Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Sakic

You saw how a desperate team can play. They were all over us on the ice. That is a pretty good team over there. As a player you don't want the season to end. You want to keep playing.

Dave Tippett

You put a desperate team on the power play nine times in the first two periods, and you are going to get what you earn. The referees were a non-factor tonight. It was all us.

Michael Chertoff

This is a system in desperate need, ... and people are rightly upset and distressed.

Suzanne Collins

Desperate, yet no longer alone after that day, because we'd found each other.

Steven Shainberg

Who could be more desperate than filmmakers?

Steven Spielberg

Desperate times require desperate measures. What Lincoln and the Lobbyist for the Amendment and the Manager of the Amendment and himself, what they did to get this passed was not illegal. It was murky, but what they did was noble and grand. How they went about it was somewhat murky, but nothing they did was really illegal.

Tom Robbins

Some folks hide, and some folks seek, and seeking, when it's mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous can be a form of hiding.

Steven Curtis Chapman

When I go to Africa and spend more time there with people who are the least of the least, those in desperate situations, I am broken by it. But I also find people with so much more joy and freedom living with nothing than I see walking down the streets of my own community here in Tennessee.

Richard Simmons

I took desperate measures to lose weight and did terrible things to myself. I went from diet pills to thirty laxatives a day to throwing up.

Richard Adams

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly.

The response time and all of the rest of it -- I don't know if it has anything to do with the fact that people are black. It has to do with the fact that people are poor and desperate and left in a situation where they didn't have a way out,

Ian Mckellen

Very, very rare that you do a job knowing that the audience is desperate for you to do that job. Most films you make don't get released, is the fact.

Aaron Broussard

You got it back in hugs, you got it back in tears, you got it back in words of thanks that only a person who is desperate can express.

Alan Autry

You look at it, you're stuck with 400 or you look at it as we have an opportunity to help 400 fellow Americans in desperate need,

This sounds to me like the ploy of a desperate man who is down in the polls.

Kathy Griffin

What I would really love is to be on a sitcom again, ... Everybody talks about Desperate Housewives - that's one show, and they're all gorgeous. But where's the Roseanne ? Where's the real women who are funny? That's where I come in.

Markus Naslund

We got a fresh start here tonight. We're a desperate team and we need the wins.

Dominic Moore

You have to be a little desperate when you're a man down and more desperate when you are two men down.

Daniel Alfredsson

We've had some injuries, we went into a slump and we've played some teams that are more desperate than us in some cases.

There could hardly be a more desperate predicament than to fall through the ice and have no one around to help you.

I've never known a transfer happen quite so quickly. It was all done within 24 hours, and that was largely because of Robbie's passion to rejoin the club. He really was that desperate to come back.

James Nesbitt

I've never thought of myself as a classic leading man. I'm a character actor who happens to play leading roles. Come on, look at me. I'm really Desperate Dan.

Medea Benjamin

These women are not politicians, but ordinary Iraqis who are desperate to see an end to the violence and are taking great personal risk to come to the US. It's a rare opportunity to hear from Iraqis themselves, and we hope that US officials will listen.

The whole long-distance industry will be getting shaken up. Nobody's sure how desperate MCI will be to regain business,

We weren't happy going down 4-2, the players were visibly upset. Maybe we need to play desperate more often because they really responded.

Doc Rivers

We were playing a team that was obviously playing desperate and you could see that play in them. We're loose and we played aggressive.

Tom DeLay

What's happening here is the president is desperate to spend more money, ... Late Edition.

Rob Lowe

When I started on 'The West Wing,' that was at a time when this was still a stigma, because movie stars didn't do TV. Now, every movie star is desperate to find their 'True Detective.'

Trent Reznor

Jumping through any hoop or taking advantage of any desperate situation that comes up just to sell a product is harmful. It is.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

So they were desperately in love and being desperately in love involves a desperate existence.

Frank Auerbach

The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style.

John Engler

Everybody's desperate to reach that last 10, 12, 13 percent that remain undecided.

Jack Reed

The administration is desperate to try to reverse the popular impression that the situation is deteriorating rapidly,