I'm a competitive person and it is in my nature to try hard in every match I play. The only time I'm not competitive is when I'm playing against my mom.

You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.

Pat Riley

When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.

Marilyn Hacker

My type of humor is me not caring whether people know what I'm talking about or not.

John Hodgman

The minute I stopped trying to find the right girl, and started trying to become the right guy...the girl came.

Jonathan Antin

To be cut off from the land of the living, and yet not to be dead. How could I bear that? That's how most men live, and don't even know it.

Orson Scott Card

The parent knows instinctively that if they're working and setting an example for their child that means that child is more likely to be in school, more likely to stay out of trouble and more likely to complete their education.

John Engler

Wealth will no give you satisfaction. The more your wealth grows, the more your requirements grow with it.

Leo Tolstoy

Damn it, Pierre, what do you want me to do We'll go sit with empty chairs to get those guys back to the table. (To Pierre Trudeau, prime minister of Canada)

Ronald Reagan

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

Source Unknown

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

Joseph Conrad

I grew up in a funny way.

Gordon Ramsay

I like to be busy and I like to have places to go in the morning, when I get up.

Sean Hayes