Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robbie Robertson

My mother is extraordinary. She understood me and never tried to hold me back.

Pankaj Mishra

Local markets for literary fiction remain underdeveloped; the metropolis often holds out the only real possibility of a professional writing career.

While women are still the majority of shoppers, I think men hold out a hope for a better retail year.

Craig Biggio

We were two, tired old men walking out there, holding each other up, letting the kids celebrate. I went to the training room and passed out.

We can only hold off on this for so long.

We've got too much talent here not to do anything with it, ... I couldn't see us not doing really, really good. I want to use some other words ù I won't, I'll hold back ù but I think this team has a lot of potential.

We've got to hold them there. The offense put us in position. We had the lead, and we didn't hold.

Tom Kennedy

To find that something could slip through, that possibly would not hold up to the test for which it was designed, it's scary.

We are going to hold the province to that now.

We are holding out that something might develop. We are remaining hopeful that we can come up with a resolution prior to the 31st.

Janis Joplin

If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.

When it was hit, I knew it was going to be trouble. I saw it leave the infield, I knew it was gone. So it was one of those things, especially on a 0-2 count, you want something that is he going to nibble at and not really get a hold of.

We're just stronger in singles. We couldn't hold Elliott back anymore.

Khaled Meshaal

We declared a ceasefire nine months ago. It will hold until the end of 2005, after which there will be a transition period towards resistance.

We hope to hold another one in the fall.

Robin Cook

We hold President Milosevic responsible for the safety of these three men,

Terry Norris

We hold 'em a while, and turn 'em loose with a summons,

We hold all of our matches as important. We treat every match the same way, but it's nice to end this home stretch on a victory.

Ozzie Newsome

Yes, it did. But I was not able to get a hold of Joel.

XXL named it the jail issue, but every issue of a lot of magazines might as well be called the jail issue, ... It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back.

Brad Henry

The only thing holding us back is ourselves.

John Madden

I don't know that the referee can be watching holding on the offensive line and get back to the quarterback. I think watching the quarterback is a full-time job.

Dwane Casey

We always hold out hope. Mathematically we're still in it. Every time we walk out on the floor, we're playing for something and we're playing for improvement.

Kevin Towers

We're not going to rush him. We're not going to hold him back, either. But I'd like to see him get more innings at the professional level.

We recognize that the majority of people who are food-insecure or hungry in the world live in rural areas. And most of them are small holder subsistence farmers.

We'll see some waves of improvement in 2003, but I'm not holding out hope for a huge rise.

We are all in a holding pattern waiting to see what happens.

The referring physician doesn't really have a stake in it because he is not providing the service. So the hospital is left... holding the bag.

Brian Fuentes

Unfortunately I wasn't able to hold the lead. But Scott did once we scored again, so that's awesome.

With the inventories where they are, and prices were they are, they don't equate. It's geopolitical tension that's holding us up right now.

We're excited. We have hope now. We were holding on to very little hope. That's a big thing for us. We see we can play as well as we can.

We're in this holding pattern and it's not lifting.

We're getting a little tight because it's getting down to the end and we know we have to win to hold first or second place and we're just not ready to do it.