Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Kane

Ultimately, our defense let us down the entire week, and we were unable to generate a lot of offense or come up with clutch hits.

Ivan Perez

We struggled in the clutch to make plays. I would say it's hard to play away from home in front of 6,000 people yelling at you. They got into us.

Tim Connolly

We're in Canada, so I might get to see it on TV. We get a clutch goal when we need it, and that's what happened.

Cody Provenzano

This win was huge. It means the world to us. Winning a game like this shows how clutch we were today.

Paul Chappell

With this hand, you can clutch objects such as a ball, ... you can move the thumb out to the side and grip objects with the index finger in the way you do when opening a lock with a key.

Linn Williams

We're still not getting clutch hits. That's been our Achilles' heel all year.

Shanna Zolman

She's a clutch player. She doesn't get rattled.

John Walsh

She is the clutch hitter for us. She creates havoc with her speed. She's got some power, too. So when she's on, she's a real dangerous player.

Richard Jefferson

Mike is such a great player, such a clutch player. I joke with him, because he doesn't jump very high and he's not very fast, yet he's still one of the most effective guys in the NBA because he's so intelligent. He knows the game, and he knows what it takes to get it done.

Joseph Palaia

We want people to have a comparable standard of living to what they have on Earth. We think it would be a pretty nice place to live.

Elaine Sciolino

The position of vice president does not exist in France; neither does a role comparable that of the first lady of the United States.

E. F. Benson

Emotionally, I have no picture-book illustrated with memories of my first five years, but externally, I have impressions that possess a haunting vividness comparable only to the texture of dreams, when dreams are tumultuously alive.

Michael Goldstein

We are pleased with our strong sales performance this quarter. Our U.S.A. comparable toy store sales were up 13 percent for the third quarter and 6 percent for the first nine months.

Colin Campbell

We won't go on forever dumping money into this team. We need a market rate lease or a lease comparable to what other minor league hockey teams are paying in the WHL.

Mark Land

So far, the testing is going very well. The performance has been good, and fuel mileage has been comparable to the 2002 engines.

Tom DeMarco

Software is a thought process. To patent it is comparable to patenting induction or deduction.

Cecilia Johnson

We feel the online program is comparable to a face-to-face setting because teachers write the curriculum. The program stays true to state standards.

Don Lindburg

People will get up in the middle of the night to see the pandas. I don't think there is a comparable animal. There isn't the enormity of response that you find with pandas.

Mike Brown

So it's compound problems, ... Somebody is not in their gap and then you miss the tackle and it turns into big plays.

Dr. McKinlay

There has been increasing concern about the use of mercury-based amalgam for filling teeth, even though we've been using exactly this compound for about 150 years.

Kent Houser

We are playing so different than we were a month ago. When we make a mistake now, we don?t compound it by making another or getting that deer-in-the-headlights look. We just keep playing.

Ferid Murad

What does that suggest when a compound this simple plays such an important role? To me it suggests that nitric oxide is one of the most primitive elements of cellular signaling, that it goes way back into evolution.

Bill Sexton

I think we helped them in the first inning with the double error. That inning is over with no runs if we make the play on that, but then we compound things with the mistake in the outfield as well.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Valor is a soldierly compound of vanity, duty and the gambler's hope.

Robert Wisner

Delays from here on will further compound the lack of storage.

Neil Herman

Apparently, more Sun servers are sold running Oracle software than anything else. Weak results and guidance from Sun only serve to compound our near-term worries.

Samuel Butler

Compound for sins they are inclined to by damning those they have no mind to.

John Hargreaves

We have produced record results...these have been delivered by providing our members with outstanding value for money and through continued store expansion,

Michael Flanagan

There is continued takeover speculation surrounding the entire group. I suspect that is the primary reason moving the stock.

David King

We shall never forget their enthusiasm, love of space, dedication, and their continued inspiration.

Hilary Clinton

Very calmly, we went out to the sidewalk in front of our office and continued our discussion.

Lawrence Hargrave

The plane is simply abstracting the power stored in the wave by a distant gale, and using it to counteract gravity. And if the work be continued long enough, or a multitude of planes be continually drawing on the reservoir of power, the wave must inevitably be flattened.

