Famous Quotes & Sayings

Guys were making shots and we did a good job of swinging the ball side-to-side and making their defense move. If you can do that against anybody, you can get open shots. We were just fortunate enough to knock them down.

Jermaine Dye

Guys stepped up towards the end of the season and even though we were going bad we had a taste of not making it to the playoffs and I think guys got refocused again and played like we did the whole first half that last week and carried it on into the playoffs.

LeBron James

Guys stepped up tonight. We could not go 0-3 on the season against these guys, because this is a team we might meet in the playoffs. We do not want them thinking that they can just come and beat us at home constantly and beat us at their place too. They are a good team. We are a good team, and we played well to get a win.

Guys like that are at a little disadvantage, playing against guys who have been under the gun their whole lives, ... But a guy like him is going to be hungry. I like to see him do well. He can play this game.

Ron Wilson

Guys have missed being with this team. That's the greatest thing, to get back together and start having fun again with your teammates.

Bill Self

Halfway through the second half, (the Raiders) were physically tired because we were able to throw a lot of bodies at them. We benefited from a travel day for them and them playing 45 minutes against Oklahoma State (on Saturday).

David Boaz

Half the stories in every newspaper should be headlined 'Stop me before I legislate again

William Butler Yeats

Half close your eyelids, loosen your hair,And dream about the great and their pride;They have spoken against you everywhere,But weigh this song with the great and their pride;I made it out of a mouthful of air,Their children's children shall say they have lied.

Steven Milloy

Hank Paulson has cast his lot with radical greens and their crusade against the global economy. If he?s not careful, he?s going to match Rachel Carson?s record for spreading death and destruction in the developing world.

Harm reduction reflects the fact that people have a very difficult time stopping smoking, so they are looking for alternatives, ... This is furthering the harm-reduction debate. It's a reasonable debate. It pits the quit-or-die people against the just-reduce-and-you'll-reduce-harm people. Unfortunately, it's not as simple as either message.

Guillermo's a great player. He moves unbelievably on the court. You're almost surprised when you hit a winner against him.

Guillermo's a great player, ... He moves unbelievably on the court. You're almost surprised when you hit a winner against him.

George Kell

It was much more fun playing with him than against him. If you wanted one pitcher to start the seventh game of the World Series, which he did in 1945, you'd pick Hal Newhouser.

The reason given by the President in asking Congress to declare war against Germany is that the German government has declared certain war zones, within which, by the use of submarines, she sinks, without notice, American ships and destroys American lives.

First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.

This is what I tell my students: step outside of your tiny little world. Step inside of the tiny little world of somebody else. And then do it again and do it again and do it again. And suddenly, all these tiny little worlds, they come together in this complex web. And they build a big, complex world.

Tiffeny Milbrett

I don't think the game should be perfect. It's 95 percent mistakes out there - you have to work with 10 players on your side and another 11 against you. It's a crazy, chaotic game.

Tony Stewart

Things happen every day. You can't spend your whole life trying to guard against something happening. If you do that, in my opinion, you've wasted your life.

Teju Cole

Barack Obama is an elegant and literate man with a cosmopolitan sense of the world. He is widely read in philosophy, literature, and history - as befits a former law professor - and he has shown time and again a surprising interest in contemporary fiction.

Seth Godin

If a product's future is unlikely to be remarkable - if you can't imagine a future in which people are once again fascinated by your product - it's time to realize that the game has changed. Instead of investing in a dying product, take profits and reinvest them in building something new.

Shari Arison

Although we are physically laid to rest, we meet again and again to make amends. If I hurt someone in this life, I'll have to relive it to make amends. It helps you realize that by hurting someone, you are actually hurting yourself.

Susanna Moore

While I was writing 'The Big Girls,' I had to take a big breath each morning and calm myself sufficiently to once again enter that world. But friends tell me that it is the only thing that really interests me. They say that I like to be upset.

Sonya Hartnett

I have spent a great deal of my time defending my work against those who see it as too complicated, too old in approach, too bleak to qualify as children's literature. This has been the bane of my life.

Simon Kinberg

One movie I come back to time and again is 'The Hustler.' I don't think there's better dialogue in any film.

Suki Waterhouse

I've got nothing against plastic surgery at all. I know lots of people, young and old, who've had it. The point about good surgery is you can't see it. The important thing is not to go crazy - and not to go to a bad surgeon.

Sufjan Stevens

The spiritual ambiguity growing up made me really latch onto a faith - Protestantism - that was somewhat conventional. Everyone else was rebelling against traditions and institutions, whereas I was rebelling against the upheaval and uncertainty in my family.

Sufjan Stevens

The best fiction is geared towards conflict. We learn most about our characters through tension, when they are put up against insurmountable obstacles. This is true in real life.

This was a great game by both teams, our pretty good defense against their pretty good offense. Their coach told me after the game it was a shame we couldn't have met at a neutral site (further along in the playoffs).

This was a great event and even if I knew that I was going to be the first one out, I'd still have come. I hope they have this event again next year. I'll definitely be trying hard to get back.

John Bell

This was a great display on an away carpet against strong opposition and suggests we are back on the rails in time for the approaching Scottish Cup campaign.

This was a great day for our pitching staff. They really worked together today. We got timely hitting today which was something we didn't get last weekend against Arkansas. We played hard today and that was nice to see going into our series with Florida because Louisville is very similar to them.

This was a good win. Mount Vernon hasn't played against the option ahead of time and that was the big difference. They tried to defend us in different way. We figured they would try to mimic our game from last week and they did. We worked on it as well. We weren't looking for any one thing to exploit. We just wanted to work hard and get better ourselves. We did a good job of that.

Mike Miller

This was a good win for us. We have a hot New Jersey team coming in Friday and back-to-backs against the Spurs, so it was important to get this one.