Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Moore

All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day." The Joker - The Killing Joke

Al Roker

If I was having a bad day, eating was like self-medicating. But if you abuse food, you still have to use that substance that you abuse every day. You have to learn to use it responsibly.

Chris Cleave

The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at the keyboard and give it everything you have.

Chris Bangle

Designers think everything done by someone else is awful, and that they could do it better themselves, which explains why I designed my own living room carpet, I suppose.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context.

Chesty Puller

Where the hell do you put the bayonet?

Cathy Freeman

When I'm in a bad mood, I don't listen.

Casey Affleck

I have a very bad relationship with mice.

Michael Steele

You know, conservatism is not a bad thing. It's not a pejorative.

Angela Merkel

We stand by the constitution. The pause for reflection is not an excuse for putting it aside,

Joe Mullen

We're not going to make any excuses. We outplayed them for two periods and held them to nine shots (in that stretch). Then for whatever reason, we let them back in the game in the third.

Allen Iverson

We have to get it done, that's no excuse.

Dan Sanso

We have no excuse for how we played. (Leonard) had to play in the rain, too. We just lacked the knockout punch.

Ed Smith

We were anything but nervous. They are a loose group. Maybe they're too loose. And we were healthy. No excuses for our play tonight.

Brad McClellan

We're going to have every 'i' dotted and every 't' crossed. They're going to look for any excuse to throw out any signatures, so we think we're going to have more than enough.

Benjamin Franklin

Necessity is our quickest excuse.

Ray LaCroix

We're not a great free-throw shooting team. But there was no excuse today.

Kenny Johnson

I know real cops. When they're paired up together, they get so close, you know? There's no excuse for it, but these guys do have a connection. They fight like cats and dogs, but when they get in a really messed-up situation, they're there for each other.

Ludivine Sagnier

It's impossible to explain to people who you are in a five-minute interview on TV.

Tom Fitzgerald

We've all had explained as to what is going to be called. Players were on the rules committee, so we all have to adjust.

Karen Hughes

We're in a war on terror. We are still at war. And to succeed in this war, we must effectively explain our policies and fundamental values to people around the world,

Nayvadius Cash

I feel like guitar explains a lot. You can just listen to a guitar without any lyrics over it; you can just feel what kind of track it is. If it's pain... you can feel it. It sets the mood.

Sarah West

Years at sea probably explains why I'm single. But every person in the military makes sacrifices.

Kristy Curry

We explained to all of them they were going to have to get their feet set, square their shoulders, be fundamental and knock three's down.

Brad Richards

We're just fragile right now. Wish I could explain why.

Lawrence M. Krauss

To the extent that we even understand string theory, it may imply a massive number of possible different universes with different laws of physics in each universe, and there may be no way of distinguishing between them or saying why the laws of physics are the way they are. And if I can predict anything, then I haven't explained anything.

Kevin McDonald

I can't explain it, but spiritually it makes sense - though I don't understand how it does make sense.

Charles Dickens

Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.

Charles Dickens

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

Charles Stross

I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer.

Alan Watts

The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

Alan Watts

Substances like LSD, which give away a secret about the nature of the social game - the human game and what underlies it - are potentially dangerous, of course, like any good thing is. Electricity is dangerous, fire is dangerous, cars are dangerous, planes are dangerous, but not so dangerous as driving on the freeway. The only way to handle danger is to face it. If you start getting frightened of it, then you make it worse. Because you project onto it all kinds of bogeys and threats which don't exist in it at all.

Alan Moore

They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away.

Alan Green

You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals.

Al Alvarez

The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.

Al Alvarez

Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.

Mariel Hemingway

I've known for years that you're supposed to be present. I know that thinking about what's happened or thinking about what I want is not going to get me anywhere, but until I quit doing it I'm not present.

Delos Smith

When you take a look at what's happened in the last month, you see the same kind of pace?right on down the line. It shows a nice, steady moderate pace, which is what you want.

Holly Holm

It doesn't matter what odds are on paper or what's happened before. It matters what happens that moment.

Jon Gruden

We're not going to sit here and try to justify what happened two or three years ago and what happened last year,

Nicholas Burns

We remember what happened in March 2004, ... There is no place for that in U.N.-sponsored negotiations.

Zell Miller

What has happened to the party I've spent my life working in?

Edward Keon

What has happened over the past several months is valuations have come down a lot to where we think stocks are pretty reasonably valued here.

Kapil Sibal

What has happened in Gujarat has shocked us all. We don't want the situation to worsen and spread to other parts of the country.

Kapil Sibal

What has happened in Gujarat has shocked us all, ... We don't want the situation to worsen and spread to other parts of the country.

Annika Sorenstam

We started making some birdies on the back nine and had an incredible finish. It's amazing, and it's so much fun.

Edwin Markham

The thing that is incredible is life itself.

Mistie Williams

We know we have lost incredible players. But we still have incredible players, (players) ready to fight, ready to win.

