Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Ferrell

We want to provide the kids with an opportunity to play against the state's best. It gives the kids a chance to get better and it gives them a chance to get seen by some of the college coaches.

Angelo Forte

We want to prepare our team mentally and physically against the best teams in Ohio. This is an important week. The Stellar gives us the opportunity to play some top teams.

Joe Sakic

We want to play well against Vancouver. We want to make sure we try and get a good win and have a good game there. We'll see how it plays out.

Jeff House

We have to have all five players on the court and be aware of where she is. She can get shots in a variety of ways, and everybody has to be aware of her presence. The biggest thing we need to do against her is get to her before she has the basketball. If you prevent her from getting the basketball you can get under her skin and limit her production.

Jon Jansen

We have to go out and prove we can do it against teams that we should have success against. We need to prove that we're a good team, and we haven't done that yet.

Tom Peterson

We have to go on the road against No. 2 (Cal Irvine) but first is tomorrow night. We have to make sure we're playing better each night. That's who will come out on top, who's playing better at the end.

Scott Johnson

We have to go back on to that drawing board and come up with something different next weekend against France.

Andy Nieto

We have to get those guys to go out with the same type of confidence they had against Cal.

Matt Cavanaugh

We have to get the turnovers under control. But it is more than just Tyler -- our receivers have to work back to some balls, our line has to protect a little better. But if we can cut down on turnovers against Nebraska we will have a chance. There are a lot of nuances about the college game that I have to learn as well. It's only two games so it is too early to press the panic button just yet.

Michael Egan

We want our customers to have fun. I tell everyone that any (customer) who beats me in a game of horseshoes gets 15 percent off.

Travie McCoy

I've been producing since the early stages of Gym Class Heroes. A lot of the songs on the first 'Papercut Chronicles' were actually beats that I made.

Bryce Courtenay

Small can beat big, but you must have a plan.

Nayvadius Cash

I can't leave home without certain movies. 'The Godfather' is a big one for me. And I've gotta have my beats so I can write new music.

Luca Parmitano

Is there any other job that beats being an astronaut? Who didn't want to be an astronaut? That is my question.

Robert Krulwich

When you talk or write or film, you work with the music inside you, the music that formed you. Different generations have different musics in them, so whatever they do, it's going to come out differently, and it will speak in beats of their own generation.

Will Carleton

Worm or beetle -- drought or tempest -- on a farmer's land may fall,Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all.

Demi Lovato

When you start to beat yourself up, remind yourself of how worthy you are of love.

Bill Hybels

The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.

Charlie Bell

When he finished last season, he came on like gangbusters once we got to know him and once he got the feel of varsity football, ... He was showing us all summer what we've got, offensively and defensively, so there's no surprise to us. Josh is just born with talent and skill, but to his credit, he works extremely hard to maximize it.

Tom Shales

Tom Snyder was born to broadcast. He loved television and it loved him back. In that, he was a member of a vanishing breed, especially as narrowcasting displaces broadcasting, 'online' replaces 'on the air,' and any Tom, Dick or Mary can be monarch of a desktop domain, uplinking themselves to satellites in space.

Titus Welliver

I think good actors are born with a kind of native gift. When you study too much with an acting teacher, that gets taken away. You lose your sense of spontaneity.

Joe Torre

We know he just lives for this type of situation. You have to be born with that need to compete.

Andrew Coates

Venus was born with the same sorts of constituents as Earth, which means there was some water in the environment. Some more probably came in from comets.

Diane Wakoski

Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.

Teresita Sy-Coson

I was just born into a business family. It is really a destiny.

Eiza Gonzalez

I'm born and raised in Mexico. I only spent eight months in the States, but definitely English is a really big part of my life, and I love it. Thank God my mom put me in American school because I'm able to be working in the States, and it opens a lot more doors being half and not being only one. It's cool because I get to turn it on and off.

Elliot Perlman

I'm a Taurus, which sounds like the name of a pickup truck. I'd prefer to be born under the sign of the rock wallaby. If you're going to interpret your life pursuant to an utterly irrational dogma, why can't it have a cute mascot? Rock wallabies really are fabulous animals, and in any remotely just world, they would have their own star sign.

