Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isaiah Thomas

Larry Brown thought Steve Francis was a Larry Brown type of player.

Isaiah Thomas

I would still like to get more athletic and have players that can really cover what's going on in the game.

Isaiah Thomas

We decided to either try trades or just go with older players. If you do that and let contracts expire you can be in the lottery for about four or five years and expect your fans to be patient.

Italo Calvino

Nature in America does not arouse powerful emotions in me.

Rick Perlstein

America was founded on the fissure between slave states and free states, so these huge fault lines are just built into the American project. How we repress them, express them, deal with them, talk around them, think through them, don't think through them, is fascinating to me.

Rick Perlstein

Call it Camelot's revenge: the class of court scribes who made it their profession to uphold a make-believe version of America free of conflict and ruled by noble men helped Nixon get away with it for so long - because, after all, America was ruled by noble men.

Robert Strauss

If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed.

Robert Strauss

It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired - you quit when the gorilla is tired.

Robert Sheckley

I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it.

Marc Faber

The entire political elite has mismanaged the Indian economy for the last 50 years. You cannot solve a crisis that is borne as a symptom of mismanagement in just five minutes or in a week. It will involve significant sacrifices and pain, and I doubt that in India there is the political will to face the music.

Danny Peitz

We're not born to be wild, but we want him to take us on a magic carpet ride.

Bubba Sparxxx

Man, I'll tell you as far as creatively speaking man, there is stuff that is unique and different about every person that is born into this world.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man is not born to solve the problems of the universe, but to find out what he has to do... within the limits of his comprehension.

Matthew Arnold

Light half-believers of our casual creeds, who never deeply felt, nor clearly will d, whose insight never has borne fruit in deeds, whose vague resolves never have been fulfilled.

Jose Lagos

Let's not forget who these immigrants are. They work hard, they pay taxes, and many have U.S. born children. It gives them the peace of mind that they can continue to work legally.

Homer Simpson

Let's just say that on this day, a million years ago, a dude was born who most of us think was magic. But others don't, and that's cool. But we're probably right. Amen." - Homer Simpson

Andrew Kreisberg

So many heroes are driven by destiny. Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, they were all chosen and born to heroism. Even with Batman, it doesn't feel like Bruce could do anything else. His whole life was leading him to become the Dark Knight.

Charles Caleb Colton

Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

Darrell Butler

Maybe the long inning bothered him, maybe he got tired. But no excuses, when you're up 20 runs, you throw strikes, he knows that. But he was very good in the early part of the game, so I'm not sure what happened. I liked his slider, it looked very sharp and his fastball was good.

Willie Ponder

Maybe last year, the muff would have bothered me, ... But I can't think about that. All I was thinking was, 'Make a play. Any play.'

Rod Gorman

Oakley definitely bothered us at the basket. I was pretty pleased with our defense, but offensively we just never had a flow. But I'm very proud of this group for getting here.

Uday Kotak

There is socialism in the family that conflicts with meritocracy. And that bothered me.

Tina Turner

I've never bothered about my color. I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love. Maybe. I don't have a problem with being black in a white country or being with my people.

John Rogers

We were bothered by the staff time taken up by being in the landlord business. Some of (our) resources we were having to expend on ourselves to stay in the landlord business; ... it's a good thing for everybody.

Rich Brooks

If we don't stop the game and look at it at that point in time on a pivotal play I don't understand it. And I know we have some wrinkles to work out with instant replay, but I'm just bothered that we didn't stop and review it.

Charlie Dacey

Basilio is a defensive presence. His knee has bothered him, but he's all right now. He makes a big difference for us.

Rory Stewart

I have a constituency with 52,000 people and a million sheep. I was in one village where a local kid was run over by a tractor. They took him to Carlisle, but they couldn't be bothered to wait at the hospital. So they put him in a darkened room for two weeks, then said he was fine. But I'm not so sure he was.

Michael Jackson

Many organizations were initially scared of the Internet and email. Now there's hardly a workplace on the planet that doesn't have an Internet connection.

Sophie Okonedo

My life is not nuts. I hardly ever watch television, I don't go out very much, so I don't really know what's going on.

Randy Hiltner

One thing you find out when you net a lake this size is there's a lot of variability. One net will be loaded with fish, and another will have hardly any. You try to reduce the variability with a larger sample size.

Seth Meyers

I'm a terrible grocery shopper. I hardly ever do it. And if I do, there's never more than three things in the bag.

Arthur Conan

I hardly looked at his face. His knees were what I wished to see.

George Soros

I hardly knew the man's name, ... He really invented me. He needed me for his political purposes, so I'm a figment of his imagination.

Martha Stewart

I hardly ever go there anymore. I don't miss it.

Stephen Hawking

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was able to reason

Byron Katie

I haven't had a single thought for 26 years. I have only understanding. It's somewhat complicated to understand that. I've hardly ever spoken about it. You're in a state of total peace of mind. A kind of nirvana.

Giri Cherukuri

Many of the large-cap tech stocks, including Intel, are undervalued. Any move strengthening their position in the market, makes their stocks more attractive.

Christopher Hill

Several delegations, including ours, had some difficulties with it, ... But we're trying to work with it, to do something with it.

Christopher Hill

Several delegations, including ours, had some difficulties with it,

Dana Perino

Security measures were thoroughly reviewed, including intelligence matters.

Jim Hendry

None of us, including Dr. Kremchek, are anticipating anything significant, but it is a shoulder.

Igor Ivanov

must be searched for through dialogue, including with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

Yossi Alpher

We've never encountered this situation before. Everyone, including the U.S., is playing this by ear.

Tom Lochner

She took over. She took the team on her back and made some tough shots, including that three. I thought she was the difference.

Gary Roberts

I'd like to wipe out the whole month, including the hurricane.

Kristin Cast

I'm learning a lot, and I'm trying to make it so that every time I write, it's better than the last time I've written.

Albert Schweitzer

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

Sathya Baba

Life is, Loving - Listening - Lifting - Learning - Living

Cyril Connolly

Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turn before we have learnt to walk

Kevin Jones

Let this be a learning lesson. Let?s pick up the pieces. Hopefully, other teens will not make the same mistake.

Mark Anderson

(Madeline's) a raw talent. She had never run anything over an 800 (meter). She'll learn more by training with Jaclyn and Caitlin.

Jim Newberry

Lexington needs to stay a place where people want to live, learn and raise a family.

Pat Summitt

Losing the way we lost is unacceptable in this program. We will learn from it.

Scottish Proverb

Learn young, learn fair; learn old, learn more

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.