Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Quarto

We knew they were going to make a run at us. You hold a team that's ranked eighth in the state to 37 points in the game, that's a hell of a job defensively.

Bill Masse

We stole one in the eighth and then we stole one in the ninth with the squeeze. It was kind of nice.

Luis Walter Alvarez

One indicator of Ernest Lawrence's influence is the fact that I am the eighth member of his laboratory staff to receive the highest award that can come to a scientist - the Nobel Prize.

Adam Wainwright

Whenever that phone rings, I'm always looking. I could be going in in the fifth inning or the fourth inning, or I could be going in there seventh or eighth inning. Nobody's said anything to me. I'll just be ready.

Eric Chavez

We've always had good (closers) in the ninth inning. But the seventh and eighth has been a real strength for us this year.

Allen Iverson

We're going to need team efforts, we're going to need each other down the stretch. With 29 games to go, we've got to win more than half of those to give us a better seed in the playoffs. We don't want to settle for the eighth spot. We want to try and get as high as we can.

Alexei Kovalev

We're fighting for the eighth spot in the playoffs, we knew how important this game was.

Brad Richards

We've never been the eighth seed, obviously. It's going to be different. We're not going to worry about what happened two years ago. We're just going to worry about our team now.

Steve Klesaris

She's just tremendous the last eighth of a mile. She's got such a big kick.

Charles de Lint

The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can.

Charles Dickens

Money and goods are certainly the best of references.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Alan Moore

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

Alan Alda

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Elizabeth Hardwick

the great is seldom a deterrent to the mediocre

Alfred Jarry

La mort n'est que pour les me diocres. Death is only for the mediocre.

Cyril Connolly

A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.

Carolyn Kwan

The overall tone of the report is pretty mediocre at this point.

Nitsan Hargil

They have nothing to celebrate. Revenues were just 'blah' all around. Very mediocre in all segments.

David Frost

Prospects for services are mediocre and the sector will struggle to regain dynamism.

Michael Arndt

My God, there are so many mediocre screenplays out there.

Oscar Wilde

To be popular I must be mediocre.

Ivan Turgenev

It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.

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.

Dan Ross

I thought we'd be sixth or seventh after the first day.

Brendan Gleeson

Everyone's waiting for the seventh book, and looking at each other saying, 'Oh, I wonder will I be in the running?

Chris Palacios

The prelims went really well for me. I was kind of surprised at how well everything went. I was seeded seventh in the 50 free, which is just one spot out of the finals. Actually now I'm seeded third for the finals, which is good. I was seeded 11th in the 100 and now I'm fifth.

Matt Magee

You take away that big seventh and we could have put some more pressure.

Harvey Jewett

This is not going to be a seventh campus.