Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Berry

When we were leaving, Jerry (Narron) said, 'You're going to come to Cincinnati and see us play next year,' ... He moved his thumb. His mother said that means 'OK.' I got pretty choked up. Jerry did, too.

Denny McCrotty

We failed to make the routine plays in the field. We choked in that situation." ()

Chris Quinn

I found myself getting choked up a little bit. Seeing all the fans, seeing everything I've been through for four years just going through my head.

Kenneth Moore

I was just choked up inside. To me it's a close family. I don't know what happened.

Zab Judah

I was detained by a police officer and proceeded to get choked by Roger Mayweather.

Brendan Shanahan

For me, you always feel like you're in it right up until the buzzer goes. But ever since I've been a little kid, I've always gotten choked up when the season ended, other than when you win the championship. It's usually in the dressing room when you realize they won't let you play another period.

Mary Roach

When I was 16, I had a job on the cleaning crew at a local hospital. I wore a pink uniform and cleaned bathrooms and buffed the hallway linoleum. Oddly, I don't recall hating the job. I recall getting choked up at the end of the summer when I went to turn in my uniform and say goodbye to the ladies.

Alan Faneca

He had me choked up a little bit, it means so much to him, to be in the league this long, - to give him a shot like this, it definitely means something.

Travis Garrison

He choked up a little bit, but he tried to suck it up in front of us. You know Coach Williams, he's a real tough guy.

Jim Rice

We want to see it cleaned up. There?s no reason to have lead on the ground.

Martin Lee

We have to get all that cleaned out.

Kendall Carver

Until these things are cleaned up, maybe it's not appropriate that you land here.

Robert Rogers

We're going to get all these sidewalks cleaned up so people can walk down them, because they're going to be coming back.

Matt Kennell

What he saw was a dress on top of eggshells, so he cleaned it up. That's his job, to clean stuff out of alleys.

Tim Ryan

We are getting our clock cleaned by China.

Ken Dorr

We're getting rid of all the material we can't use. It's worn out or no good for the tourist railroad and we're also getting our three storage sites cleaned up. One storage site costs us $300 a month, so we won't have to pay that anymore.

Granth Sahib

When the mind is cleaned with the jewel of spiritual wisdom, it does not become dirty again.

Sue Smith

We've never cleaned it like we're going to do this morning. This has been needing a cleaning for a long time.

Kevin Bacon

We're famous for going to the hotel rooms and actually cleaning them up.

Marc Violette

The people of New York have waited long enough to reclaim the historic Hudson. The time has long past for General Electric to put its significant resources into cleaning up their toxic mess.

Mary McMahon

When the hot water hits the leaves they expand, so the larger the infuser the better. Ease of cleaning is also important.

Eileen collins

Looks like I might have some cleaning up to do when I get home.

Tom Aldrich

Many of these remaining process locations likely will require demolition in order to meet the expected cleaning criteria.

Gregory Allen

She had taken him under her wing ... and he helped her with shopping, cleaning and various other things she was no longer able to do.

Barbara Hambly

As Cinderella would probably tell you, even a prince who only recognizes your footwear is preferable to a lifetime of cleaning grates.

Ali Noorani

Today is an opportunity for Massachusetts residents to think about what the Commonwealth would look like without immigrants. Take a moment and think about who is serving you when you get your coffee, who is cleaning your office. Think about their hopes and dreams.

David Woods

What would have to be replaced if she died? ... Would there have to be day care? Would there have to be cleaning services? Would somebody have to do the shopping?

Joseph Prueher

We've got assurances that our crew is safe and sound and that we'll get to see them soon.

Bob Bowlsby

When you see a crew that was obviously over their head in our game and obviously over their head in Michigan-Nebraska game, it will stimulate a lot of discussion.

Michael Aspel

When I was introduced to the crew on the first occasion, I told them I didn't expect to enhance it - I'd just try not to damage it!

Todd Burns

Usually, it's not on a nice weather day in the middle of the day that the power goes out. It happens in the middle of the night in the snow or the rain, and we have to send a crew out to run the length of the line to find the problem.

Karen Carlson

The production crew actually took him into custody.

Katie McGrath

Working crew made me realise that the actors are a very small part of a very big machine, with each part being vital to make the show work. It so important to remember that it's not about you, it's about the show, and working crew hammered that point home to me.

Bill Shepherd

So I just want to wish everybody down there happy Thanksgiving from the crew of space station Alpha.

Dale Scott

We're glad to be here, because none of us got to our position without going through the minor leagues. We all understand what they're going through, and we support them. If it wasn't our crew here, it would be another crew.

Tom DeLay

Oh yeah, he's just doing his job. He's just doing his job. He's got a film crew that has been following him around for two years to document how he's going to get Tom DeLay,

Aaron Lazar

On the PBS recording of 'The Light in the Piazza' backstage, you get to see me doing some sweet lunges down the hallway of the Vivian Beaumont.

Ben Nelson

Sometimes there's hallway whispers. None of that to date. It's still new, but I'm not hearing it.

Gary Locke

That office was pretty well destroyed. The hallway had some stuff on the walls that had melted from the heat and some smoke got into the rest of the building.

