Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dwight Rawlings

We have to go out and do the things that we do and try to do them well. Battle Mountain's got a good team. They've got the height advantage on us. We're going to have to play well. We're going to have to play good defense. We're going to have to box out. We're going to have to get on the boards, the fundamentals of basketball.

John Knight

We have to go for whatever advantages we can, whatever weaknesses we can spot.

Clint Chamberlin

We have some deep areas that we're trying to clear a path, but the snow is really hard and tough to move. We're hoping for some warm weather before then. I don't think home field advantage will make much of a difference; conditions will make the biggest difference.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Whenever you feel like criticising anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

Roy Smith

When firms are going through distractions, those who aren't so distracted may have an advantage in the two or three deals that make a difference in the standings.

Morgan Ensberg

We want it closed because we feel we have a distinct advantage if its closed. But I'm a 30-year-old man and I can deal with it. It's not like they stole my dog.

Tom Renney

We want him to stay out of the penalty box. At the same time, it's a fine line, because you don't want him to change his game. He can certainly influence a game, and I thought he did. I thought we created a bit of an advantage for ourselves by the way he came out to play, and maybe he took New Jersey off their game, at least initially.

Scott Walker

We've still got time to turn things around. It's a long year. Getting that home-ice advantage would be huge for us and we want to earn it.

Charlotte Bronte

To see and know the worst is to take from Fear her main advantage.

Pat Riley

We were a minute and a half away from the Finals -- big deal, ... It's about winning a championship.

Charles Dickens

All partings foreshadow the great final one.

David Rudisha

I missed the final of the World Championships in 2009, but I told the coach I would break the world record in 2010. Which I did. Then in 2011 I won the World Championships and now in 2012 it is the Olympics. That is how I have been working.

Brian Greene

Experimental evidence is the final arbiter of right and wrong.

Rob Catloth

We're looking forward to the finals tomorrow and it should be a good day of racing.

Agnes Kosinski

We're looking forward to the finals ? it should be exciting.

Brian Tracy

In the final analysis, you always get paid for your results.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

Could it be, I wonder, that there is such a thing as a wantologist, someone we can hire to figure out what we want? Have I arrived at some final telling moment in my research on outsourcing intimate parts of our lives, or at the absurdist edge of the market frontier?

Bill Hicks

In the beginning God created the heavans and the earth... see you at the final.

Carlos Beltran

I play because I know I can play the game, so it's their decision whether or not they want to keep me or they wanna trade me. Whatever decision they make, I will understand it.

Carl Crawford

I want to develop every base of my game-stealing bases, hitting, being a better fielder.

Graham Cluley

We have seen a large increase in these types of Trojans targeting online gamers, as role-playing games have become a big business.

Chad Moeller

We have to go back home and win, plain and simple. Obviously, we would have liked to win some more games here, but it's done, it's over with, and we need to go back home and win now.

Mark Maloney

We have to get our offense on track. We have to get some more points on the board. We knew the first three games were going to be tough for us.

Richard Attias

What the Olympics and other mega-events have shown is that the significant investment required to host an international games successfully has the power to transform a region, and even a nation.

Ken Johnson

We wanted to use those first three games to get better. I think we did.

Randy Russell

We wanted to try it. We were running out of dates. (The schedule of games Thursday) is not a great order, but we'll give it a whirl.

Alan Turing

Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.

Dianna Agron

There are two types of paparazzi. The ones who hide who get you with your mouth hanging wide open or jumping up and down like an idiot on the street. I much prefer them to the ones who come out and follow you.

David Brooks

Students are too busy jumping through the next hurdle in the résumé race to figure out what they really want. They are too frantic tasting everything on the smorgasbord to have life-altering encounters. They have a terror of closing off options. They have been inculcated with a lust for prestige and a fear of doing things that may put their status at risk.

Catherine Bell

I love to go bungee jumping, jump out of planes, ride motorbikes, do kickboxing. I love all that stuff

Caitlyn Jenner

I have had two knee surgeries on my right knee: that was my jumping leg that I jumped off for years and years.

