Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amy Manco

No one seemed to want to take the shot. So we put in Alison and she responded.

Edmund White

I can think of no other writer who so thoroughly embodies the Jamesian spirit as Alison Lurie. Like him she can excavate all the possibilities of a theme. Like his, her books seem long, unbroken threads, seamless progressions of effects.

Terri DeJong

She did a real good job on Alison to take that threat away. They played man defense just like we expected they would, and we didn't do well with it.

Kacey Musgraves

I used to love, and I still do, Lee Ann Womack. And Alison Krauss. I mean, how many Grammys does she have? She's just remained solid and true and great, and I respect that.

Kelly O'Donnell

But before the President entered the room, and senior advisors claim without the President's personal knowledge, an official from the Department of Defense, Alison Barber, prepped the soldiers.

Alison Moyet

I have always loved a hard-faced girl. I get that Alison Goldfrapp isn't easy, and I like her belligerence. She's deeply sexy and controlled, like a Strict Machine, and it seems to wind the b'jesus out of the women I know. On the outside, I watch and smile and will her on like a twisted silent maiden aunt in the dark corner.

Edie Campbell

Kristen Stewart always looks good - she wears what she wants. It's the same with Alison Mosshart - she chooses clothes that she loves rather than what she thinks she should wear.

John C. McGinley

I went to see Alison Krauss and Union Station at Disney Hall and I would say it was one of the most astonishing sonic experiences I have had. It's an enormous room that's acoustically perfect. My interpretation of receiving music as a layman is that the way the music kind of settled on me in that room was perfection.

Kelly Sullivan

It doesn't matter that Alison played soccer, and we play field hockey. We were all classmates or teammates of Alison and it was definitely very important for us to be here.

Mike Gill

Like I always say, defense wins games. Today once we settled down, we made a lot of big plays.

Randy Rutledge

Luke's execution from the point, and his defense on Fischer was big. Luke has grown a lot this season.

Henry Bibby

Making a nice run doesn't mean anything. We didn't come out with any urgency, we didn't have any intensity and we didn't play any defense early on.

Kit Bond

Let me be clear: The National Guard is being fully active, not only in the work they are doing overseas but in their homeland defense activities.

Marcus Johnson

Lots of time we'd come down and make one call, then the defense would be something we didn't expect and we'd have to make another call. It gets tough but we just need to get better at it.

Jerry Moore

Last year was a struggle in a lot of ways, ... Defense really hurt us last year. We're used to some pretty tough defenses, and that wasn't the case.

Raheem Brock

Last year, the defense was young and inexperienced and the linebackers moved around in different positions. Everybody's used to playing where they're at and we're communicating well.

Dennis Fowler

Last year Terryville played us tight in two one-goal games. Their defense was just as tough today,

Lonnie Lawrence

Last year's game greatly motivated us. We knew our offense was good enough to win. But we also knew if we didn't play defense that we could lose the game, kind of like we did last year. We picked up the defense, picked up the intensity and took the win.

Pete Orr

Last year, you're a rookie and everything you do is a better-than-everybody-expected kind of deal. Now going into the season, there's a lot expected of you. I think that's a little different and the pressure is going to be a little different.

Lindsay Whalen

Last year we were 18-16, and the playoffs start, and the next thing you know, we're in the finals. Pretty cool. This year, we expected to win.

Alan Greenspan

modest, but it can be expected to be not negligible.

Shayne Graham

My job's no different. I'm held to the same standard, and I'm expected to do well. If I don't do well, they're going to look for somebody who can.

Jerome Bettis

Nobody expected us to win, nobody was picking us to win. That's fine ... as long as we believed.

Dane Bradshaw

Nobody expected us to get this far. It hurts now because we think we should've made the Sweet 16, but we accomplished a lot.

Rui Farias

Nobody expected us to be good this year. We had some serious talent on last year's team, and some of those seniors never left the field.

F. Schumacher

Nobody expected this and now that it's there we will work very hard to fight back again. It's not a big surprise and that's the way it goes. It is honestly a surprise it did take that long before it happened.

