Famous Quotes & Sayings

Our match with North Bend was outstanding. Both teams played very well and all the games were very close. We get to play them two more times, and our girls are looking forward to that.

Oracle has to bend to what the customer needs. If they don't do that, they're not going to get the value of the investment they made buying Siebel. They're not a dumb company.

Our philosophy on defense is bend but don't break and we bent a lot tonight. Fortunately we only broke one time.

John Steinbeck

Just as the Carthaginians hired mercenaries to do their fighting for them, we Americans bring in mercenaries to do our hard and humble work. I hope we may not be overwhelmed one day by peoples not too proud or too lazy or too soft to bend to the earth and pick up the things we eat.

That's the real growth area. There's only so much more you can do in bending sheet metal.

Herbie Hancock

I think a lot of young people being brought up in this scene feel a sense of ruthlessness. There's nothing to plant them deeply down in the soil somehow so they can bend and sway from there.

I wear a bowling glove 24 hours a day. When my wrist bends it hurts, so I don't want it to bend.

Tamsin Greig

I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn't want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself.

Sathya Baba

It is difficult indeed to understand the ego in its depth and devious ways. It is an inert entity, that is to say, it cannot know itself not can it know others; It has no fear; it will not bend before others; it degrades man from the golden glory, which is his due, to the level of lowly dust.

I didn't bend in 1996 and I won't now.

Mike Scioscia

John did something that he hasn't done since last year. He would bend but not break. He was good in the early going but it got away from him.

I think in terms of our true, full-line department stores, South Bend is the only place where May Company had two nameplates.

I think you need a legal chiropractor to make your way through some of the bends and twists of the case.

Ruth Glick

For me, the perfect romantic suspense hero has got to be tough on the outside but tender at his core. A take-charge kind of guy who has his own inner strength and a strong sense of right and wrong - which might not dovetail with the conventional wisdom. I mean, he might bend the law if he thinks the ends justify the means.

Lloyd Roberts

For this to happen between brothers that's just bending the limits of probability. It's a true tragedy.

One of the discussions I had with Stephen Harper is that I wouldn't bend for anybody,

Dominique Moceanu

I got injured at the Olympic Trials in 2000. I could not jump. I could not walk on my leg properly. I couldn't bend my knee. I couldn't straighten it.

(He) tried to bend the bars, couldn't quite get through and lost their drawers on the way through.

He has to bend over a little to the other side to get everybody to work together. His only power over Democrats is the veto and that's not going to help anybody.

We're pretty much breaking new territory here. Because this is such an old ride, there aren't many detailed blueprints left. There are no notes on how to correctly bend the wood for the course or what other materials they used to use. We're really bringing a lot together for this project.

Christie Brinkley

When I am brushing my teeth, I'm bending my leg behind me, or I'm lifting my leg up and holding it in that position so I'm squeezing my butt in. I can do that while I'm washing or slicing vegetables, too. Or I go up and down on my toes, working my calves a little bit.

William Congreve

Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

William Congreve

Music has charms to soothe the savage beast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

Obviously, from the wins and losses standpoint, it was a very disappointing season for the Bend Elks,

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

So I urge the U.N. not to bend to U.S. pressure,

Tammy Bruce

Manipulating pop culture is the Left Elite's sure-fire way of forcing society to bend to their depraved view of themselves and this country.

Brady Quinn

Like he?s been saying all week, we?re here for a business trip. We want to win this game, so the biggest thing is we need to put emphasis on the fact that we?re prepared and rested and taking on things the way we would be if we were playing in South Bend right now.

Machines this small tend to stick to everything they touch, the way sand sticks to your feet after a day at the beach, ... So we built these microrobots without any wheels or hinged joints, which must slide smoothly on their bearings. Instead, these robots move by bending their bodies like caterpillars. At very small scales, this machine is surprisingly fast.

Uri Geller

To be very honest with you, I even managed to bend it ever so slightly

Isabella Bird

The cocoa-nut palm grows best near salt water, no matter how loose and sandy the soil is, and in these congenial circumstances needs neither manure nor care of any kind. It bends lovingly toward the sea and drops its ripe fruit into it.

Ellen G. White

Parents should have perfect control over their own spirits, and with mildness and yet firmness bend the will of the child until it shall expect nothing else but to yield to their wishes.

Valeria Golino

I can touch my toes, but I bend in a strange way. I'll never be in the Olympics.

Blair Brown

I'm less of a 'Star Wars' fan, with googley monsters, than actually how do we bend this reality out, and how many other realities exist?