Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kris Kristofferson

I boxed in Golden Gloves at Oxford and still know how to throw a straight left jab.

Holly Misto

She gave us me some great minutes. She played solid defense and boxed out well. Rose also did a lot of little things tonight. She has done that all season.

Anthony Williams

We boxed out, played defense and kicked it out for the 3s. When we did that, it opened things up for us.

Nobuki Goto

I expect the Nikkei to move in a boxed range of between around 15,000 and 15,500 for the time being.

Kalin Lucas

If we could have boxed out, we could have gotten back, gotten a lay-up and the game would've been different. But it's all right. It's a lesson.

Brian Tee

It's the transformation that drives me. I want to do it all and never want to be boxed into something as a particular type or style. I never want people to think they know me. I hope to build a repertoire that one can look at and say, from to role to role, 'Was that Brian Tee?'

Jim Bowden

When you're boxed in, the way you improve is by releasing guys or making trades.

Nicole Mones

In my own life I studied music, not creative writing; I see a novel as music - an opening as an overture, themes and subplots as lines in a fugue. The chance to write a novel about a musician boxed in by all kinds of limitations but who plays out his ultimate struggle for freedom at the piano was irresistible.

Allison Daly

We didn't drive to the basket, and every time we shot we didn't follow the shot. We were getting one or two shots max. They followed their shots, and they boxed out well.

Kevin Connors

We want to provide as complete a solution as possible to photographers.

Andy Pettitte

What the starters have done over there, with all those complete games, it's amazing. I've pitched in so many games and I don't think I've ever had a complete game. It's going to be a great series, some great pitching, low scoring games. It's going to be a lot of fun.

Kurt Mayer

We have people who will get on a motorcycle in the dead of winter and ride 350 miles to go to a funeral of a complete stranger and stand there for an hour, at attention, give a salute and go home.

Mohamed Mahdi

There is complete forgery by every way and means.

Theodore Schultz

My schooling was disrupted by the shortage of labor during World War I. It meant foregoing high school. Then, late in 1921, I entered upon a short course in agriculture at South Dakota State College. I managed to enter college in 1924, and I was permitted to complete my college work in three years.

Thomas Vinterberg

I think Dogme was inspiring for quite a few peoples and sort of started a digital movement. Personally, I found it extremely uplifting and fantastic making Dogme movies, but I felt I completed it with 'The Celebration.' I think that was the end of the road on Dogme for me. It was as far as I could go.

Tawni O'Dell

Writing an essay is like a school assignment: I have my topic, I organize my thoughts, and I write it. I have complete control over what I'm doing. Writing a novel is like setting out on a journey without knowing who or what I'll encounter, how long it's going to take, or where I'm going to end up.

Christina Lee

We have completed the assessment, rectification and upgrade of our critical systems and equipment as of June 30, 1999.

Glenn Reyer

We have completed some major work already. We have installed a new elevator, new restrooms, new kitchen, and replaced the heating system. We have a new entrance and a second exit stairway from the second floor, but much remains to be done.

Chris Vance

The process has worked extremely well and Republicans support it. When the Legislature drew the lines, there was nothing but lawsuits, acrimony and delay.

Hadi Jawad

We're grateful because it was time, in our opinion, that someone drew a hard line the way she has.

John Madden

We need the quarterbacks. It's a passing league and a quarterback-driven league. We need the Peyton Mannings in football uniforms out there playing - the Tom Bradys, the Drew Breeses, the Philip Riverses - we need those guys instead of them standing on the sideline.

Jim Gaylor

When we weren't scoring early in the game, Drew kept us in it. We made a few a plays there for him. He mixed his pitches well. He's a competitor. He's not an overpowering guy, but he's got good stuff.

George Herbert

Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back / Guilty of dust and sin.

Chris Savage

We've scouted them a few times. They have a lot of good athletes. They're in a tough league (City League-North Division). We drew a tough opponent.

Jerry Rice

My hat goes off to Drew and Cheryl. It's well-deserved.

Scott Brown

Nobody trains harder than Drew Switzer. He's as hard a worker as I've ever seen.

Tom Izzo

I don't think I can be harder on Drew than Drew is on Drew.

