Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roger Bailey

Last year's Freedom 100 epitomized the racing of the Indy Pro Series. We saw numerous lead changes, side-by-side racing and a late shootout for the checkered flag. To be able to showcase that type of racing at a venue like Indianapolis is extraordinary.

Theodore Roosevelt

The person who succeeds is not the one who holds back, fearing failure, nor the one who never fails... but rather the one who moves on im spite of failure. Far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat. Author: Teddy Roosevelt

Susan Rogers

We'll have silent auctions, live auctions, games and door prizes. We'll be there until the checkered flag drops.

Rick Crawford

To see the checkered flag was a great day, let me tell you,

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Vijay Singh

I still remember it. His yellow shirt and checkered pants, I still remember that. It's part of history and it's still very fresh in everybody's minds.

Carl Edwards

Johnson doesn't know it, but I completed more miles than he did by the time he took the checkered at Daytona. I was already flying west.

Richard Orr

We haven't seen the checkered flag. We have no word from NASCAR, so we aren't quitting.

Robert Yates

So far, so good, ... I'll try to keep this one on the ground and see if we can get a checkered flag Sunday.

Robert Emmet

Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let them rest in obscurity and peace! Let my memory be left in oblivion, my tomb remain uninscribed, until other times and other men can do justice to my character.

Tove Jansson

A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world because that's where people are shown what they could be if they wanted and what they'd like to be if they dared to and what they really are.

Caroll Spinney

When I got to New York, I had no place to sleep. The pay from 'Sesame Street' wasn't enough to rent an apartment. I was staying on people's couches. I stayed in the dressing room until they found out. I stayed with Jim Henson and his family for a week, and I wanted to do that permanently. I didn't dare ask, though.

Charles R. Swindoll

There is only one you. God wanted you to be you. Don't you dare change just because you're outnumbered!

Michael Leunig

Modern man is probably a more humiliated and depressed creature than he dares to know.

Gioconda Belli

There are not many intellectuals left of Harold Pinter's stature who dare raise their voices - and with such force - against the menace of U.S. and the unrestricted use of its power. Pinter's voice is an unceasing thunder.

Eliphas Levi

It is necessary to DARE what must be attempted.

Phyllis Wise

Many of them have been more wonderful than we would have ever dared to hope for. I think that's what the most exciting part is - you just can't tell.

Phil Collins

If a musician dares to get out of the box he's been put in, people get confused. They want people where they can find them! I am fortunate in some respects as I've always been known as someone who 'moves around' and tries different things. But generally, we are supposed to stay where we're put.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that sympathizes in all the happiness of others, perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness.

Alan Jackson

I'm usually just enjoying life.

David McCullough

I feel that as much as I enjoy loafing, there is something higher for which to live.

Carlos Slim

If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.

Lisa Cholodenko

I have enjoyed writing my own stuff, and it's been a privilege to be able to scrap some money together to be able to make films from my own scripts.

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.

Rick Reynolds

We're in a lodge. We're not in a tent. It's a way to relax at night. A little television indoors doesn't take away from my experience enjoying the scenery here.

Lee Byung-hun

Whenever I open a movie, I go secretly to the theater and stand in the back and enjoy the moment. I laugh when people laugh, and when people cry, I laugh.

Henry Samueli

Don't make career choices on short-term financial gain. Job satisfaction and career enjoyment are far more important.

Jenn Davis

We want to take this as far as we can. We hope to play three more games. Right now, our goal is to win (Saturday) and get to the state tournament.

Louise Jameson

I only have three scenes and each is a turn and she gets progressively drunker. It's all terribly funny and its main challenge is that it's so far away from what I usually do.

Russell Crowe

The people who don't have a good relationship with me from a good performance point of view are very few and far between.

Dave Rose

We are a far better team when we get out and score in transition.

Flip Saunders

We are at the tip of the iceberg as far as where we are and where we could be.

