Famous Quotes & Sayings

This is the time of the year when the dolphin bite is hot, so we'll just pray for good weather. We're not even thinking about rough conditions.

If you do not step on the dog's tail, he will not bite you

Mark Twain

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

If you own mutual funds, they're going to bite you at the end of the year with returns you didn't even know you were going to get.

If you let a 3-1 lead slip it is going to bite you. Tonight we got caught flat-footed a couple of times and they put it in. They are a good team and we knew that. We certainly didn't take them lightly.

In the past, SRM was trying to bite off too big a chunk for most to swallow, ... It was too expensive and did so many things that no one could really use it.

George Herbert

Though the Mastiffe be gentile, yet bite him not by the lippe.

He bites his tongue who speaks in haste.

If high prices do continue much longer, they will certainly have a bite on GDP growth. At the moment, we are at the stage where prices are really driven by short-term factors that the market has been dealing with for the last few months.

Mark Ellis

I can't understand why Westbrook's record isn't better. He has great stuff. His sinker is tough to get a swing on, and he had more bite on his curveball today.

I am very pessimistic about it in the future, ... Probably the next bite at Social Security will come in 2009.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.

By the middle of the year, the cooling real estate market will take a bite out of employment growth everywhere. The question is, can other sectors of the economy pick up the slack? That is a big mystery right now.

John Leguizamo

But if I'm out here, let me be. I want to bite as many people as I can. Bite them back, so to speak.

I'm not telling you, 'Never eat a hamburger.' Just eat the good ones with real beef, you know, like the ones from that mom-and-pop diner down the street, ... And it's so good that when you take a bite out of that burger, you just know somewhere in the world a vegan is crying.

If the occasion calls for it. If we're into the middle of July and we're a contender, we're going to have to go with it and bite the bullet. That would be an example. Are we going to try and do that early on? No. We're going to stick to our budget.

I'll take the blame. We were not ready to play. And when you're not ready to go, how quickly something can turn and bite you.

I hope none of it comes back to bite us.

I hope I get the opportunity to win one of these. I've been close, but I just haven't gotten the bite to win one.

It is that phone message that may come back to bite him.

Mario Batali

It used to be that you would go out to the theater and get a bite or you would go to the game and get a bite or go to the concert and get a bite. At this point in our society, the bite is often the main event.

They came out running a toss sweep to the halfback and then they did it again. I started to bite on it, but realized it was a pass and I made a good break on the ball.

They came out and jumped on us and took us out of our game early. We had some scouting breakdowns on personnel and that came back to bite us.

They went back to the hotel, got a bite to eat and were supposed to relax. They came back with funny-colored hair. I don't know what you'd call that color, strawberry blond, I guess. But that's all right. If they're wrestling well, let them have fun.

Robert Warren

They want the brick streets, ... I think we just have to bite the bullet and pay for it.

They've had to bite the bullet and really cut prices.

It's another example of how asbestos can bite you. This issue is far from done.

It's going to come back and bite you in the butt.

It's going to take a bite out of the pocketbook and we'll have to sharpen the pencil better. There has to be a silver lining, but it's going to be more expensive.

Then the shark bites the boat. You've got a big shark, little boat, a guy standing in the middle ... What was this guy thinking?

It just kind of takes the bite of Saturday out a little bit. We don't have all week to have that hangover on us. We had a nice win today.

John Madden

I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life.

George Packer

Good writing requires a character with a voice. Usually, the first sound bite is not the whole story.