David Pollack

When you're young, the more you do something, the more familiar it becomes, the more comfortable you are with it. You know how it is.

Stephon Marbury

We've settled in as far as who's going to be out there on the court. Guys are getting familiar with what we have to do to win games.

Jamie Dixon

We've seen them and we're familiar with them. Having a short turnaround as far as playing them, at least it's good that we're familiar with them.

Brian Eno

I'm always interested in something when it isn't familiar to me.

Laila Robins

'Heartbreak House' was a lot of fun for me. I must have missed that day at school. I'd never read it or seen it. It's one of those things that a lot of people are familiar with.

Katherine LaNasa

I personally like to hang out with people; if I'm playing their mom, I'd like to go have lunch with the kid, and I want to try to spend as much time with people that I can while we are working together if we're supposed to have a familiar relationship with them, because I think it reads.

Robert Brown

The person had to be really familiar with the main sites in Buffalo.

Noah Emmerich

I'm actually pretty scientifically interested. I have a lot of friends who are doctors, so the idea of the virus and the synapses in the brain and how the nervous system works was actually all pretty familiar to me.

John Heisler

We are very familiar with the phone number of our general counsel.

Sue Monk Kidd

I was a Nancy Drew girl. Also Grimms' fairy tales.

Jim Peters

Nancy and I want to travel on our own time.

John Mansell

This particular Olympics does have a lot of disappointments, and there's no big Tonya Harding, Nancy Kerrigan story line.

Alan Nunnelee

If you had the opportunity to cast your vote for speaker, would you vote for Nancy Pelosi?

Carol Leifer

There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.

Charlie Crist

I was a Republican, and I saw the activists and what they were doing; it was intolerable to me.

Orlando Cabrera

When I did that I said 'Wow,' ... I got the video, and when Tejada saw the play when he got out, he started clapping.

Brian Wilson

I met Paul in 1967, Ringo in 1985, and I saw George Harrison in a nightclub somewhere in L. A. I never met John.

David Sedaris

If you stepped out of the shower and saw a leprechaun standing at the base of your toilet, would you scream, or would you innately understand that he meant you no harm?

Gabrielle Zevin

My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.

Jandy Nelson

In one split second I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. And all that I'm not.

Roman Gutierrez

We still saw some of our inexperience today. That will be the case, but there were still some steps of improvement.

Brian May

I really thought I was pretty good before I saw Hendrix, and then I thought: Yeah, not so good.

Lykke Li

I always feel like I've been slightly misunderstood. As a woman, you get judged for appearances or things like that I don't really care about.

Michelle Gomez

I'm always slightly worried if I do a film and we're filming it in Luxembourg. I know it's going to go straight DVD.

Rainer Guntermann

If anything it was a slightly more hawkish spin (than we were expecting).

Ike Barinholtz

The first two years I was on 'MADtv' were really, really fun. We always thought it was 'Saturday Night Live's very nice, slightly asthmatic, shorter cousin.

Chris Rock

I'm severely overrated. I'm just above a hack. That should be the name of my new DVD: 'Chris Rock: Slightly Above Hack'.

Anna Kendrick

I never have used a trainer. I'm slightly intimidated by the idea of somebody in my face.

Andy Serkis

I think when actors run away from their work that they're slightly crazy, really!

Adam McKay

I think when a lot of actors hear improv, they think of throwing a line in or doing a slightly different take.

John Banville

Writers are just like other people, except slightly more obsessed.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and for that reason would well have deserved an honorary degree.

Agnes Repplier

Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.

Charlotte Bronte

It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication.

Charles Dudley Warner

A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing.

Charles Dudley Warner

Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having less imagination; they are more fitted for practical affairs, and would make fewer failures in business.

Charles Caleb Colton

Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.

Charles Caleb Colton

Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.

Charles Caleb Colton

A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.

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.

Edmund Burke

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

Craig Kilborn

Today Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge lowered the terror alert from orange to yellow. Does anybody need 16 miles of duct tape?

Elizabeth Taylor

John Wayne is as tough as an old nut and as soft as a yellow ribbon.

Apolo Ohno

I love to shop. Clothes, electronics, and I love jewelry, especially yellow gold.

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.

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.

Aristotle

Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold