Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ray Gardner

Last year was a tough year for everybody in the Northwest, and we were already closed at this point last year. And we have a ton of snow on the ground now.

Phil Smith

One of the things we've been after the guys about is the killer instinct and not letting adversity get them down.

Chris Petersen

One of the things we pound to our players is how you handle adversity, and I know that was a lot of adversity for him. ... We were kind of waiting and watching to see how he handled that whole thing, and he handled it like a champ.

Mark Cooper

One's true character shows through when you're faced with adversity, and our kids were force fed some this week, but responded like champions tonight. If we want to make a run at the NCIC, we know we've got to run the table because you can't expect Rock Falls to lose more than one game, so tonight we took that first step.

Ben Howland

Obviously, we don't have the depth we'd like. Everybody has to do a little more when you face adversity.

Preston Wilson

Of course, the last-place team went through adversity, too.

Joe Sakic

No one has given up this year, even when we've faced adversity. Guys are filling in and doing the job.

J. J. Johnson

One thing we talked about is being an inexperienced team, when you get adversity, everybody's got to come together and pick it up. I think when they saw Laura go down, who's one of our tougher kids, the kids had a little bit of an emotional letdown.

Clint Hurdle

More can be learned from adversity than when everything good happens. They realize they were short in areas, went down to (Class AAA) Colorado Springs, addressed the shortcomings and came back.

Robert Trout

The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.

Studs Terkel

So here we are. We have a choice to make.

Jane Mayer

So, it, of course, makes one wonder how many other people there might be who are completely innocent, who have been sent by the U.S. to countries where they've been interrogated, and in some instances it seems tortured.

Tony Snow

Millions of Americans annually commit themselves to such good works, and no country on earth comes close to matching our record.

Kin Hubbard

Men are not punished for their for sins, but by them.

Michael Isikoff

Mr. Luskin also says that Rove did not knowingly disclose classified information and did not tell any reporters that Valerie Plame worked for the C.I.A.

Jeff Gannon

Mr. President, How are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?

Oliver J. Lodge

Mediums have perhaps but little conscious information to give us concerning their powers; we must learn from what they do, not from what they say.

Jerry Pournelle

One the other hand, the publishing trend is ghastly, isn't it? Two hundred and something distributors are now down to 10 or 12? And what's the recruiting drive?

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Sue Christiansen

So far, they seem to be working well and doing what they're supposed to.

Mike Birbiglia

My last name has the word 'big' in it. It seems like a logical progression that if you shed away the Bir and the lia, I'll just be Big.

Debbie Johnson

No one seems to know who he is.

Brian Joubert

Now you can win without a quad, and that doesn't seem right.

Todd Rundgren

It seems like there are two worlds out there - one that has revolved around 'Breaking Bad,' and then the one that I've been in, which just kind of observes it from afar.

Russ Ortiz

I can't. I wish I could. Nothing seemed to be where I wanted it.

Kate Grenville

I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.

Jay Grimes

She seems like she'll come through. It's going to be a while.

Frank Sinatra

Sinatra has had a long and wide association with hoodlums and racketeers, which seems to be continuing.