Quotes with one-yard

Quotes 1561 till 1580 of 5916.

  • Aaron Copland I hope my recordings of my own works won't inhibit other people's performances. The brutal fact is that one doesn't always get the exact tempo one wants, although one improves with experience.
    Source: Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music
    Aaron Copland
    American composer and writer (1900 - 1990)
    - +
     0
  • Adam Savage I just had one of those 'what the hell are we doing' moments.
    Adam Savage
    American special effects designer and fabricator (1967 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bill Hicks I just have one of those faces. People come up to me and say, What's wrong? Nothing. Well, it takes more energy to frown than it does to smile. Yeah, you know it takes more energy to point that out than it does to leave me alone?
    Source: Relentless
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
    - +
     0
  • Brock Lesnar I just take it one fight at a time. If I'm able to fight, and I'm still healthy enough, I'd like to fight. But I'll know when it's time to stop.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
    - +
     0
  • John Cleese I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
    John Cleese
    English actor, comedian and producer (1939 - )
    - +
     0
  • Charles Barkley I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.
    Charles Barkley
    American professional basketball player (1963 - )
    - +
     0
  • Andrew Wiles I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it's more rewarding than anything I can imagine.
    Andrew Wiles
    English mathematician (1953 - )
    - +
     0
  • Ernest Hemingway I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
    - +
     0
  • Vera Brittain I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.
    Vera Brittain
    English nurse, writer, feminist, and pacifist (1893 - 1970)
    - +
     0
  • Ulysses S. Grant I know only two tunes. One them is ''Yankee Doodle'' and the other isn't.
    Ulysses S. Grant
    American Army general (1822 - 1885)
    - +
     0
  • Peter Nivio Zarlenga I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself.
    Peter Nivio Zarlenga
    American businessman, founder of Blockbuster Videos
    - +
     0
  • Georges Bernanos I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
    - +
     0
  • Oscar Wilde I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
    - +
     0
  • Hubert Humphrey I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
    - +
     0
  • Jan Carlzon I learned that, before you reach an objective, you must be ready with a new one, and you must start to communicate it to the organization. But it is not the goal itself that is important.
    Jan Carlzon
    Swedish businessman (1941 - )
    - +
     0
  • Burgess Owens I learned the major difference between college and pro football. In the pros, you're up against a top receiver almost every minute of time. In college, maybe one comes along every third game.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
    - +
     0
  • Andy Hertzfeld I left General Magic in 1996 to become an Internet hobbyist - got a T-1 line to my house. At one point I had all four food banks of the Bay Area hosted from this house here.
    Andy Hertzfeld
    American software engineer and innovator (1953 - )
    - +
     0
  • William Hazlitt I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
    - +
     0
  • Bruce Willis I like a little movie I did in the early nineties called 'Mortal Thoughts.' The part was hardly written, but I learned a lot making it. No one remembers it.
    Bruce Willis
    American actor, producer, and singer (1955 - )
    - +
     0
  • Aaron Klug I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes.
    Aaron Klug
    British biophysicist (1926 - 2018)
    - +
     0
All one-yard famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 79)