Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Barnes

Back in the beginning of the season when I was looking at the schedule I knew it was going to be a tough finish for us.

Joey Kalmus

People should not judge us on where we stand at the beginning of the season. If we start 3-7 in our first 10 games, it's OK if I see promise.

Brad Cashman

An unintended consequence of such liberalization has been the often-reported blending of the dark-colored home-team jerseys and the light-colored visiting-team jerseys, creating confusion on the part of players, officials and spectators. Beginning in 2010, that confusion should be eliminated.

Ned Colletti

This is one of the proudest days of my life, if not the proudest, ... From humble beginnings ... I find myself in one of the greatest places, Dodger Stadium, with one of the greatest franchises of all-time.

Marshal Cohen

This is the beginning of the disappearing tag. Smarter merchants are trying this, and if it's done right, the design inside romances the product even more.

Bill Gates

We hope to find a way to resolve this and put it behind us, ... From the very beginning, we've said we would like nothing better than to settle this case.

Charli Thorne

We set out at the beginning of the season to take the next step this year. So I know that in their minds that's their goal, to go at least one step further than we went last year. I think that would be outstanding for us to be able to do.

Thomas Hesse

Everything priced the same was a great thing to do in the beginning of the market. Now it's a good time to move into a tiered market. This whole landscape is evolving. We will be more seeing more of a price differentiation between more desirable stuff and less desirable stuff.

Albert Murray

Jazz music, as is also the case with the old down-home spirituals, gospel and jubilee songs, jumps, shouts and moans, is essentially an American vernacular or idiomatic modification of musical conventions imported from Europe, beginning back during the time of the early settlers of the original colonies.

Michael A. Stackpole

People downloading my stories from the bit torrent sites were never going to buy them anyway. It's no money out of my pocket.

Darren Clarke

Do you want to see guys wearing khakis and white shirts? Or do you want to see somebody a little bit different? There's more to us than just playing golf. I think it brightens it up and makes it a bit of fun.

Simon Grayson

Dean has been a great professional for the month he has been here but he'd been out of football a bit too long to make the step up for us.

Ben Ainslie

Day one was a bit of a disaster and to come back and win a gold after that was just unbelievable. I'm just so happy I was able to turn it around.

Stu Jackson

The teams are responsible for holding the players to compliance. Our teams placed the orders with Reebok. Our teams are responsible for putting the players out on the court with a uniform that is in compliance. To say that Reebok is the issue, I think, is a bit misguided.

Phil Jackson

The team played well enough to win it, but they didn't finish. When you're on the road, you have to do some things to win, because it's a bit extra special.

Sophie Beckmann

The tax code is just as complex as last year, if not a bit more so.

Mark Warner

The Texas thing was a bit of a spanner in the works, ... We had to go to the States and when we came back we only had six days before we went into the studio to record.

Terry Malone

The thing we've worked on quite a bit is being able to finish a game. Three of our four losses were because we didn't finish. So offensively and defensively, we've really focused on finishing. Sometimes it comes down to one or two guys making plays.

Bill Belichick

Any time a player goes from one system to another, one thing that could be a problem is breaking old habits. It's not that you don't understand what the new responsibilities or plays are, but just the fact that you've been doing something a long time - it's a habit - and that's not what's required in the other system. And that means kind of undoing something before you can even start to do something new.

Merab Mamardashvili

A Soviet man is a product of invisible changes, degradation and progressive deformation. Breaking the chain of those changes is hard. Perhaps they are irreversible.

Geir Braathen

The size of this year's ozone hole is approaching an all-time high, but it will probably not break any records.

Michael Huff

Sometimes he'd break into the open field, he'd try to give you a move and try to make you look bad, so it got intense. But if we hit Vince, we probably wouldn't play that Saturday. So we had to back off. Stay away.

Austin Corson

Sometimes I would race in two races, get a one race break and get back on for the next race. After that third race I would collapse when I got off my sled.