Flip Saunders

We still only had 10 turnovers for the game. They were magnified as far as when they happened a little bit. When you're playing well, they try to throw everything at you. From that standpoint, as I say, the more things that are thrown at you, the better prepared you are come playoff time.

Jimmy Garris

We're in favor of (the recommendation); it just doesn't go far enough.

Lodrick Stewart

We're in (a tie for seventh) place, but that's not that far out of a really good spot this year.

Dave Haywood

We start a lot with melodies and instrumentation and trying to figure out good melodies for verses and choruses. We get to lyrics sometimes second, so we'll start humming a melody, finding something, and see where the music takes you as far as lyrics are and what you want to say and go from there.

Alan Shearer

I am fearing the worst, unfortunately - I have been injured before plenty of times so I know the scenario and I haven't got a great hope.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

He who makes no secret of himself, enrages: so much reason have you for fearing nakedness.

Ron Wilson

People are fearing him now, and that's what you want to see with Joe. He's a man on a mission. . . . Even though he's not getting points, he's totally controlling the game.

Jan Vandemoortele

I think most of the humanitarian actors on the ground think we're going to make it. We were fearing a second wave of deaths. It didn't occur.

Frederic Lasserre

The market is still fearing that we might see some more serious hurricanes down the road,

Pedro Medina

Fearing for their safety, the manager complied with the suspect?s demands.

Alvin Wright

The officer sees the suspect reach under the passenger seat (and) fearing for his own safety that the suspect was looking for a weapon, he fires his own weapon.

Larry Hollingworth

It's what we have been fearing all along. The winter is now with us.

Bruno Walter

It is glorious to become a learner again at my time of life.

Bela Lugosi

To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.

Atharva Veda

O Nanak, serve the Lord forever; He is the treasure of glorious virtue.

Sallust

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

Granth Sahib

Night and day, I sing Your Glorious Praises, God. I praise You, O my Beloved.

Granth Sahib

Give me that understanding, by which I may meditate on You. I sing Your Glorious Praises with each and every breath. Nanak takes the Support of the Guru's Feet.

Cameron Mackintosh

I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.

Al Gini

The glorious thing for you always has consequences for others.

Conor Oberst

It's glorious to be able to go onto the Internet and hear any kind of music anywhere, from anywhere, and get it instantly. But there's also something glorious about having a record with a sleeve and looking at the artwork, putting it on the turntable and playing it, there's still something romantic to me about that.

Albert Einstein

This has been done elegantly by Minkowski; but chalk is cheaper than grey matter, and we will do it as it comes.

Dashiell Hammett

Who shot him? I asked.The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun.

Peter Chan

A musical needs a host. I needed someone like Joel Grey in 'Cabaret'.

The Dead

Every silver linings got a touch of grey I will get by, I will get by, I will get by, I will survive.

Jim Popp

I can specifically remember the day I worked him out and he was a tremendous talent. He was a tremendous success in 1995 and helped us win the Grey Cup.

Kevin Bankston

But, it's at least wearing a grey hat.

Marian Keyes

I went grey at 12, my eyesight went at 17. I've been a crock from very early on.

Kevin O'Leary

Money has no grey areas. You either make it or you lose it.

John Hahn

She holds us together. She shoots some big threes and she's my first 1,000-point scorer in the six years since I've been here.

Jeff Reed

Second, I passed one of the numerous records he holds in the NFL. Gary's the most-respected kicker who's been through this league. It means a lot.

Betsy Ross

Today the American knight holds the commercial supremacy of the world.

Connie Mack

Humanity is the keystone that holds nations and men together. When that collapses, the whole structure crumbles. This is as true of baseball teams as any other pursuit in life.

William Kingdon Clifford

Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it.

Phil Johnson

Phoenix has been very effective. But we'll see how it holds out over the long haul.

Ming-Na Wen

'Mulan' holds a very special place in my heart. It's been 16 years since the film, but hordes of fans still come up and tell me how much she means to them.

