Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bat for Lashes

I live in a Moomin house in East London which I fill with blankets and nice crockery and get people round for dinner. When you travel a lot, you feel rootless and adrift - this is my sanctuary, where I can breathe out.

Rick Parry

We've been 30 points adrift of the champions for the last two seasons, and although there are still three games to play, it's clear for everyone we're a lot closer now.

Greg Smith

The crew have been transferred to the police launch Fearless and the yacht has been left adrift and the emergency beacon will continue to flash until it's picked up by whoever.

Jeff Carlson

I think we're programmed for hardship. In my experience, human beings are happiest when they're working themselves to the bone. People are more likely to feel adrift and unsatisfied when they have too much leisure time. Obstacles are good.

Roy Coyle

This time last year we were a lot of points adrift and now we are only behind on goal difference. So it is a nice position to be in. We would have preferred to be top but finishing let us down.

Colin Firth

In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a confused, bewildered middle class Englishman adrift in smalltown America and that has definitely been me.

Warren Brown

These stars literally are castaways. They have been thrown out of their home galaxy and set adrift in an ocean of intergalactic space.

Bill Bailey

There's a wonderful sadness and poignancy about those Finnish films. They have people adrift at the mercy of fate. They're heartwarming. I also find them funny. I suppose that makes me an optimist.

Nicholas Sparks

without music he felt aimless and adrift.

Robert Kazinsky

'Star Wars' is a grand soap opera, and 'Star Trek' is about technology, they tried to explain the reality of it, as far-fetched as it might be. And that's why I've always liked the science behind the fiction.

Malorie Blackman

I wanted to have a body of work behind me before I wrote about racism.

Auggie Tantillo

Manipulated currency, non-performing loans made by Chinese state-run banks, intellectual property theft and other state-sponsored subsidies are the driving forces behind the job-destroying US trade deficit with China.

Andy Roberts

Like all the other territories, Jamaica is well behind in its preparation and there is a lot of work to be done.

Martin Brodeur

Letting in that first goal gave them some wind and it set it us back. On the next shift they scored another one to put us behind the 8-ball.

Jared Dudley

Making the Sweet 16 is a dream come true. Now we need to put it behind us and get ready for the next game.

Olusegun Obasanjo

Make no mistake. We face a very difficult job once we get the pomp behind us tomorrow,

Joel Edgerton

Making a movie like 'Felony' is hard work because you're really putting your own ideas on the screen. You can't hide behind some other person's script; you're saying, 'This is my brain, and I want you to know what I think'.'

Shaun Alexander

Mack Strong is the difference between us and the Philadelphia Eagles. We can get behind him and run all day.

LaMont Jordan

One magazine had me finishing with 975 yards,

Jon Mills

Tough finishing holes. You just try to take it where you can get it.

Mark Larson

We are putting the finishing songs on our regular release.

Jon Constant

We didn't do a good job of finishing the game. It was a tough loss for us, but I think that we learned from it. We've got to finish.

David Wright

We're not going out there and setting our goals to try and knock teams out of the playoffs. We're trying to just make sure to finishing on a strong note that can springboard us into next year.

Don Helvey

We're not finishing when we need to finish, but we finish when it counts. The kids know how to play the game and they've been taught that they need to stick with it until the last whistle.

Jeff Gundy

We still have the same problems we had last spring: one-on-one defense; pick-and-roll defense; (we're a) high-turnover team; when it turned into a street fight, they fought harder than we did; and can we finish? Right now, we're not a finishing team. That's on me, that nothing's improved.

Taro Aso

understands that it was not a recalling of the envoy but an announcement of the finishing of his duties.

Ron Jirsa

We worked hard before the game at shooting and finishing better around the basket.

Torrie Wheat

Man, he's just magical sometimes. That first goal was unbelievable, a highlight-reel goal. Then he went to the net hard and potted two more. He's a goal scorer. He's going to do that for the rest of his career.

Heidi Martin

Making the state tournament has always been our top goal and we're just one win away from that now.

Lou Cacchio

League championship and getting back to states-that's the goal for the year.

Brent Walston

Many of her goals were with her left foot. And she's not left-footed.

Scott Goodale

Scott loves playing to the crowd. He'll be under a lot of pressure next year for sure. But he thrives on it. The goal now is three titles. He could end up the greatest wrestler in Jackson history.

Inaki Saez

Scoring the first goal is a weapon we have to use,

Lalit Panda

Setting high goals for your staff, and guiding them to think with an out-of-the-box mentality is important.

Brad Shaw

Miro Jr. probably needs a goal today, doesn't he?

David Beckham

Mine was a great goal but the important thing was the team winning,

John Philbrook

Man-hours, especially in the last two quarters, have jumped dramatically. Our position has always been to have enough work here so we don't have to travel to find work. Well, we are in that situation now.

Rabindranath Tagore

Let this be my last word, that I trust in your love.

Steve Reinprecht

Making the run that we made, we're going into the season with a different attitude. We want to win our last game, that's the mindset here.

Steve Hadley

made that request last week in his public statements very clearly.

Bobby Bowden

Leon's got a chance, ... Last week, he couldn't have done it.

Jim Bolla

(Losing on senior night) last year was kind of a bummer. But as least we got a win tonight and we've got a lot of people out there supporting them.

William Jefferson

Louisiana is last on the things that we ought to be first on, and first on the things we ought to be last on. We can do better than this,

Ron Zook

Lou turned up the wick considerably this year from last year.

