Famous Quotes & Sayings

The competition is the strongest it's ever been. Any more, if you have a bad night, you're going to finish 15th or 16th. Every night, there are at least 10 guys on kill.

Robert McFarlane

The conclusion that many uniformed military came away from Vietnam with was that political interference, dominance of strategy and even tactics were a very bad way to conduct a war, and that indeed, if that was going to be our practice, that we shouldn't wage conflict again.

Neal Stephenson

Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass, albeit in the somewhat narrow technical sense that he could trace his ancestry back up a long line of slightly less highly evolved stupendous badasses to that first self-replicating gizmo---which, given the number and variety of its descendants, might justifiably be described as the most stupendous badass of all time. Everyone and everything that wasn't a stupendous badass was dead.

Serena Williams

I love who I am, and I encourage other people to love and embrace who they are. But it definitely wasn't easy - it took me a while.

Sean Connery

Some age. Others mature.

Michelle Obama

Believe it or not, when we were first married, our combined monthly student loan bills were actually higher than our mortgage.

Michelle Obama

We were so young, so in love, and so in debt.

Michelle Obama

When you've worked hard, and done well, and walked through that doorway of opportunity...you do not slam it shut behind you...you reach back, and you give other folks the same chances that helped you succeed.

Shonda Rhimes

At some point, you have to make a decision. Boundaries don't keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That's how we're made. So, you can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them

Neil deGrasse Tyson

With one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) that all humans who have ever been born. Yet many people continue to assert that it is we who are in charge of the world

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Science is basically an inoculation against charlatans.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

'As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the rovers on Mars, the International Space Station, the space shuttle, telescopes yet to orbit, and missions yet to fly?' Answer: one-half of one percent of each tax dollar. Half a penny. I'd prefer it were more: perhaps two cents on the dollar. Even during the storied Apollo era, peak NASA spending amounted to little more than four cents on the tax dollar.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Countless women are alive today because of ideas stimulated by a design flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

If an alien lands on your front lawn and extends an appendage as a gesture of greeting, before you get friendly, toss it an eightball. If the appendage explodes, then the alien was probably made of antimatter. If not, then you can proceed to take it to your leader.

Nancy Banks Smith

In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

A what? (Fang) Badass demon with a superiority complex who picks his teeth with bones of infants. Let’s just keep it simple and say he’s a demon I want out of the human realm. ASAP. (Thorn)

Theodore Roosevelt

Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot, but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.

Michelle Branch

When I'm having a bad day, I pick up my guitar.

Michelangelo

It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.

The combination of bad weather and a lifeless wicket has sent punters piling in for the draw and if the bad weather continues it is looking good for them .

The hour of sleep you lose is bad ... but I love the daytime in the evening.

The horse was moaning and (Smith) was moaning, ... He looked up at me, and he had a bad look on his face.

The homeless situation is bad and getting worse as we have more hurricanes displacing people. We could live with things as they are now or give people an opportunity to turn their lives around.

The Home Depot thing is really not new news, ... Is it surprising that a retailer had a bad holiday season? Not really. The market is actually doing OK today.

Jason Arnott

The hit felt up high and that's why I lost my cool. I didn't think I'd get all those penalties, but I feel pretty bad about it.

The history of 'Rush Hour' was the history of dodging bullets, ... One bad move by a producer or one bad casting call ... one wrong move and we would've been dead. Everything fell into place. It was just one of those things.

The ice was terrible. The league should start giving out fines, that's how bad the ice is. Guys are going to get hurt.

The ice was really different tonight. I don't know if it was because we were playing different rocks, but it curled more even though we were on the same sheet. We just got fooled into taking the same broom as this morning. I wish I could have given you a better game. It's too bad it had to happen at the quarters of the Scott, but this will just motivate us to get back here.

Olli Jokinen

The ice is so bad you can't even try to make a move, because there's a chance you'll just lose the puck. It's better to just shoot, so you don't embarrass yourself.

Mattias Ohlund

The five-on-three, me and (teammate) Brendan (Morrison) got mixed up. It was a bad goal from our part, obviously. But we didn't play good enough to beat these guys.

The first year with T.O. was as good as you can get. The second year was as bad as you get. It didn't work and we've moved on. Mike has proved he's a tough and durable. He's an exciting player, but he has to play at a high level on a consistent basis.

The first year was the hardest for us. There weren't any bad surprises. It is just another kind of life, maybe more comfortable than in Russia from one side. But from another side, we didn't have enough money, we didn't know the language and it was the hardest thing for us.

Dave Tippett

The focus for our team is doing things right. We talked about habits ... That's not turning the puck over, that's not taking bad penalties, that's not giving outnumbered rushes. Those are habits you have to have in place going into the playoffs.