Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julian Barnes

In soccer, the form of the encoded adjective is well-developed.

Chris Wooding

I wanted to write an adventure in the old-fashioned way, something to which I could apply the adjective 'rollicking' and not feel embarrassed. But I've never liked my heroes to be too heroic, so they ended up being a bunch of criminals instead.

Dennis Miller

I've always loved the flirtatious tango of consonants and vowels, the sturdy dependability of nouns and capricious whimsy of verbs, the strutting pageantry of the adjective and the flitting evanescence of the adverb, all kept safe and orderly by those reliable little policemen, punctuation marks. Wow! Think I got my ass kicked in high school?

Tom Allen

One adjective - kind - is repeated by all who knew Peter. Peter was also a devoted husband, father, grandfather and son.

Brian Eno

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

Robert Thomson

disproportionate amount for the use of one mild adjective in a single piece of commentary in the sports pages.

Dick Schaap

Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.

Alan Trammel

That was -- pick an adjective -- brilliant, outstanding. He was on the plate and he stayed ahead of the hitters. He's had seven outings for us, and six of them have been good ones, but this one might have been his best.

Gore Vidal

The word heterosexual is an adjective, the word homosexual is an adjective. They describe an activity. Of course there's a homosexual activity; of course there's a heterosexual activity. But there's no homosexual person. There's no heterosexual person. Everybody is everything.

Mark Foulkes

Kenny Laag was super on that mound, but Andy Reid was the man. He got ahead of a lot of hitters. He took charge out there. It was a big start for a senior, and he really stepped up and shined.

Jeff Cook

James has always been a guitar hero, ... And I've always felt he was a little ahead of his time.

Todd Genke

Jake did a phenomenal job. Got ahead of hitters, made them hit his pitches and our defense played very well behind him ? typical early-season game where pitchers are dominant. We were very fortunate to get this win.

Todd Fairbourne

Jackie threw one heck of a game. She hit her spot 90-95 percent of the time and pitched ahead of the count.

Kim Clijsters

I think it's a compliment but, you know, I've got a tough match ahead of me, ... I'm not really thinking too much about being the favorite because I know what I have to do out there to win my matches.

Jay Wright

I think it changed the game. I think he was way ahead of his time. He caught the country by surprise the year he went to the Final Four. I think even after years he had all that success going to the Final Four, I think that it still took all of us a long time to catch up.

Joe Maddon

He just threw a lot of pitches. They will wear you out. You have to get ahead of these guys and make them swing the bats early because they will pitch count you. They are very capable of that. They have several very good hitters in that lineup.

Rod Carew

He knew the game, he was half a step ahead of everyone else during a game, ... He was always prepared.

Stephen Cohen

He is the only president after John F. Kennedy to be ahead of his government on India.

Ken Hill

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

Charles Warren

I was like, 'Wow,' something's going on here, ... Something good is about to happen.

Ramon Hernandez

I was looking for a fastball. I got it on the good part of the bat. It went where no one could get it.

Carl Pohlad

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

Buck Showalter

Kenny was effective. They've seen Kenny so much. They hit some good pitches for hits. He bent, but he didn't break.

Kevin Towers

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

John Crumbley

(Key West) had a tough week this week, but (starting pitcher Daniel) Foltz pitched a good game. It was good to be in this type of pressure situation.

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.

M. Wolfe

I would think he's worth it. They might not.

Jim Edmonds

I think it might be why I struggled in the World Series,

Ozzie Guillen

He did it all today. He might be in the lineup tomorrow.

Bryan Smolinski

(Hasek) was the reason we won. It was really tough taking those penalties in the first seven minutes, but then we got one at the end and that might have taken the wind out of their sails.

Stephanie Mills

Onstage, you can be anything you want to be. In concert, I might project a different side of myself, but I wouldn't do anything I'd be embarrassed of.

Alphonso Jackson

have come to realize they might not go back to New Orleans.

Andy Reust

It could be a possibility he might run it. At this point, I don't know where I'm going to go with it.