Jamie Oliver

Pick a destination, go there, be open-minded and talk to the locals. Eat the things they eat and go where they go. You don't need to be fluent, just as long as you've got a smile on your face- people will be jumping over themselves to show you the stuff they're proud of.

Jason Biggs

I don't know if you'll see me jumping out of planes anytime soon.

Jason Aldean

Hearing people clapping draws you in pretty quick. It's like bungee cord jumping - it's a rush; you just want to do it again.

Alan Watts

You find out that the universe is a system that creeps up on itself and says 'Boo' and then laughs at itself for jumping.

Chogyam Trungpa

As long as we relate with our underlying primordial intelligence and as long as we push ourselves a little, by jumping into the middle of situations, then intelligence arises automatically.

Amy Heckerling

Any time I wind up in the lane where you can't quickly turn off of it and it's turning into the freeway, I just start screaming until I'm off of it.

Travis Brickey

Throughout the project, there will be two lanes open going into town and one lane open going out of town.

Norm Wigington

People were slowing down to read the signs and trying to find out what lane they needed to be in.

Kelly Baraga

He was in the No. 2 lane and just slid. He was probably going too fast.

John Bond

I was taught that the middle lane was the one you travel on. The left is for passing. The right is for on and off.

Ivan Radenovic

I saw that he was looking at Kirk. The lane was wide open.

John Baker

We'll try to keep one lane open at all times.

Michael Quale

It's kind of a trip down memory lane for some people.

Jim Phillips

It's the schoolhouse that Schoolhouse Lane is named after,

Carol Roth

Men, if you are in a position of power or authority, please respectfully continue to mentor and work with talented individuals and those with promise, regardless if they are men or women.

Carol Leifer

All my other relationships with men, there was so much maneuvering and strategic decisions and stuff.

Carol Moseley Braun

It's time to take the 'Men Only' sign off the White House door.

Carol Vorderman

I have had stalkers over the years. The police deal with it but it is very scary. One man kept turning up where we filmed 'Countdown in Leeds,' which was scary. It was sad as he'd been sectioned and thought I was talking to him through the TV.

Carlos Fuentes

The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.

Carlos Castaneda

Self importance is man's greatest enemy.

Carlos Castaneda

Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.

Carlos Castaneda

We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.

Carlos Castaneda

The greatest flaw of human beings is to remain glued to the inventory of reason. Reason doesn't deal with man as energy. Reason deals with instruments that create energy, but it has never seriously occurred to reason that we are better than instruments: we are organisms that create energy. We are bubbles of energy.

Chris Bosh

I learned very quickly that the NBA is a very rough place, physically and mentally. There's no mercy.

Chris Bosh

I want to go get a stop on defense so James can do it again. It was a big spurt for him. That made then get out of their game plan and play him closer. But when he does that, we want to make sure we capitalize and get timely stops. And that's what got us right back in the game.

Mark Cuban

Can't say no one makes money from Twitter now. The NBA does.

Bess Myerson

I really don't like talking about diets.

Chandler Parsons

We're a walking billboard... You want to look good to everyone who is watching.

Bill Walton

Where else but the NBA could people like Bill Russell, Spencer Haywood, Ricky Barry, Dennis Rodman, and Allen Iverson come in and be allowed to be who they are?

Derrick Rose

When I was younger, I just thought about playing in the NBA.

Chauncey Billups

In the NBA, it's about patience.

Dikembe Mutombo

It's easy to be a spokesman and ambassador for a great organization like the NBA. I thank Commissioner David Stern for putting that trust in me to serve the NBA around the globe.

Ben Horowitz

Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.

Willy Wonka

We have so much time, and so little to do. Wait! Stop! Reverse that.

Jamshyd Godrej

When there is a situation where one does not see demand for a year or two, then capex is suspended. It will reverse only when the situation improves.

Willy Wonka

So much time, and so little to do! Strike that, reverse it.

Javier Solana

For a long time there has been a lot of talk but not much action. I think we have to reverse that now.

Bob Hartley

It was like a photocopy (of the second period), just reverse it.

Japanese Proverb

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Richard Howard

Prose proposes, verse reverses.

