Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jerry Angelo

When we drafted Mike we were in a different scheme. We were the antithesis of what we are now. Now is that to exonerate him not playing because of the scheme? No. Part of it, he needed to get better at certain things, but he didn't. He's got the tools. We got into the third year and we didn't see a big advance.

Ernst Mach

The popular notion of an antithesis between appearance and reality has exercised a very powerful influence on scientific and philosophical thought.

Aaron Copland

Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.

Sam Shepard

I always thought the desert was the antithesis of peace - something that attacks you. So you don't go to the desert for peace.

Virginia Postrel

Loft living is the antithesis of suburban domesticity, if only because the open spaces don't easily accommodate family life. Lofts also offer residents the opportunity - and responsibility - to structure their own space to reflect what's important to them.

Trent Reznor

one that was the antithesis of 'The Fragile,' which was complex. Songs flowed into each other, and it was layered. This record I wanted to be as stripped down as possible. I wanted it to be more real, more organic, not overly fixed or chopped up. At the end of the day, it reminds me of 'Pretty Hate Machine.'

Jonathan Shapiro

I am anti-Bush. A lot of what he stands for is the antithesis of what I stand for.

Sean Parker

I think being a wealthy member of the establishment is the antithesis of cool. Being a countercultural revolutionary is cool. So to the extent that you've made a billion dollars, you've probably become uncool.

John Clayton

Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday.

Charles Caleb Colton

Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.

Alan Moore

For whatever the future holds, one thing is certain... It just won't be the same.

David Milne

Science deals in evidence and uncertainty. Religion deals in certainty without evidence.

Lucas Till

I think there's certain things that I know in my head that I enjoy: action movies.

Lisa Cholodenko

I feel like I've been observed as an individual more than a gay person, or as a filmmaker with a certain point of view rather than a lesbian filmmaker with a gay point of view.

Michael Specter

If there is anything more frightening than the threat of global nuclear war, it is the certainty that humans not only stand on the verge of producing new life forms but may soon be able to tinker with them as if they were vintage convertibles or bonsai trees.

Monica Lewinsky

I certainly know that this relationship could not have continued the way it did, when I was at the Pentagon and the president was obviously at the White House, without Betty.

Scott Long

Until about four years ago, the Chinese medical profession was still following a version of the diagnostic manual that still listed homosexuality as an illness. That has also changed, but that may not have filtered down into how individual doctors or just ordinary people perceive it. Things have certainly gotten better, though, but this latest raid shows that the government can still step back, as well as forward.

Pete Nichols

We are providing Guidant shareholders with certainty of completion, significant upside potential and substantially more value today than the Johnson & Johnson transaction. By any objective measure, our offer is clearly superior to Johnson & Johnson.

Mac Maude

We spoke with them all before we drafted them. Earl (general manager Nicholson) made sure of that.

Bill Cowher

When we drafted Hines we didn't envision this. He has turned out to be a special, special player.

Eula Biss

I had already drafted the manuscript that would become my first book by the time I graduated from college, but I had no idea what to do with it.

Brett Hull

I've said for years I could never figure out why Calgary ever drafted me. When I got there, I think they had eight or nine right wingers already. These guys were premiere players. It's not like they were extremely late in their careers, either.

Dave Howard

This would be a league where guys have played (previously in the minors). The drafted guys would be pushed back.

Steve Bucci

The pro scouts are still pretty interested. The process he's going through right now, he has a school (where), if he doesn't get drafted where he wants to get drafted, he has somewhere to fall back and get an education.

Gavin Hood

I was drafted when I was 17, and I spent two years, and I lost a friend in war.

Tim Murphy

In the span of three years, the Iraqi people participated in three elections, drafted a constitution, and elected a new government. While more work remains, this is remarkable progress.

Harold Feinstein

I always feel I had a very lucky life. For example, I sure didn't want to go in the army: when I was drafted in the Korean War, I wanted to go as a photographer. But luckily, they put me in the infantry - luckily because the official photographer was photographing the medal awarding and all the official situations.

