Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stacey Farber

When I was 18, I was moving to New York to start college at The New School. I had done a year of college in Toronto and wasn't happy there. I didn't have any friends in New York City, but I applied and got in. It was pretty overwhelming, but everyone in New York is so ambitious and creative.

Robert Silverberg

When I was 14, I thought, 'How wonderful to be a science fiction writer. I'd like to do that.' I have never lost touch with that ambitious 14-year-old, and I can't help chuckling and thinking, 'You did it, and you did it right.'

Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford

It is a maxim in philosophy that ambitious men can be never good counselors to princes; the desire of having more is common to great lords, and a desire of rule a great cause of their ruin.

Sam Altman

Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.

Eydie Gorme

Before we got married, I had tremendous ambition. Once we got married and I started having children, then I just thought that that was my real life. Steve was definitely more ambitious than I.

James Young

I guess I should be more ambitious about practicing, but when I'm out on the road, that's about all I do.

David Stern

We are pleased to have these renowned franchises represent the NBA in the most ambitious international competition in league history.

Lydia Leonard

Anne Boleyn isn't a sympathetic character, but I like that she isn't a people pleaser. She's ambitious and manipulative, but she's honest. I'm biased, but I don't think a woman who has said 'no' to the King of England for six years would jump into bed with four of his best friends. She was a slick political mind.

James Vincent McMorrow

I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work.

Victor Angelo

We are awaiting the result of the draft resolution on whether Charles Taylor should be taken to The Hague to stand trial.

Charles Schulz

Wouldn't it be nice if our lives were like VCRS (video recorders), and we could "fast forward' through the crummy times? "Peanuts", Charles M

Claire Tomalin

Writing Charles Dickens' biography is like writing five biographies.

Princess Diana

When we had William, we had to find a date in the diary that suited Charles and his polo. William had to be induced because I couldn't handle the press pressure any longer,

Patrick Renn

We acknowledge that it is going to be difficult for a jury to hear that Charles Boney was there, that Charles Boney sold a firearm, when you're talking about the murder of a young woman and her two children.

John McGowan

Personally, I think Greenland is the team to beat. They're loaded with a lot of talent at the skill positions. Charleston is always going to be right in the thick of it, but Greenland looks pretty tough.

Erica Howard

I was fortunate to come from a family that never had those problems. My parents were able to fully support me, and so did Charles Martin. I can't just be here and see what's going on, and not do anything.

Jeff Kinney

There are two ways to look at my publishing career. One is that I'm a novelist churning out books, who is eight into a series; the other way is that I'm a cartoonist, just starting out. Most cartoonists have long careers: Charles Schulz drew Peanuts for 50 years.

David Ross

but as you get to know St. Charles County, you learn that there are a lot of organizations and people who do a lot for the less fortunate and the working poor, and the Dove Foundation is one of them.

Robbie Williams

On Geri Halliwell: She turned into a demonic little girl. It was genuinely scaring me.

David Morrissey

'Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes.

Kenneth Williams

They say I'm demonic in humor in the sense that I think people need somebody to wake up their mental processes.

Gaylord Perry

Wait until Tommy Lasorda meets the Lord and finds out that He's wearing pinstripes.

Kim Gordon

I love the way Lady Gaga finds humour in fashion, but it's still very stylised.

Anne Donovan

Sheryl finds a way to help her team win a game, and it doesn't necessarily have to do with scoring.

Kathy Mattea

Love travels, the miles, upon the wings of angels. Love finds you, I swear it's true, and I will love you from here.

Frank Cacckello

She was reincarnated tonight. A player of her talent finds a way to play through the pain.

Sylvia Hatchell

She's a winner. She's just a tough little kid and she finds a way to win.

Debbie Ball

She's got to be one of the most organized high school students. She finds a way to do everything.

Sathya Baba

When the road ends, and the goal is gained, the pilgrim finds that he has traveled only from himself to himself.

O. Singh

Night and day, he is engrossed in worldly affairs, and even in his dreams, he finds no peace.

Arianna Huffington

Be a go-giver, not a go-getter

Bryant H. McGill

Service heals the recipient and the giver.

