Phil Oakey Quotes & Sayings

Every athlete at his peak is going to perform with a different mental cocktail. I thrive in the underdog, reserved, it's-not-over-till-it's-over mindset. — Kevin Jorgeson

We are at a time in our country's history that inclusive language is better than exclusive language. — Barack Obama

I understand what it is for a woman to want to protect their children and give them the best they can. — Annie Lennox

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody. — Herbert Bayard Swope

To make a great dream come true, the first requirement is a great capacity to dream; the second is persistence. — Cesar Chavez

It was a surprise party, Parker," America said softly.
"Oh," Parker said, cringing.
"You're throwing me a surprise party?" I asked America.
She shrugged. "It was Trav's idea. It's at Brazil's on Sunday. Six o'clock. — Jamie McGuire

A sudden thought struck me. Wouldn't it be odd if my mother got old! ... It is only natural that when your children are big you must be older but somehow I had never thought of its happening to my mother... What a peculiar thing to think of in the bright sunshine of the afternoon! — Maureen Daly

I always do like seeing other people dance in their cars. It's one of the things that makes me happy. — Ariel Gore

To me, the haircut represented beauty and strength, that I was a woman who would live her life without the boundaries imposed upon her by other people. — Kat Von D.

When I was young, I wanted to be the face of a makeup campaign or a hair campaign, so that's something that I've always dreamed of that hopefully comes along. And then obviously starring with Ryan Gosling in a movie wouldn't be so bad, either. — Emeraude Toubia

I was watching TV at age 9 or 10, and my mom said that I came from the front room and I told her that I want to act. And she said if you want to do this at 18, then you can. It was a very simple story, yet, I do not even remember the conversation that I had with my mother. Until she reminded me of the story many years later. — Derek Luke

Come September, the middle of September when the first frost comes, that's hunting season. Fishing poles are hung up and the hunting season starts. You've got to be careful, if you're a hunter, that it doesn't become an obsession. — Bud Grant

The Iraqi people are capable of fighting to the victorious end which God wants ... the blood of our martyrs will burn you! — Saddam Hussein

If management is people, management must become humanagement — Jonas Ridderstrale