Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Merton

I was flying to the Maldives in 2000 when the plane went through turbulence - after that, I didn't fly for four years. Then a job came up in India, so I did a simulator flight and learnt about what goes on in the cockpit. I'm fine now.

Paul Keating

When the Berlin Wall came down the Americans cried, 'Victory,' and walked off the field.

Nikola Tesla

There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine.

We played well in the first half and got out to a 7-2 lead and looked like we had the opportunity to run away with it. Then (we) came out at the start of the second half and proceeded to make mistake after mistake after mistake which wasn't very encouraging. I really think from our performance perspective we have to get away from these sort of highs and lows of concentration and focus and get back to maintaining a high focus right through all four quarters.

We played well enough, hard enough to win. It came down to not defending a great player.

Chris Kaman

We play such good defense, and they struggled all series shooting the ball. I thought they came out with fire in the third quarter. Then we fought back and put them in the ground. They gave up.

We play like 20 games a season together as a group for the last six years and I think it shows. The Canadians and the Czechs came together just last week. It's a big plus for us, we play more together as a team.

We played well. We came out strong in the first half, but they came back at us. It hurt us in overtime not be able to knock down the free throws when you had to.

We played a lot better in the second half, we just didn't come out with a lot of fire (to start the game). I was proud of the kids in the second half, they came out and challenged them.

We played a great game but came up a little short. We battled hard and had chances but didn't prevail in the end.

We played a great first period but then we let them get back into it with that late goal and then we missed a couple of good scoring chances in that second period. But to our credit we came back strong in the third.

David Wallace

We played a great first half. We have struggled in the second semester with our scoring and defense has been our whole focus. We came out and played great defense and our scoring was there.

We played a full 48 minutes tonight compared with last week and it was pleasing to have contributions from everyone. They outscored us in the final quarter by one point but that came from a little fatigue.

We played about a good quarter and a half. We came out a little flat in the second half. (Lancaster) did a good job.

Kyle McLaren

We played 40 minutes of solid hockey, we came back and then we embarrassed ourselves for 20 minutes. That's not the way we play offensively, defensively or in the neutral zone. And everyone's accountable.

We played 100 minutes and came up short. That's the first time we've been down in a game this season, and I thought we responded brilliantly. Now we'll continue to move forward. Our goal is still to win the Central Region championship.

Sam Allardyce

We produced so much and came away with so little at the end.

We pride ourselves on having unbiased coverage and that includes our camera angles.

Reggie Bush

We pride ourselves on being able to make those kinds of plays. We were surprised they came up with the stop there.

We practice it every day; this is the first time we ever had to use it. It came up huge. Phil actually has a lot of speed ... especially for a punter.

Ted Naifeh

I think one of the reasons Stephen King's stories work so well is that he places his stories in spooky old New England, where a lot of American folk legends came from.

Terence Winter

During seventy years of TV, the audience came to feel that the rules are, you can't kill the second lead on your TV show! Whatever's going to happen, it's all okay because there's no way they can kill the star.

Tadashi Yanai

Forty-five years ago, when I was 18, I came to San Francisco by boat and took two weeks to get here. I had a great impression. I think San Francisco is the welcoming gate for people from Asia.

Trent Reznor

Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting.

Tom Brokaw

Because I lived in construction towns, we had a lot of workers who came from the South. They were all white, and, sorry to say, a number of them were pretty redneck.

Tom Brokaw

I had fractures in my spine that had to be repaired that came as a big surprise; nobody warned me that I might get some really severe, threatening fractures. It was painful, and I lost two inches of height, bang!

Thalia

I came from a middle-class family in Mexico, from a household full of women, in a country that is very machista.

Thalia

A song like 'Osito Carpintero' came straight from the Pedro Infante films, movies that all the kids in Mexico watched.

Tom Reed

In the fall of 2012 I did drop some weight, and then it all came back on and then some, just like the average person who deals with this goes through.

Trevor Moore

I was a huge David Letterman fan, even going back to when he was on NBC. My parents would only let me watch a half hour of television a day, so I would record Letterman the night before and then watch it when I came home from school. That's what made me want to do a T.V. show.

Tuppence Middleton

I liked to be in my own company, so when I came home from school, I'd just go up to my room and hang out by myself. I wouldn't really have friends over or go to see friends much.

Tyler James Williams

What I remember most about working on 'Sesame Street' is having fun in the green room with the other kids while waiting for my time to go on camera to work with the puppets.

Tom Verica

I remember seeing this picture my mother had of Dick Clark. It didn't inspire me to be an actor or anything, but when I did 'American Dreams' with Dick Clark, my mother came out, and she showed him this picture of them that was taken 35 years earlier. It was great.