Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Salter

I think you can be taught to write. You can't be taught to be a good writer. For that, you have to bring something to it, yourself, something that can't be given to you.

Ed Comeau

We talk about winning as a team and on any given night we think we have the talent to get all our guys scoring. We want that type of balance; we don't want to rely on (Grant) and Willy to score seven between them.

Maria Semple

I think a novel has to be about where you are at a given moment in time. I think it really needs to represent some specific pain you're going through. it's not just a story.

Jack Kokinda

He's given up one run in the last 42 innings. That's the reason why we're winning. If teams can't score, they can't win.

Gary Patterson

He's given TCU three great years. All you can say is it shows that TCU has arrived.

J. Horton

He's given me all the passes in the world. The least I could do is give him one once in a while.

Ron Gardenhire

He's given everything he has, and that's all you ask.

Denny Green

He's been given a lot of God-given talent, but he's really motivated. He likes to be the best. It's how he sees himself. And he's got an unusual body. He's strong as hell. He's one of the strongest guys in the league.

Ed Orgeron

He was picking it up and was given just enough time for the routes to come open. I don't know if you're going to totally stop him.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

Herb Cytyrn

Jake is a very good skier and I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to sectionals.

Bill Walsh

I would say that we made a lot of good trades, but that may have been the best.

Tim Kohs

Kayla can guard any kid in the state and make them miserable. In the past, I've always had one or two kids who raised the level of the team by their intensity at practice and their commitment. McCarthy and Finn are as good as any kids I've had like that.

Ken Auletta

Journalists prize independence, not teamwork. Journalists understand waste is inherent to good journalism ... that good reporting and writing is hard to quantify.

Bobby Cox

John is not 100 percent. But if he's 95 percent, that's good enough.

Hector Garcia

John has pretty good quickness for a big guy,

Bobby Cox

I talked to Leo and I think he's going home and that's a big thing if a guy can do that. I think it's a good situation for him. He had a wonderful 15 years here and we move on.

Frank Kimmel

He was a grizzly, old veteran, just a real hard-nosed racer, ... He would run all day long, and then all of a sudden with 20 (laps) to go, you would look up and he would be leading the race.

Doug Firebaugh

The life you are leading is simply a reflection of your thinking.

Ryan Routzon

Everyone has to step up. Lucas can't be leading us all the time.

Kevin Schmidt

I have my character actor side as a kid and my more leading man side. It's all been beneficial.

Al Leiter

It's a very big mental game, all day leading up to warm-ups. You're not sure if your curveball will break, or will you be able to throw it over the plate? It's all negative thoughts going into the game.

Terry Hoeppner

We are going to have 200 motorcycles leading us down (Indiana) 37. They are going to be leading us back into Bloomington.

Sean Landeta

Up to that point, our punt team had done very well. Two weeks earlier, I was leading the NFC in punting, and I thought I was punting well, but they thought that they needed to do something to shake things up.

Bobby Howard

We were leading 7-2 in the game. We just didn't get it done.

Joe Kantarik

Make sure that you tell everyone that right now we are leading in points.

Robert Vega

He didn't want to go home. From what we know, he spent the past two nights sleeping in the woods.

Paul Stephenson

I think we were the better side on the night.

David Dinkins

I don't find myself sitting up nights saying, whom should I support?

Richelle Mead

There would be no wedding for me. No bridal hopes. Not with Seth, not with anyone. Those things were lost to me forever. There was only an eternity alone, no lifelong lovers, only those I shared a night with…. - Georgina

Richelle Mead

I lost track of day and night too. My time was divided into Dimitri and not-Dimitri. He was my world. When he wasn't there, the moments were agony.

Renee Zellweger

Sometimes I wake up at night and go, 'Oh, damn! Here we go again! What were they thinking? They gave me this role; don't they know I'm faking it?

Trace Adkins

I don't do the same show on any two nights.

Trace Adkins

I have always loved Waffle House. It's been like an oasis in the desert many times late at night after one of my concerts.

