Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Rogers

We do not know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it

We see a shortage of IT workers and think we'll meet our needs by importing foreign workers. But we don't bite the bullet to make the changes we need to make here in the U.S..

Very, very disrespectful. What's the point? Is it going to make you feel better in the morning to know you got another three? Something like that always comes back to bite the person.

Jim Thompson

You give it up by not staying on top of it, growing it and by not being competitive, or you simply give up. We didn't lose the businesses. We gave them up. These people are willing to come in, bite the bullet and do whatever's necessary to get the business up to where it's successful. They understand the rewards for what they do.

Jim Furyk

You get off the first day and you're even through six and you want to start trying to push. You have to let things happen. If you force it and try to make those things happen, I think that's when the course jumps up and bites you.

We give the guys the freedom to make plays under pressure and sometimes it bites us.

Plaxico Burress

We all know that we've been one play away from winning the football game. I think we know that there's one or two plays that kind of comes back and bites us a little bit. If we don't have a lull on those one or two plays, then we win the football game.

Keith Tkachuk

We all knew that he could score, but I think he's playing with a little bite to his game now. I think that works for a young guy his size . . . because you get respect from guys you play with and you play against. He gets his nose dirty.

There is something about the presence of a cat...that seems to take the bite out of being alone.

George Vecsey

I've seen elbows that broke eye sockets. I've seen a German goalkeeper just level a French guy. His teammates thought he was dead lying on the ground. This was in 1982 at my first World Cup. But a bite is outside any kind of contact collision: dirty foul play. A bite is a bite.

James Marsters

It was a lot harder, but I think we got something that was maybe fresher than just watching somebody strut around and bite people.

Larry Parrish

It was another tough one to lose. We had a lot of chances tonight to blow the game open but we never could get a big hit. It came back to bite us.

We talked about it. But not so much in the way that, yes, we have a shot to host now, but more about how we need to stay focused because things can bite you quick.

We feel this would be like a universal AARP card, but something with a bite to it.

Chris Hadfield

The Soyuz craft weighs tons, and you're lying on the floor of it on your back. But the Russians do tell you, remember, before you land, stop talking so you don't bite your tongue off.

The thing about Miami, they don't bite their tongues down here. If they're not satisfied with what's going on . . . they let you know it.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The bite of conscience is indecent.

Tom Scott

I've found that sometimes if you make a decision too hastily it comes back to bite you.

(Derrick ) Brooks said it best. We don't realize it now, but those penalties will come down and bite us in the butt down the road. We need to take those things now and realize that penalties will hurt us in the long run.

Don't bite the hand that stabs you in the back

The noblest of dogs is the hot dog, it feeds the hand that bites it.

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

It seems like every few years there's a state lawmaker who bites the dust. But in terms of a statewide officer, she may well be the first, or at least the first in a while.

It seems that way. I don't know if it's a physical thing or a mental thing. But whatever it is, it's come to bite us the last three weeks in a row now. It really has.

It seems to me very difficult to implement this legislation at a European-wide level because it would take too big of a bite into Apple's business. Right now, Apple's is the leading model in terms of digital music.

Michael Barrett

It's a tough bite to chew. The expectations on us to win and getting upset is a credit to their style of play and their pitching. We put everything we had into this in such a short time, and didn't get it done.

Tim Ryan

It's a risk-reward, cost-benefit analysis, when you think about it. Sometimes it bites him, sometimes he comes out on the winning end of things.

Kimberly Stewart

It was one of those things you say and then you bite your tongue and think, 'What did I just do?' It made me feel awful, so I sent flowers and an apology.

Howard Berman

It's a "man bites dog" story when longtime adversaries come together to lobby Members of Congress to support a bill.

It's crazy because we're right there for the playoffs. They (the Bobcats) aren't playing for anything really, and they come out there and play hard. That's unbelievable. We can't lose games like this. This is going to hurt us and bite us on the (behind).

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.