Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lucy Lawless

I was black and blue for about two years, but it's paid off tremendously. You know, if you get enough whacks, your reflexes pick up, and I've become quite good - if somebody throws keys or something, I can catch them.

Brian Schneider

We've actually talked about that a little bit. That's part of the reason I wanted to start catching him. Any time you catch somebody and you're more familiar with him, it helps, especially with as big as these games are going to be.

Wendy Rosenbach

We usually have to catch someone in the act. But it's always a good idea to dispose of it properly, and depending on the rate of decay, our wildlife people may want to examine the remains.

David Nicholson

We're in a growth mode, and we're trying to catch up,

Davis III

When you've got a day like today when the scoring is good, you have to shoot a good score and not put yourself behind. It's not a good course to catch up on, because it's going to get harder and harder every day. It's nice to get off to a good start.

Nolan Sotillo

I watch a lot of Disney. I want to catch 'Hannah Montana Forever.'

Kaylyn Bayly

We have some catching up to do. But we'll be okay.

Willie Smith

We want him to catch everything in front of us. We don't want him to catch any long passes. If we can keep him over the middle, we have good linebackers that can make him pay.

Dwight Taylor

We were trying to catch up and went for more scoring.

Fred Pinkney

Since 1992, we have surveyed 10 other locations in the Chesapeake watershed. These catfish from the South River have the highest skin tumor rate and second highest liver tumor rate.

Jamey Clary

From about the late 1970s to 2001, the catfish industry had a steady growth.

Mark Daniels

I probably go through 1,000 pounds plus of fish in a weekend during Lent. Our big sellers are cod cut ups and cod fillets. But we sell a whole catfish plate that is pretty popular, too.

David Lange

They can fish for catfish for all I care, as long as they fill up our hotels.

Colin Powell

ways to communicate with the people of Iran to convince them that the policies their leaders have been following are inappropriate.

Michael Dawidziak

Wayne was the kind of guy who would get in your face until he convinced you ... or he just wore you out.

Norby Williamson

When he expressed to us that he was considering retirement, we repeatedly tried to convince him otherwise, but completely respect his decision.

Natasha Trethewey

I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing poems at that point only because a friend of mine dared me to write a poem. And I took the dare because I was convinced that I couldn't write a good poem... And then it actually wasn't so bad.

John Culp

Whether or not to proceed down that path, that decision will be made by the representatives of the pilots and it's just another piece of an overall strategy we will use to convince management to negotiate toward a consensual agreement.

Annalee Newitz

When I was a journalist at Wired, I convinced a doctor to implant an RFID tracking device in my arm.

Ned Lathrop

We're finding roadblocks because they have a cookie-cutter mentality to producing buildings. How successful we'll be (in convincing them) is still up in the air, and we can't force them to do this, but we hope to convince them through the power of persuasion.

Kate Klise

I'm so convinced that hiking helps my writing that I recently decided to offer a series of hiking-writing workshops to see if others had the same experience.

Jules Verne

I repeat that the distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over, one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon.

David Nail

I love barbecue, its my favorite thing to eat.

Ed Helms

Probably my favorite thing about watching a movie that I'm in the first time is to see all the things I didn't know were happening in a scene around me.

Peter Warrick

We like being the underdogs. Whether we're the favorites or they're the favorites, we still have to go out and play like we're the underdogs.

Brian Posehn

Metal is easily my favorite thing - Exodus and Anthrax and Megadeth - so it just kind of organically came through in the standup act.

Ted Ligety

Ski racing is probably the least guaranteed sport out there. It's really rare when the favorites win.

Elaine Youngs

We won't be the favorites because Kerry and Misty are still the No. 1 team. But I hope we're some of the fans' favorites.

Tom Petty

'Free Fallin' is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn't become this huge anthem. But I'm grateful that people like it.

Tyler, The Creator

I'm a big 'Goosebumps' fan - 'Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes.' My favorites are the pick-your-own-death ones.

Lance Henriksen

One of my favorites of all time was with Jim Jarmusch, called 'Dead Man.' I was in that with Johnny Depp. I ride really well, and I shoot a gun really well. I love the genre. Once I did Westerns, I was hooked.

Robert Webb

When I was 15, if Stephen Fry had advised me to trim my eyebrows with a Flymo, I would have given it serious consideration.

Jose Andres Puerta

My love for artichokes comes from when I was very young. My mother and father would slice the hearts and fry them, and they would be crispy around the leaves and tender at the base.

April Bloomfield

I love the smell of frying liver. It kind of releases a sweetness into the air, and it kind of prickles your nose, and it kind of makes you awake... it gets me excited.

Payne Stewart

We weren't any good, we didn't have to be good. It was a pro-am. We got up here with Glenn Fry and Steven Stills ... and we sucked.

John Heywood

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Stephen Fried

Stephen Fry on being gay: "My first words, as I was being born... I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those.'

Finding Nemo

Marlin: The dropoff? They're going to the dropoff? What - what are you insane? Why not just fry them up now and serve them with chips?

Mark Waters

Unlike other young actors I've worked with who will remain nameless, Zoey Deutch and Lucy Fry would never go out partying after work, but would immediately hunker down to start working on the reams of labyrinthine dialogue they had to navigate for the next day's work.

Jewish Museum

There wasn't anything on Fry really until '93. He was unknown,

Charles Caleb Colton

A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.

Charles Dickens

When I speak of home, I speak of the place where in default of a better--those I love are gathered together; and if that place where a gypsy's tent, or a barn, I should call it by the same good name notwithstanding.

Charles Dickens

Home is a word stronger than a magician ever spoke.

Charles Dickens

"We thought that, perhaps," said I, hesitating, "it is right to begin with the obligations of home, sir; and that, perhaps, while those are overlooked and neglected, no other duties can possibly be substituted for them."

Charles Stuart Calverley

I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel-- Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.

Charles Studd

Send us people with initiative, who can carry themselves and others too; such as need to be carried hamper the work and weaken those who should be spending their strength on the heathen. Weaklings should be nursed at home! If any have jealousy, prides, or talebearing traits lurking about them, do not send them, nor any who are prone to criticize. Send only Pauls and Timothys; men who are full of zeal, holiness and power. All others are hindrances. If you send us ten such men the work will be done.

Charles Studd

The light that shines farthest shines brightest nearest home.

Charles Stanley

We're enlarging in every single area of the ministry at In Touch. We're on radio and television. We're in over 110 million homes in America plus radio on satellites. We just acquired the NAMB FamilyNet television network, and with that expanding possibilities of the gospel.

Charles Spurgeon

What, for some, is sin, others do to the glory of God. And the good Dr. Pentecost's remarks notwithstanding , I intend to go home tonight and smoke a cigar to the glory of God. It is a kind of incense drifting to Heaven.

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.

Alan Moore

Who imprisoned me here? Who keeps me here? Who can release me? Who's controlling and constraining my life except...me?

Bruce Springsteen

The release date is just one day, but the record is forever.

Bill Hayden

Cosmoe is nearing the stage where I would feel comfortable doing a preliminary release aimed at developers.

Leslie Sloane

Yes, she has been released and she is doing better.

Lindsey Rice

She was just being released into a world of paranoia, and it wasn't good.

Rob Schneider

We're not getting released in Japan; I know that for a fact,

Wendy Raquel Robinson

When I'm having a really rough day, I take it out in the gym. It releases so many endorphins in your body.

William Scranton

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and EPA, et cetera, had worked out what allowable releases are.

David Wright

I had released all that was worst in me. It was a shame I had to kill them.