Famous Quotes & Sayings

Malcolm Midgely

One to six people are feared drowned after a baptism service that happened at the river on Sunday morning.

Joss Whedon

She doesn't really understand this world. She's very strong but she's also very naive. She's not quite as little as the girls I'm used to writing, but she's definitely one of them in the sense of she'll undergo that kind of baptism of fire that used to be relegated to the male gender.

Joe Battista

We did that on purpose. We wanted to give them baptism by fire and I'd say so far we passed the test so far.

Abraham Verghese

Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.

Ambrose Bierce

DELUGE, n. A notable first experiment in baptism which washed away the sins (and sinners) of the world.

Alphonsus Liguori

A person may be Baptized, and yet not born again to grace, in consequence of not having the necessary dispositions at Baptism.

David Lipe

Our schedule is a load and it's a baptism by fire. We have no easy non-conference matches.

Jim Baron

(Last year) definitely helps. Will Daniels had to step up; we had a number of guys that had to step up. That certainly helps you, because they went through a baptism by fire and got some quality minutes. Now, you have to continue to build continuity and continue to build chemistry with each and every game.

Tim Madden

We've been practicing officially for only a few days, so it's hard to predict exactly what kind of performances we may see from our guys this weekend. Putting them out there, especially the freshmen, is sort of like a baptism by fire. I'm interested to see how they respond.

Matt Rosoff

Getting to profitability will require a big-name software launch while withstanding a concentrated marketing blitz from Sony. Anything less could mean years of red ink ahead.

Linda Grant

Times were very hard if you were a poor, politically correct Jewish girl living in the east end of London during the Blitz and you were trying to eke out a living as a hairdresser.

Jim Graham

We're kind of mounting a blitz of information.

Brad Turner

To blitz like Jacksonville did, you have to play man coverage, which would be completey out of character for Coach Rush. He doesn't like to do that. They'll blitz within their front five and they'll do some in-line stunts, but it won't be anything like we saw last week, because speed-wise they don't compare to Jacksonville.

Dwight Freeney

We didn't blitz a whole lot. We usually don't have to because we get good pressure from the guys up front. Our idea was to put as much pressure on him with our front four and drop everybody else back into coverage.

Drayton Florence

We didn't blitz at all during the preseason, so we've got a few things up our sleeve.

Zeb Simon

We're so sound on defense that we didn't feel we needed to blitz to get the type of pressure we needed, you know, to get the great underneath coverage we got from our secondary.

Ryan Fitzpatrick

I think their blitz package was good. We felt like they were going to blitz. There were things we were going to do to counter that. They just didn't work as well as we wanted them to.

Ray Lewis

Peyton comes to the line, and he checks to a pass or a run, and I come to the line, and I check from a blitz to a zone, ... I think it's great for the fans to see, but it's actually more stressful when you're on the field, because you're actually trying to figure out truly their next move. He's good at it.

Italo Calvino

Bringing a child into the world makes sense only if this child is wanted consciously and freely by its two parents. If it is not, then it is simply animal and criminal behavior.

William Lennon

We're not bring these charges to be popular, we're bringing these charges in order to stand up and take on public corruption head-on.

Sumner Redstone

Li is clearly a pioneer in bringing innovative partnerships to the Chinese people.

Guy Hohenhaus

Lifting the last remaining hold order at Pimlico is a positive that things are coming to a close there. We will continue working with all parties involved to monitor the situation and bring it to a conclusion. We thank the owners, trainers, and staff for their diligence in practicing prudent bio-security measures and their patience as we work through this science-based process that will make sure the remaining horses test negative before they will be released from the detention barn.

Sathya Baba

Life would be stale if there were no trials and difficulties. It is these difficulties which bring out the human values in man.

Steve Mitchell

Let this be a starting point for us in renaming B Street a starting point for us to come together as a community all nationalities, bring it down to the human level.

Jim Johnson

Luckily, we had some engineers along. They just love that kind of scenario -- troubleshooting on the fly. That's what brings us joy in our work is fixing something and carrying on, instead of just being shut down.

John Strand

Luna Energy is a neighbor that brings tax revenues and new jobs to our city and county.

Buck Martinez

Luis Gonzalez has the respect of everybody in baseball, and his opinion is very valued. He's always been a character guy that we respect a lot. We felt that he brings everything we want on this team.

Martin O'Malley

Making government more efficient and more effective need not be a partisan issue.

Toshihiko Fukui

On the contrary, exchange rate movements still play an important role in facilitating more efficient resource allocations in the long run.

Eric Roberts

I have a lot of experience running meetings, ... I think I've learned how to make them efficient rather than heavy-handed.

Michael Glos

I find him really efficient and I think he's perfect for every post.

Gail Goestenkors

She was very efficient with her minutes. She played 19 minutes and had 20 points. Part of it, I think, is that she is able to stay fresh.

Steve Wright

She was very efficient at the net for us. We expect good things from her this year.

Pat Ivey

If they can get in there at 9:30 a.m., they can get a lot done. It's not the most efficient way to do it, but it's better than trying to get in there and work during rush hour.