Angus MacKenzie

MOTOR TREND holds a distinctive place in the landscape of automotive journalism. It is a strong and influential publication that is poised for tremendous growth. It is the right time for Ira to take MOTOR TREND to the next level.

Taylor Twellman

Obviously, we've missed Pat tremendously his play, the way he holds the play up. It's a pleasure playing with him, and hopefully we can do well together in the playoffs.

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.

Billy Mays

Before you throw it away, let Mighty Mendit save the day.

Robert Green Ingersoll

How poor this world would be without its graves, without the memories of its mighty dead. Only the voiceless speak forever.

William Wordsworth

Two Voices are there; one is of the sea,One of the mountains; each a mighty Voice.

Marcus Garvey

Up, up, you mighty race!/ You can accomplish/ what you will.

Travis DeWalt

If you look at his frame, he doesn't look like Mighty Mouse.

Alex Solis

If he was only 90 percent, that's mighty exciting.

Bob McDavitt

It will be in quickly and out quickly. This system has been packing a mighty punch.

George Taylor

I just don't trust it, ... mighty preliminary.

Michael Novak

The universe moves in the direction of Liberty.

Troy Glaus

With the moves that they made, and things that they've been able to do, this team seems poised to make a run. We're young and very, very talented.

Italo Calvino

Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.

John Walls

She is very versatile and moves well. She was tough to stop.

Lawrence Tierney

People make fast moves around me, I react. I can't help it.

David Land

Traders are not being overly quick to get into long positions as the oil price moves up, but are quick to unload if they see any weakness.

Anatoly Karpov

My idea is to make moves to bring chess back to the world's map, to make it part of the world's geography again.

Mitsuhiro Osawa

There are moves to turn around from that path towards something like Matsushita.

Jeremy Spencer

Give me anything that moves my heart, that gives me goosebumps.

J. Paul Getty

I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.

Said Nursi

Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary.

Ernie Kovacs

Television: A medium. So called because it's neither rare nor well done.

Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.

My father was not comfortable working with very articulate people. He and Willie Wyler got along because neither of them was very articulate.

Lara Trifiletti

Tipping the Scales. Neither is a suitable option.

Robert Anthony

We neither get better or worse as we get older, but more like ourselves.

Bennie Thompson

I've never really read any books about Washington, neither the politics nor the city.

Livy

We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them.

Emma Watson

I didn't come from a background of films. I didn't even really ever watch films. The fact is, my parents weren't into that stuff, and neither was I.

David H. Murdock

North Carolina was where you could have Thanksgiving and feel like it was Thanksgiving.

Dave Barry

How can you be afraid of women?” “Those ain’t normal women.

Caitlin Moran

All the things that are taboo are the things that are not normal, and all the things that are not normal are the things that are exclusively about physically being a woman.

Scott Carpenter

We've all bowled at Cadillac, but today wasn't like the normal Cadillac. It was a very playable shot but just a little different.

Joe Johnson

We started off very poorly. But we know what we can do. We just settled down and played our normal game.

Hans Fischer

Coproporphyrin in particular is widespread; traces are present in normal urine and also in yeast. In special cultures, yeast can be made to produce considerable quantities of coproporphyrin.

Aidan Quinn

I had to bring myself back down to being a normal person again.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.

Max Miller

We want it to be as normal as possible for the kids.

August Wilson

Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.

Carol Vorderman

If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are.

Andy Robinson

We were awful, we started poorly and never got in the game. At no stage did we put any pressure on the French.

Alan Kay

I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What have they done to you, my poor child?

Benjamin Franklin

The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it.

Anton Chekhov

It is a poor thing for the writer to take on that which he doesn't understand.

Walter Mare

Too tired to yawn, too tired to sleep: / Poor tired Tim! It's sad for him.

George Moore

The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor.

Mark Langan

This ranks up there with the worst I've seen. There (were) feces throughout the house, urine-stained carpets, urine-stained sheets, trash throughout the house.

