Famous Quotes & Sayings

Miles O'Brien

There are nearly 1 million Americans who visit the emergency room each year because of dental pain at a cost that runs into the hundreds of millions.

Mignon McLaughlin

Every now and then you run across radiantly attractive people and you're delighted to find they adore you, till you realize that they adore just about everybody- and that's what's made them radiantly attractive.

Mignon McLaughlin

Luck: when your burst of energy doesn't run afoul of someone else's.

Mignon McLaughlin

We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still.

Johnny Manziel

It's a great group of people here at Texas A&M, and everybody you run into is incredibly polite.

Johnny Mercer

The days of wine and roses laugh and run away like a child at playThrough the meadow land toward a closing doorA door marked "nevermore" that wasn't there before

John Wooden

Motivating through fear may work in the short term to get people to do something, but over the long run I believe personal pride is a much greater motivator. It produces far better results that last for a much longer time.

John Wooden

I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives.

John Wooden

How you run the race - your planning, preparation, practice, and performance - counts for everything. Winning or losing is a by-product, and aftereffect, of that effort.

John Wooden

The athlete who says that something can't be done should never interrupt the one who's doing it

John Wooden

Never did I want to call the first time-out during a game. Never. I wanted UCLA to come out and run our opponents so hard that they would be forced to call the first time-out just to catch their breath. At that first time-out the opponents would know, and we would know that they knew, who was in better condition. This has a psychological impact.

The infection's going away, and my shoulder's good. I'll be back running real soon.

You want to stop the run and you want to put them in third-and-long so you can blitz,

Gregg Popovich

You want to give everyone a run so they get in shape.

And the word is capitalism. We are too mealy-mouthed. We fear the word capitalism is unpopular. So we talk about the free enterprise system and run to cover in the folds of the flag and talk about the American Way of Life.

Eric Kandel

Biology is a way of approaching the truth about the mind. In biology most people don't tackle problems at the level of complexity that psychoanalysis does. But psychoanalysis has a degree of uncertainty about it. A psychoanalyst may have some deep insights, but cannot, at the moment, run experiments to establish whether it's really the truth.

Eric Kripke

I have a bad habit, in the shows that I run, of killing off the people that I love.

Eric Kripke

In TV and movies, you kill yourself spending all this time to think up the symbolism or what if that deer that runs across your hero's path somehow conveys what's going on inside your hero's head? When a lot of times, you just want to hear what he's thinking.

Eric Kripke

I've always said at the beginning of every single season of the show when I was running the show in the writers' room, "This is the last season, so let's smoke 'em if we've got 'em."

Eric Idle

Many years ago I also bought a house in Provence for about 70,000 francs. It had no electricity or running water, and no road leading to the house, but gradually we made improvements. It's my escape and I love it.

Eric Idle

I used to think I was like the wicket- keeper, which is like the catcher in base- ball, y'know what I mean? You can call the play a lot from behind the plate, y'know what I mean? You're not necessarily the star, you're not the one that makes the mark, but usually in the end, you're called upon to get a run when it's needed.

Eric Hoffer

In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.

Mischa Barton

There are some things I like about L.A. You can have a really healthy lifestyle, and I love running with the dogs on the beach. It's just the social scene is horrific!

Misha Collins

As an actor, if you want to while shooting, you can run back to your trailer and take a nap. But you cannot do that while directing.

Philip Roth

Should you protect profits? Yes. But run for the hills? No.

Philip James Bailey

I run the gauntlet of a file of doubts, Each one of which down hurls me to the ground.

Petra Kelly

The transformation of forests into deserts, fertile earth into sunbaked concrete, and running rivers into silted floodwaters show that only through care for the environment can the livelihoods of those most dependent on it be sustained. We cannot allow economic and environmental concerns to be played off against each other.

Peyton Manning

Certainly our job as an offense to try to score points and that's running the ball, throwing the ball, whatever it is. Somehow, someway we've got to try to score points to help our team win. That's where the focus is and it's pretty easy just to focus on that.

Peyton Manning

In the NFL game today, there are a lot of better athletes than I am, and quarterbacks these days are faster than the quarterbacks have always been, they're running like crazy. But I kind of stick to my roots of the disciplined quarterback. You know, I'm doing the same routine every week, studying tapes and working hard, getting ready to play and making good decisions on Sundays.

Pharrell Williams

Most of my company is run by women. There's a certain sensitivity to what I want to express, so that's what I want around me.

Peter Criss

It's a younger generation running the show, and I miss the generation we had in the '70s. They were really very honorable guys, like Neal Bogart and Bill Graham, people who will never be around again.

Peter DeFazio

Essentially, when we run a deficit, we are borrowing money to buy things that are made overseas.

Peter Drucker

I'm a writer. I could not or would not ever run a business. I don't even have a secretary. And contrary to some of the stereotypes, entrepreneurs are not loners. I am.