Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ted Koppel

For the rest of his life, and I do mean the rest of his life, he always regretted the fact that he had dropped out of school,

Rick Riordan

For me, writing for kids is harder because they're a more discriminating audience. While adults might stay with you, if you lose your pacing or if you have pages of extraneous description, a kid's not going to do that. They will drop the book.

If it could be done tomorrow you'd just see spam just drop off the charts,

If we win one, we'll probably sneak in at a 15 or 16 seed. We could even go in as high as an 11 or 12 if we win them both. But if we lose, we could drop out of the picture completely.

Michael Buckley

If we were a private insurance company, we would drop those properties. But we don't have that option.

If we were able to reach a 'comfortable unease' on the Iranian situation, I think we'd see prices drop into the low $50s.

John Updike

I would especially like to recourt the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.

If we don't do something about it, more and more of our stocks are going to be dropping off from the index.

If we get there, who knows how much time we could drop? I know when I was a freshman, I dropped tons of time just being in that environment with all those great runners.

If we drop the rates today, and the price increase continues, then in a very short period of time we'd have to raise rates.

If they don't reinstate every four years, they drop a level. They have to earn their classification.

If we can put a whole game together, you'll just drop your mouth in awe. We've got it all. If we put it all together in one game, we'll be amazing.

We knew we had to get there immediately. So we dropped everything we had and left.

There are many folks out there who hold the shares because of the high dividend. Dropping part of that dividend would mean dropping many shareholders, and I don't think it's worth the savings, which isn't really that much.

Alan Greenspan

The only way you get economic progress, real standards of living moving higher, is to have the savings of the society continuously invested in the cutting-edge technologies. And those technologies which are obsolescent get dropped out.

George Williams

There is plenty of room for error, whether it is the client's fault, the landlord's fault or ours. Someone dropped the ball. It happens.

The par-3 14 was a big hole for me. I dropped a 15- or 20-foot putt for par. Basically, in my last eight holes, I hit on every green and two-putted.

There are guys out there that have a lot of catching-up to do. They're going to have to be bailed out by a drop in the market, or they're going to have to join the party.

Alia Shawkat

Right when I turned 18, I moved to New York, originally for school, and then dropped out and just lived in New York.

Andy Roddick

If there were rankings for press conferences, I wouldn't have to worry about dropping out of the top five, I hope.

We were fortunate we had that lead. We knew Southern Indiana wasn't going to quit. Their shots started dropping in the second half and they were able to get back into the game.

You are the Ocean of Water, and I am Your fish. Your Name is the drop of water, and I am a thirsty sparrow-hawk.

Casey Stengel

We was going to get you a cake, but we figured you'd drop it.

We wanted to establish the run. After we wear them down some on the run, then we'll drop back and pass. That was our game plan for tonight. We knew that we had the size advantage. We wanted to use that as one of our main contributions to our win tonight.

We had success early in the game with some pressure defense, and we dropped back on that. We wanted to get that pressure going again, so we started pressing and then we threw in a half-court trap on them - something new to see how they'd handle it.

Christine McVie

We had some rehearsals where I was playing on four songs... but we dropped them from the set because it was interfering with my stage work, and I guess it wasn't that necessary.

Phyllis Diller

Fang drops so much food on his ties we keep them in the refrigerator

Gary Bauer

But I will not vouch for a judicial nominee with that thin of a record. This stealth strategy ought to be dropped as a strategy, because over the years the only people it's fooled are us.

Terry Bradshaw

When you drop down in grades, ... that's where you lose your money.

Rio Ferdinand

We've got to get our own job done and we've managed to do that today and if other teams drop points, then so be it.

Paul Posluszny

We've improved on so many different things being able to stop the run, dropping back into pass coverage. We just learn so many things from week-to-week we just get better every day, so we'll always keep improving through the season.

Harry Styles

One time, a girl dropped her phone in my pocket and I found it and was like, 'There you go.' And she said, 'If you'd had my phone, you'd have had to meet up with me to give it back.'

With only one or two seconds to drop per swimmer, it's very attainable.