Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Sr.

What song the Sirens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.

Tyler Haynes

We had a very hard time keeping them off of the offensive boards. It's been an Achilles heel of ours all year long and it came back in the state tournament. It obviously hurt us.

Mark Woodhead

Fourteen for twenty-nine, that's been our Achilles heel all year. You shoot under fifty percent in close games, you will not win.

Paul Jewell

I think everyone is fit, Pollitt felt some pain in his achilles yesterday but I think he will be OK, so it looks like we've got a full complement.

Scott Fisher

I thought we did a fantastic job on the boards and that's really been our achilles heel in the first two games.

Matt Kordsmeier

I thought we picked up the intensity in the third quarter. Offensively, we started shooting well. That has been our Achilles heel this season, but when we can do that, a lot of good things will happen for us.

Brian Gruber

We swung the bats well and pitched really well. The guys have been doing what we ask them to do. Our Achilles heel is definitely the defensive end. We have two or three pop up in one inning. That is a sign of a young team and we are a very young team.

Mike Maney

We told Justin before he went out there that the headlock was coming. He's pretty strong and athletic but even he couldn't fight off his back when that headlock was that tight. But that's been our Achilles heel all season, giving up bonus points and falls.

Keith Richard

If we shoot the ball well, we go from good to pretty good. That's kind of been our achilles heel all year, is the offensive end. If we make shots, we are a pretty good basketball team.

Alan Greenspan

We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy rules of prudence are as formidable as ever. We violate them at our own peril.

Billy Rose

The pot filler, while certainly a nice and functional piece of equipment, is more of a bell and whistle than anything else,

Eric Hamilton

Until the storm hits and we get in to look at the damage, it's hard to tell how long this could last, ... Rita is pointed right at the belly of the industry.

Glenn Rummler

When we bumped into Belle, the story is very romantic. She was very involved in society. Belle the name was right. It was just one of those lightning bolt deals.

Chris Hadfield

When we first get to space, we feel sick. Your body is really confused. You're dizzy. Your lunch is floating around in your belly because you're floating. What you see doesn't match what you feel, and you want to throw up.

Charles Williams

The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse.

Todd Hollenshead

With the new consoles coming out -- and I said this five years ago when the PS2 and Xbox came out -- people all rush to ring the bell for the death knell of PC gaming, and it never seems to happen, and I don't think we're looking at that now, either.

Tim Evans

We've rung the bell at $600 and now we're perhaps ready to consolidate before we consider higher price levels.

Steve Robinson

The real challenge in going under the belly was a robotics challenge, ... Jim and Wendy, they had probably the most challenging job of all. ... I had to find the gap fillers, and direct Wendy to take me there. ... Getting there was a big deal. Getting them out was not.

Arthur Goldberg

The basic guarantees of our Constitution are warrants for the here and now, and unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason, they are to be promptly fulfilled.

Richard Orr

We've always said we had the most compelling numbers.

Peter Power

There is compelling evidence of serious state intervention.

David Delainey

We had a very compelling story that we were telling, and we weren't telling the complete truth.

Chris Hill

So it's very difficult for them. But there are compelling reasons for them to come to the talks. The settlement on offer is a good one and I'd hope they would see their way to doing that.

Keith Lockhart

She's just an amazing, compelling performer. She has a wonderful vocal presence and really knows what to do with a song. She'll be fun. I guarantee it.

Aaron Karo

"You only live once" is also an equally compelling reason not to do something

Tim O'Day

What we really do is tell entertaining and compelling stories, through our rides, shops, restaurants, entertainment, even our resort hotels.

Michael Gartenberg

There are some real competitive issues going on, and (Microsoft) needs to respond, not just with products and offerings for consumers but also (with) compelling products and APIs for developers, ... There's a recognition that people are embracing the Web as a platform, and they (Microsoft) want to be there as well.

Byron Katie

My happiness isn't dependent on anyone else's.

Joel Sawyer

We're going to have to go to some kind of Plan B. The funding we have for this is totally dependent on the federal government.

John Lott

Many people found for the first time what it is like to totally dependent on themselves for protection. People put up signs that said 'Shotguns Inside' and that kept the gangs and violence away.

Austin Perez

If anything has changed, it's that Americans are now even more reliant on U.S. farmers and ranchers for their food security, and farmers and ranchers are even more dependent on hired labor.

Gerry Harvey

Kids go to school; we develop them at school. We develop them later on in the workplace so that we get better quality individuals, so that we get less people that are dependent or get into problems.

