Famous Quotes & Sayings

Crayfish was the last of the real loony offerings. There was a company that really had nothing behind it.

Lynn Coady

Do not make the writer stand behind a podium. Anything but. A podium reeks of the lecture hall. A music stand, on the other hand, is nicely minimal and lends the writer - who usually needs all the help s/he can get - a musician's second-hand cool-factor.

Does this explain the Kevin phenomenon? It might be behind the social ineptitude of early adolescents, the seeming inability to understand the two expressions that have this dip most strikingly - sadness and anger.

Donohue got hot at the right time for us. We were behind by one and then all of a sudden we led by 10. That was big for us.

Don't be surprised if Virginia Tech is not only behind Texas but Georgia as well when the first release comes out.

Dan Quayle

Do I miss politics? Of course I do. But that's behind me. I had a good run at it.

Consumers are already concerned that the labor market continues to lag behind an economic recovery. They don't really need another negative distraction.

Connie Mack

Congress is behind the president, ... There are very few people who are in favor of simply pulling out.

Then I had to convince the producers that behind closed doors, sometimes men do that.

Bartolo Colon

The next one is a start I'm looking forward to, hopefully to put this one behind me.

You try to get those runs early in the game. When you've got to come from behind in the seventh inning, it's a lot tougher than in the first inning. I really was excited that they performed under pressure. There was a lot of pressure there in the seventh inning.

Kristin Gore

You think about D.C. as a boring stuffy place. That's kind of its image. But if you grow up in that, you see all these energetic, fun people and crazy stuff that happens behind the scenes that no one knows about.

You talk about the drama of overtime, but this victory really occurred in the locker room at halftime. We had not been behind (at halftime) since Mount Pleasant (in week two). After the Mount Pleasant game, the kids grew up quite a bit. Tonight was indicative of lessons learned.

The novelist in me is probably hiding behind all the stories I write, looking for ways to connect them and continue the conversation with readers. Maybe I'm writing one long narrative, and each book, however different from the last, is just a chapter.

The offense is always going to get all the credit and the glory, ... We pride ourselves on getting the job done and staying behind the scenes. Now that we're winning, people are saying, 'Hey, they can play defense, too.'

Lawrence Summers

The off-center portrait (of Lincoln and Hamilton) has been enlarged; the fine lines printed behind both the portraits are now much more difficult to replicate than the earlier original,

The odds of letting states opt out of coastal moratorium in return for a share of offshore royalties are much higher. There is sufficient momentum behind this idea that it is going to take more than objections from Florida to stop it.

Nelson Mandela

Then we'd get behind them and drive them up a valley. Then we'd stab a pig, it would cry, and then we'd roast it and eat it.

Even with all the negatives, the hurricane is and will continue to be an economic and revenue boost for the state. However, understand that the state's economy was already growing fast... The Gulf Coast is not the entire driver behind our general growth in the state.

Eventually we'd love to partner up with some schools. The whole point behind this is that we want to see kids get fired up about learning.

Eventually it will go up and around and behind the properties and this trail will actually go all the way up the ravine.

That's probably the best Chase has ever pitched. You can't have that many errors behind you.

Kirk Hinrich

That's pretty much all I've been doing. You'd like to say you put it behind you, but for me it's impossible. For that to be so big a game, you hate to have it go down like that. When stuff like that happens, you feel like crap. I'm excited to get back out there and be able to redeem myself.

The bond market is still behind the inflation curve. The inflation story continues to chip away at our economy and it doesn't seem to be getting any weaker.

The boom part of the cycle is over. Most of the gains this time around are behind us. Now the question is how much of those gains do we get to keep.

The better economic story and the Fed tightening were the main drivers behind the dollar rally, but that has now run its course.

Martha Stewart

The best word to use for this very hard and difficult decision is 'finality,' and my intense desire to put this nightmare behind me, both personally and professionally,

Students need to be able to communicate and understand the culture and history of the folks they're going to be working with. Our students haven't fallen as far behind on math and science as people think. Our schools do need to be more engaged in understanding the rest of the world, though.

Teddy Atlas

Not there. He doesn't work his way in behind the jab, he doesn't punch to the body. Rather than work his way into position to throw punches -- and it is work -- he loads up with wide punches and long punches. The one thing he has retained is his power. But when he's loading up, he's vulnerable.

The administration can no longer hide behind the boogeyman of high electricity prices to justify its do-nothing policy on global warming. With that admission, the administration crossed a line that can't be uncrossed.

Jason Grilli

That guy, I will take him No. 1 pick, playing behind me anywhere. You just can't help but love him. That guy plays so hard. He's throwing curveballs, change-ups out there. He was throwing with all his might.

That is probably the toughest question for me and you can quote me on that. That's such a hard issue when you look at the frustration behind the increased volume of traffic on 107. There are no easy solutions.

Manny Lawson

Tackles happen very fast with Oliver Hoyte back behind me.