Walter Jamieson

We used to say that the motivations for tourists were sea, sun and sand ... the three new S's are safety, security and sanitation.

David Sedaris

It was my friend Frank, a writer in San Francisco, who finally set me straight. When asked about my new look he put down his fork and stared at me for a few moments. "A bow tie announces to the world you can no longer get an erection.

Al Smith

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God tells us to make a sanctuary of our thoughts in which He can dwell.

China Mieville

If you're brave enough to try, you might be able to catch a train from UnLondon to Parisn't, or No York, or Helsunki, or Lost Angeles, or Sans Francisco, or Hong Gone, or Romeless.

Lady Gaga

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

Junipero Serra

Here are also the two vessels, but the San Carlos without sailors, all having died of the scurvy, except two.

Caspar David Friedrich

God is everywhere, in the smallest grain of sand.

Daniel Handler

Or why you are wearing a picture of Santa Clause on you shirts, but-” “It’s Herman Melville.

Carol Leifer

There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.

Charlie Crist

I was a Republican, and I saw the activists and what they were doing; it was intolerable to me.

Orlando Cabrera

When I did that I said 'Wow,' ... I got the video, and when Tejada saw the play when he got out, he started clapping.

Brian Wilson

I met Paul in 1967, Ringo in 1985, and I saw George Harrison in a nightclub somewhere in L. A. I never met John.

David Sedaris

If you stepped out of the shower and saw a leprechaun standing at the base of your toilet, would you scream, or would you innately understand that he meant you no harm?

Gabrielle Zevin

My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.

Jandy Nelson

In one split second I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. And all that I'm not.

Roman Gutierrez

We still saw some of our inexperience today. That will be the case, but there were still some steps of improvement.

Brian May

I really thought I was pretty good before I saw Hendrix, and then I thought: Yeah, not so good.

Lynsey Addario

The fact is that trauma and risk taking hadn't become scarier over the years; it had become more normal.

Steve Hall

We're still on a trend that is taking us downward.

Diane Tuller

She's only going to get better. I don't like taking her off the court.

Ron Everhart

We're just waiting to see what happens. He's taking his time.

Joseph Bruno

years and years. He was not taking anything.

Debra Shaw

Never thought I would be taking this trip again,

Martin Kelly

I am taking it more as it comes (because it was unexpected),

Slobodan Milosevic

More time has been wasted by taking away my right to self-defense.

Steve Smith

I have a one-track mind. I was not taking the hitch. I wanted to go for the goal.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

Charles W. Chesnutt

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Charles de Lint

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Aaron Tveit

I watch a lot of television. I always have.

Aaron Sorkin

It wouldn't kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.

Charlie Daniels

You'd better watch where you go, and remember where you've been

DJ Quik

Nowadays you can't tell, watch the crotch, it may swell.

Devon Sawa

When the movie's on, I usually watch more of the audience.

David Tennant

How galling to watch someone who looks like you, who basically is you, do all the shagging you didn't get to do.

Carolina Kostner

I could sit here in the tribunes and watch Michelle Kwan skate for hours...

Erinn Hayes

I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.

Elizabeth Rodriguez

I don't watch the news because I wouldn't leave the house. I would not leave the house.

Carre Otis

I'm proud that today, at 43 years old, I've come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty.

Carol P. Christ

Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before.

Carol Shields

Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground.

C. S. Lewis

You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years.

C. S. Lewis

Aslan" said Lucy "you're bigger". "That is because you are older, little one" answered he. "Not because you are?" "I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger".

C. S. Lewis

I am only trying to call attention to a fact; the fact that this year, of this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practice ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

C. S. Lewis

Shall I ever be able to read that story again; the one I couldn't remember? Will you tell it to me, Aslan? Oh do,do,do." "Indeed,yes, I will tell it to you for years and years. But now, come. We must meet the master of this house.

Agnes Varda

I waited for each film to become important for me. If I had no ideas for a film, I didn't do a film. So I made not that many films for fifty-four years of working.

Agnes Varda

I go back to many films that I really love. Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don't watch, unless I need them.