Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Clarke

He didn't go to work that day figuring he was going to get killed.

Charlie Whitehurst

I think we're more methodical right now. We're still figuring this thing out. We're only four games in. ... When it all gels, I think we'll be all right.

Dennis Hutchinson

He has become good at figuring out how much he can get out of them without losing them.

Jeff Skilling

It's really a question of figuring out what makes sense.

Matthew Burns

It's a lot of figuring out stuff. It can be difficult, but I guess I like the challenge.

Jeff Zucker

We're in this transition period of figuring out how to deal with all the new technology that is out there, but television still proves to be the granddaddy of them all.

Gary Waddock

Shabazz has turned down two offers, and he will probably now wait until the summer before figuring out what he wants to do.

Karin Slaughter

If I wasn't a writer, I would probably be a watchmaker. I like putting puzzles together, and that is what a watch is, figuring out how all the gears and everything else works together. I'm patient and good at focusing on a single task.

Adam Mansbach

Of course, the opposite of white privilege is not blackness, as many of us seemed to think then; the opposite of white privilege is working to dismantle that privilege. But my particular hip-hop generation proved to be very serious about figuring it all out and staying engaged.

Rick Masi

We talked about when we had the wind at our right back, we wanted to use it to play it up and over into the opposite wing.

Virginia Woolf

The comparison between Coleridge and Johnson is obvious in so far as each held sway chiefly by the power of his tongue. The difference between their methods is so marked that it is tempting, but also unnecessary, to judge one to be inferior to the other. Johnson was robust, combative, and concrete; Coleridge was the opposite. The contrast was perhaps in his mind when he said of Johnson: "his bow-wow manner must have had a good deal to do with the effect produced.

Rebecca Solnit

If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.

Nelson Eddy

In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.

Nawal El Saadawi

I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.

R. C. Sproul

The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled and become most aware of ourselves as creatures. This is the opposite of Satan's original temptation, "You shall be as gods.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The opposite of nature is impossible.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

In marriage, as in chemistry, opposites have often an attraction.

David Lee

All these things were on her mind, stewing and stewing. And all these things boiled to the surface in one particular moment.

Kyle Williams

At a meet, if you need him in a particular event, he's there to step up and get points for you when you need them.

Tim Johnson

They seem to be targeting this particular group.

Scott Anderson

I try to find time to umpire and referee, but have had to reduce some of that, in particular the basketball.

Jenni Allen

There is no preordained system of ranking of particular activities. Applications are weighed in total, and we don't privilege any one organization.

Bridgett Marx

Do your research first, and get to know what that particular sport will do for you.

Dennis Felton

The standards of our program are more important than winning any particular game.

Younis Khan

The team that performs better on a particular day will win.

Todd Rundgren

'Something/Anything?' was kind of a different record, since I'm playing everything myself. A lot of the songs on there have a particular kind of instrumentation that is much like a guitar quartet, and in some ways, it's an exceptional song on that record because so much of the writing on 'Something/Anything?' is piano-oriented.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The individual or the group which organizes any society, however social its intentions or pretensions, arrogates an inordinate portion of social privilege to itself.

Sarah Palin

I had the privilege of living most of my life in a small town.

Tori Amos

Being able to still make records is a privilege. I don't take it casually.

Margaret Deland

... when personal happiness conflicts with any great human ideal, the right to claim such happiness is as nothing compared to the privilege of resigning it.

Ani Difranco

Privilege is a headache, that you don't know that you don't have.

Dean Heller

Serving in the United States Senate has been the greatest privilege of my life.

Ali Partovi

Coding is a privilege, but that privilege is not available to most Americans.

Thomas Starr King

What a privilege it is to be an American!

Rick Santorum

A lesbian woman came up to me and said, ‘why are you denying me my right?’ I said, ‘well, because it’s not a right.’ It’s a privilege that society recognizes because society sees intrinsic value to that relationship over any other relationship.

Michelle Monaghan

I will say that 'Source Code' proved to be a very tricky film to shoot.

Folarin Campbell

We proved we can play with anybody. We proved we don't back down from anybody.

Jack Roush

He proved he could keep a truck or racing vehicle off the wall.

Didier Deschamps

Over the two legs, PSV proved they were a better side than us. They are a strong and solid team.

John Gibbons

We wanted to make sure he was all right. He proved that he was today.

Richard Attias

The symbolic significance of individual athletes' achievements has sometimes proved more productive than the negotiations of diplomats or politicians.

Gerry Harvey

If I think something is right, I'll fight for it - always have. If it's wrong or I've been proved wrong, I'll walk away, and I'll apologise.

Robert Lichter

We thought that nothing could top the O.J. Simpson story and this proved us wrong.

Hope Schulte

I don't know what was going on. It just seemed like everything was just going in for me. I just did what I usually do, and (the shots) just seemed to fall.

Chris Williams

It went very well. It seemed to be pretty straightforward.

Nina Alimpic

It seemed to work for her, not for me if I talk.

Gregory Allen

It seemed to me that he was there for her.

Matt Foy

It was unbelievable. Everything just seemed to click. It seems like everything I did went right.

Aaron Miles

It was a long possession. It seemed like 20 seconds.

Fred Williams

I didn't see any survivalists; it seemed to be more for profit.

Lisa Tuttle

I can't remember a time when I didn't write or make up stories, because it seemed to come with reading.

Mike Costello

We seemed out flat-footed in the first and also didn't shoot well.

Scott Simon

Just pretty much staying within myself with my swing and not doing too much with it. That's usually when I'm at my best.

Felipe Alou

He's a tough kid. We're staying with him.

Mari Adam

The trick is staying in the game. If you opt out, you lose.

Gary Brackett

It's exciting. But I'm not one to get content. I'm one for staying hungry. I think we can play better.

Nate Jackson

I've been staying in it mentally. And they'll work me in as they see fit.

George Carlin

Surround yourself with what you love.

Phil Donahue

We'll be staying right here in the neighborhood,

Bobby Jones

We were staying at the University of New Orleans, and it was awful, worse than you can imagine.