Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jay Wright

We've won games that way. We've shot poorly and then got on the offensive boards and played defense. They were just too good.

Marcus Aurelius

The perfumes at our board last night - Were exquisite, I won't deny it, But we were starved, we were outright, For meat, could no how come by it

Paul Hodgson

The perception has been growing that it is better that there be a clear line of distinction between the people the board hires and the people hired by the corporation.

E. O. Wilson

The plight of the children on board this ship serves as a timely reminder that slavery and bondage are still realities in the world.

Kerry Killinger

We are pleased to welcome Regina to our Board of Directors. She is a nationally recognized leader in the legal, corporate, and nonprofit communities. Her leadership skills and commitment to promoting economic advancement for all complement the Board and make her a valuable addition.

David Wood

We usually send out information to board members to get their feel for whether we should disseminate information further.

Todd Tripp

We struggled on offense, but we kept playing defense and kept getting stops. I thought we controlled the boards and our defense was good tonight.

Fred Jacobs

There are board members who do not acknowledge the serious problems going on, and I do not know why,

Tim Dorsey

When you want something dumped you would point to the board operator, indicating to hit the button. I would say we use the seven-second delay button often. Everybody does. It's pretty standard in the business.

William Butler Yeats

O love is the crooked thing,There is nobody wise enoughTo find out all that is in it.

Daryl Newcomb

One of his legs was shorter than the other one. But his spine was also crooked and it drew his hip up, so it evened out just enough that he didn't walk with a limp.

Jack Finney

I went up a straight crooked lane and, I said 'No thanks, yes if yer please.

William Osler

There are no straight backs, no symmetrical faces, many wry noses, and no even legs. We are a crooked and perverse generation.

Atharva Veda

He takes the crooked path of the unrighteous way; leaving the straight and narrow path, he weaves his way backwards.

Wayne Lewis

This was a great thing on the part of the parent and the kid. Even the most honest kid could hand it to the crooked parent. They would stick it in their pocket and away it goes,

Robert Brown

The grand perhaps! We look on helplessly, there the old misgivings, crooked questions are.

Mike Church

We didn?t get our big crooked number inning today. But that?s Can, that?s the hardest he?s thrown all year. It wasn?t 81 (miles per hour) or 82. It was 85, 86, which is not gas, but when you can throw the changeup and curveball at will, you?re gonna win.

William Danforth

Lines of least resistance make crooked rivers and crooked men.

Ed Walker

We want to see that he gets some national recognition.

Michael Specter

There is a major problem with reliance on placebos, like most vitamins and antioxidants. Everyone gets upset about Big Science, Big Pharma, but they love Big Placebo.

Sasho Cirovski

The other team starts to feel, 'It's just not our day.' And our team gets that great save as a lift. I think that's what happened at that point.

Bob Stoops

We're in good shape and the guys understand the plan. It just gets down to making plays and handling the different wrinkles.

Joe Tereshinski

Where Shock is now, he is light years away from where he was back then. He could play back then, but now he gets in there and he doesn't hesitate. He can play, and he knows that. That's what makes him so dangerous.

Alyn McCauley

Where it gets really complicated is some player reps are on different teams now and some aren't even playing. Some executive-committee members have retired. So who gets a vote? Who still has a say in the matter? Without those guys in there, should somebody be promoted?

Ken Holland

Whenever this gets done, there's going to have to be a long healing process with fans, management and players.

Mickey Rourke

When you're young, working in a warehouse or selling hot dogs, you look at work - at acting - as something precious. It gets you out of the stink.

Lorenzo Booker

When he gets to the league, people are going to wonder, 'Where did this guy come from? And we'll say, 'We knew it all along.

Charles Stross

I was Computer Shopper's linux columnist for more than half a decade, from the late 90s onwards. Yes, I know about Linux. (My first review of a Linux distro in the press was published in late 1996.)

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If I empty out half of my life, God can only fill half...God will fill as much of us as we allow Him to fill.

David R. Brower

There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side and to simplify matters, I base my calculations on the worst one and that's plutonium.

Linda Flohr

We started slow today. In the second half we played with better intensity than we did in the first half.

Kristy Curry

We are at the turn, we are halfway around the track. It's just about respecting Michigan State and approaching like we have the other seven (Big Ten games).

