Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maria Shriver

I think that public service is tough on a family -- no ifs, ands, buts about it. And I have my own personal wishes, but they're not always front and center.

Paul Terry

Over the season, there are lots of ifs and buts about the way it turned out, but they deserve their success.

Jose Canseco

Well, it's a true statement. No ifs and buts about it,

Rafer Alston

We should be 3-0, there are no ifs, ands or buts about it.

Brad Buckman

There's no ifs, ands or buts about it. They played great 'D.' It's a tough way to go out. You all saw the Duke game. They held them to 54 points.

Brad Buckman

There's no ifs, ands or buts about it, I mean they played great D.

Danny Smith

In the third game they were all perfect. In the 10th frame there were no ifs, ands or buts about the three pitches. Of all my 300s this one was the one I was most confident.

Tyrone Calico

The first part of having surgery, that first week, was depressing because I knew I was done for the whole season. There were no ifs, ands or buts coming back early, you were done. It was hard the first couple of months watching the guys (play).

Mike Devaney

It's a massive game. It's probably the most important game that we've played all year long. We really now have no margin for error at all. So we've got to go on the road and play well and we really need to win. There's really no ifs ands or buts about it. We really have to go and play well and win a game, which we're certainly capable of doing.

Richard McGrath

We want to set the right example and send the right message. Even though this money is coming from contributions, we still think it's very important to be cost-efficient and responsible with expenses.

Luke Pasqualino

Pretty good, you know it's nice when you get people coming up to you saying 'Can I have a photo or an autograph'; it's a compliment, I think.

Michael Strahan

The great thing coming from sports is you understand the concept of a team. It leaves no room for being selfish, and that's something I picked up from home.

M. Night Shyamalan

I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end.

Michael Farr

The post-Labor Day rally, I wasn't sold on. The fact that we didn't really crash over summer, I thought was a terrific blessing. I think sentiment is going to drive the market from here. The numbers are there, the numbers have not changed. The economy has not changed, it is still good, slowing down a little bit. We've got a nice stable platform. Earnings for second quarter were fabulous. They ought to be pretty good, I think, coming in here to the third quarter.

James Awad

The positive today is that oil is coming down, the negative is that the housing numbers are worse than expected.

Mark Potok

The point of doing all of this is so that we as a society can move forward. And the time is really coming when we really are going to turn and face the future.

Terry Borr

The pleasant surprise was how our defensive line played. One question I had coming out of preseason practice was how we would play defensively.

Carly Rager

We are seeing a lot of the taffeta coming back with side pleats and drapes.

Charles Dickens

It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.

Charles Dickens

I am a neat hand at cookery, and I'll tell you what I knocked up for my Christmas-eve dinner in the Library Cart. I knocked up a beefsteak-pudding for one, with two kidneys, a dozen oysters, and a couple of mushrooms thrown in. It's a pudding to put a man in good humour with everything, except the two bottom buttons of his waistcoat.

Charles Stross

I don't want to permanently damage myself! On the other hand, a couple of days off the keyboard tends to make things somewhat better.

Charles Stross

I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others.

Alanis Morissette

Over the last couple of years, I've really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it.

Alan Moore

I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps as good or better than the original work. But the vast majority of them are pointless.

Alan Arkin

I played guitar. I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.

Alan Ball

There are times when I am directing, and there are a couple of moments I didn't get the way I wanted, but I know I still have other angles to shoot and I have to be done by noon; I move on.

Al Michaels

I still believe Emmitt has enough left in the tank to be a productive back over the next couple of seasons.

Alan Hovhaness

This is not to say that the Scots are not fine people, but they were all sort of... well, my grandfather was a minister and sort of Protestant, and this was rather depressing to me.

Akhenaton

Scorn also to depress thy competitor by any dishonest or unworthy method; strive to raise thyself above him only by excelling him; so shall thy contest for superiority be crowned with honour, if not with success.

David Sedaris

It can take years. With the first draft, I just write everything. With the second draft, it becomes so depressing for me, because I realize that I was fooled into thinking I'd written the story. I hadn't-I had just typed for a long time. So then I have to carve out a story from the 25 or so pages. It's in there somewhere-but I have to find it. I'll then write a third, fourth, and fifth draft, and so on.

Dave Barry

What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially if he has had between four and seven beers.

Dave Barry

The United States tried, by depressing the clutch of diplomacy and downshifting the gearshift lever of rhetoric, to remain neutral, but it became increasingly obvious that the nation was going to get into a war, especially since it was almost 1812.

Dave Barry

You should never pick up a newspaper when you're feeling good, because every newspaper has a special department, called the Bummer Desk, which is responsible for digging up depressing front-page stories.

David R. Brower

Have fun saving the world, or you are just going to depress yourself.

Byron Katie

Mind is infinitely creative. And when it's not stuck, that's where the joy comes from. Something happens, and the way we think about it, understand it, see it, is actually hilarious, whereas before it used to depress us.

