Famous Quotes & Sayings

Housing has peaked, and from here it's only downhill. It's going to take some of the wind out of the sails of consumer spending, but it won't choke off consumption.

Alec Baldwin

I'm very patriotic. I'm an arch-patriot. When they play 'The Star Spangled Banner,' I get all choked up. I love my country.

Oil prices have risen so dramatically that the view now is that this could choke off U.S. growth and prevent any recovery in the stock market.

I totally choked it on 17. I should have won it right there.

You don't want to choke your last game of the year, but we can't dwell on it. Obviously, it would have been nice to win the East, but now it is a clean slate. Second is pretty nice. Let's get the playoffs started.

You really have nothing to lose in that situation. I choked up a little bit, especially with two strikes. I wasn't looking for an offspeed pitch, but I knew he had it. He ended up throwing me another fastball that I stayed on and hit it where I was supposed to hit it instead of trying to pull it.

Tom Waits

You choke my days, I'll choke yours.

At the very least, negotiators need to eliminate the giveaways in the bill, require insurers to pay their fair share, reduce costs for taxpayers and make sure that they don't choke the fast-developing market for terror insurance.

Connellsville made the big shots and you have to give them credit. When they got us by the throat, they choked us.

We think she grabbed a piece of food and choked on it.

Michelle Collins

Up until now all the information is going in one direction to law enforcement. But the financial institutions get a lot of feedback and they honestly have a lot of impact in being able to choke the money flow.

It was very emotional after the game. Dean spoke to us and really choked up, because he's (Colbert) put so much into the club and just the way he goes about his footy and just in life, he's a great fella and we wish him all of the best,

Rick Yancey

Hold on tight, Sam." He puts me in a choke hold. "Ahhh," I gasp. "Not that tight.

Tom Daschle

Congress supported the experiment. It was a huge mistake. Deficits skyrocketed. The national debt quadrupled. High interest rates choked American industries. Unemployment soared.

Bob Peck

It's a story that really tugs at you, and, frankly, one of the hardest things to do at some of the meetings was trying not to get too choked up.

Ron Gardenhire

That one kind of choked me up. I thought that was a pretty nice thing by big Buck.

H. L. Mencken

He who eats alone chokes alone.

If I choke while reading this, it's only from my love for Bill, ... What a price this family has paid for Miss Allard's conduct.

Patrick Byrne

By February, inventory was half of what it should have been, and that choked off sales in February and March.

Roy Williams

The first two or three plays he was in I was about ready to reach out and choke him. After the game, he said he got mad at me. I told him I had figured out a way to get to him. I'll just make him mad.

Ellen Hopkins

It [death] chokes you, gags you, but you have to pretend that you're doing just fine, not trembling with this fear because the end is close.

Gayle Forman

You?' is all I can manage to choke out. 'Always me,' she replies softly, bashfully. 'Who else?

It was great being a part of it, we were really choked up at halftime when Ruthie spoke. She's meant a lot to me, she's been a real inspiration.

Sathya Baba

See God in every one you meet; see God in every thing you handle. Live together, revere each other, let not the seeds of envy and hate grow and choke the clear stream of Love.