Famous Quotes & Sayings

Camille Claudel

You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!

Hoda Kotb

When I first came to NBC, I thought it was going to be swimming with the sharks, all men for themselves, be careful and all that. I have to tell you I learned that you can be kind and a hard worker and move up. You don't have to play dirty or do things that you think happens at big corporations.

Dick Gephardt

The sanctity of a woman's right to control her own destiny is a moral force of its own... I came to realize that the question of choice is to be answered, not by the state, but by the individual.

Chick Corea

When I came to New York after high school in 1959 and started to meet musicians, 'Hot House' was like a standard jam session tune.

Douglas Coupland

I think way back, the '20s or the '30s, when Kodak came out with the Brownie and they put a list of instructions on the box, like how to use this thing, I think someone arbitrarily said, 'Make sure the person in the photograph is smiling.' And we went from that one sort of set of industrial instructions to this whole culture of perkiness.

Howie Mandel

After I impulsively revealed that I have OCD on a talk show, I was devastated. I often do things without thinking. That's my ADD/ADHD talking. Out in public, after I did the show, people came to me and said, 'Me, too.' They were the most comforting words I've ever heard.

Howard Schultz

I think my whole life, because of where I came from, I had a fear of failure.

Henry Petroski

I have always been fascinated by the way things work and how they came to take the form that they did. Writing about these things satisfies my curiosity about the made world while at the same time giving me an opportunity to design a new explanation for the processes that shape it.

Gary Johnson

There was a big difference between Ron Paul and me when it came to the 'no.' His 'no' was philosophical. It was reasoned. It was right. My 'no' actually put a stop to legislation. It cut spending. Mine carried further than just no.

Eberhard Weber

Orchestras are not used to playing the kind of stuff jazz musicians like to play. It requires a lot of rehearsal and recording time, so it's much easier to do on a synth or sampler. So, we came up with that idea.

Franz Wright

I used to comfort myself with the idea of a book with serrated, detachable pages, so that you could read the thing the way it came and then shuffle the pages, like a giant deck of cards, and read the book in an entirely different order. It would be a different book, wouldn't it? It would be one of infinite books.

Barry Ritholtz

Outcome is simply the final score: Who won the game; what numbers came up in a roll of the dice; how high did a stock go. Outcome is the result, regardless of the method used to achieve it. It is not controllable.

Marianne Williamson

Being a parent gives you historical perspective. You have thoughts about how you fit into a larger generational drama - those who came before and those who will come after.

We came out and played soft early on. We didn't help each other out on either end of the court in the first half. And when you're facing a tough team like Northwestern, you can't play that way and hope to have a chance to win.

We came out and played our game. We're in Canada, the gold stays here in Canada.

We came out and played our game. We kept chipping away and finally got it.

We came out and played our game, and everybody had a hand in it.

We came out and played loose and confident. We played smart. We played very hard.

We came out and played horrible the other day. It's our first game back, whether it's them or DePaul, whatever, we need to come out and establish ourselves.

We came out and played hard. We didn't want to go home in second place.

We came out and played hard. It was important for us to do that, especially after the tie. But we bounced back and played well.

Alexander Ovechkin

We came out and played hard. I'm happy to score three goals to win this game. It's my first hat trick in the NHL and it feels like my first goal in the NHL.

We came out and played excellent zone defense. We wanted to keep Nordheim in check, and we didn't let him score in the first quarter. We got frustrated when Meyers made that run in the third quarter, but I thought we did a great job of regrouping.

We came out and out-smarted them and were quicker and more physical. They are big, but not that physical. We got first blood, went real hard, and got all the rebounds.

We came out and made some easy shots down low. Then they made adjustments.

We came out and lost a doubles point, which gave momentum to Marquette. But we battled especially hard in singles and were able to pull out four of the six singles matches.

We came out and kind of set the tone right away. We left them know that it was our game but our defense and intensity were really the keys.

Jon Anderson

We came out and kind of panicked a little bit.

We came out and jumped on them. One more hit would have gotten us in real good shape. But they battled back.

We came out and it was a little messy, sloppy, in the beginning. Then all of a sudden we started hitting shots. We were hitting shot after shot and it felt good because on the road we were shooting pretty bad.

Steve King

We came out and hit some outside shots and that got us going. We had a hard time in the post game during the first half because Lejeune was doubling down and that forced us to hit from the outside.

We came out and hit a couple of shots and got the momentum. We just kept it going from there.

We came out and handled 'em. The score shows it.