Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thom Gunn

When I was an undergraduate I had very badly annotated editions of Shakespeare's sonnets, all of which left out the important fact that will has a sexual sense in Shakespeare's sonnets.

We hope to identify these mysterious compounds -- compare Venus to Earth and Mars to see how Venus went so badly wrong.

Gilbert Arenas

We did our job, but when a team is doing badly it's usually because they are breaking down offensively. We were just there at the right time.

Bill Schneider

Where is Gore with women? Just 50 percent, ... Given how badly he is doing with men, and it is very bad, he has got to boost his standing with women.

Nikki Grimes

In one sense, the stories I read betrayed me. Too few gave me back my mirror image. Fewer still spoke to, or acknowledged, the existence of the problems I faced as a black foster child from a dysfunctional and badly broken home.

We are given to the cult of personality; when things go badly we look to some messiah to save us. If by chance we think we have found one, it will not be long before we destroy him.

Shaun White

What's really good is I'm riding really badly today. It's actually great because when I have a bad day it means I'm going to have a good day tomorrow.

Kay Yow

We knew we were tired, but not that tired to play that badly in the first half. We got into a deep hole and then we were just fighting for our lives.

When I was a kid, you came to the Florida games and it wasn't a matter of if they were going to win. It was a matter of how badly they were going to win. The talent we have on this team and the coaches we have, there's no reason that shouldn't be the expectations here." ()

Iker Casillas

When we beat them there (in Barcelona) in the Champions League (in 2002) no one applauded us. If we play well and win that will be great and if we play badly and win that will be great too.

We would rather speak badly of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

We've been playing very nicely, even though we bowled very badly at the death and did some silly things with the bat in Cape Town.

We've been outscored pretty badly and just in general our play, particularly in home games, was the biggest concern for me.

so badly with the right that I honestly can't see much that he can do by way of winning them back over.

Michael Kinsley

That seemed like an insult, ... I guess it was. Even after that, I thought he maybe put it badly and he didn't mean to be sending out these go-away vibes. But it turns out he put it exactly right.

The Fed is trying to do what it can, but the history of the past 200 years is that big booms tend to end badly -- big equity market booms in particular. The Fed so far has done a magnificent job of holding the show together, but we don't know what effects of the bubble are still in the pipeline.

These other guys want to win just as badly as Todd does. For sure, we are going to miss him, but the world is going to keep spinning, and we have to keep moving on to the next thing.

On a scale of 1 to 3, it was a 4. It was off the chart. It was pretty badly damaged. Shredded is the better term.

After that loss to Tri-Town (6-2 on Jan. 4), we went back to basics, right from conditioning on up through. I think that our kids realized the depth of the loss to Tri-Town. They realized how badly they were outplayed.

After the pre-Christmas upturn, we are now back to the reality of a tough, discount-driven retail market. The message from every sector of our industry is the same. The squeeze on consumer spending continues unabated. The economy badly needs a cut in interest rates.

I'm relieved. I had the worst possible start but then (captain) Guy (Forget) told me I was playing badly and it was 7-6. It gave me confidence and I played better afterwards.

Mardy Fish

I'm ranked 19 and I didn't play that badly and he beat me four and one.

Martina Hingis

I'm not looking for any excuses, she was just too good today. I'm going home with my head up. This is a good start to my comeback. I don't think I played badly today, she was just too good. Being in the finals here in Tokyo really exceeded my expectations.

I let a lot of people down tonight. I feel very badly that I let all of those guys in that locker room down. I had one of those days and there's no excuse for it.

Stephen Hendry

I'm surprised at how close the final was considering how badly I played,

Maisie Williams

Oh, the cat I worked with on 'Game of Thrones' was so badly behaved! It would never do anything it was supposed to do. I was like, 'Get your game together, cat. You're so bad.'

Larry Brown

Not having Eddy and Jerome James is everything. You see how badly we get beat if somebody drives. We have no shot-blocking, no inside presence on defense. Or offense. So it's huge. But hopefully all that's behind him.

I wanted to win so badly this weekend or Panther (Racing) and the guys at Chevrolet. I was able to lead some laps and it's always great to see that Pennzoil car out front, but winning is what's important.

It takes two to tangle, and if you can convince one of those two people to back off and let the other guy behave badly but not take it personally, you can defuse many of these situations before they ever get started.

It takes a little while to build, ... It doesn't happen overnight, but I didn't think we'd struggle this badly now.

The tree is so badly burned that you can actually look at the cavity that has been created at the base of the trunk and see all the way through it. It has a sign 5 feet from it saying don't dump charcoal and a sign on the tree itself that says don't do that, but people do it anyway.

Hines Ward

When I was there, it wasn't cool to be a mixed kid. There probably was some hatred there. Some of the kids are treated badly and, sadly, it happens, but it's not the kids' fault.

They're sold to consumers as perfectly good used vehicles, when in fact they are badly damaged because of water exposure, and people are going to get ripped off.