Famous Quotes & Sayings

Helen Sharman

I get standing ovations at meetings when I say Britain should be involved in human spaceflight. Unfortunately, that goal has been blocked by a handful of people in high office.

Bob Ney

We're not going to put a wall around the Capitol, ... We're going to have perimeter security. We're going to have certain streets that have been blocked and certain ones that are open. But we want a free flow of people into this Capitol with people doing tours, doing the things that people need to do in the people's house in the Congress.

Craig Smith

We've watched three of their games on film. They play in a very good league and finished second. Their 6-foot-9 kid (Ronald Wright) leads the country in blocked shots. They have great size and they're an excellent shooting team.

Scott Skiles

We responded particularly well tonight. When things didn't go our way, we didn't go into one of our tremendously long droughts and hang our heads and look defeated. We did the reverse. We picked it up on defense and blocked some shots and got out in the open floor.

Gary Blair

She cannot be blocked out. She's constantly moving without the ball. You think you've got her but you don't have her. She's able to rebound in a crowd and that separates her from a lot of other post players.

David Crabbe

She blocked well. We'll keep tinkering with our lineup. We might even move up a few players.

John Tory

Since I've been here, which is just a year now, we have been blocked at every turn,

Ray Holladay

McQueen does what good teams do. They forced the turnovers. They earned the blocked punts, the interceptions. They made a lot of that stuff happen.

Eddie Locascio

Several streets had been blocked off and there were a ton of police cars there.

Damon Lindelof

Whenever we do a story or we show the monster or we find the hatch, that all has to be consistent with what we know the ending to be. We have a goal that we are working towards.

Dan Hammerschmidt

We were a real explosive offensive team at times last year, but we weren't as consistent as we need to be. I'm hoping our leadership and experience will make us more consistent, everybody buckling down and being tougher.

Chad Fox

We have a young defense, ... Part of that growing up is playing consistent every down. At times, the defense plays stellar, lights out. Other times, it slips here or there and doesn't look so good. We'll get it.

Russ Knocke

The process for sharing this type of specific threat information with state and locals was consistent with protocols for how we share the information and for how that information is vetted by the intelligence community.

Herman Edwards

The problem with that is you've got to win. You can't expect teams to keep losing. There's some teams in the division that are good teams and we can be a good team, too, but we're not playing consistent enough to be a good team.

Terry Francona

As a manager, the more consistent you are, the better off you are. It's easy to be up when things go well. When things don't go well, the players will follow your lead. So you have to be consistent and upbeat, which takes some work sometimes.

Ted Cruz

If we're going to win in 2016, we need a consistent conservative: someone who has been a fiscal conservative, a social conservative, a national security conservative.

Chuck Wilson

We're just trying to be consistent with the little things that we do and continue to try and do them well. Last week I was happy with the fact that we didn't jump offsides and make stupid mistakes.

Maajid Nawaz

I realised that the idea of enforcing sharia is not consistent with Islam as it's been practised from the beginning. In other words, Islam has always been secular, and I had been totally ignorant of the fact.

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.

Shane Sisco

When you see a kid like him, who is as good as he is, it's because of the extra work he puts in. He's willing to put in the extra hours on his own to work on his game.

Jeff Jagodzinski

The extra weight that those guys have, that doesn't help 'em. In my opinion, it just doesn't.

Tim Lucas

The extras on most major Hollywood product are rarely worth wading through. Only the real fan-driven titles need extra detailing.

Lisa Freeman

The extra help last year proved to be quite successful, and it helped some people maintain service.

Alex Taylor

The fact of the matter is it's going to take a long time to recoup the extra money you will spend on the hybrid.

Folarin Campbell

Uh, something about going the extra mile and not worrying about traffic, I think.

Jasika Nicole

Certainly not everybody that is different is necessarily autistic, but there are a lot of undiagnosed people, and its not necessarily something that needs to have attention to it, unless that person is feeling uncomfortable in the world or they need extra help or something.

Josh Boone

When you want to stop, and you don't think you can give any more, you think about that Pittsburgh jersey in here. Looking up at the scoreboard, seeing that you're down 10 at the end of the game. That gives you a little extra motivation.