Charles Grant

This is a symbolic break with the Delors era.

Andrew Forman

That's just our style of play. We get off the ball, and we try to get double-teams on guys, put all the weight on them. In the second half, they start to break down, and their effort to make plays starts to diminish.

Tom Monahan

That single piece of evidence may break the case,

Joe Barton

You're torn between 'Take care of the people that need taking care of, period' and doing it in a way that doesn't break the bank.

Bob Dole

We know smoking tobacco is not good for kids, but a lot of other things aren't good. Drinking's not good. Some would say milk's not good.

Charles Bukowski

Drink from the well of yourself and begin again.

Haz Iwendi

While they (Briton and American) are having a drink ... they were kidnapped ... and taken a way.

Sorin Cerin

The real wise man will listen to the symphony of silence and drink the water of forgetfulness to understand the sense of his emptiness.

Donny Osmond

I had a rough spot about being a goody-goody Mormon, and not drinking or smoking. But I'm kind of grateful I've got this image now. There are no skeletons in my closet. What you see is what you get.

Diogenes

What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.

Dean Martin

I was so drunk last night I fell down and missed the floor.

Dave DeCecco

Soft drinks are a big part of it but they are just part of it.

Irish Proverb

Good as drink is, it ends in thirst.

Kirk Hinrich

Something went off in our heads -- maybe we were playing not to get embarrassed. If we started the game the way we played the second half, we're going to be tough to beat. We have to come out with more energy and focus.

James Jones

Ross has been really steady for us. He gave us a lot of energy off the bench.

John Ryding

Energy prices do matter, especially to the public's perception of inflation.

Peter Beutel

Every time energy prices triple we have a major recession in 1½ to 2 years.

Tony Fadell

You have to look at why people come and work at Nest. Part of it is that a lot of people here already know each other, but we're also on a mission with a purpose. People are personally motivated by energy or safety.

Donald Trump

I'm all for alternative forms of energy, including wind, including solar, et cetera. But we need much more than wind and solar.

Greg Brunner

The place was crazy, and we just fed off that. The fans gave us the energy that we needed.

Niels Bohr

Must have something to do with the zero-point energy.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Nuclear energy is our right, and we will resist until this right is fully realized.

Lee Humphrey

As a shooter you can tell when your shots are going good. Tonight I felt good, especially in the second half.

Brandon Jenkins

I've never felt this way. I never lost this many games in my two years here. We're just a young team. We've got to get tougher.

Lynsey Addario

I've always wanted to do a photo book, but I've never done one because I've never felt ready; I just didn't feel my work was good enough.

Ben E. King

I always felt I never chose music, it chose me.

Andy Roddick

First round of the U.S. Open, the last time that happened I was 17. It's not something I expected. You know, I just felt like I was going to have a pretty good run here.

Gloria Naylor

I wrote what I felt I had to write, and I'm willing to put my own sanity and my reputation behind it.

Grace Paley

Writing poetry, which for me was then saying how I felt about this and that, didn't help me to understand the world I lived in.

Michael Christie

Bernstein's presence will be felt throughout the season.

Dave Osborn

Blackstone felt they weren't able to pay that fee, so we're going to go forward with tearing it down.

Bela Lugosi

Death, the final, triumphant lover.

Cameron White

To get to the final would mean everything.

Neil Tovey

There is still a lot of room for improvement. If he works on his final touch he would be able to score many goals because he can position himself very well.

Dorothy Day

The final word is love.

Mikhail Youzhny

I am really happy because I finally won a tournament after two years, ... I had been playing well but, for some reason, I couldn't win a tournament.

Kiaran McLaughlin

She finished second so many times, and I'm glad she finally got a graded stakes win. She's a very good filly.

Jeff Probst

I finally met someone who could teach me about love.

Shaun Micheel

Much like the PGA championship in 2003, I bogeyed the final three holes on Saturday and I fared pretty well, so that won't stay with me for long,

Jerramy Stevens

I think so. We're finally getting that respect we've been wanting all year.

