Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Tim Floyd

We were beaten by the better team today, a team that manhandled us on the glass.

Romeo Crennel

We were beaten by a very good football team. The score was evident of that. We couldn't do anything on either side of the ball and that is what happens when you get beat like that.

Barry Alvarez

We were beaten by a very good football team.

Darren Shan

If mankind's destined to bite the bullet, let's bite it and be damned.

Benjamin Harrison

I'd rather have a bullet inside of me than to be living in constant dread of one.

Cam McLeay

We bounced heavily and then stopped. And there were bullets all around. There was no question in my mind that if we didn't get out of that vehicle, we'd all be dead.

Dianne Wiest

When we were doing Bullets over Broadway, he told me to be more fragile and I thought I was, but he saw it completely differently.

Richard Pearson

Like all people of good conscience, the state's hunters and sportsmen are sickened by the murders of innocent children. It's disturbing to think that there are people out there who will pepper a home full of children with bullets for the sake of securing a corner drug outlet. But those people are out there.

Titus Welliver

As an actor, I can still play a cop, but the bullets are fake, I don't have to get injured, and I'm not faced with the day-in-day-out of what cops have to deal with, which is tragic and dangerous.

Denis Johnson

Talk into my bullet hole. Tell me I'm fine.

David Maraniss

War doesn't go away when the bullets stop. Vietnam still is as relevant today as it was then.

Zubin Mehta

I have had bullets flying at concerts, but I don't want to talk about that.

Brian Regan

Do not stand directly in front of a cannon...how true that is.

Bayard Taylor

Pens carry further than rifled cannon.

Napoleon Bonaparte

When you can use the lightning it is better than cannon

Kenny G

Grover Washington was my main influence, and when I went to college, I started listening to more of the jazz masters like Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, and John Coltrane.

Ville Nieminen

We're losing a big cannon from the point, a big guy in front of the net in our zone as well.

Rob Lowe

I don't flip. I don't even dive into a pool - straight cannonball for me. No, thanks.

Duke of Wellington

There are no manifestos like cannon and musketry.

Andy Klatt

He's a loose cannon out there. There's no fear in him. As much length as he has, he has no fear. There's just no quit.

Paul Vosburgh

He was hidden there. We saw what a good senior season he had, and that he had a cannon for an arm, and recruited him.

Alanis Morissette

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.

Alan Hansen

You'll never win anything with kids

Alan Alda

Kids are natural scientists.

Al Purdy

In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.

Al Madrigal

Near my house in Los Angeles is a waterfall. I love to take the wife and kids, but it's also near a sketchy neighborhood. So there's a lot of gang members that hang out at the waterfall. It's like somebody took an Ansel Adams photo and then put a Cypress Hill video inside it.

Al Lewis

I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.

Brad Lancaster

We want the kids to do as well as they can. There are so many opportunities (for various activities), and that's good. But, how do we make sure it's not a distraction.

Chris Colfer

It doesn't matter how old I get, I always act like an excited five year-old kid with severe ADD and a waddle at Disneyland.

Chris Colfer

My life is an awkward visit from the kid's table while awaiting a History Channel special.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Charles Dickens

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

Charles Dickens

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Soule

Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows?

Heidi Montag

I thought that plastic surgery was easy, but it is really serious and is not something you want to mess around with.

Bill Janklow

Weve become a plastic society.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Everything's plastic, we're all gonna die.

Pierce Brosnan

I have not had any plastic surgery in any shape or form. No implants. And my hair is not dyed.

Charlie Puth

The scar on my eye is a result of the doctor's sewing up my face. It was 450 stitches and plastic surgery.

Theo James

My obsession is plastic packaging. It makes me sick, all the waste. Everything about it disappoints me.

Jennifer Flavin

I have had no plastic surgery on my face. Can I leave it at that?

Jane Thompson

Tonight they're good, tomorrow they're just plastic beads. What's scary is what the women do for these plastic beads.

Monica Lewinsky

Why can't I just scrape that crap off and put it in a plastic bag?

Charles Dickens

The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake, you will find that his mental movements are erratic: they have no fixed centre and no definite object. His talk is like the water of a canal whose banks have given way, which rolls aimlessly hither and thither, without fulfilling any useful function, though it is the same water which was so helpful and serviceable, when it was confined within clearly marked limits by the restraining force of its earthy boundaries.

Alan Watts

You can't get wet from the word 'water.'

Alan Watts

Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

David Miliband

I abhor anything that constitutes torture. Water-boarding, its perfectly clear to me it is torture. I never supported extraordinary rendition to torture, always said that Guantanamo should be closed. There is no clash of ideals and pragmatism there.

David Knopfler

My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters.

Dave Barry

Sir,” James asked, “what are we going to do?” “We’re going to look for water,” said Alf. “And food?” said Tubby Ted. “Water first,” said Alf. “We can go days without food.” “We can what?” Tubby Ted shouted.

Dave Barry

Turbulence: This is what pilots announce that you have encountered when your plane strikes an object in midair. You'll be flying along, and there will be an enormous, shuddering WHUMP, and clearly the plane has rammed into an airborne object at least the size of a water buffalo, and the pilot will say, "Folks, we're encountering a little turbulence." Meanwhile they are up there in the cockpit trying desperately to clean water buffalo organs off the windshield.

Dave Barry

I shared this insight with some other boat owners, and they all agreed that, definitely, putting your boar into the water is asking for trouble. Most of them have had their boats sitting in their driveways long enough to be registered historical landmarks.

David Stockman

I invest in anything that Bernanke can't destroy including Gold, canned beans, bottled water and flashlight batteries....