Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Godfrey

As corny as it may sound, my true goal was to crack the Americana market.

bell hooks

Given the way universities work to reinforce and perpetuate the status quo, the way knowledge is offered as commodity, Women's Studies can easily become the place where revolutionary feminist thought and feminist activism are submerged or made secondary to the goals of academic careerism

Barry Sanders

Individual goals never meant that much to me. The Heisman is no exception.

Ban Ki-moon

Saving our planet requires you to be ambitious in what you aim, and, equally, in how hard you work to reach your goal.

The goal is to make something that sounds new and different.

Ari Graynor

Working with David Gordon Green, and Jonah Hill, and Michael Cera, and Drew Barrymore, and all of those people - those are the best people in comedy to work with. Anna Faris. You know, that's my goal, to keep learning and to just keep working with the best people I can. And yeah, we do all hang out, and we all kind of know each other.

Ariel Pink

My goal is to make something special and pure, and that keeps me going, keeps me busy on the path of sobriety.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God has reserved to Himself the right to determine the end of life, because He alone knows the goal to which it is His will to lead it. It is for Him alone to justify a life or to cast it away.

Derrick Rose

I still have goals. Seeing those doubters out there, it's gonna be funny seeing them eat their words.

Demarcus Ware

My definition of success is to be happy in what you like to do best. It's not a monetary value; it's an internal value in itself. If you're happy from the inside-out, thats what is important. Success comes as a day to day value or reaching a goal that you have, and you've got to prepare yourself for what's to come when success is there.

working with other staff to restructure constituent services to better serve the governor's goals.

Bubba Watson

With no rough, you could get around here without making too many bogeys. My goal was not to make bogeys and the birdies will happen.

We're getting better. We're working hard with a sense of urgency and accomplishing our goals. (The players) realize how hard they have to work.

Julie Davis

We're hoping that 12 people will be ready to go next week, that's the goal at this moment.

We're ready to start talking about next year's goals. We'd like to become one of those regular teams that are at state, year in and year out.

Diane von Furstenberg

My goal in life is to be your best friend when you open your closet

We're setting our goal on winning the regional,

Gilbert Arenas

We're confident. Our goal was to get one of these two (games at The Q). We got one, and they come to (our place). We've got to (defend) our home court. It's going to be a good series.

Gilbert Arenas

We're confident. Our goal was to get one of these (first) two (games in Cleveland). We got one and they come to us.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Comfort becomes a goal when distinctions of rank are abolished and privileges destroyed.

Man, he's just magical sometimes. That first goal was unbelievable, a highlight-reel goal. Then he went to the net hard and potted two more. He's a goal scorer. He's going to do that for the rest of his career.

Making the state tournament has always been our top goal and we're just one win away from that now.

Richard G. Scott

I have a suggestion: When a temple is conveniently nearby, small things may interrupt your plans to go to the temple. Set specific goals, considering your circumstances, of when you can and will participate in temple ordinances. Then do not allow anything to interfere with that plan.

Skip Prosser

We're just trying to find the right combination. We'd lost three in a row, and that's pretty unacceptable. Our goal is to be relevant in the ACC race. So we're going to tinker until we think we have it right.

Brady Quinn

Touchdowns are better than field goals.

Boris Kodjoe

I never dealt with fame. It was never a goal of mine to become famous.

Boris Kodjoe

I did have a bunch of goals I wanted to achieve when I was financially able to do so, but they had nothing to do with fame.

Boris Kodjoe

When I set goals, they're more tangible than becoming famous. You don't build a company or a foundation for fame.

It is on my mind every hour of every day that I have 168 hours this week to improve my life. It is really up to me to be a good steward of this time to accomplish my goals and change my life this week.

Bonnie Bassler

The goal of scientists is you hope that the thing you're working on is bigger than the thing you're pipetting into that tube at the moment.

Bong Joon-ho

I don't intentionally make my films with the express goal of surprising the viewer.

Bonnie Blair

I never could have achieved the success that I have without setting physical activity and health goals.

Brigitte Bardot

If I upset some notions and went against established rules, that wasn't part of what I wanted to do. It wasn't my goal.