Gary Edwards

We were just holding on. When we tried to get that push, we just didn't have it.

George Becker

China's a rogue nation, ... We should hold our congressional leaders accountable.

Bengie Molina

I got a hold of it. I didn't think it was going to stay fair, but it did.

Steve Cummings

If you are going to sit on it, you want it to hold you.

Robert Mahon

I wouldn't hold out a lot of hope.

Nick Reid

He's our secret weapon. We've been holding him out the first two games. We let him loose today.

Brent Guy

I'm hoping this week is going to hold up. We had about everything last year.

Pete MacArthur

That was tough. There's no sense in trying to hold it back.

Jack Baker

While the Dow has been fluctuating, it's positive that the Nasdaq has been able to hold on.

Elena Dementieva

I usually start to play well when I'm in trouble.

Seth Godin

Keep starting until you finish.

Frank Robinson

One thing he has to start doing, he has to start being productive. He has to, because you can't keep going 0-for-3, 0-for-4, 0-for-4, 1-for-4, that type of thing, from the top of the lineup.

Bobby Labonte

If we start off and we're not in the top 10, we're going to be there before long,

Jack Rio

If Byron doesn't have any setbacks, he's our starting quarterback.

Mark Recchi

Hopefully, it's a starting point. That's what we have to look for right now. We're getting better.

Jermaine Wiggins

Man, that ain't even a thought for me, ... I can't get into that world. I've been around too long to start something like that up.

Charles Davis

That was his first start and he was sharp.

Sergei Brylin

That's the way you want to start on the road.

Mike Gold

We are taking a robust, step-by-step development approach,

Wellington Mara

I'm not taking that. Go ahead, it's here, just take it.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

Never stand and take a charge... charge them too.

Catherine McCormack

I'm so glad this is the last day of these thing, I get so tired of listening to my own voice.

bell hooks

My students tell me, we don't want to love! We're tired of being loving! And I say to them, if you're tired of being loving, then you haven't really been loving, because when you are loving you have more strength.

Amin Maalouf

life is not so long that one can grow tired of it

Rosa Parks

I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.

Stuart Scott

So live. Live. Fight like hell. And when you get too tired to fight, lay down and rest and let somebody else fight for you.

St. Jerome

The tired ox treads with a firmer step.

Ringo Starr

No, no, no, I don't snort no more, I'm tired of waking up on the floor. No thank you please, it only makes me sneeze, then it makes it hard to find the door.

Pauly Shore

When you're onstage, it's important to try and feel some type of therapy in getting the material out, because then you don't leave the stage so tired. If you're onstage and you're doing the same routine over and over, then it gets monotonous. You want to be able to try to get to the truth constantly, and I think the more you do that, the easier it is.

Kobe Bryant

I was a little tired at the end, but I was motivated.

Patrick Smith

That play took a lot out of us.

Alice Temperley

If you took some of the behavior that you see in the fashion world and put it anywhere else, it would just be embarrassing.

Tom Daschle

He took charge, and it made a big difference,

Kenoy Kennedy

I think I took off before he started to slide. I'll take a look at it on the film.

Pete Carroll

It took all day long to get this win, ... It took every second.

Hassan Adams

We were well-prepared. It took us a week to get ready.

Terry Francona

Once you give up five, ... if they peck away and get one here and get one there, it makes it tougher to win.

Steve Barrow

We think it is unlikely, but it's a tough call.

Sugar Ray Leonard

The Ricky Hatton that beat Kostya Tszyu in 2005 can beat Floyd Mayweather, he was so focused and in such amazing physical shape that he would have given anybody at that level a tough time.

V. S. Naipaul

I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.

Jack Rio

He said he'd be back. That's a tough man.

Ryan Herrs

I think having Tommy back makes us a much tougher team.

Jayne Meadows

Marriage, even the best marriages are tough.

Budd Schulberg

You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going

James Broughton

I like things which appear fragile but are tough inside.