Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Brewer

When you said you were a battered husband, you intended that someone battered you?

Bob Bote

When he first came up as a sophomore he wasn't a very good hitter. He was weak and he had really slow bat speed. He batted in the nine hole as a sophomore.

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.

Michael Vaughan

We were below par here but there are still two big games to go. Our batting is a concern but we go to Johannesburg looking to win the series.

Tara King

We were trying to do that with Battle Mountain, and I think we needed to slow it down. We weren't being smart with our passes.

John Blackburn

We were tougher today in facing the adversity, knowing that it is going to come and how you deal with it. A good example was in the two doubles match and Chris Thomas pulled a muscle in his abs. He didn't quit and kept battling and that was probably one of the biggest matches today.

J. Horton

We were tough at the end, tougher than we've been late in games. We've been through the struggles, and we feel we have the experience to battle through it now.

Sen Brownlee

We have protected the state of Kansas from her and her ideas as best we can. Now, there will be that battle of who's really done what and who gets credit for it.

Bill Wolford

We've seen them play three times. We know each other pretty well. It all boils down to who can handle the emotions of the game and who is more fundamentally sound.

Tift Merritt

You can always boil down the life of a musician to touring, playing, and writing.

Alan Kirk

We've all played some tough teams and not played up to our potential. I think the district season will boil down to home court advantage, trying to get the higher seeding for the district tournament.

Brian McDonald

Westmoreland County, under what's provided by federal law, has to change their voting machines anyway. What it boils down to is there are two types of laws here. ... From our standpoint, it's pretty cut and dry. The federal law says what it says.

Lance Gross

I met Tyler Perry and we did 'House of Payne' and a movie. We've done a couple other films since then, but it all boils down to the work. I'm a work-a-holic, which is why I think that I've been successful. If you tell me no, I'll work even harder!

Nathaniel Rich

I live in New Orleans, because it's the strangest city in the United States. It has the highest murder rate in the country, the highest incarceration rate, and often we have to boil our drinking water, but there's nowhere else remotely like it.

Alge Crumpler

When it all boils down, I know where I'm going to be, the fans know where I'm going to be, other teams know where I'm going to be and I know my teammates damn-sure know where I'm going to be. That's all the matters.

Janis Joplin

Women to be in-a the music business give up more than you'd ever know. She's got kids she gave up. Any woman gives up home life, an old man, probably, because you're so crazy on planes and runnin' and you never find 'em egain. You give up, you give up a home and friends, you give up children and friends, you give up an old man and friends, you give up any constant in the world except music. That's the only thing you've got man, after you boil it down, the only thing you got left in the world is that music, man. And, so for a woman to sing, she really needs to, or wants to. A man can do it as a gig, 'cause he knows he can get laid tonight.

Chris Lee

Mililani is very disciplined and dangerous on set pieces. My concern was that it was going to boil down to that.

James Paulsen

There are a lot of different things going on than there was ... People talk about a bubble in housing, but I think there is a lot more bubbleness in oil prices.

Eugene Fama

I don't know what a credit bubble means. I don't even know what a bubble means. These words have become popular. I don't think they have any meaning.

Eric Ries

It was 1999, and we were building a way for college kids to create online profiles for the purpose of sharing... with employers. Oops. I vividly remember the moment I realized my company was going to fail. My co-founder and I were at our wits' end. By 2001, the dot-com bubble had burst, and we had spent all our money.

Kourtney Kardashian

I wish that when we weren't filming, we could have full privacy. I wish I could live in a bubble and just be with my family.

Gregory Smith

The other thing is we did have a bubble in the '90s.

John Buckingham

We still like the home builders and we like the bubble talk too, ... The second we stop hearing about a bubble is when we start to worry.

Ray Stevenson

Working at night helps people focus in on this crazy little bubble you've created, wherever you are filming. It doesn't matter where the location is, the world doesn't exist outside this bubble. And everyone is trapped inside.

Nick Harkaway

Throughout the '90s and early 2000s, our financial industry and governments leaned on a snake-oil mirage of wealth creation, a bubble predicated on the obvious falsehood that things could only get better.

Robert Bloom

We're sort of in uncharted territories because of the bubble that we had last year in Nasdaq, ... And the bursting of that often takes a long time to work through.

