Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Meyer

We started off with losses to two very good football teams, but we told the boys, 'One game at a time,' and that's the way we're approaching it. They're getting better every week. Our kids work really had and they absorb everything we're trying to teach them. I'm probably the happiest 2-2 coach in the state of Michigan.

Shawn Campbell

Where the men are going to get separated from the boys here is: Who can absorb higher energy and raw materials costs, pass those on in their pricing and have them stick as opposed to absorbing it in lower margins.

Niki Tsongas

Body armor is meant to fit snug to the body to stop shrapnel and absorb a bullet's impact. Armor designed for a boxier male frame does not fit properly on the overwhelming majority of females, who have a very different stature and body type than their male counterparts.

Rodrigo Rato

We have seen a strong increase in oil prices and up to this year we see that the world has been able to absorb that.

Tom DeLay

We have no choice, ... This is a crisis. We can sustain this as long as we need to, to get them back with their families or absorb them into the community.

Neneh Cherry

When I was going to school, I just wanted to be like everybody else. I would pull at my hair to try and get it to lie straight. America was where I would consume and absorb black culture, buy Ultra Sheen and watch 'Soul Train,' but I still had that weird in-between thing.

Moshe Sharett

Israel would not do that, both because we cannot afford to be accused by the world of aggression and because we cannot, for security and social reasons, absorb in our midst a substantial Arab population.

Olin Browne

What makes it really hard is it's not a reaction sport, ... This is a premeditation sport. You're walking down the fairway, considering what your options are on the next shot that you're going to hit, how you're going to handle it, where you're going to go with it what you're going to do ... you get your head handed to you a lot out here. You know, the people that do well out here are able to absorb that, deal with it, put it in a little compartment, send it somewhere where they don't need to be in and move on to the next step.

Proverb Proverbs

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Alan Guth

The Big Bang theory says nothing about what banged, why it banged, or what happened before it banged.

Ken Hitchcock

We knew they were going to play games for us, but to switch locker rooms before we even played a game, we never even thought about that stuff. We had our 23 guys and we thought that was it, then bang, bang things change dramatically.

Larry Robinson

We knew they were going to come at us strong. We just wanted to keep it really simple and get the puck in deep, but we turned the puck over on a couple of occasions and the next thing you know, bang it's in the net.

Darren Shan

The world won't end with a bang or a whimper. It'll end with the death screams of a thousand demons and a defiant, carefree, savage, wolfen howl.

Gustav Humbert

We are proud to see Bangkok Airways joining the growing list of launch customers for the A350. This really demonstrates the popularity of our new wide-body in the market place.

Michelle Clayman

We started off with a bang yesterday, so it's not surprising that there would be a pullback. Plus, you had Home Depot's pre-announcement.

Eddie Izzard

They say the Universe started with a big bang. I hope everybody stood well back.

Bill Nye

The Big Bang banged, and for some reason we’re here. And that’s astonishing. And that we can understand that, that’s the most astonishing.

Ken Hitchcock

We were banging around it so hard in the second that I felt, even though we were down 4-1, that if we made it 4-2 early (in the third), which we did, if we kept going we could still tie up the hockey game and maybe win it. We had a lot of good chances, but we didn't finish and then they scored the fifth goal.

Alan Ritchson

I didnt really grow up a comic book fanatic. I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.

Al Pacino

I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn't good enough. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.

Chris Chambliss

If you're not having fun in baseball, you miss the point of everything.

Chris Berman

Back, back, back, back... Gone!

Tommy Richardson

We knew they were a great baseball team, and they did everything right to start. They had no walks, no errors and we couldn't run on them, but we've been behind before and that's why you play seven innings. We knew we could come back strong.

Lou Piniella

Uh, look. When you're last in the league in pitching and last in the league in errors, that's not a good combination to win baseball games. We're last in the league in walks. There's a direct correlation between those things.

Don Cooper

I don't believe there's a baseball job that I couldn't take care of.

David Price

I'm a very competitive person, whether it's school, baseball or even playing video games.

David Murphy

My goal on Earth is not to win a World Series or be the best baseball player who ever lived. That simply is not up to me because I have to wait and see if it is part of the Lord's plan. My goal is to follow the Lord and what he wants me to do so that someday I may enter His kingdom and receive everlasting life.

Jan Koum

When I was a kid trying to communicate with family in the Soviet Union, it was very difficult. You had to go through the long-distance phone companies like MCI, which were difficult to navigate and expensive to make calls through.

Pope XVI

Unspontaneity is of their essence. In these rites I discover that something is approaching me here that I did not produce myself, that I am entering into something greater than myself, which ultimately derives from divine revelation. This is why the Christian East calls the liturgy the "Divine Liturgy", expressing thereby the liturgy's independence from human control.

