Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Moorad

Getting Tony under contract to remain a Diamondback has been on the front burner for several weeks.

Jim Sturgess

I was quite naughty at school. I was always in the back of the class messing about with the Bunsen burner rather than paying attention.

Kacey Musgraves

I feel like, big city or small town, you can relate to following your parents' footsteps or putting your own dreams on the back burner or vices that we get caught up in - that whole cycle. That's not just a small-town thing. That's a life thing.

Roger Donaldson

I'd made this naive little documentary about the real Burt Munro, very early in my film-making career, and this character always stuck with me. I thought, 'God, what a great subject for a feature film!' And it's a project that I've been keeping on the back burner ever since.

Ronnie Carter

I don't know of a state where it's not on the burner somewhere.

Glen Mason

I'd be less than truthful if I didn't say that I've been thinking about it because it's important to a lot of people around me -- my coaches, their families and my family. But I really try to put it to the back burner because a lot of responsibilities I have here, and I literally don't have any time to spend on it.

Mike Slive

To make it a BCS issue devalues the conversation. It is not a BCS subject but an issue for the Division I commissioners to address. It has clearly moved from the back burner to the front.

Ted Diehl

Water supplies are always going to be on the front burner until we get that resolved. I think we will get the big part of that resolved next year.

Jeff Montgomery

That's something that's always on the back burner that we'd like to see down the road, but right now it's not extremely tenable for us to do.

Darren McCarty

Old times. Just messing around. I think he was a little upset so I had to try to put a smile on his face.

Russ Adams

I was just tired of messing with my hair.

Carl Crawford

If we were playing a team that wasn't in it we'd still want to win. I don't want to say we like messing up their plans. I'm not trying to stir up nothing on the other side.

Stewart Adams

I was surprised they threw, but they needed one more first down to clinch. All day, we'd been messing up some, but that time everyone was in the right position.

J. Taylor

I was stunned. I thought he was messing with me at first.

Rhys Wakefield

I got to learn what does and doesn't work on screen. Because the turnaround is so fast, there's no messing around. You have to be on the ball.

Courteney Cox

When people start messing with their foreheads and can't lift their eyebrows, that's weird.

Quinton Young

We had jitters in the first half. We were worried about messing up.

Dan Orlovsky

We're always like that. We're just messing around with each other. He's my family.

John Curry

We are getting ripped off. We are not getting what we are paying for.

Kevin McHale

People aren't paying to see the Kevin McHale show, they're paying to see the cast of 'Glee.'

Charles Payne

I don't like paying taxes, same as everybody else.

Chris Sheridan

So far, we haven't had any trouble getting it, but we're paying 10 percent to 15 percent more for plywood,

Chris McKay

So, I got stuck reading for them and paying the bill.

Sandra King

When we see a possible discrepancy, we need to investigate to make sure the taxpayers are not paying for something that simply doesn't exist. It's our responsibility to investigate that discrepancy. It's our responsibility to the people, really.

Shawne Merriman

I wouldn't be paying what I'm going to end up paying just for LaVar's number.

Tom Ahola

We took a piece of property that was getting $800 a year in (real estate) taxes. Now we're paying $17,000 a year. We think it's ridiculous, but what are you going to do?

Audrey Singer

Paying for it now is going to pay off later.

Richard Cook

We're in a state where we're not quite sure what's happened,

O. Singh

Unless he does something drastically amazing, or I play really poorly, I should be quite comfortable.

Joe Linklater

We're quite pleased, but we have to remain vigilant about this.

Stevie Jackson

When I'm making records, I like it to be quite fast. Don't let the band learn it too well.

Bob Hartley

We have a pond, and I've never seen it come up so fast. I haven't seen this much (rain) for quite awhile.

Ruth Asawa

Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done.

E. B. White

She stayed until her shift was over at 6. She's fine, but she was quite shook up.

Rudyard Kipling

She was as immutable as the hills. But not quite so green.

Elizabeth Hardwick

She was extraordinary. She had her own voice and her own tone and her own subject matter. There was no one quite like her in American literature.

Richard Berthelsen

We're insisting that it be sooner rather than later.

Thomas Mars

I'm a lazy guy. I can't focus for too long. I'd rather hear a record that has no filler.

Keeley Hawes

I am not into action and adventure on holiday; that doesn't really do it for me. I would much rather go and lie down.

Suzanne Farrell

So I think it is rather strange that I got into ballet, something that I hadn't seen.

Michael Messner

She was rather abrasive and difficult, but it must've taken that kind of personality to survive and to do what she did in the 1960s.

Abigail Perkins

Mohamed stated he would rather kill only Americans.

Koyie Hill

I think they'd rather get somebody for me, though. It would look better.

Simon Leung

I think the timing is going to be more towards the end of this year rather than earlier.

Craig Berman

He really wants to get back to the work he's been doing for 15 years in search rather than running a company.