Sean Fleming

He is the type of wrestler who can be ranked in the state and do some big things in tournaments.

Zac Sandvig

To come up here and shut out a ranked team like this is really something.

Rodney Tention

Give them credit. They compete. That's why they're ranked No. 5 (now 4). They toughened up when they got down.

Tom Perkins

If that happened, it would rank right up there with anything else I've done in my career.

Bill Castle

We've got a bulls-eye on us. I think we're ranked because of tradition and our past. Everyone comes after you.

Jonny Moroni

To be ranked sixth internationally our first time out was pretty great.

George Crooks

Marysville is ranked in the state and they have seven state qualifiers back. That's going to be a tough one.

Bill Richards

Northwestern is always very good. They are ranked 51st in the nation.

Richard Berthelsen

We're insisting that it be sooner rather than later.

Jim Calhoun

Like Hubie, and sometimes like Jim, I can be rather lengthy.

Rudi Giuliani

made it a rule ... rather than the exception.

Thomas Mars

I'm a lazy guy. I can't focus for too long. I'd rather hear a record that has no filler.

Kate Bush

I don't know about hiding away, but I really only like to present myself when I'm working on something - it's more my work I like to present to the world rather than myself.

Keeley Hawes

I am not into action and adventure on holiday; that doesn't really do it for me. I would much rather go and lie down.

Abigail Perkins

Mohamed stated he would rather kill only Americans.

Suzanne Farrell

So I think it is rather strange that I got into ballet, something that I hadn't seen.

Michael Messner

She was rather abrasive and difficult, but it must've taken that kind of personality to survive and to do what she did in the 1960s.

Gore Vidal

When I say 'president,' I still mean Roosevelt - wisely, I think.

Harvey Jackson

Our spirits are high. We're in it for the long haul.

Richard Jackson

Troubled spirits often are manipulated by other types of spirits.

Benj Steinman

Wine and spirits are outperforming beer. It's been a reversal of a decade-long trend.

Benj Steinman

Wine and spirits are outperforming beer, ... It's been a reversal of a decade-long trend.

Mary Hayes

Even the trees have spirits - everything has a spirit.

Alan Noble

Their spirits go up and down with the wind speeds, and right now the wind is up.

Don Marquis

Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Brad Childress

If a daily, 'How you doing, Terrell?' is antagonistic or spiteful then I must be on the wrong planet.

Brad Childress

If a daily, 'How you doing' or a 'What's up' is antagonistic or spiteful then I must be on the wrong planet.

Dallas Willard

Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.

Bette Midler

I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.

Tim Murtaugh

Russ Potts is an angry, bitter, spiteful man.

Paul Mooney

Sometimes, what you do you have no control over because it's predestined. It's gonna happen in spite of you. There's nothing you can do about it.

Lee Matthews

The wind made it very tough to play in spite of the warm day.

Edward Lear

In spite of all their friends could say, / On a winter's morn, on a stormy day, / In a sieve they went to sea!

John Barry

If you have a successful run, everything comes to you. Nothing succeeds like success.

Charles Caleb Colton

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

Charles Caleb Colton

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.

Charles Caleb Colton

Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.

Charles Caleb Colton

For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.

Charles Caleb Colton

To judge by the event is an error all commit: for in every instance courage, if crowned with success, is heroism; if clouded by defeat, temerity. When Nelson fought his battle in the Sound, it was the result alone that decided whether he was to kiss a hand at court or a rod at a court-martial.

Charles Caleb Colton

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Charles Caleb Colton

Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.

Charles Sturt

The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes.

Charles Spurgeon

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Charles Dickens

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Charles Caleb Colton

The reign of terror to which France submitted has been more justly termed "the reign of cowardice." One knows not which most to execrate,--the nation that could submit to suffer such atrocities, or that low and bloodthirsty demagogue that could inflict them. France, in succumbing to such a wretch as Robespierre, exhibited, not her patience, but her pusillanimity.

