“If a man, in a lifetime of 50 years, can point to six songs that are immediately identifiable, he has achieved something. Irving Berlin can sing 60 that are immediately identifiable. Somebody once said you couldn't have a holiday without his permission.” IfsMenYearsSaidSongSixLifetimeHolidayPermissionBerlin Author:Sammy Cahn
“What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and that was it. But in real life people had to keep on living, day after day, year after year.” PeopleYearsMeanSaidRealStoriesReal LifeHappy EndingsHappily Ever AfterEver AfterSimply Said Book:Afterworlds Source: Afterworlds
“I said to myself if Christianity is dead, I will sit at its tomb and will weep until it arises again, just as Mary Magdalene sat at the tomb of Jesus and wept until Jesus showed Himself. Then when I came out of prison I saw Christianity is not dead. The number of practicing Christians in Rumania according to the figures given by the Communists themselves in 20 years of Communist dictatorship has grown 300 percent.” IfsYearsSaidChristianJesusGivenNumbersChristianitySawsFiguresPercentPrisonAriseSatCommunistMaryDictatorshipWeepingTombsMary Magdalene Author:Richard Wurmbrand
“Winning is a lot of fun. I remember having a meeting a couple years ago and telling the guys: 'You're not enjoying yourselves.' O'Neill said to me afterwards, 'Skip, it's not fun unless you win.'” YearsSaidRememberGuyWinningFunEnjoyCoupleYears AgoMeetingsYankeesNew York YankeesSkip Author:Joe Torre
“After I won 21 games, I said, "This isn't that hard actually. I can do this every year for maybe 10, 15 years." To tell you the truth I thought I was going to be in the Hall of Fame. I really thought that. You feel so strong, so powerful walking down the street. You know you can throw a ball harder than any man in the world, or certainly the top five. Sandy Koufax knocked all of us out of the box on that one, so we would think, "I'm the second or third hardest thrower in the game."” ThinkingKnowsMenWorldFeelsYearsSaidI CanHardGamesStrongCan DoPowerfulFiveStreetsWalkingFameThirdsBallsHarderBoxesHardestHallsYankeesNew York YankeesHall Of FameSandyI Can Do ThisThrowers Author:Jim Bouton
“Now this is over thirty years later and the guy said he was that cab driver. He apologized and he was serious. I felt awful. He might have been spending his whole life thinking he had jinxed me, but I told him he hadn't. My number was up.” ThinkingYearsHas BeensSaidWholeMightGuyFeltNumbersSeriousSpendingWhole LifeAwfulThirtyDriversMight Have BeenYankeesThirty YearsNew York YankeesCabCab Drivers Author:Joe DiMaggio
“Many years before when I had serious back pain from a sports injury, the surgeons said they would explore my spine and "figure it out." Out of frustration I had impulsively opted for the procedure. They ended up fusing the vertebrae. It left me debilitated. In hindsight, I blamed myself more than the surgeons. I had pressed them for a solution when in fact none was apparent because the cause of the pain was obscure.” YearsSaidFactsPainLeftCausesSportsFiguresSeriousSolutionsTherapyInjuryFrustrationObscureProceduresSurgeonsSpineHindsightBack Pain Author:Jerome Groopman
“When the word began to get out, the idea of tying imitations of aquatic worms was not met with universal approval in the fly-fishing community. It seems that worms had somehow gotten a bad name. I think a fishing pal of mine hit it on the head when he said, It just pisses them off that you can catch trout, I mean really big trout, on a fly that a five-year old can tie in twenty seconds!” ThinkingYearsMeanSaidIdeasBigsSeemsNamesCommunityFiveSeaMinesMetsRiversUniversalTwentiesFishesBoatTiesFive YearsLakesFishingSecondsApprovalImitationWormsTroutFive Year OldsFly FishingPals Book:Fly Fishing the Tailwaters Source: Fly Fishing the Tailwaters
“You know, years ago John Calhoun said that West Point men would lead great armies... He never thought they'd be leading them against each other. Well, if we have to meet like that, I'd rather we never meet again.” IfsKnowsMenYearsWellsSaidWarHistoryYears AgoArmyWestCivil WarAmerican Civil WarGreat ArmyWest Point Author:Philibert Orry
“There has been lots of things said about me over the years. I am happy to comment on people's opinion in football I respect, but Tony Cascarino is a man I certainly do not respect, for a lot of reasons, and if I told you, you would be shocked. So the day I worry about Tony Cascarino will be a very sad day of my life.” PeopleIfsMenYearsHas BeensSaidReasonWould BeOpinionWorryFootballManagersSoccerCommentShockedChairmanVery SadSad Day Author:Roy Keane
“You don't look for jobs. You don't phone up 10 clubs and say, Here I am. You are offered the job. I was in Benfica many years ago. I was leaving the training ground and I had a car after me. It went on for 10 minutes. Anyhow, he stopped and I stopped and he said, I'm from the Italian embassy. Ah yes, and what do you want? I want your phone number because Roma wants you as a manager next season. Three months later I was sitting on the bench in Roma. I don't think the rest of working society works like football.” ThinkingWantYearsLooksSaidJobsThreeNextNumbersMinutesCarFootballMonthsTrainingSittingYears AgoSeasonsLeavingPhonesClubsManagersSoccerItalianI Want YouChairmanBenchesHere I AmThree MonthsPhone NumbersEmbassySitting On The Bench Author:Sven-Goran Eriksson
