Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Adams

It really crackles back and forth with dialogue, especially in the first act, where people really scream at one another, as they should.

It really could have been ugly. I was really fortunate that the guy was out of bounds.

It's all about circulating people back and forth between the different screens.

William Ford

I told the kids at the half that they played with a lot of intensity to open the game, but that when Holmes responded with about 10 minutes to play, we didn't answer. In the second half, our intensity rose. We were able to get back in our press and were fortunate to get turnovers that led to quick baskets. And I think that took the intensity out of them.

Steve Alford

It's two very pivotal home games for us. But if we're fortunate enough to get them, it's been one heck of a regular season and we try to get some momentum going into the Big Ten tournament.

Avery Johnson

It's nothing about me. If we're fortunate enough to be a part of that situation, it just shows that the guys that play for the Mavericks won some games and we're in the heat of the race. It's no goal of ours. It's a nice honor if something like that were to happen.

I just want to help save them, ... It's fortunate I'm not working right now, because I can go.

Tom Smith

That's one thing we've been really fortunate with. Our kids have been around the pro scouts. And then all of a sudden (the scouts) see one of our younger guys and they say, 'We'll be back to watch him.' It just helps all of our kids. And a lot of pro guys help with recommendations to colleges. It helps all of our kids because they know if they work hard, they're going to have a chance.

Sidney Crosby

It's so amazing, it's hard to believe, ... I was just fortunate to get that shot. I got lucky with that shot.

It's such a good sense of community. It makes you realize how fortunate you are to have other people in your life.

It wasn't a very well played game on our part. We were just fortunate to hang in there.

Trevor Pryce

It was like trying to penetrate Fort Knox with nine people standing there.

Carmelo Anthony

It was my group, his group, going back and forth for a long period of time. The opportunity was there and I couldn't let it slip out of my hands to be involved in something like this.

Ricky Schroder

I've had a very fortunate career and I've loved every moment of it.

I've heard he is just a terrific speaker. Any time we can get a local celebrity, in this case, someone who grew up in Fort Walton, played at Florida, won the Heisman, did all he did ... it's a grand slam for us.

John Benjamin Hickey

I've done a lot of Broadway plays, and I'm fortunate they've all been so successful.

It was a good win for us. They're a very good team. It was back and forth the whole fourth quarter.

Jim Stafford

It was a hard fought game and we feel very fortunate to win.

This is the time of the year where you're sick of looking at each other. We've been fortunate we haven't had any injuries.

This is the most strenuous schedule I have ever had, but I'm fortunate to be able to keep doing what I love.

Marty Turco

They're fun, a great challenge. We've been fortunate all year. That opportunity to get that win is right in front of you.

If you have no enemies, then fortune passed you by

Eric Norris

If you're prepared to put forth the effort, then go for it.

In the end, we got that surge of momentum, which is fortunate in some ways. We did a pretty good job of team defense. Our forwards really helped our defensemen tonight, and our goalie.

Carrie Coon

I really have the good fortune that the actors who work with me on 'The Leftovers' are thoughtful, hard working, open people and generous people.

I prepare the same, I practice the same, and I play the same. I don't know the reason for it. I guess I'm just fortunate enough to have their number.

Kathryn Harrison

In terms of going back and forth between fiction and nonfiction - in which I'll include memoir, biography, and true crime - is that one relieves the other.

In that day also he shall come even to thee from Assyria, and from the fortified cities, and from the fortress even to the river, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.

Wes Walz

If you take more than six or seven penalties in a game, you put yourself in such a disadvantage. There's going to be games when sometimes it just happens. We've been fortunate to been able to kill off those penalties in the past. But unfortunately, they got the power-play goal, and it gave them momentum.

Riki Lindhome

If you're trying to be an actor, sometimes you get lucky, and you end up on 'The Office', but if you don't, and you know that you have something to say, it's really, really fortunate to be able to get to write and star in your own comedy.

If you want to play these are the kinds of things you do. Fortunately I've got a good group of kids who want to learn and are willing to put forth the effort. Hopefully it will pay off for them and the program in the long run.

Brent Barry

If you win 50 or more games, ... you should only have to play two exhibitions. Forty to 49, you play three; 30 to 39, you play five; and under 30 you play eight. That way, the teams that really need the work will play more games.

Kim Wilde

I was very, very fortunate. I knew that. I've always known that.