Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ahmet Gueye

Stephen is a big, big player, so he makes me work really hard. Every time he blocks my shot, then I don't want him to score on me. So he gives me that mentality to play hard every time.

Tony Battie

Some guys like to start it out, and they get out of the blocks well. But from a mental standpoint, if I'm coming off the bench, I like to sit down and see what's going on. I can clear up some things when I get out there or try not to do the exact things that someone else has been messing up on.

Richard Bellzon

Some look at a brick and see something to break a window with, others look at a brick and see the building blocks of a great building. You tell me who was the true visionary.

Steve Spurrier

Our plan will be about like everyone else's - not try to let him run all over the place. Our players know what they have to do. They have to contain. You don't just run straight at a quarterback who looks like him. Hopefully, our guys will get off blocks and sort of corral him.

Erwin Rode

Retail has already had a long run. Offices must still get out of the starting blocks but I am expecting offices to be better performers.

Lanny Smith

I was kind of sold on the idea of being one of the building blocks to try and help get the program back to where it once was.

Fred Jones

Jermaine blocks a lot of shots, but he might have felt he just couldn't get to it. That's his decision.

Dave Tippett

That was a pretty solid game on our part. The last three games, we've put a lot of building blocks in place. We've just got to keep building on it.

Raul Rodriguez

(Martinez) tries to psyche me out because I'm not that good with the (starting) blocks yet. But I'm trying to work harder, trying to get him. I think I will soon.

Richard Preston

Redwood time moves at a more stately pace than human time. To us, when we look at a redwood tree, it seems to be motionless and still, and yet redwoods are constantly in motion, moving upward into space, articulating themselves and filling redwood space over redwood time, over thousands of years.

John Hagel III

Passion and true passion is actually very unpredictable. It heads in unexpected directions because it's constantly seeking out new challenges. But what's really interesting is that passion ultimately is necessary for sustained extreme performance improvement.

Mark Schultz

Stability is the number one thing you need to be successful in anything. I constantly had the rug pulled out from under me. I think people were jealous of me. I think people saw me as this guy who could conquer the world.

Alice Englert

Some of us don't have the energy to be as incredible and riotous and fantastic as Emma Thompson. You're constantly just lapping up her incredible hilariousness.

Kelly Redmond

We've talked about this whole thing of Eskimos having 31 names for snow. If you live in a dry climate, you probably have 31 names for drought. When you are constantly faced with something, each instance matters.

Safaa Ibrahim

I think there is an 'us versus them' mentality. There is a frustration that we have to constantly defend ourselves. I'd rather not be on the defensive. I'd rather just educate people about our faith.

Manuel Pellegrini

I think the referee constantly made mistakes, he didn't notice when our players were pulled as well as several fouls.

James Comey

Just as our adversaries and threats continue to evolve, so, too, must the FBI. The key to this evolution lies with our greatest assets: our people and our partnerships. Every FBI professional understands that thwarting the threats facing our nation means constantly striving to be more effective and more efficient.

Ladonna Somers

That was not possible at the hospital. There was no place for Regan to lay down and take a nap. And the oncology ward is constantly full.

Hugh Scott

Previously, the United States dominated global M&A activity, ... but the battleground is now in Europe.

Bruce Larner

Paul may not have scored (much), but I wouldn't trade (that). He dominated the inside.

Chris Kramer

Our offensive line played great and dominated up front. We got holes and great push, and Vining was running hard and over people and getting extra yards.

Bobby Gonzalez

Our young inside people just dominated the game. Any time we get four guys in double figures and get 89 points, we usually come out on top.

Paul Ballew

remains well positioned to dominate the market even at reduced volumes.

Sharan Burrow

We live in a world where workplaces have been dominated by men, for men of another era.

Robin Day

I think there's a tendency for modern man to become dominated by gadgets and machines, taking us further and further away from the things I've been talking about.

Jay McKee

That's the worst loss I've ever been a part of. We were dominated all over the ice in every area. We played like a team that is out of the playoffs and they played like a team that is comfortably in the playoffs.

Michael Metz

That's because the market's been dominated by entrepreneurial investors, rather than typical mutual fund investors.

Frank Griswold

Such thinking -- in which the responsibility for repentance, restoration and healing falls exclusively on one side of a disagreement -- is not the way of reconciliation laid out for us by the Scripture.

Gerald Curtis

The answer, unless he falls flat on his face, is Abe. He's tall, he's nice-looking, he's young...He stands up for Japan and is tough on North Korea and China.

Lawrence Eagleburger

I think, unless Saddam Hussein falls in a hole one day or somebody shoots him in the head, I personally think he is prepared to go down with his ship.

Lee Fisher

Lately, we've been playing really well in the first half and it really lifts us. The kids know if they come out to a good start, everything falls into place.

Steve Porter

Little Falls was very well prepared tonight. They may only have one win but if they play like that they're going to win some games down the stretch.

Fred Thompson

I think, for most of the people in Taiwan, a pretty substantial margin falls somewhere in the middle, and it'll remain that way for some time.

Tony McCoy

A helmet is the most important part of any jockey's kit because of the number of falls you take, so I wouldn't want to be wearing anything on the track unless it had been thoroughly tested.

Oprah Winfrey

If Oprah falls into the hands of Scientology, who can tell what influence she might have on the population? The prospect is terrifying.

Aviv Kochavi

From now on, ... responsibility for what happens in Gaza falls on the Palestinian Authority.

Christopher Monckton

The House of Lords says I'm not a member of it. My passport says I am - get used to it.

Dusty Rhodes

I have supped mead with lords and ladies; so to have I slumbered in nameless lanes and gored upon mutton.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Confuse not love with the raptures of possession, which bring the cruellest of sufferings. For, notwithstanding the general opinion, love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.

Cecelia Ahern

at your weakest, you end up showing more strength; at your lowest, you are suddenly lifted higher than you’ve ever been. They all border one another, these opposites and show how quickly we can be altered.

Bernard Arnault

What we do in our group is the opposite of the bad effects of globalization. We produce in Italy and in France and we sell to China, when usually it's the opposite.

Shari Arison

People see things in the opposite way that I do. There are places that spirit, soul and emotion reach.

Emma Thompson

Having reached 40 this year, if they were going to find someone to play opposite me they'd have to exhume him.

Rick Masi

We talked about when we had the wind at our right back, we wanted to use it to play it up and over into the opposite wing.

Charles Darwin

For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, often apparently leading to conclusions directly opposite to those at which I have arrived. A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question.

Alanis Morissette

I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.

Blake Mycoskie

Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don’t necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite.

Ricky Ford

Sri Lanka pushed us all the way. We've been tested and bounced back stronger every time.

Bill Sienkiewicz

So there's kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safe

Matt McHugh

That was a disappointing end. I was trying to push it.

York State

I was pushing for it from the beginning,

Stansfield Turner

I think he's being pushed out or made a scapegoat,

G. H. Hardy

I think this is as much symbolic as anything. But it's still important, and I understand why Sen. Byrd would push for this.

Jon Runyan

Just pushing and shoving. That's the way I always play.

Ryan Baker

I think it's from each other and pushing each other and having fun. If somebody does well, then we'll give him some support.

Skip Fredricksen

I think it's great, I think it's long overdue. We've been pushing for it the 10 years I've been here.

Allard Baird

Out of respect to him, I'd rather have him do that.

Koyie Hill

I think they'd rather get somebody for me, though. It would look better.

Simon Leung

I think the timing is going to be more towards the end of this year rather than earlier.

Terry Bradshaw

I will tell you what I feel, right or wrong. I don't want to do it. I would rather make you laugh. But that's my job. I did it. Archie's mad. I understand.

Jon Karkow

I think he was thinking more about the end of the runway approaching rather than the birds.

Joker Phillips

It didn't take long for me to say yes. Once we started talking, he said that we had been on the up and up with him and that he'd rather come here.

Michael Long

I think I would rather that he didn't run.

Brian Penn

It could have been worse. They could have been using grenades rather than eggs.

Craig Berman

He really wants to get back to the work he's been doing for 15 years in search rather than running a company.

Tamara Taylor

I saw 'Mahogany' and 'Lady Sings the Blues' when I was little and thought, 'That's what I want to do.'

Bill Harris

... and her singing. She sings all the time while we're driving.

Blake Shelton

Nobody's gonna beat Taylor Swift in a fan-voted thing. And nobody should, by the way.

William Saroyan

My wisdom was visual and as swift as vision.

Bonnie Henrickson

This is not a knee-jerk thing. We've just go to get better. Ivana and Taylor will be the first ones off the bench.

Ron Williams

He blurted out that Taylor was in trouble.

Beth Brooke

It's not the winning that teaches you how to be resilient. It's the setback. It's the loss.

E.R. Rock

Everything we say and everything we do teaches something to our children.

Anne Francis

Each one wanted to be the one who teaches her about life.

Robert Battle

Reflection is not something you have a lot of time for.

Amar'e Stoudemire

Swag is something that I've had for a long time.

E. O. Wilson

Springtime is the time for gazing at galaxies.

Adam Carolla

spontaneous, clever, specific, oblique and at the same time very human.

S. Walker

That could be a possibility. I'm thinking, hopefully, we can get something worked out. As of right now, we'll just take it one day at a time and see what happens.

Charlie King

Right place at the right time is all I can say about that one.

Gil Brandt

Really? I think for a long time they probably didn't have a quarterback because they were a wishbone team.

Boy George

Most psychiatrists or analysts are a waste of time

Bob Rose

We need solidarity. This is a union town, and it's time to show that.

Hannah Teter

I wanted to try to go as big as I could and tweak my grabs hard.

J. K. Rowling

Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!