Famous Quotes & Sayings

When you see a combination like that, you just have to pick your poison. We wanted to take away their drives and contest the post.

We've always done trivia. It's tradition. And we also have football bingo, a food contest and plenty of Dollar Store prizes. It's kind of like another holiday for us.

We got what we wanted, a contested shot at the end.

We're going to have to get out and contest their shots. This is a huge game for them and we expect them to play their guts out.

Arlen Specter

We're facing a daunting workload with a very heavy backlog of controversial and contested judicial nominees.

Elizabeth Price

Because it's difficult to have a career as an artist, and in every situation where it's difficult to have a career, it's even harder for women, for all the other reasons that it's harder in other fiercely contested fields.

Takeru Kobayashi

I was able to participate in New York Fashion Week and walk down the runway. I participated in a pizza contest in Canada.

She does have some aspirations to be an artist. She's participated in a duck painting contest and got a ribbon for it.

She didn't say anything, her teacher didn't say anything, the mother didn't say anything. So the contest proceeded.

She's a good player. She's going to get her points, we just need to make it as tough as possible for her and contest every shot.

The Prince and Princess of Dickens contest has been extended through the end of September. We currently have 10 contestants.

The prime minister has decided to contest the result and to use a 'mutilated victory' as a long-term weapon.

Neymar

Every team going to Brazil 2014 will be there to win, and it's going to be a fiercely contested World Cup.

I actually started out as a poet in high school. I published in small literary magazines for probably about ten years. I entered the Yale Younger Poet contest every year, until I was too old to be a younger poet, and I never got more than a form rejection letter from them.

This is very unprofessional, but at 'The Toxic Avenger,' Demond Green, Matt Saldivar and I had a contest to see who could say the word 'ochre' the most times during the show. Well, I had a song called 'Choose Me Oprah,' so I just said ochre instead of Oprah the whole time.

We did that to keep people from all over the country from entering, because we have a grand prize -- and a significant one at that. Only people who know about this contest through the radio station or the paper will be able to enter.

We don't have a lot of experience with contested elections in this state. We do have some in local races, but I can't recall any contested election of a statewide office, such as governor.

Ryan Shaw

We didn't do a good job of screening for Magers and getting him open and he had to shoot a lot of contested shots.

Andrew Vachss

A trial is not a search for truth. It is a contest and, often, one that produces no winners.

Gary Williams

We're like a lot of teams this year on the road, and hopefully we'll have a good performance. A lot of that comes from your defense. You can't get into a scoring contest on the road and expect to win very often. Most teams play better offensively at home.

Tough matches prepare you better for contests ahead.

Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns.

Nancy Gibbs

Few Westerners know Iran as well as Robin Wright: her first trip there as a journalist was in 1973, and she has covered every important milestone since, from the Islamic revolution and the hostage crisis to the more recent staring contest with the West over Tehran's nuclear program.

I am so not a pageant girl, but I signed up for the Miss Junior Florida contest because I thought it would be good experience.

Virginia Postrel

The intimate contest for self-command never ends, and lifetime happiness requires finding the right balance between present impulses and future well-being.

We work on contesting every day for 20 minutes. My guys are mad at me, 'Why we got to do this?' Because it's a three-point shot, you got to contest it.

No. 1, I think we gotta keep them off the glass. And we can't let them get open looks. You gotta contest shots. If we contest shots and control the boards, it's anybody's game.

We are here to help a friend in need. We'll worry about the popularity contest later.

Because of the weather (rain) in the previous contests versus Hamilton and Browning, we weren't able to run the option that much. It opens the outside running game when teams load that many defenders near the line of scrimmage. It's the part of our offense that we need to run.

Now when a guy drives baseline, that's how I wanna to see you jump and contest the shot.

Now that sounds like a lot but its not a lot when you think of how many a day. I submit about 200 a day and that is not 200 contests - - that's 200 ballots.

Lamar Alexander

Give him credit for winning the pre-season. His strategy is to make sure that the contest never gets to the people. My strategy is to make sure it does.

Helen White

I entered the contest to tell people about how I got inspired, and how I try to inspire other people. It's about finding strength and motivation to go for your goals and dreams.