Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mal Peet

When I'm working, I always read stuff that's as far away from what I'm working on as possible, so I'll read American crime fiction at bedtime, or Emily Dickinson.

Shay Cox

She was solid for us. She and (catcher) Emily Dixon are a great pair. She did a good job hitting her spots and playing right to our defense.

Dennis Dinsmore

She was last seen last (Friday) up around Mount Emily Road.

Ryan Burroughs

Katie DeGraaf is looking really good, which is important with Emily out.

Peter Ueberroth

It is a new injury. But whether there happened to be something else, the same outcome would have happened ? and Emily would be able to compete.

Doug Pickarts

Last year in the tournament Emily realized that she can score, too.

Jeff Bridges

I guess I'm not like Emily Dickinson who keeps things wrapped up in a ribbon in their top drawer.

John Hughs

We have not been contacted by anybody. Emily is ready to skate anytime, anywhere. Right now she's preparing for the world championships.

Melissa Ringhausen

We're very well-rounded in scoring. Emily is the go-to person inside, but we've had different people step up at the other positions in various games. That makes us challenging to guard.

Sheryl Neff

We're just knocking on the door, but can't quite push through. We're struggling a little bit.

Tony Hawk

There are endorsements I regret taking when I was younger and didn't know any better. But I didn't have options then. People weren't knocking on my door.

Brian Cashman

We didn't want to wait until they were knocking on the door, getting close. We wanted to get them here, let them get a taste of it, soak in as much from the people around them as they can.

Shawan Robinson

I was just getting open looks and taking my time and knocking them down.

Magic Johnson

I think you just have to keep knocking down doors, and you have to keep being aggressive, and even if somebody says no, then you have to knock on the next door,

D. James

It is not how you start a game, it's how you finish. We didn't win. They were knocking down shots and we weren't. They were making plays and we weren't. That's what it's all about.

Jermain Taylor

Whoever comes to Little Rock, I'm knocking him out!

Pat Bowlen

Nobody complained anymore. Now, everyone's knocking those uniforms off.

Al Horford

If they (sag) off Lee, it's over. I'm passing it out to him, and he's knocking it down.

David Gibbs

We started so slow and they started so fast. We can't put our offense in that kind of hole.

Bob Marquardt

We struggled to get into our offense a little bit.

Corky Card

We struggled on offense with our spacing and timing.

Aaron Harang

With the offense we have, all you have to worry about is (making) your pitches. We know the offense is going to score.

Robert Ferguson

I feel like we're a potent offense - a lot better than 10 points in seven quarters, ... We just have to get something going.

Robert Ferguson

I feel like we're a potent offense -- a lot better than 10 points in seven quarters. We just have to get something going.

Gerard Warren

Give a lot of props up to the offense because they do keep us on the sidelines, well rested and ready to go on the field.

John Sullivan

Joe's play really picked us up. That's what that offense is about. You look out, make a read and then go.

John Sullivan

Joe's play really picked us up, ... That's what that offense is about. You look out, make a read and then go.

Charles Edison

In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time for promises is past.

Charles Dickens

I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.

Charles Dickens

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

Charles Dickens

It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.

Charles Caleb Colton

Reform is a good replete with paradox; it is a cathartic which our political quacks, like our medical, recommend to others, but will not take themselves; it is admired by all who cannot effect it, and abused by all who can; it is thought pregnant with danger, for all time that is present, but would have been extremely profitable for that which is past, and will be highly salutary for that which is to come.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. There is one signal instance on record where this kind of prejudice was overcome by a miracle; but the age of miracles is past, while that of prejudice remains.

Charles Dickens

"People can't die, along the coast," said Mr. Peggotty, "except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born, unless it's pretty nigh in - not properly born, till flood. He's a going out with the tide. It's ebb at half-arter three, slack water half an hour. If he lives till it turns, he'll hold his own till past the flood, and go out with the next tide."

Charles Studd

Only one life, a few brief years, Each with its burdens, hopes, and fears; Each with its clays I must fulfill. living for self or in His will; Only one life, 'twill soon be past, Only what s done for Christ will last.

Charles Studd

Only one life, ’twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last.

Terry Kukesh

She stepped it up and got them going.

O. Henry

She really stepped it up and said enough of this.

Anthony Gonzalez

I was just tired. When he took me down I said, ?this kid's tough.' So I stepped it up.

Robert Garcia

I think you really have stepped it up a notch, and it's been noticed.

Derrick Jackson

I thought today was the first day that we stepped up and kind of had a little nastiness to us.

Randy Johnson

I got a little tight. So, I just stepped out and let someone else pitch. Everything is fine.

Charlie Bell

I think this woke us up. As a team, we stepped it up a bit.

Ernie Rosseau

He has really stepped up for us down the stretch.

Darren Testa

He was a big surprise. He really stepped up for us.

Charles Taze Russell

In view of this strong Bible evidence concerning the Times of the Gentiles, we consider it an established truth that the final end of the kingdoms of this world, and the full establishment of the kingdom of God, will be accomplished by the end of A.D. 1914.

Charles Sumner

The press, watchful with more than the hundred eyes of Argus, strong with more than the hundred arms of Briareus, not only guards all the conquests of civilization, but leads the way to future triumphs.

Charles Dudley Warner

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.

Charles de Gaulle

The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.

Charles de Gaulle

Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.

Charles Dickens

Although a man may lose a sense of his own importance when he is a mere unit among a busy throng, all utterly regardless of him, it by no means follows that he can dispossess himself, with equal facility, of a very strong sense of the importance and magnitude of his cares.

Charles Caleb Colton

No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one. A weak man in office, like a squirrel in a cage, is laboring eternally, but to no purpose, and is in constant motion without getting on a job; like a turnstile, he is in everybody's way, but stops nobody; he talks a great deal, but says very little; looks into everything but sees nothing; and has a hundred irons in the fire, but very few of them are hot, and with those few that are, he only burns his fingers.

Charles Caleb Colton

Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He must often act from false reasons which are weak, because he dares not avow the true reasons which are strong.

Charles de Gaulle

Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.

Charles de Lint

There are no happy endings... There are no endings, happy or otherwise. We all have our own stories which are just part of the one Story that binds both this world and Faerie. Sometimes we step into each others stories - perhaps just for a few minutes, perhaps for years - and then we step out of them again. But all the while, the Story just goes on.

Charles Stross

Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.

Charles Spurgeon

If I knew I had 25 years left to live, I would spend 20 of them in preparation.

Alanis Morissette

I'm a bit of an alchemist sorceress. I've collected probably 1500 oils from around the planet over the last ten years. I'm kind of obsessed with the sensuality of it.

Alan Watts

...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white.

Alan Mulally

Although the quality of the vehicles is tremendously improving year after year but the underlying reasons that people are buying cars have really gotten focused. It's for high quality vehicles, reliable, fuel-efficient, and safe of course.

Alan Moore

I've known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.

Alan Moore

It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.