Rob Sims

We deserve that record. Our guys played hard and stuck together through a lot of ups and downs. And we continued to win.

Kevin Krone

We want to thank our Customers for their continued excitement about DING! since its introduction last February. Thanks to our hardworking Employees, fare sales were revolutionized with the creation of DING!

Justice Theodore

The potential danger to the continued existence of the union rests with the adjudication of these fines.

Ken Goldstein

The performance of the leading index is suggestive of continued momentum or growth in the spring.

Hal Stratton

We want to see a revised standard that narrows that opening and makes it more difficult for kids to get their fingers caught.

Dan Monson

We have to get some shots to go in. We haven't shot 40 percent yet in five league games. That's pretty difficult to weather.

Brenda Frese

We wanted to try to turn them into a jump-shooting team as much as possible. And we also wanted them to have to take difficult shots.

Barry Russell

We have played two really good teams who had something on the line. It was very difficult to win in San Angelo and (the Odessa High) game was very much like a playoff game for them.

Mike Dement

We have a young team this year and we're playing a difficult schedule. So I would say that I'm probably drawing from it even now, the things you have to do with a young team and how you have to handle them. That was an experience with that very young Duke team. As seniors, they made that first Final Four and the rest is history from there.

Sophia Young

The fact that she has multiple moves makes her difficult to guard. She used her up-and-under quite a bit. We fell for her fakes a lot.

Arthur Henderson

The real difficulty is to make sure that such treaty obligations will be observed.

Jose Contreras

When I'm in the zone, it's difficult for players to hit me. That's what I've been working on -- getting in the zone.

Sharon Salzberg

It is sometimes difficult to view compassion and loving kindness as the strengths they are.

Ron Carey

would not have raised any flags for me.

Antonio Villaraigosa

If you wave a flag, make it an American Flag.

Kurt Woerner

I can't imagine someone walking onto that site and not having red flags go up. Someone missed this big time.

Orson Scott Card

A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.

Ken Brown

Those flags tell the whole story. We've taken a stand here. It's not because we're trying to grandstand, there's history involved,

Greg Pettis

We get the flags a week (before the event).

John Earl

We hope to have more flags next year.

Dennis Speigel

Our industry is going through another revolution cycle. Six Flags has just been sold. There are individuals and people in the job marketplace who haven't been in the marketplace in a while.

Wendy Smith

Some of the things that kids will say in interviews, the red flags that are raised, are unbelievable. You'll say to yourself, 'You're kidding me, right?' And I will know: That kid is not getting in.

Andy Grove

Pickups, S.U.V.'s, vans and the like represent about 80 million vehicles, with mileage of perhaps 13 to 16 miles per gallon. Converting those should be our first priority.

Carol Leifer

Sex when you're married is like going to the 7-Eleven: There's not much variety, but at three in the morning, it's always there.

Carol Shields

In one day I had altered my life; my life, therefore, was alterable. This simple axiom did not call out for exegesis; no, it entered my bloodstream directly, as powerful as heroin. I could feel it pump and surge, the way it brightened my veins to a kind of glass. I had wakened that morning to narrowness and predestination and now I was falling asleep in the storm of my own free will.

Carlos Castaneda

The shadows in the early morning don't tell much. The shadows rest at that time. So it's useless to gaze very early in the day. Around six in the morning the shadows wake up, and they are best around five in the afternoon. Then they are fully awake.

Carl Bernstein

June 17, 1972. Nine o'clock Saturday morning. Early for the telephone. Woodward fumbled for the receiver and snapped awake. The city editor of the Washington Post was on the line. Five men had been arrested earlier that morning in a burglary attempt at Democratic headquarters, carrying photographic equipment and electronic gear. Could he come in?

C. S. Lewis

I have discovered, passionate grief does not link us with the dead but cuts us off from them. This becomes clearer and clearer. It is just at those moments when I feel least sorrow - getting into my morning bath is usually one of them - that H. rushes upon my mind in her full reality, her otherness. Not, as in my worst moments, all foreshortened and patheticized and solemnized by my miseries, but as she is in her own right. This is good and tonic.

