Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pat had a knack for taking on the most difficult kind of assignments and making it look easy. She had a wonderful skill and wisdom for calming everyone down and making them play well together.

Part of reason we delayed having this meeting for three years is that the city went through a learning process on traffic calming issues.

That could've been our worst half of offense of the year and it's a one-point game. We prepared for in-your-face, man-to-man pressure, and we still played like we were down 20. We were too jumpy. We didn't have any calming influence on offense.

Jean Chatzky

It doesn't help to follow every rise and fall of your portfolio. It's better to tune out the day-to-day shifts, in fact. But getting a handle on the larger picture will make you feel more secure, and that goes a long way in calming your fear.

Paul Duffy

He knew his own game. He didn't seem to get nervous, and he just let the game come to him. He had a very calming effect on the team.

Kate Walsh

I find it very calming because she knows exactly what to do and exactly where we need to be and how much we need to see to make it look real.

Freddy is the definition of a leader. He's a calming and focusing influence and he fights every game, every step of the way.

He really took a lot of pressure off of Josh. He's such a calming presence on the whole defensive core.

Guys are saying, 'Hey, we're willing to give anything a try. And Coach Willingham is exactly what we needed. He has provided a calming hand.

Jamal Crawford

He's a calming influence for us, a great veteran, a great leader and we're going to miss him.

He's just kind of a calming influence over everything. When he wasn't there, we had to move people around.

He's been outstanding back there the last two years and he's a calming presence. We're going to rely on him more than ever. He's a very hard worker and determined to improve.

Eric Thomas

For us, not to have Joe running off to the locker room in a cart told us he was calming down already, that this wasn't the end of a career, it was just a speed bump.

He was the one that explained that everything would be all right, and that nobody got hurt, calming me down. That's Sam. That's just the way he has always been.

He has a good calming effect. He has an excellent fastball, changes speed. He's a guy we needed in there.

Steve Hawkins

He makes great decisions and plays at a fantastic pace. He has the game under control and is a very calming influence on us, which we need because we're a very young team. So it's a very different season for Brian.

Mario Batali

The proximity to the Mediterranean... it's been a calming influence or just a generally good thing.

Monetary tightening, a strong currency and tamer U.S. demand should spell slower economic growth ahead, calming inflation fears.

Obviously the market was well prepared for a change. Maybe the market is expecting some more calming comments from Fukui.

She's one of the few players used to being in pressure situations. She stepped up as a leader has had a calming effect on our team.

She's a calming influence at times, she's a source of energy at other times.

We are good for about three or four errors without him. When he was out, we had to make some shifts in our lineup and play a couple of guys out of position. He is a calming influence while out there on the field.

Enya

Wintertime for me is a time when I do a lot of my writing in the studio. It's a time I enjoy. And it's very reflective and a very calming time of the year. Throughout the year I gather a lot of musical inspirations, and this is where I bring them to the studio and see what will evolve musically.

We can't promise that it will be a traffic light. It could be some other traffic calming measure.

The OPEC suggestion that they would not cut production targets has had a calming effect on the market.

When it came to crunch time, he was there for us. He was a very calming influence for us. We knew if one of our defenders got beat, Shep was back there.

Any time you have goaltending like that, it has a calming effect.

I mentioned to a mutual friend this morning that he had a calming influence on me. Which I needed in that transitional period following the departure of the great Joe O'Brien.

Monica Edwards

There's nothing more elegant than the juxtaposition of very light with very dark. It's easy on our eyes, with a very calming effect. And contrary to popular opinion, white is very easy to clean.

They're quiet and they're very calming and relaxing.

He's so experienced and the guys on the team feed off of him and what he does. He's a calming force in the middle of the field. He's pleaded with me all preseason to play forward, but we need him in the middle.

He's so confident in what he knows. He now has better than 20 games under his belt. You can't put a price on that, can't measure that experience. He's seen it. He's reacted to it. He's not surprised by it. That's a real calming element in the offense.

He's the calming effect. When everybody else is losing it, he's still calm.