Famous Quotes & Sayings

Felix Magath

We have some breathing space which is great. There is less pressure on us now. We just need to keep building on our lead until the title is secure.

Buck Showalter

We want him to back off a little, take a deep breath and make a contribution in another role.

Charles Dickens

You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer,” said Miss Pross, in her breathing. “Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman.

The reality is that a standard is an evolving document. It's a living, breathing reflection of what the market wants.

In Europe, it's different - you eat soccer, you breathe soccer, you drink soccer. Everything is about soccer.

We are going to kick them when they are down. They've been struggling, so we are not going to give them any breathing room.

Our thoughts are certainly part of us; they come from us, but we are not our thoughts. Have you ever woken up in the morning and said to yourself, 'I am not going to think today; I am too tired'? No, of course not. Just as breathing happens and is constant, thoughts happen, and they are also constant.

Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.

Liam Payne

I was ill. I was told I was stressed, so I had to get everything checked out. I didn't think I was, but someone told me I was. As a result, I went to get a blood test. I'd never had one before, so I held my breath when I was getting it done. That caused me to go into a fit.

Alonzo Mourning

We did nothing but breathe life into this team, that's all we did.

We want them to learn simple things that are relaxing, like conscious breathing and guided imagery, which are antidotes to anxiety.

We started to get a little nervous, because we knew the whole season was on the line. So we took a deep breath and stuck with it. We never let it get to us and just kept playing tough defense.

We stuck to the basics. They have really good chemistry on the court and were able to put together a great run and get a little breathing room.

L. Frank Baum

Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.

Garry Shandling

I once saw an elaborate landscape in a gallery, drawn in pencil, that took my breath away. Then I realized the artist probably didn't have enough confidence to use a pen.

Cathy Freeman

I have time to breathe, time to be myself more often, I am a lot more relaxed and less guarded.

Demetri Martin

You mock those who blindly follow the majority...turn your attention now to those who are so dedicated to deviating from the norm that they would gladly cease breathing if it were suggested to them that inhalation was a form of conformity; for they deserve just as much scrutiny and ridicule.

Dean Koontz

He was sure that he was not the cause of the abrupt silence. His passage through the canyon had not previously disturbed either birds or cicadas. Something was out there. An intruder of which the ordinary forest creatures clearly did not approve. He took a deep breath and held it again, straining to hear the slightest movement in the woods. This time he detected the rustle of brush, a snapping twig, the soft crunch of dry leaves-and the unnervingly peculiar, heavy, ragged breathing of something big.

Clarice Lispector

The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.

We had been holding our breath that Butch would come through but the knee injury just keeps recurring. We have to plan accordingly.

Robert Smith

Unting is all that's worth living for - all time is lost wot is not spent in 'unting - it is like the hair we breathe - if we have it not we die - it's the sport of kings, the image of war without its guilt, and only five-and-twenty percent of its danger

Until you really know it's a life-threatening disease, you think food allergies are a sniffle or a cough. We're not talking about a sniffle or a cough. We're talking about breathing or not breathing.

Roger Williams

until we are sure that he is breathing on his own.

Neil Peart

Our songs were not written to be listened to in headphones or on the radio. They were written to be played. All of the little infinite detail that went into the arrangements and giving ourselves lots of breathing room in terms of playing what we wanted to play and using up any ideas that we had - all of those were conceived to be performed.

Nick Goepper

The inclusion of slope style in the Olympics is cool. I think it's going to be a total breath of fresh air. The Olympics needs us more than we need it.

Maggie Q

I, Maggie, personally cannot tell you that you're going to save the planet. But what I do know is that we can draw a line to an issue that can conserve what we already have and what's left in a way that we can actually breathe the air, drink the water, actually grow things in soil - that matters in a real, practical way.

We're going to eat, sleep, breathe (Indian Hills). It's all about Saturday. This is a good momentum builder. We've got to get ready for it.

What they've done, at least, is to give themselves a little breathing room from what was going to be a really ugly confrontation, and one that was a complete lose-lose for Republicans, no matter what.

When we got the kids back at halftime, we told them, 'Take a breath and relax.' They were playing all on emotion. We had a lot more focus in the second half.

Charlie Sheen

I have defeated this earthworm with my words. Imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists.

Edith Wharton

Ah, good conversation - there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

Dean Cain

I like finishing a movie and having this living, breathing thing.

She felt like she'd been hit in the stomach. It took her breath away.