Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sugar Ray Leonard

I learned to run backwards from Muhammad Ali. He told me about running backwards because you try to imitate everything you do in the ring, so sometimes you back up. So you have to train your legs to go backwards.

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.

Mike Edelman

She is a very bright woman who knows public policy backwards and forwards and who has reached out to a diverse constituency, especially upstate. I'm very impressed.

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.

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.

Edward Norton

At this point in my life I'm not bent on proving anything, really.

Ken Hayes

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

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.

Eduardo Saverin

I do have a Bentley. I do go out.

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.

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!).

Joss Whedon

I have abused language. I love it, and I abuse it... I don't write just to be clever. But sometimes I do. And if you don't have an understanding of the language, then the way in which it's bent doesn't actually register.

Cory Booker

We have to have a mayor and a council who will take City Hall and fight that fight.

Jim Gaylor

We have to go and play them down there Friday and I'm sure they are going to remember. I'm sure it's going to be an exciting time over at Lenoir City for that game.

Mike McDaniel

We have to get the water out of the city or the nightmare will continue.

Arthur Hardy

We have no model for this. Will the city ever be back to normal? We don't know. All I can tell you is we're going to enjoy this Mardi Gras.

Cynthia Rezentes

We have moved not one inch. There are options that the city could have been approaching.

Roxanne Rogers

We want people in Valley City to see how normal meditation is, and how healing.

Kirby Nishikawa

We want him to leave the city with a good feeling about Winnipeg.

David Nicholas

We've shut everything down. We evacuated all our workers from the offshore platforms in the Gulf, shutting in production. We have shut down operations at our Texas City refinery.

I. Stone

The fact of the matter is I've got some new commitments, ... My focus on those new commitments would really preclude any intense kind of focus on city issues. It's not that I'm ready to move on - it's very bittersweet.

Greg Nickels

The people of Seattle know I'm a mayor willing to make tough decisions.

Stephen Kinzer

Mayors of New York are almost automatically national figures.

Ed Koch

I'm not an author, but before I became mayor, I wasn't a mayor.

Robert Maxwell

Luckily, he missed, so I shot the mayor and withdrew.

Paul Farris

I am the mayor whether they like it or not.

Martin O'Malley

If any mayor reduced school funding by 33 percent and called it the 'Strengthening Our Schools Initiative,' I think they'd be excoriated.

Alex Padilla

I find it weird that he lost. He has been mayor for a while.

Fred Sainz

We can't piecemeal policy, so the mayor thought it was the right thing to do.

Nancy Pelosi

My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.

Ricky Gervais

For any of you who don't know, the Golden Globes are just like the Oscars, but without all that esteem. The Golden Globes are to the Oscars what Kim Kardashian is to Kate Middleton. A bit louder, a bit trashier, a bit drunker, and more easily bought.

Steve Box

We know how sacred the Oscars are. But we said, what the heck.

Dianne Wiest

Gee, this isn't like I imagined it would be in the bathtub.

Brett Ratner

I'm not going to turn down an Oscar, but I'm not strategizing for one.

Brett Ratner

I never dreamed I would be producing the Oscars. That was a huge deal for me.

Dick Van Dyke

I've won several Emmys, a Tony and a Grammy, so maybe somebody will let me have an Oscar, and then I'll have a full set.

Elizabeth Banks

I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv.

Brenda Blethyn

Even if I hadn't have been nominated for an Oscar, to have won the Golden Glove was just fantastic.

John Bloom

I don't think it's transformed animation. The Oscar is the tail and the work is the body.

Elizabeth Wilson

It's one thing to be talented, but the other thing is connections - with agents, with people; that's what makes a difference, and from the beginning, I've had wonderful representation.

Alan Moore

Now everything is wonderful and hazardous and nothing's hypothetical.

Alan Alda

I'm in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.

Cheryl Strayed

Every time I read Erin Belieu work I'm pierced in that wonderful way poetry can.

Casey Stengel

It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like.

Bill Nye

When or if answers are found, you can be assured those answers will lead to more questions. Is the troubling or wonderful? It depends on your view of your place in nature, your place among the stars; I suppose.

Bing Crosby

You'll never be a wonderful woman or even a wonderful human being until you learn to have some regard for human frailty.

Bill Monroe

Bluegrass is wonderful music. I'm glad I originated it.

Bette Midler

If you can accept your differentness and learn to love it and encourage it, then you can be someone wonderful.