Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jay Feely

The point is not to be reckless, but to still be aggressive to make a play, ... I understand the situation it puts us in if I get hurt. I know how that can limit you and if you watched the games this weekend you can understand what I mean.

Bob Camirand

Unlike years past, Salem now can throw the ball and that means the rest of us can't be overly aggressive in just stopping the run. Now they're a double threat.

Virgil Kelly

We are always trying to attract new physicians for their services. The med school connection has helped us become more aggressive in getting new physicians in here.

Dan Smith

We are pleased to be recognized for this award. Our business model continues to prove successful through varying market conditions, and we're in a strong position to continue this positive growth. Our focus on hiring the most talented employees, as well as maintaining an aggressive marketing strategy, continues to support our growth and superior service to our customers.

Calvin Baker

We've always been pretty aggressive in use of technology and we have a history of taking risks.

Jamaal Williams

We started this new trapping thing that we do and I think guys like it more. We get to be a little more aggressive and make things happen. The change in our defensive strategy allows us to be more aggressive. That plays in our favor.

Jim Pappas

We started the year with a victory and we ended the regular season with a victory. I was glad for the seniors to get a win over Perry. We were very aggressive and ready to wrestle whereas earlier in the evening versus ADM that wasn't the case.

Michael Ching

We believe that most of the issues impacting Lucent's September quarter results are company specific. Even increasing bad debt reserves because of emerging service provider credit concerns reflects Lucent's aggressive policy towards providing vendor financing.

Peter Daniels

There are certain laws that require employers to make accommodations for people who may have a medication situation, so we've been trying to do that to comply with those regulations. Certainly, we always have the opportunity to take more aggressive action, but there's a chance that might not be upheld in an arbitration or in the employment area.

Charles Dickens

It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.

Charles Dickens

I am a neat hand at cookery, and I'll tell you what I knocked up for my Christmas-eve dinner in the Library Cart. I knocked up a beefsteak-pudding for one, with two kidneys, a dozen oysters, and a couple of mushrooms thrown in. It's a pudding to put a man in good humour with everything, except the two bottom buttons of his waistcoat.

Charles Stross

I don't want to permanently damage myself! On the other hand, a couple of days off the keyboard tends to make things somewhat better.

Charles Stross

I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others.

Alanis Morissette

Over the last couple of years, I've really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it.

Alan Moore

I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps as good or better than the original work. But the vast majority of them are pointless.

Alan Arkin

I played guitar. I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.

Alan Ball

There are times when I am directing, and there are a couple of moments I didn't get the way I wanted, but I know I still have other angles to shoot and I have to be done by noon; I move on.

Al Michaels

I still believe Emmitt has enough left in the tank to be a productive back over the next couple of seasons.

Graeme Souness

The other pleasing points are that we've got through and won a tie 5-1 when we've played, first after only two weeks, and then after only 17 days of training.

Robert Kabushenga

The posters are depicting government in a negative light and this comes only a few days to the polling day.

Rick Michaels

We are pleased that we were able to reach record production levels, despite losing several days due to the holidays.

Dusty Baker

There are days when you don't have your premier stuff,

Donna Wisniewski

There are days they pick up two or three, but there's days that they come in with over 40 of them.

Walt Harris

There are days the offensive line looks like they're putting it together. At times we see the light at the end of the tunnel. They're starting to respond, but they've got to grow up fast.

Jody Conradt

There are days it's really been fun. And there are days when it's really been, well ... trying.

Karen Allen

There are days he just reads my mind.

Nicky Byrne

There are some days when you just want to push Shane off his chair.

Laurie Metcalf

You know, if a TV show dropped into my lap out of the blue, I would have a hard time turning it down because there just isn't the money in theater that there is on TV.

Katie Aselton

I love profanity, but I think if it's used too much, it just sounds a little trashy. I think it's more effective when it's dropped intelligently. I like intelligent profanity.

George Machado

When we dropped to 2-4, we knew we needed to win our last three games to qualify. We won the first one last week. But this week we're playing a better team, so we have to play even better.

Jay Wright

When we did it in the NCAA Tournament, it was kind of dropped on us. We didn't have a lot of time to prepare. I feel good that we have a little more time to prepare and play that way.

Chuck Anderson

We had 10 dropped passes. Shane easily could have had 400 passing yards. And that's no surprise at all. He's an unbelievable athlete.

Garrett Gomez

She handled the track OK, but she wasn't skipping over it. I let her settle and took my time. I knew there was a lot of speed and when I dropped her in at the three-eighths pole, it was just a matter of finding a spot for her. I did and she did the rest.

Richard Bove

Mr. Oken may have lost some credibility with analysts when the bank's net interest margin dropped dramatically,

Robert Wright

When I dropped her off at the shelter, I went to see how our house was. We have nothing except for a chimney, ... Pretty much, we had nothing left.

Dennis Green

Seattle blitzed us a few times, but what really hurt us was dropped passes. I've said it before -- dropped passes and penalties will send out your punter, and that's what happened.

Charles Dickens

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

Charles Simmons

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Alan Rickman

I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.

Eric DiBiase

We've won nine of the last 11, so I like our chances.

Andrew Palmer

We want to show that we're no joke. People thought last year was a fluke. We can make improvements from last year. We're ready to see what's out there.

David Mitchell

We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing.

David Sanborn

You're only as good as your last record.

Camille Paglia

The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

I need some kind of... like... last minute, poorly-set-up deus ex machina!!

Tim Healy

We have to get a lot more physically and mentally tough. That's a concern.

Riley Wallace

We're going to have to be mentally and physically ready. When you have no depth, the travel can really take its toll.

Leon Washington

We know he can do it. It's all about getting mentally prepared.

