Famous Quotes & Sayings

Obviously, we took way too many penalties tonight.

I would expect, eventually, they will have to terminate the pension plan.

Shakira

I know what I'm doing even when I'm wearing a pencil skirt.

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Luiz Scolari

Was I the only one who saw a penalty on Nuno Gomes? Didn't you see that?

Orhan Pamuk

I get used to my fountain pens and my clothes, and I can never throw them away. I replace them only when I see that they are broken or embarrassing to wear.

Mike Sherman

We have a long way to go. The penalty situation is inexcusable, and that comes back to me, as I told the players, but I put it on them right now because we have to get that worked out. That will not work this season if we have that many penalties. Playing stupid like that does not bode well.

We need to know how to save a penny once in a while or write a check. You'd be surprised how many people don't know how to do that.

We know the penalty will be at least $100,000.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

People still remember Sean Penn as Spicoli from 'Fast Times At Ridgemont High,' and if I can have, like, one-10th of his career, then I'm fine.

David R. Brower

The Peninsula is what we have and there is no more where it came from.

Camille Claudel

I am scared; I don't know what is going to happen to me. What was the point of working so hard and of being talented, to be rewarded like this? Never a penny, tormented all my life. It is horrible; one cannot imagine it.

Chinua Achebe

A pen on paper is the ideal way for me. I am not really very comfortable with machines; I never learned to type very well.

Bill Ayers

Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon,

Work ethic, turnovers, penalties ... that sums it up.

Benjamin Franklin

...Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion...

Benjamin Franklin

Tis a well spent penny that saves a groat.

Dana Gioia

We are not as we were. Death has been our pentecost.

Claire Messud

I was funny -- ha-ha, not peculiar. It was a modest currency, like pennies: pedestrian, somewhat laborious, but a currency nonetheless. I was funny, in public, most often at my own expense.

Muriel Rukeyser

In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.

We've all got to play by the same rules, and I think the senator wants to tilt the playing field. And I think what he did (with respect to Penn State) is what's wrong with Harrisburg.

We've got to play better and stay out of the penalty box.

Greg Thomas

There are no retrospective penalties in the game's regulations.

Kelly Rutherford

Every penny from 'Gossip Girl,' my pension, my stocks has been spent fighting for my children.

He got a penalty already. That is sufficient.

We took too many penalties and that took us out of our game.

But we're still having too many penalties and getting too many people out of position.

I always say the players pick this team, not us. You can't have a team of 12 first-line NHL players. You need role players, checkers, penalty killers. You can't just take the 12 most skilled forwards.

Right now, I don't understand what is a penalty shot.

Perhaps they'll sharpen their pencil a little bit.

If we wouldn't have had the time penalty or we wouldn't have had the wreck, we would have won that division.

Douglas Adams

Ford... you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.

Ambrose Bierce

A penny saved is a penny to squander.