Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tuppence Middleton

I was very, very shy in public and school, and quite loud and brash at home.

Jake Delhomme

I'm a little more reserved than (Smith) off the field. On the field, I get pretty animated. But he's a -- I don't want to say brash -- but a confident person, and he'll tell you if he doesn't like (something). And he means it.

Joseph Estrada

Moreover, our culture discourages her from being as brash as Gloria Arroyo,

Jake Delhomme

He's a very -- I don't want to say brash -- but a confident person.

Ed Schultz

We may have outgrown Fargo, but I don't want to come off brash by saying that. I know how that will look in print: 'Bigheaded Eddie.' That's not the case. The logistic issues of it, we may have outgrown Fargo.

Michael Owen

You're obviously conscious of being brash or big-headed but I always knew I was going to be a footballer when I was seven or eight. I didn't just think I wanted to be one, I knew I was going to be one. Nothing ever surprised me really.

Rupert Holmes

To my knowledge, there's never been a duo of a brash American and a polite Brit and it's kind of an interesting dynamic for a comedy team, ... I think Colin and Kevin could always fall back on that if they have to.

Lauren Corrao

sharp, dry wit and his brash dealings with contestants.

Elaine Sciolino

Colin Powell has said over the years that Saddam Hussein is like a toothache. It recurs from time to time, and you just have to live with it. At other times, he's compared Saddam Hussein to a kidney stone that will eventually pass. But he has never said, 'You have to operate and take out the kidney stone.'

Edith Bowman

Some days I fancy him, others I want to flush hid head down the toilet.(on Colin Murray)

Ariel Sharon

I'm a friend of Colin Powell. We talk quite often.

Jacques Chirac

France is waiting to see what Colin Powell says tomorrow and what (weapons inspector Hans) Blix says on the 14th,

Jose Aznar

I did tell the President that we need a lot of Colin Powell and very little of Rumsfeld

Robert Davenport

He didnt miss much, ... I told Colin when he got here, if he listens to what we tell him, then hes going to make money playing this game for a long, long time. And so far hes been like a sponge. Hes soaked everything in that weve told him.

Rich Bond

If some larger-than-life personality -- let's say Colin Powell -- decided he wanted to launch a third-party candidacy for some office, I think he'd be an impact player. But he's not running.

Peter McEvoy

First and foremost, Colin is a safe pair of hands. He's a very sound individual who understands golf, having lived and worked in it all his life. He was good enough to make it to Walker Cup level as a player, and he captained Scotland to European Championship success. In other words, he ticks all the boxes. What more could you want?

Pete Sessions

You know, I think that President Obama is a person who has a great relationship with a number of people. Colin Powell does, too. I think Colin Powell is a fine American, a great leader and sees things in President Obama that he agrees with. He's entitled to have his opinion.

David Suchet

Deep inside, I am desperate to do comedy.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

American comedies about Asians have never been funny to me. That always kind of pissed me off.

Aisha Tyler

I liked comedy, but didn't know it was something you could do for a living. I actually wanted to be an attorney.

Aisha Tyler

I like grown up comedy.

Bob Newhart

I feel more comfortable in comedy.

Bernie Mac

The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them.

Bernie Mac

Comedy has been so good to me.

Bernie Mac

Whatever success I've had, I always like to top it.

Eddie Izzard

I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.

Mario Little

Usually, it's just a two-man game, the dynamic duo and the rest are role players.

Martin Clunes

You do get into a groove, which is great, when you get to act with the same people a lot. Like with Caroline Catz - it's like a duet: you're like a duo jamming together.

Leslie Feist

We were a duo on tour, but it was his music and his songs. I was kind of his Vanna White/singing partner/torch-song singer. I was the straight man to his funny man.

Daryl Hall

Traditionally, duos get accused of lots of things.

R. Ingram

We've been doing the duo thing quite a lot.

Steve Desovich

Jason is really important for Dale. They've been a duo for such a long time, they function together.

Chris Hovan

Yeah, two games, hes played like we expect him to play. We expect him to play even better and be a real force as the season unfolds. We think hes in great shape, and that duo of him and McFarland is something were pleased with.

Yang Liwei

I'm sure they will do better than I did. I was alone. They are a duo supported by better technology.

Scott Thompson

If comedy duos don't like each other, it just won't work.

Jason Segel

The power dynamics in a relationship are going to be fluid over a long period of time, so to wait for 'perfect' is going to be a mistake.

Butch Vig

We were trying to make sure the arrangement was good, because the song has a very dynamic and sweeping melody line,

Joe Leonard

We're making up a lot of this as we go. It's a dynamic situation. We don't have a playbook for this.

Doug Wright

We're in the Roaring Forties. It's a dynamic environment - anything can happen.

John Snow

We're simply making an inquiry to make sure we're on top of the situation in the Treasury markets, ... The reason to do this is simply to make sure that we're on top of the situation, understand the dynamics of that market.

