Famous Quotes & Sayings

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

But definitely, when a decision is taken, or when you are trying to oppose a decision, you are in a weaker position than the member states, because they know more about the situation than you. We gave information, but they never gave us any information.

George Rogers Clark

Damn the sword! When Virginia wanted a sword, I gave her one. Now she sends me a toy! I require bread!

We were the first people he called because things were handled the right way during the first go-round. That gave us a shot at getting him the second time.

Eazy-E

Who gave it that title, gangsta rap? It's reality rap. It's about what's really going on.

Elena Roger

'Piaf' I did it because I wanted to do more theater instead of only musicals, and someone gave me the book and said to me, 'You have to do it.'

Gina Rodriguez

'Filly Brown' gave me the wings to fly, but red carpets are still very uncomfortable.

We left way too many people on and we gave up one big inning. We had the opportunity to get runs in every inning. But I am proud of the way the kids battled back after getting down.

Gloria Steinem

I was the first woman to speak ever at the National Press Club, and they gave me a necktie.

Billy Collins

When I was a young man, I understood that poetry was two things - it was difficult to understand, but you could understand that the poet was miserable. So for a while there, I wrote poems that were hard to understand, even by me, but gave off whiffs of misery.

There are a lot of heavy hearts in the locker room, but they gave me what they had. It wasn't a lack of effort.

Danielle Panabaker

I am actually a big sissy, and growing up, I never used to watch horror movies. 'Bambi' gave me nightmares.

When I started to recording, I gave the name of Honeyboy, but my people only knew me by Honey.

Bobby Keys

I first went on the road with the Rolling Stones in the year of our Lord, 1969. But my grandfather gave me away to a drummer when I was 15 years old.

Barbara Lynn

I go on stage with what God gave me - and that's a natural high. I don't need nothing to perk me up. The audience picks me up enough. That's the total God's truth.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Voltaire lighted a torch and gave to others the sacred flame. The light still shines and will as long as man loves liberty and seeks for truth.

This was a hard loss to swallow. We played well. We gave it a good shot. It just got away from us.

Brad Shaw

This roller-coaster thing doesn't work. We had only a handful of guys who played to expectations and gave to the team.

When (Brantley) got hurt that gave us an opportunity to really work the inside game. Once we did that, we were able to hit some outside shot and that really got things going for us.

Nora Dunn

We sat around that table in the jury room, and it really gave us a lot of rehearsal time. A lot of stuff that we shot was really rehearsal stuff.

We knew there were a lot of grandparents of these kids looking for money. So we gave them work to do.

Brad Smith

We kind of gave the meet away. We had an opportunity to win the meet. We lost some matches we should not have.

John Williams

We kept fighting. We gave a good effort, but left a lot out there. This one's over, though. We have to get ready for Groves next week.

We just weren't able to hold the lead in the first game. We started walking some people and gave up some hits.

We like it real well. We heard they were good and gave them a call.

We were waiting to see what they were going to do, and this time they gave us the inside. We were just taking what they were giving us.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

When I was eight, a hippie guy taught me how to meditate and gave me this scarf I was supposed to wear when I meditated. I still have it; it's probably one of the items that mean most to me.

David Greene

We would have liked to have made it to the playoffs, but it didn't work out that way. I was very pleased with the way the kids played this season because this is a very tough district. They played tough and gave it their all this season.

We worried and we hoped constantly. We never gave up hope.

We didn't get off to a good start with (pitching). We gave up too many runs right away. It makes it a little hard. Hopefully all the nervousness will be gone and we'll be productive.

Craig Anderson

We got in penalty trouble and gave them the momentum. They've got a terrific power play, and that's what got them the game.

We got in our rhythm and kept it going. It was about taking our time, going to the rack, shooting open shots, taking what they gave us.

Bill Joy

I think the wonderful thing about vi is that it has such a good market share because we gave it away.

Flea

Music gave me something that was not only good for me - it gave me something to work on, something to be proud of and something that I really loved and have a love for - but also music was good for other people because you put joy into the world.