Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Owens

We want to throw high percentage stuff this year, but it's like I told Gary the other day, if we call a pass and it's not there, pull the ball down and run with it and we'll come back and call another play. We just don't want him trying to force things and make mistakes.

Sam Allen

We want to show that we're just like our neighbors. We go to ball games, we go to the grocery store, we go to church. We just happen to be Democrats.

David McCullough

Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.

Buddy Ebsen

You get more negative reactions than positive reactions as you go through life, and the big lesson is nobody counts you out but yourself...I never have; I never will.

Camille Paglia

Ballet is the body rising. Ballet is ceremonial and hieratic. Its disdain for the commonplace material world is the source of its authority and glamour.

C. L. R. James

Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance.

Eric Foust

The other thing that killed us was that punt. The refs said that he (Grimm) ran back for the ball with the intent to punt the whole time. How's our kid supposed to know that that this guy's intention is to punt? That was the turning point in the football game.

Howard Davidowitz

The performance of the company over the last few years has been very erratic. It's also a smaller player. It was time for Milstein to take it easy and make a gigantic pot of money and turn the ball over to someone else.

Marty Schottenheimer

The point I've made very clear to him, and I made very clear to you: You will not play quarterback or any other position that possesses the ball for me. You have to take care of the ball because it's the difference between winning games in this league.

Charles Dickens

Change begets change.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.

Charles Dickens

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.

Charles Dickens

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Charles Sturt

If we strike a line to the N.W. from Sydney to Wellington Valley, we shall find that little change takes place in the geological features of the country.

Charles Spurgeon

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Alan Watts

Everything is perpetually becoming new.

Alan Watts

When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was.

Alan Perlis

It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.

Kyra Sedgwick

We do spend time talking about it and we puzzle through it together. We ride the roller coasters together - the high highs and the low lows.

Dave Baseggio

We're learning how to win by doing the little things. The season is a roller coaster ride, and the key is not to get too high or too low. We're not where we want to be, but if we keep playing the way we've been playing, we'll be where we need to be.

Greg Koch

We are riding the temperature roller coaster here,

John Cornyn

means we're in for a roller coaster ride.

Rusty Wallace

I feel like I'm going on my first roller coaster ride.

Joe Crede

When the fans are on me, they have every right to get on me, because I wasn't playing up to par. To me, I just kept getting more and more frustrated. It has been an up-and-down roller coaster for me in the Big Leagues.

Mark Shapiro

I think this industry got drunk on roller coasters. Big roller coasters simply do not get the return on investments that they used to.

Mitchel McLaughlin

It has been a very significant journey, a roller coaster at times,

Randy Houser

My little boy, West, and my wife, they're my rock and that's the thing that keeps driving me to do better at what I do professionally. There was a time in my career where I had been on this huge roller coaster ride and I'd really got in the spot where I could've hung up it and just been a songwriter.

Kyle Smith

We usually just have two forwards up top. But later in the second half I moved up a third one, and with about 1:45 left I moved in a fourth one.

Bonnie Henrickson

We struggled to find another offensive weapon. Their third and fourth options made shots, and we're not that deep.

Michael Teller

We started getting passive in the fourth quarter. We didn't take some of the shots we normally take.

Scott Hand

We have seen a downturn in nickel prices during the third quarter and into the fourth quarter,

John Imlah

We wanted to win the last three games to stay in pace with Dayton. They got third place locked up. We have fourth place pretty well locked up.

Matt Leinart

Whether we're leading at halftime, leading at the fourth quarter or, like Notre Dame, waiting all the way until there are three seconds left, we never have any doubt.

Luol Deng

When we went up, we couldn't stay up. We started making silly mistakes and let them back in the game. We struggled making shots in the fourth quarter and when they got the lead, they didn't look back.

Dan Bollinger

When we had the lead in the fourth quarter I thought we rushed our shots. Nothing good can come out when you rush. We also were 6-of-19 from the free throw line.

Bill Bakamus

Usually in the fourth quarter, we ice the game from the free-throw line. Not tonight. Those things happen.

Charles Dickens

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

Charles Simmons

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Alan Rickman

I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.

Eric DiBiase

We've won nine of the last 11, so I like our chances.

Andrew Palmer

We want to show that we're no joke. People thought last year was a fluke. We can make improvements from last year. We're ready to see what's out there.

David Mitchell

We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing.

David Sanborn

You're only as good as your last record.

Camille Paglia

The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

I need some kind of... like... last minute, poorly-set-up deus ex machina!!

Joe Kantarik

Make sure that you tell everyone that right now we are leading in points.

Klaus Steinbach

We have proved our leading position in the world.

Lawrence Lindsey

We have rising real incomes for households, leading to rising real consumption. That looks unlikely to be disrupted,

Theodor Mommsen

Under the Julian and Claudian emperors, the Parthians seem to have been the leading power at the mouth of the Indus.

Imelda Staunton

I am a character actress. Well, let's say, I am a leading character actress who does interesting, odd parts.

Brian Cox

I didn't have this feeling that I should be a leading actor in the cinema. And I wouldn't want the responsibility of the opening weekend.

Conrad Hilton

My new hotels will play a leading role in promoting world peace.

Ellen Key

War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause.

David Chang

The process and organization leading up to cooking the egg can tell you a lot about the cook.

Charles Stanley

Yieldedness is vital in listening to what He has to say.

