Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Durham

Our team is more of a tournament team instead of a dual team and I expect us to do a lot better (today). Our guys get up pretty well for tournaments. We are looking forward to it just as long we don't make inexperienced moves.

Steve Okamura

It gives us half the championship. We have the dual meet portion, but now we have to win the tournament portion.

Jane Smiley

Literature - novels, plays, and poems - can have an uncanny dual life, where they simultaneously represent something eternal and something historical, and this is often how they are taught in school.

Paul Snyder

I didn't wrestle him in last week's section tournament, I wrestled him in a dual meet. I'm not taking anything for granted. I just have to go out and wrestle.

Jim Ford

I'd be hopeful we can score in three or four events at the state level and do better in our dual meets.

Jim Koch

This was our only home dual meet of the season and we were hoping for a good showing and I think we got that.

Chuck Olson

I'm always a little skeptical before our first dual meet of the season because you never know what to expect. But I thought that, by and large, the girls swam well. We still have a few problems that we need to address, but all in all I was pleased with the effort.

Duane Goldman

I felt as a whole we really wrestled a good dual meet. We had a number of guys really step up.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I think the dual existence thing is a regular pastime for all human beings, and for that matter anything in this universe.

Willie Anderson

Regular guys don't have that kind of attitude. Only elite guys have that temperament.

Chris Duhon

Some of your toughest games come in the Sweet 16 and Elite Eight. Usually, this is where we feel national championships are won.

Ryan Kardash

I was really hoping to make it to Saturday, because then you know you're making it to an elite stage.

Manny Fernandez

It gets me into an elite group in the NHL. If you can get up there, I'm really proud of that.

Dee Brown

Last year I said they were gonna make the Final Four. This year I know they're gonna make the Elite Eight, just because of the style that they play.

Jay Lapeyre

It demonstrates the politically elite will fight to obstruct reform in order to protect their backroom property tax deals.

Hud Venerable

I thought he was at least the co-MVP in the league last year. It looks like he's stronger and he's running harder than he did a year ago. He's an elite player, and he's got a nice group of blockers in front of him. He's powerful, fast and he can cut. He's got the whole package.

Mark Romanek

I always wanted to be a feature filmmaker and tried to treat that experience as some sort of elite film school where I could learn the craft, and got paid to learn the craft.

Bob Francis

He can take it as far as he wants to. He has elite skills.

Sarah Will

Some of these guys had never skied before, and all of a sudden they've got the wind in their hair and they're taking some falls and getting back up and really enjoying themselves in the outdoors with their families to support them.

J. M. Roberts

We need people to be able to come down here and start really enjoying football games at Arnett Gardens.

Andy Blackston

I think these kids are just having a lot of fun right now, and that's really important. They are just together and enjoying being around each other.

Jeff Pyle

Jeff and Jon have had to step up their game. Each has taken it upon themselves to maintain the excellent level of play that we have been enjoying so far.

Bob Richards

I was quite enjoying the time, frankly. I was traveling, working around the house, golfing and helping my daughters.

Andre Agassi

I was playing a lot of golf, going out a lot, enjoying Brooke's world,

Hidetoshi Nakata

I think we are enjoying it - everybody: players, staff, the team together.

Kim Clijsters

I think that's why I'm playing so well - I'm enjoying myself.

Tomas Vokoun

It is not every night you are going to have a 40-shot shutout, ... It is fun to play and I am really enjoying playing right now. It's an unbelievable feeling.

Bob DiBiasio

Our female market demographic research showed there were 200 percent more women watching Indians games last season. Grady is the big reason. It's manifested in the 'Mrs. Sizemore' T-shirts.

Serena Williams

I'm here to play female tennis. I've never been involved in men's tennis. . . . I wouldn't be tempted.

Carrie Fisher

Females get hired along procreative lines. After 40, we're kind of cooked.

Michael Chiklis

I was actually a little nervous when the female horse got shot,

Alaina Huffman

I think the type of actor I am, I tend to play strong leading female characters. The shows I've been on happen to be science fiction genre.

Angelle Sampey

That was awesome. I was really hoping it was going to happen (having three female winners).

Carrie Underwood

I was hoping for new female vocalist and that's all I was really hanging my hopes on. This is a monumental moment for me, a milestone in my life and my career.

Susanna Moore

It is possible to say that all of my books concern themselves with the notion of what it means to be female - whether it is in New York City in 2000 or Calcutta in 1836. In that way, my books really are the same.

L'Aura Goldner

Growing up, there were two ghosts in my house, a male and female. They hung out in the basement. The male was more frightening, but the female was good.

Stephanie Eby

Susan played hurt and still led us in kills and digs. Nichole hit and passed well and served at 97 percent. Jessica picked it up a lot this year. Those players will be missed.

Marquis Daniels

Some of our shots went in and out, and some of theirs hit all around the rim and the backboard and went in.

Megan Schwab

Our practice is really structured this year. So, we'll have a time for hitting and a time for fielding.

Pete Dunn

Our pitchers were just horrible, horrible pitching with the lead. Everything you shouldn't do with a lead, we did. We started pitching from behind, walking people, hitting people.

Chad Artz

Our pitchers just need to pitch and let the other team hit the ball, and more than likely we'll get them out.

Dawn Ostroff

Our strength is having high-quality hits that it would take another (new) network years to develop.

Randy Osnes

Overall I was very proud of the way that we hit the ball, we just can't strand people like we did today.

Stephen Ames

Overall, it was just a matter of getting out of my own way. Every shot this week, I was able to see the shape of it and then hit it the way I wanted.

Kevin Sickey

Our vulnerability simply provided an opportunity to steal and they hit the jackpot with us.

Billy Corgan

I don't have a problem with 'Idol' or 'X Factor,' I have a problem with when those things are not given the proper contextual hue.