Scott Arneson

I think the proof is in the pudding. The Valley produces state championship contenders every year. Some people might not think that the Valley is that tough, but no one has proven otherwise.

Mike Kemp

I think that might have been a turning point in the game.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Just like my parents immigrated from ranch to ranch picking crops, I have migrated from city to city.

Michael Chertoff

We totally understand what it's like to be sitting on top of a roof or to be sitting in a shelter where it's hot, where you're worried about when you're going to be picked up, where you're thirsty, where you're hungry,

Preston Wilson

He's picked us up all year. It's time for us to pick him up a little bit.

Alan Smith

I don't just want to be a bit-part player and then pick up a trophy.

Matt Holliday

I couldn't pick up his fastball. I just had trouble with him.

Sven Goran

I can in principle wait until May 8. On May 8 I have to pick 23 players and some reserves, 27 players maybe.

Steve Stirling

He is not flashy; he does all the things a smart player does. If I had to pick one player, I'd say it was him (that was most impressive).

Bobby Cox

He got off slow, but he really picked it up. He's been dynamite. ... Right now, he's one of the better leadoff hitters.

Bobby Cox

He got off slow, but he really picked it up, ... He's been dynamite. ... Right now, he's one of the better leadoff hitters.

Patton Oswalt

It’s the method of consumption, not what’s on the plate.

Xiaodong Song

We're talking about 50,000 times that of plate tectonic motion.

Jerry Angelo

We've got as lot of plates in the air.

Randy Johnson

Everything I threw over the plate they hit.

Gabriel Lippmann

I got quite good results from protein plates.

Tom McKenna

He stepped up to the plate and took this like a man.

Phil Gordon

Without hesitation, not only would we step quickly to the plate to participate, but for any request to make changes, we will make those changes,

Doug Castellari

I thought we had a shot at about seven matches. It didn't work out for us. They're an experienced team. We wrestled tough, but they were the better team.

Rick Riordan

Great," Percy said. "Seven of us against Hercules." "And a satyr!" Hedge added. "We can take him.

Walter Scott

If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.

Morgan Freeman

Anyone who spends a significant amount of time with me finds me disagreeable.

Julia Child

I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.

Kato Kaelin

I was at an acting academy for seven years prior to the trial.

Peter Noone

I used to love the Beatles and the Stones and I'd always want to hang out with them, even though they were about seven years older.

Phyllis Diller

I spent seven hours in a beauty shop... and that was for the estimate.

John M. McHugh

One in seven Americans lives without health insurance, and that's a truly staggering figure.

Paul Johnson

I'd like to get one win, ... I'm not thinking about getting six wins.

Richard P. Feynman

Therefore psychologically we must keep all the theories in our heads, and every theoretical physicist who is any good knows six or seven different theoretical representations for exactly the same physics.

Rohit Shetty

All my films have been criticised, but here I stand with six superhits and three 100-crore films!

Warren Farrell

Blacks are six times more likely than whites to be victims of homicides.

Lee Watkins

They'd been there for six generations and it was all gone.

Ralph Stanley

I live about six miles from where I was born and raised.

Juliette Lewis

As early as when I was five or six I wanted to perform.

Josh Hartnett

I get quite fed up being on a film set day after day, six days a week. It can get to be a grind.

Emiliano Zapata

One of the happiest days of my life is when I made five or six hundred pesos from a crop of watermelons I raise all on my own.

Felix Hernandez

I threw it and it just stayed up there. It was an error.

Robert Hogan

He was ducking down, and he kind of stayed moving,

Aaron Brown

He has stayed with me, ... I haven't been able to stop thinking about this child.

Jose Alvarado

I only stayed there for one year though, because I got homesick,

Darrel Mitchell

That stayed with me all night. Then it was pretty much over.

Jason Bowen

They stayed right in there, and after the first 10 minutes, Greenwood was never a threat to us.

Todd Galloway

I tried to (play) through it, but it stayed tight.

Lillian Carter

Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, "Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.

James Long

I've stayed in Hiltons before, but I'd have to say that this was one of the best. They did everything for us.