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benchmark internet numbers perception players traffic weak
The perception here is that traffic on the Internet was weak and, definitely, Yahoo!'s numbers are going to be used as a proxy or benchmark for the other players in the space. James Preissler
bench bothered chemistry guard playing point sitting stopped team
We stopped playing our No. 1 point guard for no reason, and as a team we didn't know why. The chemistry has all been shifted. That bothered me. You got (McInnis) sitting on the bench and we're losing. LeBron James
bench came
We started out good. We started out doing what we wanted to do. Then we got soft. Our bench came in and was soft.
benches nice relax sit
We also want to get more benches and tables. It's a nice place to come to just sit and relax and read a book.
bench close crisis good mike periods saw smiles sure talked team trainer winning
When he first went down, it didn't look good. And he was so close to the bench that he didn't have to get up to get off the ice, so I wasn't sure what happened. But I talked to the trainer between periods and he thought it would be good and then I saw Mike after and he was all smiles with the team winning the division. So a crisis averted, I guess. Doug Armstrong
benches midst form
We must reject dictatorship in whatever form it takes--and especially when it rears its head in our own midst on the bench. Alan Keyes
bench bring deal mike small whether williams
Whether we bring Mike Williams off the bench or go small like we did, we have got to deal with those situations. Rick Barnes
bench depth playing plenty time
We've been able to get our bench plenty of playing time and that's real important for us because we're going to need all our depth as we go on.
bench break came freshman gave needed players post
When I was a freshman I came off the bench and just gave the other post players a break when they needed it.
couple hands people
It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand. Charles Dickens
couple men hands
I am a neat hand at cookery, and I'll tell you what I knocked up for my Christmas-eve dinner in the Library Cart. I knocked up a beefsteak-pudding for one, with two kidneys, a dozen oysters, and a couple of mushrooms thrown in. It's a pudding to put a man in good humour with everything, except the two bottom buttons of his waistcoat.
couple hands want
I don't want to permanently damage myself! On the other hand, a couple of days off the keyboard tends to make things somewhat better. Charles Stross
couple may terrible
I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others.
couple years my-boyfriend
Over the last couple of years, I've really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it. Alanis Morissette
couple majority adaptation
I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps as good or better than the original work. But the vast majority of them are pointless. Alan Moore
couple guitar burritos
I played guitar. I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos. Alan Arkin
couple moving done
There are times when I am directing, and there are a couple of moments I didn't get the way I wanted, but I know I still have other angles to shoot and I have to be done by noon; I move on. Alan Ball
couple believe next
I still believe Emmitt has enough left in the tank to be a productive back over the next couple of seasons. Al Michaels
front mistakes slow solid until work
We still need to work on offense. Until we get solid up front we're going to make mistakes and those mistakes are going to slow us down.
front guys pitcher rather rookie
When you've got guys like Andruw (Jones), Chipper (Jones), Julio (Franco) and Marcus (Giles) in front of you, you have some RBI chances. A pitcher doesn't want to pitch to those guys. He'd rather pitch to a rookie any day. Jeff Francoeur
front move
We're not going to move him up to the front of the line.
front problem
We acknowledge the problem and we're very up front about it,
front onto open path rush security student team telling visiting
We have security stationed in front of the student areas, and we're telling them, Look, guys, here's the plan. We've got to get the visiting team out of here. We know you're going to rush the floor, but here's the path that we want to take to go onto the floor. We're going to open it up to you and just funnel you down this way.
front line offensive
What (the offensive line has) been able to do up front has been amazing. Reggie Bush
front occur particular sat wished
When you're working in front of the camera, there are always things that occur to you after the director has said 'Cut.' I could probably, if I sat down and thought about it, come up with instances where I wished I had made this particular choice or that particular choice. Delroy Lindo
front gets nobody stepped
When he gets the rebound, it's going the other way quick. Nobody stepped in front so he got all the way down to the goal.
front name players sacrifice
We want players who don't give up. We want players who sacrifice everything for the name on the front of the jersey. Ryan Jones
good-morning beauty nature
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
good-friend trying disability
Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason
good-life two evil
Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine. Charles Caleb Colton
good-things cruelty
A good thing can't be cruel.
good-man energy attention
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful. Charles Simmons
good-day writing emotional
If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.
goodbye farewell heart
The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart. Alan Alda
good-movie complicated enjoyable
A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it. Akira Kurosawa
good looking
We want them all to go on, and realistically they all have a shot. They all want to be state-placers and they're all looking to be pretty tough. I just want them all to have a good time.