Jim Mott

We struggled a little and they made it very hard to penetrate the middle. We made some adjustments at halftime and played better.

Robert Bates

We started off slow, ... but in the second half we really pulled away.

Dean Montzingo

We started each half missing a wide-open lay-up, and that kind of set the tone. My top three scorers couldn't find the basket.

Jeff Carter

We spent the whole second period in the box. It wears half the team down. We can't be doing that. It kills us.

Jonathan Tasini

The people who supported the war must be held accountable.

Jackie Robinson

We have a social responsibility and we are held to a higher standard than other institutions,

Dr. Fukino

We have never held out or said that we are doing everything perfectly, and we have accomplished everything. We have said that there's more work to be done, but that we are moving forward.

Kenneth Fisher

Fundamentally cheap stocks are often held in low regard by market participants. Something may be tainting their perception in investors' minds.

Bill Kennedy

We would've liked to have taken those points and held on to them a little.

Paul McGinley

We're in the room where Sam (Torrance) held all the team meetings in 2002, it's the first time I've been in here since then.

Katy Perry

I just feel like I have this gift that I've been given. It's like, 'Someone unwrap it! Here it is!' That drive can't be held down.

Heidi Perlman

We want to make sure these kids aren't held up.

J. K. Rowling

I think the next thing I publish will be for children, but I don't really want to be held to that because I also know what my next book for adults will be, and I really like that, too, so it depends. I've always had more than one thing going.

John Engler

Whatever occurs, it is imperative that you do not overreact.

Chico Buarque

Whatever is original in my writing comes from my musical apprenticeship. I look for rhythm in words. I imagine words as if they were musical chords. Often I'll write something, read it, and find it musically unsatisfactory. There is a musical imperative in my choice of words.

Kathleen Blanco

For these reasons, it is imperative that the investigation into the response to Katrina be comprehensive, probing and non-partisan.

David Bowie

I wanted to imbue Ziggy with real flesh and blood and muscle, and it was imperative that I find Ziggy and be him.

Josh Fogg

That's a start, but in order to get where I need to be, I need to be a little better with the off-speed pitches. That's something that you've got to take away from this, realize that it's Spring Training and the results now are not as imperative as they are during the season. But it's time to start getting people out and try to win a job.

Carol Rosenberg

This skin surveillance imperative may serve to be lifesaving in predisposed women.

Bill Bradley

the most lasting contribution that a president ever makes. ... Therefore I feel it is imperative that the president search to find people of integrity ... not someone who's locked into a rigid interpretation of the constitution, someone who sees the law as something that lives and breathes.

Mark Ruffalo

It's imperative that we opt out of the fossil fuel endgame.

Patti Reali

It's imperative that a lot of these operators get into this.

Alan Greenspan

In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending.

David Shields

Momentum, in literary mosaic, derives not from narrative but from the subtle, progressive buildup of thematic resonances.

Earl Weaver

Momentum is only as good as tomorrow's starting pitcher.

Richard Herring

We have seen a lot of momentum buying,

Ben Gordon

When we go down to Miami, we've got to keep the snowball going. We've got momentum going. We've got confidence. So we've got to keep it up.

Ben Gordon

When we go down there, we've got to keep the snowball rolling. We have momentum right now. We have confidence. So we need to keep that up.

Dave Tippett

We feel the momentum is on our side now.

Arthur Keith

Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution.

Ken Klee

Momentum switches in a heartbeat, ... I thought we were taking it to them, then there was one extraordinary play by their guy. ... I'd like to have it over again.

Al Ries

The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.

Akon

I love to just go to the movies, watch movies, listen to the scores and all that 'cause that's, like, the next step for me.

Mike Butters

We want to see who we're going to keep around next season.

Chris Cooper

I don't want to go bald, I don't know what's coming up next.

Carolina Kluft

Everything I do is geared towards improving my next performance.

David Miller

The performance of the stock is going to come down to the movies. It's that simple. And there are no sequels in store for next year.

Greg Stuart

We are making a dent, but we are not going to be at 10 percent of total spending by next year.

David Foster

We spent the night at a parking lot until the next morning.

Bill Porter

In the face of impermanence, if your next thought is good, this is what we call the realization body.

Charles Caleb Colton

The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.

Charles Simmons

The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.

Alan Moore

In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.

