Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Wolcott

How can I impress strangers with the gem-like flame of my literary passion if it's a digital slate I'm carrying around, trying not to get it all thumbprinty?

Dontrelle Willis

How did I survive without this? Carrying around all those CDs ... man, how did I live like that?

I don't think that it is impossible to carry out reform in France. The real crisis is a crisis of confidence.

Phil Jackson

I don't think I ever used the word passive, but I do think he was looking to feed his teammates. He was looking to pass first and shoot later. This game, I want him to carry the threat.

Laurie David

If not (the students), who? It's their tomorrow we're dealing with here. We've got to get them engaged on this issue. Students carry a lot of power.

I have never met such a competitive person. I felt she would carry us at times.... She did the kind of things we expect from her.

I had no idea I'd be undefeated at this point. It's definitely something I wanted. Hopefully, I'll carry this as far as I can.

Robert Horry

I had never seen him so quick before. He took off one time, and I was like, 'Gosh.' He's been carrying us for a long time down the stretch here, but he was amazing.

I guess his nature is just trickling down to us that this game is just as big as the Vanderbilt game or the Troy game. Everything starts at the top and flows on down, I guess, and that's how we're carrying ourselves.

I'm very proud of the State of Texas for recognizing Odessa for creating the vision and having the wisdom to carry out the vision to grow our economy.

I'm very proud of my family and very proud to have the opportunity to be here to carry on his good name.

I'm walking down three flights of stairs carrying furniture, trying to talk on the phone about the job. I've never been involved in one that was done exactly that way.

Emily Mortimer

I'm trying to avoid, you know, guilt, even though before the child is born, you're already thinking you're doing things wrong... Why do I think that will probably carry over until the day you die?

Sidney Crosby

I'm not worried about coming in here and putting the pressure on myself to get four points every night and carry the team because I'm not going to do that,

I'm hoping Brandon can do what he did in March. I'm hoping he can do what he did all last year in the Minor Leagues and carry it over. That would give this team a big boost.

Hu Jintao

In the coming new year, the Chinese side is ready to work together with the Indian side to take the Year of China-India Friendship as an opportunity to carry forward the traditional friendship between our two countries, strengthen dialogues, exchanges and cooperation in all fields and at all levels, continuously deepen the contents of the bilateral relations, and push forward the China-India Strategic and Cooperative Partnership in an all-round and in-depth way.

In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness.

In the immediate future, unions will carry on shriveling in the private sector.

Jane Green

I now realise how liberating all-inclusive resorts are. No carrying huge handbags anywhere. No having to worry about purses being pinched. No totting up the price in your head and fretting that you've spent too much.

I just think the smaller schools have caught up to the larger schools. The top teams have two or three good players. In the old days there was players like Magic or Michael Jordan, a real good player that could carry a team.

I love poetry; it's my primary literary interest, and I suppose the kind of reading you do when you are reading poems - close reading - can carry over into how you read other things.

I look at it as trying to carry on that (Skyline) tradition. (The NFL) is definitely a goal of mine. It's in the back of my mind. People are telling me different stuff, but that's not what my focus is.

Carlos Rogers

I'll try anything, ... I'm always looking for a challenge. I don't just carry it on the field, I carry it throughout life.

Fred Hoiberg

I know he's excited. He's going to be the No. 1 option on the perimeter this year. Last year, he was sometimes the third option. He wants that extra pressure on himself, he wants to carry more of the load.

Bartolo Colon

I pitched from the heart. I felt I was carrying the whole country on my shoulders and that I couldn't let my people down.

Michael Leunig

Citizens, regardless of their political inclinations, carry a devout sense of their shared culture and its temperament - and, having contributed to it all their lives, hold decent and reasonable hopes for its continued integrity.

Cisco Systems has marketed equipment specifically designed to make it easier for the Chinese police to carry out surveillance of electronic communications. Cisco is also suspected of giving Chinese engineers training in how to use its products to censor the Internet.

Grady Sizemore

Cliff was great, and really our whole starting staff has been great. They've done a great job of carrying us all year. It seems like they keep us in every game.

Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.

Can a husband ever carry about a secret all his life and a woman who loves him have no suspicion of it? I knew it by his refusal to talk about some episodes in his American life. I knew it by certain precautions he took. I knew it by certain words he let fall. I knew it by the way he looked at unexpected strangers.

But with so many new sites per day over (in Britain), which means on our doorstep, the risk remains great: wind, thousands of tourists or trucks which cross the Channel every day can carry the virus to us.

This is a fire that we have to start. We've done great things in practice, but it has to carry over?We have to learn to keep having that kind of effort for an entire game.

Brad Wilkerson

This is a different team today than I've seen in awhile. Hopefully, that'll carry over. . . . It's the way we should play. Coming down the stretch here, it's going to be a lot of emotion. Hopefully, it's on the good side for us.