Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Stross

For a sampler, you could try my short story collection "Wireless". Which contains one novella that scooped a Locus award, and one that won a Hugo, and covers a range of different styles.

Bobby Bragan

I've been in this game since 1937. My biggest thrill was when I was in Milwaukee and I told them I was leaving. It was the loudest ovation I ever got.

Liz Eilf

I am really excited. This is our biggest entertainment event and it could generate some really good funds for community services.

Teju Cole

I am suspicious of writers who say their work is original and influenced by nobody. If it is, it is probably uninteresting. The biggest source of novels is other novels.

Anthony Wall

I am thrilled because this is the biggest check of my career. I was pleased with the way I finished as I played a lot of good shots.

James Corden

BBC3 even started their biggest shows, like Jack Whitehall's 'Bad Education,' they premiered on the iPlayer a week before it went on TV. I think it should always be at the forefront of what is fresh and exciting, and therefore it should be the first channel to exist online.

Ron Lee

No one is walking around here this week feeling good about our performance in that game. We felt like we let the team down. The biggest thing is, they're embarrassed. At the same time, we've got a chance to grow from that. You don't want it to happen. But it happened and you can't let it happen again. How do we rectify it? By going out and taking care of the little things.

Larry Harris

Morality is the biggest misconception. People also think we're the big spenders and for big government. We're the party for the people and for helping people, and we're for government that works.

Jim Oberweis

Money may be one of the challenges that she will have. I don't think that will be my biggest challenge.

Andy Roach

No, I don't. It depends on the goalie, I like to see what he likes to do, ... Some goalies play more for a shot while other goalies play for the deke, so that's the biggest determining factor in what I do.

As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling? Sometimes it seemed that way. - Deep Thoughts (Saturday Night Live)

I have to laugh when I think of the first cigar, because it was probably just a bunch of rolled up tobacco leaves

Jody Jenerette

We've been down for a while, but we're a gutsy football team. Our kids had a bunch of opportunities to give up, but they kept responding.

Michael Beasley

It was an honor to be a part of history, but honestly I don't remember all the games we've played. I do remember the trips, though, and that's what we will miss the most ? all those good times.

Bobby Frasor

Every game we've progressed and we're starting to get things clicking, starting to turn the corner.

Greg Cronin

Every game we've played has been close. We haven't had the third-period luck to get us over the hump, but they have been very good games, right down to the wire.

Brad Podevels

Every game we've had somebody step up. That's the great thing about this team. Today, it was Seth. He knew what his role was and did a great job.

Erin Aitken

Every game we had was important to stay in the hunt. We knew how important the games were. It wasn't until about the last game that we could relax a little.

Kyle Levins

Every game that we win, it's going to be less and less pressure. We've just got to sharpen up the sticks.

Larry Brown

Every game matters. At the end of the year, this is what they do: They put the wins and losses up. Obviously, we're not going to make the playoffs, but I think the important thing is you get better. Hopefully, that's what we're trying to do.

Kerry Joseph

Every game is important. We've just got to play better football. We let them take it to us.

Phil Anderton

At no point have Rangers been given confirmation that they would receive 3,600 tickets for the game on 18 March,

Bobby Bowden

As I look back on my 51 years of coaching, ... that is the hardest thing to explain.

Chris Ahern

What I've tried to tell them is that it's an acknowledgement of their hard work, but not to let it go to their heads. They still have to go out and work hard every single day in order to maintain it.

Jake Voskuhl

We go out and play hard every single night. That's the one thing that we do every night. We may not win the game, but we play hard and have fun.

Mike Stoops

We give up too many big plays defensively. We are inconsistent. That has been our nemesis for the last year and three games. We have a hard time with consistency.

Lindsay Duda

This year proved that if you work hard and you have a lot of heart, you can really do anything.

Matt Davis

We are trying to improve on our 4-6 record. The kids worked hard this offseason, and this is the most seniors we've had since I've been coaching.

Eddie Jordan

We're going through some hard times. Let's see how tough and resilient we are.

