Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edsger Dijkstra

If in physics there's something you don't understand, you can always hide behind the uncharted depths of nature. You can always blame God. You didn't make it so complex yourself. But if your program doesn't work, there is no one to hide behind. You cannot hide behind an obstinate nature. If it doesn't work, you've messed up.

Coach said right after the game ended, we've got to put this behind us. We've just got to come back to practice and play the rest of our games the way we can.

Shavlik Randolph

Coach K calls me and leaves me messages of encouragement. He wanted to let me know that he's doing everything he can behind the scenes to help me. He wanted me to know that he's happy for me. That means a lot to me.

Shavlik Randolph

Coach K calls me and leaves me messages of encouragement, ... He wanted to let me know that he's doing everything he can behind the scenes to help me. He wanted me to know that he's happy for me. That means a lot to me.

Ben Howland

Coach is always there at the home games, sitting behind the bench. He's the greatest coach in the history of college basketball.

Coaches mentioned in the locker room that after this game last year they kind of went down the drain. I made a comment that this isn't last year. We're going to keep working hard ... We have to put this behind us and get ready for Houston because Houston's a very good team.

Coach Ware has been persistent about these charges being untrue and has categorically denied them. If this matter does result in the charges being substantiated then this organization will take immediate and appropriate action. As of now, we stand behind Coach Ware.

Coach (Clint) Smith was saying that he's been here seven or eight years and this (offensive) line has the most potential of any line we've had. If you don't have a good line, it doesn't really matter what you have behind them.

Despite overall strong macro data, a recovery in the tech sector is lagging well behind the overall U.S. economy,

Despite our belief that the complaint ... was without merit, we elected to settle this case so that we can put it behind us and maintain our focus on serving our customers.

Despite what the (Bush) administration was claiming, this is an indication that No Child Left Behind may not have made much of a difference because these are the same results we saw before the law was in effect.

Depending on what day it is we focus on earnings, we focus on the Fed. We have to get the Fed behind us before we really pick a direction. I think that direction will be higher, but not until next Wednesday.

Michael Cooper

Any league is going to do well when it has a professional league behind it.

Scott Bailey

Any connection we can have with a larger city is positive. The more growth, the more potential for commercial growth. That's what Severance needs right now. We're a little behind in commercial growth because of the boom in residential.

And that's what I miss because a lot of things behind the scenes you don't see, but the fans demand and we expect a good product when they're on the floor. That's what I come to see, that's what the fans come to see, and I really do think that coach Pearl will be able to bring that product to the floor for the fans to enjoy and compete with Kentucky.

George H. W. Bush

Are the American people really behind me, as I take on Saddam Hussein?

A pullback in US Treasury prices was behind losses in JGB prices today.

Any team is going to be dangerous when they're playing in their home court and has their home crowd right behind us. We've just got to be focused.

...And then one day you'll find, ten years have got behind you, no one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

Tim Hudson

Any time I have an outing similar to that, I always look forward to getting back out there, putting it behind me and making better pitches, ... It's a big game, obviously -- the biggest game of the year. I'm glad they have confidence in me to go out there and try to get us back to Atlanta.

Any good coach has to have the team behind them.

As far as the tent camp is concerned, we have seen it all before and know who stands behind this.

Dominik Hasek

A shutout like that shouldn't even count. It was a great effort from my team. (Montreal) didn't get anything. The last two shots, the 11th and 12th, they were with one minute left and behind the blue line so what can I say. It was probably the easiest shutout I have had.

As far as we're concerned, that's behind us and we're moving forward.

A scan revealed he sustained an injury to one of the medial tendons of his left hamstring behind the knee.

Alice McDermott

As a writer, you have to put yourself in service to the character, get behind their eyes by delineating the world where the character develops. You have to listen to the character and see him inside his certain world to know what conclusions he would draw.

As a Black gay man I would not want to have relations with a brother who was secretly going behind my back and then going back to his wife, knocking her up and possibly infecting them and putting them at risk, ... You are not doing yourself any good and particularly not doing the gay and Black community as a whole any good by you living a double life. It's all about loving each other and being responsible because that's how we're going to end this.

As a freshman it's different, but I think I've gotten used to it. I know I have to be smart. I have to know where I am in the lineup and what's coming next. One thing that's comforting is that I always know that my team is behind me and they have my back. That's probably been the best thing about the experience so far.

Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.

People on the boat waited and saw the whale breach behind them, and they returned to port without incident.

People entered into these deals often at the behest of lawyers and accountants peddling flaky tax products, ... We're offering taxpayers a quick, quiet and cost-effective way to put these deals behind them.

Phillip E. Johnson

People behind me and in front of me are pushing me, ... All three of us respect each other and we've been running hard.

People at the White House need to know that the chances of our getting a (budget cut) bill moving out of my committee are very difficult if we don't get this behind us,