Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jay Inslee

I am a relatively new Member to this Chamber, and it is troublesome to me and I can tell Members it is getting very troublesome to my constituents when they hear this repeated consistent drum beat of a corruption of the democratic process.

Jammal Brown

I bet Miami would have been happy just to beat North Carolina any way they could have. We won -- that's all it comes down to.

We've taken on a lot of quality opponents, we've played a lot of good teams and we've beaten a lot of good teams. I still think some teams don't think we're for real yet.

We've sat down and had some nice talks and set some definite goals with this group. We should be the team to beat in the conference.

We're just as good as they are. They should be looking at us and thinking they need to beat us in order to be a championship team.

We used to go into games not to lose, instead of playing to win. Now, we're like, let's beat this team.

We understand that we can't overlook anybody. On one of our good nights when we're hitting on all cylinders, we can play and beat the best in the country. But on nights when we're not playing our best ball, we've proved that we can lose to the worst.

We showed a lot of composure for a team that was missing two seniors. We were up 15-18 points and they came back. We could have folded it up and let them beat us, and no one would have thought twice. But we kept it together for four quarters.

Walking into a planner's office and saying you want to beat the S&P 500 (index) isn't a goal.

Heidi Klum

Keeping it all together as a modern woman means multitasking, especially when you work. I think you always need to try your best, but at the same time you can only do what you can do, and you don't need to beat yourself up about it. I'm not white-picket-fence perfect.

Guy Pearce

I wish I had the ability to crack wise, generally. You know, without getting punched. There's no way I could do it while getting beaten up. Definitely.

Chris Pine

I like a deep sports massage - a casual beating up. I try to get them whenever I can, usually more if I'm getting in shape for a role.

Fergie

Luckily I don't have to buy shoes anymore, because I design them! I'm off tour, so I can dive in and create the shoes that I want for my line. But okay, I did buy a pair of vintage combat boots because they were so beaten up - I had to have them.

Common

It was incredible to have J Dilla in your dining room making beats - it was one of the greatest experiences I've had.

Corey Taylor

I grew up poor in crappy situations... various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many different literary tastes growing up, be it fiction like Stephen King or Piers Anthony or non-fiction like reading Hunter S. Thompson essays or reading the Beats. I was a huge fan of the Beat movement.

Ed Sheeran

It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing. Growing up, I was inspired by The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Damian Rice was a huge influence for me musically.

Alice Munro

It’s just life. You can’t beat life.

The fact that we played them last year and beat them by three, I'm sure that's an incentive for them. On the flip side, it's kind of a confidence thing for us.

The execution we gave tonight won't beat Eastern Randolph.

What it implies is people were expecting a strong number and maybe this isn't as strong as they hoped. They beat expectations and my own estimate, but we need more information.

Joe Gibbs

What I remember about the old days is that when we had real good football teams, they had a knack for beating us.

What we're trying to do is make sure we don't beat ourselves. Probably the most important thing is to compete for four quarters.

I was, like, now my competition is to beat this.

I was just able to get a jump on the kids and beat them to the corners. That's the name of the game.

Jose Guillen

I was looking for a good pitch to hit. He just made some good pitches. You've got to tip your hat to him. He pitched a great game and they beat us again.

Trent Dilfer

kind words after football games when they beat us up. That meant the world to me.

Knowing we're not at full strength, that's one plus of where we're at. Even the people we have on the floor aren't healthy, so as the year goes on hopefully we're going to get better. We're not up to full strength yet, and to beat a tough Lee College team in our first two matches, it will be fun to see what happens later.

Knowing that we beat Florida last year, and knowing that we've got a good defense, it's going to be a big key.

Knowing that a team is better than you and they beat you, you can live with that. We just beat ourselves.

David Barnes

Kevin would have to wait at least six months to get a British title shot but if he beats Okine it will fast-track him to a British title shot sooner and jump him up to 15th place in the world title ratings.

I wouldn't say it was a shock or surprise. I think that our conference is a great conference and any team can beat any team on any given day. We proved that we can play really well.

I would think if we can beat Norris City (Tuesday night), I think we can get one of the top four seeds. Benton will be one of the strongest teams in the complex. They beat (Hamilton County), we split with (Hamilton County), and our other two losses are to Marion and Carbondale. I think we're one of the top six teams no matter what.

Jake had a great game for us. He was in the zone out there and gave us a tremendous effort. We're going to be hard to beat any time he pitches like that.