Bob Benincasa

When you want something it makes it extra special when you come through.

Bruce Arena

We have no excuses. We're playing at home. We're playing in a stadium we like. We need to step on the field and win the game.

Mark Arnold

We have some 24-inch diameter sterilizers in the field right now, and that would probably be the one size sterilizer that we'd build.

Dusty Baker

When you saw that Ecsktein went down that's when you know the field is too sloppy to play on.

Brian Adolph

We have resumed natural gas supply from the field on Wednesday at 4:15 p.m. to the national grid.

Bill Cowher

We settled for three field goals in the four times down there. It's something we can improve on and something we need to improve on.

Stefan Hell

There is still refinement needed - we are working on being able to do the same things at lower light levels and with a larger field of view.

Tim Tebow

I knew I loved football before I even played it. Uh, but the first time I stepped out on the field playing for the Lakeshore Redskins, I knew that I loved this game. I knew that this was something I wanted to do. And I was only 6 years old, but I loved it.

Reggie Sanders

Very close. Hopefully get back out there soon, soon. It's just a matter now of getting on the field in a major league game. I'm close. Real close.

Paul Swangard

Ultimately, his success on the field would open some new doors.

Ivan Radenovic

We were trailing most of the time, but we had them. We were good enough to win, and it showed in the way we played. We gave them a terrific game.

Wayne Johnson

When I'm thinking about the Nationals, I'm not even thinking about the $140,000. If I win the Nationals and they gave me a $140,000 check, that's when it would hit me.

Robert Atkins

When I meet vegetarians who might have diabetes, pre-diabetes or massive obesity, I tell them they would be better off if they gave up their Vegetarianism.

Kevin Kinel

We set ourselves up really nice. All of our swims were monstrous. These guys didn't let anything get to them. We gave ourselves some good opportunities.

Thomas Steinbeck

You didn't grow up in the shadow of John Steinbeck. He put you on his shoulders and gave you all the light you wanted.

Catherine Deneuve

But I never gave up personal things to work, never.

Elaine Sciolino

In 1981, Ms. Ebtekar was made editor-in-chief of the English-language newspaper 'Kayhan International.' The man who gave her the job was Mr. Khatami, who was then head of the Kayhan publishing house.

Kim Cattrall

I never gave up believing that there was much more to life than how I was living it.

Laura Wade

I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.

Jennifer Murphy

We want to reach 70 percent of our goal before the public campaign.

Bryan Lynton

Whenever they tied it up, we were able to get another goal to preserve the lead. If we went down, I don't know if we would have come back on them. Poly is just so rich in water polo tradition ---- that might have done something to us.

Cory Schneider

We want it. It's so prestigious and something you'll always remember if you win it. That's the first of many goals we have for ourselves this season.

Teresa Luna

We want it back. Our goal has always been to recapture our national tournament crown.

Alan Shearer

You never get fed up scoring goals

Alan Shearer

I have always said that the best feeling in the world is scoring a goal. Don't tell my missus that, but it is. When that ball hits the back of the net, it is fantastic.

Charles Stanley

Success is the continuing achievement of becoming the person God wants you to be and accomplishing the goals God has helped you set.

J. Wince

We've set some team goals and we'll just see how it goes for this game. We've told the guys that why it can't be us to make the news and upset the No. 1 ranked team in the state.

Melissa Walker

We've set a goal of $100,000 in revenue from the event. And from that, we'll be able to get about $10,000 for the Key. It will go toward the Run for the Money account.

Carlos Mencia

I am a product... I'm a comedian. I'm not curing cancer. In the end, I tell jokes. I make people laugh. I make sense out of ridiculous situations, but in the end, it's all about laughter. It's all about your cheek hurting, your stomach hurting.

C. S. Lewis

Will you come with me to the mountains? It will hurt at first, until your feet are hardened. Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?

Agnes Repplier

Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

Aaron Tveit

Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.

