Famous Quotes & Sayings

There's been all kinds of scenarios that I thought would never happen in basketball. Lightning doesn't strike the same place twice, so it couldn't happen too many more times.

Tim Dorsey

If we tried to do this 10-15 years ago this never would have happened -- never, ever,

If you're in our shoes, you are going to do everything you can to push this through, to stop this from happening to someone else.

Pierre Schaeffer

If you liked what happened in the first phase, wait until you see what the second phase will unveil.

Johan Santana

If you look around at everything that has happened to me, to the whole starting pitching staff, if we have had won all those little games, then the whole pitching staff should be Cy Youngs. It didn't happen for me to get those wins, but that doesn't mean I'm done working.

Bill Nye

If you have this idea that the earth is only 6,000 years old, you are denying, if you will, everything that you can touch and see. You're not paying attention to what's happening in the universe around you.

Terry Bowden

If you have the right guy, it can happen quickly. If you have the wrong guy, it can take time or never happen at all.

John Paxson

In this business, things don't always happen at the pace you would like, but I knew from the onset that we would make this happen and Jeff Schwartz played a key role in the negotiations.

In the U.S.A., technical innovations come out of universities and the research produced by Ph.D. students. We don't have that happening in India.

Jim Sturgess

In the world of independent filmmaking, you're never quite sure what's happening when and where.

In the first half, I thought that got to us. But I don't know what happened in the second half.

In some cases, private valuations have surpassed public valuations in the hotel business. I'm surprised this didn't happen sooner.

Glenn Close

in no way, holds you responsible for what happened to Troy.

In one sense this is already happening in the US and there is room for consolidation in Europe.

In particular, it's hard to judge what will happen with the upper house -- we just have to wait.

Marion Ross

I like to see what's happening in town,

Molly Antopol

I really look up to writers who are able to write compressed, single-scene stories, where everything happens in a kitchen. But I just can't think that way. For me it would be impossible to write a story where I didn't know what someone's parents did and what their grandparents did and who they used to date.

I promise you this will not happen again. I'll go home the next time. You'll see me at the airport.

I pretty much already made up my mind I was going to swing at the first pitch up there, just to get the jitters out. After that, I was like, 'All right, sit back and trust yourself.' And he just happened to leave one over the middle a little bit.

In the private sector if somebody is not happy with a job, and they do not think they are being compensated enough for the work, they move on. I do not want that to happen to us.

In the long run, it will be beneficial. But it may take several years for this to come to fruition. It's not going to happen tomorrow.

In the matches you can't do anything unless he happens to look over. It's different watching him wrestle.

David Goyer

In science fiction, historically, you're telling allegorical tales. You're shining a light back on society -- what's happening now. It's a way to talk about what's going on, but from a sideways angle.

Hale Irwin

I really didn't know what was going on until I got to 16. Then I saw I had the lead with Bob. I knew something was going to happen in the last two or three holes.

I really can't say what's going to happen until we see what happens.

If your house happens to be the one that is devastated, it's the world. It's very important no matter where you are.

If you would have told me before that we would have held them to 39 points, I would've taken that in a heartbeat. Our kids just didn't make the shots and that happens once in a while, but unfortunately for us that happened at the state tournament.

Frank Robinson

If you want to be realistic, you say, 'What would it take? A miracle.' Well, miracles happen. Not too often, but they do happen once in a while. But, realistically, yeah, we're looking at it, and probably it's insurmountable.

Jon Huertas

If you want something, you can't wait for someone to make it happen for you.

Kim Edwards

There was a sense that there was a lot of word of mouth happening with 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter,' even in hardcover.

Gilles Duceppe

I have never believed that things happen by themselves.

Hank Azaria

Politics is topical - it's what's happening now, and we can either respond in the present or avoid it.

Knute Nelson

What is best and most necessary usually happens.