Famous Quotes & Sayings

Torrell Martin

We knew they'd go to him at the end. I stayed with him. He hit a great shot. That's what great players do. I was in his face. I almost blocked it. I was devastated when it went in.

Sonny Perdue

We know getting a drivers license is something that touches almost all of us - it's a high-volume business but it doesn't have to be high-aggravation,

Carl Tobias

very articulate but sort of reserved, almost kind of shy. And so I think he is a very likable sort of person.

Mike Birbiglia

Ultimately, jokes are this really special thing that we can all share. It's exciting to have basically a thousand people in a room together that can laugh at the same time, but I think of it almost as, like, a religious experience.

Louis Navellier

I almost always recommend investors get fully invested, since it's better to put your money to work than to let it simply track the rate of inflation.

Louis Leakey

The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves.

Mika

As a teenager, in my songbook, I used to script what my lighting would be like. I used to dance in my roo;, it was like putting myself in a trance, and making myself feel good about things, almost like a private ceremony of begging people to like you.

Michael Strahan

I hate leg exercises. I hate one-legged squats. I hate the hurdles and the split squats. I hate all the leg exercises. I know they help me, and I'm able to move around and don't have knee problems, and my hip doesn't hurt anymore, but when my trainer tells me I have to do them, I almost feel like my body goes into convulsions.

Mohsin Hamid

Nothing good gets written without the writer suffering along the way, in my opinion. Writing should be a pleasure, but unless you feel almost broken many, many times in the journey to a novel, you haven't pushed yourself hard enough.

Gary Owens

We want to throw high percentage stuff this year, but it's like I told Gary the other day, if we call a pass and it's not there, pull the ball down and run with it and we'll come back and call another play. We just don't want him trying to force things and make mistakes.

Sam Allen

We want to show that we're just like our neighbors. We go to ball games, we go to the grocery store, we go to church. We just happen to be Democrats.

Mike Waldo

We knew they would not quit. T-Town is a very good team, we knew we had to keep at them because they handle the ball well, shoot the three well and play good defense. That's not a team we thought we'd win big over. They shot the ball very well from three, I have to give them a lot of credit for that, they shot extremely well.

Ben Boyd

We knew they were slower, so we wanted to come out and run them. Coach wanted to set that press up so we'd get the ball a lot.

Brian Dawkins

We knew they were going to try and run the ball. That was no secret. We knew they don't throw the ball down the field. And with the defense we run as far as the blitzing package, it makes them even less likely to go down field. We kind of figured what they were thinking.

Brian Dawkins

We knew they were going to try and run the ball, ... That was no secret. We knew they don't throw the ball down the field. And with the defense we run as far as the blitzing package, it makes them even less likely to go down field. We kind of figured what they were thinking.

Chris Gibson

We knew they were going to make a run. They shoot the ball so well and they have such quality players. I was just proud of my kids for responding.

Muggsy Bogues

We knew they were going to make a run, and we got out (of) the gate early. We couldn't play all our (starters) the entire 20 minutes of the first half, so we had to make some substitutions and they took advantage. They changed the momentum, and it got them right back into the ball game.

Charlotte Observer

We knew they were going to make a run, and we got out (of) the gate early, ... We couldn't play all our (starters) the entire 20 minutes of the first half, so we had to make some substitutions and they took advantage. They changed the momentum, and it got them right back into the ball game.

Zeb Simon

We're so sound on defense that we didn't feel we needed to blitz to get the type of pressure we needed, you know, to get the great underneath coverage we got from our secondary.

Linda Grant

Times were very hard if you were a poor, politically correct Jewish girl living in the east end of London during the Blitz and you were trying to eke out a living as a hairdresser.

Matt Rosoff

Getting to profitability will require a big-name software launch while withstanding a concentrated marketing blitz from Sony. Anything less could mean years of red ink ahead.

Ryan Fitzpatrick

I think their blitz package was good. We felt like they were going to blitz. There were things we were going to do to counter that. They just didn't work as well as we wanted them to.

Matt Baker

Mostly they're coming in the passing game, in blitz pickup and protections and check-downs, ... He's got the running game pretty much covered. He's in the right place all the time.

Frank Solich

You can do everything right on a blitz and think you have him pinned in, but all of a sudden he makes somebody miss and he's got a first down or a big play when everything was designed right.

Jane Curtin

I think if you go from show to show without doing that big PR blitz it's helpful because people can get pretty sick of your face if you're just out there all the time. And keep a low profile, hold in your stomach and be a good sport.

London Fletcher

I think Kelly did an excellent job of not just managing the football game but making plays. He's a veteran guy. . . . There's not a blitz he hasn't seen, and he understands who to get the ball to in those situations.

Troy Vincent

He's a smart guy, very savvy. He's been doing it for so many years at a high level, so it's second nature to him. You are not going to blitz him out of anything. He's seen every coverage that's ever been devised.

Alan Arkin

If I'm going to make a fake movie, it's going to be a fake hit.

