Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vince Carter

Regardless of whether (Jefferson) was back or not, we just weren't happy with our effort (on the road trip). That's what we wanted to correct - we wanted the effort level to be there.

Rick Billy

Relative to where the stocks were earlier this year and the expectations people had for growth, some correction was necessary. Their valuations were as lofty as I have ever seen in 20 years of following the semiconductor industry. They were truly off the charts.

Michael Miller

Parker correctly told the unions, 'You figure it out,' putting the onus on union management to work it out.

Kofi Annan

Some of the critics will never stop, but reasonable men and women will know that we've done everything we can to find the truth and are going to take steps to correct that.

Lee Miller

Our primary task is to get correct information out there. We find a lot of people have heard about the referendum, but have heard rumors that are wrong.

Gary Kleeblatt

Our review of the transaction showed that there was some carelessness. It's been corrected and reimbursements have been made.

John Hall

Our generator is keeping all our refrigerated products in receiving at the correct temperatures, as well as a few lights and our registers. It's going to be a major impact (on business).

Jamila Shanti

Our first job is to correct this because this is not Islam. We are going to show that women are not secondary, they are equal to men. Discrimination is not from Islam, it is from tradition. It may not be easy. Men may not agree.

Tom Fitzpatrick

Overall this period of dollar strength since January can still only be viewed as a correction to the 3 years of weakness,

Larry David

People have often wondered how they'd feel if they were adopted. I think it's funny.

Maybe in order to understand mankind we have to look at that word itself. MANKIND. Basically, it's made up of two separate words mank and ind. What do these words mean? It's a mystery and that's why so is mankind.

Susan Stroman

Mel has written 10 new songs, and they're very funny. It's a year and a half away from opening on Broadway.

Billy Corgan

The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock.

Bill Shankly

A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.

Bill Engvall

He knows all the golf lingo. You know? You hit your ball, he's like "there's a golf shot. That's a golf shot." Well of course it's a golf shot; I just hit a golf ball. You don't see Gretzky skating around going "there's a hockey shot, that's a hockey shot."

Bill Engvall

My son is 12 now, and is really getting into girls. A lot. But the thing about twelve year old boys is that they don't possess what I like to call that ... discretionary gene yet. We were walking home from the ballfield the other day and there was a woman walking towards us who was ... gifted. I saw them, and I saw him see them. But she was too close for me to go, "Dude, shut up." She hadn't walked two feet behind us and he goes "God dang, did you see the SIZE of those things?" And all I could say was "Yeah, I did!"

Bill Engvall

No parents. You have Uncle Jesse, forever in overalls. Then there's Bo and Duke. What do they do? I never saw them working for food or gas money. You can only kill so many possum.

Bill Engvall

I thought "RV" stood for "Recreational Vehicle." No! It stands for "Ruins Vacations."

Ozzie Guillen

Last year we put a lot of pressure on the opposing team because Pod was running. I think his groin is healthy and when he's healthy, we will run.

Darrent Williams

With this injury and the things I have to do at my position, my groin can't have (problems), because I'm turning and running, turning my hips all the time. I can't really go out there at 50 percent.

Travis Fisher

They say this is a different area, but it's still the groin to me. You never know, I could have been just out there running and tweaked it.

A. Hodge

He punched me in the groin and the ref saw it, A lot of times when I go on the road, I feel like the most hated man in the ACC, but you've got to play through that.

Brian Boucher

This is my first groin injury so I don't know how it's going to respond (to treatment). I'm very disappointed that I'm injured, but it is what it is. You have to move on.

Brian Boucher

This is my first groin injury, so I don't know how it's going to respond (to treatment),

Tom Izzo

You can't even punch a guy in the groin anymore.

Ray Staver

Our kids worked real hard in the second half on defense. I thought where they really hurt us was with screens. They are a very physical team. They play physical.

Peter Henning

or a very short sentence in a halfway house.

