Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Richardson

They have won breathing room for negotiations to take place to maintain a slightly reduced presence.

The resident smart person down at Anheuser finally said 'Enough,' ... It shouldn't have happened and now it has come to an end, so I'm sure they're all collectively breathing a sigh of relief.

William Orbit

There's no crusade here, but I am trying to slip classical music in through the back door, ... I think people can talk about classical composers in the same breath as contemporary music. All music is good music.

Johnny Damon

There's no breathing easy now, ... We're the defending champs. We have a title we're trying to defend.

The tournament was just a real breath of fresh air. It was nice to play playoff hockey in December.

is not a good spokesman for this issue. When he says things like 'Here's a warning,' then in the next breath says the president is doing a great job, that just raises suspicions.

Mary Oliver

What can we dobut keep on breathing in and out,modest and willing, and in our places?

Steven Bochco

We sort of shut the company down for three or four weeks so that, as a writing group, we could take a deep breath and have a little time to think and plan and get some new material working so that when we came back into production, we could come back into a much more normalized kind of production schedule, which I think we did. And I think the scripts are really good. So given the givens, I think it was as good of a transition as you could have hoped for.

Sonny Perdue

We don't want a repeat of the wasteful and unnecessary gas panic that we saw after Katrina, ... Hopefully we've learned a lesson, and we just need to take a deep breath and be cool about the gas situation.

They're breathing a sigh of relief right now.

Colleen McCullough

That's the purpose of old age... To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did what we did.

I held my breath when the scheduling of first-year students took place. It was done by a computer program and went smoothly even better than it did before we switched the times.

Willie Randolph

I held my breath there for a second. But you could see he's not moving too well. He didn't have any hops.

I hoped the chemistry was going to be there. There were six leading actors, and I wanted them all to mesh. I didn't know how they were going to relate. But a lot of them came out of a certain Hollywood generation, so they all knew each other and it was like a reunion. When I felt that click, I breathed a sigh of relief.

Willie Randolph

I hold my breath a lot. When I've talked to him about taking a day, he looks at me like I'm nuts.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I heard Nixon speak. He was talking about free enterprise, getting government off your back, lowering taxes and strengthening the military. Listening to Nixon speak sounded more like a breath of fresh air. I said to my friend, "What party is he?" My friend said, "He's a Republican." I said, "Then I am a Republican!

Dick Taylor

I really feel pretty well, but I can't breathe very well.

In these competitive markets and with Wal-Mart breathing down your neck, it's all about grabbing the opportunity to expand in regions where you've got critical mass. It's better to be successful in a few countries and leave it at that than be in every country and be struggling.

In the back of my mind I was a little concerned about a letdown because you can breathe a sigh of relief. I'm not sure if that's what happened, but we had a very good start and then didn't play well in the middle of that game.

Marilyn Monroe

I never wear stockings or underclothes because I think it is important to breathe freely.

In a disaster situation, no company wants the state insurance department breathing down its neck.

I had been eating the same thing, doing the same thing for four days trying to keep it going. I've just been trying to keep the superstition going. Now that we won and it's all over, we can breathe for a little bit.

Tim Howard

If there is a less likely sight on this earth than Clint Dempsey, the Texas trailer-park kid, doing downward-facing dog poses, or the stalwart Michael Bradley deep breathing through a tree pose, I have yet to see it.

I'm confident in our summer, and that we'll get a lead over last year. If there's a question, it's whether we can hold it when we get to October and November. Then we're holding our breaths a little.

Jeff Abbott

I outline in some detail, but even after the outline is done I often get a new idea that is an improvement, so the outline is a living, breathing thing as well. I also re-outline when I'm two-thirds done, to be sure that there is an emotional payoff from all the plot lines and to be sure the story is as tight as it can be.

If you're not breathing or your heart's not beating, within four to six minutes you go from clinically dead to biologically dead,

Matt Taibbi

In the years just after 9/11, even being breathed on by a suspected terrorist could land you in extralegal detention for the rest of your life.

Randy Johnson

I didn't feel like I had a lot of breathing room. I felt like I was walking on eggshells.

I didn't even breathe on the final lap. That's how close it was. I knew if I had breathed, (St. Joseph) was going to have a great chance to win the race. I had to keep motoring.

Jack Kornfield

Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration.

Jack Nicholson

I goddamn near lost my nose. And I like it. I like breathing through it.

Scott Maddox

I'm thinking, 'Is this gonna be the same old, same old?' because we need our 3-4-5 guys to hit. Then he hits that bomb. You could tell it breathed life in the whole team.

David Grant

I'm thinking, if that thing explodes, this man is going to be charcoal. And he couldn't breathe with all that metal on his chest.