Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pat Riley

It's not easy. We need him on the court. I don't know how we're going to get around that. Two of his first three fouls were offensive.

It's like a big shredder. For every three (cubic) yards you put in, you get one back out.

Herb Caen

Martinis are like breasts, one isn't enough, and three is too many

Jerry Hall

Then, in 2000, John Reid, Elton John's former manager, asked me to audition for the stage version of The Graduate he was producing. So I worked on it, got the part, and after three weeks' rehearsal I was on stage!

Jesse Owens

To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.

Jack Vance

What are your fees?" inquired Guyal cautiously. "I respond to three questions," stated the augur. "For twenty terces I phrase the answer in clear and actionable language; for ten I use the language of cant, which occasionally admits of ambiguity; for five, I speak a parable which you must interpret as you will; and for one terce, I babble in an unknown tongue.

Gary Busey

Imagine the peace symbol. The peace symbol has three pieces in it. One piece is emotion, that's your body. Another piece has spirit in it, that's your fuel. Another piece has intellect in it and that's your steering wheel. You can never overdo the fuel that goes into the body, which is the emotions and the steering wheel to drive it.

Jennifer Hudson

I feel like I've lived about three or four different lives.

George William Curtis

Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.

George Saintsbury

So, then, there abide these three, Aristotle, Longinus, and Coleridge.

Jeffrey Archer

When I was three, I wanted to be four. When I was four, I wanted to be prime minister.

Jay Asher

Why does it say she has three hundred and twenty friends?" Josh asks. "Who has that many friends?

Evan Davis

In principle, there are only three main components of spending that much matter to monetary policy: consumer spending, business investment and exports and trade.

Gianluca Vialli

David Moyes, in Italy, would have been sacked three times now.

Christian Bale

We were incredibly fortunate to get to make three [Batman films]. That's enough. Let's not get greedy. It's a torch that should be handed from one actor to another. So I enjoy looking forward to what somebody else will come up with.

Felix Frankfurter

Morals are three-quarters manners.

Annika Sorenstam

I've got three to go and I'm tied for the lead,

I've got three I will throw at any time. They all three throw pretty hard.

Amy Childs

I've got a personal trainer, and I train three times a week.

Erin Hunter

Oh, and welcome to the Three.

Charles Howard

Once we started doing those three things, we got going.

This could (ordinarily) take three years. But everything's on track.

They were here two or three times a week.

Tony Bennett

I treasure the three years that we were together (coaching).

It's not one, two or three guys, it's bunches and bunches and bunches of them.

There wasn't a reddish-orange residue from throughout the airplane, ... It was in three rows. I had it analyzed.

Princess Diana

There were three of us in that marriage,

This is heart-wrenching is what it is; to actually see it for yourself in three dimensions.

Jane McGonigal

If you can manage to experience three positive emotions for every one negative emotion … you dramatically improve your health and your ability to successfully tackle any problem you're facing.

Ernest Bramah

He who has failed three times sets up as an instructor.

Evander Holyfield

I got three whippings a day from my mama.

Eva Braun

I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as he had done before, an envelope with money in it. It would have been much nicer if he had enclosed a greeting or a loving word. I would have been so pleased if he had.

Muriel Rukeyser

What three things can never be done? / Forget. Keep silent. Stand alone