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.

Derek Johnston

We knew they were going to be up for not getting beaten 4-1 again, but we were by far the better side in the second half.

Chris Pardue

We know what Louisville Central has back and they played our tails off last year after we got a 40-0 lead. Bullitt East has already beaten them and not looked back at anybody. So they must have a heck of a team. We can't just go on cruise into the playoffs because we are going to have some tough games right away.

Bill Maris

Venture funds get beaten up for not investing in important things. Okay, if you want venture funds to invest in important things, then don't penalize or make fun of them when those important things don't work.

Micky Ward

I never lost a fight because I wasn't in shape or because I wasn't ready. I lost because I was either beaten by a man better than me, or it wasn't my night.

Scott Found

The only difference between the Commonwealth and Cedar Run is that for the past seven years, Albemarle has gone to states and no one has beaten them. In the Cedar Run, I think everyone is more evenly matched. There is no team that everyone is going to lose to. It is so competitive because everyone is fighting for a spot.

Mark Smith

We are a team trying to find our way. We've got off the beaten path and have to find our way back. We've got to find the right five to play together and click as a team.

Bobby Collins

We started by saying every team had beaten us. We didn't think of them beating us in the past.

Sean Ogirri

We approached it like any other game. They're like teams in the Missouri Valley. They're big-name schools, but we've beaten teams in the same fashion.

Paul Reid

We've still got to play Clare, Roscommon and Gladwin, but for (Houghton Lake), this is really big. They've already beaten Clare. For them to beat Clare and us, this would give them control of the Jack Pine.

P. J. Harvey

We know what he can do now. It's been a long two days for Jake, but it was worth it.

Graeme Souness

The other pleasing points are that we've got through and won a tie 5-1 when we've played, first after only two weeks, and then after only 17 days of training.

Robert Kabushenga

The posters are depicting government in a negative light and this comes only a few days to the polling day.

Rick Michaels

We are pleased that we were able to reach record production levels, despite losing several days due to the holidays.

Dusty Baker

There are days when you don't have your premier stuff,

Donna Wisniewski

There are days they pick up two or three, but there's days that they come in with over 40 of them.

Walt Harris

There are days the offensive line looks like they're putting it together. At times we see the light at the end of the tunnel. They're starting to respond, but they've got to grow up fast.

Jody Conradt

There are days it's really been fun. And there are days when it's really been, well ... trying.

Karen Allen

There are days he just reads my mind.

Walter Miller

We want them to see exactly the way we do it in Nashville ? there's no reason to change.

Dr. Currier

We want to stay exactly as long as they need and not one day more.

James Woods

We know exactly what our plant is going to cost,

Rob Sumner

We know exactly what happened and what we need to do. If you throw enough shots at the net, one will go in. You don't win many games with only 18 shots on net.

James Harrington

We know exactly what had to be done and we executed it well,

Dave Barry

What, exactly, is the internet? Basically it is a global network exchanging digitized data in such a way that any computer, anywhere, that is equipped with a device called a 'modem', can make a noise like a duck choking on a kazoo

Bob Poole

The other pieces I'm not exactly sure of.

Carter Jordan

The positives are we got four underclassmen out here to see exactly what we were talking about.

Gretchen Rubin

I read a lot, all the time, but often I read books for research, or because they're interesting to me in some way, even if they aren't exactly 'pleasurable.'

William Donahue

very excited to get in and get rolling.

Todd Jones

Very excited to be in the championship game. Lake Norman gave us all we could handle.

Geoffrey Winters

UL is very excited about our next generation. They've put us on the fast track because it saves lives.

Ben Wallace

We are a veteran team that knows what it takes to go out there and execute. We know that sometimes it goes, and sometimes it does not. There is no need to get excited about any one situation. We know we have to go out and play the game.

Willy Child

There are some good teams. Pine View is ranked in the top five, Mountain View played well in its win over Payson, so it will be tough. Normally, we would have played three games by now. Our kids are really excited to play. They've been working hard. They're all frustrated and ready to get started. We're hoping to get good weather down there.

Fred Mumford

We're interested and excited about the preservation of this property because of its historical value.

Lauren Miller

Girls will go see anything. They're open and excited to go to the movies and laugh.

Edward Gibbon

[Personal] industry must be faint and languid, which is not excited by the sense of personal interest.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I'm excited to see where the Illuminati and whatever else might happen, how that works, and where it ends up.

Brittany Rogers

We know what it felt like to lose up here. We didn't want that to happen again.

Kelsey Cermak

We know how it felt to go home after one game last year. We didn't want to go through that again.

Lisa Gansky

I've felt a little culpable that we entrepreneurs often invent businesses just to drive people to buy more things.

M. Night Shyamalan

'The Exorcist' is the scariest movie ever made. It just felt dead-on real, like you were watching the existence of the devil.

Ledawn Gibson

We started off kind of sluggish. I felt like we could've come out better to play, but after we made some adjustments we were able to get things going.

Barnett Newman

From the very beginning I felt that I would do a series,

Matt Hasselbeck

We actually felt we had the momentum after that. It was good for our offense.

Stan Clark

We always felt we did the proper thing.

Shirley Manson

We always felt like we've never specifically fitted in with anyone; there's never been a movement surrounding what we're doing.

