Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pink marble floors four inches thick. Thirty-six solid bronze lamps. They were very gorgeous. Just the whole house was incredible.

Tomas Vokoun

Playing for the bronze was hard because losing the semi-final was very breaking. We are disappointed for what happened with Sweden but I'm happy with the medal.

Tomas Vokoun

Playing for the bronze medal is hard, very hard.

Natalie Darwitz

It definitely hurts. This is not why we came here, to play in the bronze medal game.

Wang Meng

I felt I would have the bronze medal. I felt the Korean team did something.

Tomas Vokoun

For me, personally, bronze is a great result even if I'm sure that if we played better with Sweden, we would've been on the ice (Sunday).

Marlies Schild

I expected a bronze medal, maybe. When I saw I was second I was very surprised, very happy.

I was so proud of them. They came out and played really hard (in the bronze medal game). They said, 'Hey, we deserve to go out on a big note.' A lot of teams might have (given up) but they didn't let that happen.

Sasha Cohen

I was surprised when I learned I would be for sure getting a bronze and even more surprised when I going to be getting a silver. It was kind of like, oh that's nice. But over the last four years, I changed as a person. My focus is not on the medal. For me it's the experience and the process and enjoying it.

Ivan Ljubicic

I always thought my Olympic bronze medal was the highlight of my career,

Martin Brodeur

He had the bronze medal in my face all the time. And his wool jersey, because they played outside.

Having had the two weeks we've had, the bronze feels like gold to us. I'm so glad we finally brought our 'A' game.

William John Wills

The pigeon here is a beautiful bird, of a delicate bronze colour, tinged with pink about the neck, and the wings marked with green and purple.

Blake Mycoskie

I always have my journal with me. It was handmade by a guy at the San Telmo market in Buenos Aires. If you go there he can make you one. It's leather and bronze and I'm able to replace the paper when it runs out. It has a lion on the cover that I say is there to protect my thoughts.

Buzz Aldrin

Nobody cares about the bronze or silver medals.

I think we're very strong. This season has been complicated obviously because this is an Olympic year and there are injuries. But at nationals I felt even though there were mistakes throughout the field, we're definitely sending a strong team, especially with Evan, the world bronze medalist, and Johnny's skating well. I think we're in good standing going in.

There are gold, silver and bronze tiers and each of those tiers receives a different payment. Obviously, the higher up the tree you are, the more money you get.

People were willing me to be quadruple champion but the 500 is my weakest and to win the bronze made me very happy.

One of the most moving pieces is the bronze cast of the papal hand.

Henry Bessemer

The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed by those I had chosen as the guardians of a secret, which was long and honourably kept.

Olli Jokinen

This will probably taste a little better in a few days but you win the bronze and the gold medals, you lose the silver.

Tracey Emin

In New York, working at the foundry, I was making these little figures. I desperately would like to make big figures, but I just can't do it; my hands don't do it. We were talking about making bronze plinths, and then we made one, a square one. I wrote on it, then I put a little figure on top, and it just looked really good. It worked.

I'm not disappointed with bronze. It's always good to come away with a medal.

Virginia Woolf

Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face -- as if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding; and thought.

We were excited to go out and redeem ourselves. We wanted to show the rest of the world we're a great team. We worked hard this year. We weren't going to throw it away because of one game. We wanted that bronze medal.

Henry Bessemer

The new bronze caused quite a stir in the trade. The locality of its origin and its mode of manufacture were kept a profound secret.

I'm not disappointed with bronze today because the big difference is between gold and silver, not silver and bronze.

If you spill liquid bronze on the floor, it runs like water. You can't dance away from it n you have to keep going with the pour, even if it burns your boots.

Canada and the United States spent the entire year leading up to the games training to play each other in the final. The fact that it isn't a Canada-U.S. final is great for the growth of women's hockey, but it's tough for the U.S. team. For them to have to switch focus from gold to playing for bronze will be a huge mental test.

Terry McAuliffe

Apparently, two tours in Vietnam, a Silver Star, a Bronze Star, and Three Purple Hearts weren't good enough for the folks who never miss a chance to say that military service shouldn't be an issue in this campaign.

As far as determining the species of shark, it's very likely that, other than a bronze whaler shark, the great white shark is really the only large predatory shark that's capable of actually taking a diver.

A bronze medal would be nice too, but it?s a big disappointment.

This bronze tops off a number of events during my career that have made a big impact.