Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Kerrigan

When you walk into that job, it can be a little overwhelming. Getting all your starters lined up, your backup starters lined up, getting your bullpen guys throwing in a routine. Once he gets a handle on that, he'll be fine. It all works out in Spring Training.

Bob Muglia

We have seen customers reduce 48 hour backup windows down to 10 minutes with DPM, ... With DPM, customers never have to do a full backup from the production server again; they only have to do incremental backups, which are much more efficient.

Will Brown

We're going to press them, but we're going to stick to our guns and play man-to-man. Do we have a backup plan? Yeah, but I'm hoping we don't need to go to it.

Richard Gilhooly

With the market having failed to penetrate 3.65 percent, there is room for a backup into the 3.80's, perhaps as far as 3.90.

Trent Green

With the quarterback situation like it is right now, we don't know what it's going to be from a backup standpoint. Then we scored on the first drive and were moving the ball and the one bad play. So we said, 'You know what? Everything's moving pretty good. Why take any chances?' I understand where coach is coming from.

Kurt Busiek

I created lots of characters in high school and college, and the first character I created in pro comics was Liana, Green Lantern of M'Elu, for a backup story in 'Green Lantern #162,' my first professional sale.

Scott White

We're just getting a ton of reps. Sometimes if you get caught without a backup you just keep going and going and going. He's really telling us if we can fight through that and play hard and still play fast, when we get in the game when it's slower paced we should do great in the fourth quarter, because that's when a lot of games in the Pac-10 are won.

Terry Porter

I had never dreamed about the NBA like some guys did. I was a non-scholarship player at an NAIA college. I played on the Boys and Girls Club team in my freshman and sophomore years of high school before I made the high school team. I was our backup center in college.

Skip Taylor

Some companies are looking at this as a backup connection option.

J. Taylor

We've won one game. We won four last year. We've got a ways to go before we match last year. We haven't proved anything.

David S. Goyer

I did three or four weeks of work on 'Godzilla;' it wasn't a page-one rewrite or anything like that. The term is 'script doctoring,' is what I did on it.

Don Flanagan

UNLV plays four guards. So using four guards was something we were looking at doing anyway.

George Burley

We are proud to have four players who played a major part in Wednesday's success.

B. F. Skinner

We are practicing with Hartland and they will get us prepared. They've been there the last four years and we should learn from them. They are a great program.

Kyle Smith

We usually just have two forwards up top. But later in the second half I moved up a third one, and with about 1:45 left I moved in a fourth one.

Jim McCann

We started this on a whim four years ago. We don't want to make it any larger than it is. It really is a lot of fun.

Bonnie Henrickson

We struggled to find another offensive weapon. Their third and fourth options made shots, and we're not that deep.

Caryn Jeffreys

We are a fluid, but large group. We do a lot of plays and four shows a years.

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.

Charlaine Harris

Jason's favorite person in the entire universe was Jason Stackhouse.

Tiffany Thornton

'Hatching Pete' was so much fun. Mitchel Musso and Jason Dolley, as well as Josie Loren, who was also in '17 Again' with Sterling and Zac Efron and Matthew Perry are in it. We just had a blast filming.

Wayne Knight

I'm not really in touch with those 'Seinfeld' lads except Jason Alexander.

Mark Shapiro

I don't think he showed us the true Jason Dubois when we got him. I'd like to think this is the real guy, but the truth is he's probably somewhere in between.

Tim Bell

I couldn't possibly lose that fight, knowing that Jason was waiting for me to come back with the belt,

Alison Brie

I love Jason Bateman. He's so funny.

Deion Sanders

Jason Witten will go down as one of the best tight ends in history.

Eldon Hoy

He's a big kid. It's tough for a kid like that (to play back-to-back games), just like it's tough for our Jason Martin.

Malessa Wing

Last night, I started with Jason. By the time I was all the way through, it was time for Jason again.

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.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.

Alan Watts

The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions and definitions, are the products of his own thought. They help him to use the world for purposes of his own devising rather than understand and explain it.

Alan Perlis

Optimization hinders evolution.

Alan Perlis

Any noun can be verbed.

Alan Perlis

A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.

Alan Perlis

A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.

Alan Perlis

To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.

Bruce Barber

We want them to go back to doing what they used to do, which is migrate. The reason they migrate is for food. When they don't migrate, their offspring don't learn to migrate.

Wissam Nasr

We want to stop profiling. The more that people learn about Islam, the more tolerant they become.

Ryan Snair

Sean can play any of the infield positions and can catch, too.

Greg Valliere

On one hand, he seems more palatable to Wall Street than Dean, in that his positions on trade and taxes are more moderate.

K'naan

I don't feel political most of the time. Sometimes I'm placed in positions because no one else will go there.

Megan Hilty

I think the only way you can really grow is if you push yourself and put yourself in uncomfortable positions and doing things that you're not used to; it's exciting.

Paul Perry

I think that positions No. 2 through 7 could be inter-changeable all year.

Sterling Ivey

We would be eliminating their positions at that site.

Lori Rogers

Spring is just around the corner, so I think you'll see a lot of seasonal positions start up.

Richy Leon

We need to tighten up defensively. We still have positions where we need to find somebody to step up.

Mark Foulkes

We've got some positions that still are up for grabs.

Charles Caleb Colton

Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.

Charlie Munger

What do you want to avoid? Such an easy answer: sloth and unreliability. If you're unreliable it doesn't matter what your virtues are. You're going to crater immediately. Doing what you have faithfully engaged to do should be an automatic part of your conduct. You want to avoid sloth and unreliability.

Benjamin Franklin

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy.

Benjamin Franklin

Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them.

William Shakespeare

Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard.

Conor Cruise O'Brien

You are not an agnostic.....You are just a fat slob who is too lazy to go to Mass.

Edward Abbey

I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.

Geraldine McEwan

I feel I could be walking down the street, and if somebody talked to me, I could just slot into 'Miss Marple' and know how she would react.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.

Al Leiter

I like starting. It's pretty cool.

Bryan Ferry

It must be really hard to be starting out in music now.

Kurt Vonnegut

We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten.

Billy Dee Williams

Originally I planned on starting a teapot collection. I really like them.

August Wilson

I ain't never found no place for me to fit. Seem like all I do is start over. It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself.

Eden Sher

I really can't watch myself. I just get too in my head about it and start overthinking everything.

Cedric Benson

It never really was difficult for me not starting because I understood the circumstances.

Charisma Carpenter

When I was first starting out, and I was less established, I was really concerned about being typecast.

Rob Jordan

We're starting to get a little more notice.

Jason London

Whenever you have a tight schedule, you sort of have to film whatever you can that day.

Dennis Franchione

We're going to make a tight end out of you, yet.

Laura Fraser

I have to admit I can be pretty high strung and tightly wound.

Jose Carreras

I am a little nervous with strangers. But I'm not tight inside. I think I am impulsive.

Candice Olson

In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.

Donnie Madzia

We were a little tight early. The 10-day layoff that we had took its toll early. We were prepared, so we had to come out and execute.

Ken Whisenhunt

I think the big part of it is the quarterback and that tight end's relationship,

Larry Coker

I thought they were going to turn me into a tight end,

Troy Dolan

He had a good, tight waist. He tried to tilt me. He was pretty tough on top.