Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Adams

The point is made we're still fighting this battle. It's not as dynamic a battle as people being hosed down ... but it's still happening.

Jamie Langenbrunner

We're in a tight race right now and points are huge. We're in a battle to get in the playoffs and we've got 14 games left. We need to get some points. You can't get in playing like this. We're not winning.

David Hume

Battles, revolutions, pestilence, famine, and death, are never the effect of those natural causes, which we experience. Prodigies,omens, oracles, judgments, quite obscure the few natural events, that are intermingled with them. But as the former grow thinner every pagewe soon learn, that there is nothing mysterious or supernatural in the case, but that all proceeds from the usual propensity of mankind towards the marvellous, and that, though this inclination may at intervals receive a check from sense and learning, it can never be thoroughly extirpated.

Antonio Villaraigosa

I'm not looking for a battle with anybody, neither the council nor our labor partners.

Andrew Demetriou

We always hear talk of clubs trying to sign new members but one of the biggest battles they have is to retain all of their members from the previous year.

Edgar Degas

It requires courage to make a frontal attack on nature through the broad planes and the large lines and it is cowardly to do it by the facets and details. It is a battle.

Benjamin E. Mays

We, today, stand on the shoulders of our predecessors who have gone before us. We, as their successors, must catch the torch of freedom and liberty passed on to us by our ancestors. We cannot lose in this battle.

Pat Merrill

We wanted to win the battles all over the floor and that's what we did.

Joey Eischen

We were better than the Marlins last year. We were supposed to battle them to the end, but we had no wind left in our sails because of our schedule. Twenty-two extra road games beats you down.

H. Hart

We are pleased to finally restore a more competitive schedule into and out of Yuma.

Carlos Beltran

When he finally learns to exhale, and let the game come to him.

Ericka Fangiullo

We're going to miss their spirit. In swimming, sometimes you're happy to get the season over with because it's so grueling. But, when it's finally over, you get sad and miss it.

Sidney Crosby

When we finally got going, we had them back on their heels.

Andy Fox

We're finally starting to come together as a team. I'm so proud of these girls.

James Denney

We're finally seeing dividend payers starting to outperform. That's a healthy long-awaited sign that people are seeking out quality.

Eric Nicoli

We're finally seeing a raft of new initiatives from really big players. This stuff is happening all day, every day now.

John Lamb

We're finally putting it together. It's been really hard getting everything together. We didn't have time to mesh. We are finally showing some good signs.

Muffet McGraw

We're finally playing the way we can. You're always 0-0 when you start the tournament. For this team, that's a good thing.

Tracy Morgan

I don't have anything against Jimmy Fallon. I love Jimmy Fallon. He's my dude.

Jim Sullivan

Lots of people think it was Jimmy Page who had the first fuzzbox. It wasn't, No! it wasn't me either.

Leslie Hope

When I got off '24,' pretty soon after that I did a movie that took place in the '70s, this movie with Jimmy Caan and Gena Rowlands, and I needed to kind of have that '70s pouffy housewife hair.

Paul Weller

Led Zeppelin would never have reformed if he or Jimmy Page were bald.

Will Chase

I loved being on stage with heroes of mine, like Gregg Edelman and Jimmy Walton, and the lovely Chita Rivera and Stephanie J. Block.

Quin Snyder

We lost track of Moody. If Jimmy doesn't do that, then we don't go into overtime.

Johnny Rivers

I got to see all these incredible blues players, like Jimmy Reed.

Pat Burrell

Without Jimmy doing what he does, we're not where we are now. He's what makes us go. To not see that is pretty bad.

Todd Bodine

Jimmy just does what Jimmy does, ... If he can't pass you he runs into you.

Donte Whitner

We stopped him from getting outside the pocket, and we were making him uncomfortable. Once he spiked the ball, I knew we'd got to him.

Lauren Miller

'Bridesmaids' proved there was an audience there that we knew was there. It proved that women go to the movies. They want to see story about themselves.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that I would do this.

