Famous Quotes & Sayings

We didn't really catch a break in playing Prosser instead of West Valley. Prosser was the better team on Friday night.

We didn't play very well, but we played well enough to win. We have a 10-day break now and it's a coach's dream to go into it with three wins in a row and getting everyone into the last two games.

We are having a pretty good year. The year started off great. It was a nice tournament win for us. Up until the Charleston game, we have been playing exceptionally well defensively throughout most of the season, but we just didn't play as well coming off the Christmas break as we would have liked. Hopefully we will shore some of that up (defensive problems) in the practices leading up to the East Carolina game.

We are growing as a team, this break helped us do that. I'm trying to get eight or nine really good guys. The fact that we wanted to win this game showed and it took 39 minutes and 57 seconds to do so.

We are going to try to tie it to specific times of the year such as spring break and at the end of semesters.

Said Sayrafiezadeh

It's very difficult for me to look at politics with clear eyes. I'll read a story in the paper and the first thing that pops into my head is, what would my dad say about that? Then I try to break out of that and think, 'What would Said say about that,' and then it gets complicated.

I am a dichotomy of tastes. I'm big on water, and I do a protein drink in the morning, but then I eat off the kids' menu after that. So, there's only like six foods I like. I like quesadillas. I like hamburgers. I like sushi. I like pizza, PB&J, or breakfast any time of the day.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

I never set out to do this; I never set out to say, 'Can I break this record?' Then all of a sudden, the preparations made for the celebration put pressure on me. I said, 'Okay, I have to get there.' After 2,130, there was sort of a realization it was a foregone conclusion you're going to play tomorrow.

Brenton Thwaites

My first job on the screen was 'Sea Patrol,' and that was quite intense, but I guess my first big break was 'SLiDE.'

Terry Branstad

Iowans do understand the importance of breaking down barriers and increasing international trade.

Scott Kelly

We're not expected to break any records, but it'll be a pleasant winter weekend.

We're not executing, and we haven't been executing for four weeks now. I wish that I could figure out what would fix that problem. I'll scratch my head, break down the film, and we will do it as a team.

There are other threat indicators on the Web. But what was missing was a place for consumers that breaks it down in plain English and gives actionable advice. This is like a weather report and telling users to grab the umbrella, instead of how much precipitation there is.

The only breaks we get are the injury kind.

We still have a school district to run. Building needs remain the top priority, and we must not let this change at the top break our stride on this issue.

Jennifer Dunn

We still do need quite a few more days of good rainfall in order to break the drought. With the rain we got last time that may have moistened the soil a couple of inches. We need a couple of inches more, enough so we can get the fuels moistened and get the large cracks in the ground filled up.

Chad Smith

The proposal now reflects a lot of the good work we as stakeholders did over the summer on this. There's a lot to be said for starting small to help break through the rhetoric.

The proposal is to move spring break to mid-April.

The project is hitting on all cylinders. The icy waters of the commute are finally going to be breaking up.

The one time you take a break on defense, they'll throw a touchdown pass. We've got to slow them down and get them to our pace.

Toy manufacturers can make these products at a price parents will tolerate even if kids break them.

Nothing's a break for me. Not even the breaks are breaks.

George Jones

There was no such thing as production at Starday. We'd go in with the band, we'd go over the song, I'd look over and tell the steel player to take a break or kick it off, and I'd get the fiddle to play a turnaround in the middle.

George Foreman

I got a strength coach. My wife. She gets big chains, and at night she puts them around the refrigerator. They are so strong, I can't break them.

Tullian Tchividjian

When everyone in the world spoke the same language, God came down in judgment, breaking the world apart. But at just the right time, he came down again, this time to reconcile that sinful world to himself.

Tom Hodgkinson

Festivals are fun for kids, fun for parents and offer a welcome break from the stresses of the nuclear family. The sheer quantities of people make life easier: loads of adults for the adults to talk to and loads of kids for the kids to play with.

Tom Cochrane

Australia and Canada were settled by adventurers, they had to break new ground. I think that is indelibly etched on our cultural spirit.

Seamus Heaney

Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.

Sheryl Sandberg

I'm a pragmatist. I think, as a woman, you have to be more careful. You have to be more communal, you have to say yes to more things than men, you have to worry about things that men don't have to worry about. But once we get enough women into leadership, we can break stereotypes down. If you lead, you get to decide.

Wes Brown

I was taking electives, and that branched into theater. Theater led to me taking a break during the summer between my junior and senior year. After I graduated, I ended up moving out to L.A. But in my senior year, I made it a part of my major.

Willie Geist

I guess it turns out choosing your life partner from a group of men trying to get their break in show business by sitting around shirtless in a swimming pool while cameras watch around the clock isn't the path to a soulmate after all.

Wynonna Judd

We are losing our superstars like Johnny and June Carter Cash and that breaks my heart.

William Forsythe

I was never a 'bad' kid, but I did get into minor juvenile trouble. Look, I grew up in Brooklyn. This was the '60s, and the neighborhood was rapidly changing and not without its problems. All the kids of the neighborhood 'did their thing,' breaking windows and the like. I was no different.