Charles Phillips

Oracle is halfway to Fusion. One year later, half the job is done and it's the toughest half.

Fran Drescher

Surgery is half the race, but you have to go for the follow-up or do yourself a major disservice.

Larry Harris

Starting off the second half of the season, we knew that this was going to be a big week for us and now we're 0-2.

Natasha Burton

Overall, 2005 saw higher numbers of shoppers on the High Street than in 2004, though this camouflages what was a challenging second half of the year for most retailers.

Donald Brownlee

Our capsule is half the size and one-fourth the mass of Genesis,

Brent Cox

Many African-American students are half American Indian as well.

Chris Landsea

Most seasons we are going to get a hurricane hit the U.S. and probably more than half the time we will have a major hurricane hitting the U.S. as well.

Source Unknown

Remember the turtle -- He never makes any progress till he sticks his neck out.

Mike Ayers

Just all muscle-related stuff in my neck and back. Nothing was broken, thank God.

C. S. Lewis

On the back of Satan's neck is a nail scarred footprint.

Dennis Cuneo

She really stuck her neck out for us politically, and we appreciated it.

Albert Einstein

Each possession I own is but a stone around my neck.

Elsa Peretti

A big diamond necklace is nouveau riche, really. People who have wealth a long time don't wear such things.

Nina Garcia

I tend to wear leather pants with crew neck sweaters or leather jackets with denim.

Marlene Walz

We're neck and neck. We're doing cutting-edge things in our district.

Sophie Turner

When I was fifteen, I got a Tiffany's necklace from the producers of 'Game of Thrones' with my character's name Sansa engraved on it.

Bruce Bochy

Obviously, we'd like to start getting some pinch hits.

Craig Heller

Sitting where we're at right now, I'm very pleased. I've been waiting for somebody to pinch me and wake me up.

Laura Osnes

I'm doing what I wanted to do since I was a young girl. I pinch myself every day to make sure it's true.

Bob Livingston

The Vietnam War was happening, but Lubbock was... They put a pinch on it.

Rachel Joyce

I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.

Aaron Small

Please, somebody pinch me when it's all over.

Renee James

If you can make it so that I could touch somebody remotely through a wearable because it has haptic feedback - like, I could give a hug and it would touch you or pinch you - that would be killer.

Jack Phelps

This may start to pinch some consumers' wallets.

Huston Street

The first time I had to pinch myself was walking into (big-league) spring training,

Dana Taylor

Robby is fast, very powerful and has a quick shot.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You belong to the biblical race of Nephilim. Your real father was an angel who fell from heaven. You're half mortal." The boy's dark eyes lifted, meeting Chauncey's. "Half fallen angel." Chauncey's tutor's voice drifted up from the recesses of his mind, reading passages from the Bible, telling of a deviant race created when angels cast from heaven mated with mortal women. A fearsome and powerful race. A chill that wasn't entirely revulsion crept through Chauncey. "Who are you?

Barry Lopez

The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you

Bill Crawford

All of life presents itself as a cycle of cause and effect. When this cycle is negative, there are three ways to change. You can change the cause, change the effect, or choose the most powerful option become the cause!

Bill Crawford

The most powerful times in our lives can be the time between times, or life's transitions that give us the opportunity to choose.

Bianca Jagger

People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in the world made him lose his mind.

Bianca Jagger

I don't need an overpowering, powerful, rich man to feel secure. I'd much rather have a man who is there for me, who really loves me, who is growing, who is real.

C. S. Lewis

What assurance have we that our masters will or can keep the promise which induced us to sell ourselves? Let us not be deceived by phrases about 'Man taking charge of his own destiny'. All that can really happen is that some men will take charge of the destiny of the others. They will be simply men; none perfect; some greedy, cruel and dishonest. The more completely we are planned the more powerful they will be. Have we discovered some new reason why, this time, power should not corrupt as it has done before?

Carrie Fisher

I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.