Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Vijay Singh

I still remember it. His yellow shirt and checkered pants, I still remember that. It's part of history and it's still very fresh in everybody's minds.

Carl Edwards

Johnson doesn't know it, but I completed more miles than he did by the time he took the checkered at Daytona. I was already flying west.

Roger Bailey

Last year's Freedom 100 epitomized the racing of the Indy Pro Series. We saw numerous lead changes, side-by-side racing and a late shootout for the checkered flag. To be able to showcase that type of racing at a venue like Indianapolis is extraordinary.

Theodore Roosevelt

The person who succeeds is not the one who holds back, fearing failure, nor the one who never fails... but rather the one who moves on im spite of failure. Far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat. Author: Teddy Roosevelt

Richard Orr

We haven't seen the checkered flag. We have no word from NASCAR, so we aren't quitting.

Robert Yates

So far, so good, ... I'll try to keep this one on the ground and see if we can get a checkered flag Sunday.

Helio Castroneves

Everything is going the way we are planning but until the checkered flag, you can't count on it. Today, we are extremely happy. That's what we need to be thinking about and enjoy this moment.

Susan Rogers

We'll have silent auctions, live auctions, games and door prizes. We'll be there until the checkered flag drops.

Maya Angelou

kudos to the educators, athletes, dancers, judges, janitors, politicians, artists, actors, writers, singers, poets, and social activist, to all who dare to look at like with humor, determination and respect

Chuck Amato

I tell it like it is. Nobody can make that decision except the man himself. He's the one that's got to make it, and don't look back. Don't you dare look back.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Ellison Chu

I don't dare say that I favor gold in the long run. After gold's rise to these levels, I think there will be a correction.

Tom McMillan

I dare say, he did more (publicity) in the preseason than any hockey player ever has,

Robert Wallace

I dared to lose and I won, ... It was a lot of hard work, and physical training and studying.

Logan P. Smith

There are such astonishing things to be told about men and women, and hardly a man or woman to whom one dares to tell them

Karen Joy Fowler

I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.

Abraham Lincoln

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Zach Parise

Regardless of what the players think about it, it's the way it's going to be, so you might as well enjoy it.

Howard Stern

Our radio stations are scared, ... I mean, it's hard for them, they're in it alone. I'm telling you, and if you enjoy the show, you must go out and support our sponsors.

John Mara

Paul will be remembered as one of the greatest commissioners in the history of professional sports. When Paul succeeded Pete Rozelle as commissioner, he had big shoes to fill, as everybody was quick to remind him. In his own style, he went about the task of filling those shoes, and the results speak for themselves. During his tenure, the National Football League has enjoyed unparalleled popularity, prosperity and labor peace, thanks largely to Paul Tagliabue.

David Lynch

People just need to relax and go about their life and enjoy life and enjoy Laurens for how they see Laurens.

Bob Basso

People need to enjoy themselves because that's all they have. Many people in Hawaii are working two and three jobs, so it needs to be fun.

Ronnie Davis

People like that we give good service, and we can come to the home or to the office. I have another job also, but I really enjoy seeing the look on people's faces after I've finished detailing their car.

Kevin Bettencourt

Sure, I?d like to get revenge for him. But he told me to just go out and enjoy the moment.

Sarah Will

Some of these guys had never skied before, and all of a sudden they've got the wind in their hair and they're taking some falls and getting back up and really enjoying themselves in the outdoors with their families to support them.

Robert Sarver

Our people really enjoyed it here. The facilities are great, and we have a great relationship with the University of Arizona. It feels like home to me here.

Jeff Flake

Pat Tillman exemplified the sacrifice, selflessness, and service of the U.S. military. Nowadays, genuine role models in professional sports are few and far between, but Tillman proved that there are still heroes in sports.

Luke Zeller

Patience plays a huge part. As far as in high school, every person here was a star in their high school.

David Crabbe

Our offense is decent. But we're still getting our legs underneath. We're still a little wobbly right now. We'll go as far as our setter can take us.

E. B. White

Our mailing list is over 600, and we know that it's far from complete.

Craig Oren

Our original goal was to finish in the top five and we weren't far off. Overall, it was a successful year. The state was a lot more competitive. The top teams were more evenly matched and it took a lot more points to stay in the top ten than it did last year.

Debbie Kolosh

Our old canteen was a big red school bus. It was kind of limited as far as what they could do in it.

Larry Collins

Sure, I thought we had two good looks. But we missed far more than just two shots. You can't go back and look at just those shots.

Stan Sanchez

Splitting series is not going to do anything as far as percentage points. It's all about percentage points. You don't gain anything by splitting a series. You have to win at least three of four to gain ground.

Paul Lawrie

Someone had to have a go, but Raphael had to make a few mistakes for me to have any chance, so good luck to him, ... He was so far ahead, second place seems like winning.

Jan Vandemoortele

I think most of the humanitarian actors on the ground think we're going to make it. We were fearing a second wave of deaths. It didn't occur.

Alan Shearer

I am fearing the worst, unfortunately - I have been injured before plenty of times so I know the scenario and I haven't got a great hope.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

He who makes no secret of himself, enrages: so much reason have you for fearing nakedness.

Ron Wilson

People are fearing him now, and that's what you want to see with Joe. He's a man on a mission. . . . Even though he's not getting points, he's totally controlling the game.

Larry Hollingworth

It's what we have been fearing all along. The winter is now with us.

Pedro Medina

Fearing for their safety, the manager complied with the suspect?s demands.

Alvin Wright

The officer sees the suspect reach under the passenger seat (and) fearing for his own safety that the suspect was looking for a weapon, he fires his own weapon.

Frederic Lasserre

The market is still fearing that we might see some more serious hurricanes down the road,

Granth Sahib

Give me that understanding, by which I may meditate on You. I sing Your Glorious Praises with each and every breath. Nanak takes the Support of the Guru's Feet.

Oscar Lua

I think it let us know that we are that one unit, that one heartbeat. I think today is just another step into our glorious run.

Katherine Harris

He taught us - and you - to have glorious fun. To live humbly. To give generously. And to be great at every endeavor.

Cameron Mackintosh

I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.

Al Gini

The glorious thing for you always has consequences for others.

Atharva Veda

O Nanak, serve the Lord forever; He is the treasure of glorious virtue.

Sallust

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

Conor Oberst

It's glorious to be able to go onto the Internet and hear any kind of music anywhere, from anywhere, and get it instantly. But there's also something glorious about having a record with a sleeve and looking at the artwork, putting it on the turntable and playing it, there's still something romantic to me about that.

Granth Sahib

Those whose minds are pleased by the Praises of the Lord, Har, Har, are joyful in the palaces of their own homes. Their mouths savor all the sweet delicacies when they sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord.

Albert Einstein

This has been done elegantly by Minkowski; but chalk is cheaper than grey matter, and we will do it as it comes.

Dashiell Hammett

Who shot him? I asked.The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun.

Kevin Bankston

But, it's at least wearing a grey hat.

The Dead

Every silver linings got a touch of grey I will get by, I will get by, I will get by, I will survive.

Kevin O'Leary

Money has no grey areas. You either make it or you lose it.

Jim Popp

I can specifically remember the day I worked him out and he was a tremendous talent. He was a tremendous success in 1995 and helped us win the Grey Cup.

Marian Keyes

I went grey at 12, my eyesight went at 17. I've been a crock from very early on.

Peter Chan

A musical needs a host. I needed someone like Joel Grey in 'Cabaret'.

Dorothy Dunbar

That's what holds me up. I got faith.

Mark Fox

Idaho has been playing better. San Jose State holds the lead at Utah State with a minute to go last Saturday.

Archie Bunker

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Shaan

Jal Mahal, Jaipur, holds a special place for me and it is especially beautiful by night. I enjoy our stay at the old havelis in the region.

Anthony Anderson

Kangaroo Jack is the first movie I've been in where I was the star, or co-star, so this is my baby. This is the one that holds special meaning to me.

Stephanie Plowman

It holds unique material that requires special handling.

Colin Falls

He's just making one move and not thinking about it. I think sometimes he holds onto it and over-analyzes. He catches and makes his move (and) that opens us up on the outside.