Charles Spurgeon

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

Alan Rickman

All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.

Alan Alda

When I started out as an actor, I thought, Here's what I have to say; how shall I say it? I began to understand that what I do in the scene is not as important as what happens between me and the other person. And listening is what lets it happen. It's almost always the other person who causes you to say what you say next. You don't have to figure out how you'll say it. You have to listen so simply, so innocently, that the other person brings about a change in you that makes you say it and informs the way you say it.

David Sedaris

I went from having 50 listeners to 50 million listeners.

Buddy Guy

I can't learn nothing from listening to me. That's something I already know.

Campbell Newman

The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening.

Ben Mitchell

Why should you listen to any of us?

Denis Waitley

Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person.

Lisa Graff

I was the typical little sister who wanted to be just like her older brother. When I was growing up, my brother wrote phenomenal stories, so I wanted to write them, too.

Jane Fonda

When you're an older woman [in a movie], you are the brunt of the joke.

Richard Sloan

Many studies, especially some of the older ones, have significant methodological flaws, which render the conclusions questionable.

Bill Jones

We did not have many seniors, so most of our team is returning. We're a year older and we should be bigger, stronger and faster.

Keith Richard

Getting old is a fascinating thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Joss Whedon

I had older brothers, and I don't think there's anything worse than an older brother. They pretty much told me the end of everything they got to see before I did.

Trey Aby

We'll still play some of the older teams. But with what we did this year, some things are going to change.

Corey Clark

Older women have always been attracted to me.

Ken Young

I was a little angry. We didn't talk for a while. But I'm older now. I realized that I was too sensitive.

Michael Behe

When you start putting constraints on science, science suffers.

Patterson Hood

We were supposed to be taking it slowly this fall, with putting together the album,

Brian Donahue

We're putting together a top-notch team of professionals.

Steve Davis

We're putting things in place this season to get us there.

Kourtney Kardashian

Nothing comes before my children. I find that putting everything else in order of importance also helps to get everything done.

Nancy Grace

What joy would I get from putting the wrong person behind bars?

Shane MacGowan

I've been here all the time; I could be putting out as many albums as Costello, y'know what I mean?

Jeff Ross

I'm not hurting anybody. Comedy's all about innuendo. I'm putting it out there just like anybody else.

Najib Razak

I've made Umno more democratic, more inclusive. Of course, by doing that, I'm putting myself at risk.

Eric Ross

We're in for a rough quarter with Intel.

Eli Manning

I'm not a 25-interception quarterback, I know that,

Greg Waits

Shutting them out on the first quarter was big. That set the tone for the rest of the game.

Mike Schmidli

She has a laid-back personality. At times she hides, and then at times when you need her she'll step up. In the second quarter when we made that run, she was the one who stepped forward.

Martin Pyykkonen

The expectations going into the quarter weren't very high. Overall, it was an in-line quarter with in-line guidance.

John Naveaux

We usually have a quarter where we don't score much. That's been a bugaboo.

Sumner Redstone

Viacom's results for the first quarter put the company on a fast track for another record year in 2004.

John Eaton

Nevertheless, one doesn't have time to think, oh, well, this is a quarter tone sharp, or flat.

Phil Jackson

Kind of a blowout in that third quarter when they got a run on us, and we never recovered from that.

John Manion

We're going to ride (the running game) as long as we can.

Jay Gibbons

This probably is a little different, something new, ... I'll ride it as long as I can.

John Kinsey

We've seen that kind of roller-coaster ride before, and this is just another one of these.

Jim Bryant

She wants to ride the vehicles to make sure they're right.

Jim Clyburn

we're not going to let it ride this time.

Simeon Rice

We're just going to ride this ship, ride this wave. We accomplished one mission, we'll be setting out for many more.

Forrest Miller

We'd like to have him christen it, and have him take the first ride in it.

Carlos Chitty

I could talk to him. He would ride in my car. We were really buddies.

Wayne Lawson

He wanted to ride Vexing because he thought she could win.

Diablo Cody

I don't know why, but I've always been a sucker for roller coasters in movies.

Austin Stowell

I want to get out there and do anything, but I still don't know about riding roller coasters. I've never been on one. There is something about being strapped in and on a track; I always feel like we're going to be launched off somewhere.

Henry F. Ashurst

Politics is like roller skating. You go partly where you want to go, and partly where the damn things take you.

George Papandreou

Greece's history in the drachma was an up-and-down history, a roller coaster.

Dave Wannstedt

It's what we've talked about for two months; it's a roller coaster, things go up and down,

Jon Huertas

I don't really like roller coasters!

Kevin Hart

Really, I don't like roller coasters.

Robert Fulghum

Once you know where the roller coaster is going, are you in for the ride?

Rush Limbaugh

I have to tell you, every day is a roller coaster.

Madeleine Albright

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Madeleine Albright

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

David Hume

...interest is the barometer of the state...

Eden Sher

I live in a constant state of hyperbole.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Clifford Garnto

We wrestled better than we did in the first. We got after the guys, and they wanted to get to the state final.

Paul Tagliabue

to play in the state in which they're franchised.

Susan Hill

We're realists. We know we're in a state where the Legislature is anti-choice.

Al Mollozzi

When the state inspectors look at us, they will see that the systems are in place. You have to have a system whether you have one person or 100.