Jack Finney

I went up a straight crooked lane and, I said 'No thanks, yes if yer please.

Daryl Newcomb

One of his legs was shorter than the other one. But his spine was also crooked and it drew his hip up, so it evened out just enough that he didn't walk with a limp.

Wayne Lewis

This was a great thing on the part of the parent and the kid. Even the most honest kid could hand it to the crooked parent. They would stick it in their pocket and away it goes,

Robert Brown

The grand perhaps! We look on helplessly, there the old misgivings, crooked questions are.

Mike Church

We didn?t get our big crooked number inning today. But that?s Can, that?s the hardest he?s thrown all year. It wasn?t 81 (miles per hour) or 82. It was 85, 86, which is not gas, but when you can throw the changeup and curveball at will, you?re gonna win.

William Osler

There are no straight backs, no symmetrical faces, many wry noses, and no even legs. We are a crooked and perverse generation.

Atharva Veda

He takes the crooked path of the unrighteous way; leaving the straight and narrow path, he weaves his way backwards.

William Danforth

Lines of least resistance make crooked rivers and crooked men.

Mike Trapasso

We played just well enough to get beat. We gave up crooked numbers in two innings. We just didn't get it done today.

Bruce Wilkinson

A Dreamer is a person whose life is in motion.

Bill Veeck

I'm for the dreamers. The only really important things in history have been started by the dreamers. They never know what can't be done.

Bernardo Bertolucci

What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution. I was in Italy, but completely in love with the nouvelle vague movement, and directors like Godard, Truffaut, Demy. 'The Dreamers' was a total homage to cinema and that love for it.

Bruce Lee

Be a practical dreamer backed by action.

Adam Green

To all the other dreamers out there, don't ever stop or let the world's negativity disenchant you or your spirit. If you surround yourself with love and the right people, anything is possible.

Andrew O'Hagan

Long before I was a writer, when I was just a haphazard reader and a dreamer of stories, I learnt about an influential book by Harold Bloom. 'The Anxiety of Influence', published in 1973 when I was five years old, is taken up with the terrifying influence of poets on each other.

David A. Adler

Dreamers become writers, and for me, being a published writer is a dream come true.

Olin Browne

I guess I'm a dreamer and figured I could still play out here. Others might not have thought that about me, but I'm the one who counts.

Carson McCullers

The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.

John Fitzgibbon

We have seen an increase in postponements or cancels due to market conditions. That's now starting to become more commonplace than it was three months ago.

Steve Stallone

We've seen them use technology as a subterfuge to take work away from us. We have to make distinction what jobs will be lost due to new technology and what jobs will be lost because they use the technology to move the work to other people.

Laila Robins

I've paid my dues in the classical trenches.

Judy Blume

The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.

Mohammed Habib

The others have refused due to personal problems that have to do with home, children, breast-feeding or husbands.

Steve Crawford

We stand for liberty. We stand for due process of law. And yet we're keeping someone locked up and away from his family that has been found not guilty. It's embarrassing. We need to do something about it.

Edward R. Murrow

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.

Eric Behrens

We are taking this very seriously. The process is cumbersome, but it does provide for due process.

John Horner

We might be due for a pause near-term in the dollar's gains.

C. S. Lewis

Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun.

Al Ries

Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower.

Breyten Breytenbach

Even ivory towers need central heating.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory

Billie Joe Armstrong

I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.

Alberto Manguel

It used to be that readers were relegated because they considered themselves far above society, and so the metaphor of the ivory tower developed. Now there's still this idea that the reader doesn't take part in the social game and in politics, the res publica, but for other reasons: he doesn't do it because he's not making any money.

Anthony Hopkins

It's such a pleasant surprise when you come on set and you find someone in charge like Ken Branagh or James Ivory. You know that you're going to do a day's work and at the end of it, it's going to be good.

Chuck Jones

I'm not a believer in putting designers off in an ivory tower. They need to have a voice at the table so they can identify where and why design can make a difference. We also need to understand the business issues. If we don't make our numbers this quarter, we don't earn the right to do something cool the next time.

Christopher Paolini

He tapped one of the ivory spikes between his legs and said, 'There be as good a way to lose your manhood as ever I've seen'.

