Famous Quotes & Sayings

I like to work on a number of things simultaneously. If you're working on a variety of projects and if you get stuck on one of them, you can move to another without grinding your gears indefinitely.

We're in a good spot right now. Now we just got to gear up for (Central) and keep it going.

Anthony Rizzo

I have to go with the approach I had in Triple-A. I need to take a lot of those fastballs I am seeing to left field. Also must gear up for the changeup and take them up the middle.

would throw sand into the gears of human progress.

Bill Gothard

Patience is idling your motor when you feel like stripping a gear.

Kerri Strug

My entire adolescence was geared toward one thing: gymnastics.

We're marketing that as a personal prayer book, primarily geared toward women.

Charlie Sheen

I have one speed, I have one gear: go!

She always had talent, but mentally ... she would get geared up and wound up.

Maybe when we get back after Thanksgiving we will get our first pull back or some sort of consolidation before we gear up for a year end rally,

Many people were gearing up for a run toward next year. There's no guarantees of next year. We have to do it this year.

Mark Richt

We're going to make sure he's the primary target a lot. We have more pass plays than I've ever had in our offense that are geared toward the tight end.

We're gearing up for the future. We look to be the gateway, the logistical hub of the world for circumpolar navigation.

We're gearing toward the playoffs. We're getting stronger.

John Travolta

I was suited for fame, and I mean that in the most non-egocentric way. I don't mind gearing my life towards privacy. It's my nature.

New memberships in the month of January are at their highest number. The whole industry gears up for it.

Marco Polo

Getting all of our gear was pretty cool. We got 20 shirts and just a ton of stuff.

Norman Cook

I didn't really get into second gear until I was 30. My first wife was a nurse and she was very anti. I never really started caning it until 1990, when I was 29. I had to make up for being a late starter. It wasn't self-destruction - I was having fun. There was never any reason to stop doing it, because it was fun. It makes it much harder to give up. It wasn't even starting to hurt.

NonStop is big iron and more geared to larger operators. Linux and Unix platforms scale down much better, and operators often prefer them because they are not knowledgeable about NonStop.

The questions were geared more toward the language arts, and since I am a math and science person, I only offered little tidbits to my teammates who were more language-arts oriented.

Mitch Miller

There is no relief in sight, and that's what we're gearing up for.

Eddie Jordan

We always say that one win can get you going and that one loss can get you going the other way. We just have to shift into another gear like we did in the last quarter and a half and come at with the same intensity and stay at that intensity.

Jerry Stackhouse

We would like to think that everything we're doing now is geared toward the playoffs. We know we're better than how we've been playing lately. It's been good to talk about the race with San Antonio, but we have to worry about getting back on track.

Laura Harper

We own overtime. We're 5-0 now this season in overtime. We were all smiling when it got to overtime because we knew we had it. We find a whole new gear there.

We've been shooting pretty well the second half of the season, and when you're gearing up for the playoffs, that is something you have to work on. We have been working on it, and it's starting to pay off.

We have materials in a number of languages. But most of those language materials are really geared toward learning another language.

Vonda Shepard

I thought nothing would ever happen for me. My whole life had been geared toward being a singer, and it wasn't clicking.

We get pretty geared up for this. We say every year that we don't play in consolation games.

His passion to win is unbelievable. It always seems that some players have another gear when it comes to the playoffs. He's very relaxed right now and doing a good job. I'm very pleased with the performance and he's a guy that's really stepped up.

When they get moving on the construction, there will be 75-80 construction workers, and when the plant is all geared up, the workforce will (more than) double. All hiring is done under the West Virginia Jobs Act, which means 75 percent of them have to be local workers.

We can kick it into gear when we need to. We try to always keep it in gear. Sometimes, you just come out flat.

John Bolton

We've been trying to get this process in gear for a year.

We're pretty geared up for the conference. We try to produce the state-of-the-art men's ministry weekend.