Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jay Wright

We've won games that way. We've shot poorly and then got on the offensive boards and played defense. They were just too good.

Todd Tripp

We struggled on offense, but we kept playing defense and kept getting stops. I thought we controlled the boards and our defense was good tonight.

Becky Hammon

We have to get to the offensive glass. We didn't crash the boards when we should have. We settled for jumpers instead of getting to the line.

Charlaine Harris

I thought about making biscuits, but there seemed to be more than enough calories on board.

Charlie Munger

A board member should be perfectly willing to leave at any time and willing to make the tough calls.

Paul Alioto

We're getting boards and picking up loose balls. We've been playing well of late. You always hope to be peaking at this stage of the season.

Pig Miller

We know Gary will go to the boards and will press. We've got to turn it into our style of game and get out and run.

Butch Waller

We're not changing anything. I learned that years ago. The key always for us is can we stop their inside people and get some boards and kick it out? By the looks of it, they'll transition, and so will we.

Sylvia Fowles

(LSU) coach (Pokey Chatman) challenged me in the locker room at halftime to get as many boards as possible. I just picked up my energy in the second half.

Jim Bush

The possession of a controlled substance was an off-white rock-like substance,

Rafa Benitez

We started off by controlling the game and were well organised and in the second half they did put some pressure on us but then we controlled the game at the end of the game,

Gillian Anderson

To my detriment sometimes. I can be very controlled - too controlled. It spills over into my life, and that's when it gets difficult.

Gerald Wallace

We let them back in the game. Once we settled down and got out focus back we controlled the game.

Rick Hall

She got us out of a lot of jams. This is two games in a row where she controlled the game. The offense hasn't come through to give her support, yet.

Paul Thompson

She got hot when we needed her to. But she ran the floor well all night, she controlled the offense, she played good defense and showed me a lot of leadership on the floor all game long.

Mary Becker

She really stepped it up and controlled the pace of games. She started to find herself in our offense and create a little bit. She's a real good passer.

Kathy Leitke

She is very sound, very controlled in the box. She has good strength, good power. She has a good eye for the ball. She's a very disciplined hitter at a young age.

Cliff Nellis

When this initiative fails, the legislature which is controlled by liberals will revoke it.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Alan Moore

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

Alan Alda

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Akira Kurosawa

A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.

Brian Nicola

We want them all to go on, and realistically they all have a shot. They all want to be state-placers and they're all looking to be pretty tough. I just want them all to have a good time.

Joe Montana

When I was playing, I missed my two girls' (events). They look up (in the stands) and myself and my wife are not there. I want to be there for the boys.

Joe Gibbs

Unless I missed something, that should have been 15 yards if I have ever seen it. We are supposed to be watching the quarterbacks and protecting them.

Alain Prost

Three times before 1985, I just missed the title, so winning was a relief.

David Briggs

We had a very nice rally yesterday and now you have some people wanting to take profits and others who missed out wanting to swoop in now.

Walt Woodruff

She hadn't run track since she was a freshman. She's doing well in the 100. She missed the school record by six-tenths of a second. She's going to get that before the season's over.

Mike Hofland

She's able to get (to) missed shots every time. When she wants to be, she's very aggressive.

Luke Vaccaro

She runs the team. We missed her a lot more than I thought we would.

Don Flanagan

She missed a three-point shot, went right back and shot another three-point shot. I think she shot three in one series and made one of them. She's got to shoot, and when she's open, she's got to shoot.

Brian Daubach

Missed it by one day again. Hopefully, the next time is for real.

Dave Barry

How can you be afraid of women?” “Those ain’t normal women.

Caitlin Moran

All the things that are taboo are the things that are not normal, and all the things that are not normal are the things that are exclusively about physically being a woman.

Scott Carpenter

We've all bowled at Cadillac, but today wasn't like the normal Cadillac. It was a very playable shot but just a little different.

Joe Johnson

We started off very poorly. But we know what we can do. We just settled down and played our normal game.