William Bird

It is a positive move. It is always a much better idea to have a public broadcaster that is less dependent on advertising.

Karl Rove

Here in America, we have become too dependent -- too dependent -- on the increasingly limited supply of foreign oil for our own energy needs.

George Pataki

I don't think you expand entitlements when so many people are dependent on government and when the money the federal government is offering is going to be taken away from you after just a couple of years.

Tom Crowley

I don't think it will be dependent upon sales, but winter. I wouldn't be surprised if we have it all sold (with those on the waiting list) before we even advertise. I'll know more in a month. This may not go to the Multiple Listing Service.

Platen

Where the flag of truth waves unfurled, there you will find superstition waiting in ambush.

Hilary Clinton

Where's the goddamn f***ing flag? I want the goddamn f***ing flag up every f***ing morning at f***ing sunrise.

Antonio Villaraigosa

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

Sheila Lee

Separating these two legislative initiatives would be like separating the flag from the Pledge of Allegiance,

Ken Page

The only flag that should be waving out there, that big and everything, is Old Glory,

John Earl

We hope to have more flags next year.

Kurt Woerner

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

Craig Ross

Four successive national anthems -- it was just an unbelievable sight. To have the New Zealand flag raised four times ... very moving, very emotional, and just great for our sport.

Dawn Hudson

When he was our president, he wanted us to show our patriotism. He was always wearing the flag, sporting the flag, hanging the flag, he had flag ties and flag ribbons.

Charles Dickens

There might be some credit in being jolly.

Alan Greenspan

All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It's only a question of degree.

John Parker

We want to see more positive growth in North America.

Mitchell Corwin

Walgreen remains on a steady growth path, relatively unabated by industry or competitive threats.

David Rusenko

Word-of-mouth marketing is a crucial component of organic growth for startups and one of the primary ways that Weebly has grown to over 15 million customers.

Philip Shaw

The PMI is a big upside surprise ... and is at least hinting that services growth stepped up at the end of last year.

Mel Karmazin

We are pleased with the ongoing growth of radio and outdoor (advertising), the television stations and the network.

Arthur Rubinstein

Don't tell me how talented you are. Tell me how hard you work.

Derek Bok

Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education.

Charles de Lint

Wondering’s healthy. Broadens the mind. Opens you up to all sorts of stray thoughts and possibilities.

Charles de Lint

Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.

Charles Dickens

. . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker . . .

Charles Dickens

The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy; walk and be healthy. The best way to lengthen out our days is to walk steadily and with a purpose.

Charles Caleb Colton

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Charles Caleb Colton

The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.

Charles Dickens

Walk and be Happy, Walk and be Healthy...

Charles Dickens

I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes, twitchy in the joints and fractious in temper from a most intolerable and oppressive cold.

Charles Simmons

Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.

Shinzo Abe

The other side has not responded to any of our requests regarding the abduction issue, so it is highly regrettable.

Kevin Cox

We're doing a much better job in Indiana being prepared and collaborating, which speaks highly of the involved agencies.

Richard Brodhead

When it was offered, I thought it was highly appropriate.

Tracy Morgan

You have to be highly intelligent to get away with a dumb joke. That takes a pretty smart fella.

Tom Wolfe

I read somewhere that writers, as they get older, become more and more perfectionist. Which may be because they think more highly of themselves and they worry about their reputations. I think there's some truth to that.

Todd Rundgren

People have always said that I could have been a highly successful pop artist, if only that were my intention. It never was. My original intention was to be a kind of behind-the-scenes participant in music, to just be a record producer and engineer. And I made a record for myself just so I could have an outlet for my musical ideas.

Donna Jones

She was a quite a lady. And a leader. Everyone spoke so highly of her.

Rose Rosetree

She's highly self sufficient. She needs her own space and her own life, her own things, her own identity.

Dr. Coats

We had not had highly pathogenic avian influenza in the U.S. for over 20 years.

David Stern

What we're doing here is largely symbolic. But it tells everyone that we've got to help. We've got to do better.

Anthony Marra

Grozny's been largely rebuilt. But at the same time, I think the war is very much being waged inside its survivors.

Myles Munroe

We live in a disposable, 'cast-off and throw-away' society that has largely lost any real sense of permanence. Ours is a world of expiration dates, limited shelf life, and planned obsolescence. Nothing is absolute.

Najib Razak

For many years, Myanmar's leadership was largely shut out from the world of international diplomacy.

Evan Spiegel

What Snapchat said was if we try to model conversations as they occur, they're largely ephemeral. We may try to write down and save the really special moments, but by and large, we just try to let everything go. We remember it, but we don't try to save it.

