Famous Quotes & Sayings

Erin McKean

Twitter is like overhearing people's conversations, which is exactly what dictionary editors have been wishing we could do for years.

To jump out to that good start was exactly what we needed. We got stops and made shots. That lead keyed this whole game for us.

Pinball Clemons

To identify that is to sort of identify exactly what we think is happening. We can say generally from a football standpoint, it's something we need to have greater success at. We take ourselves out of field-goal position (by giving up sacks), we stall drives. Sacks also lose field position for us. They put us in a dysfunctional situation when we have that kind of play, but to say why is probably not the wisest thing. We don't want to give (the opposition any advantage). They watch the film and they can see and know.

Within Europe, Germany wasn't exactly a leader for reform, nor a leader in anything, and that will just continue.

You have to think about thinking. You get out of it exactly what you put into it.

You can never please 100 percent of the people 100 percent of the time. So there are going to be some changes, but exactly what they are we don't know yet.

We had a tantalizing indication (after Apollo) of what the global structure of the moon was but when you've only seen 20 percent maximum of the surface, you don't know what you've got, ... Now we know exactly what's going on. This is a big jump forward.

We already have a value set in our mind; that is not a factor at all. We know exactly what we do and we have a way of doing our business.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Writers aren't exactly people...they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.

Write down exactly what you're spending -- every time you go to the ATM, if you go to McDonald's, and if you get that pair of shoes, make sure you keep a ledger of it for at least two months.

Jen Lancaster

We all know exactly what we love, and woe is you if you're on the other side.

We all knew something was up, but we weren't sure exactly what.

The school plays needed kids that were big and bold and weren't afraid to be on stage, and I fit that bill, so I was expected to do it. And then I went to college, and the exact same thing happened.

Amani Toomer

I've seen Kerry when he's hot and he's a tough guy to stop. So we've got to be up for the challenge. I know we really want to win this division, so if he wants to exact his revenge, we're going to have to do what we can.

I've seen him better. He didn't exactly have his party hat on.

It was a perfect game for us. This is exactly what we needed.

It was about a 20-minute procedure, exactly what they were looking for. There were no surprises, but let's let him get back here and see how he is doing.

I skated pretty good today, but my back gets tired. It's going to take some time, but I'm not exactly sure how much. Hopefully soon, if it keeps getting better like it has and I don't have any set backs.

Sam Shepard

I've been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.

Charlie Batch

I've been up there and know exactly what to expect from the fans and that team,

Eric Lindros

Things are good right now and I know they are going to get better. I don't have an exact timetable right now but things seem to be moving in the right direction.

They are all grown men. I'm sensitive to it, but I don't know exactly what the situation is.

The Yale guys really turned up the screws defensively. We needed to be more patient. We needed to be exact in what we were doing.

Kieran Culkin

The way it looks is exactly how it was.

The video shows white tipped with black, exactly what we reproduced with a model ivory-billed wing.

Jan Egeland

The world did exactly the right thing in the tsunami. I always feel that this should be our new standard.

E. O. Wilson

We've been talking to about 10 labels. So far, they haven't given us exactly what we want.

We weren't exactly fluent, but it did help in communicating with the patients. Thank goodness we had translators, though.

Bertrand Russell

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is its exact opposite.

What's gratifying for me and interesting is that people are picking up on exactly what I want them to, which is that this is energizing people, and making them want to make stories.

Cassandra Clare

When I started 'City of Bones,' I knew exactly what was going to happen in 'City of Glass.' When I first started the six-book series, I thought of it as a three-book series.

Thomas Mallon

With 'Fellow Travelers,' I think I was consciously trying to imagine what my own life as a gay man might have been like if I'd been born exactly 20 years earlier.

We felt that with Reagan, you got the whole package. He was for limited government, for a strict reading of the constitution, and he had a profound respect for the people. Yes, the people may make a mistake now and then but over time you could trust their wisdom. Those ideas fit exactly what we know about Roberts's judicial philosophy.