Dennis Shaffer

We're trying to get our name out there more and get a following. It's hard to do that with the originals. We're trying to get people pulled in first, then we'll throw some original music at them.

Mike Dement

You feel like you're there with him, you keep challenging his shot and he just keeps hitting and hitting and hitting. We worked hard to stay with him in our defense, but he hit lots of shots.

Demi Lovato

As a kid I'd play with homemade recipes, like putting pineapple on my face to exfoliate my skin and doing facial steams with lavender or peppermint oils. I just loved doing stuff like that. It's what motivated me to launch my skin care line.

Andy Kindler

Maybe Bill Maher should just practice his monologue a few times before the show, so he wouldn't find it so hilarious. But I kid the asshole.

Andy Murray

I try to anticipate the ball well. That's something that's helped me since when I was a kid. Just learning to anticipate and read the game well. That's helped me. When I moved over to Spain and I was 15 I was playing with big guys who were 22 years to 28 years old and I was 15 so I couldn't beat them with power. I had to beat them with touch shots and variety and anticipation and all of those things. I learned a lot when I was over there.

Andrew Dice Clay

There was an old lady who lived in a shoe. She had so many kids... her uterus fell out!

Anthony Hopkins

I've always been hopeless at everything when I was a kid. That's why I became an actor - 'cause I couldn't do anything else.

Anthony Hopkins

Well, everyone likes movies when they're a little kid.

Anthony Hopkins

Ryan Gosling. He was a good kid, good actor. I like him very much. What was the name of the movie? I've forgotten it. Fracture.

Alison Bechdel

I never really read superhero stuff as a kid.

Alicia Keys

I think you are who you are, and your kids will see who you are. So you'd better be a good person, because they are going to see it, and that's going to shape them. They are going to become you.

Joby Scroggs

We knew going in that they were going to zero in on Kevin, who still had 115 yards in the game. Now, we've got another weapon - teams have to prepare even harder.

Patricia Clark

I knew I was going to not remember it because there was too much going on, ... So, when I ran down the street and got the plate number, I yelled to the girls: 'Remember this!'

Sven Eriksson

I knew yesterday that he had more than one fracture. That's what I heard. I don't know what that means, but I'm not that pessimistic.

Roger Clemens

I knew when the skipper looked at me and said, 'Put your things on,' he wasn't kidding. So I went out to the bullpen.

Erek Hansen

I knew as soon as I got my fouls, it got them energized. Then they just really went at us inside.

Roger Butler

The minute I interviewed him I knew we had the man, but we didn't have any evidence.

Devin Harris

I'm not much of a newspaper reader, but I like to write stories. I thought I knew how to write a newspaper story, but in reading the textbook there's a lot to it, and I'm not just saying that.

Carolyn Scott

To me this was a formality....We knew he was guilty. And I just want people to know the devastation it has been to our family.

Charlotte Bronte

Ever after that I knew what I was for him; and what I might be for the rest of the world, I ceased painfully to care.

Bobby Knight

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

Johnny Giles

Home advantage is usually an advantage to the home team

Michael Jordan

I can remember a game, we were down with about 5 to 10 points, I go off about 25 points, we come back and win the game, we're walking off the floor. Tex (Winter) looks at me and says "There's no "I" in team!" I looked at Tex and say, "There's not, but there's an 'I' in win!

Cathy Martin

She tends to take the team on her back. The team relies on her to lead.

Jim Harbaugh

I love people, I really do. I'm a people person. I think that's a strength of mine. I love being around people, especially in a team setting.

Jacqueline McKenzie

I love being part of the team.

Gary Neville

When you join this club as a young player you know you've got a mountain to climb to get yourself into the first team. (on Manchester United)

Jack Brickhouse

Any team can have a bad century.

Jay Leno

A Pakistan businessman is claiming that John Walker Lindh is gay and that he was his lover. Say what you will about Lindh, but when this guy goes to play for the other team - he goes all the way ... So Lindh may be both a terrorist and a gay man. That may be John Ashcroft's worst nightmare.