Aaron Sorkin

Mrs. Landingham, does the President have free time this morning? The President has nothing but free time, Toby. Right now he's in the residence eating Cheerios and enjoying Regis and Kathie Lee. Should I get him for you? Sarcasm's a disturbing thing coming from a woman of your age, Mrs. Landingham. What age would that be, Toby? Late twenties? Atta boy.

Alan Turing

My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.

Alan Turing

One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other, "My little computer said such a funny thing this morning".

Alan Shepard

Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars.

John Lee Hooker

You can go to Europe, and there's no turnin' back - any parts of Europe. Wherever you are, there is no stop and go for the blues. The blues go but it don't stop.

Rob Enderle

LCS and Communicator are not worth a whole lot without the back end. They have to have the back end in place, or the other parts don't move.

John Scalzi

I don't think we're at the point where most people are willing to get rid of body parts and replace them, but then again, people who shoot lasers in their eyes come out with better-than-perfect vision.

Jerome Flynn

I don't think it takes much for a cult to be a cult. Many parts of our society are cultish, and you only need a charismatic leader and some teachings, and before you know it, you have a cult.

Bill Stoneman

One of the strongest parts to our organization is depth. It allows us to do a lot of things.

Bill Cosby

Things are old. Parts are old. I'm talking about 'us' parts. AARP-parts. Some of us were born with stronger parts than others.

Larry Rice

The parts are worth more than the whole.

Steve Daignault

We need to get the other parts on.

Jim Tracy

We need to get him back to where he is completely functional, rather than seeing parts of him here and there.

Scott Snyder

We still see plenty of upside. That region is still showing the most value.

Michael Heffernan

With Tokyo down and the Dow futures down there was plenty of reason to sell.

Italo Calvino

If the reader looks, I think he will find plenty of moral and political ideas in my stories.

Hugh Miller

They were, I doubt not, happy enough in their dark stalls, because they were horses, and had plenty to eat; and I was at times quite happy enough in the dark loft, because I was a man, and could think and imagine.

Tim Howard

I've made plenty of mistakes as a keeper, that's for sure. I'll make plenty more before I'm through.

Tom Elliott

This neighborhood will have plenty to say on this, don't worry.

William M. Thackeray

Though small was your allowance,You saved a little store:And those who save a littleShall get a plenty more.

John Hoffman

Jacobson was the least stoned at the time, I guess. But he was plenty stoned during the interview.

Ken Dunham

There are plenty of ways to get around all of those things.

Jozef Stumpel

We know we can play with any team in the league. We've proven it before, and when we play hard, we play desperate, we're one of the top clubs, too.

Thomas Keller

ultimately, the system proved instrumental in fostering an undeniably unified restaurant staff.

Ewen Bremner

I've proved to myself I can get along in different kinds of parts and different kinds of productions.

Jason Bay

I'm not out to prove anything to anybody.

Jack Sommer

We live in a world of skeptics, don't we? ... We didn't come into this to prove ourselves.

Rachel Brazell

We're here to prove (the skeptics) all wrong.

George Higgins

This proves there's no such thing as the No Smile Line, don't you think.

John Chambers

This proves our strategy is working in terms of the convergence of voice, video and data.

Kirby Copeland

This proves a lot. We can come out and play with the No. 3 team in the nation.

Michael Behe

When you start putting constraints on science, science suffers.

Kourtney Kardashian

Nothing comes before my children. I find that putting everything else in order of importance also helps to get everything done.

Patterson Hood

We were supposed to be taking it slowly this fall, with putting together the album,

Brian Donahue

We're putting together a top-notch team of professionals.

Steve Davis

We're putting things in place this season to get us there.

Brian Dixon

We've stopped putting water on them and there is no smoking.

Steve Lemke

Now we're taking what we had and putting it on steroids,

Joe Humasti

From tee to green, we're great. But our putting killed us. We really have to do a lot of work on our short game.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgment.

Charlie Daniels

We can get rid of red tape.

Charlie Daniels

What this world needs is a few more Rednecks

David Allan Coe

My long hair just can't cover up my redneck.