Billy Graham

To be peacemaker, you must know the peace giver.

Rig Veda

Knowledge is also the giver of wealth or rather wealth is the by-product of knowledge.

David Smith

The people that have inherited that money have yet to really prove themselves as givers on the same level.

Guru Singh

He is the all powerful, safe Sanctuary, Lord and Master, Treasure of mercy, Giver of peace.

Juliette G. Low

The simplest way of saying this for the very young Scout is to do a good turn to someone every day: that is, to be a giver and not a taker.

Antonio Sabato, Jr.

I try to be a good person every day. If you didn't like me, there would be something wrong with you, because I really go out and work as hard as I can to help people. I put myself last - always. I'm a giver all the way.

Granth Sahib

The Great Giver lives; no one dies. O Nanak, those who do not enshrine the Lord within their minds are deluded.

C. S. Lewis

Edmund, give a special goodbye to Trumpkin for me. He's been a brick.

Chris Hamilton

We have sat down and done the figures, and the result is that there has been an increase of just under 10-per-cent on last year's sales. We're not up in purely money terms, just on ticket sales, but it's good news for the club.

David Bennett

We have to have a good week of practice. We've got to get back to fundamentals.

Craig Beesley

We have to go up there tomorrow and play good ball.

Mike Thomas

We have to get there, but we should be on our way (to the title game). There's other good teams up there, but we should have a good shot.

Jordan Leopold

We have to get off to a good start. It's one of those things of whoever wants it the most is going to end up getting it.

James Greer

We have to get better at getting through the full-court trap. We had been struggling with that, but we did a good job when we needed it.

Siv Meisingseth

We have normal traffic today and the prospects for tomorrow are good too.

Kay Runge

Whenever you have an urban library, there are parking issues. The good thing about our new location is the nearby ramps.

Chad Anderson

If you don't like me, why do you waste your time making fun of me?

Diddy Puff

Haters wanna stop my lute,they don't want me wearing Sean John, they want me wearing lawn suits.

Douglas Coupland

If you're not a tree hugger, then you're a what, a tree hater?

Coretta Scott King

Hate is too great a burden to bear....

R. Kelly

I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters.

Kreayshawn

I'm not really concerned with trying to turn haters into believers.

George Washington Carver

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.

Eminem

Behind every sucessful person lies a pack of haters

Sinead O'Connor

Remember what I told you. If they hated me, they will hate you.

Nancy Cartwright

What's Santa's Little Helper doing to that dog? Looks like he's trying to jump over, but he can't quite make it.

Ryan Evanochko

We've been making sure everyone's helping each other, helping the helper and getting in the gaps. More than anything, it's about talking and communicating on defense.

William James

Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.

Taya Kyle

When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.

Mike Smith

We wanted to throw a little more tonight, but old man weather wouldn't let us do that.

Ryan Rourke

The Pancake Man went well. We served over 150 people.

Sharon Stone

Any man in Hollywood will meet me if I want that. No, make that any man anywhere.

Samuel Smiles

I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

Selman Waksman

From the moment he is born to the moment he dies, man is subject to the activities of numerous microbes.

Sarah Snook

I think if I could be a man in any time period, I would be a pirate. You know, go climbing in the rigging, sword fighting. I'd like to do that.

Stephanie Zimbalist

My grandfather is the greatest man I'll ever know.

Horace

The gods my protectors. [Lat., Di me tuentur.]

Theresa Klein

But there is only one version of the truth, right?

Neil MacGregor

For the Greeks, there was no single canonical version of creation, but a number of overlapping stories.

Mike Rucker

He's kind of like a younger version of Brett Favre.

Rene Russo

If something comes around that would be a challenge, then that would be wonderful. But if it's a watered-down version of something I've already done, I'd rather do something else.

Paul Rudd

We're now the (junior varsity) version of that,

Nancy Wilson

We've done so many versions of this song.

Daniel Tosh

Yes, I am aware that I am the gayer version of Jeff Lewis.

Patrick Marber

Everything is a version of something else.

Jon Corzine

If you want a long version of the inaugural address, come on Tuesday.