Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Pacino

The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times. A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.

Dav Whatmore

We want to start well whether we bat first or bowl first and it helps things when you start well and that's what we have not done yet.

Shivnarine Chanderpaul

We want to see some more patience in the batting line-up,

Virender Sehwag

We want to see him bat up the order. In the last few games he did not get a chance to bat.

DeAndre Haynes

We knew they'd play that way because they are a real physical team. It is hard to get in there and battle and box out their 7-footers, and then they have five guys crashing the boards on every shot.

Wayne Gretzky

We know what we have with Boucher, and we know Curtis is a tremendous goalie and got a year off to get healthy, ... We expect it to be a competitive battle between both of them. . . . I'd like to see one of them jump up and grab that starting position.

Scott Skiles

We know we're in a battle right now. This is obviously a huge week. It's possible there could be a little more clarity by this time next week. This is the biggest week of our season right here.

Sean Brady

We know we have a battle on our hands. We feel like we're the underdogs. It's going to take one of our best games to beat Gulf.

Derek Jeter

We know we can't rely on scoring all those runs. We know it's great to have some guys that are swinging the bats well, and we're going to score. But it's not going to happen all season.

Michael Goodling

We want to take a little bit of this frustration and turn it into some positive momentum.

Marvin Emerson

We knew they were solid. That team can play, and we knew that. We had a little bit of an off night, but they gave us all we wanted.

Kerry Janquart

We knew they were sagging off us a bit, so we knew if we could keep them honest a bit from the outside, it would open up the inside.

E. Hicks

We knew they were going to have great defensive pressure. I think they got us out of our offense a little bit. So I think in those situations we need to stay poised and execute our offense a little bit better. I think that's what we are going to work on as we continue Pac-10s.

Steve Edmiston

We knew they were going to bring pressure. Early on it took a little bit of adjustment, but once we made that we were fine.

Kevin O'Leary

We knew they were a good skating team. We came out trying to force their hand with some hitting and our guys got caught up in that a little bit too much. We lost sight of the puck and they're a very good team. They find their open players very well.

Mark Mugiishi

We lacked the consistent play throughout the game to win. We were too streaky. It's hard to win like that. You have to be able to sustain an effort a little bit better.

Brendan Morrison

We know we're not getting any younger. We're a team that gained quite a bit of experience here the last four years of the playoffs. We've also had early exits the last four years.

Mark Freeman

We know we're going to see eight or nine guys in the box, so we've got to throw it a bit to help our running game,

Charles Dudley Warner

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value

Charles de Lint

The old gods and their magics did not dwindle away into murky memories of brownies and little fairies more at home in a Disney cartoon; rather, they changed. The coming of Christ and Christians actually freed them. They were no longer bound to people's expectations but could now become anything that they could imagine themselves to be. They are still here, walking among us. We just don't recognize them anymore.

Charles Dickens

My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.

Charles Dickens

Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened - by the recurrence of Christmas.

Charles Dickens

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

Charles Dickens

And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!

Charles Dickens

Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness; the old year was preparing, like an ancient philosopher, to call his friends around him, and amidst the sound of feasting and revelry to pass gently and calmly away.

Charles Dickens

A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to the world!

Charles Dickens

But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.

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.

Betty Wright

You just have to realize that no matter how delectable that meal looks, there's a chance that you might not get to eat it while it's hot.

Bam Margera

I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks.

Delta Burke

And sometimes, when you feel low on yourself, that's just when you have to go out there and be photographed or do a scene where you're hot stuff. You're always working on it.

Neil Peart

If I have to travel, I'm going to travel my way and travel in the real world. And I'm going to have conversations every day with people in rest stops and people in gas stations and people in hotels and diners. That nourishes me.

John Gibbons

We're going to give this a go. That's our plan. If somebody is really hot and we're trying to win games, it may come down to that.

Andre Woodson

We're going to give it to the hot hand.

John Hamilton

When we got here on Monday, we rented a hotel and started to get help.

Gina Lombardi

With the light-rail going in right next to us and all the development around, it makes our land a hot spot. You can't really stand in the way of it.

Curt Shaw

We knew what was on the line. The pressure was off after the loss to Hot Springs (Thursday).

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The possibility is there because I feel it inside. I feel there are a lot of people in politics that are standing still and not doing enough. And there's a vacuum. Therefore, I can move in.

Phillip Needham

We've also moved into Manitoba and Saskatchewan this year.

Frank Newport

There are debates, there are ads, and all that stuff so you're going to have movements up and down.

Abdullah Abdullah

We stopped because we didn't want to move into Kabul,

Benedict Cumberbatch

[ Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.

Arundhati Roy

I am a Maoist sympathiser. I'm not a Maoist ideologue, because the communist movements in history have been just as destructive as capitalism.

Cecily Brown

I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is constantly exciting.

David Walker

We have to get some movement on it shortly,

Deborah Marshall

We have no plans to move at this time.

Jim Litchfield

We're in a playoff situation, and we had to win this game. We didn't win, and we go home.

Rick Carlisle

We're in a must-win situation every night. We have to win games. It's important to be a playoff team. We have a string of years and we want to keep that going.

John LaFontaine

We want to play (tonight) as if it's a playoff game.

Mark Parrish

We're going to need everything out of Ricky ? and all of us ? to make a playoff run.

Baron Davis

We're just trying to get a win at this point. Can't talk about playoffs when you're losing.

Kevin Morooney

She's been doing well and her spirits are up. We'll see how she reacts when playoffs begin.

Chris Osgood

We ran into a team that's really good. Nowadays, when the playoffs start, there's no underdogs.

David English

I was like it's just like the playoff game. Keep trucking, keep trucking.

Diane Davey

I think these are all teams that are going to be in playoff contention. Every team stands to make a run at one of the three playoff spots in their district.

Ray Giacoletti

We're having a tough time right now. We've just got to keep swinging and keep grinding.

John Gibbons

I'm just going to go with Reed. I like the way Reed's swinging it,

David Eckstein

You can't go up there swinging if (the pitcher) has just made an out or he's had a tough inning before,