Russell Wilson

To be efficient with the football in practice and on the game field obviously is the most important thing, but be efficient with the football, make smart decisions, be great on third downs, be great in the red zone, when the game's on the line in the fourth quarter - that's what I love.

Oliver E. Williamson

The presumption that an extant mode is efficient if the expected net gain is negative can nevertheless be rebutted by showing that the obstacles to implementing an otherwise superior feasible alternative are 'unfair.'

Robert Kazinsky

Nothing is as hard as working on a British soap in this industry.

Dave Balza

Like I said, it's hard. It's hard to be positive when you're losing.

Viktor Kozlov

Like I said before, it's like a lottery. It's hard to score in the shootout.

Tim Kearney

Luckily he didn't have to work as hard or often in as other games. When we need him to step up, he does.

Pamela Smith

Lucinda was my only child, and she was God-given, and I know somewhere, somewhere I will come to terms that it was her time. But it was how it happened, and why it happened, that I have a hard time with. I miss her so much.

Kayla Rengel

Make sure we keep our focus, make sure we practice hard all week, and sleep well when we do have our off days.

Ozzie Guillen

Losing Tony is something that is hard on the Latin community.

Nicole Ohlde

Losing a player like her was hard because she does so much on and off the court.

Jerry Stackhouse

Last year, we had a letdown. We didn't want to work as hard as we did this season, then give it away. Now hopefully we can do what we did on the road last year.

John Schwartz

Legally, this is referred to as an increase. There's no two ways about it on the ballot. However, if you look at the preamble, it says this proposal would reauthorize the levy. That tells taxpayers this is something they have paid before.

Maurice Williams

Whenever you see your quarterback on the ground, especially rolling around in pain, it's not good. We get paid to protect him. That's what we want to do and when we don't, our week is long.

John Hopkins

If a student has already paid tuition for his or her university, that's it, we don't take any money,

Dave Ramsey

Work-get paid; don't work-don't get paid. Everybody is on commission

Andy Irons

On my waves I just did as many turns as I could and it paid off.

Mark Chmura

I didn't do it to grandstand. I'm being paid to render an opinion. That's essentially what I did.

Walter Dean Myers

I didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school. They don't say Shakespeare got a check.

Lela Rochon

I'm glad that I ran track in high school. I think it paid off.

David Steinberg

I rewrote it and I took all your notes. Read it again, that kind of persistence paid off.

John Calipari

Let me tell you, we played well. Don't think we didn't play well, we're not much better than they.

Dan Dersam

Leah played exceptionally well in the first half. In the second half, they did everything but tie her shoes together to try and stop her.

Colin Cushman

Megan played great. We're a young team, so I'm not too surprised that we had some problems.

Michael Lehmann

My first movie, 'Heathers,' had played at the festival, so I had a little bit of a Sundance connection, but I didn't really know about the Labs.

Scott Rolen

No different than any other year. Played it the same as every year, no swings the first time out.

Jim Tressel

Obviously, it was a different scenario than we've played under recently.

Robert Price

We had been at Warehouse C-11 in Atlanta, where we had played before,

Rafael Nadal

For sure I didn't play 100 percent. But he played very good, too.

Roberto Luongo

From my standpoint it's disappointing. I think I could have played a little better.

Dave Whelan

Sven-Goran Eriksson would have been sacked by now if it was up to me.

Frank Beamer

They just whacked us and sacked us and got after us.

Tori Kelly

My first competition, I guess, singing-wise, I was six years old, and there's a video of it, too. I'm just, like, stick straight. I'm not moving at all, and I'm just singing.

Carla Ponte

My disappointment - my big disappointment - is because six fugitives are still at large, most probably in Serbia, and that includes, of course, Mladic,

David Keith

From sixth grade on I was a real Pillsbury doughboy. Overweight, long hair, thick glasses.

Paula Abdul

I wish we could have more than six (guys).

Bob Eastwood

Sixty is just a number. I don't feel 60.

Jessie Pettit

Six times now, huh. That's not too bad.

Paul Johnson

I'd like to get one win, ... I'm not thinking about getting six wins.

Bethany Mota

I remember when I was in the sixth grade, my friends used to come over and we would give each other blindfolded makeovers, which turned out interestingly to say the least!

Chauncey Billups

We didn't play that great, but we got it done. Sixty wins, that sounds good.

John Dingell

Let's look at the system. First, the characteristics they're talking about they say is a fingerprint. In fact, it's more like a tire print.

Tom Coughlin

Let's talk about winning. Let's talk about winning first before we talk about anything else,

Jack Ford

mediated. We still talk about her every day, but she's doing better.

Lindy Ruff

No, no. We haven't talked about that. Until you're in, you're not in.

Felipe Alou

No, no, no, I don't want to talk about Bonds. I'll see you later.

Richard Flanagan

My father, unusually for a PoW, talked about his experiences, but he talked about them in a very limited way.

Kenneth Rice

No, I didn't want to talk about that.

Eddie Perez

No, you don't talk enough to be boring.

Chris Cornell

I'm not usually in a talkative mode.