Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jaromir Jagr

Let's go back to early in the season; would you think we can play 5-on-5 against teams that good?

Oscar Wilde

Lewis Morris: "It is a conspiracy of silence against me - a conspiracy of silence! What should I do?" Oscar Wilde: "Join it

(Lewis) did a real good job against their top scorer.

Will Rogers

Let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help get them back in bed again

Sherri Shepherd

I'm just so against kids being on Twitter because they are not thinking about the ramifications of what they are saying or the emotion of how they say it.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

I've made mistakes in business, but none so big I couldn't recover and learn from them. The more you try to change consumer behaviour, the riskier it gets. You have to work out your potential losses against the obvious gains.

Aasif Mandvi

In order to change the conversation about Muslims in American media, we need a diverse, unified movement of people who are willing to take a stand against anti-Muslim bias.

The production of gasoline in the U.S. is quite limited compared against the same period last year. And the refinery bottleneck situation is still a problem that drives the market.

Carlos Santana

The producer had to stop recording and wait for me to compose myself, ... There are quite a few places in my memoir that I don't read again and don't read out loud at appearances. It's interesting. You can write it down and even work with it in writing, but speaking your words out into the world has a different kind of power.

The process to get on the ballot is Pennsylvania is a stacked deck against any non-incumbent.

Taylor Lautner

Yeah, Jacob transforms a lot in 'New Moon.' Not only physically, but mentally and emotionally as well. So it was a matter of getting to the gym and eating the right foods and a lot of it. But also, reading and studying the book and my character over and over and over again so I could have his character down as well.

Tiffany Thornton

You just have to be comfortable in your own skin before you jump into something where people that you're going against are going to be better than you in some way every time.

Theaster Gates

The reality in the neighborhood that I live in is: if I don't constantly reconcile what I have against what other people don't, either I need to leave and be around other people who have what I have, or I'm constantly engaged in this kind of dynamic flow of opportunity and sharing.

Trey Burke

I knew the Big Ten was one of the best conferences in the country. Every night you're up against pros. It's just so competitive. You can get beat by any team. That's really what I like about the Big Ten.

Thomas Steinbeck

My father believed, like Pericles, that a man's genius could be easily judged by the number of unenlightened fools set in phalanx against his ideas.

Troian Bellisario

The minute I'm off that stage, I try to get as 'me' as possible. I do that by piling on my black eyeliner, and I put on my ripped tights. Dressing like myself again helps.

Tove Jansson

People idealise their animals, and at the same time they patronisingly overlook a dog's natural life - biting fleas, burying bones, rolling in garbage, barking up an empty tree all night... But what do they do themselves? Bury stuff that will rot in secret and then dig it up and bury it again and rant and rave under empty trees!

Tracey Emin

It's happened time and time again, but the committee has always decided against it-the work was too conservative or didn't fit within the budget; there are millions of different reasons.

Temple Grandin

My problems are sort of more on a nuisance level. I can't stand scratchy clothes, I've got to have soft kinds of cotton against my skin, and I don't know why some 100% cotton t-shirts itch and others don't; it has something to do with the weave.

Todrick Hall

I think, hands down, the number one person I would love to have in a video is Beyonce. I think the perfect video for me - I could die happy and I could never make a YouTube video again - would be to do a video called 'Bey-Oz-ce' and mix 'The Wizard of Oz' and Beyonce together because those are my two favorite things in the world.

Tom Wilkinson

I would recommend it to everybody, every now and again you just put a dress on, see what it feels like, because it's, its interesting. A whole complex series of thoughts and feelings assail you as you look at yourself.

We're just trying to get it to another level. We've been working a lot on defense, playing a lot of really tough competition is the key to it. We're starting to hit our stride. That's our 20th game. We didn't come out focused against LCA. A couple of guys had some things going on outside of basketball, some distractions. It really cost us.

The outfield killed me. So did the eight runs they got against us in the fourth inning.

Jason Stearns

The population has grown weary of a transitional government that is more concerned with personal enrichment than lifting them out of misery, and they are counting on the ballot box to improve their lot. If the elections go awry, they will turn once again to violence.

What we did against Stanton isn't gonna mean anything this game. It's a whole new challenge. We're gonna have to start over.

Porter Goss

What we can learn from him, I hope -- because this is a process which he may not participate too willingly in -- is basically what operations are out there that we can defend against and forestall,

Jim Bianco

What we can do is take the core rate of PPI and combine it with last week's 5 cent-an-hour jump in average hourly wages and say that inflation looks like it is a concern, maybe not a problem yet, but a concern. And the Federal Reserve was justified in raising rates and may be justified in raising rates again in the May or July meeting.

Ken Burns

I think the problem with a lot of the fusion music is that it's extremely predictable, it's a rock rhythm and the solos all play the same stuff and they play it over and over again and there's a certain musical virtuosity involved in it.

We all desire things that we believe we cannot have, and so my films reflect that again and again. The mystery must be solved, the goal attained.

Knute Nelson

But it is neither cannon nor bayonet that will do the worst damage to this city. No, this place will remember the war against our government just as long as there are inhabitants here.

James E. Faust

I have the greatest respect for single parents who struggle and sacrifice, trying against almost superhuman odds to hold the family together. They should be honored and helped in their heroic efforts. But any mother's or father's task is much easier where there are two functioning parents in the home.

Jose Carreras

People naturally want to know about what happened, about my leukemia. They ask the same questions again and again. And there have been so many positive conclusions, even through the bad times, that I don't mind at all to be reminded of my struggles.

Kate Winslet

'The Reader' is about a young man's experience of falling in love with somebody who, it turns out, made some choices that were unavoidable in her life that resulted in horrific crimes against humanity.