Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mallory Ortberg

A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.

Rod Wright

We're not coming out here to just hang with those guys and hopefully we can win the game in the fourth quarter. We want to dominate. That's not been said about USC.

Chipper Jones

We're not coming out here to go home after the first round. That would be a supreme disappointment.

Kurt Melton

We're not coming out at halftime with the intensity we need.

Herman Cain

We're not coming into Virginia to be a one-note Johnny.

E. B. White

We're not coming here with any false illusions.

Leinaala Lopes

We're not coming back until it is safe and secure.

Doug Holmes

Mandatory dues. Not only that, they were coming in there telling me you need to do this, you need to do that.

Susan Cohen

Life is lived in a circle. The dates keep coming back to you. People say, 'Move on.' But that implies a straight road taking you somewhere else. Nothing can take you out of the seasons of the years and the dates that recall your life. And since we were a happy family together, we had many happy days and those days are now sad days.

Josh Beckett

Let's talk about the outing. I felt pretty good today, let's start with that. I don't want to fill it up with stuff like that, negative stuff. Let's be positive here.

Joel Parkinson

Losing one grounds you a bit. I learned a lot after losing the title in 2009, learned that I was probably too intense that year, and when I didn't win, I just felt horrible.

Brian Billick

Last year, we felt we were a Super Bowl-caliber team. I think in just about every measure you can put out there, we're a better team than we were last year.

David Chase

Last year, we felt we needed more teachers. I'm troubled that we're not going after personnel just because we don't have the room for them.

Tim Churchill

Last year, we felt like we didn't have any winnable games.

Forel Davies

Last year was the first year I really felt comfortable with my game.

Brian James

Last year was really demanding. I just felt that at the end of the year I didn't have a lot of fire left in me.

Liz Gliem

Last year the pressure was on Jackie, but this year I felt a little more pressure on me. I had to take a little more of a leadership role.

Jeremy Bonderman

Last year went so fast. I felt like I was in and out of that game in like a matter of minutes.

Ben Jackson

Last year we were focused on going to states and this year we're more taking it one game at a time,

Barry Alvarez

Many times it's the teams that stay the most focused that win the games. There's a lot of potential to be distracted.

J. Lewis

Scott is a great leader and teammate. He is focused and hard-working, but also genuinely nice and fun to be around.

Ronnie Peacock

Several schools are calling. They're just now getting around it. They're still focused on next week. After that, they'll jump on the juniors.

Lee Williams

My job is to grow this business. We've got programs with great opportunities and that's what I want workers to keep focused on.

Robert Esche

My first thought? You can't write it. I'm focused on seven games. I'm focused on leaving this one behind.

Peter Rohde

Obviously we're focused on not getting players rubbed out, but at the same time we don't want to make them too gun-shy.

Don Blandin

More Americans are focused on saving for retirement, but are they putting away enough? It's not grounded in a plan and they're saving blindly. They really don't know if they're saving enough.

Amy Ellis

My girls are only focused on (today's) game.

Jake Hutton

Last year was like a different language. This year we all knew what we were doing.

Dan Monson

Last year's team, you didn't know if we were going to win or lose, but you knew we were going to fight. We have some different ways to score now, but do we have the same type of personality?

Cameron Bennerman

Last year you kind of knew what was coming, from whom. But this year, you're not really sure who's going to do what.

Bob Cavanagh

Last year we knew we were going to be on par with the year before. This year we're going to have to make more adjustments and people are going to have to step up.

Howard Stern

Les said, 'I knew I could sue you later.

Kevin Osborn

Mom told me last night that every time you get the ball, when you let go of it, you've got to know it's in and you're making the next one. I didn't know when my night was going to come, but I knew I just had to come in with confidence.

Susan Bennett

Mrs. Rucker enrolled before she knew whether we would have the program.

Matt White

Obviously, you don't want to go back down, but I knew I was going back down, ... It isn't a shocker.

Chris Collins

No one nationally thought it'd be a year where BC would be No. 1. We knew we would be.

Richard Jackson

Troubled spirits often are manipulated by other types of spirits.

Harvey Jackson

Our spirits are high. We're in it for the long haul.

Mary Hayes

Even the trees have spirits - everything has a spirit.

Benj Steinman

Wine and spirits are outperforming beer. It's been a reversal of a decade-long trend.

Benj Steinman

Wine and spirits are outperforming beer, ... It's been a reversal of a decade-long trend.

Alan Noble

Their spirits go up and down with the wind speeds, and right now the wind is up.

Edmund White

Most writers tend to get worse rather than better. I'm determined to be one that gets better.

Richard Virenque

My first was in 1994 and it's ten years ago already. It's been ten years and I'm still around. I won a stage again, like I did last year and the year before.

Chris Evert

Of all my achievements in tennis, I'm probably as proud of my record on clay courts as any of my Wimbledon, U.S. Open or French singles titles.

Chris Evert

Training the body to obey the mind as I have done differs from the more conventional method of getting the mind to obey the body.

Timothy Noah

Moderates tend more than ideologues to be other-directed types who respond to external pressure.

Kim Clijsters

For me, tennis is important but it's not the most important thing in my life.

Elena Vesnina

I felt tight from the beginning of the match to the end. I couldn't relax.

Sonu Nigam

I was a topper till class tenth and wanted to initially be a scientist.

Emily Mortimer

I'm always drawn to the thing I think I can't possibly do, because I tend to be better when I think I can't possibly do something than I am when I'm pretty sure I can do something.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.

Bob Holthus

When you put up a million-dollar purse, naturally, you're going to try to win it.

Chris Frantz

You don't want to spend much time in Germany or even France in the winter unless you're in the Alps.

Chris Evert

When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis.

Charles Spurgeon

I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to sorrow and yet to be pure, I would choose the sorrow if I might win the purity, for to be free from the power of sin, to be made to love holiness, is true happiness.

Charles Spurgeon

Without the Spirit of God, we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind. We are useless.

Charles Peguy

It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.

Dick Van Dyke

I have also heard and read various accounts of why they [Sheldon Leonard and Carl Reiner] liked me. My favorites? I wasn't too good-looking, I walked a little funny, and I was basically kind of average and ordinary. I guess my lack of perfection turned out to be a winning hand. Let that be a lesson for future generations.

Diane Lane

I take comfort that aging happens to everybody. It's part of life. Aging offers great lessons in dignity, since the indignity wins in the end. Yes, it bothers me when I have lines or puffiness or droops. But it connects me with the human race. Like weather bringing people together, aging brings people together.