Michael Franti

With all the people hating and hurting each other, I don't understand how people could get upset about people of the same sex caring for each other.

Imelda May

I couldn't think of anything worse than hating your own music and having to play it every night. It would be a nightmare.

Frank Ogden

We don't want him acclimated to people. In order to survive they've got to keep hating people.

Charles W. Pickering

In states where no regulation exists, anyone is permitted to perform medical imaging and radiation therapy procedures, sometimes after just a few weeks of on-the-job training.

Charles Edison

Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.

Charles Dudley Warner

If you do things by the job, you are perpetually driven: the hours are scourges. If you work by the hour, you gently sail on the stream of Time, which is always bearing you on to the haven of Pay, whether you make any effort, or not.

Charles de Lint

There isn't a single day I don't do some writing -- if you don't, you won't have a book. When you're self-employed it is very easy to burn away your time instead -- answering e-mails, surfing the Internet, or hanging out with friends. You really must have the discipline to sit down and write every day. Most of what I am writing is living in the back of my head or in my subconscious. I find if I write every day, my subconscious will do the job for me.

Charles de Lint

We're so quick to cut away pieces of ourselves to suit a particular relationship, a job, a circle of friends, incessantly editing who we are until we fit in.

Charles Dickens

"There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones."

Charles Dickens

"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."

Charles Stross

I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went "aha!" - because what you need is an agent who knows the industry but who doesn't have a huge list of famous clients whose needs will inevitably be put ahead of you. So I emailed her, and ... well, 11 years later I am the client listed at the top of her masthead!

Charles Stross

What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.

Nancy Talanian

We want the local police to do what they were meant to do -- protect their citizens.

Jochen Zeitz

Unless the local community signs up, wildlife won't survive. And without wildlife, no one will visit.

Ryan Julison

She wants to support her local tournaments. We're disappointed, but we understand.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

There are so many local nonprofits making a positive impact every day, and yet, oftentimes we don't hear enough about them or their needs.

David Dunn

Since Sept. 11, the local police, our role has changed, ... Before, we were worrying about burglaries, thefts.

E. Hicks

I talked to a local person who's into philanthropy for a defibrillator.

Sarah Waters

I was mad about the theatre growing up, really mad. We had a local theatre, the Torch, and I used to usher there. I would see the shows over and over again.

Ratu Tavanavanua

I think there's enough local talent out there for us to make an assessment.

E. O. Wilson

I was completely surprised. I think things were troubling him from his local detractors.

George Thompson

I thought volume trends were good. And the recall seems to be a thing of the past.

Mark Baldassare

He was able to do it two years ago in the recall election, and that's what he's trying to do again.

Gene Taylor

I was there ? and I didn't recall seeing you there,

Paul Cavalluzzo

I don't ever recall receiving any instructions with respect to caveats being down,

Don McLean

Do you recall what was revealed the day the music died?

Ambrose Bierce

recollect, v. To recall with additions something not previously known.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.

Anna Akhmatova

I know beginnings, I know endings too, and life-in-death, and something else I'd rather not recall just now.

Rudy Langford

The recall failed. Let's have another recall on (Election Day) May 2.

Charles Dickens

things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up

Aiden Wilson Tozer

How completely satisfying to turn from [our] limitations to a God who has none.

Luc Ferrari

You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things.

Denise Levertov

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

Dave Orlandini

We've turned the corner. We still have a long way to go, but at least we can see the road. Before we couldn't even see the road.

Brian Smith

We're going to go down there, turn over every stone.

Andrew Klink

When we got that fumble, that was the turning point.

Monty Python

Well she turned me into a newt!""A newt?""I got better...

Tiffany Thornton

No one is perfect in this world, and we all have our battles, but it's the way we get back on our feet and turn it around that really counts.

Benjamin Franklin

Taxes on consumption, like those on capital or income, to be just, must be uniform.

Kent Mercker

You don't even have to wash my uniform pants.

Chris Graveline

Who can think of a person who has disgraced this uniform more?

Adam Smith

Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor.

Christopher Wren

Variety of uniformities makes complete beauty.

Henry Mancini

If you want to make money in music, get into the band uniform business.

Jack L. Chalker

You can’t be a non-conformist if you don’t wear the proper uniform.

Lorrie Fair

Michael Jordan always wore his Carolina shorts under his Bulls' uniform.

George W. Bush

We live in freedom because every generation has produced patriots willing to serve a cause greater than themselves. Those who serve nowadays are taking their rightful place among the greatest generations that have worn our nation's uniform.

Pat Sullivan

I think we wore them down with our depth.

Kim Shaw

I probably wore out my VHS copy of 'Office Space.'

Iris Apfel

I still have the dress I wore on the first date with my husband, which was more than 66 years ago. I still have it, and it still fits.

Rudy Gay

We kind of wore them down with our defense.

Gabrielle Castro

Definitely. They wore us out. We don't go too deep.

Bob Motzko

They wore us down. They just wore us down physically. Our defensemen were just pooped at the end.

Bob Hill

I don't think we could have done much more than we did. I thought they just wore us out with their depth.