Natalie Massenet

When I started Net-a-Porter, I knew nothing. And I was pregnant. Starting a new venture and being pregnant for the first time are pretty similar in many ways. If you knew what was going to happen to you, you wouldn't venture down that road.

Nathaniel Smith

If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find so many friends in England as I suppose they do.

Greg Nossaman

When we were down nine on Thursday night, we knew Brandon would be able to play Saturday, so we said, let's try to (win this) so he can play another game. That was motivational.

Chris Schwartz

When we were down early, I wasn't worried about it because I knew we were trying. It was just a matter of our shots going in. Then, when they started going in, (the Rough Riders) couldn't stop us.

Ray Allen

When I was open, I just knew it was time to make a shot.

Mike Rumph

When I was in sixth grade, honestly, I thought I knew everything. I still don't know nothing. I'm still learning stuff.

David Mamet

I like Bach. I like Randy Newman.

Maurice Sendak

The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.

Phil Rosenthal

We want to thank all of you for nine wonderful years.

Antony Garrett Lisi

Ninety-five per cent of my time is virtually wasted.

Carolyn Maloney

Nine out of ten adult Americans have a checking account. It's the most widely used financial services product in the United States.

Arianna Huffington

Ninety nine percent of the time it's not urgent and to create a culture where you are constantly plugged in and expected to be always-on is to create a culture of burnout.

Booth Tarkington

Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Gossip goes on about every human being alive and about all the dead that are alive enough to be remembered, and yet almost never does any harm until some defender makes a controversy. Gossip's a nasty thing, but it's sickly, and if people of good intentions will let it entirely alone, it will die, ninety-nine times out of a hundred.

Brian Robertson

Nine times out of ten we find reasons for everything going on that aren't paranormal.

Eddie Perez

Ninety percent of the people I grew up with didn't succeed.

Holly Derrick

She slept for nine solid hours. She was emotionally spent.

Gerald Ryan

She has only been out of a place once in nine starts.

Bill Hader

Paul Rudd is a huge 'Hot Rod' fan.

Nat Wolff

Paul Rudd is too perfect. He's super talented, super nice and super calm. I just think he's a robot.

Steny Hoyer

My friend Paul Ryan talks about fiscal responsibility, but voted to put two wars on a credit card.

David Tennant

Paula Milne was really the first thing that drew me to 'The Politician's Husband.'

Jeff Howard

Mrs. Scheele, Mr. Smith and Mrs. Paul got together and thought it up.

Chris Squire

Of course, Paul McCartney's sound is different from mine, but it's the way you hear things, really.

Lee Majors

I also had a wonderful relationship with Paul Newman, and with Steve McQueen. He was one of my all-time favorites, but I never got to work with him.

Greg Cipes

I got to work with Paul Walker. He's an angel. He was so sweet.

Peter Travers

If it were Paul Walker in Snakes on a Plane , no one is going. You know Sam will have his usual spark and sense of humor.

Elizabeth Blackwell

None of us can know what we are capable of until we are tested.

Steve Segadelli

If anything has tested us this year, it's been a big team.

Luca Colajanni

He has not tested because of the rain.

Alex Rodriguez

I got tested a little bit. I'm still a little sore.

Dave McGillivray

We just weren't tested the way we have been in the past.

Arne Ljungqvist

The athletes, to my knowledge, have been tested before they left.

Andre Hall

They tested us in the 40 (Monday). They had me at 4.33 seconds.

Bill Dwyer

It's been tested here and we know we can do it.

Serge Brammertz

This understanding will be tested in the upcoming months.

David Guetta

Everything I make as a producer, I visualize it as a DJ first. And all those beats, I test them as a DJ.

David Deutsch

Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests.

David Deutsch

The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.

Bryan Shelton

I would expect an extremely high percentage of the chickens would test positive. Our poultry industry clients wouldn't like that.

Arnold Bennett

The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.

Edwin Land

The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society.

Bill Nye

Evolution is a theory, and it's a theory that you can test. We've tested evolution in many ways. You can't present good evidence that says evolution is not a fact.

C. S. Lewis

The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it.

Agnes Macphail

We meet all life's greatest tests alone.