Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We are prudent people. We are afraid to let go of our petty reality in order to grasp at a great shadow.

Becca Fitzpatrick

He felt warm and familiar. He felt solid and safe. I wanted to cling to his shirt, bury my face into the warm curve of his neck, and never let go.

Becca Fitzpatrick

He tasted deeper, holding himself over me, and suddenly he was everywhere; his knee trapping my leg, his lips grazing warm, rough, sensuous. He splayed his hand at the small of my back, holding me tightly, driving me to sink my fingers deeper into him, clinging to him as if letting go would mean losing part of myself.

Becca Fitzpatrick

..but maybe this was a defense mechanism. Maybe my mind was making me see things I refused to accept were gone forever. It was filling the void, because that was easier than letting go.

Bill Dixon

I have no distributor... it is indicative to me that there are these pockets of players and collectors all over. You should see the correspondence I get from over the world letting me know how significant they think I am. I know that wherever I go, I am well received.

Cathy Rigby

Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear of losing, of failure.

Carrie Brownstein

The internet is just a scary place. It's better to just go to the doctor. Don't let Google get inside your head. It will do bad things to you.

Carrie Underwood

Jesus, take the wheel Take it from my hands 'Cause I can't do this on my own I'm letting go So give me one more chance To save me from this road I'm on Jesus, take the wheel

Lori Glass

Out of 10 bouquets, we sell about nine red.

Rod Barnes

I won't have to pick up the paper and read that it's nine in a row.

Eddie Johnson

I was told if you make a run, nine times out of 10 you will get the ball. It's true.

Jack McKeon

I can teach, ... I have nine grandkids.

Chris Perry

I don't think I've had that much success. If I had nine catches for like 180 yards and two touchdowns, yeah. But you can always improve, and that's what I'm trying to do.

Larry Scott

I don't think nine is the right number for women's tennis.

Kim Ens

For us to see nine cases, that is unusual for us.

Michael Owen

He even offered to give up his number nine shirt but I have declined. Number 10 will do for me.

Jeff Bowden

He does that several times during the game. And nine times out of 10, he's right.

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.

Martin Jol

I can't remember him picking up a ball.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Just like my parents immigrated from ranch to ranch picking crops, I have migrated from city to city.

Jim Johnson

He's a smart player and is picking up the system really well,

Astro Teller

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

J. A. Konrath

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

Spike Lee

Where are the slaves? Who's picking the cotton?

Christy Romano

At this point, I can't say what network would be picking it up, but I know that it would be a success.

Jenny Potter

We have 20 players picking each other up.

James Evans

Until he understands that, he'll keep on picking up things to see if they work.

Jim Thome

Starting with spring training, from Day 1, they really talk about winning here, and preaching winning. It's been very fun. It's been great. I can see now why this team wins. They're very focused, they're very upbeat about playing every day, and it's great.

Chester Pitts

Our first year, we had 76 sacks, ... That's not very good. Playing like this, we'll be right back where we started.

Garry Houston

Playing with Sergio was theatre and I suppose I thrived on it.

Trent Yawney

Playing with poise under pressure is something you can't teach.

Jeremy Roenick

Playing with Cammalleri and Frolov, I have to work a little harder, ... They're speedy.

David Carr

Playing the Titans is always tough, whether you're favored or you're not favored,

Tyler Murovich

Playing there would give me a lot of opportunities.

Gary Waters

Playing Princeton is like pulling teeth. It's been that way for a long time.

Lindy Ruff

Playing our own end, we've been flat-out sloppy.

John McNally

It hasn't been unsafe, but there are situations where it could be.

David Patterson

I think the teams struggled when we were in those situations too.

Kevin Criswell

I thrive off of these types of situations and I can't wait to get out there.

Joe Torre

He's come up in situations and you say,

John Tortorella

We've been through a lot tougher situations than this in our past. We will get it done.

Frank Verrastro

Most of these supply situations are fraught with some kind of peril.

Imtiaz Ali

If a person wants to enjoy attention, he will create situations to get it.

Warren Ellis

I can be collaborative, for instance, in situations where I go and study the artist's work before I start writing. Then I can at least try to write towards their style.

Liz Vassey

Don't paint a nasty picture of your exes. We'll justifiably wonder what made you stay in those heinous situations in the first place.

Jason Venable

Stephen Munoz really stepped up when Thomas went out.

Anthony Gonzalez

I was just tired. When he took me down I said, ?this kid's tough.' So I stepped it up.

Charlie Bell

I think this woke us up. As a team, we stepped it up a bit.

David McClure

I thought he stepped up real big." ()

Ozzie Guillen

He did it all today. He showed up big. He stepped up and did a tremendous job.

Robert Garcia

I think you really have stepped it up a notch, and it's been noticed.

Randy Johnson

I got a little tight. So, I just stepped out and let someone else pitch. Everything is fine.

Darren Testa

He was a big surprise. He really stepped up for us.

Michael Coburn

He's a young guy, but he stepped up. That's what we needed.

Scott Linebrink

Hopefully, this year's the same thing. Get the first one out of the way. But it's not like you're trying to keep a streak going.

Ben Gordon

We were 5-10 before this game, and that's just unacceptable at home. We have to turn that around and try to get a streak going.

Frank Berry

We're just trying to keep the streak going. We're just trying to keep getting better until we get to Nationals.

Kevin Towers

There've been times when I said, 'Who are we?'  ... But right when I started to wonder who we really were, we'd put together a streak that was not too bad.

Pat Bowlin

I didn't talk about the streak all week. I didn't want to use it as motivation.

Keith Tkachuk

It's unbelievable; it's frustrating. You don't want to use excuses, but (the injuries) are a big part of it. But nobody's quitting. We're just in a tough streak right now and we have to find our way out of it.

Avery Johnson

You think a streak is never going to come to an end. When it does, it doesn't feel good.

Jalen Rose

You're a win streak away from striking distance.

Drew Brees

I don't look at it that we're 2-2. We won two in a row. We've just got to keep that streak going,

John Hull

Our starting point then was trying to find a way to incorporate mean reversion into the HoLee model.

Wilson Alvarez

I'm here trying to do it one more time. I'm doing it for my kids. I'm doing it for my wife. I'm doing it for my teammates. So they can all say you've still got it.

Bebe Neuwirth

Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.

Beck

With my own music, I try to get away from things that are familiar and things that would be easy for me to go to.

Beck

I would love to do an electronic record. There's just so much to see and do and try. And life goes by.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I wrinkled my nose, trying to figure out what he smelled like. Not cigarettes. Something richer, fouler. Cigars.

B. B. King

I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.

Billy Corgan

I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.

Billy Corgan

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.