Famous Quotes & Sayings

We didn't even wake up until the third period. We've been off two weeks, and it was their home opener, and they had more jump and just flat outplayed us for the first two and a half periods.

Typically, we see flat or slightly rising prices in December, because people are usually willing to pay more.

John Milton

Virtue could see to do what Virtue would / By her own radiant light, though sun and moon / Were in the flat sea sunk.

Matt Cooke

Usually that little kicker in the flats we have them go down, that's the starting point. That's to kind of get them mentally prepared to go through the motions of keeping the skis underneath them, getting into that in-run position, that crouch position.

We don't want to make too much of any one month. But last month was flat in terms of total jobs. This month we're down. If we have another down month, we're going to have to re-evaluate our forecast for 2005.

We can't be too flattered by the result.

Angus Young

That's usually what happens with AC/DC: you make an album, and then you're on the road flat out. And the only time you ever get near a studio is generally after you've done a year of touring.

We were very flat and we simply didn't play very well. We trailed the whole game and just couldn't put anything together.

We played flat and we played down to their level, and that's been one of our problems all year. We had to push it up before they could make a run at us like the Penn State-Illinois game last week.

Piper is going to come here and flat out lay it on us.

Kate Warne

The main reason that we're up is that Nortel's weighting was being increased in the S&P 500, so what we were really seeing is the Nortel rally ... and it pulled BCE along. Without that, it would have been a flat day.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Imitation is always insult--not flattery.

The market will be looking for a flat unemployment number and a small tick up in jobs, and if the market doesn't get that, it's gonna feel it.

The market has shifted. Instead of land prices tending to push upward, more than likely, they're flat or downward.

Holly Black

Flattery will get you everywhere," Sam says, "Except, apparently, off a roof.

Joseph Addison

The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.

Jorge Luis Borges

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

Jonathan Swift

Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.

Brian Billick

an offensive lineman that just flat whiffed a guy.

As flattering as it is to be the only label on that map, we're not alone,

Phil Klay

Oftentimes, discussion of war gets flattened to a discussion of trauma.

A flat market is normal during the winter months.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Flattery is all right if you don't inhale

Flattery - If you want to get to the top, prepare to kiss a lot of the bottom.

Flat Rock is a good team. There's a reason why they're in the top one or two teams in the league every year.

Robert Gottlieb

Schumann's 'Quintet in E flat for Piano and Strings' is one of the sublime moments in Romantic music.

Production (growth) will be (relatively) flat but...the increase in revenue will come from rising oil prices.

Bobby Jenks

This can go 60 mph on flat ground.

They scrapped and clawed and hit some big threes. It was a typical Flat Rock-CC game, right down to the wire.

You're not going to spin much at all from a flat jump. It just doesn't make sense in a real world model.

It was flattering to get them in Brevard.

Isaac Asimov

Flattery is useful when dealing with youngsters.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Praise is flattery, artful, hidden, delicate, which gratifies differently him who praises and him who is praised. The one takes it as the reward of merit, the other bestows it to show his impartiality and knowledge.