Charlotte Bronte

I smiled: I thought to myself Mr. Rochester is peculiar — he seems to forget that he pays me £30 per annum for receiving his orders. "The smile is very well," said he, catching instantly the passing expression; "but speak too." "I was thinking, sir, that very few masters would trouble themselves to inquire whether or not their paid subordinates were piqued and hurt by their orders.

Charles de Lint

But what the evil people do, that's their responsibility. The burden they have to carry. Sure, when we see 'em starting on causing some hurt, we've got to try and stop 'em, but mostly what the rest of us should be concerning ourselves with is doing right by others. Every time you do a good turn, you shine the light a little further into the dark. And the thing is, even when we're gone, that light's going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back.

Charles de Lint

Everything has a spirit and it's all connected. If you think about that, if you live your life by it, then you're less likely to cause any hurt. It's like how our bodies go back into the ground when we die, so that connects us to the earth. If you dump trash, you're dumping it on your and my ancestors. Or to bring it down to its simplest level: treat everything and everybody the way you want to be treated, because when you hurt someone, you're only hurting yourself.

Charles Dickens

I am what you designed me to be.I am your blade. You cannot now complain if you also feel the hurt

Charles Caleb Colton

We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree. The reason perhaps is this: when we find others that agree with us, we seldom trouble ourselves to confirm that agreement; but when we chance on those who differ from us, we are zealous both to convince and to convert them. Our pride is hurt by the failure, and disappointed pride engenders hatred.

Peter Rice

Whenever we can, we like to improve the situation.

Travis Bradberry

Taking time to contemplate what you're grateful for isn't merely the 'right' thing to do. It also improves your mood because it reduces the stress hormone cortisol by 23%.

Cary Grant

I improve on misquotation.

Sue Miller

This will not only replace what you have now, it will drastically improve what you have now.

Clayton Wilcox

We did not make the kind of leapfrog improvement we need to. While I wasn't ecstatic, I'm pleased with the trend lines.

Jared Diamond

All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using their product.

Michael Dell

We are seeing a substantial improvement in the availability of flat-panel screens (from) two months ago,

Kevin Toney

The reason for his improvement was the work he put in in the weight room during the off-season.

Mark Lee

We still want to try and improve our playoff standing. We've got two next week so we'll have to come ready to play and see if we can't get two wins.

Alan Moore

Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as a poet today, and you'll find it's very different!

Chloe Grace Moretz

I'm not allowed to see R-rated movies, but I did see 'Kick-Ass' because I'm in it. I'm not going to skip out on my own premiere!

Mark Cuban

I like being involved in businesses where you are kicking ass.

Chrissey Cruz

When we were little we used to say we are going to kick some butt.

Amber Brkich

What they won't know is that I can be mean, and I can be conniving, the kind of person that's going to kick you off.

Buddy Gouldsmith

Maybe we needed that kind of tail kicking to wake us up.

Dave Ramsey

Let some one else take the butt kicking on devaluation.

Kathleen Clark

Let the voters know. If they don't like it, they can kick him out.

James Corden

Louis Tomlinson, who is a member of One Direction, his mum was a chaperone on 'Fat Friends.' So Louis used to come to the set with his mum, and since I was the only sort of young person around, we would kick a football around, things like that.

Carl Bernstein

The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.

Raheem Brock

We wanted to win this game. If you miss it by a step, it makes you upset.

Aaron Spelling

You know what shows today are missing? Stars.

Aaron Spelling

I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?

Charlotte Bronte

Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.

Charles Studd

A good thing to have up your sleeve is a sanctified funny-bone.

Charles Studd

Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible.

Bruce Scott

When I missed that I re-adjusted my sights for 2006.

Carlos Gutierrez

We used to try to see what other work we could grab. Now our mission is to be seen as a high-technology plant.

Michael Vick

This time it's going to be in different weather conditions. I think that will be a plus for us.

Ron Gardenhire

He did a super job. That'll be a plus for us.

Tim Purpura

He can play all three (outfield) positions, and he runs exceptionally well and has a plus arm, ... He's more of a speed-and-defense type of guy.

Micky Arison

I think that was a big psychological plus for us.

