Famous Quotes & Sayings

Somehow, when she was 13, I convinced her parents to let us take her on the road trips. All the rest of them were guys, but she was treated like she had five or six older brothers. She was very good.

Mary Johnson

Some people can never be convinced of the truth.

Adam Ferrara

Terrorists convince thousands of people to kill themselves in the name of God. I can't convince two of my friends to help me move.

Dick Butkus

My thing is trying to convince them they can win, ... Anything that happens that's good, they think, 'Oh, it's an accident, when is the roof caving in?' You've got to get them out of that mental framework.

Pablo Picasso

Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He recopies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He's convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

Charles Kennedy

Like John Major in her wake, Thatcher was convinced that she understood the Scots - yet couldn't understand why we remained so stubbornly resistant towards the notion of understanding her.

I was very surprised ... I am convinced it is a mistake because I have never taken anything.

John Roberts

I think if you've looked at what I've done since I took the judicial oath, that should convince you that I'm not an ideologue.

I think for people who were not convinced of the risk, this provides further evidence.

I think they probably were convinced they couldn't play any worse.

Just because Oracle is up and is optimistic about the future is not getting us excited about everything, ... Nobody's convinced there will be a rebound in the second half.

I'm still not convinced he can get a mile and a quarter.

James Howard Kunstler

I'm serenely convinced that we are heading into what will amount to a 'time out' from technological progress as we know it.

Latin American economies have made a leap to quality. We are totally convinced that this time the economic growth will be much more sustainable than it has been in the past.

I weed out the obvious ones that no one will convince me to show. My first rule is that it has to be a film you would want to see again.

I watched it for two hours. My wife looked at it, my parents looked at it. Before long, I was firmly convinced that we were dealing with something real.

Kevin Keegan

I will be here as long as it takes. I might have to convince a few cynics, but I've never fallen out of love with football.

(I will only return to Germany) once the decision-makers are convinced that I am the right man with my abilities. If not I will stay abroad.

George Washington

Reason, too late perhaps, may convince you of the folly in misspending time.

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

With this acquisition, we are convinced that we are securing our goaltending position for many years.

We're still talking to them and we're still trying to convince them.

We're still not convinced we've heard from people we want to talk to, ... We still want to hear from people.

Three-fourths of the state legislatures would have to say yes to that. Opponents are trying to convince legislators that if they ratify the amendment, there won't be any more federal money,

We've been fighting hard now for a couple of years to get back nationally to a legitimate national level of a program. I'm convinced we're there.

I am convinced we shall succeed. I have faith in this country, because I have faith in its people.

Jack Levin

We forget just how manipulative and shrewd and crafty some of these guys are. They have the street smarts necessary to convince these women that they're innocent guys and that they're genuinely in love.

Marshall Herskovitz

The further I've gotten into the Internet, the more I've become convinced that we've explored only a tiny corner of what it can mean and what we can feel there.

We need to know if they're responsible. And the reps have to be outgoing enough to convince a store owner to put a poster in their window.

We have utilized the quarterback as a runner, but not as an option guy. We haven't been convinced we can put all the time into the option and the spread passing game and be equally effective at both. We feel we can do that now.

Richard Leakey

I, too, am convinced that our ancestors came from Africa.

We had two good wins so far but I'm not totally convinced that were already out of a slump.

Philippe Petit

I started putting a wire up in secret and performing without permission. Notre Dame, the Sydney Harbor Bridge, the World Trade Center. And I developed a certitude, a faith that convinced me that I will get safely to the other side. If not, I will never do that first step.