Carrie Underwood

American Idol transcends age, gender, ethnicity, everything.

Anton LaVey

Before none of your printed idols do I bend in acquiescence, and he who saith thou shalt to me is my mortal foe!

Tszvetana Pironkova

I always love her game, she was kind of my idol before. (But) I just have to play tennis, and I did.

Kenny Perry

Greg was the idol for young Australians, just like Jack Nicklaus was to me and my American generation.

Billy Bob Thornton

We're not encouraging idols other than on the TV show, you know and that's the wrong way to do it. If we had become famous from a contest show we'd be embarrassed in my generation. But if that's the benchmark then I thought well young people who want to be filmmakers, or musicians, or whatever are screwed. But maybe they're not because what they're doing is they're creating their own thing.

Kevin Corrigan

I've had many idols growing up. The inclination for idol worship comes naturally to me.

Greg Pitts

Needless to say, American Idol clobbered us! Bad! We need a major word-of-mouth push.

Dennis Quaid

I'm an idol of cinema? Oh, wow.

Matthew Storin

Patricia Smith is a writer of extraordinary talent and this is a tragic development. We wish her well and she retains many friends at the Globe, including myself.

Takashi Sensui

Our message is this: We're prepared to do everything that's needed to make Xbox 360 a success around the world, including Japan.

Mel Netzhammer

People have been so welcoming, including the vice presidents.

Rui Farias

Our success has always been on defense, including the forwards.

Nathan Brown

I think the second offence should be made public for everyone's sake, including the sponsors.

Gia Coppola

I watched a lot of movies about teenagers, including 'The Last Picture Show,' 'American Graffiti,' 'Rumblefish.' It's one of my favorite genres.

Tim Long

It didn't do any major damage, but it woke up a lot of people in Atlanta, including me.

Gary Roberts

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

Laura Bush

When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.

John Pelphrey

Outside of my father, he was probably the most influential male in my life.

Manuel Miranda

Roberts has soaked up the white male seat.

Meg Tilly

I have a lot of male friends. That's good. But that's all I want right now. Keep that sort of thing away from me.

Nick Nolte

All American males are failed athletes, and it was big time even if it was Little League. It meant a lot to you.

Edward Abbey

Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature.

Banksy

A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.

Sigourney Weaver

Writers write these male stereotypes, and it makes it ten times more interesting if a woman says the lines.

Alice Hastings Bradley

I have never told a lie or modulated my natural voice... I can't help what people think sounds male or female.

O'Shea Jackson, Jr.

It's always extremities when you are a young black male dealing with law enforcement.

Bob Bauman

That was a real surprise. But even though they scored, I don't think it shifted the momentum.

Will Plyler

That was a game-changing play. It put the momentum in our favor.

Al Wilson

That was big, really big. That's what you got to do, man. Big-time players step up and make big-time plays. It was a momentum shifter . . . once that happened, that train was rolling.

Phil Nelson

That was our only chance. It put us in overtime and we had the momentum going in.

Nick Saban

I think that was really probably the turning point of the game, that we could recapture the momentum and come right back and make a big play and score and keep them three scores behind,

Darrent Williams

It don't matter. It was a momentum changer for the team.

Fernando Pisani

Just one of those things. We'll just try and ride that momentum.

Zhang Qiyue

China-U.S. relations, though having encountered difficulties recently, now have momentum for improvement.

Frank Sharry

I'm a little worried that the political momentum that we witnessed this week may dissipate somewhat.

George Moore

He was standing like he was going to smash a bug,

Jimmy Chamberlin

I want to be 'Jimmy Chamberlin, the drummer, the musician who's done many things,' not just 'that guy from the Smashing Pumpkins.'

Paul Tollett

That's not going to happen. I don't know the story on Smashing Pumpkins. From what I can tell, they're not available.

Ricky Proehl

He smashed my chin. That didn't feel too good.

Carrie Fisher

You know how most illnesses have symptoms you can recognize? Like fever, upset stomach, chills, whatever. Well, with manic depression, it's sexual promiscuity, excessive spending, and substance abuse - and that just sounds like a fantastic weekend in Vegas to me!

Billy Boyd

The club thing is a world people can associate with, letting your hair down at the weekend.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I was also going to give a graduation speech in Arizona this weekend. But with my accent, I was afraid they would try to deport me.

Celia Rivenbark

To the newcomer to the south, hearing that a coworker plans a weekend visit to 'mama and them's' (the correct plural possessive, don'tchaknow), might make him think that mama has been left alone either throught an act of scoundreldom involving the town's resident hoochie-mama (an altogether different kind of mama) or Daddy's untimely demise.

Bruce Campbell

The happy medium is television. And if you find a good suitor, you can do it for years. With movies, you roll the dice. If people don't show that weekend, you're doomed. TV allows you to percolate a little bit, and it gives you a chance for people to find it.

Brian Grazer

The Porsche was just a vehicle to get to another place. I used it to change people's perceptions of me. I had grown up really middle class. USC was filled with elitists, richies who would go skiing every weekend. So I pretended like I was part of that world - to be accepted.

Brett Ratner

I'd want to marry Cate Blanchett, date Kate Bosworth, and spend the weekend with Elisha Cuthbert.

Lin Yutang

The question that faces every man born into this world is not what should be his purpose, which he should set about to achieve, but just what to do with life? The answer, that he should order his life so that he can find the greatest happiness in it, is more a practical question, similar to that of how a man should spend his weekend, then a metaphysical proposition as to what is the mystic purpose of his life in the scheme of the universe.

Alberto Gonzales

Well, first of all, let me say that - let me remind your viewers that I am recused from this investigation, and what I said this weekend is not anything new.