Julia Mancuso

When I travel, I always have about 40 pairs of skis with me, plus a ski technician and a ski coach.

Bob Walsh

I tell them this isn't about me, it's about you. This is your time. I keep telling them not to worry about that stuff, that if we go out and try to keep getting better every game, we'll get 600 plus some.

Hayley Hasselhoff

I've never worn plus size brands, and I never had to because I found what worked for my body type. So my advice is to find what works for you.

Tim Tucker

They're used to winning. Plus they understand the tournament trail.

Tom Richards

This is the first time in three years we've had a jayvee team. It's been a plus for our program.

Vicki Coleman

We'd give up three points and then we'd run three and then we'd run three and give up three. It went back-and-forth the whole way.

Ben Nelson

We're going to run like we're 10 points down,

Dave Garza

We're going to put some big points on the board.

Zeus Kerravala

What they're trying to do is to take IP communications to another level. Every vendor has the same vision, but they're all at different points to getting there.

Brad Hemphill

When we can get big points out of her, it helps.

Kelly Golob

Scoring points has never been a priority. It's always been the team's success.

Chris Wielgus

She was phenomenal. The score at the end had Rutgers with more points than Dartmouth, but there's no way we were losers.

Dave Wharton

She's just an all-around swimmer. We try to utilize her wherever we have any weak points in the meet.

Andy Reid

We feel that we have the quality to get the three points and we want to win the group.

Laurence D. Fink

When you look at dividend returns on equities versus bond yields, to me it's a pretty easy decision to be heavily in equities.

Buck Showalter

You stay with it. But at some point, you have to get returns for the opportunities they are given.

Jessica White

Modelling, it's being an artist as well. It's just being a silent artist. It takes a lot of self-control and a lot of discipline.

and City

When you vote yes or no, ... it takes you out of the negotiations, and I don't ever want to be out of the game.

Wayne Stroupe

We're going to go where the truth takes us.

Kelly Sears

We're going to do the things that it takes to manufacture those runs.

Charlie Smith

We're just not doing the things it takes to win.

Glen Smith

We know what it takes to get them satisfied. They didn't just walk up and give us a jackpot. It's not like that.

Mark Philippoussis

Obviously, I'll do whatever it takes to get back,

Reggie Williams

I feel free. It just takes time sometimes.

Ben Crenshaw

I don't know where this week is going to lead, but I've had so much fun. I'm just going to kind of see where it takes me.

Agnes Varda

When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It's like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high - you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.

Adam Ferrara

When I walked in to read with Edie Falco, it was nice, because I auditioned in New York, and it was very quick. You walk in, there's Edie, the producers, the director, and a camera. I read three scenes, and it was done.

Byron Katie

I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God's.

Jane Austen

But it is very foolish to ask questions about any young ladies — about any three sisters just grown up; for one knows, without being told, exactly what they are — all very accomplished and pleasing, and one very pretty. There is a beauty in every family. — It is a regular thing

Jamie Redknapp

Gareth Bale literally has three lungs

Alain Prost

In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.

Chris Copeland

The three-ball is an easy shot if you're uncontested, but when they know you can shoot, it's a lot harder to get off.

Chiang Kai-shek

There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.

Bill Wright

The other three have really made strides. They're consistently getting better.

Bob Dylan

I got this grave yard woman.

Larry Leopardi

We probably had about 300 cubic yards on Wednesday.

Carl Jung

Remember when you picked me up like a frisbee and tossed me across you yard?

Willie Nelson

It can't get much worse, 100 yards an hour, ... It's frustrating bumper-to-bumper.

Adam Grant

Being a giver is not good for a 100-yard dash, but it’s valuable in a marathon.

Steven Schier

We are many, many yards away from a score.

Greg Peterson

Let nature be in your yard.

Alan Zemaitis

I don't know how many yards they got, but they didn't do too much of anything. We went in there the same way; we didn't do anything special.

Jennifer Garner

I knew we were going to marry someday, but I was absolutely surprised when he actually proposed. And surprised he had bought a ring. I ran around the yard screaming.