Famous Quotes & Sayings

Padgett Powell

I think William Trevor is as good as it gets. Whenever I want a book to do exactly what it says it will, I read him.

We were having some trouble with their zone in the first half. The kids did exactly what I told them to do, and we were able to make some plays late.

Maurice Cheeks

We had to will this one. We had to go get it. That's exactly what we did. The second half was what won us this game. We were a step slow in the first half and our will got us back into this game.

We've got one formula, and it doesn't matter if it's tomato or onion - it gets fed exactly the same thing. That was our big breakthrough.

We have to have the same number for all groups. We can't have differential numbers, apparently. We're still trying to see exactly what impact that will have.

We're working to extend the network in Manatee County. We're not sure exactly when it will be ready, but it will be soon.

Drew Bledsoe

With the weapons they have, we know we're going to have to score points, ... You never know exactly how these games are going to go, but it would be a very, very strange scenario for this to be a 9-6 game.

Penelope Fitzgerald

However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is - in other words, not a thing, but a think.

I can remember exactly where I was when I saw 'The Matrix' for the first time.

In the end, a gun is an instrument to make someone surrender to your will or die, and music is exactly the opposite - it's seductive and invitational.

We don't exactly have a planning horizon for what we need for the schools in 12 months. It's month by month.

Kyle Korver

You always wanted to get that last win at home. The season hasn't gone exactly the way we wanted it to go, but you want to end it right - so that's what we're trying to do.

Geno Auriemma

We're a horrible rebounding team, especially when we play with four guards. So we're not exactly gangbusters in that area. We're going to have to, obviously, do a much better job of that next week (at No. 1 Tennessee).

We got exactly what we needed, and we will be open this week. 17 inches of snow makes a huge difference.

Alonzo Church

Well it was not exactly a dissertation in logic, at least not the kind of logic you would find in Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica for instance. It looked more like mathematics; no formalized language was used.

We had it exactly where we wanted it. But some how, we lined up offsides twice. We also had other opportunities. We played hard and lost.

Monica

I would love for people to look at me as a great singer but also know exactly who I am, the way that we have loved and respected people like Gladys Knight and Patti LaBelle, having gone through the different stages of their lives with them. That's the type of history I want to have.

I would love to be able to talk to you and tell you exactly how I feel about this situation. Nothing would please me more. (Humphrey) played his heart out and played hard enough in the game like this to be rewarded at the end, but obviously, he was not.

Wildlife is exactly that -- wild and unpredictable and occasionally incidents like this do happen.

We just can't say exactly when they're going to happen. By and large, there wasn't that much ash; it wasn't a heavily ash-laden plume.

Steve Davis

You don't exactly know what she's going to say, but you know it's going to be entertaining.

That was the only blight on the game. It was a good, tough hit-out. We got out of it exactly what we wanted to get out of it.

That was the hit that really got us going. When Theresa hit that homer, it picked everyone up. That was exactly what we needed at that point of the game. We needed somebody to step up and Theresa did just that.

Fernando Espuelas

That was exactly as expected. When we did our IPO a year ago, we projected that second quarter of this year would be our peak. We will see now a narrowing of per-share loss in the subsequent quarters, going towards profitability.

That's the purest love, ... that she loved him exactly the way he was.

John Otto

I was really conscious of that when I went in because I felt that I was pretty solid on the first one, but I didn't have the groove exactly where I wanted it.

I wasn't exactly sure it was something I wanted to do. My hope up to that point was to work on Broadway.

Kevin Constantine

We haven't exactly been prolific scoring goals, so whenever it goes in it's fun to see.

Ze Frank

When I was young, I had this feeling that there was this handbook that I had never gotten that explained how to be, how to laugh, what to wear, how to stand by yourself in the hallway. Everyone looked so natural - like they all practiced and knew exactly what to do - even the way they pushed their hair out of their face.

The quality of performances over the past few weeks demonstrates exactly what it means to be a member of a home team at a home Games.

Those guys are exactly what this league represents. We get the 'next guys' who are going to be stepping up in major roles and contributing.

Those of you out there who think, oh it will never happen to me; I can pick up pills or just this one time I'll shoot up. No, that's exactly what happened to me. It was so stupid.

Unfortunately, so much of it is exactly what happened. We predicted that people would be trapped in their houses. Sitting on roofs,