Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sherrilyn Kenyon

It was one of the few places where someone remembered his name. Yeah, okay, so he felt like Sam Malone on Cheers, but there was no Norm or Cliff sitting at the bar here. More like Spike and Switchblade.’ (Wulf)

Terry Hoeppner

Hardy thinks they're cheering for him. I'm not going to tell him differently.

Terry Pratchett

Ingenuity and incongruity always cheer me up.

Margaret Heffernan

I'm all for ambition and stretch goals. I set them for myself. But leadership isn't the same as cheerleading. Believing in something is a necessary but absolutely insufficient condition for making it come true.

Marco Tempest

We willingly enter fictional worlds where we cheer our heroes and cry for friends we never had.

Melissa Rauch

I was kind of like the Rhea Perlman of the bar. I was like Carla on 'Cheers.' People were more afraid of me. There was a point where I got a little surly. There were only so many chicken wings I could serve before losing the smile on my face.

Michael Bay

For me, the great joy is to watch an audience watching what I've made. To hear not a peep from the audience at the right moment, and then to hear the laughs and the cheers.

Emo Philips

I was feeling a bit down, I went to a therapist a few times, at a hundred bucks a pop. But then I realized that no therapy session would ever cheer me up half as much as if I was just strolling along and found a hundred dollar bill.

Emo Philips

I saw a psychologist once because I thought I had depression. It cost me $100. When I left, I realised that there's nothing he could have said that would cheer me up as much as if I found a $100 bill on my way home.

James Beard

Good bread and good butter go together. They are one of the perfect marriages in gastronomy, and they never fail to cheer me.

Henry Adams

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

Henry Blodget

[T]here's a difference between confident leadership and empty-headed delusion or cheerleading. And this is a difference that many CEOs miss.

Plautus

In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.

Phil Jones

In an odd way (the death of John Daly) is cheering news!

John Ratzenberger

It was the last generation of writers [ the Cheers] that had grown up reading books instead of watching TV. So you weren't getting anything that was derivative of I Love Lucy or Happy Days. You were getting real characters [like those] they read in P.G. Wodehouse or Dickens or somewhere along the line, because they had all grown up with a love of literature.

John Robbins

It may be healthier to eat beer and franks with cheer and thanks, than to eat sprouts and bread with doubts and dread.

James Fallows

Considering all the different ways in which China has interacted with the world in the last 50 years, considering all the challenges ordinary Chinese people have to put up with, it's beneficial and, and, by any rational standard, non-threatening to have national energies channeled into this kind of competition. It's touching to see so many ordinary Chinese crowds cheering for their new heroes.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Let's be cheerful! We have no more right to steal the brightness out of the day for our own family than we have to steal the purse of a stranger.

George Gissing

Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman.

Johnny Weir

When you have an audience standing and screaming the entire way through the short program and cheering every element you do, whether it's footwork, or spin, or a jump, to have that kind of emotion coming at you from every direction in the building, it's the most amazing sensation you can get as a sportsman.

Shawn Ryan

Cheers was one of the first shows where I paid attention to the writers because their [work] was better than everything else I was watching. The writers weren't afraid to let a joke fall slightly flat if it advanced the characters.

Sherry Argov

With a woman he's crazy about, he'll put in all the overtime in the world. He'll be doing things for you, he'll be considerate, he'll want to please you, he'll try to cheer you up if you are down, and he will enjoy every moment because you are the person he values most.

The important thing is how you use (the crowd). I know they're cheering for the other team, but there's so much energy, you just have to use it to your advantage.

Albert Einstein

The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

A. E. Housman

And silence sounds no worse than cheers / After death has stopped the ears.

The typical fan is sitting back and cheering and watching and getting absorbed into it - but with fantasy sports, you're competing independently and controlling the outcomes in a little different way.

Jason Mitchell

This is our last home meet, and we wanted to go out with a bang. It felt great to hear the home crowd cheering one last time.

This has really become a spectator sport. When your team is up everyone is in the stands cheering and when your team is down, people are on the sidelines. But euphoria about the war going right and depression about it going wrong represents a very short-term view of the market.

Well, back to the old drawing board.

Maureen Johnson

There is nothing about a bad situation that fourteen hyper cheerleaders can't worsen.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

I wanted to say something to cheer her up. I had a feeling that cheering her up might be a lot of work. I was thinking of how sometimes, trying to say the right thing to people, it’s like some kind of brain surgery, and you have to tweak exactly the right part of the lobe. Except with talking, it’s more like brain surgery with old, rusted skewers and things, maybe like those things you use to eat lobster, but brown. And you have to get exactly the right place, and you’re touching around in the brain but the patient, she keeps jumping and saying, “Ow.

Michael Moore

As far as today is concerned, there has been no impact at all from the ban. Everybody is cheerful and supportive.

Probably more than likely there will be a whole pile of people just plastered to the TV and watching. We'll be sitting around the big screen, cheering and talking big.