Famous Quotes & Sayings

We knew they were going to make a run at us. You hold a team that's ranked eighth in the state to 37 points in the game, that's a hell of a job defensively.

Barry Corbin

For an actor, you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. You're not selling products, they're not turning down a car, they're turning you down. Most people can't handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way.

Dennis Lehane

How many psychiatrists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?” “I don’t know. How many?” “Eight.” “Why?” “Oh, stop overanalyzing it.

When those two guys give us eight or nine points, it makes us better. If we can get 16 out of them, then what happened tonight, happens.

Brad Richards

We've never been the eighth seed, obviously. It's going to be different. We're not going to worry about what happened two years ago. We're just going to worry about our team now.

Kate Levering

I really try to get eight hours of sleep, and I really try not to go out after a Tuesday or Friday night show because I know I have a two-show day the following day.

Samantha Shannon

It is a strange world, Oxford - quite claustrophobic. I was often glad I was only there for eight weeks at a time.

Shimon Peres

There was one occasion when I was very young - eight years or seven years old - that Jewish businessmen went through the forest, and they were assassinated. And that was for the first time I saw in our paper where there were assassinations in our place.

Robert Toombs

In 1790 we had less than eight hundred thousand slaves. Under our mild and humane administration of the system they have increased above four millions.

Right now, I'm in a slump because we can't figure out what's wrong. So they're having me take painkillers every eight hours. Then, we'll just go from there.

One thing that always frustrated me was that, while Benjamin Franklin's was the best-known face of the eighteenth century, no one ever took his sister's likeness.

Jim Haslett

One thing about Joe is he doesn't need a lot of practice because he's been in the same system for eight years. So it's not like he doesn't know what's going on. If he's healthy, he'll play. And, if he's not, he won't play.

Mark Schlereth

I was spending eight to nine hours a day there, and some of that was dillydally time,

Art Buchwald

If President Nixon's secretary, Rosemary Woods, had been Moses' secretary, there would only be eight commandments.

Carl Sandburg

I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.

Michael Graves

We've taken on health care in a big way in our office, ever since nine years ago when I was paralyzed. I was in eight different hospitals, three different rehab centers, and all the rooms were dreadful. As an architect, designer, and patient, I can do something to help.

Carlos Lopez

I am self-taught; I studied for a few years and then I gave up, ... Then, seven or eight years passed, and I got transferred here to the Valley (from El Paso) and we had Brazilians.

Aaron Gray

Carl does so many things that people don't realize. He only scored eight points, and he was probably the happiest guy in the locker room. Obviously, he doesn't have a problem with it.

But there's only so much you can talk about on the court. It took eight months for us to talk about something other than basketball.

Mortgage rates have been under 7 percent for the past eight weeks,

Scott Rolen

Now would I have taken eight or 10 weeks? Sure, I would have. At the time, I'm ready to go, the doc says I'm ready to go, it's fine.

Obviously I was trying to get close. But his car's been fantastic, and he didn't make any mistakes ... With about eight or nine laps (left) he completely disappeared (from view). I was hoping he had pitted at that point.

Sam Miller

Obviously rates are going up. That's what eight hurricanes will do to you.

Bill Belichick

Getting all the run defense, seven or eight or however many guys, in the right places on any given play isn't easy. You can have everybody going hard, 110 percent, but if one guy is out of position, there's space there for the runner.

Give AUM all the credit. They really took it to us in the last eight minutes.

Free throws are key. I think they (Wildcats) ran out eight straight points because they hit free throws and we didn't.

From eight years ago, everything has gone up and made a significant impact on cost. This will recover our costs.

From where've come, third place and eight qualifiers is huge.

Sinqua Walls

From what I hear, everyone who does a Marvel movie gets a three-picture deal. I'll be Sam Jackson's stand-in. I'll do eight pictures for Marvel, and then I'll just do indies. Marvel can pay for my indie career.

Jason Scott Lee

I farm taro. I have eight varieties of taro, which is a staple of the Hawaiian people from about 2,000 years ago, and sweet potatoes, and it's a sustainable living, agriculture, off the grid.

I don't think we'll have a true leading scorer this year. I have as many as eight kids who can score. I think that's a good thing. It keeps everyone involved and makes for good team chemistry.

Joe Perry

I don't spend much time listening to the records when they're done. Usually I let go of it. Especially in the Eighties and Nineties - they were like product, almost.

Taylor Lautner

I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.