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.

What was done today by Johnson is exactly the thing he said he was not going to do. He has shown his true colors.

What this report said is exactly what I've been talking about since December.

Brendan Gill

What exactly happened? How did our practices work? Could we have done more?

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.

Pavel Kubina

There's no excuses. We knew exactly what they were going to do, and still they scored four (power-play) goals. You can't win games like that.

There's no way you can remember exactly what happened a year ago.

There's nothing out there that's exactly right for us to pilot. We would like to test something this year.

There's no telling exactly how many people have gone through the YMCA swimming programme.

The touring group had never seen Bermuda grass in person. This way we could see exactly what surface we were considering.

Isn't Mr. O'Reilly doing exactly the same thing?

Jose Canseco

I stand 100 percent by the truth, exactly what happened.

Daniel Sharman

I spent a long time in London on the stage, and you knew exactly what you were going to be doing. You not only knew the performance, but you also knew exactly where you would stand.

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,

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.

We got that (meet finished) exactly in time. The minute that relay ended, a raindrop hit me in the forehead.

We expected the judge to rule this way. This is exactly what we were looking for.

We're very pleased. The most important thing is voters know exactly what they're voting on.

The kids knew exactly what they needed to do (Wednesday). And they got the job done.

The journey wasn't exactly how we planned it, but to win the West in this fashion means a whole lot.

The investigative process did exactly what it was supposed to do. It left no place to turn.

The federal government is not a very well-managed enterprise. I don't think this is exactly shocking news. We don't have all the right incentives in place.