Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Silver

But why should I run for office and lose what little influence I have?

Rollie Fingers

That's all baseball is, is numbers; it's run by numbers, averages, percentage and odds. Managers make their decisions based on the numbers.

Roland Emmerich

I'm finished with destroying for a while. It's not like I'm running around saying, 'What else can I destroy?'

Susan Sarandon

I've just come back from Vegas, and I was in on the caucus process. It's insane. What a mess. And also with these particular candidates who are running, so many times I said, "I just wish Kurt [Vonnegut] were alive." This is like something he would be writing. This is just crazy stuff. I would love to hear his take on it.

Susan Sarandon

When you run into someone in NY it is usually a pleasant surprise. When you run into someone in LA you usually had a car accident.

Susan Orlean

Like writing, running is so much about mind over matter. There are times when you have to override the discomfort and keep pushing. That capacity to endure and then prevail is just amazing.

Susan Orlean

I think the responsibility of running a huge business, which happens if you become a successful designer, probably makes you more careful.

Susan Orlean

I remember thinking that a girdle was barbaric, and that never in a million years would I treat myself like a sleeping bag being shoved into a stuff sack. Never! Instead, I would run marathons and work out and be in perfect shape and reject the tyranny of the girdle forever.

Susan Estrich

But here's my point to the LA Times. If you had a serious story to run, if you thought there was serious misconduct, you don't wait until the Thursday before the Tuesday. You run it early.

Susan Estrich

The Democratic chairman doesn't need to be a household name. Most people didn't know who Ron Brown was when he was chairman of the Democratic Party, but he put the party in a position where Bill Clinton could come in and he had a solid base to run from.

Susan Ford

Camp David is a wonderful place for the family to get away and run around and do goofy things.

Susan George

We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

It runs in the family. And don't expect me to be ashamed. Yankees lock away loony relatives, but down here, we prop 'em up on parade floats and march 'em through the middle of town.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Pride had kept her running when love had betrayed her.

Susan Davis

OK, so $1 trillion is what it costs to run the federal government for one year. So this money's going to run through September of 2016. Half of the trillion dollars goes to defense spending and the Pentagon. The other half goes to domestic spending - everything from prisons to parks. So there's also about 74 billion in there that goes to the military operations that we have ongoing in Iraq and Afghanistan and Syria.

Susan Cain

We don't need giant personalities to transform companies. We need leaders who build not their own egos but the institutions they run.

Sunil Gavaskar

India's fortune will depend on how many runs the little champion scores. There is no doubt Tendulkar is the real thing.

Suheir Hammad

War and tooth enameled salted lemon childhoods All colors run, none of us solid Don't look for shadow behind me I carry it within I live cycles of light and darkness

Suge Knight

I ain't no gangster. I'm a grown man trying to run a business.

Sugar Ray Leonard

You have to know you can win. You have to think you can win. You have to feel you can win.

Stuart Symington

Later the Administration wanted me to actually sell all remaining surplus by running the War Assets Corporation. I said I couldn't do it without some shoe leather.

Stuart Rose

Most employees want to be involved in a successful business and most employees are happy for people running successful businesses to be paid a reasonable wage and a market rate for it, provided they understand the reason. What they hate most of all is pay for failure.

Stockard Channing

I can barely even run a computer. God knows what I'd get on online dating. I'd get something that was subhuman or something.

Stone Gossard

I really enjoy not getting in a car and running errands on bikes.

Stone Gossard

I think it's evident that expensive neighborhoods in Seattle are surrounded by natural beauty. That elevates city life. So if we can make cities more attractive in the long run, we can be smarter about issues like development, zoning and economics.

Stokely Carmichael

The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead!

Stokely Carmichael

Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more.

Stonewall Jackson

Shoot the brave officers, and the cowards will run away and take the men with them.

Stonewall Jackson

Once you get them running, you stay right on top of them, and that way a small force can defeat a large one every time... Only thus can a weaker country cope with a stronger; it must make up in activity what it lacks in strength.

Storm Jameson

each time that I have run away - and from a habit it quickly became an illness - I have betrayed someone. Myself, but not always only myself.

Stirling Moss

I was taught that everything is attainable if you are prepared to give up, to sacrifice, to get it. Whatever you want to do, you can do it, if you want it badly enough, and I do believe that. I believe that if I wanted to run a mile is four minutes I could do it. I would have to give up everything else in my life, but I could run a mile in four minutes. I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water and was prepared to give up everything else in life, he could do that.

Sting

Takes more than combat gear to make a man Takes more than a license for a gun Confront your enemies, avoid them when you can A gentleman will walk but never run

Sting

a gentleman will walk but never run.. it takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.. be yourself no matter what they say..