Famous Quotes & Sayings

We were a little worried at the beginning with only three pitchers. But we're doing a good job now, so I'm really proud.

We were a little independent and selfish at the beginning of the year, and we paid for it.

We were a different team at the start of the season than we were at the end. At the beginning of the season we were a transition team that played good full-court defense. By the end of the season we were a half-court team.

Matt Hall

We definitely weren't playing our best game in the beginning and that showed. I don't know if that was from the layoff or whatever, but it was our fault.

We definitely started crashing the boards better in the second half. We knew if we weren't going to get the rebounds now, when are we going to rebound? Rebounds always matter, no matter if it's the beginning or end.

We worked so hard throughout the season on our defense because we were so offensive minded in the beginning of the year. As the season went on, we knew defense would help us win games.

We work a lot on defense and we do a great job at the beginning. But we will have to pick up the intensity throughout the game.

We won the league, that was the goal we set for ourselves at the beginning of the season. Our next goal is to finish undefeated in the league.

We want to make sure it is on everybody's radar while the session is just beginning.

Meg Whitman

We want to help sellers grow even if that means off the marketplace -- beginning an exciting new chapter for you and your business, and for us as well.

We didn't have a lot of energy coming out tonight. When we get down, we usually fight back. We can't dig a hole for ourselves at the beginning of the game and expect to win.

We are making these changes at a time when we are beginning to see signs that our business is stabilizing,

Richie Havens

You can't even kill yourself if it isn't your time to go. People have no control whatsoever over what happens to them, and they are beginning to realize this. The future lies in the time of living. Your doing something will get you into tomorrow, if you want to call it tomorrow. If you want to make those distinctions at all.

The Democrats are in exactly the same position as the Sunnis in Iraq. From the very beginning, they have done everything they can to disparage the process. Now they have to turn around and convince their supporters to participate. That is a pretty quick pivot.

The debt equity swap carried by the Chinese is beginning to be rather costly, it is this organic realization rather than pushy comments from (U.S. Treasury Secretary) John Snow that is likely to trigger a change.

We played with a lot of heart. I think we were underestimated a little bit going into this game, but we remained focused from beginning to end.

We played with a great team today. They whipped us at the beginning of the year and that says a lot about how far we have come.

We played a little sloppy, especially in the beginning of the game, and we couldn't hold onto the ball. But we did better at the end.

We played a great game. Our kids made a great comeback from 13 points down, but we couldn't pull it out. We didn't play hard in the beginning and that hurt us.

We played 15 kids (Tuesday). It's the end for four seniors. But it's the beginning for 11 other kids.

John Thain

We plan to trade the first shares of the NYSE Group on March 8. This will mark the beginning of a new era.

Scott Skiles

We pretty much got dominated from beginning to end. Even when it was close, it wasn't close.

Scott Skiles

We pretty much got dominated from beginning to end. Defensively, we're not getting it done.

Stockard Channing

It's funny, I had dinner with my dear friend John Spencer last night and I'm not in the first episode, but he's at the beginning of it and he was telling me about it and I thought this sounds very hot because I think this is definitely the last year of West Wing.

Susan Minot

'Monkeys' is made up of nine short stories that tell an overall story. 'Folly' is a series of vignettes all put together to tell a larger story. In 'Lust and Other Stories,' there are nine stories - three, three, three; the beginnings of love, the middles, and the afters.

Trent Reznor

I've watched with a kind of wary eye how gaming has progressed. I was there at the beginning with Pong in the arcade, and a lot of my great childhood memories were around a 'Tempest' machine.

Tadanobu Asano

Because I feel 'Thor' is the beginning of finding my roots, and I found that I have family in America, I want to take my time and put effort on my future work so that foreign people get to know me better, and I also want to enjoy that process itself!

Virginia Postrel

The profusion of fonts is one more product of the digital revolution. Beginning in the mid-'80s and accelerating in the 1990s, type design weathered the sort of radical, technology-driven transformation that other creative industries, including music, publishing, and movies, now face.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

I'm a firm believer in stories with arcs and beginnings and endings and all that. 'Scott Pilgrim' is sort of one long novel, and it's so long that I get confused and sort of tread water sometimes. But there's definitely a goal to it. People who just dismiss it as shallow, that's their prerogative, but it's not really my intent.

Brian Skerry

I still think there's a big part of the population that has a lot of misinformation about sharks. But I think it's beginning to change a little bit. As good information about sharks permeates popular culture, things may start to change.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

Ian Rankin

When a murder is satisfied, it isn't the beginning of the story; it's the middle. We shouldn't forget that fact because murder has ripples. You never go back to being the same. The people that investigate these crimes never go back to being the same as they were before they started the investigation. The people's whose lives have been affected, the victim's families, even the murderer themselves are profoundly changed. That's why murder is still the most interesting crime for us to write about, because it is the only crime where something unique is taken away from the world, something that can't be replaced.

William Throsby Bridges

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.