Hans Fischer

Coproporphyrin in particular is widespread; traces are present in normal urine and also in yeast. In special cultures, yeast can be made to produce considerable quantities of coproporphyrin.

Aidan Quinn

I had to bring myself back down to being a normal person again.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.

Max Miller

We want it to be as normal as possible for the kids.

Jim Hall

We want it be as normal a setting as possible and not have them stigmatized as being retarded.

Patrick Marleau

We want to play them in their end and always have the puck and start making plays in their zone. When we're successful, we get results like this.

Wayne Chrebet

When it comes down to it, everyone is just trying to get their plays and get to the season healthy. I don't think it'll be anything too crazy.

Chauncey Billups

We're going to run some decoys for him. We're not going to run plays for him.

David Gower

Vaughan now plays more on the crease than he did,

Karl Dorrell

Make one or two more plays than they do.

Sarah Snook

I'm the youngest of three sisters. We were always performing plays for each other.

Edward Hall

Oh, come off it, I've only directed three plays for the RSC.

Jeff Banks

We had backups ready to go. We charted his plays to see how many times he touched the ball, worried about overusing him.

Arthur Clough

Shady in Latin, said Lindsay, but topping in Plays and Aldrich.

Veronica Corpuz

We're going to try and work through this to make sure no more productions will be canceled or postponed.

I. Stone

What we're really trying to do is to make sure when they get to kindergarten, they are better prepared, because for many of them, there is nothing until they get to kindergarten.

Jamie Shea

When we are sure what happened, we will tell you what happened.

Rich Rodriguez

What makes it tough is they're better for sure than they were two years ago,

Ralph Neas

We're going to make sure that Americans understand what is at stake.

Ed Paulk

We're just making sure there is nothing we are missing. It's just being proactive.

James Wilcox

We want to make sure we're on the same page,

Steve Cox

We want to make sure we get them in preseason.

Ralph Murphy

We want to make sure they (companies) have a place to come.

Bud Perrone

This temporary setback can and must be overcome.

Tom Rossley

We're not evaluating Brett. We're just trying to get a little tempo going with the first group.

Jim Smith

He's been our tempo setter. You know what you're getting with him everyday.

Jaime Gongora

I thought that we got just what we wanted. We were controlling the tempo of the game.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.

Vicki Coleman

We wanted to keep the tempo up, but it's hard.

Napoleon Hill

Remember when your plans fail, that temporary defeat is not permanent failure.

Napoleon Hill

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination.

Napoleon Hill

You are fortunate if you have learned the difference between temporary defeat and failure, more fortunate still if you have learned the truth that the very seed of success is dormant in every defeat that you experience.

Alan Bullock

Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.

Alain Prost

I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend, so I know at the beginning of the race, from all that I have analysed during the practice, whether I will win the race or not.

Al Seckel

I live in one of the coastal cities in Southern California, and every so often I like to take a walk down the boardwalk in Venice during the weekends when it is abuzz with lively activity.

David Sedaris

I go to the movies at least five times a week, and after a while everything becomes a blur to me.

David Sedaris

..she took pictures of germs, viruses, and people reacting to germs and viruses. On weekends, for extra money, she photographed weddings, which really wasn't that much of a stretch

David Ginola

I am still feeling my calf strain, so I have been unable to train this week. I will again have to sit out the weekend action, but the lads are climbing ever higher to safety.

Dave Barry

Here in Miami, on weekends, amusement-seekers will come to the marina, set up folding chairs, and spend a highly entertaining day watching boat owners perform comical maneuvers such as forgetting to set their parking brakes and having their cars roll down the ramp and disappear, burbling gaily, below the surface.

Bryant Gumbel

You'll never see me working five days a week again.

Bobby Cannavale

The music I was always attracted to and the shows I was really into like, you know, those weekend Don Kirshner shows, "Midnight Special," those shows, I remember watching those and the music was just on; it was the greatest radio stations.