Samuel Johnson

There are charms made only for distance admiration.

William Shakespeare

Though music oft hath such a charm to make bad good, and good provoke to harm.

Bayard Taylor

Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.

Robyn Kass

We're scouring the (area), looking for the most eligible, charming single people.

Bill Swanson

Watch out for people who have a situational value system, who can turn the charm on and off depending on the status of the person they are interacting with. Be especially wary of those who are rude to people perceived to be in subordinate roles.

Richard Walker

Let's face it, Southern poverty is overwhelming, and usually that gets kind of papered over for the rest of us because of the charm of places like New Orleans. But it's pretty grim, really, and now we're being reminded of that.

William Wordsworth

Soft is the music that would charm for ever;The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.

William Wordsworth

Soft is the music that would charm for ever; The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.

Lord Byron

She / Was married, charming, chaste, and twenty-three.

Carlos Castaneda

The difficulty is to learn to perceive with your whole body, not with just your eyes and reason. The world becomes a stream of tremendously rapid, unique events. So you must trim your body to make it a good receptor. The body is an awareness; and it must be treated impeccably.

Carlos Castaneda

All of us, whether or not we are warriors, have a cubic centimeter of chance that pops out in front of our eyes from time to time. The difference between an average man and a warrior is that the warrior is aware of this, and one of his tasks is to be alert, deliberately waiting, so that when his cubic centimeter pops out he has the necessary speed, the prowess, to pick it up.

C. S. Lewis

But in general, take my advice, when you meet anything that is going to be Human and isn’t yet, or used to be Human once and isn’t now, or ought to be Human and isn’t, you keep your eyes on it and feel for your hatchet.

C. S. Lewis

Good beats upon the damned incessantly as sound waves beat on the ears of the deaf, but they cannot receive it. Their fists are clenched, their teeth are clenched, their eyes fast shut. First they will not, in the end they cannot, open their hands for gifts, or their mouth for food, or their eyes to see.

C. S. Lewis

we follow One who stood and wept at the grave of Lazarus-not surely, because He was grieved that Mary and Martha wept, and sorrowed for their lack of faith (though some thus interpret) but because death, the punishment of sin, is even more horrible in his eyes than in ours.

C. S. Lewis

We were talking of DRAGONS, Tolkien and I In a Berkshire bar. The big workman Who had sat silent and sucked his pipe All the evening, from his empty mug With gleaming eye glanced towards us: "I seen 'em myself!" he said fiercely.

C. S. Lewis

I think He made one law of that kind in order that there might be obedience. In all these other matters what you call obeying Him is but doing what seems good in your own eyes also. Is love content with that?

C. S. Lewis

Digory never spoke on the way back, and the others were shy of speaking to him. He was very sad and he wasn't even sure all the time that he had done the right thing; but whenever he remembered the shining tears in Aslan's eyes he became sure.

C. S. Lewis

But all night, Aslan and the Moon gazed upon each other with joyful and unblinking eyes.

Suzette Hartvigsen

We're still playing Spanish Fork twice this season. Even though the games won't be for region championships, the rivalry is always going to be there.

Letitia Baldrige

There are major C.E.O.'s who do not know how to hold a knife and fork properly, but I don't worry about that as much as the lack of kindness.

Todd Olson

I wouldn't want to be trying to get a hotel room in Grand Forks for Friday night.

Yogi Berra

When you come to the fork in the road, take it

Kofi Annan

We have come to a fork in the road.

Norman Ornstein

This is a major fork in the road for him.

Paul Althaus

We weren't ready to play and Roaring Fork was embarrassed by Gunnison the night before. We need to be ready to play to start games.

Mike Guthrie

We were pretty happy about being 2-0. West Fork did a great job and grounded us. But if somebody said we were going to start the season 2-1, I'd have thought they were crazy.

Jonathan Vaughters

It's in a big transition. The sport has a lot of notoriety and it's the new Euro-sheik thing. But it's at a fork in the road.

C. S. Lewis

The mouse is a fair treat but this one would talk the hind legs off a donkey.

Charles Caleb Colton

It has been well observed that we should treat futurity as an aged friend from whom we expect a rich legacy.

Dusty Baker

There is a little light strain we have to watch. Slight leg thing. It's not serious.

