Famous Quotes & Sayings

When I was growing up, Mandela's name was synonymous with terror. We were scared of him. You couldn't see any photos of him. A photo of him could have gotten you in jail.

Dave Barry

We've actually gotten better musically over the years, ... But we've come to realize that we will never be good.

With this release we've gotten back to the fundamentals.

We've got most of our stuff in now. We've had a little more time to jell. We'll script our first 20 plays. Of course, you have to get a feel for the game, which is why we've rarely gotten through our 20 plays without making changes.

Dom Capers

We've got a lot of young guys that have gotten on the job training.

Charlie Norwood

What we're really trying to do is level out the health care system. It has gotten so one-sided as more and more people have been put into managed care; in fact, about 70 percent of the patients in the country.

Felipe Alou

We've been much healthier. We are all a year older, but we have gotten a year healthier.

April Bloomfield

My two sisters were always cooking. I wanted to be in the police force, but I didn't get in because I just so happened to procrastinate a bit, and I hadn't gotten my application in at the right time.

Yes, we have gotten a letter from him (Haynes) that he has resigned.

Darren Sharper

We were distraught. But we have never gotten down on ourselves as a team.

John Ridley

At the risk of sounding like that old guy in 'Gran Torino' telling those 'young punks' to 'get off my lawn,' it's gotten to the point that whenever I hear somebody talking about Twitter or twittering or tweeting, it just makes my little tummy want to hurl.

That metaphor has just gotten completely overloaded. They just didn't know it was there.

The lake has gotten a little better. Now it has seasons. Sometimes it's green, sometimes it's red and sometimes it's brown.

The jobs numbers will be less reliable. If they are stronger, people will say it's because people had to hire more workers because of Katrina and it's only temporary. And if it's weaker people will also say that it's Katrina-related, ... The Fed's job has just gotten harder.

The jobs and the income tax would have been marginal. Obviously we still would have loved to have gotten this, particularly for the schools.

The last three minutes of the second saved our bacon. Had we not gotten those, we would have had no hope going into the third.

This is like a rocket. We've gotten the first stage accomplished. Now we need the second stage to take us higher.

The new AT and T has gotten off to a very strong start.

It's night-and-day difference. Sheldon has really gotten Jake focused.

I know several people have talked about it, and we will wear them. Right now, though, we haven't gotten the jerseys yet. With today (Monday) being a holiday, I don't know. But if we get them, we will wear them.

Jose Reyes

I knew right away I was going to second. If I hesitated we wouldn't have gotten it.

Jeremy London

I like for there to be a moral, for the character to have gotten something out of the experience.

Gary Payton

I hope we've gotten past that sense of lackadaisical play.

Kacey Musgraves

I love Lee Ann Womack and John Prine. That's kind of my ideal cross point. If I can sing it like Lee Ann would and say it like John would, then I feel like I've gotten somewhere.

Roy H. Williams

It was one of those nights where things kind of snowballed on Dave's team. Our team has gotten better all season long.

It's very unnerving, and unfortunately the numbers have gotten larger and the lines longer. It's frustrating, in seeing the help not come from the state.

It turned into a pretty nasty 2-v-1, ... and by the end, they had gotten the better of me and I was running around pouting like a 5-year-old.

It took guts for Kyle to even try to throw that. I probably could have gotten him a little more separation to make the throw.

It took tons out of her. She has never really gotten it back. She can't feel near as strong as she felt.

They could have gotten any time they wanted.

They'd gotten us back on our heels a little bit. There was no panic in our locker room, but there was a sense of concern.

They've turned that around, and they've gotten back into the swing of things.

Barry Trotz

There's no way we should've gotten a point tonight and we did.