Famous Quotes & Sayings

The stammerer is ambivalent about communicating with others-he desperately wants to communicate, but is afraid of revealing himself.

Rocco Mediate

The shot on 12 stood me up. I was afraid I couldn't get the wedge shots over the water.

Autumn did a nice job today. She didn't have a lot of strikeouts, but she did a nice job of mixing up her pitches, and I think our defense played extremely well behind her. Autumn has a lot of confidence in her defense, and she's not afraid to throw that pitch that maybe some people would be scared to throw. She trusts in her defense.

Ursula K. Le Guin

A Woman is home caring for her children! even if she can't. Trapped in this well-built trap, A Woman blames her mother for luring her into it, while ensuring that her own daughter never gets out; she recoils from the idea of sisterhood and doesn't believe women have friends, because it probably means something unnatural, and anyhow, A Woman is afraid of women. She's a male construct, and she's afraid women will deconstruct her. She's afraid of everything, because she can't change. Thighs forever thin and shining hair and shining teeth and she's my Mom, too, all seven percent of her. And she never grows old.

Randy Newman

a throwback to the players of old. They are not afraid to play with pain.

Bobby Bowden

That was about the maddest I've ever seen Joe. I didn't say anything to him though; I was afraid he'd slap me.

That's what I was afraid of. For us to have a chance we had to withstand that first punch so to speak.

that's not the way we're looking at it. We're looking at it from the standpoint the judges are protecting their autonomy. But they're not afraid of the scrutiny. They work hard and that's one of the unfortunate parts of this, the suggestion they don't work hard.

That's huge. Here's a guy who's 6-10, and not only can he score, but he's not afraid to give up the ball. He had around eight or 10 assists; that's another 20 points he contributed to.

CeeLo Green

All art stems from a place of alienation. Intimate and alone. Most people are oppressed by the opinion of others, but I was not that way. I was afraid of the repercussions of not doing what I was told to do, what I was called to do by a creator.

We had to go back and start all over. And, as a coach I'm not afraid to do that because I've done it before, but it takes time.

Richard Adams

This was just with gross negligence. Sometimes saying 'sorry' is enough and sometimes it is not and I am afraid this is one of those times,

Those two events were very critical to the country. You may remember that people were afraid to go, afraid to fly. When the Super Bowl and then the Olympics came off successfully, people in the country gained confidence again.

Those plays were huge. Connor seized the moment. He is very unselfish, but he also is not afraid to take and make the big shot.

Those players who think they can stay here only giving the minimum amount of effort are wrong. I'm not afraid to take tough decisions if people don't give their all for this club.

This team still needs to grow. It's all about the fight in us. But when nothing else works, Lindsay really takes over. She's not afraid to pull the trigger.

This team isn't afraid to make plays. We're not afraid to take chances and to play basketball. When we get aggressive, I think we're one of the best teams in the country.

Daisuke Matsuzaka

This was the first time to face the Cubans since the Athens Olympics. They have those intimidating hitters but I wasn't afraid of them and I wanted to overpower them with my fastball. That's how I came to this game and that's how I pitched in the first four innings.

Charlie Puth

What's cool about the beatboxing is I was so afraid to sing in front of my peers, my parents, anybody. I just wouldn't do it. So in sixth grade, I would turn to beatboxing because it made me feel better. Like, I can beatbox 'Drop It Like It's Hot.' Doing that a bunch of times eventually gave me the confidence to sing in front of people.

What our people are hearing in the shelters is that folks are afraid to sleep because they're afraid a picture of their loved ones will be posted on the shelter's bulletin board and they don't want to miss it,

James Wolfensohn

What is happening outside is that people are scared -- they are afraid they may lose their jobs, ... These are legitimate fears, but the trend toward globalization is irreversible.

We cannot deal with things that we're afraid to talk about, ... We actually have to begin to take on the links that we know of between incest and alcohol and drug abuse. This is huge.

Colin Powell

We cannot be shocked into impotence because we're afraid of the difficult choices that are ahead of us,

We knew it was going to be a battle and everyone knows what is on the line. We were able to get started and feed off of the emotion. Curtis is never afraid of the magnitude of the moment. He stepped up and hit foul shots and Kyle Ruby's 3-pointer from the corner was big. Things kind of went our way after the first quarter.

Laila Ali

I understand that the average person can't imagine damaging their looks in any way if it could be avoided. But I don't value my physical beauty to the point where I would not do something I truly enjoy because I'm afraid of potentially hurting something superficial.

Herbie Hancock

Things like creating in the moment, being in the moment, trusting your instincts, not being afraid to go outside the comfort zone.

They are afraid to walk four hours on a footpath to a clinic and maybe find nobody there, or they will try to get to a regional hospital and, because of the distance, there will be a critical delay in care, ... They prefer home delivery. The risk of dying is very invisible.

Bob Sanders

The way our defense is set up, it puts me in situations where I'm one-on-one in making tackles on running backs. When I go into it, I think I am going to win. It really doesn't matter the size, height, weight, whatever. I'm not afraid of putting my body in there.

The veteran player ... he knows his role, he knows where he is. It's the young kids that are kind of afraid to make those adjustments because, 'Hey, I'm here. I've only been here one or two years. I don't want to lose my job.' ... That's the concern.

Lee Womack

These are songs that aren't afraid to tell the truth. They are exactly like a slice of life; you get the good, bad and the ugly. It is definitely honest music.

Lee Womack

These are songs that aren't afraid to tell the truth. It is honest music, as far as the lyrics go. They're a slice of life -- the good, bad and the ugly. It's the kind of stuff I grew up listening to.

The rivalry was the last thing on my mind. I tried to downplay it as much as possible because we aren't used to having a large number of people at games and I was afraid we'd lose focus.

Jonathan Meyers

There will be ups and downs, but it is important to remember you're on your own beautiful journey, and once you're on it you have to see it through to it's own conclusion. And try to never be afraid to do anything because what's the worse that can happen?