Tom Tancredo

The Democratic Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of voters.

Bret Easton Ellis

I do not feel I have a legacy to protect.

Diane Watson

Her legacy was her quiet dignity and instinctive rage against injustice, ... What she determined on the spot was that her dignity would not allow her to be treated unjustly.

David Strathairn

If it's a role like this one, an actual live person, a legend, there's lots of material laid out.

David Prowse

I am doing better now though one of my legs is shorter than the other due to the operations.

Bryan Stevenson

Part of the reason why we're only now reaching a point in American society where we can talk about the need for truth and reconciliation and the legacy of slavery is that it was such a dominant part of our history.

Mark Hyman

It is just physics - who can argue with Newton and the first law of thermodynamics?

Brian Regan

I eat Fig Newtons by the sleeve!

John Podhoretz

Newt Gingrich is a very intelligent man, if he says so himself.

Bertrand Russell

What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth.

Stephen Hawking

Marilyn. Newton seems to have been an unpleasant character.

Albert Einstein

[Ernest Rutherford is]...a second Newton.

Graham Chapman

She turned me into a newt. ... But I got better...

Felix Klein

The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.

Joe Hart

Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches/sec.

Carol P. Christ

Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful.

Carlos Castaneda

For a human being, sadness is as powerful as terror. Sadness makes a warrior shed tears of blood.

Carlos Castaneda

The path to knowledge is a forced one. In order to learn, we must be pushed. On the path of knowledge we are always fighting something, avoiding something, preparing for something; and that something is always inexplicable, greater and more powerful than us.

Carl Bernstein

The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather we, too often are squandering our power and ignoring our obligations. The consequence of our abdication of responsibility is the ugly spectacle of idiot culture!

C. S. Lewis

A powerful dragon crying its eyes out under the moon in a deserted valley is a sight and a sound hardly to be imagined.

Pat Gelsinger

We have new platforms, new process technology and new products. It's a very powerful one-two-three.

Alan Turing

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

Alan Turing

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain...

Alan Kay

Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.

Teresita Sy-Coson

I was always told I had to be an example to my siblings. I was told to toe the line. So I had to behave.

Jason Aldean

Playing a stadium is a big adrenaline boost for me and I dig it. It keeps me on my toes and makes me revamp everything I'm doing and not get stagnant with how I approach every show, which is something I like.

Barbara Kingsolver

If you never stepped on anybody's toes, you never been for a walk.

Billy Sunday

I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.

Chaske Spencer

I like working with different directors; it keeps you on your toes.

Adriana Lima

From my hair to my toes to my nails. Everything's fake. Everything! Even my heart is fake.

Andre Agassi

Yeah, and then he stubs his toe on the way out of the stadium,

Patricia McBride

When I hung up my toe shoes, I didn't look back. In all my years, I have never looked back.

Two Chainz

Known to act a donkey on the camel-toe, then take the camel-toe and turn it into casserole

Charlotte Bronte

The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.

Charles Dickens

Tongue; well that's a wery good thing when it an't a woman.

Alan Rickman

A wounding tongue. I'm working on it. Perhaps its the Celt in me.

Chief Joseph

I will speak with a straight tongue.

William Shakespeare

In the modesty of fearful duty, I read as much as from the rattling tongue of saucy and audacious eloquence.

William Shakespeare

See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!

William Shakespeare

Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools.

William Shakespeare

A maiden hath no tongue--but thought.

William Shakespeare

One whom the music of his own vain tongue doth ravish like enchanting harmony.

Charles Sturt

The staple of our Australian colonies, but more particularly of New South Wales, the climate and the soil of which are peculiarly suited to its production, - is fine wool.

Ernest Lehman

After all, the wool of a black sheep is just as warm.

Alexandra Paul

I don't wear leather, wool, or silk.

O'Shea Jackson, Jr.

My parents wouldn't have sent me out into the world with wool over my eyes. You have to be aware, or you'll be swallowed.

Donatella Versace

I have worked with wool all my life as a designer. There's so much more to it than knitwear - it's an amazingly versatile material and can be used in so many different ways from chic to rustic.

Miguel de Cervantes

My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.

Jim Elliot

Ninety-five percent of our wool is going to China.