Gail Goestenkors

She's just such a mentally and physically tough kid. I think especially this time of year, that's what you need.

Mac Gifford

She plays to win and she is a very mentally tough person. She just can't stand to lose.

Matt Porrovecchio

She played well. She's mentally and physically tough.

Annika Sorenstam

She is very, very strong. She is mentally strong and she is tough.

Derek Laxdal

We're a physically and mentally fatigued team right now.

Krystal McKenzie

She's got a hamstring that's nagging, but she hasn't pulled it or anything. I think she's back to 100 percent, but mentally she doesn't think she is.

Charles Caleb Colton

Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.

Charles Dickens

People like us don't go out at night cause people like them see us for what we are

Charles Dickens

The doctor seemed especially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the established custom of gentlemen in the housebreaking way to transact business at noon, and to make an appointment, by the twopenny post, a day or two previous.

Charles Dickens

"I saw her, in the fire, but now. I hear her in music, in the wind, in the dead stillness of the night," returned the haunted man.

Charles Dickens

Night, like a giant, fills the church, from pavement to roof, and holds dominion through the silent hours. Pale dawn again comes peeping through the windows: and, giving place to day, sees night withdraw into the vaults, and follows it, and drives it out, and hides among the dead.

Charles Dickens

[I]t seemed as if the streets were absorbed by the sky, and the night were all in the air.

Charles Spurgeon

He who boasts of being perfect is perfect in folly. I never saw a perfect man. Every rose has its thorns, and every day its night. Even the sun shows spots, and the skies are darkened with clouds; and faults of some kind nestle in every bosom.

Charles Spurgeon

When we reach the hilltops of heaven, and look back upon all the way whereby the Lord our God hath led us, how shall we praise Him who, before the eternal throne, undid the mischief which Satan was doing upon earth. How shall we thank Him because He never held His peace, but day and night pointed to the wounds upon His hands, and carried our names upon His breastplate!

Alan Jay Lerner

I could have danced all night!

Dmitry Oleynikov

There are people working on things like a pill that can be swallowed to take pictures, but that's passive technology. These robots can actually go in and do something.

Brian Posehn

What I think makes people nerds is just being obsessive. I think that's what nerdiness really is - its people who don't just passively like something, they get passionate about whatever they like.

Jim Caviezel

I think you can't be passive in making this film - or in watching it.

Bob Walsh

I thought they turned up the pressure defensively in the second half, and we were too passive with the ball. But that's what you get when you are as young as we are.

Herman Melville

Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.

Mike Marchand

I wanted people to be more than just passive consumers. I wanted them to be part of it.

Brad Adgate

Television viewing has been, for the most part, a passive activity.

Phil Jackson

We talked about how passive they were in the first quarter.

Rob Hummel

I've been too passive (on offense) and I thought about that a lot on my visit to N.C. State.

Xiaodong Song

We're talking about 50,000 times that of plate tectonic motion.

Tracey Emin

Women, at 50, are on a plateau with their careers, but later they ascend.

Phil Gordon

Without hesitation, not only would we step quickly to the plate to participate, but for any request to make changes, we will make those changes,

Jerry Angelo

We've got as lot of plates in the air.

Jeff Flowers

We just couldn't get it done at the plate today.

Rusty Wallace

When I took the plate off, I went 'Holy (smoke), you don't want to do this,'

Gabriel Lippmann

I got quite good results from protein plates.

Randy Johnson

Everything I threw over the plate they hit.

Keith Baird

It's not an earthquake, it's more of a plate shift,

Leonid Hurwicz

My father was convinced, I think rightly, that if he stayed in Russia, he would have trouble with Lenin.

Linda Grant

When I was in my 20s in the 1970s, I read all of Jean Rhys. I have reread very little since because the first impressions were so powerful they have stayed with me.

Tequan Richmond

Going through different places, I stopped through Dubai and stayed there overnight. There I had an ultra-culture shock.

Pat Buchanan

On an intellectual level, it stayed up on that level, ... It didn't get down to anything grisly, so I was delighted.

Cameron Bennerman

Short-range shots, you're going to know where it's going to come off, so I just stayed with it.

John Short

She never showed up, ... We stayed until 4 in the morning. We don't know why she didn't come.

Joan Armatrading

So I've had lots of different bands over the years who have stayed with me for certain tours.

Neon Hitch

I didn't go to school, because I never stayed anywhere long enough, so I was completely closed off from the outside world. I had no idea about anything.

Ciara

I want to be one of those moms and women that when I look back, I know that I always stayed focused.

Charles Caleb Colton

No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one. A weak man in office, like a squirrel in a cage, is laboring eternally, but to no purpose, and is in constant motion without getting on a job; like a turnstile, he is in everybody's way, but stops nobody; he talks a great deal, but says very little; looks into everything but sees nothing; and has a hundred irons in the fire, but very few of them are hot, and with those few that are, he only burns his fingers.

Charles Caleb Colton

Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He must often act from false reasons which are weak, because he dares not avow the true reasons which are strong.

Charles Caleb Colton

The mob is a monster, with the hands of Briareus, but the head of Polyphemus,--strong to execute, but blind to perceive.

Charles Caleb Colton

When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice upon others, it is usually because we suspect their weakness; but we ought rather to suspect our own.

Charles Caleb Colton

Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas have been anticipated by former writers; they will neither anathematize others nor despair themselves. They will rather go on discovering things before discovered, until they are rewarded with a land hitherto unknown, an empire indisputably their own, both right of conquest and of discovery.

Charles Caleb Colton

Unity of opinion is indeed a glorious and desirable thing, and its circle cannot be too strong and extended, if the centre be truth; but if the centre be error, the greater the circumference, the greater the evil.

Charles Caleb Colton

No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one.