Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Stross

For a sampler, you could try my short story collection "Wireless". Which contains one novella that scooped a Locus award, and one that won a Hugo, and covers a range of different styles.

Alan Bennett

I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.

Michael Strahan

By the time I left college, I had won every award you could win - I was Mr. Man! Then I got drafted by the Giants, and you step in that locker room, and you feel inferior in every way. You just have to stick around long enough to give yourself the opportunity to build your confidence.

Kathleen Hogan

We are proud of the commitment partners like Puget Sound Energy have made to helping Americans save energy. The Partner of the Year award recognizes partners whose efforts to promote energy-efficient products are exceptional. They have been instrumental in putting more than 2 billion ENERGY STAR qualified products into American households over the last decade.

Trevor Immelman

There are certain criteria set by the Official World Golf Rankings Board to award world ranking points in a tournament,

Bernie Mac

All you do as a performer is keep doing it. If you keep doing it, then it depends on why you're doing it. If you're doing something for superficial, monumental reasons and if you're doing it for female attention, or if you're doing it for money, it's like being upset. Only way you can get upset is when you expecting something. If you don't get this award or don't get that award, that because you expect something.

Bill Murray

Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.

Jamie Dixon

We want our people to improve. We want them to get better. This is the most important award for us.

Charlize Theron

I'm an Academy Award winner. I'm serious.

Alan Paton

It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.

Alan Moore

Here's the thing: If you're monitoring every single thing that goes on in a given culture, if you have all the information that is there to be had, then that is the equivalent of having none of it. How are you going to process that amount of information?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

When the Holy Spirit is in full control of our lives, He will expect our obedience to the written Word of God. But it is part of our human problem that we would like to be full of the Spirit and yet go on and do as we please!

John Tortorella

We've won one game, that is it. I think what we did is just turn this into a series. ... As the series goes on, you have to play better. We know Ottawa is going to play better the third game.

John M. Ford

The people who don't like it tend to dislike it intensely. That's unfortunate, but not surprising when one deliberately goes against audience expectations.

Jack Horner

where it actually goes from land into the water.

McKayla Maroney

When you're competing, you have to wear a sleeve that goes all the way down to your wrist. When you're training, you usually don't wear long-sleeved leotards, so there's a difference between training and competing.

Nigel Barker

My go-to necktie is jet black, skinny, and simple. It goes with everything. I really like that mod-ish punk look.

Mel Rapozo

When you talk to the officers, it's pretty bad. Every day that goes by without some intervention, it's getting worse.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Charles Dickens

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Charles Dickens

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...

Charles Dickens

But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Dickens

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Simmons

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Al Alvarez

In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time.

David Sedaris

Because I've always been a fairly nervous person.

Beyonce Knowles

I get nervous when I don't get nervous. If I'm nervous I know I'm going to have a good show.

Beyonce Knowles

I get nervous when I don't get nervous.

Diego Boneta

Before every performance I feel nervous.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I haven't found a comfortable place onstage. I'm sure it doesn't have to be comfortable, but I'm very nervous, so I don't enjoy myself.

Shawn Chacon

When I was on the mound, I was pretty relaxed. I was focused. I don't know what it is, but I'm more nervous before I pitch and then after I come out of the game. When I'm in there, I don't feel any of that.

Jamie Campbell Bower

I'm nervous when taking part in any movie.

Daryl Hall

Some artists are nervous - most of them are, to tell you the truth, and they have different ways of exhibiting that. Some of them are boisterous, some are really quiet.

Gila Reinstein

We want them to feel very welcome and to be as acclimated as soon as possible.

Joe Papin

We started out really quick, using our speed. As soon as they scored the first goal, we went a little flat.

Michael Faraday

Why, sir, there is every possibility that you will soon be able to tax it! (to PM William Gladstone, on the usefulness of electricity)

Jon Daniels

We'd like to get him up here as soon as possible.

David Montgomery

We'd like to do it as soon as possible.

Sadhu Johnston

We're monitoring the equipment. As soon as that's done and the weather breaks, we'll be up there.

Ryan Callahan

We know we have to win at least one here (in London) and we would like to do it sooner than later.

Brian Jacques

Death comes to us all sooner or later. We cannot escape it.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Sooner or later, I'll be punctual.

Alan Bean

History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.

David Cornwell

We want to take a step forward. There's some worries. But you just go in there and play.

Dave Gibbons

I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for yourself.

Bryan Clay

You take yourself to a place where you've got absolutely nothing left and then you find out you have to push yourself one more step. That's a tough place to be in.

Bear Grylls

It is only when You really STEP OUT of Your comfort zone that You GROW.

Antonis Samaras

Illegal immigrants are already a very big problem for us. We are already taking big steps to disallow illegal immigrants from coming in.

Denzel Washington

One failed experiment is one step closer to Success

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.

Bob Ross

It's hard to see things when you're too close. Take a step back and look.

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.

Roberto Calvi

Whoever you are, you will not write this book. I can tell you nothing. Do not call me again. Ever.

Jeff Lanza

Whoever put it in there wanted it to look like a bomb.

Ellis Wyms

Whoever it is, I'll come in and go to work with them.

Maura James

Whoever did this, I want them to pay.

Joe Jackson

Whoever did it, they will get caught. Can't get away with doing wrong.

Sam Altman

Whoever Boost works with, Sprint will work with. And whoever Sprint works with, Verizon and AT&T will as well.

Mark Sweeney

That's crap. Whoever did that should be embarrassed.

Michael Williams

This was my little guy, and whoever did it, they're going to get caught, I already know it,

Francis Arinze

is not something that we own and that we can give out to whoever we want, to our friends, to those who suffer.