Rick Riordan

Shut up, me" Leo said out loud. "What?" Piper asked. "Nothing," he said. "Long night. I think I'm hallucinating. It's cool.

Tim Gordon

I think what you see is nine very proud parents today because this is our baby.

Michael Owen

He even offered to give up his number nine shirt but I have declined. Number 10 will do for me.

Bobby Bowden

He does that several times during the game, ... And nine times out of 10, he's right.

W. C. Fields

I never smoked a cigar in my life until I was nine

Charles B. Rangel

In the battle of Kunu-ri, more than 5,000 American soldiers were killed, wounded or taken as prisoners of war. Ninety percent of my unit was killed.

Pat Morelli

If she shoots the puck (and misses), nine out of 10 times she's the first one to the puck.

Derek Anderson

I had an opportunity to make a play that I've been making for nine years.

Kevin Bacon

Ninety-five percent of celebrity is good.

Henry A. Kissinger

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Sam Rockwell

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

Sam Worthington

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

Thora Birch

I'm really lucky! I'm just cognisant that I wanna move forward, and people will let me or not; who knows.

Simon Spurr

People can take away your assets, but not your DNA.

Matthew Devost

There are a lot of smart people out there. And they will always find a way in if there is something they want.

Tracy Egeland

I just think we did little things right. As a result, we were able to score some goals.

Al Dyer

The first one is always tough. And the score doesn't tell it this time. That was a tough game.

Josh Betts

It made it not look as bad, I guess, ... I think if we had a little more time, we could have had a better outcome, or better score at least.

Tracy Konopacky

As a team, I thought we really did well. We stuck our landings in the vault, and had two 9-point scores on the floor.

Fred Couples

The way it looks, a winning score of two or three-under is not out of the question.

Dale Scott

To stay with Harlan you have to score points.

Will Blackmon

To me it doesn't really matter, I don't have a favorite. I like to score touchdowns. I like to stop the offense.

Michael Owen

It bothers me when I don't score.

Olli Jokinen

If it was a win and I didn't score any goals, I would be happy.

Darian Townes

It's my first time to see him in person. I'm going to take some of what he speaks about and try to put it in my game.

Seth Vining

That speaks well of the team. But we still have a lot of work to do.

Chanakya

The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.

Chaka Khan

It's time for those of us who have a voice to speak out for life, for love and for justice using the same media we've used throughout our careers.

Camille Paglia

We must take the best from the left and the best from the right to devise new strategies for the global twenty-first century. The reluctance of liberal professors to speak out against rampant abuses committed on their side (e.g., suppression of free speech, the excesses of women's studies and French theory) has simply increased the power of the right.

Arianna Huffington

Failure is not the opposite to success, it's a stepping stone to success. If our primary goal is to be approved of, then we are not going to take risks, we are not going to speak out, we are going to try to blend in.

Sonia Rykiel

Even if I'm in Japan and I don't speak Japanese and the woman facing me doesn't speak French but she's dressed in Rykiel, and she recognizes me, then we have a common language right away.

Gene Robinson

I will always speak out when someone says that a principle or a rule or a tradition trumps people.

George W. Bush

My views are one that speaks to freedom.

Brad Richards

I would say it was one of the better teams I've seen.

Trey Smith

Just the way they work together was really unique. A lot of other teams don't have that.

James Spithill

Going to the gym on my own I struggle with, but when I'm in there with a teammate or a group of guys, it's the ultimate environment.

Alejandro Canizares

He's a valuable player. He's one of the top three on the team, so we had a much weaker team this week.

Sergei Samsonov

He's a terrific player. He's tricky. He makes a lot of plays. He makes that team a lot better. Him being out of their lineup works to our advantage.

Matt Wichorek

I was down on myself. Our team was all over the place.

Danny Embick

I thought they would come back. They didn't want to be embarrassed by a team like us. But I was also thinking three-peat.

Ashley Miles

I think we had more team unity tonight than we've had all season,

Alex Rios

I think we are going to do good. We are not a team that quits.