Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Potts

We are looking to be respectable in our division and make the league playoffs again, ... We have a good nucleus of returning players and plenty of experience gained from last year?s run in the league and district playoffs.

Tim Mueller

There are some exciting things happening in the park district, and I'm having a lot of fun. I love the work, and being a part of what the park district provides for the community. It keeps me going.

Chuck D.

We started off slow and then put it together to get our scoring going. It's good to be 3-0 at this time in district play.

Emma Brooks

We started off a little slow, but we picked it up. We just executed the way we practiced. It's good to start district off on a positive note.

Tommy Aldridge

We started four sophomores that year and we played in a national tournament in Tennessee. When we went into the lobby where the teams were, it looked like a lobby of WNBA players. We split our games in Tennessee (going 2-2) and I was proud of that. We went 22-12 and won the district championship.

Cynthia Zea

We start district Tuesday. The games we missed out on are games you just won't get to prepare.

Mike Loyd

We've got a week off now for tests this next week. I don't especially like having a week off before the district tournament, but that's the way it is. We'll practice a lot. We need to keep on this roll we've been on.

Terry Harris

We've got a super tough non-district schedule, and it can't do anything but help us. We know we're gonna make some mistakes because we've got some young ballplayers. Hopefully it'll get us ready come district time.

Kevin Ford

What the school district is doing here . . . is prohibiting a student from quoting the Bible.

Billy Donovan

We were trying to experiment with some different combinations on the perimeter. In a league game, I probably wouldn't risk that, unless we went to a zone a little bit.

Bill Ayers

Every relationship is an experiment and what one learns from it is so fascinating.

Uday Kotak

As long as there is cash, and the economy is running, all is well. But as a bank, we'll have to test, experiment, try a hundred different things. A few may work, a few may fail, but we have to experiment and try.

Mark Frauenfelder

I wrote and illustrated a science experiment book called 'The Mad Professor'.

Ruth Reichl

The American government policy on what we supported and subsidised in agriculture was a social experiment on a whole generation of children.

Jerry Hollendorfer

That was just an experiment that worked out. We sure weren't thinking about any million-dollar race for him.

Chris Clarke

I would never propose an experiment of any kind that I thought could possibly harm a whale.

Adam Smith

Have lots of experiments, but make sure they're strategically focused.

Edward Carpenter

Whatever the practical value of the Walden experiment may be, there is no question that the book is one of the most vital and pithy ever written.

Jason Cook

We want to show people what search-and-recovery teams go through. The windows are the floors, and the floors are the walls. Their world is literally turned upside down.

Pat Riley

We know he's a big-time tumbler. He goes hard to the basket. He hits the floor a lot. If he could play he'd be out there.

Thomas Hardy

Where once we danced, where once we sang, Gentlemen, / The floors are shrunken, cobwebs hang.

Lazarus Sims

We have to guard them like they have to guard us. They have to prove it. They have to step on the floor the same night we have to step on the floor.

John Hammond

Watching those guys on our own floor every day, working with our guys, that's as good as it gets. There is something to be said for accountability, for actually seeing guys every day.

Allan Ray

When I was on that floor and couldn't see anything, that was one of the first things I was thinking about, I'd probably be blind. I thought I was. I couldn't see anything. Everything was burning. Pretty much, my life just flashed in front of me.

Gail Goestenkors

Throughout the game, we had a lot of hustle plays, no matter what the score was. We got on the floor all night long, and that's what need to do.

Bryan Singer

We've seen better success using firewalls to separate the shop floor from the front office than using anything else.

John Beilein

Senior players have helped us make our style work. It just opens the floor for us, whether people are in man or zone.

Charles Dickens

Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.

Charles Dickens

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

Charles Stross

I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer.

Alan Watts

The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

Alan Watts

Substances like LSD, which give away a secret about the nature of the social game - the human game and what underlies it - are potentially dangerous, of course, like any good thing is. Electricity is dangerous, fire is dangerous, cars are dangerous, planes are dangerous, but not so dangerous as driving on the freeway. The only way to handle danger is to face it. If you start getting frightened of it, then you make it worse. Because you project onto it all kinds of bogeys and threats which don't exist in it at all.

Alan Moore

They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away.

Alan Green

You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals.

Al Alvarez

The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.

Al Alvarez

Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.

Lamar Butler

We know we match up well with this team. It's going to be an interesting game.

Andrew Walpole

Vaughan is not playing this match as a precautionary measure.

D. James

We started out a little slow, a little sluggish. I think it was because the refs weren't on time. We warmed up and got the sweat and everything going in the anticipation of the match only to have to wait another half-hour until kickoff.

Charlie Lane

We started off slow with some tough matches in the first round. We got better as we went.

Jerry McSwords

We were a match away from making it look a little more respectable.

John Reid

Until we know how the report has been viewed by the match review panel, we have no position,

John Paquette

We've always said part of the reason for the repeat matches is for television.

Ron Hutchins

We're going to take it one match at a time.

Andre Agassi

When we got done with that match I said he's a top-10 player,

Jerry Conway

We're going to find seals in places they're not normally at, and where people are.

Taylor Lautner

If I were trying to impress a girl, I wouldn't get all super dressed because I would look like I was trying too hard. Instead, I would probably wear what I normally would.

Scott Skiles

Just to run down and double-team Shaq all over the place, it normally doesn't pay off.

Scott Johnstone

It can be as little as $1, but normally it's $500, $1,000 or $2,000.

Mike Listerman

We take 21 more shots and make the same amount. I like to think we're a little better shooting team than that, but today we weren't. We just didn't stick it in like we normally do.

Cory Anderson

He was probably not as sharp as he normally is.

Buff Bradley

He doesn't normally work that fast. He's doing great.

Billy Donovan

He got back to playing the way he normally does.

Scarlett Johansson

I said, 'Women don't normally sleep in a bra. I can't wake up in this scene wearing a bra, it's ridiculous,'

Charles Tillman

Look at politics; they're always in competition over an election, who wants to win. It's just who we are, it's what we do.

Charles Dickens

Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.

Charles Caleb Colton

If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.

Charles Caleb Colton

In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.

Charles Caleb Colton

All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman, Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings.

Charles Caleb Colton

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

Charles Dickens

Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.

Charles Dickens

Ride on! Ride on over all obstacles and win the race.