Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steven Wright

Some people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.

Some parents are afraid to do this because they are afraid the offer will be withdrawn. But at worst, they will just decline to provide extra aid.

Some people when they come in are actually afraid to touch parts of this display.

Speculators on Wall Street are responsible for prices going through the roof and now they have nothing more to be afraid of.

So, to me, it's a question of not being afraid to embrace the tradition but also not being afraid to dive into boiling oil on occasion.

Jessye Norman

One has to draw upon one's own musical thoughts and one's own musical acumen, and not to be afraid to let that come into one's work. Perhaps that comes with more experience, but perhaps it also comes with daring, and believing that you should.

Steven Chapman

Now, everybody's afraid that they're going to get swamped with people. They just don't have time to do it. then there's the fear of litigation.

Now it's time to show our stuff. It's the big test, and we've got all the confidence in the world right now. We've got confidence in our inside guys, and they're not afraid to kick it out to us. And we have all the confidence in our rebounding, too.

Now my own party is afraid to support candidates like me.

Now after everything is said and done, I miss the high school that was supposed to be my alma mater. I'm afraid to get my class ring, because we might just move back again and I'd be stuck.

Once we came back north, it seemed like we tightened or were afraid to make an error. Hopefully we'll get over that and go into the Division IV tournament and make some noise.

The mood of the people now is different. The people will laugh now, and that is what the authorities are most afraid of.

The Monetary Policy Committee is back facing a familiar dilemma a housing market that is recovering well, with households not afraid to take on more debt, but real economy and inflation numbers which are much softer.

Jeff Garcia

The system hasn't changed, but the emphasis has. In different ways Coach Erickson has said, Let's not be afraid to put the ball downfield, to make things happen.

The success of Amazon would suggest their customers aren't that afraid of buying online.

Linda Tripp

The terror was emotionally difficult because I was so afraid that I'd put my children through so much with this Clinton thing, I didn't want to now leave them without a mom.

Mark Stevenson

The thing I like the best about this group is how focused everybody is and how hard each gymnast is working so early in preparing for the season. They are not afraid to tell each other that the effort needs to be picked up at times, because this group has the mentality that it is not about everybody not about individuals. They are very excited about learning and listening to each other and the coaches.

The thing, of course, you're afraid of as much as anything right now is him jumping in there and getting a pull or twisting an ankle or something like that ... and that slows him down even more. It's very scary and you have to be careful how you handle it.

Candace Kita

I've never been a waitress, hostess, bartender or any of the typical side jobs you'd expect an actor to have. This is partly because I've always been afraid of dropping plates on customer's heads.

Tim Hudson

I've been afraid to use it, but all of a sudden, there it was. I haven't had a good one in three years, but it was there today.

I've been afraid to ask where that sensor goes, but I'm sure it does a good job.

Jessica Mauboy

I've always been a big fan of Mariah Carey. I think it's her personality. As much as she has an amazing voice, she has a crazy personality and I love the fact that she's not afraid to hide that.

Stephen Moyer

I used to teach kids when I was younger. When I was about 14 or 15 I started teaching children drama and something that I used to say to them was, 'Don't be afraid.' People would be afraid of forgetting their lines or something.

Thank God, my family is safe. I was so afraid he was going to get out.

Somewhat afraid to do their jobs -- afraid to touch people and by the nature of our job we have to touch people. It's scary.

Mariella Frostrup

Television executives only commission something that somebody else has already commissioned that's doing well on another station - they're afraid of expecting an audience to concentrate for longer than three minutes on any particular item.

Sometimes, they just get afraid to leave, and they will do things that don't always make sense, like run, even though they were going to be out within a short period of time.

It was two different teams. (Friday) night I felt we came out ready to play, and that was a big game for us. One thing I was afraid of was having a physical and emotional letdown, and I felt that definitely happened today. The feeling in the locker room before the game was mellow, and there wasn't much talk about basketball. Rice Lake came out and got after us. That's what good teams do.

It was almost like we were afraid to go after the first pitch because you don't want to make the first out on the first pitch. He forced us to hit his pitches, and we didn't have a very good day.

These wolves are completely terrified of us. They need to be. If they have even a chance at survival in the wild they need to be afraid of humans.

The secretary of state and Rick Perry must be very afraid to throw up all the roadblocks they're attempting to throw up against us which are both unlawful and unconstitutional. The partisan secretary of state is doing all he can to deny the people a real choice for change in November. The governor certainly is calling the shots.

Craig Smith

The story was that in her recovery, she pulled out her back by favoring her foot. That was the official story. But of course she had had this dreadful breast cancer, and everybody was terribly afraid it had metastasized to her back, but she wouldn't talk to us about it.