Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Stevens

We know him well and he has already earned our respect and admiration,

Richard Chamberlain

When you've never had much money and earned little as an actor the first two years, you tend to save your money.

Holly Lisle

I earned my writing stripes with a large man's shoebox overflowing with rejection slips... more than 100 before I got my first, 'Yes, we want this,' accompanied by a check.

Ken Hitchcock

We want first badly. As hard as we've worked, we've earned that right. At one time, before we were decimated by injuries, we were first overall in points. Today and Friday are points we must have.

Natsuo Kirino

One of my books, 'Rain Falling on My Face,' earned me the 39th Edogawa Ranpo prize. It's a very prestigious literary prize in Japan, mostly for mysteries and thrillers.

Julian Bumbrey

We're extremely proud of where we are. We didn't know much about Prince Edward, but we knew they earned the right to be here and we had to be ready.

Sarah Harding

We've spent two years together and we've really struggled. We honestly haven't earned very much in that time. Next month we are finally picking up something for all the hard work. I can tell you, we've all been waiting for that money for so long.

Sandra Cisneros

I felt a failure because I couldn't sustain myself from what I earned from my writing. My day jobs were what mattered, and it was hard to even get those because universities wouldn't hire me as a real writer.

Brooke Smith

She was in a position that wasn't really ideal, but she's earned what she's gotten. She's talented and smart and she works really hard.

Ruth Coleman

We are proud to be able to offer such a wide variety of maps and guides for people to plan their visit, as well as souvenirs that hold memories of the enjoyable time they had.

Mike Sanford

We're not going to make it enjoyable to lose around here. It's going to be a miserable existence.

Lennon Parham

Forcing people together is an enjoyable conflict to watch, but I think it's even more enjoyable if they love each other.

Joe Girardi

What's really enjoyable to watch is how hard they play. We talk about it every day and we have meetings about how hard we're playing.

Eric Tyson

Most people do leave it to the end for good reason. It's not an enjoyable thing to do.

Chris Atkinson

We're obviously looking forward to the Swedish Rally, as it's one of the most enjoyable rallies of the year for a driver.

Quentin Braun

If it's enjoyable to the body, it's good to the soul

Ed Colson

I think this is going to be an extremely enjoyable event and something totally different for our community.

Wallace Shawn

You can go to a play that is enjoyable because it's funny, and then on the next night you can go to a play that's enjoyable because it's 'disturbing.'

Tyrell Thompson

We know Woodlands is going to be hungry. We have to come out and play harder or this will be it for us.

Don Samuel

When you tell a lie, it's always harder to remember what you said.

Holly Lisle

Writing, for all that it's harder than nursing ever was, is also more joyous and more fun and a lot less dangerous. And the major themes of my life have become the major themes of my writing, too - so it has all worked out pretty well.

Maggie Shayne

Whether labeled as such or not, I think every book I've ever written has been, more or less, a romantic suspense. I have always put tremendous effort into making each book a page turner: The harder it is for the reader to put it down, the better I've done my job.

Rob Davis

What this is all about is getting a taste of success. It doesn't matter who you beat, once you know what it takes to win, you'll work harder and that opens up other opportunities.

Freddy Sanchez

What he needed to do was to work harder than the normal person just to get back to where he needed to be. This is probably the strongest I've ever seen him.

Steven Wright

We have run the hydro system harder than it was supposed to be run this year.

Michael Hirschorn

The pond is getting pretty well fished, and booking (someone fresh) is getting harder and harder, ... somebody who is just depressing.

Tina Fey

I feel like it's harder to get women to show up for movies.

Charles Dickens

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

Charles Simmons

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Alan Rickman

I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.

Eric DiBiase

We've won nine of the last 11, so I like our chances.

Andrew Palmer

We want to show that we're no joke. People thought last year was a fluke. We can make improvements from last year. We're ready to see what's out there.

Craig Smith

We know what to do and what not to do because of last year. That's why we're in this position right now.

Bruce McMiller

We know we made a lot of progress last year, but there is still a lot out there.

Tony Russa

We know him and technically a position player can get here the last two or three weeks and that's plenty of camp. I'm sure he's been working.

Diane von Furstenberg

Don't talk about your diet. It's just boring, and the last thing you need when dieting is to be considered boring.

Charles Tillman

Look at politics; they're always in competition over an election, who wants to win. It's just who we are, it's what we do.

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.

Alan Watts

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

Alan Clark

Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

Alan Bennett

If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.

Alan Ayckbourn

A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.

Al Kaline

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Akio Morita

Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.

Chloe Sevigny

I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment.

Bill Schmidt

Very enthusiastic and very intelligent. I know he'll work at it.

Dmitri Mendeleev

Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.