Famous Quotes & Sayings

Judy Parfitt

I don't know if a penny's dropped somewhere, but you've had 'Lark Rise to Candleford,' you've had 'Cranford,' you've had 'Last Tango in Halifax,' you've had 'Call the Midwife'... I think the largest portion of the viewing public are over 55, and they like to see people they can identify with.

If I would have just dropped to the ice it probably wouldn't have been so bad. But I twisted on the way day and that scared me a little bit.

Walt Whitman

In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name. And I leave them where they are, for I know that wherever I go, others will punctually come for ever and ever.

In the entire history of surfing ... only a handful of surfers who have dropped off the WTC have been able to claw their way back.

Ken Hitchcock

I just think our level of intensity dropped and Toronto's went up, and that was the difference,

But there are some issues that have simply dropped out of contention,

The house was engulfed in smoke already. You couldn't see inside. We dropped to the ground and went in.

Kofi Annan

And I'm not sure that the US is going to insist on that. I think they've made their point, but I'm not sure the other member states would want to see the millennium development goals dropped or, the worse, expunged from the document.

The man's mouth dropped open. He was surprised I knew the ring was stolen.

Ryan Seacrest

All I wanted to do when I was a teenager was get dropped off at a radio station - one of the ones I listened to - and watch how the shows worked. After a point it was about showing up and driving people crazy, driving the van to promotions and sneaking on the air.

As he sort of went down, two of them sort of dropped on to him to hold him down, and the other one fired. I heard five shots.

Quinn was wrestling very well up until that point, dropped his hips and got in trouble.

Purdue is in the process of rebuilding their program after they dropped it for a year. This really wasn't a tough match, but I was happy with how the shooters responded and posted near some of their personal bests. This match gave us an opportunity to take a look at some of our other shooters.

Productivity hasn't met the high hopes held out for it and, as a result, has pretty much dropped off the radar screen for economy watchers.

Ken Hitchcock

Our energy just dropped right off the board. Our energy just went down the tubes and we've got to figure out a way to recover.

On the way down I actually got to see what it was like from an aerial view, and it was just destruction...it pretty much dropped my jaw,

Normally I probably wouldn't have been too sad about that record. It's the way we went 3-3. We started off 3-0, then dropped three to end it. For a lot of guys last year, it was a new experience. You can have a loss or setback and still do well enough to win your conference.

Kyle Brown

Some people just dropped in what they had,

Compensation increases for CEOs, while far exceeding those for other employees, have dropped from the heady levels found in last year's survey.

A lot of the point mags are going out of business. They dropped the pay tremendously and it's all because of the internet. I used to go out once a month to LA and shoot for one week. I'd make a ton of money then come back to New York and do whatever I wanted.

They must have forgot about me. I was running the point, then I dropped back because Brandon wanted to run the point. I was wide-open right there.

Terry Norris

They dropped three of us off and said, 'Make us a prison,'

They dropped into a zone, so they left me open and I just kept shooting and they kept going in.

E. O. Wilson

The weight of the wheel and water deteriorated the axle. It dropped about three inches and just starting chucking wooden teeth out of some smaller gears. Those teeth are specially made out of very, very hard maple wood, so you can imagine the stress.

The whole day it was kind of an unusual scheme for us. They dropped eight and rushed three. You see that some in 2-minute or third-and-20 but to do it as often as they did on first down, you don't see that very often.

This entire event was videotaped. Upon review of the tape, the DA dropped the (assault) charges. I think that speaks for itself.

They were excited the whole week. They were excited to swim fast. They were happy that we had a good meet. We dropped a lot of times. I was really pleased with our youngsters that stepped it up and really dropped a lot time.

For all my seniors, we've been mainly focusing on how we are going into the sectional. Everybody has dropped time and that makes me feel good.

They had an inning where they scored five runs and we dropped four outs. It's all a ripple effect. Unfortunately, we make a mistake, and then we make another one instead of stopping the bleeding.

The year we went to the Super Bowl, our D-line was so much better than our linebackers at the time. Our linebackers were so much better than our secondary. It's like, the farther you went back, it sort of like dropped off. But now it's strong all the way through.

Enforcement levels have dropped so low that boosting them has become very easy.

Lance Armstrong

EPO is a powerful drug, ... Some say it makes you 10 percent faster. Let's say I took EPO in 1999 and didn't take it from 2000 to 2005. My performance never dropped off. Obviously, I'm not saying I did. But I only got faster.

Brock knew that we didn't have a 215-pounder, so he unselfishly dropped down to make our team stronger.