Michael Griffin

We are largely deferring utilization (of the station) and we are paring logistics (flights) to the bone.

Bruce Schneier

When people are scared, they need something done that will make them feel safe, even if it doesn't truly make them safer. Politicians naturally want to do something in response to crisis, even if that something doesn't make any sense. But unfortunately for politicians, the security measures that work are largely invisible.

Mark McKinnon

Republicans working in leadership and the trenches are largely old, white, male, out-of-touch, out of ideas, technology averse, and living in the past.

Rick Smolan

Big Data is just that - big. But, it's a term that is largely misunderstood and difficult to explain.

Charles Dickens

You are in every line I have ever read.

Alan Rickman

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

Alan Bennett

f they'd been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn't have known they were born if they'd not towed the line!

Leroy Hill

We know he has a big job. He's got to get the calls, give them to us and line us up. But we still like to mess with him. Like, after awhile, we get tired and we don't want to huddle anymore. He'll get mad and start fussing at everybody.

Dave Barry

There is a very fine line between hobby and mental illness.

Mark Young

The power line was burning, but they got over to it and got it put out.

Kevin Hamilton

The reason for that is if there is a strike, you want to be 1st in line to take whatever Northwest offers as a possible option.

Brett Lee

We spoke about a number of things from conventional swing to reverse swing and different lines and lengths.

Keith Primeau

We're not going to survive with one line scoring goals. We need to get offense from other places.

Michael Sands

We want our product to stick in the minds of consumers.

Nate Corddry

When you work at 'The Daily Show,' you have to give 100 percent, or you're gone. The competitiveness and the minds that work in those offices are incredible.

Chris Evans

should be able to make up their own minds about what they view.

William Wordsworth

Minds that have nothing to conferFind little to perceive.

Dan White

He just had the mindset for it, ... He doesn't get too down on himself, so the next shot he could come back.

David Moss

My mindset was, just do away with the first half, go get the win.

Matt Rexroad

I won't even say that 99 percent have their minds made up. I think it's 99.9 percent. Otherwise they would never find it.

Scott Podsednik

We haven't won anything. That team is going to be ready to play (today). We're not going to play like we have a 3-1 lead. Our mindset is to win the next game.

Bill Cowher

We'll come in Thursday with the mindset that the deal's not done.

Dave Barry

Smee! Raise the Ladies!

Ian Schafer

When you're working with a series that's as interesting as one about polygamy, you want to make sure it raises people's curiosity.

Alan Dershowitz

The prosecution wants to make sure the process by which the evidence was obtained is not truthfully presented, because, as often as not, that process will raise questions.

George Montgomery

I think this type development raises the status of the county.

Robert Rennie

I'd be surprised if the BOJ raises rates at all this year and that is something that will tend to see the yen underperforming.

Anne McCaffrey

I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway

Guenther Hujara

Bode raises the question, but there is not a question.

Frank McDonald

You're working, but we're not getting as many raises as we used to.

Kate Christensen

I've always written about adultery because it raises the question of transgression and trouble.

Siv Meisingseth

We have no idea how long the strike will last.

Dan Nobbs

We throw strikes and play defense, that's pretty much our philosophy.

Lorenzo Bundy

He was pretty good, especially early. He pounded the strike zone, but he still has to work on his location.

Jimmy Harris

He was spotting his fastball. He had a real tight strike zone.

Tom Pratt

I thought (Shaver) had big-league command. Everything was down in the zone. He threw 43 strikes in 58 pitches.

Rigoberto Medina

There is no connection. The nationwide strike has nothing to do with this.

Trevor Noah

I'm not an abrasive person. I do speak my mind, but my goal is never to offend. I don't intentionally want to strike a chord.

Ian Johnson

I will be encouraging them to vote yes. It is important we have a strong strike vote.

Connie Mack

You're born with two strikes against you, so don't take a third one on your own.

David Quammen

The elk are the most abundant large herbivores in the Yellowstone ecosystem. There are thousands and thousands of them. They migrate in and out. And those migration routes need to stay open.

Eddie Huang

I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.

David Henry Hwang

Yellow Face marks my summation of multiculturalism.

Derek Jarman

Indian yellow, banned. Cows were poisoned with mango leaves and the colour was made from their urine. It is the bright yellow in Indian miniatures. Although yellow occupies one-twentieth of the spectrum, it is the brightest colour.

Edgar Degas

What a horrible thing yellow is.

Aimee Bender

Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.

Edmund Burke

Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.

Aristotle

Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold

Ben Hecht

Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.