Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Sedaris

I've never made up events, but I've always been a big exaggerator. It's written on my humorist license that I'm allowed to do that.

Mike Aresco

We are pleased to present the excitement of the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships live to our viewers. We look forward to a great event and the opportunity to highlight the outstanding achievements of the track and field student-athletes.

Roger Wilkins

We are looking forward, and already planning for an even greater event for 2006.

Marilyn Fitzgerald

We still need to strengthen ourselves in the sprints. We're pushing hard in those events this week in practice.

Todd Rogers

We're in a great place to win. Everyone is gunning for us. We played really well in the last two events and for the most part, when one of us wasn't hot, the other did well. When we put it together, we really handled the teams.

Roland Swenson

We started out planning the event hoping we'd get 150 people, so we were happy.

Jacques Chirac

Where is the president when such serious events are taking place?

Mike Schnur

We actually didn't swim very well tonight. West Chester won seven individual events out of nine. We were just tired and not as up for it.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Sometimes a single phrase of testimony can set events in motion that affect someone's life for eternity.

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.

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

..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.

Bobby Cannavale

The music I was always attracted to and the shows I was really into like, you know, those weekend Don Kirshner shows, "Midnight Special," those shows, I remember watching those and the music was just on; it was the greatest radio stations.

Derek Jeter

You know what I want to do? Wake up one weekend and not have to go anywhere and do nothing.

Dennis Miller

In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that that computer has ever linked up to.