Jack Randorff

We've all seen games when they make play-by-play calls and you can actually hear the call two or three times, due to echoes in the space. That's the sort of thing you don't want here, because that interferes with what we want in terms of good, clean speech intelligibility.

Richard Friend

We started getting calls from all over town that (Wheatley) was driving at over 100 mph, ... He passed the mayor (Larance Davis) near Davis Elementary School and the mayor said he was going well over 100.

Orrin Hatch

Where they make phone calls and whether the president raises money or not is one thing. The way they've done it seems to be unethical, illegal, (and) in poor taste, ... Were foreign influences trying to influence the election?

Martin Van Buren

For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it.

Luke Mitchell

I try to stay away from processed foods. I eat lean meats and get as many veggies as I can on my plate, so when mum calls me on a Sunday, I can tell her I'm eating enough veggies! I love pasta, but I don't eat carbs a whole lot, and I love fruit.

Brad Bellows

We've got a record number of calls from interested retail investors and people looking for work.

Jermaine Wallace

Watching TV, all day and all night, it's unbelievable. I've been getting phone calls from everybody. It's been a blessing. I don't think I'll ever get tired of it.

Charles de Lint

The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can.

Charles Dickens

Money and goods are certainly the best of references.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Alan Moore

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

Alan Alda

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

You are here for but an instant, and you mustn't take yourself too seriously

Andrew Motion

The readings are at once instant in their appeal, and lingering in their impact.

Heidi Range

When we all met her, we instantly knew she was the only person to share the rest of the journey with us.

J. M. Roberts

She provides instant defense. And she can get a steal at any time.

Rich McKay

I don't remember a proposal on instant replay that sought to open up all penalties for review.

William Ackman

I don't think we're going to get the instant value that we would have from the spin-off, but we'll get it over the long term and that's just fine.

James DePreist

I thought it would be better to starve slowly over there than instantly over here.

Bobby Johnson

I don't know who voted in instant replay, but it about stopped my heart.

Bobby Johnson

I don't know who in the world voted in instant replay, ... But it about stopped my heart.

David Gower

Vaughan now plays more on the crease than he did,

Patrick Marleau

We want to play them in their end and always have the puck and start making plays in their zone. When we're successful, we get results like this.

Wayne Chrebet

When it comes down to it, everyone is just trying to get their plays and get to the season healthy. I don't think it'll be anything too crazy.

Chauncey Billups

We're going to run some decoys for him. We're not going to run plays for him.

Sarah Snook

I'm the youngest of three sisters. We were always performing plays for each other.

Jeff Banks

We had backups ready to go. We charted his plays to see how many times he touched the ball, worried about overusing him.

Michele Jackson

She understands that if she plays well, this team plays well. Defensively, she buckled down and the rest of them followed.

Donny Burnett

She's our leader. When she plays well, we all play well. When she is off, we're all off.

Arthur Clough

Shady in Latin, said Lindsay, but topping in Plays and Aldrich.

Ron Gardenhire

He did a super job. That'll be a plus for us.

Tim Purpura

He can play all three (outfield) positions, and he runs exceptionally well and has a plus arm, ... He's more of a speed-and-defense type of guy.

Bob Walsh

I tell them this isn't about me, it's about you. This is your time. I keep telling them not to worry about that stuff, that if we go out and try to keep getting better every game, we'll get 600 plus some.

Micky Arison

I think that was a big psychological plus for us.

Hayley Hasselhoff

I've never worn plus size brands, and I never had to because I found what worked for my body type. So my advice is to find what works for you.

Julia Mancuso

When I travel, I always have about 40 pairs of skis with me, plus a ski technician and a ski coach.

Mike McCarthy

Throwaways are OK. When a quarterback throws the ball away in our system, that's a plus. That's a plus decision. That's the way I've always graded it.

Nancy Wilson

It's probably more of a plus for us than it was for them.

Bobby Howard

That's a big plus for us. He has really worked hard.

Clint Hurdle

We play them 14 more times ... I think the replay speaks for itself.

Ladell Betts

The only time I saw the replay was on the big screen in the stadium,

Bobby Clark

I'm going to have to look at the replay and see how that shot did not go in.

Charles Dickens

There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

John Hull

We started giving presentations at practitioner conferences in 1986, and since then all of our derivatives research has been stimulated by contact with practitioners.

Neve McIntosh

I've been a 'Doctor Who' fan since I was a wee girl.

Lindsay Lohan

I've always been interested in singing, and I've always been singing and dancing since I was little.

Jonathan Todd

What they have done is insufficient. It's now two years since the decision.

Benny Hill

That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.

John Felmy

We're in uncharted territory. We haven't experienced something like this since the 1980's.

Thomas Steinbeck

Since I can't write the greatest American novel, I'm going to write the longest American novel.

Michelle Post

She's been working it since October. She wanted to throw it a lot earlier.

Charles W. Chesnutt

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Charles de Lint

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.