Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hugh Fountain

We were awful in the second quarter. We didn't start that bad. We'd execute for a few plays, but we couldn't keep things going. We challenged them at halftime.

John Calipari

We were awful for a while. In that first half, oh my gosh. I'm looking at it, thinking, 'Can we be this bad?' Yeah. And it was a little bit of being gun-shy from that loss. That happens when you lose.

Mark McGrath

We were always open to all sides and experimented an awful lot. That way we had a lot of mellow songs and a lot of noisy, loud songs.

John Bunting

We have put an awful lot of emphasis on kickoff coverage and we are not satisfied with that right now. We have to continue to work on that part of our game because we were the worst in the country last year.

Larry Nelson

We've spent an awful lot of money, but we decided that the number one need was interoperability,

Shelley Duvall

When I'd finished, everybody said they wanted me for this movie. At first I thought they meant a nudie flick since an awful lot of nudies are made in Houston.

Brian Eno

I'm bloody awful at multi-tasking.

Bruce Jakosky

We know an awful lot about the history of water on Mars,

Dave Chappelle

I would go to work on the show and I felt awful every day, that's not the way it was. ... I felt like some kind of prostitute or something. If I feel so bad, why keep on showing up to this place? I'm going to Africa. The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.

Rob Enderle

Whenever the largest online retailer makes a decision, it's going to be a big deal. They're the bellwether for their segment. What they do, others will likely do or consider doing.

Scott Boras

When he got Boston's first offer, he realized that he thought of himself differently than the Red Sox did. He knew then that there was a possibility he may leave, and I don't think that he ever considered leaving prior to that.

Kypros Chrysostomides

We want improvements in the text. The intervention of France introduced some new important elements, but the general framework of the counter-declaration is not considered entirely satisfactory to our side.

Steve Rucchin

There are a lot of good teams out there, and if we want to be considered one of them, we have to show up to play for a full 60 minutes. From what I've seen the last two games, teams are sitting back, but our team is not poised enough with the puck. We seem to be ramming it down our own throats and moving it where they have their guys positioned.

Steve Anderson

There is a level of stock in the system and one other thing to consider is that we're a net food exporter.

John Milton

When I consider how my light is spent / Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, / And that one talent which is death to hide, / Lodged with me useless.

Donna Abbott

We used to say that Memorial Day started the season. Now, Presidents' Day is considered the start of the season.

Tom Odell

I would consider myself a perfectionist, yeah. I don't think that is always that helpful, either. Sometimes it's good to be a little more open-minded; you can overthink things when things are actually fine, and it's that moment that you lose it. Looking back, sometimes I've made mistakes from being a perfectionist.

Tawni O'Dell

When I begin writing, I have no idea what my novels are ultimately going to be about. I don't have a plot. I never consider a theme. I don't make notes or outlines.

Brandon Williams

We've still got our invitation to the party, but we don't know what party we're going to yet. This is a very big game. We prepared like it was a big game. Now, every week has to be like this.

Sergei Yastrzhembsky

The pope has a standing invitation and in no way has it been canceled.

Julien Letellier

When we have the new site, we send an invitation to our other readers. Each time we launch a new one, our other readers have interest.

Steve Hildebrand

Many will speculate that this signifies that Tom is thinking about running for president, when in fact, that is not what this invitation is all about.

Heinz Kramer

But such an invitation and such a stand leads to irritations with the EU.

Jack Valenti

When people make up invitation lists, they are in the top 10.

Ismail Haniya

We have received an invitation to travel shortly to Russia.

Ismail Haniya

If we receive an official invitation to visit Russia, we will visit Russia.

Mickey Tettleton

As long as they put the invitation in the mail (I'll be here).

Carol Shields

The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted...

Carlos Fuentes

Writing is a struggle against silence.

Carlos Castaneda

What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life.

Carlos Castaneda

I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer.

Carlos Castaneda

Burn your bridges every 2 years.

Carlos Castaneda

One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for

Carlos Castaneda

For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

C. S. Lewis

Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world.

Agnes de Mille

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Carre Otis

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

Carol Roth

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Carol Kane

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

Carol Kane

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

Carol Leifer

They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

Carol Shields

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Carol Moseley Braun

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.

Carol Moseley Braun

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

Carlos Beltran

I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

Washington has a tendency to hold other powers to standards that it routinely flaunts - plain and simple.

Eric Katzman

When you think of Kraft's portfolio, it's plain vanilla right up the middle.

Laurie Colwin

I am not a fancy cook or an ambitious cook. I am a plain old cook.

Russ Anderson

I have more flexibility, more stamina, I just plain feel better. It's a wonderful thing.

Brian Billick

I can do the math. You can't trade sevens for three, plain and simple.

Owen Meredith

One of the sublimest thing in the world is plain truth.

William Williams

When I was youngerit was plain to meI must make something of myself.Older nowI walk back streetsadmiring the housesof the very poor. . . .

Ezra Taft Benson

The Book of Mormon, the record of Joseph, verifies and clarifies the Bible. It removes stumbling blocks; it restores many plain and precious things.

Grace Paley

In prose, I think you sometimes have to write in very plain language, where every line may not seem to be so important, though in all writing every line is important.

Maury Yeston

The extraordinary thing about Irving Berlin is that he's like the American Mozart! It seems as if his songs were always there. How do you put together songs like 'Always' or 'Cheek To Cheek'? Songs of his are, frankly, perfect.

Carolina Herrera

Work doesn't seem to interfere with my life. I have time for everything, even time to be alone.

John Sacchi

We're in a situation where we just can't stop the bleeding. We keep trying to put band-aids on the wound, but nothing seems to help.

Jim Rash

When you stop thinking about something, the idea comes to you. It seems to work.

Ben Stein

I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.

Laurie Lee

With three kids, it seems like I'm always shelling out $5 here and $5 there,

Dan Ariely

There's something about [cyclically] doing something over and over and over that seems to be particularly demotivating.

Todd Rundgren

It seems like there are two worlds out there - one that has revolved around 'Breaking Bad,' and then the one that I've been in, which just kind of observes it from afar.

Nicole Piggott

We're going to do what we've been doing all year. It seems to be working fine.