Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Henderson

We needed to do something well for ourselves in our own house and I'm the first one to admit when we fell short of our goals. And I definitely fell short of mine with the first fumble.

Rod Stewart

As you get older, your metabolism slows down. You've got to admit it. It's nothing to be ashamed of if you have lived your life to the full.

Ricki-Lee Coulter

I think 'pop' can be a bit of a dirty word. People are very cool in Australia. They don't like to admit that they like pop. There are people who listen to Triple J and cool stuff like that, but commercial radio is massive, and if you look at the sales of the pop songs every week, people love pop music.

Richard J. Needham

Strong people make as many mistakes as weak people. Difference is that strong people admit their mistakes, laugh at them, learn from them. That is how they become strong.

E. O. Wilson

Usually when the public gets admitted to something, it's the end of the bubble. The exponential growth in private equity and hedge funds in the last decade is mind-boggling. There's a bubble here that's going to bust. There's too much money. That's true in venture capital and it's true of hedge funds as well.

Pat Riley

We're a long ways away, and they'll be the first ones to admit it. There's a lot of good here that manifests itself throughout the season. Right now, it's spotty.

We are the first to admit that there could be outbreaks there, although there are currently no indications.

Karl Hobbs

We couldn't solve that zone today. That was our problem. As a coach, I don't like to admit it, but I can't deny the truth.

Gary Numan

I would never take part in one of those Eighties nostalgia tours, although I've been asked many times, because it's like admitting you have nothing new to offer. As long as I can keep making music I'm happy with, and people want to come to my gigs to hear it, I'll carry on.

I would like to make it clear why we're doing this fiscal responsiveness to the needs of the city is top priority. Now is the time for this initiative because many previous supporters admit they were confused by the $300,000 campaign, including scare tactics. Most everyone was critical of the non-secret vote, the sunset clause was hypocritical, the tax is unfair and unnecessary, and this is the only way to attain some fiscal responsibility.

I would like the Air Force to take responsibility and admit that they are wrong, admit that there were screw-ups in the system, admit that there are problems that need taken care of and do something about it.

Louis Gerstner

I would admit to you that we could take some credit, but there's a fair amount of luck in that too,

Most of them say they don't have credit cards, but admit they are getting the applications in the mail regularly.

Most of our corporate clients are looking for credible spokespersons. I don't think he'll fall into that category after admitting he's been not telling the truth for 14 years.

Linda Chavez

Most immigration opponents are loath to admit it, at least publicly, but they are worried that the huge influx of Hispanics will somehow change America for the worse. But those fears are unfounded. Some may talk about the browning of America, but immigrants are a net positive.

Mel was the first to admit that those Yankee teams won and won and won during the era he was the broadcaster for them,

We just decided that to best serve the public. There are people out there who have still not filed. I hate to admit it, but I'm one of them.

You'll never find anyone at AOL Time Warner to admit it, but in the best of all possible worlds, having had one out this summer and one this winter would be preferable to both coming out at year's end,

Window dressing is about as clear as mud. Nobody will admit to it.

Lew Wasserman

Will I do something different? Probably, since to be quite blunt about it, what we did the first time resulted in an admittedly somewhat bizarre, but guilty, verdict.

Pankaj Mishra

The advocates of retaliatory wars will continue to assume a much simpler reality with their hoary oppositions: Religious and secular, backward and enlightened, free and unfree. But if we are to admit how deeply and irrevocably interconnected our world is, then we must find new ways to break the cycle of counter-productive violence.

That would be an old dog learning new tricks. This is not a company or a management team that has been willing to admit they are making mistakes.

The 16-year-old has admitted that he came into possession of the gun about a year ago. He found it in a bag on the street and took it home. He kept it for personal protection.

The problem is getting buy-in of a comprehensive plan. Because at the end of the day, it's going to get pretty political about where we're going to invest money for higher education. It's something I would readily admit we ought to do and haven't.

We are disappointed, but hardly surprised, that the company has as much as admitted that it has no interest in further direct negotiations. Management has been largely unresponsive to our attempts to negotiate in earnest for a fair contract.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

You have people who believe they are scientifically literate but, in fact, are not. And I don't mind if you're not scientifically literate, but just admit that to yourself, so that you'll know, and perhaps you can take a first step to try to eradicate that.

Jon Hamm

Where you may have had six, seven officers in one office out patrolling any one night, it's dropped down to two or three. Anyone, I think, will admit this. If you drive up and down the freeway, you see people doing 85 to 90 mph. It's not unusual because they know they can get away with it.

We were very concerned. Tuesday, first thing in the morning, we brought her in, admitted her here, they put her on the IV.

Howard Rheingold

When it comes to technology, you're in a position of your children having to teach you. How often do kids have any power or authority? How often do parents come to them and listen to them? But it takes a parent with some courage to admit they don't know and want to learn.

We are a watershed town. Most people here don't like to admit it but we are. The Farm River runs right through town. We need to protect that resource. You can't have oil leaking into the ground. We certainly had help in forming that, but I am very proud of that.

Johnnie Cochran

We proved that the most important evidence against O.J. Simpson had supposedly been found in unusual places by a thoroughly racist LAPD detective-a detective who had been caught on audiotapes made years earlier admitting the LAPD planted evidence-a detective who for some unknown reason had been present in places he had no legitimate reason to be.

It doesn't mean we're not admitting students with a B average and an 1,100 SAT.

Nick Knight

was about admitting my guilt of promoting new clothes each season. There was something that didn't feel morally exactly right about it. Enough money is squandered on fashion - I wanted to make a statement that clothes from the past are still valid. We chose Oxfam because it's where so many stylists get thrift from, and it felt circular for the money to go back to Oxfam.