Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Conrad

I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.

We were a step late all night long. We did not do a good job of matching their intensity. They played hard. They played like a team that wanted to go a little farther (in the playoffs).

Jimmy Kimmel

When I was on the radio, I used to be able to go a lot farther than I can now. You don't really remember until you're on the radio again, sometimes in your old radio station and sitting with the guys you used to work with and you go, 'Oh yeah, I can't say these things anymore. I'm handcuffed.'

Rick Wakeman

To play music, you have to understand it. I didn't understand 'Topographic Oceans.' That's why I hardly played on it. It frustrated me no end - and playing the whole thing on tour, I got farther and farther away from it.

Grady Sizemore

Throughout the at-bat I just kept going farther and farther. I wanted to see how much they would let me have before they stopped me. They never did, and I told Skins, 'I can take this.

Grady Sizemore

Throughout the at-bat, I just kept going farther and farther, ... I wanted to see how much they would let me have before they stopped me. They never did, and I told Skins, 'I can take this.'

Jim Balsillie

What they're really trying to say is, 'Are we approaching maturity in this market?' And my response is ... we're the farthest thing from maturity in this market.

James Cook

Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.

The nearer the church, the farther from God.

Chris Martin

I like it short but it's getting farther and farther back, so it's growing long

They wanted the school to be farther south so we offered to make the swap.

Isn't it odd the Secret Service is willing totestify if it helps a president because they won't be pushed farther away,but that if it's something that may hurt a president, they won't testify.

I just let them know we want to go one step farther than we went last year.

Larry Brown

He's the farthest thing from a point guard.

I had to do something. (Neil) said, 'Your guys are running our guys.' I told him, in the playoffs, that's the way it'll be. You better stop whining and get used to it. The farther you go in the playoffs, the rougher it gets.

Chris Gore

I like to say it's a love letter to independent film in the form of a fart joke.

But he made it a little farther this time, so he's getting closer. It's just about the toughest thing you can do in sport. It's like making the Final Four - or the World Series.

I am so happy that they got their first tournament win and they made history tonight. I hope we can make more history as they go farther and farther down the road.

James Hetfield

The higher you are, the farther you fall, the longer the walk, the farther you crawl.

And of course, (college students) are farther away from Mom and Dad.

Jerry Sloan

People think it's pretty easy, but it's pretty difficult. A year ago, this team just kept going farther and farther down. They didn't step up and try to make a change. We were 11-21, I think, a year ago and the next game didn't matter probably.

Phil Garner

After you see that he hit a three-run home run, that's what I'm saying. When you see the outcome of what happened, you say, 'Well, maybe we should've put up four (fingers),' ... I would be stupid to say, 'All right, wait a minute, let me back this up and see if I can't throw a pitch in a little better spot than that and see how much farther he can hit it.'

David Taylor

There's a lot of work going on. I think this next week is going to be critical, and hopefully the weather will hold out and this next storm will go farther south.

Alyssa Snyder had a really good race. She started out farther back and moved her way up throughout the race.

Mary Pierce

You never know, this could be my last one, ... Not because I want it to be, but who knows what can happen in life? So each time that I get farther and do better, yeah, it means a lot more to me now than before.

There's only so much we can do. We can send letters to these people and we can make them pick the stuff up, but if you have a neighborhood association ... that goes much farther than what we can do.

As summer in the northern hemisphere progresses, you see lightning moving farther north. You see a similar pattern in the southern hemisphere, but not so pronounced because there isn't as much land outside the tropics.

Don't sail out farther than you can row back

We've got a big middle of the order now. It stretches out a little farther than it did last year.

Eugene Levy

I've never shied away from a good fart joke,

These prospective locations are farther from homes than the locations in the past. We're very sensitive to that concern.

The worst. New York state is now farther away from complying with (the act) than any other state.

The waves are taking me farther away from the shore and I'm getting real scared.