Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. B. White

It's a little different from what we're accustomed tobut it does establish a little more formal procedures, ... The procedures can be altered if we find they don't work for us.

It's a hindrance, no question. I feel pretty confident that when I'm out there, I'll be able to be competitive and productive. Even if you don't get the minutes or opportunities that you might be accustomed to, maybe the minutes you can play will be enough to help the team out in any way possible. There's no question I want to play.

It's not just one man (who will make a difference). But we'll play better because we're now more accustomed to things.

John Olver

They force you to make decisions a lot quicker than we are accustomed to and the decisions we made were not good ones early. We played almost the entire first period in our zone. Defensively we played fairly well but we were in our zone the whole period.

There were a lot of things set up against them. A class like this is going to help you in certain ways. That's what you want out of any recruiting class. At the same time, the depth wasn't quite up to what Tennessee is accustomed to.

Maynard Jackson

This is a situation, in my opinion, where Terry is accustomed to saying African-American. His script writers wrote in 'people of color.' He's trying to go from memory and got confused and said

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.

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.

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.

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,

Michel de Montaigne

Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.

Adoniram Judson

A mission to Rangoon we had been accustomed to regard with feelings of horror. But it was now brought to a point. We must either venture there or be sent to Europe.

David Hawkins

The first time you sit down with a standardized test, if you're not accustomed to it, you might have a high level of anxiety. Students today are much more at ease with it,

(The change) will make us stronger. Frankly, defense was our weakness last year, and once the players get accustomed to it, well be fine,

The casino environment is very different, but customers are very accustomed to dealing with cash transaction products of this type.

Peter Greene

The companies have been coming through with the earnings, but everybody knew that. People have become accustomed to the earnings being good. There's no surprise element. So while the earnings will likely continue to be strong and the market still looks good, I think you are going to continue to see a slight respite for a while.

The communication formed by the small bones of the ear is, to look upon, more like what we are accustomed to call machinery than anything I am acquainted with in animal bodies. It seems evidently designed.

Mike Jones

The complexity, the scale of the project was something that Oldham County agencies aren't accustomed to dealing with.

Miranda Lambert

The road is hard, and you have to get accustomed to it.

The market conditions of the third quarter were difficult and those difficulties have intensified early in the fourth quarter, ... In the face of these challenging times, we would like investors to know that our focus remains on ensuring that our clients receive the high quality service they are accustomed to, running our business as efficiently as possible and further tightening our controls on expenses.

Bobby Bowden

These guys, even though they're young, they're playing a little harder than the last bunch that came through, ... I think they saw a lot of things we weren't doing well, and that we weren't doing what we're accustomed to.

This is a good bunch of girls. They really have understood their roles this year. They haven't always gotten the playing time that they're accustomed to. They're a good motivation for the team; they try to keep the morale pretty high.

Leighton Meester

I'm so accustomed to being alone.

John Wayne

I never have really become accustomed to the 'John.' Nobody ever really calls me John... I've always been Duke or Marion or John Wayne. It's a name that goes well together, and it's like one word - John Wayne.

The market is intrigued by growth in Asia and but investors are divided on whether it's sustainable, ... Japan used to be a formidable economic power but it's been dormant so long that most tech investors grown accustomed to discounting it.