Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Perlstein

I don't read many popular histories like the ones I write. The building blocks for my research are scholarly monographs, and the inspiration for my storytelling style are folks like Chekhov.

Jimmy Collins

We're not doing the small things it takes to win right now. We've got to go back to the drawing board and practice blocking out, faking before we pass, making free throws.

Amber Frey

Life is a series of stepping stones followed with a series of stumbling blocks ....

Mike McGlynn

Last year we had to sit back and pass block on every play because defenders really knew we were a passing team. This year, the defensive ends just can't pin back their ears and come right at us.

Davis III

Last year was a big building block for me, getting back to playing a full schedule.

Allison Hine

Last year, some wanted to go to Block Island and the Statue of Liberty.

Eddie Locascio

Several streets had been blocked off and there were a ton of police cars there.

James Jeffords

moderates in both parties can do what we've done before: Stand up to block these anti-environmental initiatives and instead pursue policies that protect and respect our environment.

Al Warden

Mt. Lebanon couldn't block us. That caused them problems.

Bob Coombes

Let us take up the burden of the fallen, set our hand to the task they left unfinished. Let us, with God's help, make the world a better, happier and brighter place.

Stephane Dujarric

Look on the bright side. Mr. Taylor is in jail. He's in the special court where he was indicted. We feel it's safe.

Chris Watson

Look on the bright side -- I got here and I got second, so I did my job. Next year, I'm gonna win this.

William Morris

Let dead hearts tarry and trade and marry, And trembling nurse their dreams of mirth, While we the living our lives are giving To bring the bright new world to birth.

Frank Wolf

Many around the world are enduring these hardships simply because they practice their faith. They endure mostly in silence and away from the public spotlight and with little hope for a brighter tomorrow,

Paul Reynolds

So here, for example, on a very bright sunny day, the camera was able to capture the detail on the blouse, despite how strong the sunlight was.

William Shakespeare

Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms!Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!. . . This love feel I.

Unknown

May your thoughts be as glad as the shamrocks. May your hearts be as light as a song. May each day ring you bright happy hours, That stay with you all year long.

Irish Blessings

May your joys be as bright as the morning, and your sorrows merely be shadows that fade in the sunlight of love. May you have enough happiness to keep you sweet, enough trials to keep you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, enough hope to keep y

Steve Stenersen

One of the things that make it so newsworthy is that it's pretty darn unique for the sport. The allegations are very disturbing on their own merits, and that is magnified because it's lacrosse.

Jim Wilcox

Frankly, this is a darn good economy to start with. He's inheriting an asset, not a liability. It's not as if he's swimming upstream.

Tim Hamilton

From here we go up and we haven't hit May 1. If we have a refinery disruption, we could see $3.50 or darn near $4.

Mark Turgeon

When we shoot well, we're pretty darn good. We always try to defend and rebound, but we look better when we make shots. Today, we were pretty hard to guard.

Craig Trychel

If we hit the ball, we'll be pretty darn good.

John Taylor

Because VC firms are managing other people's money, they are on the line to produce returns, ... The demonstrated potential for return has to be darn good.

Bob Seger

I grew up with another pretty darn good writer: Glenn Frey of the Eagles. We were very good friends, and we kind of studied it together.

Nancy Astor

Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.

Curt Fredrickson

We played pretty darn good defense all night long. You hold a team to nearly 20 points under their average, you've got to be doing some things right.

Josh Beckett

Let's talk about the outing. I felt pretty good today, let's start with that. I don't want to fill it up with stuff like that, negative stuff. Let's be positive here.

Joel Parkinson

Losing one grounds you a bit. I learned a lot after losing the title in 2009, learned that I was probably too intense that year, and when I didn't win, I just felt horrible.

Brian Billick

Last year, we felt we were a Super Bowl-caliber team. I think in just about every measure you can put out there, we're a better team than we were last year.

David Chase

Last year, we felt we needed more teachers. I'm troubled that we're not going after personnel just because we don't have the room for them.

Tim Churchill

Last year, we felt like we didn't have any winnable games.

Forel Davies

Last year was the first year I really felt comfortable with my game.

Brian James

Last year was really demanding. I just felt that at the end of the year I didn't have a lot of fire left in me.

Liz Gliem

Last year the pressure was on Jackie, but this year I felt a little more pressure on me. I had to take a little more of a leadership role.

Jeremy Bonderman

Last year went so fast. I felt like I was in and out of that game in like a matter of minutes.

Jose Cano

Makes me nervous. I want him to get a hit right now. I don't want him to go down. I want him to stay here forever.

Retief Goosen

Luckily, it doesn't really hurt me when I hit the ball. I know it's there, but it's nothing serious.

Larry Gispert

Life could be very, very different if we get hit by a major hurricane.

Bob Murphrey

Leon and James hit some big shots ? they did what they are supposed to do.

Yvette Girouard

Leslie Klein hit her first home run in two years. She looks like she's back and she loves softball.

Curt Schilling

Seven of the 11 hits were on fastballs,

John Major

September the 11th was a huge shock in the United States. It was the first time you had been hit at home in your own territory by terrorist on this scale.

