Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alfred P. Sloan

The final act of business judgment is intuitive.

Mark Brunell

You look at those numbers, and I'm real fortunate that we've had a really good running game. The receivers have done a great job. The offensive line has done a great job of protecting. Those numbers come up because you have 10 guys around you doing their jobs. It's the reflection of the whole offense, not just one position.

Eugene Delacroix

To be a poet at twenty is to be twenty: to be a poet at forty is to be a poet

When the Lord sent me forth into the world, He forbade me to put off my hat to any, high or low.

Wayne Embry

We don't know. We're in a lot of conversations back and forth right now.

We do have a fortunate story. This man (Mueller) opened up his home to us. He was paying his employees. They were giving pizza to police officers.

A. A. Milne

What ever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Aeschylus

To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals.

Avery Johnson

We stepped up big defensively in the fourth quarter. We were fortunate to get away from them.

America Ferrera

I am incredibly, incredibly fortunate about the opportunities I've had. But at the same time, I've had plenty of opportunities to screw it up, too. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can say is 'No...' and not feel the need to do everything. It's about doing what rings true to me.

Karl Malone

Even though I left for a year, I grew here as a Jazz man. If I'm fortunate enough to go into the Hall of Fame, I will go as a Jazz man.

Charlie White

I have never been particularly picky when it comes to what I'm putting in my hair. Most of it is just the genes I'm so fortunate to have inherited from my parents.

Pierre Corneille

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

Caleb Cushing

The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil.

Daniel Callahan

We processed them from the National Guard, and when they get to Fort Dix they will be transitioned into the regular Army.

Todd McFarlane

I've been fortunate to come on places where the question isn't why did I do it? The question to me is always, why didn't anybody else do it before me? Those are the ones that I scratch my head about.

Tom Brokaw

I'm a guy who's had great good fortune in his life. And everything has kind of gone in my direction.

We picked a great marketplace. We were a pioneer in payroll processing for very small companies. And we had the perseverance and good fortune enough to stick it out.

I thought Spaulding played well. We were fortunate to get a win out of it.

I think we're fortunate we had the opportunity to get him. And for the opportunity to be at Georgia Southern, he's very fortunate.

I think we'd be very fortunate in 2001 to get returns of 10 percent. Double-digit returns are a thing of the past.

I think we were fortunate to get the win tonight.

Phil Jackson

We had some luck with us tonight, ... We were fortunate to stay in this game. We made a lot of mistakes, obviously, but we learned from them.

Steve Cook

We are looking for some fortune and maybe we can pull off another surprise.

Conan O'Brien

At the state dinner for Chinese President Hu Jintao, Hu opened a fortune cookie that said, 'You will lend us another trillion dollars.'

Steve Alford

When you get to this point of the season, all wins are difficult. We were fortunate to grind out the win.

Marcus Giles

Two-out hits are always good. Furcal kept the inning going with the single up the middle. I was fortunate to hit one. It was a good overall team win.

David Rockefeller

I realize how fortunate I have been; mine has been a wonderful life.

Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

Bryan Greenberg

I've always gone back and forth between acting and music, but for music I'm not trying to be a pop star - I just like to do it.

Michael Huffington

The party of Lincoln should be reaching out to blacks, Hispanics gays and so forth and so on.

We sailed pretty solidly all week and today as well. Fortunes are won and lost pretty easily, race-to-race in this game. The guys all stayed level and we approached each race as it came.

We're not out of the woods yet. Forty percent of holiday sales are wrapped up in the week before Christmas.