Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jimmy Carter

The proposed nuclear deal with India is just one more step in opening a Pandora's box of nuclear proliferation.

Ezra Pound

Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

George Foreman

The integration of a headgear in professional boxing would do so much to make it safer for young men. They could go into the sport, make a lot of money and then come out and be good grandfathers.

George Foreman

All of a sudden, one day, you're this boxer that everybody like, or you're this guy that people pass on the highway and wave at. The next day, you're this guy that everybody want to touch - be in touch with you. Then you think that this is the answer to all things.

George Foreman

We'd always said boxers shouldn't lift weights. Now I realize some champion boxer started that rumor. I noticed if I did weights a couple of times a week, I would be able to hit that jab a lot longer. After sparring, everybody's gone, and I sneak into the weight room. Spend 40 minutes in there lifting weights.

Sugar Ray Leonard

When I was fighting, I would look to excite the crowds with a bolo punch or something taunting. Looking back, they were legal - but not sportsmanlike. I don't recommend another boxer try them. But we looked more to make the robot fights dramatic first and realistic second.

Walter Kirn

When I was writing about the Republican primaries, it was as though the Bible was a black box that people reached into to pull out edicts and prejudices and rules and opinions, and I wish they had fact-checked it! Especially Rick Santorum.

Bertie Carvel

It's what all actors try to do, really, to just preserve the child inside them because their imagination is quite available. I think partly it's because they're still making sense of the world. They haven't boxed everything up so neatly as most adults have. And the thing is adults haven't solved the world - they've just found a coping mechanism.

Tina Majorino

Just because one of your films does well at the box office, that doesn't make you a good person. It doesn't make you strong, smart, or secure, either.

Tonya Harding

One thing I like about boxing is that I will not have to deal with the same kind of politics that I had to in skating. In boxing, it is not about your appearance, or how your costume looks, what color it is, or how much it costs.

Adam Carolla

I've always boxed, I always taught boxing.

Laura Osnes

I think knowing where you can generally fit is important, but the fun thing about being an actor is sometimes stretching beyond that stereotype and stretching beyond the box that people put you in.

Jason Bateman

My goal is to get another 30 years out of this business. So I need to figure out the fuel to do that. And so far, I think it's respect and quality and company, not celebrity or box office or stardom. It's not a sprinter's approach. It's more like a long-distance thing. You can stick around a lot longer if you kind of slow-play it.

Where do you draw the line ? It's the whole can of worms and Pandora's box thing.

Dinaw Mengestu

Personally, it's a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a box of ethnic immigrant writing in America.

Dallas Roberts

The notion of being on a cop show was appealing, just because it's one of those tick boxes in a career.

We had some nice shooting tonight. We were also boxing out better. We have been having a hard time doing that this year, but tonight you could see them doing a good job locating an opponent on a miss and getting the rebound.

Wanda Jackson

Yeah, but I have the box set out now.

Dan Jenkins

The key to any good sports story is identifying the defining moment. In football games or a boxing match, it's usually pretty obvious. But in golf, sometimes it happens on Thursday. Usually it's Sunday, but guys who don't know the game, they can miss it.

Karan Johar

My mother was keen that I complete my graduation and never ever wanted me to be in the movies, as my father had made five films that lost money. One of the films he made was 'Agneepath,' which was hugely hyped but underwhelming at the box office, and I remember that my dad had to sell my grandmother's flat to pay off the loan.

I always wanted to experience what performance would be like without the fourth wall, so I formed a company in Australia, and we did avant-garde theater, playing with gender norms, conversations about race - we just had a box of issues that we wanted to subvert with our stories, with dance.

Bob Seger

For a long time, I thought when you do a box set, you're giving up; you're saying, 'OK, I don't have anything left.' But now I've listened to some of the old stuff I haven't heard in 20 to 40 years with fresh ears. It's like, 'Oh yeah, I can see where people might want to to hear some of this stuff that didn't make it onto the records.'

You didn't use up a whole box of Kleenex, weeping for the job like Frances did. And, you don't have a rich uncle.

Sam Cassell

We didn't come out with the aggressiveness we need to be successful. We need to win the hustle game and we didn't. When you see who wins the hustle game, you don't need to look at the box score.

We didn't box out, we didn't play our game. And East Orange did what we usually do.

We didn't box out and play our team defense in that first half. We played good defense, but we just let them get too many second chances.

We didn't really make too many mistakes on the defensive end. We boxed out pretty well.

We're not under any illusion that we or the teams we are going to be working with are right out of the box going to be in the victory circle. It's a long-term commitment.

Jerramy Stevens

We're not so simple that you can just put eight or nine guys in the box and try to stop Shaun. Teams have been trying to do that all year ... Let them focus on Shaun. That sounds like a good plan to me. Let them start there.

Gaines Adams

Greg White got a boxer because I said I was getting one. I was talking about getting a boxer since before training camp.

Hayley Hasselhoff

Fashion can always be a part of your life no matter what shape or size you are. You don't need to feel like you have to fit into a box because you aren't a certain size that your favorite designer carries.

Eddie Jordan

We dodged two or three bullets last night coming down the stretch with a gamble here or a gamble there or someone didn't box out, yet we got the rebound, ... We've been dodging bullets for three games and it finally caught up to us. We had a lead. We didn't need to gamble. You have to play good, solid defense.

We work all week on getting numbers in the box and first half we just didn't. The second half we had a little more speed on the outside.