Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Vecsey

We all know the Red Sox did not win a World Series for 86 years after unloading Ruth, and the Cubs just might be carrying some heavy weight for past karmic transgressions.

The public does need us to be here in order to be able to feel safe being able to travel. That's what our job is, to make sure that we're prohibiting people from coming through that would be carrying things that they don't want on the plane.

John Updike

Tiger Woods did not always win majors with ease; after his narrow victory in the 1999 PGA, he slumped and sighed as if he'd been carrying rocks uphill all afternoon.

There has to be prosecutions for the failure in the chain of command for those officers who were responsible for not carrying out the ... order that all patrols should carry a satellite phone and should have 150 rounds of ammunition.

Until the 27th of May the only Spanish military personnel remaining in zones of operation will be dedicated to security and to carrying out orders, support and logistics related to the withdrawal.

People are looking for a Santa Claus rally, but I don't expect it's coming. The only real positive I saw today was some of the economic data. It's been a hard day to get excited about. We've seen some individual names get action, but nothing is carrying over.

Our inventory is in good shape and we're not in a situation where we're carrying more goods than we planned for. But that said, we still have plenty of stuff going into the holidays and we will have to sell it.

Our superstars are carrying the team. We are still in the hunt, so we need to have a lot of guys come through that back door and get us some points.

Our game plan wasn't for A.J. to get two quick fouls and sit out. Jeremy did a great job carrying us in the first half.

Courtney Vandersloot

Our freshmen are really stepping up. They've been helping us and carrying us lately.

We need other players to step up for us. We need more than just two people carrying the team.

I think there's a sense that with oil prices as high as they are, that's carrying over to the consumer, which you're seeing in the retail sales.

Ted Williams

Stacey has started to hit the ball, which helps her defensively as well, so she's not carrying that back to the field. Karen is throwing well and is taking that senior leadership role. She tells the girls she's going to get the ground ball, so they have to back her up.

Noam Chomsky

My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying out the use of violence.

My wife is a huge fan of it, particularly because it just helps her when she's carrying stuff.

A. E. van Vogt

My mother takes full credit for my being a writer. Apparently, when she was carrying me, she said, she read an endless number of detective stories.

Scott Speed

It definitely has less horsepower and has a different power band. It's going to require a different driving style, carrying more speed through the corners as you feel the difference when you drive out of them.

Males do most of the carrying of infants usually two once they are born.

It is my opinion that there are too many 'professional bodies' carrying on their business.

I will be carrying on the way Sonny did. Whatever happens, happens.

Shane Battier

Pau is doing a great job. He's carrying the team and had a huge night.

We had to leave. Many people were carrying weapons and there were robberies. There had been a change in governments from communism to a democratic government. We left our country to come here because this country had good opportunities.

We have two weeks for it to get cold. In the past we've gone through Saturday night until 4 a.m. making snow and carrying it up the hill. We don't give up.

Malala Yousafzai

Even we schoolchildren know that ordinary diplomats don't drive around in unmarked cars carrying Glock pistols.

We have the experience and the drive to win it all. We have been dreaming since we were five years old of carrying home a state championship.

We have that all the time, kids following their brothers, dads, uncles and cousins at Boone. I'm sure that happens a lot at other schools, but when you start to see guys from the same family be a part of the football team at your school, and watch them go from carrying water to actually playing for the team, that's neat.

We were getting a little worried. But we were confident we had it. All season our defense has been carrying us and that's what we fall back on.

Ryan Stiles

Drew's a funny guy. Because anything he gets into, he gets in 100%. Even when we were doing 'The Drew Carey Show,' he got into bowling, and suddenly he's phoning up pros for tips and carrying around 3 balls. It's just how he does it.

Philippe Petit

For me, since I have a life wish, not a death wish, for me, I was not gambling my life. I was doing something much more beautiful. I was carrying my life across.

Monica Seles

Tennis is pretty unforgiving if you are carrying weight. You are expected to wear short skirts, and you are compared to all these 16 and 17-year-olds.

We're carrying firm momentum into 2006 which is likely to be sustained over the course of the year.

We're carrying a big roster and it's hard to play everybody at times. When you get a chance in games like this to get a lot of people some playing time, it's nothing but good.

Metabolically speaking, we've found this to be much cheaper than we anticipated. The energy you exert could be offset by carrying an extra snack, which is nothing compared to weight of extra batteries. Pound for pound, food contains about 100-fold more energy than batteries.