John Gibbons

If the Yanks don't win the division, they'll win the wild card. New York knows how to win when it has to, plus Joe Torre holds things together.

Mike Hidde

He holds the offense together. He can do a lot of things. They throw in a lot of kids, but he's the one consistent. He makes plays and makes things happen.

Dan Rooney

Paul knows how to lead. It's that simple.

Fisher DeBerry

People know my heart, my team knows my heart,

Jessica Williams

Our team knows how important this weekend is. This series could put us back on the top or back to the bottom.

Rick Barnes

P.J. will make sure every knows about it.

Pat Summitt

I think this team knows what they have to bring.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

On ne sait jamais! One never knows!

Stephen Pagliuca

We need someone in Washington who knows how to build jobs from the ground up.

Bible Bible

I will give thanks to thee for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are Thy works, and my soul knows it very well.

Graeme Souness

It is a situation where no-one knows how long it will last for,

Robert Green Ingersoll

How poor this world would be without its graves, without the memories of its mighty dead. Only the voiceless speak forever.

Billy Mays

Before you throw it away, let Mighty Mendit save the day.

William Wordsworth

Two Voices are there; one is of the sea,One of the mountains; each a mighty Voice.

Bob McDavitt

It will be in quickly and out quickly. This system has been packing a mighty punch.

George Taylor

I just don't trust it, ... mighty preliminary.

Travis DeWalt

If you look at his frame, he doesn't look like Mighty Mouse.

Marcus Garvey

Up, up, you mighty race!/ You can accomplish/ what you will.

Alex Solis

If he was only 90 percent, that's mighty exciting.

Bill Foster

Our system is not broken. It works. And it moves a lot of people.

Jeremy Friesen

I think there's more (potential) for moves with the U.S. dollar.

James Horner

I think very abstractly when I'm writing. Then, as the project moves on, it becomes more like sculpting.

Corey Kline

He can't show any moves until the semifinals.

Barry Alvarez

He can move. He's very athletic. I don't even know what he weighs. I don't care. ... If he moves well enough, he can weigh 400. He is a giant, though. He makes Kemp look like a little guy.

Rob Gronkowski

I feel like when I do some dance moves during the week or at the house, I'm quicker on my feet. I can react quicker just from dancing.

Jeremy Spencer

Give me anything that moves my heart, that gives me goosebumps.

Dale Shull

I wrestle him and he's a lot stronger. Then the same moves I try to put on him I put on the other guys, and it's a lot easier.

Terry Greene

I think it just moves us up to the next level.

Dave Rowell

Our pitching was not up to par and neither was our defense. It was one thing after another. We were bad, plain and simple.

Quentin Kidd

Right now, neither of the two sides seems to be willing to give in.

Thomas Jefferson

It is neither wealth nor splendor? but tranquillity and occupation which givehappiness.

Thomas Jefferson

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquillity and occupation which give happiness.

Michael McCabe

ICraveTV.com isn't playing by the rules. They have neither sought nor obtained permission to use our signals.

Michael McCabe

ICraveTV.com isn't playing by the rules, ... They have neither sought nor obtained permission to use our signals.

Nancy Cartwright

I have neither been there nor done that

Mike Albring

He's been practicing, running some drills and progressing, but he's not 100 percent and I'm not willing to risk it. Neither is his family.

Dr. Chauvet

I don't tolerate insensitivity and neither do they.

Scott Hand

Our North American operations remain a vital base,

John Kelley

People normally wouldn't do this but they have to come in.

John Mulaney

Stand-up for me is just my opinions on things, so it wouldn't be as fun translated into a sketch. Nor would a sketch be as fun if it were me standing there saying it.

Lena Headey

Really, I still just think of myself as a Northerner, ultimately. It's in my DNA. I'll always have those Northern qualities. We can be mischievous. We can be bold.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

RED-SKIN, n. A North American Indian, whose skin is not red --at least not on the outside.

Bob Dickinson

We normally sell those rooms for a lot of money. It was frustrating that no one wanted to come.

Andy Reid

We normally do that if a player is playing his old team.

James Thomas

We normally don't have to go to trial on them.