“These guys have been criticized the last few years for not getting to where we're going, but I've always said that the most important thing in sports is to keep trying. Let this be an example of what it means to say it's never over.” TryingYearsMeanHas BeensSaidImportantLastsGuyWinningSportsExampleLosingImportant ThingsNbaKeep Trying Author:Jerry Sloan
“It's an eclectic film and I think we served the novel really well. And we had a great cast who worked for free. Everyone read it and said, I'm in, from Nick [Nolte] to Albert [Finney] to Omar [Epps] to Barbara [Hershey]. We really had fun and shot it in a very short time. I think the subject matter is more topical today, more to the point, than it was 30 years ago, when it concerned the Vietnam War.” ThinkingYearsWellsSaidWarMatterTodayFilmFunNovelSubjectsShotsConcernedYears AgoCastsVietnamVietnam WarSubject MatterShort TimeEclecticBarbaraHad FunOmarHershey Author:Bruce Willis
“They offered me one cover about 10 years ago, and I said, no, I can't do it. I'm happy to cover up now.” YearsSaidI CanYears AgoCover Ups Author:Ursula Andress
“Some years ago a top Ford official was showing the late Walter Reuther through the very automates plant in Cleveland, Ohio and he said to him jokingly, "Walter, you'll have a hard time collecting union dues from these machines." and Walter said, "you are going to have more trouble trying to sell automobiles to them." Both of them let it stop there. There was a logical answer to that ... the owners of the machines could buy automobiles and if you increase the number of owners you increase the number of consumers.” IfsTryingYearsSaidHardWisdomPoliticsAnswersNumbersEconomyTroubleLateYears AgoMachinesIncreaseSellsUnionsPlantDuesConsumersOfficialsHard TimesLiberalismOwnersLogicalCollectingAutomobileOhioClevelandCleveland Ohio Author:Ronald Reagan
“Or I could see Fish, Just a button up, Like a Mayor, Like a President, Just demands so much from his teammates, Has played with so many great players, But still respects everybody. He's 38 years old, And he has nothing else to prove, And I said, "Fish you wanna come get some shots up with me?" And first thing he says is "Yes." He always wants to learn. Even though he's done so much in this league, Played with so many great players, He always wants to learn, And that motivated me To know that it's never a point Where you can stop getting better. And he's a guy that made me realize that.” KnowsWantYearsFirstsMadeSaidStillsDoneGuyPresidentRealizingPlayerDemandProveShotsFishesLeagueGet BetterNbaMotivatedButtonsTeammateMayorsMvpButton Ups Author:Kevin Durant
“I mean, if somebody said to me, junior year of college, you can go anywhere, your old man's paying for it, I'd have been gone in a flash. But I had to work. Every summer my mother would say, 'Get that job and hold on to it until August 30.'” IfsMenYearsMeanHas BeensSaidJobsMotherLiteratureGoneCollegeSummerOld ManFlashJuniorsAugustJunior Year Author:Chris Matthews
“We're going to do it again next year. We'll see you again next year. Yeah, I said it. Yeah, I said it. We will do it again next year.” YearsSaidNextWinningBasketballYeahNext YearYou Again Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“Every time that I've won a championship I've looked at my guys around me and looked at their work ethic and said 'You know what, I'm going to win it this year. I feel that way now.” KnowsWayFeelsYearsSaidGuyWinningBasketballEthicsChampionshipWork Ethic Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“Our soldiers did not go to some foreign country and risk their lives in vain and defend our Constitution so that decades later you can tell me it's a living document ever changing and is open to interpretation. The guys who wrote it were light years ahead of anyone today, and they meant what they said - now leave the document alone, or there's going to be trouble.” YearsSaidCountryLightTodayGuyRiskTroubleAtheismConstitutionSoldierPositive AtheismDecadesVainInterpretationDocumentsThey SaidForeign CountriesLight Years Author:Ted Nugent
“I said what I felt, and people try to control people. But you can never control me. I'm a 31-year-old juvenile delinquent. Nobody can control me.” PeopleTryingYearsSaidFeltBasketballJuvenileDelinquents Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“I think all of our guys work hard and want to improve. They want answers, and the film will be the answer. The coaches will collect it and get better. I do not think anybody wants a rebuilding year. That's not something that I have ever said.” ThinkingWantYearsSaidHardFilmGuyAnswersHard WorkCoachesGet BetterTigersRebuildingLsu Author:Les Miles
“A few years ago one of my wives, when talking about wives leaving their husbands said, 'I wish my husband's wives would leave him, every soul of them except myself.' That is the way they all feel, more or less, at times, both old and young.” WayFeelsYearsSaidSoulYoungWishTalkingWifeHusbandYears AgoLeavingMy WifeMy HusbandPolygamy Author:Brigham Young
“I started acting when I was five years old. I found it randomly, through listening to my brother study monologues. I auditorally started memorizing them for no reason, and started repeating them to anyone who would listen to me. And then, I begged my mom to let me do whatever that meant because I couldn't put into words exactly what that meant. It just meant me happy. And then, when I was 11 years old, I realized what I was doing and I looked to my mom and said, "Can I make this something I can do for the rest of my life?" She was like, "Yeah, sure, if you want to." And I was like, "Okay, great! I think I might want to do this forever."” ThinkingWantYearsSaidReasonMightFoundActingForeverStudyFiveBrotherListeningMomLet MeMy MomI RealizedMy BrotherFive YearsNo ReasonListen To MeFive Year OldsMonologuesMemorizing Author:Chloe Grace Moretz
“The first five years of my career, I was Inmate #1, Bad Guy #1 and Mean Guy #1. I had a great career going, until somebody told me that I was typecast. I said, "Well, what's typecast?" And they said, "Well, you're always playing the mean Chicano dude with tattoos." I thought about that and I said, "Wait a minute! I am the mean Chicano dude with tattoos, so somebody is getting it right."” YearsFirstsWellsMeanSaidGuyWaitingCareersFiveMinutesFive YearsTattooThey SaidBad GuysInmatesMean Guy Author:Danny Trejo
“The way music reflects real life, the way that painstakingly, over the years, what I have said is really a metaphor for what's happening to America. It used to be about, or tried to be at the very beginning, about what was right. It has stopped being what was right for America; it started being about what was right for companies that are in control.” WayYearsSaidRealAmericaUsedCompanyHappeningsMetaphorReal LifeUsed To Be Author:Immortal Technique
“I was given the name by my brother when I was about eleven or twelve years old. He was older than me, and around that age I was starting to get into girls, and when they would call the house for him, and when he was not there, I would try to talk to them. I was trying to be the man and trying to get them to come and see me, not worrying about him. When he found out... he started calling me Ice Cube as a joke because he said I was trying to be too cool. I just liked it and started telling everybody in the hood "my name is Ice Cube."” MenTryingYearsSaidAgeGirlFoundHouseNamesGivenWorryHe ManBrotherCallingJokesStartingIceMy BrotherTwelveElevenHoodCubesNot WorryingToo Cool Author:Ice Cube
“When you're about 20 years old, you kind of think out - I figured out that it was better - less good to be successful and better to have a laughing life, laugh more than you frown all through your life. Because on the day you die, which one would you have said had the happier life, the better life? And so I put a lot of humor in my life.” ThinkingYearsKindSaidDiesLaughingSuccessfulBeing SuccessfulBetter LifeOld YouHappier Life Author:Steve Wozniak
“I asked Mother how she endured so many years of goodbyes. She quoted a mountain-man who said, 'Make the least of all that goes and the most of all that comes.'” MenYearsSaidMotherMountainGoodbyeMountain Man Author:Gigi Graham
“As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.” WayYearsHumansSaidBitsLandCivilizationChinaOilBorrowingPersianHuman CivilizationPersian GulfBorrowing Money Author:Al Gore
“Over the years, many executives have said to me with pride: 'Boy, I worked so hard last year that I didn't take any vacation.' I always feel like responding, "You dummy. You mean to tell me you can take responsibility for an eighty-million-dollar project and you can't plan two weeks out of the year to have some fun?” FeelsYearsMeanSaidTwoHardLastsFunResponsibilityBoysMillionsPlansWeekPrideProjectsDollarsExecutivesVacationLast YearTaking ResponsibilityEightyTwo WeeksMillion DollarsRespondingDummy Author:Lee Iacocca
“The first time I got a chance to meet Michael was onstage at Madison Square Garden. There were tons of people on the stage, and I just remember losing my mind. Like, Oh my God, that's Michael Jackson right there. I was just over his right shoulder. And then when I finally got a chance to get on the stage with him, I was just shut down. He had the type of magic that you just bowed to. I just said, "I love you, and I know you've heard it a million and one times from fans all over the world, but you've meant so much to me as an entertainer, and I love you, and I've admired you all these years.” PeopleKnowsWorldYearsMindFirstsSaidRememberChanceMillionsMagicHeardFansStageLove YouTypeLosingFirst TimeGardenShouldersSquaresOne TimeEntertainersMadisonMadison Square GardenLosing My Mind Author:Usher
“At one point in my 20s, I was about to quit acting. I'd had a crappy couple of years and I was depressed. My mom said, 'Don't give up! You'll be so mad at yourself.'” GivingYearsSaidActingMomCoupleGiving UpMadMy MomQuittingDon't Give Up Author:Janel Moloney