Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gregory Mankiw

would throw sand into the gears of human progress.

Charlie Sheen

I have one speed, I have one gear: go!

Anthony Rizzo

I have to go with the approach I had in Triple-A. I need to take a lot of those fastballs I am seeing to left field. Also must gear up for the changeup and take them up the middle.

Eric Maskin

I like to work on a number of things simultaneously. If you're working on a variety of projects and if you get stuck on one of them, you can move to another without grinding your gears indefinitely.

Dweezil Zappa

Modern records are all made with virtually identical gear, software plug-ins and everything. Everybody wants everything to sound like the last thing that was popular because they're chasing their tails.

Annie Dillard

Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.

Robert Frost

We disparage reason. But all the time it's what we're most concerned with. There's will as motor and there's will as brakes. Reason is, I suppose, the steering gear.

Ridley Scott

That's part of the policy: To keep switching gears.

Brooke Correia

New memberships in the month of January are at their highest number. The whole industry gears up for it.

Chris Simms

I would say our will to win, our belief in ourselves when the game is getting tight. Last year, we were in a lot of close games but for whatever reason we just didn't find ways to win them.

Mike Massucci

I always believed we would have a good team, but that's all it was, a belief. Tonight is proof that we can be a good team. This is more like what I expected. We have a team that can play fast, and we have a lot of players who can contribute.

George Balle

He did not suffer from a poor education; he suffered from the belief that he had a poor education.

Jim Smith

He considered himself an anarchist, and his core beliefs were developing and supporting people's right to freedom.

Tim Davis

Gupta's work interests me because I think we share something in the sense that we have a belief in the language of our chosen materials and objects.

Raymond Mason

I think the general belief is it will create a very powerful currency and trading capability, and you're going to have to be in the euro to be part of it,

Frank Sr

I think we have the common beliefs that you have to have a solid run game - you have to run the football to be effective. The bottom line on offense is when we step on the field, we have to maximize scoring opportunities and you've got too minimize mistakes. If we can, then we should be able to put points on the board.

John Malone

There is an inherent lack of belief or lack of trust ... and he had to overcome that.

Peter Ligouri

I have every belief that there will be another Idol , there will be another Survivor . I guess we all wake up in the morning in the hopes that it's us that finds it.

William Matthews

Go to the desk. Stay at the desk. Thrive at the desk.

Robert Orben

Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.

Zac Efron

I'm enjoying where I'm at in my life and I feel like I'm learning a lot on a daily basis. I'm learning without having to be behind a desk, so it's a pretty cool place to be.

Chuck Pagano

I've got so many things coming across my desk right now that are nonfootball related, I can't stand it.

Vijay Mallya

I don't like to leave anything unfinished on my desk before I travel.

Markus Zusak

You'll have days of complete lack of faith in your abilities. But you have to keep coming back. That's when you know you're a writer - when you take the failures and appear at the desk again, over and over again.

Fernando Pessoa

I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.