Famous Quotes & Sayings

Reed PhD

Leadership without support is like trying to make bricks without enough straw. True leaders reinforce their ideas and plans with strategic partnerships, alliances and supportiveaudiences.

Johnson Honimae

Mobs and looters have been hurling rocks and bricks at passing patrol police vehicles.

D. James

Of course a sports psychologist can help - it's certainly helped me. People think you must be crackers if you've got a psychologist but psychology is part of the building bricks to make a top athlete.

Gerry Purdy

No one likes to carry a brick around, and this is the smallest, thinnest, lightest device that has all those combined features.

John Barlow

I fought it hammer and tong, but the drummers had inoperable bricks in their head about it. What's worse is that they now want to remove all Dead music from the Web.

Wren Elhai

Getting in touch with Iraqis has not been the insurmountable challenge it seemed to be at the start. You run into more brick walls trying to get someone in the U.S. military to talk to you.

Buster Perkins

I had hit a brick wall. I had gotten injured, and my grades were failing and I had to do something.

Shannan Bergen

She's a kid that'll go through a brick wall for you.

Bill Jr

Time marches on. We've got a wonderful new facility under construction and it's Busch Stadium - it's just different bricks and mortar.

Dave Mustaine

It wasn't enough for Megadeth to do well; I wanted Metallica to fail.

Jim Crace

I feel the political failings of the U.S.A. are presidential in length, but the aspirant narrative of the States is millennial in length.

Sebastian Thrun

You are going to fail, and failing, for me, is as joyful as succeeding. Failing means that there is something to learn, and we can improve and do it better next time.

Bruce Rauner

I have my strong views and opinions. I really want to transform Illinois government because this state is failing the taxpayers and the children.

Jeb Bush

trapped in failing schools. She reads at a fifth-grade level.

David Mitchell

How lazily "xperts" dismiss what they fail to understand!

Calamity Jane

Those as don't eat, without exception, fail to survive.

Diego Klattenhoff

Everyone fails. Everyone is constantly failing. It is all part of life, and especially this job of being an actor.

Charlie Munger

A business model that relies on trickery is doomed to fail.

Ellen Gerton

Maggie has worked really hard and her skills have gotten so much better.

Rick Forney

Life as we know it in New Orleans and Tulane has changed. We have leaned on each other and gotten support. And there may be a stronger resolve than there has ever been.

Grant Billmeier

Losing Kelly and Donald, that's a huge loss. They got us 18 wins. Without those guys, I don't know if we would have gotten 10. They were leaders on and off the court. I'm real thankful for that.

Scott Young

Last year, we couldn't have gotten away with playing him inside. He's strong enough now that he does OK even when they get two hats on him.

Brandon Roy

Last year, with a No. 1 seed, we might have gotten a little relaxed. Now everybody's hungry. I think we have more fight.

Jon Bolin

Last year we were the hunters and other teams were our prey. This year we haven't gotten our hunter instinct back, but I think it's coming.

Keith Snoddy

Sebastian has gotten more aggressive, and he's done pretty much everything we have asked.

Tom Schrader

Sentiment had gotten so bad. People are wanting to start get back in.

M. Hopper

My kids have been unbelievable with the heart they've shown. And that's why we've gotten this far.

Gerald Wilson

My grades weren't what they should have been, so they sent me back to the ninth grade. I was glad, because I wanted to study music, and Cass Tech was second only to Juilliard. We studied all kinds of music, harmony and orchestration.

David Nicholls

I applied for the University of Life. Didn't get the grades.

Xiao Yaqing

The quality of the bauxite is lower than the top grades in Australia, but it's much better than those in China.

Nikki Reed

My mom and I would make bracelets and necklaces, and I would sell it in the first, second, and third grades because that was my lunch money.

Gov. Carcieri

We are going to know what is going on with learning in grades 3 to 8, and we are testing for that, so the light will shine.

Jim Lampe

There are 20 grades of turkey breast available. We use the top of the line.

Paul Morse

There's some guys looking at him, so he needs to get his grades in order. There are people that want him. He's just got to get the test score to get in.

Shane Voss

We monitor their grades throughout the season, and provide a (mandatory) study hall.

S. Hughes

The tool we're talking about takes more than grades into account.

Jose Cano

Makes me nervous. I want him to get a hit right now. I don't want him to go down. I want him to stay here forever.

Retief Goosen

Luckily, it doesn't really hurt me when I hit the ball. I know it's there, but it's nothing serious.

Larry Gispert

Life could be very, very different if we get hit by a major hurricane.

Bob Murphrey

Leon and James hit some big shots ? they did what they are supposed to do.

Yvette Girouard

Leslie Klein hit her first home run in two years. She looks like she's back and she loves softball.

Curt Schilling

Seven of the 11 hits were on fastballs,

John Major

September the 11th was a huge shock in the United States. It was the first time you had been hit at home in your own territory by terrorist on this scale.

Jim Lushine

Mother nature still has us in its sights. I hope it just wings us rather than hitting us in the gut.

Dan Gandin

McArdle hit some big shots for us in that first half. He really kept us in the game.