Famous Quotes & Sayings

James McNerney

Lew shepherded Boeing with strength, grace, dignity and integrity through a period when the company most needed his steady hand. He was a compassionate man who put his own retirement and personal plans on the back burner to ensure that Boeing never missed a beat through its recent recovery.

Bob Hill

(Lewis) just gets beat up physically, he doesn't get any calls. He got hit on the arm. He got slapped in the face and no call. That really hurt. He gets beat up all the time and they just don't protect him at all.

Stephen Dorff

They're trying to beat out this movie, the Ring, which is a similar idea. Our movie is about a website you visit and die in three days. Their movie is about a videotape you watch - and die in three days.

Ashwin Sanghi

J. K. Rowling's first 'Harry Potter' manuscript was rejected 12 times. Stephen King's 'Carrie' was rejected 30 times. 'Gone With The Wind' was rejected 38 times. I was immensely proud to have beaten them all.

The production value is with the landscape, the mountains and the water, and the city. You can't beat it.

Every student of science, even if he cannot start his journey where his predecessors left off, can at least travel their beaten track more quickly than they could while they were clearing the way: and so before his race is run, he comes to virgin forest and becomes himself a pioneer.

Tilda Swinton

What he's done is recognise the cinematic nature of the book. It's beautifully realised - it's a beat film.

Travie McCoy

I've been producing since the early stages of Gym Class Heroes. A lot of the songs on the first 'Papercut Chronicles' were actually beats that I made.

Paul Hewitt

The one thing that those guys do is they try to beat you every possession, which is a mentality we have to recapture around here.

Koren Zailckas

My parents always swore that in my childhood they had to let me win at board games. If, by the lucky stroke of the plastic wheel, my father would accidentally beat me at Candy Land, I would fly into fits of bawling that I'm told would last for hours. If I couldn't triumph, I didn't want to play.

The proposition that we should encourage wickedness and violence by exposing one side of the face to blows because we have been beaten on the other is too great an absurdity.

Ted Ligety

It's the nature of the beast, playing sports on the ski team and how competitive all of us are. I want to beat everybody's time.

We are going to have to play great to beat them, we know that. We're really excited about it. We have great respect for them.

Barry Trotz

This was a surprise. But I tell our guys to expect the unexpected ... When you come to grips with how you have to beat a team, most of the time you are going to be very successful.

Ellen Hollman

When I was a kid, I was more interested in beating up boys on the playground than practicing music.

Bill Hybels

The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.

Kathy Mattea

Your voice is vibrant for only a certain part of your life. There are some records I've always wanted to make, and I don't know if I want to waste this time beating on the door of the charts.

John Cena

I'm a small-time white kid trying to represent hip-hop. If a hip-hop artist comes up and beats me in a battle, who did they beat? A small-town white kid who ain't never been an MC, who ain't never done nothing. Now if an MC comes to battle and they get beat by a small-town white boy, that's MC suicide.

Shawne Merriman

When he left the game, it gave us more of an edge. They tried to hit us two times for big plays. When they finally figured out they weren't going to beat us with 60 or 70-yard plays, they had to change their game.

When he is ready and does everything right, I do not know how you can beat him. He is explosive in every position, he is dangerous from everywhere.

Warren Sapp

Whenever you're playing together, it's tougher to beat you,

James Wright

We had beaten Whitehouse earlier 5-0, but I knew it could be different this time. They were coming off a couple of wins in this tournament and were playing pretty well, I thought.

We had beaten them by four the first time but that was when our defense was unpredictable and sloppy, it was actually quite good this time. We've put together two good defensive efforts in a row, which we hadn't gotten, so we're making progress. It took us a while but we finally did it.

We had a wake up call. We thought it would be easy and just got beat by two solid teams. We realize now we have to work harder.

John Gilmore

We had a very talented team at Aragon last year, ... but beating Serra with everything they had going for them was something.

We had a very good season. We did pretty good, but we got beat in the finals.

We had a very good day. This is the first time we've beaten Princeton this year, and to beat both Princeton and Washington by good margins is very pleasing. We ran a great race.

We had a very competitive year. We only lost four games by a total of 20 points. We lost to three teams, two of which we beat later.

When the IPO market tapers off, the more speculative types of issues tend to take a bigger beating than those more

Mike Carey

We needed all the breaks this game for us to beat Rutgers and we got them. We'll take them every time we can get them. I'm just so proud of the girls. We were coming off a tough season. We lost eight in a row after Meg went down and we really couldn't find our identity. But right now I've never been prouder of a group of girls to really regroup and do the things they've done here in this tournament.

Todd Rundgren

It's nearly redundant to enumerate the reasons The Beatles are important. There are probably different reasons why The Beatles are important to a musician like myself and to the millions of Beatles fans who just enjoy listening to the music.

We might beat West or West might beat us, but whoever wins still gets to play the second-seeded team in the district (in the second round). (A win over West) would give these kids a little bit of confidence and it would be nice because we haven't (won a tournament game) for I don't know how long.

Tom Conway

We won the first two section championships. The second year we beat former USF and Chicago Bulls center Bill Cartwright at Elk Grove in the semifinals.