Tony Bina

Nobody expected much from us. People didn't think we'd make state or do well here.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.

Isabella Rossellini

I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?

Rick Perlstein

Whatever you think about his intelligence, what's unquestionable is that Reagan had extraordinary emotional intelligence. He could sense the temperature of a room, and tell them a story and make them feel good. And that's more fun, right? It's more fun to feel good than feel bad. That's part of our human state.

Robert Kazinsky

There is nothing harder than working 50 pages a day, working 16 hours a day, trying to be good with only shooting rehearsals.

Robert Klein

What makes a good nanny? A good nanny is someone who really wants to do the job. Someone who loves children, who really values what she does and, of course, is valued by her employer.

Malorie Blackman

A good book is a good book. End of story.

Chuck Reed

We're not doing as good a job recycling as we want to.

Darin Strauss

Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.

Phillip Bloch

Like any guy, he needs a great jacket, good shoes, and good jeans.

Kumail Nanjiani

The worst job I ever had was an office job that I had for six years, and that's nothing against the people who I was surrounded by, because they were wonderful people.

Ricky Williams

Lunch or dinner? Well, I work, so I'll say dinner, ... I have a job now.

Ricky Williams

Lunch or dinner? Well, I'm at work, so it'll have to be dinner. I have a job now.

Marc Warren

Life as an actor has toughened me up, and I've learned that you shouldn't take things too personally. Someone once said that to do this job you need talent, luck and a thick skin - which is so true.

Gary Mickelson

legal obligation to do their job and are not part of this dispute.

Martha Stewart

Many, many people have suffered. People have lost jobs. I am very saddened and very, very sorry for that.

Ruth Rendell

Many people have a profession or a job - most people do, I should think. And they do it. And that's what I did.

Kelly Meek

Scotty knows our system so well, anyway. He is doing a super job playing within what he has.

Martin O'Malley

Senator Mikulski has done an outstanding job representing Maryland in the U.S. Senate for nearly 30 years.

Busch Series

Man, I had no idea what to expect.

Rashad Bobino

Man, I can see why they're No. 1 in the nation.

Mario Bailey

Man, he's a senior. He's worked hard, and this is for him.

M.I.A.

Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.

Rae Rosen

Manhattan is unique; the rest of the region is more like the nation.

Toba Beta

Man has to postulate weirdness, before reaching the new science.

William Burroughs

Man has sold his soul for time, language, tools, weapons, and dominance.

Pat Connors

Man has a very poor track record when it comes to nature.

Barry Alvarez

Man did he play. I was really proud of him. . . . I really thought he played exceptional for a young kid.

John Calipari

Let me tell you, we played well. Don't think we didn't play well, we're not much better than they.

Dan Dersam

Leah played exceptionally well in the first half. In the second half, they did everything but tie her shoes together to try and stop her.

Colin Cushman

Megan played great. We're a young team, so I'm not too surprised that we had some problems.

Michael Lehmann

My first movie, 'Heathers,' had played at the festival, so I had a little bit of a Sundance connection, but I didn't really know about the Labs.

Scott Rolen

No different than any other year. Played it the same as every year, no swings the first time out.

Jim Tressel

Obviously, it was a different scenario than we've played under recently.

Robert Price

We had been at Warehouse C-11 in Atlanta, where we had played before,

Rafael Nadal

For sure I didn't play 100 percent. But he played very good, too.

Roberto Luongo

From my standpoint it's disappointing. I think I could have played a little better.

John Krasinski

I'm not trying to be the triple threat guy. I'm still working on this one threat; acting.

Kevin McCarthy

If we engage in a conflict that we know this is a threat to America, we should make it so one-sided that it gets over very quickly.

Steve Cummings

When we have those incidents, when there is a threat of violence, we take it very seriously.

Busta Rhymes

The personal threat is something that's always been a part of our lives

Al Gore

The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable.

Bill Shaw

We threatened them for a while. But they would come back, sometimes on their own account, sometimes on our account.

Dustin Hoffman

If there is no direct threat why are we invading?

Donald Trump

Nuclear is the single greatest threat.

Ted Stevens

It is an offense, a threat to every person in my state.