jobs words-of-wisdom deception
"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."
jobs character air
"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..."
jobs reading years
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!
jobs reading writing
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.
jobs moving careers
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 Watts
jobs film hard
Film-making is a physically hard job. Alan Parker
jobs asking way
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 Patricof
jobs two together
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
jobs home feet
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.
knew outside stopped
We stopped him from getting outside the pocket, and we were making him uncomfortable. Once he spiked the ball, I knew we'd got to him. Donte Whitner
knew movies proved women
'Bridesmaids' proved there was an audience there that we knew was there. It proved that women go to the movies. They want to see story about themselves. Lauren Miller
knew quite
It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that I would do this.
knew pregnant similar starting time venture
When I started Net-a-Porter, I knew nothing. And I was pregnant. Starting a new venture and being pregnant for the first time are pretty similar in many ways. If you knew what was going to happen to you, you wouldn't venture down that road. Natalie Massenet
knew nature people suppose
If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find so many friends in England as I suppose they do.
knew nine thursday
When we were down nine on Thursday night, we knew Brandon would be able to play Saturday, so we said, let's try to (win this) so he can play another game. That was motivational.
knew matter rough shots stop worried
When we were down early, I wasn't worried about it because I knew we were trying. It was just a matter of our shots going in. Then, when they started going in, (the Rough Riders) couldn't stop us.
knew time
When I was open, I just knew it was time to make a shot. Ray Allen
knew learning sixth
When I was in sixth grade, honestly, I thought I knew everything. I still don't know nothing. I'm still learning stuff.
light sun life-is
In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going.
light alcohol cleaning
Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.
light israel fire
Secrecy of design, when combined with rapidity of execution, like me column that guided Israel in the deserts, becomes the guardian pillar of light and fire to our friends, a cloud of overwhelming and impenetrable darkness to our enemies.
light moral sometimes
Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer; for it prevents those disorders which other remedies sometimes cure, but sometimes confirm.
light heaven growth
Posthumous fame is a plant of tardy growth, for our body must be the seed of it; or we may liken it to a torch, which nothing but the last spark of life can light up; or we may compare it to the trumpet of the archangel, for it is blown over the dead; but unlike that awful blast, it is of earth, not of heaven, and can neither rouse nor raise us.
light moral materials
Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
light opposites people
What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of Jo the outlaw with the broom, who had that distant ray of light upon him when he swept the churchyard-step? What connexion can there have been between many people in the innumerable histories of this world, who, from opposite sides of great gulfs, have, nevertheless, been very curiously brought together!
light stage
Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.
light doubt church
Doubts about the fundamentals of the gospel exist in certain churches, I am told, to a large extent. My dear friends, where there is a warm-hearted church, you do not hear of them. I never saw a fly light on a red-hot plate. Charles Spurgeon
lines
You are in every line I have ever read.
lines forget-you gremlins
I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.
lines born guinness
f they'd been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn't have known they were born if they'd not towed the line! Alan Bennett
lines hobbies mental-illness
There is a very fine line between hobby and mental illness. Dave Barry
lines credit my-family
I fully credit my family for keeping me grounded and for putting me back in line whenever necessary. Camilla Belle
line power
The power line was burning, but they got over to it and got it put out.
line northwest offers possible reason whatever
The reason for that is if there is a strike, you want to be 1st in line to take whatever Northwest offers as a possible option.
lines number reverse spoke swing
We spoke about a number of things from conventional swing to reverse swing and different lines and lengths. Brett Lee
line offense scoring survive
We're not going to survive with one line scoring goals. We need to get offense from other places.
whether
I like tragedies, whether they're sci-fi or something else, but I can't say I know much about any genre in particular. Leos Carax
whether wonder
Whether they play (against Mitchell) is kind of up in the air. You have to wonder about their stamina.
whether
Whether they made the right choice, who knows? Pierce Brosnan
whether
Whether someone thought it was a joke, we take it very seriously. This is a food-tampering issue.
whether
Whether or not they do it is still in question.
whether
Whether my columns are worth reading isn't for me to say. John Podhoretz
whether
Whether it's us or them, it'll be a race.
whether
Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world. Leonard Mlodinow
whether
Ultimately, Captchas are useless for spam because they're designed to tell you if someone is 'human' or not, but not whether something is spam or not. Matt Mullenweg