Steven Forester

She is really as dynamic a soloist as is possible to engage. I love working with Jan because I have the sense there is nothing that is impossible for her to do musically.

Mark Headley

We need a reality check. Japan has still got a challenging demographic profile, managements that are less than dynamic and a government that is still very bureaucratic.

Michael Levine

She was a great administrator and a dynamic leader of people, who was very imaginative and very tough-minded.

Gail Goestenkors

She's one of the most dynamic players in the country. She's that team's heart and soul.

Charles Dickens

External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.

Charles Dickens

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

Charles Caleb Colton

He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its pleasures for his trouble.

Charles Caleb Colton

The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.

Charles Caleb Colton

Power. like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation. To acquire it, appears not more difficult than to be dispossessed of it when acquired, since it enables the holder to shift his own errors on dependents, and to take their merits to himself. But the miracle of losing it vanishes, when we reflect that we are as liable to fall as to rise, by the treachery of others; and that to say "I am" is language that has been appropriated exclusively to God!

Charles Caleb Colton

There is no quality of the mind, or of the body, that so instantaneously and irresistibly captivates, as wit. An elegant writer has observed that wit may do very well for a mistress, but that he should prefer reason for a wife. He that deserts the latter, and gives himself up entirely to the guidance of the former, will certainly fall into many pitfalls and quagmires, like him who walks by flashes of lightning, rather than the steady beams of the sun.

Charles Caleb Colton

Let us not be too prodigal when we are young, nor too parsimonious when we are old. Otherwise we shall fall into the common error of those, who, when they had the power to enjoy, had not the prudence to acquire; and when they had the prudence to acquire, had no longer the power to enjoy.

Charles Dickens

You fear the world too much,' she answered gently. 'All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off, one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you. Have I not?

Charles Dickens

Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow.

Bob Odenkirk

If you're committed enough, you can make any story work. I once told a woman I was Kevin Costner, and it worked because I believed it.

Kevin Mitnick

When I read about myself in the media, even I don't recognize me. The myth of Kevin Mitnick is much more interesting than the reality of Kevin Mitnick. If they told the reality, no one would care.

Kevin Mitnick

The myth of Kevin Mitnick is much more interesting than the reality of Kevin Mitnick. If they told the reality, no one would care.

Daniel Gillies

Kevin Smith is so great in 'Kingdom Come,' isn't he? He's kind of this very earthy poet. He just has this immediate gregariousness, like, you kind of just want to be his pal.

Bruce Barnes

We ran our spread offense to Adam. He can do what he wants with the ball. We had Zach (Weismann) and Kevin (Brush) on the perimeter. He can also take the shot if he's open.

Trevor McDonald

I'm much more on the phone to Mr. Kevin Pietersen these days than anybody else I know.

Jamie Martin

I did just enough. I'm not a lineman, I just tried to shield him and let Kevin do what he wanted to do.

Chris Pine

I've worked Keira Knightley quite a bit and Kevin Costner.

Amanda Peet

Whenever I was with Kevin Pollak, I had to leave the room.

Charles Caleb Colton

Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order to please others, they have most generally gone on to acquire more, to please themselves.

Charles Caleb Colton

The further we advance in knowledge, the more simplicity shall we discover in those primary rules that regulate all the apparently endless, complicated, and multiform operations of the Godhead.

Charles Caleb Colton

In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates, and like coin, its circulation is not restricted to any particular class.

Charles Caleb Colton

The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing.

Charles Caleb Colton

It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and the moderns, standing as they do on the vantage ground of former discoveries and uniting all the fruits of the experience of their forefathers, with their own actual observation, may be admitted to enjoy a more enlarged and comprehensive view of things than the ancients themselves.

Charles Caleb Colton

To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Charles Caleb Colton

The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.

Charles Caleb Colton

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

Charles Spurgeon

Let no knowledge satisfy but that which lifts above the world, which weans from the world, which makes the world a footstool.

Bono

Politeness is, you know, is a wonderful thing. Manners are in fact, really important thing. But remember, Jesus didn't have many manners as we now know.

Hattie Morahan

I've had so many experiences where everyone is very polite about each other's working process, which can lead to work where everyone seems to be in different plays.

will.i.am

There's no chivalry in culture any more. Sometimes you meet someone who everyone says is polite and you're like, 'Wow,' but then it's like, 'Hang on, isn't everyone supposed to be polite?'

Maurice Carroll

I don't think it's going to be a terribly polite primary. And, why should it be?

Fanny Burney

such is the effect of true politeness, that it banishes all restraint and embarassment.

Fan Bingbing

I am a very frank person and that's how I hope to remain. I don't like to pretend to be polite. What you see is what you get.

Hippocrates

An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.

Emily Post

Alas! it is true: "Be polite to bores and so shall you have bores always round about you."

Mark Vonnegut

My only hope was to be polite.