Famous Quotes & Sayings

We did exactly what we wanted to do defensively bend but don't break.

China's headlong rush to industrialize was pursued with the most Marxist of prejudices - bending nature to man's will. That's a desperately hard trick to pull off when one fifth of humanity, having previously subsisted on 7 percent of the world's freshwater supply, decides that it wants to instantaneously increase its caloric intake.

Wealthy companies set new records in political contributions to buy this veto. Schwarzenegger bends whichever the way the corporate winds blow. Just a few weeks ago, the Restaurant Association, a major opponent of the bill, hosted a fund-raiser for Schwarzenegger in Los Angeles. Coincidence? I don't think so.

When we're looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

We know from the Redmond game that we can't overlook any team. It's nice to play Bend after Pendleton does, but we need to take care of business on our home floor (against Crook County).

Scott Stewart

We bend to the degree that we can bend, but he still must get his work done.

That second half, we seemed a little sloppy. Our help defense wasn't quite what it needed to be. We were reaching a little bit more than we needed, not moving our feet (or) bending our knees. But, when you've got 60 points in the first half, I guess that can happen from time to time in the second half.

Tim Hudson

It was one of those games that was all bend and no break. That was the tightest zone I ever had, but you have to deal with it.

It was 80 today. We've already seen 90 this year. But even 50 at Big Bend is better than 20 in Denver.

We could bend them, but we couldn't break them.

Tim Hudson

They really picked me up. It was one of those games -- bend but don't break. I sure don't like bending that much though. But it was a big win for us.

I know for me sometimes I may get a hand on him, but by him being shorter I may lose him because I've got to bend down. Plus, he's so explosive in and out of his breaks - he gets on top of you so fast, he gets that step on you. Then he has great jumping ability, and he's fearless.

James Randi

If Uri Geller bends spoons with divine powers, then he's doing it the hard way.

Noam Chomsky

If you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend to the popular will, you have to eliminate the institutions.

If you're going to build an airplane, first you have to know how to bend sheet metal, and before that you have to know how to render iron from the ground.

Because there is a lot of footwork involved, you tighten your stomach muscles. You're bending at the knee. Back erect, and that enables you to move your heels.

I hadn't used the club and I didn't bend it during the course of play. In that case, I thought I could just declare it out of play, but he (the rules official) said it was disqualification. ... I have no idea how it got bent. I didn't hit it all day, so maybe it happened (Saturday) and I never noticed until I pulled it out of the bag.

Justin Williams

I remember getting pushed in and bending over and looking in, and the puck was in the net. It was a tough break. It was a turning point in the game.

I'll show you how to bend that to make it into something.

The kids bend but don't break. They find ways to either force turnovers or stop them.

All I know is I could bend for two hours.

Jeff Buckley

All flowers in time bend towards the sun, I know you say theres no one for you, But here is one

Marie Windsor

Raft told me how to walk with him in a scene: We'd start off in a long shot normal, and about the time we got together in a close-up, I'd be bending my knees so I'd be shorter.

Our defense kept bending and bending and giving up things here and there, but they never really broke. I thought that showed a lot of perseverance in the way they played.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

As unto the bow the cord is, / So unto the man is woman; / Though she bends him, she obeys him, / Though she draws him, yet she follows; / Useless each without the other!

They have been incredibly special. Before this, if a Great Bend team made it to state they were considered a great team. They raised the bar. They came back and repeated as state champions, which is beyond my wildest dreams.

This bull has shown us for more than seven years that when it pulls back it bends a little but doesn't break. You get a small price discount and buyers come right back in. And that's the sign of a bull market that has plenty of life left in it.

Henry David Thoreau

This American government -- what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will.

Flutter spoons are my favorite and usually my most productive presentation. Try tying a spoon on the bend of your dart hook.

Composing music today is a fascinating business. As the technology gets more complex, I feel more like a computer programmer than a musician. But I take the sounds in my head and in the world around me and bend the technology into the world I want to create.

We wanted it to be an updated version of Sinatra and Darin's type of music, ... We wanted to give a little more of a youthful bend to it, because I think there are a lot of young people that would be interested in this music.

David Mitchell

The state of childhood resonates with life inside a fantasy novel. If you have no control over how you spend large chunks of your day, or are at the mercy of flawed giant beings, then the desire to bend the laws of the world by magic is strong and deep.

Ridley Scott

We're suffering from saturation, overkill. The market place is flooded by demand, and there are too many films, so everything gets watered down. Demand is the boss and everything bends to that will. Bigger and not necessarily better shows seem to be the order of the day. I can't watch most of them.