Charles Spurgeon

There is no greater mercy that I know of on earth than good health except it is sickness, and that has often been a greater mercy to me than health.

Charles Spurgeon

Suffering saints are living seed.

Charles Spurgeon

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

Alan Watts

We live in a culture where it has been rubbed into us in every conceivable way that to die is a terrible thing. And that is a tremendous disease from which our culture in particular suffers.

Alan Watts

If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If we can trust the sufferings of Christ for our sake then we can trust Christ when we suffer for His sake.

Chin-Ning Chu

If you don't have a righteous objective,eventually you will suffer. When you do the right thing for the right reason,the right result awaits.

Chinua Achebe

When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?

Chinua Achebe

Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!

Chinua Achebe

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

David Quammen

Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come.

Cesare Pavese

Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

Casey Stoner

I'm very thoughtful, and when I make a decision I usually stick to it.

William Shakespeare

That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone.

C. S. Lewis

Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins." "It is very true," said Edmund. "But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did." And he looked very thoughtful.

Charlaine Harris

I snuck a look to see how Eric was taking this, and he was staring at me the same way the Monroe vampires had. Thoughtful. Hungry. "That's interesting," he said. "I had a psychic once. It was incredible." "Did the psychic think so?

Charles Dickens

Mr. Tulkinghorn, sitting in the twilight by the open window, enjoys his wine. As if it whispered to him of its fifty years of silence and seclusion, it shuts him up the closer. More impenetrable than ever, he sits, and drinks, and mellows as it were in secrecy, pondering at that twilight hour on all the mysteries he knows.

Catherine Hardwicke

Now there are three guys who directed "Twilight" films that had a gross of a gazillion dollars. All those "Hunger Games" guys, the "Divergent" guys. All those people. When they are looking for the next big director, they see they have a track record. So there's 20 people that spun off of "Twilight" that have more qualifications than any woman.

Catherine Hardwicke

Even after I had just done Twilight, which made $400 million at the worldwide box office, I could not get financing for three or four projects that I really loved and I thought people would love because they didn't fit some studio or investor's model of thinking, "This will definitely make money." It's a business and a film does potentially cost millions of dollars, and they have to think that they're going to get their money back somehow.

William Shakespeare

The weary sun hath made a golden set And by the bright tract of his fiery car Gives token of a goodly day to-morrow.

David Duchovny

Garry Shandling is someone I've publicly gone gay for, for jokes. Oh and anyone in the Twilight movies. I don't know any of their names, but all of them. The wolves, the vampires? They're all fantastic.

Charlotte Bronte

I was glad of it: I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons: dreadful to me was the coming home in the raw twilight, with nipped fingers and toes, and a heart saddened by the chidings of Bessie, the nurse, and humbled by the consciousness of my physical inferiority to Eliza, John, and Georgiana Reed.

Richard G. Scott

When you push against the boundaries of experience into the twilight of the unknown, the Lord will strengthen you. The beauty of your eternal soul will begin to unfold.

Ashley Greene

I continue to stay close to Kellan Lutz and in touch with him. Because [the cast members of Twilight] have become so close.

Ashley Greene

Kellan [Lutz] and I were really the closest, and he and I have been really good friends before "Twilight" even happened - we have the same agent.

Charles Stanley

In times of defeat, we never know how close we are to victory. In every event of failure, God has planted a seed of success.

Charles Spurgeon

Victory needs conflict as its preface.

David Millar

The manner in which one loses the battle can sometimes outshine the victory.

David Mitchell

Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured.

William Shakespeare

I came, saw, and overcame.

Elizabeth May

You should never even ask if a campaign is winnable, because the question is not answerable. No-one can predict the course of the future. Time and time again I have seen completely unforeseeable shifts in the tide of events that result in campaign victory.

Beth Moore

Our victory rests not on faith in our spirituality. Our victory rests on faith in our God.

Bob Marley

The hotter the battle the sweeter the victory.

Bill Walsh

Victory is produced by and belongs to all.

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.