Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Hughes

We started rehearsing this backwards ... so that once the students were on the spot, they would be more confident with that.

Ozzie Smith

There are some guys that come off bad, but sometimes those people need you to come off like that. Sometimes they force you to come off like that, because you may tell them four or five times to go on, and they'll come back with their cap turned backwards and try again. Those are all tricks of the trade.

Pat Williams

We stopped caring whether he was coming or not. If he came, he came. If he didn't, he didn't. He's here now, but he's late and we're not waiting for him. We're not going to go backwards waiting for him.

Mark Helprin

My father was famous for his photographic memory. He was in the OSS. They trained him to be captured on purpose and to read upside down and backwards and commit to memory every document in Germany he saw as he was being interrogated - every schedule on every wall. So, that photographic memory somehow made its way to me when I was young.

Guy Laliberte

Me? I'm going to grow backwards and be a kid again.

Horst Faas

A Leica camera is a camera we can keep both eyes open. You can look for the free eye that doesn't look to viewfinder and in all directions. It's like backwards - and sometimes also backwards, and you can look for the viewfinder and see your picture.

Ken Cassar

What's really interesting is that most online retailers have forward integration, whereas this seems like a backwards integration play. Barnes & Noble already has a direct relationship with the customer and now they're trying to get further into the supply chain,

Chris Swecker

We're just going to have to work backwards from where he was last and wherever he's been, ... He's been somewhere, and we have to go to those places and process those places and see what evidence may be at those places.

Mark Richardson

Let's look at the past 20 years - maybe you had a lot of catching up to do. You're looking backwards as your reason for not getting a settlement this time.

Jim Johnson

We bent a little, but we didn't break. That was a big thing that we talked about all week, being good in the red zone.

Thomas Watson, Jr.

The web of influence which News Corporation spun in Britain, which effectively bent politicians, police and many others in public life to its will, amounted to a shadow state.

Timothy Noah

It's no surprise that Mitt Romney bent himself into a pretzel to disavow the portions of Obamacare that derive from his own reform in Massachusetts.

Ken Hayes

This probably couldn't have happened back then. The bent back then was historicism.

Alexander Pope

Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined

Taylor Wilson

I don't mean to offend anybody, but I think that we get a lot of scientists now who are bent into a system, and we lose some of their boldness by that. Obviously, you have to learn the ropes, but I think it's important to do that without hammering out the radicalness that makes innovation happen.

Stephen Davis

My leg is fine. It got kind of bent up there and that hadn't happened in a long time, ... It feels pretty good, but I was kind of scared at first.

Lee Smith

Buck and I are somewhat alike. We don't get worked up or bent out of shape. Things are going to happen and you can't control it.

Rudyard Kipling

But a fool must follow his natural bent / (Even as you and I!).

Adger Ross

We want to try and prevent this from happening again. We love our city and want it safe.

John Payne

We want to see the city come back, and we're willing to listen to proposals and ideas. We want to work with local and state officials to get the city back on its feet.

Carl Peterson

The other suggestion was to play in Kansas City at noon Sunday, ... We don't expect any hurricanes here. That was considered, but the league made its decision. It creates some real problems for us with travel, and with trying to squeeze a Thursday, Friday and Saturday practice all into Thursday. But we have to do what the league orders us to do.

Bible Bible

The posts went out, being hastened by the king's commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the palace. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city Shushan was perplexed.

Artur Davis

the people who sat comfortably in this city last week.

Al Naomi

The point is to eliminate that storm-surge threat with one of these plans. The philosophy of what we do during a hurricane would change. We could spend more time protecting our homes and less time trying to get out of the city in these desperate evacuations.

Kevin Jackson

We are a vibrant, growing city with a lot to offer. I think success in Rio Rancho will be success for Albuquerque.

Mike Birbiglia

There are comedians who focus on everything that is external. They focus on politics and the news, what's going on in that city and that night.

Jan Mills

West Lafayette has been recognized as having the lowest city property tax and recognized for helping the Indiana community grow.

Liza Minnelli

First I wanted to be an ice skater, and then I saw 'Bye, Bye Birdie,' and everything changed. I'm glad I learned through the process of theater.

Eric Osmer

When it comes down to it, a rule is a rule. I messed up. But, in a way I'm kind of glad it's all over. There is a sense of closure. We can move on.

Jerry Eaves

What a legacy. It's something that needs to be done. I'm so glad the school is doing it.

Darin Strauss

Usually, as a fiction writer, you get e-mails saying, 'I liked your book,' or 'I didn't like it.' You don't get something saying, 'I'm really glad this is in the world.'

Mark Stephens

We're getting a lot of people saying we're glad you're back.

Darris Kilgour

We're really glad to have Jason Crosbie back. He's a great leader on and off the floor.

Jimmy Shaver

We knew they had that big-play ability. I'm glad we were able to keep that to a minimum.

Roger Holtkamp

We're glad we have such a high number of students reaching this status. It's super to have so many honored.

Phil Smith

We're glad to see that MSHA is taking this step, but we want to wait to see what sort of rules come out of this process.

Edward Hirsch

When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program, we required the poets to take workshops in fiction writing, and we required the fiction writers to take workshops in poetry.

Brad Lidge

When you're a pitcher for the Houston Astros and a stranger notices you in a mall in Colorado, you know things have really changed.

Ray Stone

We pre-positioned about 60, some in Houston and some in Atlanta, so we could set up a storm office as it unfolded and move the others in quickly.

Oliver Luck

From this day forward, the Houston 1836 logo will be a symbol of a hardworking team. This is a team for Houston. If you live in Houston, you must like it here. If you like Houston, come out and support another Houston franchise.

Conan O'Brien

A store in Houston is selling Donald Trump piñatas filled with candy. So finally something good is going to come out of Donald Trump.

David Foster

Whitney Houston was a laser beam ... She always gave me better than what I asked for in the studio

Bill White

Hurricane Rita is dangerous, and Houston is well-prepared,

Roger Clemens

When I tried the sandwich, I had to invest with Nolan Ryan in the Houston market.

Chase Utley

We knew Houston had lost today. We wanted to get it, and somehow we did.