Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Woods

Measure 37 has not been a model for us. We're drafting something that will work for Washington.

Jon Gruden

Monte's been here and had his system in place for some time, ... It's a one-gap scheme, and they've been drafting players that fit it. We're trying to do that on offense.

Adam Vinatieri

Nugent's a little different -- he's a draft pick and I was a free agent. I felt like I had to go out and perform every single day and prove myself. You feel like you're always 20 minutes away from being fired.

Matt Smith

Getting drafted by these guys was a dream, and now being here is a dream. It's a great feeling.

Bernie Bickerstaff

We need a scorer. It doesn't need to be a shooter, but it's got to be a scorer. There's a lot of help out there. I'm comfortable with that. ... What we project as our needs, (the 2006 draft should be) strong at that.

Chris Gratton

When you come in as a high draft pick, you do have a lot of pressure put on you -- not necessarily thrust upon you by your own team, maybe outside sources that have expectations.

John Bradley

I was praying to God that he would pass me. I hate setting the pace for races. He went by me and it was like NASCAR. I just drafted off of him.

Jerry Jones

If we get out of the draft without an offensive lineman, I'll be very disappointed. Frankly, I like putting an offensive lineman in the mix every year because of how expensive it is to get them in free agency.

Keith Ballard

I'll always keep it. I'm very grateful they drafted me and it's something I'll always remember. But I've moved on from that and I don't think there's anything I need to prove to them.

Alexandra Adornetto

Some say we can't choose who we fall in love with; love chooses us. Sometimes people fall for the complete antithesis of everything they believe they're looking for.

Claude Pepper

Life is like riding a bicycle: you don't fall of unless you stop pedaling.

Brad Folta

Life is like Parachuting, as we fall through the air, we pray to god the chute opens.

Aimee McPherson

Lift up your heads, ye people, lift up your faces, too, open your mouths to sing His praise, and the rain will fall on you.

Sathya Baba

Life is a mirage; It comes from no visible rain; It falls into no recognizable sea.

Colleen Laukka

Love is pure like the fresh fallen snow unencumbered by yesterday's debris.

Gary Brown

soft on high-ranking government officials. Can you imagine the fallout if they didn't look into it?

Brian Lowery

Mental toughness was the key. We were doing a good job of getting out and being where we wanted to be at the mile mark of races but would fall back in the middle part of the race. We did a good job by not falling back today (Thursday).

Sam Baker

My knee brace is falling everywhere. My shorts, everything is falling around. It's not fun.

Derek Blasberg

I feel like I have been portrayed as if I was standing outside Cipriani hoping someone picks me as their plus-one.

Richard Avedon

Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.

Chris Colfer

You don’t get to pick where you’re from, but you always have control of where you’re going.

Mike Shanahan

When he's in there, there is a presence. He really picks up our team.

Dean Laidley

Hawthorn want two first-round picks and that's what we are offering.

Amy Waldman

Nothing in life gets dropped without someone else having to pick it up.

Rajon Rondo

I was trying to get up and pressure the ball, but the picks were very effective. It was very frustrating. It's a play that we run a lot, but they executed it very well.

Janet Frank

When (Life Flight) picks up a patient, they have nothing to do with money. When they're called, they pick the person up.

Drew Young

I thought he was ready (for varsity football) the first day I saw him. He's very intelligent and he picks things up quick. You tell him once and he's got it.

Robert Kazinsky

There are always things you wish you could've done better, and there are always things that you wish would've turned out a different way in terms of storyline, which you're not in charge of.

Craig Venter

Traditional ways of distinguishing populations are irrelevant in terms of genetic code.

Al Pacino

Explain to me what Italian-American culture is. We've been here 100 years. Isn't Italian-American culture American culture? That's because we're so diverse, in terms of intermarriage.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

For me to think in terms of employing security seems ostentatious.

Lars Larsen

I never think in terms of gold, currency, diamonds. I'm not clever enough for that.

H. L. Mencken

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

Yossi Beilin

We have no terms for dialogue, but we do have terms for negotiations.

Joe Mathis

We are already tapped out in terms of volunteers and staff.

Willis Reed

We would still have been here if we could have come to terms with the union.

Eric Thomas

Now that PNTR (for China) is out of the way, the timing is right.

Chauncey Billups

I wish the timing was a little different.

James Sensenbrenner

should be commended for the timing and thoroughness of these answers.

Armando Navarro

Timing is everything in politics, and the timing is with us right now.

Brian Giles

With my toe tap, I need the at-bats to get ready. It's a timing thing.

Carol Burnett

As far as sitcoms go, I thought Jenna Elfman in 'Dharma and Greg' was a wonderful physical comedienne who had great timing.

Bill Hybels

If the request is wrong, God says, No. If the timing is wrong, God says, Slow. If you are wrong, God says, Grow. But if the request is right, the timing is right and you are right, God says, Go!

Clara Mamet

Preston Sturges is one of my favorites. I learned about dialogue and timing from him - louder, faster, funnier. But I do love Mel Brooks.

Seth Erwin

Basically, we didn't have the same 15 set for every week. We had different starters, and we just couldn't get our timing down.

Eric Clapton

Musically, Nathan is in the Top 3 as a bassist.

Anne Byrn

Now that would be way too much for the top of a cake.

Eduardo Galeano

Unlike solidarity, which is horizontal and takes place between equals, charity is top-down, humiliating those who receive it and never challenging the implicit power relations.

Carles Puyol

I can't see the top of the Eiffel Tower yet.

Steve Swasey

From top to bottom, Blockbuster is deliberately and willfully infringing on our patented methods.

Angus MacMillan

I wouldn't want to put a top on it at the moment. It has still got a lot of wind in its sales.

Jeff Malloy

She has to be (on the top of her game).

Dennis Thompson

I don't know what I'm going to say, ... I'll just go off the top of my head.

Ken Hitchcock

We didn't play well in Montreal, so this was a big win, ... Now, we're right there with everyone else (near the top of the standings at 5-2-1).

Alexandra Adornetto

Gabriel: Bethany lacks understanding about the ways of the world. She still has much to learn and that makes her vulnerable." Beth: "Do you have to make me sound like a full-time babysitting project?" Xavier: "I happen to be an experienced babysitter. I can show you my resume if you'd like.

Eleanor Roosevelt

To be mature you have to realize what you value most... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for.

Elizabeth Drew

Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.

Eliot Spitzer

Jimmy Carter laid out policies that we now look back at and say, 'Gee, that actually made sense.' But you also need to explain it and convey and communicate in a way that provides that tableau, that understanding.

David Jenkins

Deep thoughts (come) from a deep well. Society is useful because when we see ourselves reflected through others we can gain a deeper understanding of ourselves.

Edward Witten

I have a much easier time imagining how we would understand the big bang, even though we can't do it yet, than I can imagine understanding consciousness.

John Sweeney

I have a very understanding wife, and she understands this is part of the job.

Trinity Morgan

She's understanding the value of that. She worked ridiculously hard.

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'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.