Eric Schneiderman

High-frequency traders are firms all around the world. They're massive investments. And there is an incredible race for speed now. People are paying hundreds of millions of dollars to shave milliseconds off.

Kathryn Lasky

Manic depressive people often have incredible energy and a slightly skewed, but nonetheless valid, way of looking at things.

Michelle King

She is truly incredible when she listens to the radio and is able to sing the harmonies. I?m jealous of that ability.

Gina McKee

The National Youth Theatre did one very simple but incredible thing for me: it made me realise I had choices.

Dionne Warwick

I've had some incredible moments in my life - thus far. I hope a lot more are coming.

Bob Braman

She's going to be our leader. Kirsten Hagen has also had an incredible summer.

Charles Dickens

Then idiots talk....of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy. It is such a conventional superstition, such parrot gabble! What the deuce!....But show me a good opportunity, show me something really worth being energetic about, and I'll show you energy.

Charles Caleb Colton

Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.

Charles Caleb Colton

Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.

Charles Caleb Colton

The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and trodden; and great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities but to make them.

Charles Spurgeon

Our extremities are God's opportunities.

Charles Spurgeon

When facing the apparent denial of my request, God gave me the opportunity to honor him by trusting His Word.

Alan Moore

I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.

Alan Moore

It does not do to rely too much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing, one loud noise, and its gone. But the people are so cowed and disorganised. A few might take the opportunity to protest, but it'll just be a voice crying in the wilderness. Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

Alan Green

I want to be able to open up the really good treasures of the Church and Christianity to people, and that's not going to be achieved by shouting at them to convert or they'll go to hell. It's about giving them an opportunity to reimagine Christianity.

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.

Veronica Corpuz

We're going to try and work through this to make sure no more productions will be canceled or postponed.

I. Stone

What we're really trying to do is to make sure when they get to kindergarten, they are better prepared, because for many of them, there is nothing until they get to kindergarten.

Jamie Shea

When we are sure what happened, we will tell you what happened.

Rich Rodriguez

What makes it tough is they're better for sure than they were two years ago,

Ralph Neas

We're going to make sure that Americans understand what is at stake.

Ed Paulk

We're just making sure there is nothing we are missing. It's just being proactive.

James Wilcox

We want to make sure we're on the same page,

Steve Cox

We want to make sure we get them in preseason.

Ralph Murphy

We want to make sure they (companies) have a place to come.

Brian Giles

With my toe tap, I need the at-bats to get ready. It's a timing thing.

Bill Hybels

If the request is wrong, God says, No. If the timing is wrong, God says, Slow. If you are wrong, God says, Grow. But if the request is right, the timing is right and you are right, God says, Go!

Clara Mamet

Preston Sturges is one of my favorites. I learned about dialogue and timing from him - louder, faster, funnier. But I do love Mel Brooks.

James Sensenbrenner

should be commended for the timing and thoroughness of these answers.

Armando Navarro

Timing is everything in politics, and the timing is with us right now.

Seth Erwin

Basically, we didn't have the same 15 set for every week. We had different starters, and we just couldn't get our timing down.

Eric Thomas

Now that PNTR (for China) is out of the way, the timing is right.

Carol Burnett

As far as sitcoms go, I thought Jenna Elfman in 'Dharma and Greg' was a wonderful physical comedienne who had great timing.

Andy Warhol

Whenever I’m interested in something, I know the timing’s off, because I’m always interested in the right thing at the wrong time. I should just be getting interested after I’m not interested any more.

Andrew Klink

When we got that fumble, that was the turning point.

Joel Edgerton

To me, 'Warrior' was a real turning point - probably one of the greatest experiences I've ever had as an actor on set.

Agatha Christie

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

Albert Camus

Nothing in life is worth, turning your back on, if you love it.

Dorothy L. Sayers

One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Dawn French

Turning 50 can be difficult, sometimes dangerous, for women. The danger is in that blip that can come from the fact that you become invisible, and if you're not careful and don't embrace that, it can trip you up and you lose confidence.

Jack Olsen

We're turning over every rock, so to speak.

Bjork

Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical in itself. It's interesting to see that development.

Steve Cox

I think Knute Rockne is turning over in his grave.

Charles Spurgeon

The wishing gate opens into nothing.

Al Stewart

The literati in their cellarsPerform semantic tarantellas.I wish I did it half as well as them.

Al Pacino

My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.

David Guetta

Wish I could spin my world into reverse just to have you back again

Caitlin Moran

I wish I could learn that just three drinks is enough, but I have not learned that.

Bryan Davis

Daryl shrugged. "If wishes were wardrobes, we'd be in Narnia.

Catherynne M. Valente

I wish you the best that can be hoped for, and no worse than can be expected.

William Shakespeare

Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.(attributed to)

William Shakespeare

If wishes would prevail with me, my purpose should not fail with me.