Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every beginning is cheerful.

Kurt Busch

Dale Earnhardt told me it doesn't matter if fans boo or cheer, as long as they're making noise.

Orison Swett Marden

Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life's machinery.

Oliver Cromwell

No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going. Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking. Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.

Mason Cooley

Change is upsetting. Repetition is tedious. Three cheers for variation!

Michael Chang

Obviously the Asian American community wants you to do well. They are cheering you on no matter what the circumstances.

Marie Lu

[...] Tess and I are a good match. She understands intimately where I came from. She can cheer me up on my darkest days. It's as if she came perfectly happy home instead of what Kaede just told me. I feel a relaxing warmth at the thought, realizing suddenly how much I'm anticipating meeting up with Tess again. Where she goes, I go, and vice versa. Peas in a pod. Then there's June. Even the thought of her name makes it hard for me to breathe. I'm almost embarrassed by my reaction. Are June and I a good match? No. It's the first word to pop into my mind. And yet, still.

John Adams

The numbers of men in all ages have preferred ease, slumber, and good cheer to liberty, when they have been in competition.

James M. Barrie

All you need is trust and a little bit of pixie dust!

James M. Barrie

Again came that ringing crow, and Peter dropped in front of them. "Greeting, boys," he cried, and mechanically they saluted, and then again was silence. He frowned. "I am back," he said hotly, "why do you not cheer?

Eric McCormack

I was raised on 'Get Smart' and 'All in the Family' and 'M.A.S.H.,' and certainly when 'Cheers' came along, that was a big one.

Neal Shusterman

People would cheer throw confetti and then go about breaking the resolutions they had made only moments before.

Shane Koyczan

We grew up learning to cheer on the underdog because we see ourselves in them.

Siegfried Sassoon

You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you'll never know The hell where youth and laughter go.

Neil Gaiman

There was something about being in the vicinity of Grahame Coats that always made Fat Charlie (a) speak in cliches and (b) begin to daydream about huge black helicopters first opening fire upon, then dropping buckets of flaming napalm onto the offices of the Grahame Coats agency. Fat Charlie would not be in the office in those daydreams. He would be sitting in a chair outside a little cafe on the other side of Aldwych, sipping a frothy coffee and occasionally cheering at an exceptionally well-flung bucket of napalm.

John Terry

Often it feels like we are at a home match when we have so many fans there. The singing, the cheering helps the players. (on Chelsea playing on the road)

Socrates

He who has lived as a true philosopher has reason to be of good cheer when he is about to die, and that after death he may hope to receive the greatest good in the other world.

Socrates

And I say let a man be of good cheer about his soul. When the soul has been arrayed in her own proper jewels - temperance and justice, and courage, and nobility and truth - she is ready to go on her journey when the hour comes.

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.