Carrie Underwood

I consider myself not a celebrity. I'm a normal person that likes [doing] things on stage.

John Harris

That was a pretty big 2-iron, especially considering how poor the first two shots were,

Japanese Proverb

He is poor who does not feel content.

Gary Parlin

(Barker) threw very poorly in practice on Tuesday.

Mike Hohensee

I thought he did some tremendous things. I thought he did some poor things. He has a lot of room to grow.

Gerry Byrne

For the record, this is a poor decision.

Unknown

May you be poor in misfortune, rich in blessings, slow to make enemies, and quick to make friends.

Augusto Pinochet

I devalued the peso solely looking after the poor.

Vanessa Ferlito

I torture my mother with all my problems, that poor woman.

Ernie Els

For the average player, most three-putts happen because of a poorly judged first putt from long range.

Sean Fleming

He is the type of wrestler who can be ranked in the state and do some big things in tournaments.

Rodney Tention

Give them credit. They compete. That's why they're ranked No. 5 (now 4). They toughened up when they got down.

Tom Perkins

If that happened, it would rank right up there with anything else I've done in my career.

Mark Langan

This ranks up there with the worst I've seen. There (were) feces throughout the house, urine-stained carpets, urine-stained sheets, trash throughout the house.

Jonny Moroni

To be ranked sixth internationally our first time out was pretty great.

George Crooks

Marysville is ranked in the state and they have seven state qualifiers back. That's going to be a tough one.

Zac Sandvig

To come up here and shut out a ranked team like this is really something.

Nathan Hedgecock

There's no intimidation -- none. A rank is just a rank.

Sam Young

They're a nationally ranked team, just like us.

Allard Baird

Out of respect to him, I'd rather have him do that.

Koyie Hill

I think they'd rather get somebody for me, though. It would look better.

Simon Leung

I think the timing is going to be more towards the end of this year rather than earlier.

Terry Bradshaw

I will tell you what I feel, right or wrong. I don't want to do it. I would rather make you laugh. But that's my job. I did it. Archie's mad. I understand.

Jon Karkow

I think he was thinking more about the end of the runway approaching rather than the birds.

Joker Phillips

It didn't take long for me to say yes. Once we started talking, he said that we had been on the up and up with him and that he'd rather come here.

Michael Long

I think I would rather that he didn't run.

Brian Penn

It could have been worse. They could have been using grenades rather than eggs.

Craig Berman

He really wants to get back to the work he's been doing for 15 years in search rather than running a company.

Gore Vidal

When I say 'president,' I still mean Roosevelt - wisely, I think.

Harvey Jackson

Our spirits are high. We're in it for the long haul.

Richard Jackson

Troubled spirits often are manipulated by other types of spirits.

Benj Steinman

Wine and spirits are outperforming beer. It's been a reversal of a decade-long trend.

Benj Steinman

Wine and spirits are outperforming beer, ... It's been a reversal of a decade-long trend.

Alan Noble

Their spirits go up and down with the wind speeds, and right now the wind is up.

Mary Hayes

Even the trees have spirits - everything has a spirit.

Brad Childress

If a daily, 'How you doing, Terrell?' is antagonistic or spiteful then I must be on the wrong planet.

Brad Childress

If a daily, 'How you doing' or a 'What's up' is antagonistic or spiteful then I must be on the wrong planet.

Don Marquis

Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Dallas Willard

Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.

Bette Midler

I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.

Edward Lear

In spite of all their friends could say, / On a winter's morn, on a stormy day, / In a sieve they went to sea!

Lee Matthews

The wind made it very tough to play in spite of the warm day.

Paul Mooney

Sometimes, what you do you have no control over because it's predestined. It's gonna happen in spite of you. There's nothing you can do about it.

Tim Murtaugh

Russ Potts is an angry, bitter, spiteful man.

John Barry

If you have a successful run, everything comes to you. Nothing succeeds like success.

Woody Hayes

Success - it 's what you do with what you've got.

Paul Meyer

Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile goals.

Reo Hatfield

Our success has been obvious, at least from the word on the streets, and I feel like we have opportunities that are still arising.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton of a finished cathedral is already defeated.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.

