Famous Quotes & Sayings

Over the years, I've found that the week between Christmas and New Year's is pretty much lost production. Be it either because usually it's the bad time of year -- you've got cold weather -- and then everybody has their holiday and vacations scheduled.

Sidney Crosby

That caught him good. He had a bad back before that, and now, a shoulder. And with the way things were going, I'm sure he was just mentally and physically tired.

That 60 feet and 6 inches, it can keep us in the game when we throw well, and when we don't we won't fare so well. We did not swing the bats bad from being off a week. We swung a lot better in the second game. We just need to keep plugging away.

Texas already has a lot of people who need help, and we've done a really bad job of helping them.

Thankfully all my family got out. Everyone's fine. That's the most important thing. It's hard to swallow, though. You think in your lifetime that you might get in a bad car wreck or something bad might happen, but never that you'll lose your house.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous.

James McNerney

My sports were team sports: ice hockey and baseball. The whole team dynamic is similar in business. Leadership is earned - the captain earns that role; it's not because he's the coach's son. These are all things we know, but in today's world, it's not a bad idea to remind ourselves.

My thing was, Everybody just relax, ... The game was never out of reach. When things were going bad it was either 11 or 12 minutes left in the game and it was 10-6.

My shot was bad until the eighth grade, when my coach showed me how to shoot a jump shot. From there I practiced my shot every day in the driveway.

My son Beau got very ill when he was just four months old in Majorca. He contracted a really bad case of gastroenteritis. Everything feels so much worse when you don't speak the language, and you need that reassuring conversation as a mum, but you can't have it.

Eric Snow

My sister was on me really bad yesterday (to shoot more). The queen had spoken, so I had to come in and shoot.

Abraham Lincoln

My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter

My nerves were bad because I wanted to win that game so bad. It felt good to hit those threes.

Eric Milton

My name's probably a bad word in Cincinnati, ... I'm looking to change that.

Edmund White

My mother was terribly invasive, all in the name of psychiatric honesty. It was a bad thing in some ways, but I do think it had the effect of making me interested in 'the truth' as a writer - more than beauty, more than having a shapely story.

Matt Giteau

My move to five-eighth has probably come out of more bad fortune for Steve (Larkham) while Dan has been playing flyhalf for the Crusaders all year.

Cecily Strong

My parents are really funny. Laughter was a big part of my childhood. Of course, they tell a lot of bad jokes - but so do I. I tell a lot of bad jokes.

Gary Moore

Nah. The real bad guys don't wear hats. All the good guys wear hats.

My yearning would be that we would have been just fully sound, because we had played such good basketball lately. I just felt bad for my kids that we just didn't quite have all the pieces.

Matthew Nable

My week at school would be good or bad depending on whether Balmain won. I have such fond memories of those suburban grounds, and everything was so undiluted. The players weren't censored, and for me it was a wonderful period of my life when everything was simple and pure. For me, that resonated with rugby league.

Paul Haggis

My questions were all about things that bothered me personally. I wanted to explore how good people can do bad things.

Esteban Loaiza

My pitching wasn't always in the strike zone. I never thought that would happen. It's too bad it couldn't have been like in Phoenix.

Thomas Jefferson

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

John Sharp Williams

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.

Mark McGwire

My message is that steroids is bad. Don't do them. It's a bad message.

My husband still isn't back to work. We're all in a bad way.

My mom said that the food they give you here tastes like dog food, but I don't think it's that bad now,

My mantra going into a surgery like this was you're going to come out of it better. I didn't feel bad before, but I feel great now.

Many have wondered if Greece's economy would get so bad that it would eventually break away from the Eurozone - a move that could encourage other countries to follow and therefore splinter the currency union.

Lizzie has been my best friend and I just wanted this game so bad for her and Tiara.

Looking at the scores, there is a lot of objectivity in it. At this point of the season, everybody knows what everyone can run. You know, somebody might have a breakthrough race. Somebody might have a bad race. You can pretty much tell early on what you are going to have.

Looking at San Benito High School, there was one particular teacher whose comments were very personal, and I felt bad that this teacher would have to read something like that. Certainly, we're all entitled to an opinion, but it wasn't a critique about his class, instruction or curriculum, and that's the beneficial part of a site like this. Personal comments are counterproductive.

Alessandro Nesta

Look, it is an international tournament and no-one wants to make a bad impression.