Caitlin Moran

What art should be about,' they will say, 'is revealing exquisite and resonant truths about the human condition.' Well, to be honest - no, it shouldn’t. I mean, it can occasionally, if it wants to; but really, how many penetrating insights to human nature do you need in one lifetime? Two? Three? Once you’ve realised that no one else has a clue what they’re doing, either, and that love can be totally pointless, any further insights into human nature just start getting depressing really.

Jonathan Vilma

The perception for us is we're going to be great. We have guys people may be worried about, but we're not worried about them. You're talking about two guys that are playmakers.

Jeff Lowell

The point of the sport is to try to peak at the end of the season, and our guys did that today.

Kelly Green

We are always playing for something. We told our guys that we need to get better and that's what we did.

Jon Clark

We started out with a lot of expectations and we didn't meet some of those. The guys will always remember the last stand and will be proud of it.

Jason Treutelaar

We struggled to score and that has been the issue for this team the whole season. We need guys to step up and knock down shots. When we get good, open looks, we need to make the shots, and we're not doing that right now.

Lute Olson

There are some guys you have to kick in the butt to get the response you want. There are some you need to pat on the back. He's one you need to pat on the back.

Joe Becerra

There are some guys here who could play in the NBA.

Edward Atorino

There are some deep-pocketed guys who want to own newspapers.

Gary Player

When you've got two guys 1-up with two to play, you automatically think, 'we've got it', especially after they'd battled their hearts out to get back in those matches.

Charles Dickens

Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

Charles Dickens

Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.

Alan Perlis

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.

Alain Prost

I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that.

Al Pacino

Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's bizarre, diabolical. It's exciting.

Akshay Kumar

I'm glad that I'm being acclaimed as an actor. Today, when my hard work has paid off I can chill out about it.

David McCullough

The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In what tone do you begin? I almost have to have a scene in my mind.

David McCullough

When the founders wrote about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, they didn't mean longer vacations and more comfortable hammocks. They meant the pursuit of learning. The pursuit of improvement and excellence. In hard work is happiness.

David Krumholtz

Hail, Caesar! is about, in my opinion - I love that movie - but I think it's about the idea that as glamorous as the business is, and for as much hoopla that surrounds moviemaking, ultimately it's just a job. If you focus on it, you can do it really well, and it takes a lot of hard work.

Donte Whitner

We stopped him from getting outside the pocket, and we were making him uncomfortable. Once he spiked the ball, I knew we'd got to him.

Lauren Miller

'Bridesmaids' proved there was an audience there that we knew was there. It proved that women go to the movies. They want to see story about themselves.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that I would do this.

Natalie Massenet

When I started Net-a-Porter, I knew nothing. And I was pregnant. Starting a new venture and being pregnant for the first time are pretty similar in many ways. If you knew what was going to happen to you, you wouldn't venture down that road.

Nathaniel Smith

If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find so many friends in England as I suppose they do.

Greg Nossaman

When we were down nine on Thursday night, we knew Brandon would be able to play Saturday, so we said, let's try to (win this) so he can play another game. That was motivational.

Chris Schwartz

When we were down early, I wasn't worried about it because I knew we were trying. It was just a matter of our shots going in. Then, when they started going in, (the Rough Riders) couldn't stop us.

Ray Allen

When I was open, I just knew it was time to make a shot.

Mike Rumph

When I was in sixth grade, honestly, I thought I knew everything. I still don't know nothing. I'm still learning stuff.

Bob Mould

I don't like the dislocation of being away for months at a time. It's not conducive to having a life.

David Rockefeller

It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months.

Bruce Smith

We were blazing. Six months after we opened, 9/11 happened.

Alan Trammell

Losing gets old. It's just been a heck of a month, to be honest with you.

Gary Griffin

Whether it takes two months or two weeks whatever,

Barbra Streisand

I'm a terrible lip-syncer anyway because I have to be in the moment, and I can't lip-sync to something I recorded three months before.

Delta Goodrem

If I get a cold, it lasts for a month.

Dianna Agron

There was this project I really wanted before 'Glee' and I didn't get cast - I went in about 13 times and I was so bummed when I didn't get it. But then a month later I got cast on 'Glee,' and I felt like it was meant to happen.

Shimon Peres

The pope said he will go in the first months of next year.

Jan Jones

We're just watching the legislation. We're not lobbying it. We're not negotiating.

John Huber

We're just going to be watching and monitoring.

James Farrior

Yeah, he's watching his weight all right. Watching it expand.

Betha Aris

I am still watching you as well Mr. Whitey!

Sandra Bullock

I feel like I always have someone watching my back.

Alan Trammel

He's a keeper. We'll be watching him for years.

Viggo Mortensen

there he is, I'm watching him, there he goes.

Stacy Keibler

I think there were a lot of women out there watching and voting, and there were a lot of men out there watching, but not voting.

Willie Parker

Man, watching Jerome all day long, he just is what he is.