Dave Chappelle

After a while, a joke, if you say it too much, just becomes contrived, or fake-sounding.

David Schwimmer

When you see Liana [Liberato], who at the time was 14, there is an inexperience and innocence that you can't act and you can't fake.

Cesar Romero

Well, you know what they say in Hollywood - the most important thing is being sincere, even if you have to fake it.

Blake Shelton

One thing that you cant fake is chemistry.

Eddie Izzard

I saw something in a program on something in Miami, and they were saying, "We've redecorated this building to how it looked over 50 years ago!" And people were going, "No, surely not, no. No one was alive then."

David Hockney

It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.

Diablo Cody

There's something magical about spending a Sunday night watching real people at a deli, then watching fake people pretending to be real on TV, then engaging in (arguably) false interaction with (arguably) real people on the Internet. Never at any prior point in time has this been possible.

Anton Chekhov

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

Charlie Chaplin

There is greatness in everyone.

Charles Sumner

The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.

Charles de Gaulle

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Charles de Gaulle

France cannot be France without greatness.

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

Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.

Alan Watts

The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity and it is really impossible to tell whether something that happens in it is good or bad. Because you never know what will be the consequences of the misfortune. Or, you never know what will be the consequences of good fortune.

Alan Ball

I'm from the South, so while I personally find it impossible to live there, I still have a fondness for it as a geographical region.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

It is quite impossible to worship God without loving Him.

Indian Proverb

Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.

Bill Johnson

Part of our problem is this: we are accustomed only to doing things for God that are not impossible.

Edith Piaf

To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.

August Wilson

I found out life's hard but it ain't impossible....

Deborah Harkness

Just because something seems impossible doesn’t make it untrue,

John Maroon

We want to reach out not just to sports fans, but parents who are involved in their kids' lives.

Deborah Levine

We want to raise awareness. For those who find out they are positive, we want to get them into care. For those who are negative, but are involved in high-risk behavior, we want to get them into prevention programs so that they learn to keep themselves safe. Unfortunately, there are too many people out there who don't think they are at risk.

Adam Gilchrist

We have to get our priorities right. It is important that selectors, administrators, players and whoever else needs to be involved sits down and nuts that out.

Paul Hawley

We're going to shoot the video in Spain, and there'll be water involved -- and I'm going to leave it at that.

Greg Brown

We're going to have 13 different departments involved in this deployment

Jamie Carragher

We're involved in six this year and this is the first.

John Tortorella

We're getting ready for playoffs. I'm not going to get too involved in this game. ... We'll be ready to play. We're right where we want to be.

Pete Bodyk

We're getting more and more local law enforcement involved in our mobilizations.

Jamie Shea

We have reports that soldiers were also involved in the casualties, not simply civilians.

Charles Dickens

Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low.

Cary Elwes

It's true in life, as in the movies, that the greatest highs are often followed by the lowest lows.

Peter Speicher

We are at the low end of what we were predicting. It was a little better than expected, I guess. It was just so warm and wet. A lot of it was melting.

Leslie Cockburn

When I was in London at NBC, I was the lowest man on the totem pole. I would go to diplomatic receptions to meet people.

Ben Affleck

I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.

William Shakespeare

How low am I, thou painted maypole? (Hermia to Helena)

Noreena Hertz

Most organisations do not actively seek out input from their lower echelons.

Mark Waggoner

We're going to move lower from here. It's not going to take months and months to get all these refineries back.

Scott Davis

When we get it down low to Ryan, we do pretty good.

Sibel Edmonds

When you think of al-Qaeda, you are not thinking of al-Qaeda in terms of one particular country, or one particular organization.

Jenni Allen

There is no preordained system of ranking of particular activities. Applications are weighed in total, and we don't privilege any one organization.

Jill Soloway

So many features at Sundance seemed to be powered more on the director's need to be a director than any particular story.

Samuel L. Jackson

She has been in here several times before but that particular day I don't remember her.

Lino Spiteri

What would politics be without its own particular peculiar sense of humour, even if it is not quite funny, ha ha.

David Gray

For this particular location, people come here and it's really about wine,

Kelly Pleasants

We have to be particular about what we can take.

Seth Shostak

In general, when moviemakers talk to scientists, they usually see them as a resource to solve particular technical problems or script problems for them. So, something like: what sort of weaponry would aliens be able to wield?

Jim Martin

There are so many parts of this project that are intertwined that they have to be staged and set up in a particular order, and they would like to get this particular ramp done first so other ramps can follow.

Charlie Daniels

I can't wait to get off the bus and... go on stage and entertain people. That's my thing, that's what I love. I love doing it... I thank God I can make a living doing it.

Charlie Chaplin

The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me.

Charlie Chaplin

The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.

Charlie Chaplin

I am for people. I can't help it.

Charlie Chaplin

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

Charlie Chaplin

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone

Charles Wagner

If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich

Charles W. Pickering

The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation.

Charles Sumner

The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.

Chris Colfer

You don’t get to pick where you’re from, but you always have control of where you’re going.