Alan Greenspan

The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that's likely to change for the better.

Alan Greenspan

Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.

Alan Greenspan

The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.

Alain Prost

I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.

Chris Christie

You just have to stand and grit your teeth and know your poll numbers are going to go down - and mine have - but you gotta grit through it because the alternative is unacceptable.

Bill Fennelly

We were trying to go for a quick two or (go) in and right back out. They were switching everything, so we were trying to go quickly to the basket.

David Wright

We're going to need to find it real quick if we're going to stay in this thing.

Jackie Payne

We're ready to take it nationwide. Really, that's unlimited. It's scary how quick it could grow.

Bobby Knight

Competitive drills enhance quickness.

John Steinbeck

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Kelly Thompson

She's very strong. And she has a lot of quickness as well.

Michelle Davis

She's very contemplative and thinks through situations thoroughly, but can think ... very quickly as well.

Jace Hymas

She's real quick and athletic. I think it took a little while for us to get used to her quickness and for her to get used to us.

Kevin Estes

She's quicker even though she's not as big as Gabby (Wade) or Sophie (Russell).

Todd Blackadder

Ulster seemed to get their tries effortlessly whereas we had to work for ours.

Lisa Tuttle

I can't remember a time when I didn't write or make up stories, because it seemed to come with reading.

David Carradine

Quentin is very organic; there was no way that he was going to put someone else's hand in there and anyway, my hands are kind of famous. It seemed right.

Terry Kratovil

Nothing ever seemed to ruffle him. He always had a smile. He was always cheerful.

Russ Ortiz

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

Hope Schulte

I don't know what was going on. It just seemed like everything was just going in for me. I just did what I usually do, and (the shots) just seemed to fall.

Alex Hernandez

I don't know what happened, ... Every thing seemed to be going well, but Wilson was just too fast.

Leslie Moonves

God, it seemed like we had shot somebody.

Mark Kantor

He said he was getting a new job. Everything seemed to be going fantastic.

Tony Johnson

We shifted because we didn't want them sold off individually. Then we could end up with absentee landlords.

Brad D. Smith

The world has shifted to the palm of our hand, or a tablet. We hadn't been investing in 'Quicken' that way.

Walter Kirn

We're on Twitter with one side of our personality, and Facebook with another, and LinkedIn with another side of our personality, and we're toggling between them. That's just a version of what an impostor does: shifting from one side of their personality to another with lightning speed.

Robert McGrath

Somehow society shifted and took these things seriously.

John Krasinski

I'm a sucker where I love shifting tides.

Marty Turco

You play it one game, one shift at a time.

Marcel Dionne

There was tremendous emotion. Every shift was so emotional.

Jamie Russell

You have to give Wisconsin credit. I thought they outworked us shift in, shift out.

Riley Nelson

Their whole team works hard, which is tough because you can't take a shift off.

Alan Pardew

I don't like people who drain my time and energy. If you've seen the Harry Potter films, we use the term 'dementors' - people who can draw the life out of you in terms of your energy. So we eradicate the 'dementors', encourage the positive people, and that spreads around to create the team spirit we have here

Alan Hansen

I played against the Brazilians in '82, who were definitely the best team never to have won the World Cup.

Alan Hansen

The World Cup needs a brilliant Brazilian team.

Alain Prost

A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best.

Alain Prost

It's always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone - sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.

Alain Prost

When I drove for British teams... they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.

Alain Prost

You can't always have the best team. It's always a compromise.

Al Michaels

There are a number of teams that would become vastly improved with Drew Bledsoe.

Al Michaels

The Miami Dolphins have to be taken seriously. Here's a team that seems to be jelling.

Al Oerter

I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history.

Brian Bannister

When you throw strikes, they are going to get hits.

Carl Erskine

I've had pretty good success with Stan (Musial) by throwing him my best pitch and backing up third.

Keegan Bradley

When I throw a softball, there's no time to think about the motion of my arm. I just look at the first baseman's glove and react.

Russian Proverb

What the young one begs for, the grown-up throws away

Andre Johnson

We know we're not out there trying to throw games. If we were really trying to lose, how did we win this one?

Tara Garrett

She (Ronk) is doing the job. She's throwing hard.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Even the best of us are thrown off some- times.

George Johnson

There are vehicles tossed hither and yon just like throwing pick-up sticks,