Famous Quotes & Sayings

Damien Hirst

It's a great advantage to be able to play people off against each other, isn't it? You go to Christie's and get a quote on something. And then you go to Phillips' and you tell them what Christie's has given you. I like auctions for artists.

I came from a very poor background. I came from children's homes; I came from a violent family, and against all the odds, I succeeded.

Daniel Suarez

I'm against unanswerable concentrations of power, whether that be government or private industry or religious figures - anybody who is not accountable to the larger social climate or society for the power they wield, that concerns me. I'm very pro-democracy.

Daria Werbowy

I've never had to rebel against my parents; I never had that sort of teen-angst thing where you didn't get along with them. My dad's always been my buddy.

Barbara Ehrenreich

I routinely oscillate between exultation and despair. Maybe at the end of the day I feel pretty good about what I've written, but the next morning I see that it's crap. Then I start again - make a new outline, do some more research, try to rethink the whole question.

Kim Gordon

Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up. I mean, who made up all the rules in the culture? Men - white male corporate society. So why wouldn't a woman want to rebel against that?

Kim Cattrall

Shows like 'Sex and the City' got women involved again in a political way. They were drawn into the personal stories of the four women who together make up one complete cosmopolitan woman. We want to have community, and the show filled that void in our lives: friendship between women.

Kim Cattrall

Theatre is immediate, it's alive, you're there with the audience, it can't be done again and again and again and again, it's organic.

Jeff Conine

You know you are getting old when guys you've played with and against become your manager.

Robbie Keane

You know with Chelsea and the players they have that it will be tough, but everyone is looking forward to it. They are the team to beat and people want to play against them.

Tomas Vokoun

You do it all the time. People get traded and you play against your ex-teammates all the time, so you're used to it.

You do have a lot of personal attacks against the president, but they don't detract from the real issues that matter to the American people.

You'd much rather be recognized by the pollsters and the people in the community than not. The thing we have to guard against is living in the past.

You'd like to get Fergus in early in the year and he may even play this week against Collingwood - we'll wait and see - but he's the sort of player that's just crying out for an opportunity and I think we can find one for him.

You dig a hole against a good team like that and you're not going to come back very often. They had us playing a speed we're not used to.

You'd have to say all of them, but Barry Sanders was special. I remember the one highlight film against the Bears -- that's the one that stands out -- and he's had a couple of great games against us. The guy is amazing to watch and to play against. I might have whiffed on him once, but I saw a lot of others whiff on him, too. You can't take any one back for granted because others will make you whiff, too, but he really stands out.

Kyle Boller

You have to answer, especially against a team that's going for the playoffs.

Tiger Woods

You have the top-end players playing, which is great. It's nice to have a field like this to compete in. We always enjoy it, going against the best, and it's going to be a lot of fun.

Peter Eigen

Today we have started a dialogue between a champion of the global fight against poverty and the worldwide organization at the vanguard of the anti-corruption movement. This cooperation has the potential to save millions of lives and improve the quality of life for millions more.

Today we had a fabulous team effort. Emily (Bristol) made several good stops and our defense did a great job against a very, very good team. We made sure that they didn't get any real good shots at the goal.

Today we filed a formal letter, a five-page letter with the Office of Professional Responsibility...complaining about the consistent flow of leaks which we believe are from the office of the independent counsel, and which we believe are creating an unfair environment for this matter to proceed against Miss Lewinsky.

To have a really good, close, tight contest like that is invaluable and if you could orchestrate it, that's the sort of game you'd orchestrate I reckon - a good hard tussle for the whole game and then to think it's over and then having to go again - that's priceless.

To have 36 points against one of the best front courts in the area and one of the best players in the country. He was the best player on the court that night.

To go up against the guys we've faced lately and hold our own, that's not too bad. We've gone through kind of a buzz saw.

To go into the fourth quarter 37-37 against a team that is as athletic as Concord, that?s a positive for us tonight. It can?t be the ultimate satisfaction, though. Our work has to pay off with wins. They need that as a team.

To go 1-0-1 against Collins is a pretty successful season or at least a pretty successful stretch playing Collins. Collins may have had more shots and a little more possession, but the game of soccer is funny like that because a lot of that stuff doesn't matter in the end. In the end, we're both 0-0. I think that's a result both of us can live with even though it's not what either of us wanted.

Pankaj Mishra

Though there are laws against blasphemy and insult to religion in many European countries, France has institutionalised its anti-clerical past by proscribing religion from public life.

Thus saith the LORD; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the LORD; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.

Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his dwellingplaces; and the city shall be builded upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof.

William Williams

Thus having prepared their buds against a sure winter the wise trees stand sleeping in the cold.

We didn't come out and play as hard as they did early. (Stewart County) had a reason to be here. Everybody plays their best game against us, so we've always got to play our best game.

We didn't come out and dictate like we needed to do. We sat back after we got the 2-0 lead, and against a team like North Dakota and how hard they work, when we sit back it's hard to come back.

LeBron James

We did not want to get blown out against a team in the Eastern Conference.