Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas White

He is so out of control with his crack addiction that he is willing to do armed robberies to support it,

Steve Earle

I promise you that I did not become an addict because of anything to do with the behavior of either of my parents. Everybody has to make their own choices.

Andrew Cuomo

What makes you say that a guy who has been on the street for five years and is a heroin addict is any more needy than a woman who is being beaten nightly in front of her children?

George Abbott

I think it's the right model. That has to be part of the continuum of services. The aim is not to keep people addicted to their addictions in the long term. It's trying to get them into a social setting where we have an opportunity to . . . address their addictions issues.

Robert Holden

Laughter is a highly addictive positive contagious: if somebody starts, it's very difficult to stop.

George Sheehan

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

Rick Bender

I don't care what tobacco companies are saying, they're flat out lying. This stuff is addictive, and I still consider myself addicted. I haven't used it in better than 18 years, but I still love the smell of it and I consider myself an addict . . . once you're an addict, whether you stop using or not, you're always an addict.

William S. Burroughs

There isn't a feeling you can get on drugs that you can't get without drugs.

William S. Burroughs

I like the idea of generalizing the narcotic thing by making it black meat addiction.

Bob Swank

Having Scott in the top five made me very happy. We would like to have beaten Western, but we were two points short.

Sandy Botham

Hats off to Butler. They played an incredible game. On top of that they came in with a chip on their shoulder. They haven't beaten us in a while. They came in and played with great confidence and great intensity and held strong.

Mark McGrath

He's a good wrestler, and tonight he wrestled extremely well. Who's to say he wouldn't have beaten Malachi if he'd been healthy.

Michael Neiberg

I think a lot of people were looking for Nortel to make a big deal in the optical space, where they've been making a lot of acquisitions, ... They went a little bit off the beaten track to go into the Web hosting space.

Barry Hyman

I think it's the pattern from pre-announcements to earnings ? these are two companies (Motorola, Yahoo!) that have beaten lowered expectations, beating pre-announcements. When you expand that to the Microsoft story, it makes it even more powerful today.

Erlana Larkins

I think that was really good. If we would have played a team that we would have beaten by 30, that wouldn't have been good for us. We might have gone into the next game and relaxed.

Kevin Bannon

I think some of the sectors that have gotten beaten down the hardest probably offer some of the most promise now. The technology sector clearly, some of the health-care names, more the biotech and technology health-care names than the big pharmaceuticals. But what investors really want to own think are companies with very, very strong top-line growth, and there are very few industries that have those. The old leaders will probably be the new leaders again.

Craig Necci

I was worried about the 140 guy. (Franks) had beaten us earlier, so getting the pin this time was a huge swing for us.

Greg Prioleau

I was working out about 12 times a week. I was tired of seeing kids I had beaten (in other tournaments) wrestling in the state meet. I wanted to be there.

Dan Reynolds

I wouldn't recommend being a musician to anyone. It's not glamorous. It's a lot of being dirty, not eating, playing for five people and one of them is the bartender.

Mark Richt

I would say you're running it up if you've got your first-team players in the game with five minutes to go and you're up by 40. If you're still throwing bombs, maybe that's running it up. I think it's the defense's job to slow people down anyway.

S. Walker

Just under ten seconds...call it nine point five in round figures.

Don Waddell

Just think we're going to have this player for the next five years.

Ken Valiska

Jose has got phenomenal skills. He's got great moves with the ball, a really quick shot, he'll probably be one of our top five starters. I've been very impressed by him. He's a great player with a great attitude.

Peter Donovan

He was a full-time mortgage-broker and poker was a pursuit. He was doing about four or five hours a week, just like we would play tennis or watch TV.

Bobby Frankel

He couldn't have rode a better race, ... She had never been a mile-and-a-quarter before. I wasn't really comfortable until five jumps from the wire.

Jim Courier

He'll be lucky to last five or six years on those knees. What it might have to come down to is playing less on hard surfaces and playing more on forgiving surfaces.

Mike Madden

He literally, probably stood there in shock for about four or five minutes.

Scott Terry

I write about everything in life. Whether it be things that plague us in the world today or what's on the front page of the newspaper or even love, it all comes down to what inspires you.

Dave Freer

just the main front in a war which has nothing to do with Iraq,

Glenn Walters

Josiah wrestled you down in front of your children, upsetting them to the point that they started to cry.

David Rudow

I think it's a good acquisition because it's the front end of development.

David Small

I think it brightens the spotlight on recycling as an issue in front of the General Assembly. It also recognizes that these things take time.

Marty Reasoner

It can be tough getting out of the way when you're standing in front of the net.

Linda Greene

He was a good kid, and he had a great future in front of him.

Lorenzo Lynch

He reminds me of Lorenzo so much, ... master everything in front of them.

Terry Tucker

He's about the only guy we had who could stay in front of that one kid.

Christina Lee

I was just bawling. That's when I realized this guy was for real. His heart is so pure.

Jay Alford

I was looking to them as the guys that make the plays and run around and get to the ball. So that's what I'm trying to do this year.

Joey Miller

I was looking at these guys on TV last year. Now I'm one of them. It's really awesome.

John Doherty

Kevin threw three picks early, but he stayed the course, ... He's our No. 1 man and he kept the rest of the guys pushing. He didn't let anything get to him.

Sonny Lubick

Jake really helped himself. He will be a guy who is hard to keep out of the lineup next fall.

Tim Hanson

Jake is a very talented freshman. Our varsity lineup has some guys that will be running varsity for the first time, so it will be interesting to see.

Hines Ward

Ken has done a phenomenal job of distributing the ball. Every week, it's a different guy stepping up.

DeShaun Foster

Just like those two guys were different kinds of backs, we got the same thing here,'' Skipper says.

Scott Olsen

Just like my last start. You want to go out there and match what the other guy is doing.

Adam Ereli

We want to find needy populations and get them there as soon as possible.

Frank Murkowski

The question is, How do you separate the needy from those who just want a $2,000 handout,

Stephanie Nelson

I think they'll have to do something. I don't think streets can support it.

Maria Rodriguez

You've got to go to the streets to get to the table.

David Brooks

They're from a friend's house. Three streets away.

Al Jarreau

I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.

Bob Marley

You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.

Mark Holleran

The street is a tough place to be.

Daphne White

Do we really want 6-year-olds to become street fighters?

Larry Nelson

Essentially, we are migrating to a 28-foot-wide street in all residential neighborhoods.

Simon McBurney

I feel that if you can play on the streets or in a comedy club, then in a theatre it's a doddle because you've got an audience.

Ona Solomon

I'm a woman of mystery. I can do anything but skinny.

Gina Servedio

It's been a wonderful experience. I think every woman has a story to tell.

Peter Stringfellow

You're only as old as the woman you feel.

Nick Kirby

You'd think a 40-something-year-old woman would have better sense than that, but she didn't.

Hilary Swank

She was a woman very out of her time,

George Granville

Of all the plagues with which the world is cursed, / Of every ill, a woman is the worst.

Ian Mcewan

Shall there be womanly times? Or shall we die?

Oriana Fallaci

The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette.