Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Duncan

When he gets into a rhythm like that where he starts going, it's like you want to sit there and watch him play. You get caught up in what he does and that's probably the worst thing that we can do is just sit there and watch him play, but you get mesmerized by what he's doing.

Ryan Doumit

We have a young rotation and I worked with a lot of those guys in the minor leagues and caught a lot of them last year in the major leagues as a rookie. I feel like I have a pretty good relationship with all the pitchers.

Mark Lane

We've seen and caught sharks before, but never experienced or seen anything like it. It was a monster.

Jim Danneskiold

We have reports from the fire chief that an unknown number of structures has caught on fire. The town is pretty well evacuated.

Thomas Perez

Everything has changed in recent decades - the economy, technology, cultural attitudes, the demographics of the workforce, the role of women in society and the structure of the American family. It's about time our laws caught up. We watch 'Modern Family' on television, but we're still living by 'Leave It To Beaver' rules.

Erik Hassle

I spent 2010-2012 in Stockholm, trying to figure things out. I caught up on life! At the end of 2012, the relationship I was in ended, and I took the first plane to L.A. where my Swedish label has been setting up base. I felt so much more inspired to write and record than I had ever been, and the songs just started coming.

Elizabeth Thornton

Many high school students are under so much competitive pressure. They are sometimes taught that if they don't have a 4.0 GPA, score in the 99th percentile on admissions tests, and demonstrate leadership in sports and participate in clubs, they won't get into college anywhere. Even highly credentialed professionals get caught up in this.

David Mauldin

We did it just right. The fish were coming out of pre-spawn, so we caught them on the move.

Laura Douglas

We did it in response to requests from our customers that we start offering what would be like a gift certificate. The idea really has caught on.

H. Hart

We have to go out there and prove ourselves to where they can't say we're not a top-five team. You don't want everybody out there saying, 'Oh, you're the No. 1 team.' We want to come out and prove to ourselves that we can be a top team.

Rahshon Clark

We have to get together as a team and just talk. What is going on right now should not be happening. Everybody has their own opinion of what's going on and things we have to do.

Bob Thomas

We have no place to go. We tried the housing authority, we tried every place to get a house, but everybody says they can't do it.

Tony Dungy

When everybody gets healthy, I think we're going to like our roster, ... We like the guys we have.

Ken Hitchcock

When your top goal scorer goes out, everybody sees it.

Bob Whitelaw

We want everybody up here having a good weekend.

Jack Fultz

We want everybody to have a good time.

John Gorman

We want everybody to be satisfied, ... We are more than willing to participate in resolving any problems that need to be resolved.

Geno Auriemma

We want everybody to be one of the top players in the league, and it's not out of the realm of possibly to do that. We've got all the ingredients. It's just a matter of doing it.

Ed Koch

If you listen to Giuliani, it's like nobody did anything to improve the city except him. I'm not part of the history. Bloomberg's not part of the history. It's like, he did it. He's the only one. That's why he's a little crazy.

Eve Plumb

I never wanted to do reunion shows for the sake of a reunion show. I've done all the 'Brady Bunch' stuff except for the Variety Show, but when a talk show wants us all to get together for their sake, it's not interesting to me.

Eugenie Clark

I want to be remembered as a nice person who didn't hurt people - except my ex-husbands, maybe.

Lajos Egri

No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that.

Nick Flynn

I'm not sure why working at a homeless shelter made sense to me, except that I needed to immerse myself in some sort of larger real-life situation to get me out of the cage of my mind, in some ways.

Mark Snyder

We're still learning how to practice, like everyone except the NFL,

Keith Jarrett

I don't like recording studios - except my own, which is just a little room above the garage.

Tom Wolfe

'Back to Blood' really took it out of me. While I was writing it, I just never went out anywhere, except to the gym.

Charles Osgood

There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.

Sean Callahan

We have to get up for every team we play. Our focus now is to win a state championship. Yeah, we want to get back at Hillsborough, but we see the big picture and that is to win games,

John Torchetti

We have to get our focus on the playoffs. Whatever it takes. The commitment, the attitude, the leadership.

Jan Vandemoortele

We have to focus now on the next big problem which will be heating.

Matt Millen

We have to focus back with our football team,

Kevin Garnett

We have no choice. We're in a position where we have to stop looking down the road and start to focus on one game at a time and getting better.

Bob Willis

We want our students to be able to focus on their futures when they graduate without being saddled with huge amounts of student loan debt.

Doug Snyder

We want him to be focused. We want him to focus on leading this team and helping his teammates in the postseason. We thought it was productive and fruitful.

Lance Traywick

We have a young team that is very inexperienced and at times when we don't throw strikes, their focus can wane from time to time.

Etsuko Yamashita

The CPI proved not so helpful for the yen's rises. The market is now shifting its focus to the policy meeting.

C. S. Lewis

Edmund, give a special goodbye to Trumpkin for me. He's been a brick.

Chris Hamilton

We have sat down and done the figures, and the result is that there has been an increase of just under 10-per-cent on last year's sales. We're not up in purely money terms, just on ticket sales, but it's good news for the club.

David Bennett

We have to have a good week of practice. We've got to get back to fundamentals.

Craig Beesley

We have to go up there tomorrow and play good ball.

Mike Thomas

We have to get there, but we should be on our way (to the title game). There's other good teams up there, but we should have a good shot.

Jordan Leopold

We have to get off to a good start. It's one of those things of whoever wants it the most is going to end up getting it.

James Greer

We have to get better at getting through the full-court trap. We had been struggling with that, but we did a good job when we needed it.

Siv Meisingseth

We have normal traffic today and the prospects for tomorrow are good too.

Kay Runge

Whenever you have an urban library, there are parking issues. The good thing about our new location is the nearby ramps.

Carole Bouquet

I'm attached to my land in Pantelleria as if I'd inherited it. Acting is my job, Pantelleria is my home.

Carol Leifer

Stand-up comedy - I love this job, and I gotta tell you, folks - knock wood - it's been working. 'Cause I was one of those kind of people, even when I had a regular job, I couldn't even call in sick right. You know, I was like, 'Hello? Yeah, I can't come in today. I have scurvy.

Carol Moseley Braun

We must invest in infrastructure development and rebuilding communities to create jobs.

Carlos Ghosn

When you're C.E.O., you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job. And today, they are reunited.

Carlos Ghosn

Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.

C. S. Lewis

Puddleglum,' they've said, 'You're altogether too full of bobance and bounce and high spirits. You've got to learn that life isn't all fricasseed frogs and ell pie. You want something to sober you down a bit. We're only saying it for your own good, Puddleglum.' That's what they say. Now a job like this --a journey up north just as winter's beginning looking for a prince that probably isn't there, by way of ruined city nobody's ever seen-- will be just the thing. If that doesn't steady a chap, I don't know what will.

Shannon Miller

We have to get jobs to support ourselves. We can't sit around for six months like it's vacation.

Dan Webster

We have a spending problem, not a taxing problem. The less we spend, the more jobs we have the potential to create.

Agnes Macphail

Whatever is dirty, it is women's job to clean up, or drive some man to clean up, and that goes for everything from cellar to senate.

Paul Friel

We were told we would be kept up on the time. If we don't have a scoreboard, we shouldn't play at that field.

Scott Howell

At IBM, if we kept our same leadership for 36 years, we'd be bankrupt.

Ashwin Sanghi

Would the fish have ever been caught if it had kept its mouth shut?

Mike Myers

Verne's all about what you can do versus what you can't do. He just kept saying yes and his part kept growing. I would love to work with him in every movie.

Gabrielle Zevin

In a way, publishing in 2005 was similar to publishing in 1950. Nobody kept blogs; that was still optional. I didn't even have a website then.

Elizabeth Wilson

I didn't want to give up my career. That's what kept me alive, kept me going. I couldn't stop - didn't want to stop - being all these different characters.

Eric Carr

We'd go through the whole story again, ... but when we got to that part, he kept saying, 'I don't remember.'

Brian Dawkins

We stopped the run, we stopped the pass, we kept people out of the end zone, ... but yet we still get looked down upon.

Bobby Bowden

When you've got a young inexperienced quarterback, the first thing you think of is 'Son don't lose the game,' ... He didn't lose the game. He kept us from losing.

Marc Benioff

I think the most surprising thing about giving is it takes a while to find out what you're really interested in and what you really want to do.

Michael Hein

I was shocked. I won't say it was crushing, but it was surprising and disappointing.

Carol Windley

I can get really obsessive. I like writing many drafts, and I try not to because it is very time-consuming, especially when you're working on a novel. But I do like to take a story and reorder it, put things in different places. This allows me to see things in a new and sometimes surprising way.

Steve Bisley

As an actor, the thing I want to do to an audience is always be ahead of them and always be surprising in the work without deviating from the writer's intention.

Rodney Brooks

If you want a machine to be able to interact with people, it better not do things that are surprising to people.

Mark Zuckerberg

The thing that's been really surprising about the evolution of Facebook is - I think then, and I think now - that if we didn't do this, someone else would have done it.

Astro Teller

Here is the surprising truth: It's often easier to make something 10 times better than it is to make it 10 percent better.

Philip Schiller

We want things to be beautiful, surprising to see, but they also have to be functional. One without the other doesn't make any sense.

A. S. Byatt

Everything is surprising, rightly seen.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.

Dmitry Medvedev

I always say that modernization is not an abstract thing; its a very specific task.

Chinua Achebe

Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.

Elie Wiesel

The primary task of a Jew in turbulent times is to be Jewish.

Bruce Schneier

Something that looks like a protocol but does not accomplish a task is not a protocol—it’s a waste of time.

Brian Tracy

Follow up and follow through until the task is completed, the prize won.

Carl Jung

I could well imagine that I might have lived in former centuries and there encountered questions I was not yet able to answer; that I had been born again because I had not fulfilled the task given to me.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

To televisionize any serious problem, the program directors face the task of making the message 'go down smooth' until the audience is delivered to the commercial.

Steve Rodecap

We're just still searching, just trying to find out what teams are the best.

Walter Leger

The other teams have left, and they're still not really back. We haven't left, and we're not going anywhere.

Alain Vigneault

We've already made the decision. Most teams put five, but we're going to put six.

Donald Rumsfeld

We've got multi-agency teams doing what they do,

Bruce Lewis

We've tried to set it up where we put teams together that are pretty evenly matched.

Bob Lennon

We'll see the course, and we'll see most of the teams that we'll see at district, too.

Bernie Bickerstaff

Most teams that you have, they have one or two go-to guys. They've got a go-to team.

Matthew Faltys

Most of the teams at the top just didn't give up as much ground.

Marissa Chovanec

Many of them play on the same travel teams and know each other well.

Author unknown

Worrying works! 90% of the things I worry about never happen.

David Thomas

Worrying about anything but A&M right now is just foolish.

Armando Iannucci

There's something inherently comic about the fact that politicians make things worse by worrying too much about something.

Aaron Brooks

So I don't have concerns, but we can't be worrying about that.

Michelle Gomez

I bring so much of myself to each character that there's always a worrying point when I think: 'Oh no, I'm really that person.'

Peter Kinder

You can't be worrying about everything all at once,

Carly Simon

Worrying too much about other people's ears and not my own, I lost my way.

Paul Freeman

It's frustrating. It's exciting. It's nerve-wracking, ... It's worrying about those who are down there.