Roger Dow

Vegas is going to pick up, too, ... If you want to party, everything's there restaurants, gaming.

Benjamin Franklin

Squeamish stomachs cannot eat without pickles.

Jessie Coiffard

We have to get focused. This was pretty much a practice game. Now we have to pick it up and play really hard.

Wes Meier

We're going to have to (wait). There's no reason to pick one right now. It's not clear-cut enough to say one's better than the other.

Gary Williams

We're battling, and that's all you can do. This time of year, you can't make any trades, you can't pick up anybody. You have your team. This is what you do. You go play.

Bobby Bonilla

I don't have a no-trade clause. I figure someone is going to pick me up.

Mohammed Jassim

Soldiers with Kalashnikovs and pickup trucks is not an army,

Chris Masoner

Since then, we just picked it up, and hopefully, we just don't look back.

Thomas Doll

We know we have signed quality players - but they will need time.

Jerry Jones

The position that's on the table by the players just isn't acceptable.

Kiki Chesterton

We've got a very multi-diverse attack. I have seven players at the restraining line, and all seven can put it in the net. We got some sick shooters.

Justin Vincent

We have so many players from New Orleans. It's always in the back of our minds.

Brett Favre

I, most talented players don't always succeed. Some don't even make the team. It's more what's inside.

Dwight Freeman

We're starting to do some things but we can't let up. It's a do-or-die situation, so the players are playing with a sense of urgency.

Mike Carey

We're just not comfortable with our go-to players in the stretch.

Pat Gillick

We're getting better. We have players who are pretty focused.

Ben Braaten

We usually have 10 different players in every quarter.

Mike Keenan

The position Olli is in had nothing to do with it,

Mike Brey

We're in a position where we're just trying to scratch our way to New York City.

Dee Hock

If you're in such a position of power and your ego is such that this is not possible, then its essential to have a small cadre of very bright, committed people who are questioning, exploring and understanding these emerging concepts.

Marco Trbovich

We've always said there aren't too many steelworkers, there are too many steel companies. That's been our position for several years.

Jim Hillman

When we get runners in scoring position somebody has to step up.

Whitney Watson

We're doing everything we can to make sure that he is not put in a position to re-offend.

Danny Ferry

We're in the same position now as are a lot of other teams.

Gordon Absher

We've taken a position of maintaining a confidentiality on the project out of respect for the Singapore government.

Abhisit Vejjajiva

What we did when we took the position was to make a statement and we made a statement.

Tom Clark

The potential is there for transmissible outbreaks and we want to be able to respond to these as quickly as possible, but also to have up-to-date information,

Chip Taylor

The potential for these waystations is just terrific.

Roger Romines

We've got a really young team this year. If they stick with it, they have the potential to get one of those scholarships that are out there.

Bobby Collins

We feel that the potential is unlimited for Wise County.

Robert Turner

We have just scratched the surface of our potential business.

Aubrey Edgmon

She's starting to realize the potential she has.

Jackie Parsley

She wanted to be a varsity starter very badly. You could see she had the potential, but whenever she got on the floor, she wanted to prove too much to me.

Jesse Miltier

She's showing a lot of potential. It usually takes until they're about 3 years old for them to reach their potential, but she's there.

Joe Pokraka

She's only a freshman, but she has the potential to score a lot of points. She's very gifted, she has it all.

Charles Caleb Colton

Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.

Charles Stross

We're currently living with a generation of established novelists who are embarrassingly out of date with respect to social networking, internet skills, and so on.

Alan Watts

But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day.

Alan Blinder

And the maestro surely wielded the chairman's baton with extraordinary skill. His stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the age-old question of whether it is better to be lucky or good may be: both.

Dave Franco

I don't know if this is an illusion but I would love to be able to take my card-throwing skills and be able to puncture a watermelon. Now I know I can take this question and say, "I would want to solve the economic problems in the world" - but I want to stick that card in that watermelon.

Billy Joe Saunders

You've got to look and pick your shots - and that's where your class and skill comes out.

Edward Gibbon

In the productions of the mind, as in those of the soil, the gifts of nature are excelled by industry and skill . . .

David Hockney

Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.

Audrey Meadows

Somehow he became certain the he himself possessed the skills of a hypnotist. How he reached this judgement, I have no idea, but never convinced the rest of us.

Tim Brewer

We've got a pretty solid team all-around. We like to get up and down the court.

Paul Woods

Shannon has always been real solid for us,

Nate Moore

We're a solid staff all the way around. It's just one of those days.

Rory Bruer

I think it's a good, solid start for us,

Mo Johnston

He's been very solid in the preseason and training and everything that he's done.

Jim Schmidt

I think it was more nerve-racking for me than for Ellie. She put together 11 real solid dives.

Lawrence Lau

He may have been transferring waste without a solid waste permit.

Bob Hartley

We need some big saves. The teams that are doing well in the standings are getting the big saves. You need solid goaltending.

Josh Pais

My process is I try to learn my lines so they're so solid I don't have to think about them or how I'm going to say them.