that, I am sure?" "I do," said Scrooge. "Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? what reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough.

Charles Dickens

You can't make a head and brains out of a brass knob with nothing in it. You couldn't do it when your uncle George was living much less when he's dead.

Charles Dickens

My uncle, gentlemen, could say nothing; he was so very much astonished The queerest thing of all, was, that although there was such a crowd of persons, and although fresh faces were pouring in, every moment, there was no telling where they came from. They seemed to start up, in some strange manner, from the ground, or the air, and disappear in the same way.

Charles Dickens

Of all the ruinous and desolate places my uncle had ever beheld, this was the most so. It looked as if it had once been a large house of entertainment; but the roof had fallen in, in many places, and the stairs were steep, rugged, and broken. There was a huge fire-place in the room into which they walked, and the chimney was blackened with smoke; but no warm blaze lighted it up now. The white feathery dust of burnt wood was still strewed over the hearth, but the stove was cold, and all was dark and gloomy.

Alanis Morissette

I think it's irresponsible when celebrities imply they're doing it all themselves. My son has aunties and uncles around all the time, and my husband is my hero. He's really full-on. I couldn't do it any other way.

Djuna Barnes

Madness to us means reversion; to such people as Una and Lena it meant progression. Now their uncle had entered into a land beyond them, the land of fancy. For fifty years he had been as they were, silent, hard-working, unimaginative. Then all of a sudden, like a scholar passing his degree, he had gone up into another form ...

David Amram

I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last.

Alan Bullock

Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.

Alain Prost

I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend, so I know at the beginning of the race, from all that I have analysed during the practice, whether I will win the race or not.

Al Seckel

I live in one of the coastal cities in Southern California, and every so often I like to take a walk down the boardwalk in Venice during the weekends when it is abuzz with lively activity.

David Sedaris

I go to the movies at least five times a week, and after a while everything becomes a blur to me.

David Sedaris

..she took pictures of germs, viruses, and people reacting to germs and viruses. On weekends, for extra money, she photographed weddings, which really wasn't that much of a stretch

David Ginola

I am still feeling my calf strain, so I have been unable to train this week. I will again have to sit out the weekend action, but the lads are climbing ever higher to safety.

Dave Barry

Here in Miami, on weekends, amusement-seekers will come to the marina, set up folding chairs, and spend a highly entertaining day watching boat owners perform comical maneuvers such as forgetting to set their parking brakes and having their cars roll down the ramp and disappear, burbling gaily, below the surface.

Bryant Gumbel

You'll never see me working five days a week again.

David Brooks

[Donald Trump] will be the one on offense. He will be the one serving volleys, and it may be some weird stuff about the Russians, but he will be controlling things a little more than he probably did over the last two weeks.