Shelden Williams

We knew they were a team that wasn't going to go away. They saw that scoreboard and saw they were only down a few points.

Sara Parson

Very few of my opponents underestimate me. It doesn't matter if I can see them if they're on their back.

Tod Ruhstaller

Very few miners got rich. It was the businessmen who made the money.

Ross Levinsohn

Very few companies can perform at scale over the course of decades, and Yahoo has done that.

Sophie B. Hawkins

Very few artists are as independent as I am mentally, physically, spiritually and technically. I sit in my home studio and record things by myself. I don't need to get anybody's approval or validation.

Adam Mansbach

Ultimately, very few people parent their kids in ways that strike anybody else as reasoned, appropriate or sane.

Bryan Adams

With few words, one can speak the truth.

Luke Pasqualino

I don't think I've ever properly been in love. I've had a few girlfriends and have liked them loads, but I'm not sure it was love.

Michael Weatherly

Those three years on 'Loving' were instrumental in helping me move through the next few years of work, where it was hit or miss. I was on series that would get canceled, then I would be a movie that wouldn't come out or do as well as I hoped. You learn that you have to just keep plugging away and never take anything for granted.

Quinton Young

We wanted to win the conference, and even though we didn't do that we still have a lot to prove. We're heading up there with a swagger.

Ashley Davies

We remain long dollar/yen from 116.70 heading into the new year.

Ed DeChellis

Just looking at the numbers shows we're heading in the right direction.

Gene Carswell

I thought we accomplished a lot over the weekend. We're making progress as a team and we know what we have to work on heading into the season.

Jason Taylor

We're on the right track, heading in the right direction. Unfortunately, right now, we're out of track. We just have to wait now and tee it up next year.

Mike Hawkins

Goals seem impossible only when you are not heading toward them.

Jimmy Johnson

I think we're getting some momentum back and heading in the right direction.

Don Thompson

I think we are heading toward a military dictatorship.

Maureen Allyn

I think we are heading into the worst of it. Investors think there we're heading towards a recovery in the next six months and I hope that they are right, but I just don't see the valuations for a huge rally going forward.

Meek Mill

Meek Mill - my homies used to call me 'Meek Millions,' and at the time I didn't have no millions, so I ain't really want to be called 'Millions,' so I just shortened it down to Meek Mill. 'Meek Milli,' my friends used to call me.

Ewan McGregor

When you take away the phone and e-mail and you don't have a million things to run around to, it allows your mind the space to think more expansively about the things that matter.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I call myself a liberal - a classical liberal as in John Stuart Mill.

Tim Hogan

We've got fines accumulating at $1 million a day. The pressure is on to resolve this problem.

Jeff Krull

We were trying to get other Herman Miller dealers to bid.

Harold Jones

What $1 million is worth today is not the same as it will be worth in 2030.

Jason Stanford

We're going to have to use the word million in the plural, but with that being said, we're not going to have to outspend Rick Perry to win this thing.

Katy Perry

I want to sell out arenas and sell millions of records.

Michael Schwartz

Three years into American involvement in Vietnam they were up to 500,000 troops in-country and there probably were already a million who had returned home.

Alan Pardew

I don't like people who drain my time and energy. If you've seen the Harry Potter films, we use the term 'dementors' - people who can draw the life out of you in terms of your energy. So we eradicate the 'dementors', encourage the positive people, and that spreads around to create the team spirit we have here

Alan Hansen

I played against the Brazilians in '82, who were definitely the best team never to have won the World Cup.

Alan Hansen

The World Cup needs a brilliant Brazilian team.

Alain Prost

A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best.

Alain Prost

It's always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone - sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.

Alain Prost

When I drove for British teams... they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.

Alain Prost

You can't always have the best team. It's always a compromise.

Al Michaels

There are a number of teams that would become vastly improved with Drew Bledsoe.

Al Michaels

The Miami Dolphins have to be taken seriously. Here's a team that seems to be jelling.

Bill Gates

If you want to build a great company, get the hell out of Silicon Valley.

Bill Gurley

There is no fear in Silicon Valley right now,

Kacey Musgraves

Look at Loretta Lynn. Look at Jeannie C. Rily singing 'Harper Valley PTA' and Tammy Wynette singing about divorce. They were ahead of their times in a lot of ways.

Helen Keller

I hung about the dangerous frontier of "guess," avoiding with infinite trouble to myself and others the broad valley of reason.

Isabelle Huppert

If on paper one would say, "You're gonna spend three weeks in Death Valley," you say, "No, I'm not going to be able to." Very often, very quickly you forget about it.

Neil Young

As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.

Jay Leno

106 [degrees] in the valley... I was sweating like Dan Rather checking for forged documents.

Mark Twain

What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules & verifies the details & particulars of a valley & its frame of crags & peaks, then Poetry comes, & lays bare the whole landscape with a single splendid flash.

Niklas Zennstrom

Silicon Valley is the best place to start a tech company in so many ways.

Charles Tillman

Look at politics; they're always in competition over an election, who wants to win. It's just who we are, it's what we do.

Charles Dickens

Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.

Charles Caleb Colton

If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.

Charles Caleb Colton

In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.

Charles Caleb Colton

All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman, Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings.

Charles Caleb Colton

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

Charles Dickens

Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.

Charles Dickens

Ride on! Ride on over all obstacles and win the race.