Bruce Bochy

We're going to play Mike as much as we can.

Nicholas Hytner

Mike was a little nervous ... We weren't, because his reputation is so immense.

Jon Gruden

Mike Tomlin is a candidate, obviously, in Minnesota.

Dan Rooney

Mike speaks up all the time. I don't see him taking any back seat.

John Shirreffs

Mike said he was waiting for the call.

Shaun Alexander

Mike said from the very beginning, that we are always going to be the 'other' team.

Derek Schulz

Mike plays with a lot of passion in everything he does. It showed tonight.

Floyd Burnsed

Mike Neville's become more of a pocket passer. He's making the right reads and the right throws. He's come a long way.

Sean Ellis

Mike never talks -- he proves it with his pads,

Lorraine Toussaint

I know what it was like to not have a voice, so my daughter has a voice. I veto that voice when needed because at the end of the day I am the grown-up, but I hear her.

Lorraine Toussaint

'Body of Proof' was interesting because... I didn't feel I needed to prove anything in that audition. I didn't over-prepare it, but I was just very relaxed in it.

George Thorogood

The only reason I did it is because I needed a signature piece.

Earl Butz

I challenged things that needed to be challenged at Purdue.

Karl Dorrell

Whenever we needed a play made, he stepped up and made a play.

Cheryl Strayed

I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all, that I could carry it.

Jim Gaylor

Whether that sparked our hitting, I don't know, but we needed a spark.

Chip Cook

We've been able to make adjustments needed to recover from breakdowns. This year we are much more deep.

Karin Slaughter

Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'

Neil Fallon

We want to thank (the service members) the only way we know how that's by playing rock 'n' roll.

Chord Overstreet

Ive been playing music since I was born.

Jenic Tumaneng

We stuck with them. We'll keep playing and keep working at it.

Lucas Black

When I'm not acting, I'm playing golf. I'm pretty passionate about it.

Nigel Kennedy

Why would you want to stand there waving a stick when you could be playing an instrument?

Wayne Grant

When you start playing these better region teams, you have to play well.

Beau Bridges

And I like music, too, I like playing music.

Antony Garrett Lisi

My friends are all geeks. And many of them are scientists who love playing outside as much as I do.

Derek Bailey

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

Dwyane Wade

We know we can win. That's what we're all here for. . . . This is my third year here and it's like it's my third different team, but we can win.

Lenny Clark

We're not disappointed at all. Third place is good.

Brandon Jacobs

If it's third-and-one, then I'm going in, no ifs or buts about.

Jim Rich

Sen. Landrieu said she wanted to be our third senator.

Brittany Howard

I once had this massacred afro in third grade. Parts were bigger than others. It was just terrible.

Kevin O'Leary

When you're an investor, you can look at the quantitative and qualitative elements of an investment, but there's a third aspect: What you feel in your gut.

Charles Nelson Reilly

I live at the dentist's. I'm on my third set of teeth that they put in with nails and screws.

Rupert Grint

One in the third film, I'm looking forward to meeting one of the Dementors.

Bartolo Colon

More than puzzled, I'm ticked off. I had two outs and I couldn't get the third one.

Charles Stross

Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.

Charles Spurgeon

If I knew I had 25 years left to live, I would spend 20 of them in preparation.

Alanis Morissette

I'm a bit of an alchemist sorceress. I've collected probably 1500 oils from around the planet over the last ten years. I'm kind of obsessed with the sensuality of it.

Alan Watts

...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white.

Alan Mulally

Although the quality of the vehicles is tremendously improving year after year but the underlying reasons that people are buying cars have really gotten focused. It's for high quality vehicles, reliable, fuel-efficient, and safe of course.

Alan Moore

I've known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.

Alan Moore

It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.

Alan Moore

It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they're related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there's a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the old faces are fading away and vanishing, never to be seen again.

Alan Hovhaness

I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.