Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lucas Till

Portraying Alex Summers, I want to look as athletic as his character is in the comics.

Mike Lamb

Until Alex got there, I think I was going to play every day, ... Hopefully, one day, I can be an everyday player again. ... But being here in Houston has been a blessing for me, there's no doubt.

Dianne Nolan

We remember Alex and his family in our prayers. We have cards going out to the members of the pep band and our team wants to do something as a tribute to Alex in his remembrance.

P. J. O'Rourke

What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.

Steve Gibson

We believe we're doing things the right way and in Steve McClaren we believe we have the manager who can deliver. There are good reasons why he was taken on by Jim Smith and Sir Alex Ferguson and why he's Sven-Goran Eriksson's No 2.

Phil Gartside

What Sir Alex said cost him a bottle of wine. I had a nice bottle of red to give him for his birthday, but after what he said he can sod off.

Allard Baird

Very few times do you see a player who you can say he can be as good as he wants to be. Literally. I saw Alex Rodriguez in high school, and you could say it about him. That's what I think about Carlos.

Jennifer Grubb

Yes, Alex is playing her first year on varsity, but she's been there before. She came with us to the state playoffs every year. She's a solid midfielder consistent with her play.

Bryan Robson

Yes, I do want to get back into football, I haven't lost the faith. Alex wants to help with my fitness, keeping my edge and maintaining the focus.

Al Kaline

One reason outfielders don't have stronger arms might be they don't practice as much as we did. Most teams today don't take outfield practice. Another reason is baseball has to compete with other sports now - basketball, football, soccer - for the better athletes that might have more skills and stronger arms.

Al McGuire

Live in the moment that you are in.

Al McGuire

When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.

Al McGuire

If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.

Al McGuire

Can't win without talent, you know.

Al McGuire

Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.

Al McGuire

You better have great practices.

Al McGuire

The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.

Al McGuire

I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.

Charles Spurgeon

Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else.

Alan Alda

I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.

Al Jardine

I love driving; driving along the California coastline is the best drive in the world.

Al Jolson

California, here I come, right back where I started from.

Fred Engh

We want them to have clear information about this subject, and resources to call on.

Steve McDonald

We want them to call us. It takes a collaborative effort with our partners.

Chris Bohjalian

The honest answer is more complex. On some level I was sent. Or inspired. Or called. But my calling, such as it was, wasn't a single booming invitation from above (really, is it ever?)...

David Noel

We know what we lost, and we know what we have. I knew the caliber of players we had left on this team.

Bob Enos

We know what he would expect us to do, and it was just a matter of me calling the plays instead of him.

Mark Gottfried

We knew they'd make a run, come back at us a little bit. They're too good of a team, too well coached, but our guys were able to respond to their run and extend the lead back up there.

Heather Murren

We are pleased to extend our service to the communities of Nevada.

Frank Turner

We were at an impasse and had been talking for an extended period of time.

Robin Cook

There is no purpose in extending the talks any further,

Cathy Mann

We extend our sincere condolences to the families of our subcontract personnel.

Nan Gerson

We extend our heartfelt condolences to the family.

King Gyanendra

We extend our heartfelt condolences to all those who have lost their lives in the people's movement.

John Cox

We extended these plea offers, and we're very comfortable with what we offered and what was accepted.

Jack Foster

We extended out lead in the league, but we still have a lot of work to do.

Charlie Chaplin

There is greatness in everyone.

Charles Sumner

The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.

Charles de Gaulle

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Charles de Gaulle

France cannot be France without greatness.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Charles Dickens

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Tyrell Thompson

We know Woodlands is going to be hungry. We have to come out and play harder or this will be it for us.

Don Samuel

When you tell a lie, it's always harder to remember what you said.

Holly Lisle

Writing, for all that it's harder than nursing ever was, is also more joyous and more fun and a lot less dangerous. And the major themes of my life have become the major themes of my writing, too - so it has all worked out pretty well.

Maggie Shayne

Whether labeled as such or not, I think every book I've ever written has been, more or less, a romantic suspense. I have always put tremendous effort into making each book a page turner: The harder it is for the reader to put it down, the better I've done my job.

Rob Davis

What this is all about is getting a taste of success. It doesn't matter who you beat, once you know what it takes to win, you'll work harder and that opens up other opportunities.

Freddy Sanchez

What he needed to do was to work harder than the normal person just to get back to where he needed to be. This is probably the strongest I've ever seen him.

Steven Wright

We have run the hydro system harder than it was supposed to be run this year.

Michael Hirschorn

The pond is getting pretty well fished, and booking (someone fresh) is getting harder and harder, ... somebody who is just depressing.

Tina Fey

I feel like it's harder to get women to show up for movies.

Carolina Herrera

Any business is the same in the beginning because nobody knows where it's going to ride.

Jim Calhoun

We have no one like Brandon Roy. Nobody does.

Neve McIntosh

With some writers, the script looks beautiful on the page, but nobody actually speaks like that.

Pete Summerbell

We got to the state championship game. Nobody can take that away from us.

Bobby Cox

With two outs and nobody on you feel like you're going to win a ballgame, ... We just did not get big hits.

Andre Cook

We're just here to play basketball. When we were 2-5, nobody was protesting, so that's just how it is.

Rick Cornett

We're really cornered. Nobody wants our season to end in three games. We just have to keep working.

Allison Anders

When I wanted to become a filmmaker, there was nobody for me to look up to.

Manny Diaz

The process is ongoing, nobody has pulled the plug,

Barney Bishop

We are pleased with the turnout. We have some legislators, but we'd like to have some more.

Stuart Rose

We are pleased with the progress we are making but there remains much to do.

Tasia Scolinos

We are pleased with the jury's ruling in this important case.

Don Horner

We are pleased with the bank's first-quarter performance.

Mitch Kupchak

We are pleased to welcome Kareem back to the organization.

Mitch Kupchak

We are pleased to welcome Kareem back to the organisation.

Liz Boyd

We are pleased to see (Lansing) step up.

Henning Kagermann

We are pleased to report another strong quarter for SAP,

Kerry Stokes

We are pleased to be back in football.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

The 21st-century curator works in a supremely globalised reality.

Andy Reid

We'll see what's out there. We've evaluated a lot of players. We'll see how it all works out here.

Cy Coleman

We're doing a workshop over the first two weeks of December, I believe, with Graciella Daniele directing it.

Kevin Hassett

I think it's the only way it works politically,

Irwin Cohen

I think this works for New York City.

Romesh Gunesekera

Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.

Shane McAnally

When something works on a huge level, everybody does it.

Sienna Guillory

I think that, with homoeopathy, if you get the right mix, it works 20 times quicker than conventional medicine.

Val McDermid

Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.