Jim Lushine

Mother nature still has us in its sights. I hope it just wings us rather than hitting us in the gut.

Dan Gandin

McArdle hit some big shots for us in that first half. He really kept us in the game.

Jake Hutton

Last year was like a different language. This year we all knew what we were doing.

Dan Monson

Last year's team, you didn't know if we were going to win or lose, but you knew we were going to fight. We have some different ways to score now, but do we have the same type of personality?

Cameron Bennerman

Last year you kind of knew what was coming, from whom. But this year, you're not really sure who's going to do what.

Bob Cavanagh

Last year we knew we were going to be on par with the year before. This year we're going to have to make more adjustments and people are going to have to step up.

Howard Stern

Les said, 'I knew I could sue you later.

Kevin Osborn

Mom told me last night that every time you get the ball, when you let go of it, you've got to know it's in and you're making the next one. I didn't know when my night was going to come, but I knew I just had to come in with confidence.

Susan Bennett

Mrs. Rucker enrolled before she knew whether we would have the program.

Matt White

Obviously, you don't want to go back down, but I knew I was going back down, ... It isn't a shocker.

Chris Collins

No one nationally thought it'd be a year where BC would be No. 1. We knew we would be.

James Rubin

making excuses. Why don't they let the inspectors do their job? Stop making excuses, stop trying to politicize the operation, stop trying to pick the inspectors.

Mark Reiland

Obviously, we won the right one. We wanted to win both, but if we had to pick one, this would be the one we'd pick.

Astro Teller

Moonshot thinking starts with picking a big problem: something huge, long existing, or on a global scale.

Nick Fazekas

More than likely, if I'm not a first-round pick then you'll probably see me back here.

Natalie Cole

My father was a pioneer in so many ways. He was fearless, and I think that I kind of picked that up from him as well.

J. A. Konrath

No one was interested in picking up a midlist series, even though I have a decent fanbase and respectable numbers.

Kelly Rowan

Now we kind of have to pick up the pieces.

Martin Jol

I can't remember him picking up a ball.

Chipper Jones

I can't pick him up. He's the one guy. My nemesis.

Christopher Shays

More is going to rest on his (Hastert's) shoulders,

Laura Harper

When they were about to say it, I was chanting, ?C. Lang,' with the rest of the team.

Jim Tutwiler

I would be surprised if it stays on the site rest of the day.

Bill Stoneman

I wish he were here with the rest of the guys.

Becky Sarro

She's made some vibes that it isn't something that she wants to do for the rest of her life, so we'll see.

Rex Ryan

If we can do that the rest of the season, that would be super.

Dennis Dacus

If they had (Johnson) it would be them and the rest of us.

Shayne Ward

I have been to see a specialist and they have told me that singers often suffer from this problem, but that it's nothing to worry about and that I need to rest my voice for a week or so.

Steve Relford

I'd just like for him to suffer for the rest of his life,

Alexandra Adornetto

Oh, man," Xavier groaned. "See what you've done--now I'm stressing." "You can't! You're the stable one!" Xavier laughed and I realized his distress had been feigned to illustrate a point. He wasn't worried in the slightest. "Just relax. Go and run a bath or have a shot of brandy." "Okay." "That second bit was a joke. We both know you can't hold your liquor.

Jim Fuller

Megan was also another one that kind of got run to death.

Scott Bakula

My favorite thing about running is running when it's as hot as it can be, which is a little odd.

Steve Prefontaine

No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me.

Brian Calhoun

Obviously, I'm a running back and I wanted to play running back and they had different plans, which is fine. It was just time to split ways.

Marcel Shipp

When you're a running back on this team, you have to take that personal.

Ludwig von Mises

The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality. Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses.

Ludwig von Mises

True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money. They can open the way to credit expansion by the banks. They can thus create an artificial boom and the appearance of prosperity. But such a boom is bound to collapse soon or late and to bring about a depression.

Jerome Groover

We had been working with them all summer. Mostly, we wanted to work on their speed. They know what they need to run. They have to run a 14.5 if they think they are going to state.

Jane Elliot

My guilty pleasure is 'Revenge.' I've watched it from the very first episode.

Virat Kohli

'Border' was the first movie that I watched on the big screen. It always takes me back to my childhood.

Bill Hader

'The State' was a huge thing for me. I watched that and 'SNL' together when I was 15, 16.

Maisie Williams

When I first watched 'Coraline,' I thought, 'If that ever got adapted...' If it was done by real actors, I think that would be a really fun thing to do, just because it's a kind of whole new universe.

Ted Sarandos

Netflix has always had this interesting ability to get non-mainstream content to be watched by the mainstream.

Cristela Alonzo

I couldn't afford therapy, so I just watched 'Frasier.' Season 4 was a breakthrough.

Ron Gardenhire

Have you watched us bunt? Does it look like we have it down now?

Hiroyuki Sanada

I was very comfortable on the set of 'Lost'. I was so nervous when I went on to the set because I had just watched all the 'Lost' episodes. I was, like, a fan. A big fan.

Matt Berninger

I watched R.E.M. connect with the back row of a 50,000-seat venue.