Famous Quotes & Sayings

Everyone is getting more accustomed to it, ... We might get more complaints when school starts.

It was a good game at home. We came out strong and stuck to our game plan. They run a different offense than what we are accustomed to seeing, but we did a good job defending it.

I've grown accustomed to the trace / Of something in the air, / Accustomed to her face.

Not all school systems are accustomed to gearing their high school students to take tests. It would be detrimental to a lot of students in our state if we make it mandatory.

This man was accustomed to significant swings. He'd make big, he'd lose big. He was an active, aggressive trader,

This is the tip of the iceberg of a very oppressive regime that we have almost become accustomed to in America.

There's a tremendous amount of pride and tradition. While we haven't had the kind of success the last couple years, the guys realize the history of the program and the expectations. We expect to be there and we're not accustomed to not being there.

Mitchell Baker

If you're a Firefox user, you get accustomed to your history and the URL bar and finding things. That should be available on your mobile phone as well.

If you compare this (election) to Clare, something like this might generate 100 (voters), ... I'm not sure if voters here are more conscientious but maybe they'll have a larger turnout than I'm accustomed to. If AV requests are any indication, I'd say it will be a light turnout.

Steve Francis

I really didn't know too much about what was going on in the beginning. Now, as I got accustomed to it, hopefully we can continue to build.

Joaquin Phoenix

If you walk into a room and one hundred people say, 'You are a lovely, beautiful person', who isn't going to be affected by that? But you have to tell yourself not to value that. You have to tell yourself - or at least I do - to not become accustomed to hearing applause in any way, because I think that's dangerous.

College can be overwhelming, so we see a lot of them start out, then drop out after the first semester because they just can't handle it. They need time to get stable, to get economically accustomed to the stresses of trying to live on their own.

Rudolf Otto

Heavy pillars, carved from the rock, bear the roof. Slowly, one's eyes become accustomed to the dim light; then they can make out marvelous representations from Indian mythology carved on the walls.

Philip Schultz

I'd grown accustomed to seeing myself as someone who, if fallible and unworthy, had nevertheless managed to do one thing well enough to get recognition for it.

Roger Ebert

I don't think he's an a-, ... But if he's going to persist in making bad movies, he's going to have to grow accustomed to reading bad reviews.

Pankaj Mishra

I am often struck by the anxious inferiority many well-educated British people display towards the U.S., particularly Londoners dazzled by New York, when many postcolonials are accustomed to regarding Britain's old imperial cosmopolis as the true capital of the western world.

By 1998, the Americans got accustomed to the fact that people in Russia must listen to them and they don't have to listen to anyone here,

Phil Mickelson

I needed to combat the added length here at Augusta. This is the only course that I can think of that I will probably do it. I did it last week to get accustomed to it. I don't know where else I'll end up needing to do that, but it was a huge help here.

Michael Clarke

Im hoping he grows into it, ... Maybe he and someone else. Certainly, we could use that. Its something that weve grown accustomed to. Whether it be he or the people around him, we need that development.

I heard it lit up pretty well this last weekend. I know of a 27-pounder from Lopez Pass and heard the usual and accustomed spots were producing fish: Humphrey Head, Thatcher and Spring Pass.

Bret Boone

I have to show I have regained the form I had a couple of years ago. If I can't play like an All-Star then I'm not going to play. If I can't play at the level I am accustomed to I won't be here. I will go home.

He's just a very popular player, ... He's going bring a crowd in and that's something he's going to be accustomed to all of his career.

He?s one of those kids you get accustomed to. Other coaches say to me, ?He?s still around?? He is. We?re going to miss him next year.

I didn't realize that was some security concern. I suppose, being a career lawman myself, I'm not accustomed to having other lawmen tell me to get off the property.

Oscar Arias

It's a country that's accustomed to elections every four years. Clean, crystalline, transparent elections.

It's a chance to get a little accustomed to the surroundings, but it will be different with several thousand people in here on Friday afternoon. Part of it, though, is getting a little bit of the excitement of being here out of the way, from when we walk in here for the first time.

I told him on the sideline that there are days where you're not going to be sharp. Those are the days you almost have to will yourself. Even though your not playing the way you're accustomed to playing, you've got to find a way to eke out points.

Bruce Bochy

I want them to get accustomed to playing together. I like the way the outfield looks. They are working well together.

Aaron Boone

It was a disappointing year for me personally because I didn't perform at any time during the season the way I'm accustomed to performing. But on the positive side, when you consider where I came from, I still rallied out of it to be a contributing member on a good team. This year, being fully healthy, I expect to make more of an impact.

Aaron Boone

It was a disappointing year for me personally, because I didn't perform at any time during the season the way I'm accustomed to performing. But on the positive side, when you consider where I came from, I still rallied out of it to be a contributing member on a good team. This year, being fully healthy, I expect to make more of an impact.

It was a different kind of pace for this offense, ... With the defense playing the way that it was and with a big lead, it was more of a grind-it-out attitude. That's not something we're accustomed to.

Jim Bianco

The volatility that we've had in the stock market is higher than we've been accustomed to over the past several months. We've now finally broken into the range where the moves are greater than 1 percent, but as long as they're not 2 percent or 3 percent, we're not in that range where you would start to call them extraordinary.

They just become accustomed to that lifestyle. You can't consent to be a prostitute at age 14. That's just an impossibility.