Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Foster Wallace

Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.

David Foster Wallace

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

David Foster Wallace

The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.

David Foster Wallace

I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

David Coleman

We estimate, and this isn't an estimation, that Greta Waitz is 80 seconds behind

David Coleman

And there's no "I love you" message because Steve Ovett has married the girl

David Coleman

Some names to look forward to - perhaps in the future

David Coleman

In a moment, we hope to see the pole vault over the satellite.

David Coleman

And the line up for the final of the women's 400 metres hurdles includes three Russians, two East Germans, a Pole, a Swede and a Frenchman

David Coleman

And with alphabetical irony Nigeria follows New Zealand

David Coleman

The late start is due to the time.

David Coleman

It's a battle with himself and with the ticking finger of the clock.

David Coleman

Ingrid Kristiansen then has smashed the world record, running the 5000 metres in 14:58.89. Truly amazing. Incidentally, this is a personal best for Ingrid Kristiansen.

David Coleman

A truly international field, no Britons involved.

David Coleman

He is accelerating all the time. That last lap was run in 64 seconds and the one before in 62.

David Coleman

The Republic-of-China - back in the Olympic Games for the first time

David Coleman

That's the fastest time ever run - but it's not as fast as the world record

David Coleman

This is a young man who is only 25, and you have to say, her has answered every question that has ever been asked.

David Bailey

A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.

David Attenborough

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?

Dashiell Hammett

To get what he wanted, a man had to give other people what they wanted.

Dave Brubeck

Probably the most profound thing in the Bible is 'Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you.' This is what, to me, is the essence of Christianity.

David Platt

It's important to realize that we adopt not because we are rescuers. No. We adopt because we are rescued.

David Lloyd George

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

David Lynch

I like to make films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost in another world. And film to me is a magical medium that makes you dream... allows you to dream in the dark. It's just a fantastic thing, to get lost inside the world of film.

David Lynch

It's so freeing, it's beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there's nowhere to go but up.

David Carradine

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

Dan Brown

Sooner or later we've all got to let go of our past.

Dan Brown

History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?

Dan Brown

Science tells me God must exist. My mind tells me I will never understand God. And my heart tells me I am not meant to.

Dan Brown

Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.

Curt Schilling

In baseball, I was always in control of everything until I let the ball go.

Corey Hart

No one can take away your right to fight and never surrender.