Barry Mann

Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.

B. R. Ambedkar

For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.

Bill Shoemaker

Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.

Bill Condon

There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.

Don Smith

Sterling still suffers from an association with the dollar.

Bianca Jagger

Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.

C. S. Lewis

Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something, together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.

Carl Maria von Weber

The hardest thing is to endure the applause of fools, and patiently suffer the booing, while with the bravissimo of the foolish one would rather strike them between the ears.

Carl Sagan

If the press descended, the science would surely suffer.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Bertrand Russell

There is in Aristotle an almost complete absence of what may be called benevolence or philanthropy. The sufferings of mankind . . . there is no evidence that they cause him unhappiness except when the sufferers happen to be his friends.

Milwaukee Brewers

I'm suffering now so I won't have to suffer later,

Daniel Sullivan

He is suffering a lot of psychological trauma that he doesn't know he is going through.

Carl Sagan

Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species.

Terry Pendleton

I think their thoughts and my thoughts are on the same page.

Margaret Beckett

I accept, though it is with hindsight, that this is so,

George Fotenos

He doesn't weigh but 96 pounds. Even though he went 4-4 he didn't give up in any match.

Al Gore

Judge Roberts is a brilliant lawyer, a brilliant judge. He is a very careful judge, a thoughtful judge. I would agree with what the President said earlier. He is a decent man. I think everybody who knows him likes him.

Blaise Pascal

Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.

Blaise Pascal

Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.

C. S. Lewis

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Carson Kressley

We came, we saw, we bedazzled! You know, and it's hard to be serious and thoughtful when you're dressed like a Skittle.

Bill Condon

The fact is, these are actors playing parts, and maybe it's not such a bad thing that people be reminded of that. Both of these actors gave heart and soul to the Twilight movies, not only during shooting, but also by navigating so graciously the whole life-in-a-fishbowl aspect of the phenomenon. Above all they have always shown great respect for the fans who made these movies such a success. Now it's time that some of that respect be returned to them.

Benjamin Disraeli

Twilight makes us pensive; Aurora is the goddess of activity; despair curses at midnight; hope blesses at noon.

Carl von Clausewitz

All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.

Atom Egoyan

I make my living doing freelance directing for North American television shot in Toronto, series like Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Twilight Zone, and so forth.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

An English homegrey twilight poured On dewy pasture, dewy trees, Softer than sleepall things in order stored, A haunt of ancient Peace.

Alexander Smith

A tender sadness drops upon my soul, like the soft twilight dropping on the world.

Adrienne Rich

The vixen I met at twilight on Route 5 south of Willoughby: long dead. She was an omen to me, surviving, herding her cubs in the silvery bend of the road in nineteen sixty-five.

Adam Rayner

We're all waiting for the opportunity to do big films but you have to wait your turn - unless you get offered something like Twilight when you're 20! Otherwise, you just have to keep slogging away.

Clifford D. Simak

This is written in the elder days as the Earth rides close to the rim of eternity, edging nearer to the dying Sun, into which her two inner companions of the solar system have already plunged to a fiery death. The Twilight of the Gods is history; and our planet drifts on and on into that oblivion from which nothing escapes, to which time itself may be dedicated in the final cosmic reckoning.

Carrie Chapman Catt

If we learn from the experience, there is no failure, only delayed victory.

Charles Darwin

...for the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.

Blaise Pascal

It is the contest that delights us, and not the victory.

Chris Evert

Don’t let a first-set victory lead into a second-set slump

C. S. Lewis

The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.

Alain Badiou

In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.

Brian Littrell

In every victory, Let it be said of me...My source of strength, My source of hope... Is Christ alone.

Brian Michael Bendis

If you like Powers, you'll love The Victories!

David Davies

Sven's got a roving eye. He's like a seagull and can wrap his wings around people.

Kevin Morris

Out the end windows of the cafeteria, it's all new,

Max Mathurin

Rene Preval has been declared the winner with 51 percent.

Ben Curtis

I'm here to win and that's what I want to do,

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

Beck

I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for.

Beck

Let the desert wind cool your aching head. Let the weight of the world - drift away instead

B. B. King

I can't afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.