Famous Quotes & Sayings

I heard some banging noises. I thought it was thunder and rain.

I just can't do any running, I can't do any banging around. I think it'll be an easy transition when it is time to play.

Sean Berdy

I love to talk about the drums and music. I started playing drums when I was probably six and played a lot until I was about ten or eleven years old. So, I guess five or six years where I played. I had a drum set at home, and I would just bang on it. I'd even go on the Internet and study basic beats and so forth.

Geraldine Brooks

I had this story that had been banging around in my head and I thought, 'I'll just see if there's anything there.' So I wrote a few chapters of the book that became 'Year of Wonders,' and lucky for me it found its readers.

I'm uncomfortable taking this offer unless I know we're getting the best bang for our buck.

So a guy like that, I think I would be surprised if he didn't end up banging around a few years with somebody.

Jay Wright

A lot of times bigger players have to bang inside, they have to do the dirty work, they have to screen, they have to defend in the post, they have to post up. If a smaller guys doesn't mind doing that and actually enjoys doing that, he can play that position and that's what we have.

Dwight Howard

They (Magic coaches) want me to be a post player but I don't want to bang with somebody every game, fight and fight.

They have formed bases in Bangladesh where they are trained and sent to India.

They had nice size, in the (game) and on the bench as well. Their constant sort of banging kind of wore us down, and we weren't able to use as many players as we normally do. We've seen a lot quicker guards, so that wasn't really a big difference. We just wore down, especially inside.

They got us pretty good the first time. But we learned a lot from that loss. We're just going to try and bang with those guys, be physical and come out with a win.

Barry Trotz

It was our energy and bang line that was out there. They are supposed to generate energy and they didn't do that.

It was both self-regulating and self-selecting. If someone came banging on the door at midnight wanting to play hockey, you'd grab for your stick.

It was fun watching the big men bang on each other all night. We thought we had a little more experience on Zion, and I think that paid off when someone like Dana played like he did in a big game.

It was done a lot. One of the ways people tend to get more bang for the buck is to paint the walls below the frieze and use papers for the frieze and ceiling. In fact, I used to do that when I lived in the Midwest, and it was hard to tell the difference between paint and papers.

Bob Dylan

It was relatively simple. Bob put himself in my hands. He just turned up - just his words on paper - no instruments, no musicians, no preconceptions. He just turned up on the doorstep and I built the studio. It's what I call a kitchen studio, so we played in the kitchen. I knew it would suit Bob because I knew Bob didn't have a lot of time for the studio. He didn't want people standing around scratching their heads, banging pianos or whatever. I sat down next to him, put a guitar in his hand and off we went.

Henry James

It was as if, at moments, we were perpetually coming into sight of subjects before which we must stop short, turning suddenly out of alleys that we perceived to be blind, closing with a little bang that made us look at each other--for, like all bangs, it was something louder than we had intended--the doors we had indiscreetly opened.

Patti Smith

It would go back and forth between the two of us and then it would go over here and bang its head on the steps trying to break the glass off.

Caitlyn Jenner

I used to play a lot of tennis and then, next thing you know, same thing with tennis. That banging on the knees, the jarring, twisting motion - I couldn't do it. All of a sudden, every time I played, my knee would swell up.

Felix Silla

I've never had any desire to be 6 feet tall. I'd go around banging my head.

The same people are the ones going out their banging it out every meet. Maybe we have too many people standing around and watching. We need to make some changes.

Steven Jackson

The running back sets the tempo for the offense, ... If I'm out there banging on people, it lets the defense know it's time to get it on. Everything has to change. Everything needs a new beginning. They used to play power football with Eric Dickerson and Bettis with this franchise. It's time to go back to those days.

Tom Izzo

But when you look at what he does, it's more football-related than basketball. He bangs in there, he rebounds well, he defends well. The work he does in the weight room, the sprints they do (in football) those things help him for what we need him for.

Emily Mortimer

But I have to grow out of it, because it's very boring, really. Even when you're telling people how crap you are, you're still banging on about yourself.

In order to get the best bang for your buck, you need to stay on the budget.

But ultimate integration and functionality are not big factors in choices. Canadian companies aren't looking for big bang solutions as there are budgetary constraints.

George Burns

Critics are eunuchs at a gang bang.

Eddie Jordan

He's relentless. He's banging and banging. He never quits on a play. That's what we need, that presence, his personality. ... He's a guy that you follow, and you know you've got backup.

Mahela Jayawardene

I don't think leading Sri Lanka is that much of a pressure. We've got some really talented youngsters, so hopefully we can give them some exposure. We have not played Bangladesh for quite a while and we are very much looking forward to this tour.

Instead of having the ad stand alone, they are surrounding it with other platforms where people are migrating. You want to get the biggest bang for your buck by putting the commercial in other venues.

Hal Sparks

'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker.

Any discontent that might be there is part of the report, ... I want to know if taxpayers are getting the biggest bang for buck.

Raina Telgemeier

I wanted to be into fashion, but I was never the kind of person who could keep up with fashion trends, and I could never style my hair the way everyone else's was - my hair was very thin, so I couldn't do, like, the sprayed bangs everyone else was into.