Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Watson

Whenever we go out there at the end with Tom, we know we've got a chance to get in field goal range. And Adam doesn't miss many.

Dwayne Lawrence

We were a very good team with Adam and Mike up front and Matt and Jake making plays from the midfield. What turned us into a great team was moving Shane Curran-Hays to sweeper. The other players have total confidence in him. The guys know that they can hold the ball a little longer now. Shane gets to balls that other people would not. His presence made a great change in us in the back. We are quick at every position, really. So communication becomes key, especially because we play zonal defense.

Niall Ferguson

Ask me not, 'Are you rightwing,' but ask me 'Are you a committed believer in individual freedom, the values of the enlightenment?' Then, yeah, if being rightwing means believing Adam Smith was right, both in the 'Wealth of Nations' and the 'Theory of Moral Sentiments,' then I'm rightwing.

Shane Richardson

Whether or not we pursue Adam will depend on what happens with the Walkers.

Tex Williams

We're going to look at this as a positive; it's a win-win. It frees up a scholarship for Kentucky to go recruiting, and it gives Adam a chance to try to get on the floor.

John Wycliffe

We all are originally sinners as Adam and in Adam, his leprosy cleaving faster to us than Naaman's did to Gahazai, so that even the infant, before it has seen the light of the world, has this blemish inherent in its unborn members.

Mark Skousen

Life is full of joys and sorrows, much of it our own making. Sadly, the West has voted time and time again for bigger government, more inflation, higher taxes and excessive regulation - all policies that have kept us from Adam Smith's vision of an opulent society.

James E. Faust

To turn our hearts to our fathers is to search out the names of our deceased ancestors and to perform the saving ordinances in the temple for them. This will forge a continuous chain between us and our forefathers eventually all the way back to Father Adam and Mother Eve.

Kirk Cameron

Marriage was defined by God a long time ago. Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve - one man, one woman for life till death do you part. So I would never attempt to try to redefine marriage. And I don't think anyone else should either.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

True and absolute freedom is only found in the presence of God.

David Selby

I never found it frustrating not speaking.

David McCullough

The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them.

Catherine Bell

It's changing a bit, but the thing in LA is everyone is either in the industry, or knows someone who is in the industry. So, they don't let on that they recognize you, that's what I've found out.

Howard Rubenstein

The Post found out about this late yesterday afternoon. They had no inkling whatsoever a scandal was brewing.

Mehmet Okur

We struggled with Jason Kidd and Richard Jefferson but we found a way to help each other and I think we did a good job tonight.

Michael Lynch

We are making a friendly offer to Reynolds, ... We were shocked when we found out that Alcoa had made its offer and we assembled ourselves as quickly as we could to put together this proposal.

David Brooks

Emotion is the foundation of reason.

Baron Davis

I am the donation to the foundation.

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.

Charles Dickens

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...

Charles Dickens

But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Dickens

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Simmons

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Charles Dickens

"There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones."

Charles Dickens

"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."

Charles Stross

I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went "aha!" - because what you need is an agent who knows the industry but who doesn't have a huge list of famous clients whose needs will inevitably be put ahead of you. So I emailed her, and ... well, 11 years later I am the client listed at the top of her masthead!

Charles Stross

What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.

Alan Watts

It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.

Alan Parker

Film-making is a physically hard job.

Alan Patricof

I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available.

Alan Rickman

One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right.

Alan Rickman

I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.

Dan Hogan

She has a variety of pitchers that make her successful.

Jeff Messer

Most pitchers have one pitch to strike out batters. Derek has three.

Augie Garrido

We ran into two pitchers that year who shut us down.

Kelly Ryan

Right now I think we have two of the top pitchers in the state on our team.

Darin Erstad

Only our pitchers have been playing well. We've been scratching and clawing for runs. We'll find a way to get it done any way we can, but we've been inconsistently offensively.

Chuck Hernandez

I don't think it's that unusual for young pitchers starting out to struggle a little bit.

Rich Aurilia

I don't know. That's for the pitchers to decide, not me.

George Vecsey

Baseball's postseason shifts from game to game because of starting pitchers and the geography of the ballparks.

Brian Sabean

He has had some quality at-bats, and pitchers have pitched him really tough.

Geno Auriemma

She's stretching it out. She does whatever she has to do.

Doris Lessing

I am interested only in stretching myself, on living as fully as I can.

Nancy Brown

What it's going to do is stretch us thin, personnel-wise.

Joshua Bell

I think it's really important to always kind of stretch your boundaries and your limits and get out of your comfort zone. And for me, that's very important.

Lewis Carroll

He taught us Drawling, Stretching and Fainting in Coils.

Brian O'Driscoll

A physical therapist does some unbelievable stretching with me.

Brian Martin

We'll be able to stretch it (fuel) out a little.

Raymond Kelly

I don't stretch enough. I know I should do it more, and I'd like to do yoga, but I just don't have time.

Jim Ritterbusch

This thing has tentacles that are going to stretch all over the place,

Arthur Conan Doyle

Even the best of us are thrown off some- times.

Kate Michelman

Now, the gauntlet has been, I think, thrown down.

Philippe Petit

I didn't go to school much. I was thrown out of different schools, and my university is the street.

Gwynne Shotwell

What would air travel look like if airplanes were thrown out after each flight? No one would be flying in airplanes.

Alan Trammel

If someone is going to get thrown out, it should be the manager.

Carlo Ratti

Some trash is recycled, some is thrown away, some ends up where it shouldn't end up.

Heath Lane

We really didn't have a play at first, and we shouldn't have thrown the ball.

Mike Conroy

We've had lefties thrown at us all year. We're used to it now.

Rand Paul

William Lloyd Garrison was up there with Frederick Douglass being thrown off trains and going through what happened in the 1960s in 1840 in Boston.

Alan Perlis

Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

Chloe Grace Moretz

I love going to Topshop, Urban Outfitters and American Apparel, I'm in love with their jackets.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.

Diana DeGarmo

I'm planning to be the youngest contestant in the Top 32, and I'm planning to be the youngest person in the Top 10...

Bruce Feiler

Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic.

Jeff Malloy

She has to be (on the top of her game).

Brandon Sanderson

...somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.

Ken Hitchcock

We didn't play well in Montreal, so this was a big win, ... Now, we're right there with everyone else (near the top of the standings at 5-2-1).

Rhona Martin

We didn't play well enough and didn't do enough to win. That's the top line.