Famous Quotes & Sayings

When you're not scoring very much, you just have to fight through it and grind it out. That is really what we did. It's a maturing process for this group and I would like to think we're getting better.

Nancy Gibbs

Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament.

Nancy Kress

The reader is going to imprint on the characters he sees first. He is going to expect to see these people often, to have them figure largely into the story, possibly to care about them. Usually, this will be the protagonist.

Hackers are seen as shadowy figures with superhuman powers that threaten civilization.

Don Cornelius

I figured as long as the music stayed hot and important and good, that there would always be a reason for 'Soul Train.'

Those are astonishing figures and it really shows the magnitude of this major championship.

Phil Garner

Was that his ninth win? That's pretty good. You've got a guy who didn't figure in your rotation at the start of the year and when he gets in he's won more than he's lost, so that's pretty good. He pitched a nice crisp game tonight. He threw strikes, he gets ahead. That gives a team a lift.

To me, Valentine's is a special day. I realized that not many girls would get anything and it would be an ordinary day. I figured I'd take the initiative and put a smile on their face.

Bob Arum

Yeah, I know but he won that fight easy.

Jalen Rose

Yeah, I can play a little bit. Somebody put a memo on my locker, saying I'll be 33 this month, so i figure I had to step my game up.

Yeah, Badu, all of that peace that you be talkin' about, we got to fight first. This is the struggle.

Richard Seymour

We are just living to fight another day.

Gary Brackett

We're a team that's going to fight for 60 minutes. Until the final whistle, we'll be out there fighting. And even when it all seemed like it was over, we got a fumble on the goal line.

Ang Lee

The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against.

Damon Albarn

I spent two years figuring out how I could turn it into something that would satisfy me as a musician but also make some kind of cross-cultural link. I feel that I kind of at least touched on the possibilities of cross-cultural music, but it is a lifetime's work, and I don't profess to be anything other than a novice at it.

When I was a kid, I loved figure skating. But in Mexico, they kind of push you toward hockey.

Charlie White

It was always so nice to step away from figure skating and school with hockey. To this day I'm still a huge fan.

Albert Schweitzer

We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace.

Catherine Hardwicke

As a filmmaker and film student, I think it's really interesting to hear what a director did and how they figured out how to do things.

I play guitar; you'll find me at home strumming 'Vincent' on the guitar. I also read a lot of poetry, and Shakespeare was my first love, which was why I got into acting. A lot of the fighters are intelligent!

Though we are more of a sprinting team, we have sprinters who can get over the hills. I figure the winner would be someone other than a typical GC rider.

We don?t have quitters on this team. That?s why I love playing with those guys. There is no one that is just going to lie down or just give up. . . . We have competitors on this team and we are going to fight to the end." ()

Hal Sparks

You'd think after 8 years of things called 'The Patriot Act' and 'No Child Left Behind' they would know that we have figured out the 'Call it what it ain't' PR ploy by now, but... um... no.

We are seeing forecasts of gold price rises moving towards four figures from hallowed institutions. This gold market is broadening significantly.

We're not trying to figure out why the sky is blue,

We are pissed. People are upset and people are mad, which is normal. But we know all we can do is fight through it. I can only promise we won't give up. We'll come out and try every time. That's our job. That's all we can do.

Yelawolf

'Yela' represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. 'Wolf' speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.

Elizabeth Meriwether

Every show is unique, some shows have the master plan and have everything figured out and that's just the way they do things. It's like high school. Some people write their papers the second they get their assignments, and some people write it the day after it's due. I am the latter.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.

Ellen Key

The serious questions that are talked out or strangled with red tape are more numerous than those that are killed by silence; the number of people whose ideas are knocked on the head in societies is greater in our day than that of the solitary fighters who go under.

Adrian Mitchell

Poetry is an extra hand. It can caress or tickle. It can clench and fight.

Adela Florence Nicolson

Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.

Adam Rapp

I had a sort of bad experiences as a playwright early on, when directors were putting in huge concepts that I didn't intend, or they were stylizing something that was compromising the play, so I started to think like, "well if I'm going to fight against this, I should learn how to direct".