Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gavin MacLeod

So he won by one percent. My wife and I gave him the first cheque. He won by one percent. The next time he won by 65%. He was doing great.

She took me in like I was family. She gave me a shoulder to lean on. She treated me like I was one of her children.

She took it right at those big girls and wasn't scared of them. She gave us the intensity that we needed at that time. She is too young to even think about doing it. She just did it.

She was a wonderful mother. So kind. She taught us good moral values. She gave us so much love.

She was a spiritual leader, not a celebrity, who I feel gave her life, as Martin gave, to service mankind.

She was just like another starter for us. She gave us energy.

She signs the statement. She has me write it out; she doesn't want to write it out. By the way, she didn't want it recorded; I gave her an opportunity.

She's been kicking for our JV team, doing a real good job and our kicking game's been struggling, so we gave her the nod,

Keith Brooking

The outsiders might second-guess this, but we didn't quit. Until the very end, we gave it all out there. Give the Panthers credit. They played well. We didn't, but it wasn't lack of effort.

Beeban Kidron

I once gave a talk at a girls' school and, once I'd finished, 29 out of the 30 girls wanted to be film directors. I think that's where we need to get girls interested in making films. We need to give them the idea that they can, that it's one of the things on their horizon.

Bill Hader

I hated pitch meetings. Pitch meetings were my least favorite part of the week. I just gave up. I was so terrible at them.

David Crosby

I gave a Collings dreadnought to a young guitar player in the Valley where I live because he didn't have a good acoustic, and he's a terrific player.

Rick Warren

God gave us the gift of life in heaven. Many people are given this gift, but they never open it. They never do anything with it.

Chris Hemsworth

Everything shifted for me after 'Rush.' It wasn't as financially successful as other things I'd done, but it gave me more movement, more options, more doors opening, more meetings. All of a sudden, it's, 'Oh, wow! You're an actor!'

Laurence Housman

Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his wife died, my godfather gave me the two books as a remembrance.

Lela Rochon

There are people who went to prison, died, gave their life so Obama could be president of the United States.

Leslie Howard

Don't think I am not homesick for America. I say 'homesick' advisedly because I am a man with two homes - America, which gave me hospitality for many happy years, and where my daughter was born; and my native England.

I gave in to the idea of paying attention to what you like and letting it help you make better stuff.

We didn't play very well at all. We gave up a lot of points and a lot of yards.

Brandon Flowers

When I was younger, I was chubby. It gave me a terrible sense of self-image, and I guess I carry that around with me still.

Anna Kournikova

I grew up a little girl in the Soviet Union playing at a small sports club. Tennis gave me my life.

Tim gave us some good minutes tonight, and that helped. The key tonight was that a lot of kids made key contributions.

Tim gave a stump speech that got kinda rowdy. It was embarrassing. People were ticked off.

Tommy Chong

My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave me material.

Tim Hudson

The Oakland A's, I loved all my teammates there. I loved all the coaches. They gave me the opportunity to play in the big leagues. And for that, I thank them. I mean it was a dream come true for me.

Don Everly

They say shock therapy is good for some things, but it didn't do me any good. It was a pretty primitive treatment at the time - once they gave it to you, you couldn't remember how long you'd been there. It knocked me back for a long time. I thought I'd never write again.

We played well for about a quarter and a half, but after that we didn't play well at all. When we didn't protect on that punt in the second quarter and gave them a short field, that really started to turn things. And then, when we got tired, we started making mental mistakes.

We played well, but we still struggled on the service line. We missed 19 serves. We gave them 19 points and somehow still won.

Maria Sharapova

Yeah, ... I kind of gave it all I had in the tiebreaker. Then in the third set, I just kind of ran out of gas, basically.

In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet.

William Davies

It was the Rainbow gave thee birth, / And left thee all her lovely hues.

Harry S Truman

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Joe Gibbs

The Ravens gave us some fronts that gave us trouble,