Carol Leifer

I was watching Maury Povich the other day. He had these people on who say that they've had near death experiences. Do you ever notice they always say the same thing? 'I remember seeing this really bright, white light.' It's like, of course, you pinhead, it's the paramedic looking in your pupils with a penlight.

Carol Shields

Anyone's childhood can be an act of disablement if rehearsed and replayed and squinted at in a certain light. . .

Carol Shields

nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped in a slant of available light and set to the movement of possible music

Carlos Queiroz

Playing with Paul Scholes is like playing with the light on.

Reg Pullen

We have a solar-powered light in there so that at night, in Bandon, you can see it blinking. But it's just for aesthetics.

Lauren Brightwell

Whenever you get any new skill you really want to use it. I think he should lighten up a little.

Richard Dormer

When you see a school bus, you got to think children. Even if the lights are not flashing, you got to slow down.

Aaron Swartz

There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.

Charlotte Bronte

The shadows are as important as the light.

Barbara Bush

I can't say it, but it rhymes with rich.

Sammy Cahn

Take a simple name like Nicholas: you can rhyme it with ridiculous. If you aren't too meticulous. You know, every word's rhymable.

Clement Attlee

Can't publish. Don't rhyme, don't scan.

Mark Twain

History doesn't repeat itself; it rhymes.

H. P. Lovecraft

The glorious Dryden, refiner and purifier of English verse, did less for rhyme than he did for metre.

Louis Tomlinson

And I'd marry you, Harry. Because it rhymes.

Ai Weiwei

Through my work and ways of expression, I strive to engage in dialogue with the society that I am living in.

Unknown

May you get all your wishes but one, So you always have something to strive for.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.

Edmund Spenser

He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.

Carrie Brownstein

I like to take things incrementally, and strive for something that feels more attainable.

Carl Rogers

The organism has one basic tendency and striving - to actualize, maintain, and enhance the experiencing organism

Angie Martinez

It's amazing what you can accomplish when you really strive to be better.

Abraham Lincoln

The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.

Alexander Crummell

Strive to make something of yourself, then strive to make the most of yourself.

Stephen Hadley

Suffice to say they didn't come to me. They didn't come to the NSC,

Charles Caleb Colton

Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?

Steve Saviano

When you get to shootouts, it comes down to who has the most talent. Usually the team with the most talent wins. We have a lot of talent on this team and we're pretty talented up front.

David Knopfler

Trust the tale, not the teller.

Jane Austen

I have no talent for certainty.

Britt Ekland

There are so many young women who throw their talent away.

Brett Favre

Obviously talent gets you to a certain point, but it's what you do with it, how you handle.

Barbara Corcoran

Don't teach talent that isn't there.

Brenda Ueland

Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.

Calvin Trillin

I've always thought that parallel parking was my main talent.

Sandra Lee

When you're young, you think you can do anything, and that was really a gift. That's why I can never understand someone telling me 'no' today. 'No' just isn't an option.

Ted Morgan

The stammer was a way of telling the world that he was not like others, a way of expressing his singularity.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.

Jimmy Cliff

I grew up in the church and had always questioned what they were telling me.

Luke Bracey

I'm really into the idea of telling stories. Everyone needs stories. Everyone needs to escape every once in a while.

Lisa Kiser

We're still telling him over and over again.

Sabrina Carpenter

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

Baltasar Gracian

It requires as much caution to tell the truth as to conceal it.

Antonio Gramsci

Telling the truth is always revolutionary

Jane Fonda

what the right wing has done to Sheehan is despicable.

Aaron Sorkin

It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. 'The West Wing' isn't meant to be good for you.

Charles Caleb Colton

All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman, Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings.

Caitlin Kittredge

Crows don’t take from you,” Dean said. “They give your soul wings.

Carlos Santana

The guitar is your first wings. It's assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.

Alan Jay Lerner

I could have spread my wings and done a thousand things I've never done before.

Chris Carmack

In terms of hardline right-wing people on television, there's some people that make me cringe when I change the channel.

China Mieville

The reason that I like SF and fantasy and horror is that to me it's the pulp wing of surrealism. That's the aesthetic of undermining and creative alienation that I really go for.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Said I, in scorn all burning hot,In rage and anger high,"You ignominious idiot,Those wings are made to fly!