David Koechner

I like to say, in Hollywood, you can't make a redneck movie without me. That doesn't happen. You better not do it.

Leslie Jamison

Redeeming subjects from cliche is its own pleasure and privilege.

Jase Robertson

When in doubt, figure it out. That's the redneck way.

Jase Robertson

You can talk any redneck into a challenge. That’s why so many rednecks die in strange ways.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God's purpose in redemption is to make worshipers out of rebels.

Edward Norton

I don't get much out of doing a red carpet.

Kristin Mulhall

We want to see how he handles the track. If he runs well, we'll just keep him here.

Bob Baffert

Sinister Minister, you can't control. He just runs off. . . . He's a runaway train.

Kevin Millar

We've got to find a way to put one of those runs across. It was just one of those nights. Very frustrating.

Jeff Eddleman

We need to score some runs and keep from making errors. McCarty?s not going to give up many runs.

Oscar Robles

We're struggling to score runs right now, so anything we get is a plus, ... Unfortunately, tonight, it wasn't enough.

Johnny Damon

To score runs off their mistakes, that's key.

Bobby Cox

We got him some runs early, and that helped.

Rickey Henderson

To me the most important thing was stirring things up and scoring some runs so we could win a ballgame.

Lane Kiffin

We had our backups and we like to play somewhat realistic. We had about six straight runs before that.

Roger Peak

Simply go to the site and sign-up for a session at your convenience.

Jim Butler

When this session started, we were going to get killed. We've come a long way.

Jonathan Coe

From our perspective, the session was a success.

O. J. Simpson

This session is all about trying to get well with the voters before November.

Chris Duffy

We had a heart-to-heart talk and let it all out on the table. It was more of a venting session for everybody.

Sharon Watson

We will be doing a special training session on shelters at 9 a.m. Wednesday,

Mike Mills

We never give up until the legislative session is over.

Christopher Hill

We can't just sit there stalemated session after stalemated session.

Rahul Dravid

I think the first session tomorrow is going to be very critical,

Brett Favre

We have to get something going and have a short time to get there, ... I couldn't go out like that. If you're going to go back in, do something good.

Charles Spurgeon

Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

Frank Robinson

We did have it, ... for a short while.

Alan Watts

Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way...

Mark Cuban

There are no shortcuts. NONE.

Charles Hazlewood

All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and meaning into every form of music that existed in his time.

Benjamin Hoff

A saying from the area of Chinese medicine would be appropriate to mention here: "One disease, long life; no disease, short life." In other words, those who know what's wrong with them and take care of themselves accordingly will tend to live a lot longer than those who consider themselves perfectly happy and neglect their weakness. So, in that sense at least, a Weakness of some sort can do you a big favor, if you acknowledge that it's there.

Demetri Martin

Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punchline.

Billy Bob Thornton

You can write when you're dyslexic, you just can't read it. But I started writing short stories as a child and I found the short story format a real nice one. I love short stories and I love short documentaries or short films of any kind.

Jeff Blauser

We're just going through a spell right now where things aren't going our way.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

Somehow, a scrubbed house spells a fresh start.

J. M. Roberts

Yeah. That's the right way to spell it.

Tom Dougherty

We'll have a little warm spell for the weekend. And it should be dry.

Alexandra Robbins

If someone doesn't spell 'you' out in an e-mail,

Winnie Pooh

Piglet: "Pooh, how do you spell love?" Pooh: "You don't spell it, you feel it.

Anthony Marra

I didn't know a single person who had ever been there. I wasn't even sure how to spell Chechnya.

Mark Twain

Simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can carry it too far.

Michael Gambon

There were certainly no spells at my school. More like a smack in the mouth.

Ken Leavitt

That was a very useful thing, and is something that was very much appreciated.

Susan Wyderko

Disclosures are only as useful as they are available.

John Montgomery

It's useful to validate specifications as they go through standardization.

Christopher Hill

as long as I feel it is useful to be here.

John Stone

They were toast, pretty much done. Most of the harbors were at the end of their useful life.

Ellen Terry

Not until we have learned to be useful can we afford to do what we like.