Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lillian Hellman

How often the rich like to play at being poor. A rather nasty game, I've always thought.

Leon Panetta

My impression is that Putin feels that he can basically manipulate the West to do what he ultimately wants to achieve, and that he feels he's gotten away with it so far, and that all he has to do is basically play the same game.

Lefty Gomez

We lost 14 straight. Then we had a game rained out and it felt so good we had a victory dinner.

Lauren Oliver

It's funny how you can know your friends so well, but you still end up playing the same games with them.

Larry the Cable Guy

Living in a small town you couldn't go anywhere on a Saturday where a store had the game on. If you were downtown you heard the game. If you were at the gas station you heard the game. I remember I would be mowing the lawn and I would stop for the Nebraska game. I would have it cranking outside.

Pablo Picasso

By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time.

Paul Merson

Paul Lambert has learned Fabian Delph the game.

Paul Ince

We have to be careful not to let our game not be the game we know it should be.

Chad Johnson

Go out and play this game like you're a little kid again. This game is what you love to do. There should be nothing pressured about doing your job. It's what you grew up doing and always wanted to do. Just go out and play like you're a little kid again.

Grant had a tremendous game. She stepped up when we needed her to.

Eddy Curry

For the most part we weren't even in some of the games we lost.

Larry Robinson

For the most part, we did a lot of really good things. The only thing I didn't like was when we got up we started to not do the things we were doing for the first part of the game that gave us the success.

For the big picture, we have to hit on all cylinders. Games that were close, we were only successful in one area. Our guards stepped up and we got points out of it.

For that to happen to him twice in one game is very, very, very rare. That doesn't happen twice in a year, much less twice in one game. But that's soccer, that's the way it is.

For sure, the winner of this game will get in. The loser will have a long day Sunday.

For the first game of the year, to have two teams playing like that, that's pretty impressive.

For some of us, this is going to be our life career. We have to take it seriously every game and every day.

Isak Dinesen

There was a place in the Hills, on the first ridge in the Game Reserve, that I myself at the time when I thought that I was to live and die in Africa, had pointed out to Denys as my future burial-place. In the evening, while we sat and looked at the hills from my house, he remarked that then he would like to be buried there himself as well. Since then, sometimes when we drove out in the hills, Denys had said: "Let us drive as far as our graves.

Imre Lakatos

One may rationally stick to a degenerating research programme until it is overtaken by a rival and even after. What one must not do is to deny its poor public record... It is perfectly rational to play a risky game: what is irrational is to deceive oneself about the risk.

Gregory Maguire

The further on we go, the more meaning there is, but the less articulable. You live your life and the older you get- the more specifically you harvest- the more precious becomes every ounce and spasm. Your life and times don’t drain of meaning because they become more contradictory, ornamented by paradox, inexplicable. The less explicable, the more meaning. The less like a mathematics equation (a sum game); the more like music (significant secret).

Geraldine Ferraro

politics can be an ugly game, and in a national election the stakes get higher while the tactics get lower.

Harry Redknapp

I took Kanu on the Tuesday before the first game of the season because I never had any strikers. He said he hadn't kicked a ball since last season and I asked him if he'd been training.

Harry Reid

We would be somewhat foolish to work out something on stopping us from going over the cliff and then a month or six weeks later Republicans pull the same game they did before and say, 'We're not going to do anything - unless this happens, we're not going to agree to increasing the debt ceiling.' I agree with the president, it has to be a package deal.

J. Paul Getty

Once you have made it, you will understand that any business is limited in the challenges it offers. You will want and need other games to play, so you will look for other ventures to hold your interest.

Nate Silver

By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

Nancy Pearcey

Yet church youth groups rarely teach apologetics, majoring instead on games and goodies.

Kathleen Wynne

There is a temptation in politics to look for simplistic slogans and to play the game in a way that looks like you're a savvy politician.

Julian Barnes

Life seemed even more of a guessing game than usual.

Ken Kutaragi

The name of the game is not market share, it's how fast we (Sony) can grow the industry.

Keith Richards

Songwriting's a weird game.

Kit Harington

Politics is a game and a profession. It doesn't really serve the people the politicians are supposed to serve.

Kevin Nealon

I have a severe addiction to 'Angry Birds.' I always tell myself, 'One more game...' But then there's always another and another and another.

There's always a chance. No one's said we're relegated. We've got nine points now. We've got to get some more points, keep winning games and keep plugging away.