Sullivan Sykes

Last year we had the potential, but we could never get over that hurdle. This year we play more as a team.

George Carlin

One nice thing about egotists: they don't talk about other people

Winston Churchill

My grandfather had a very nice phrase about your grandfather,

John Shepard

Now that Andrew's over his hamstring injury, it's nice to have him,

Joe Thornton

Obviously it would have been nice to win that game, but we've got to go right back at it (tonight).

Tom Selleck

Obviously, it's one passion of mine. I mean, I don't always want to do westerns, but it's nice to always kind of have one in the works.

Steven Smith

Obviously it's nice to win, but people are in it for the exposure.

Charles Olson

Were all moving, moving, moving. Isnt it nice?

Diane Lane

It's nice to have a pause to parent and to be more present at home, teaching them how to drive cars and navigate boys and all this sort of thing.

Diane Kruger

When you are in a relationship, you want the other person to appreciate the things you like. It sounds superficial, but it's nice.

Kelly Golob

Scoring points has never been a priority. It's always been the team's success.

Ken Goldstein

One of the things this points out is that we're on the road to recovery, but the road is going to be bumpy -- it always is.

Valentino Castellani

For years we have been working on this ceremony, it will be one of the most important turning points of the Games.

Chris Wielgus

She was phenomenal. The score at the end had Rutgers with more points than Dartmouth, but there's no way we were losers.

Dave Wharton

She's just an all-around swimmer. We try to utilize her wherever we have any weak points in the meet.

Abdoulaye Sarr

Today our team did not play like our team should ... This was not the team I know. We'll have to work out our problems and try and take all three points from Nigeria.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

Hawaii is so complex; there are so many points of view, and there are so many experiences to see and to find.

Anthony Wollschlager

We didn't put up the points we wanted to. Obviously, there are still things we need to work on. Over the summer we're going to get this thing right.

Javier Solana

We still have points on which we are separated, but we are making progress,

Francesco Rutelli

Let those who won be put in the position to govern.

Kelly DeFeciani

Sharon's position will be replaced immediately in May by the person who comes in third.

Ryan Snair

Sean can play any of the infield positions and can catch, too.

Kenenisa Bekele

My getting to this position is something that doesnt completely surprise me at this point,

Greg Valliere

On one hand, he seems more palatable to Wall Street than Dean, in that his positions on trade and taxes are more moderate.

Terry Carmack

She supports the president's position when she agrees with him and stands up to the president when she doesn't.

Ledawn Gibson

She can do it all. She can play any position on the court, one through five.

Claude Tyler

She had a will to compete. She would play any position for us, one through five.

Tom Lehman

I'd like to be in a position to give my spot up if I had to.

Chris Roberts

Obviously, we would have preferred that it wouldn't have been taken to this stage.

Charlie White

From my own personal standpoint, I've always preferred my hair shorter because it's just easier.

Bernard Laporte

We preferred to let him recuperate and release him on Thursday.

Laurie Graham

My preferred style is to write in first person, so I always have to play around with possible narrator voices until I find something that works.

Greg Chappell

It did not remain confidential though I would have preferred it to have remained so. What else can I say at this stage?

Angelina Jolie

When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It's just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.

Josh Beekman

We don't get preferred housing, I wish that we did.

Neil LeBlanc

I'll tell you I would have preferred having a francophone in that post. It would have been preferable.

Adrian Lackay

In general, SARS is seen as a preferred creditor.

Robert Osborne

I think there's something about traveling in airplanes all the time that's not the healthiest thing in the world for you.

Albert Schweitzer

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

Jerry Costello

Make no mistake, our troops will be in Afghanistan and Iraq for a long time.

Jack Rio

So it was a valuable time for us.

Scott Ellis

My first time ever on the Tony Awards was in 1984, the year of 'The Rink.'

Anwar Robinson

One Moment in Time because I think it describes me as a person and how I felt about being on the show.

Rick DiPietro

Obviously, you're going to have jitters the first time you play in this event, but at the end of the day, it's still the same game.

Phil Lesh

Of course, in the band, we all interpreted in our own way simultaneously, so this time I'm just going to do it all by myself and see what comes out.

Denise Bottcher

No one got confirmation that she was napping. There was no time for napping.

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).

Levance Fields

Of course, I'll be ready. I think I could have done it this year if Carl hadn't come back.

Cory Sarich

One year I had about 14 different returns. That's a lot of signatures when it comes time.

Jose Theodore

Obviously, this year I didn't play up to my level, but the year's not over yet.

Chris Evans

If you want to be around in 10 years you've got to do something to differentiate yourself from the pack.

Charles Spurgeon

If we had to preach to thousands year after year, and never rescued but one soul, that one soul would be a full reward for all our labour, for a soul is of countless price.

Charles Spurgeon

In all of my years of service to my Lord, I have discovered a truth that has never failed and has never been compromised. That truth is that it is beyond the realm of possibilities that one has the ability to out-give God. Even if I give the whole of my worth to Him, He will find a way to give back to me much more than I gave.

Charles Spurgeon

Ten minutes praying is better than a year's murmuring.

Dick Van Dyke

All of us involved say 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the best five years of our lives. We were like otters at play.

Dick Van Dyke

I wanted to be Stan Laurel, then I wanted to be Fred Astaire and then Captain Kangaroo. I actually started out as a radio announcer when I was 17 and never left the business, so that's literally 70 years.