Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gayle Lynds

For a decade, I was a stay-at-home mom. I sent my husband to his law office, sat on PTA boards and baked cookies - great cookies. All of a sudden, I had no husband, no job, few prospects, and two small children who had grown accustomed to eating.

Greg Davis

There's going to be some ups and downs. ... A couple of times they didn't play to the standard that they're accustomed to, and I think we'll see the very best of it.

Yevgeny Adamov

By 1998, the Americans got accustomed to the fact that people in Russia must listen to them and they don't have to listen to anyone here,

Roger Nelson

We have such large fields they kangaroos are almost as if they would be in the wild. But they do become accustomed to people.

Rudolf Otto

Heavy pillars, carved from the rock, bear the roof. Slowly, one's eyes become accustomed to the dim light; then they can make out marvelous representations from Indian mythology carved on the walls.

Philip Schultz

I'd grown accustomed to seeing myself as someone who, if fallible and unworthy, had nevertheless managed to do one thing well enough to get recognition for it.

Roger Ebert

I don't think he's an a-, ... But if he's going to persist in making bad movies, he's going to have to grow accustomed to reading bad reviews.

Pankaj Mishra

I am often struck by the anxious inferiority many well-educated British people display towards the U.S., particularly Londoners dazzled by New York, when many postcolonials are accustomed to regarding Britain's old imperial cosmopolis as the true capital of the western world.

Cynthia White

College can be overwhelming, so we see a lot of them start out, then drop out after the first semester because they just can't handle it. They need time to get stable, to get economically accustomed to the stresses of trying to live on their own.

Rick Stockstill

As far as the class, I'm not one to stand up here and talk about this guy and that guy and say, 'We beat this team or we beat that team on a player.' That's just not my style. We are excited about this class. I think the big thing in it is what I have said since I've been here, which is I want to surround myself with winners.

Jim Calhoun

A No. 16 seed is going to beat a No. 1. The gap is closing.

James Blake

Any of the top 100 guys in the world can beat any of the top 10 guys on a given day,

Phil Garner

Sometimes, I like to see a guy get beat up a little bit and see how he reacts. I like to see what a guy does when that happens - 'cause you're going to get it every now and then.

Tim Brewer

Teams that we play that normally beat other teams weren't doing that this year. What are you going to do? You've got to play who you get.

Richard Manning

Technology is needed not to beat the fish, but to beat other fishermen. The fish would still come back... if we would wait.

Ren Zamora

Telecom infrastructure got beat up so much after 2000 and now going forward, there's some stabilization and near-term demand. It shows you there are cycles,

John Hannah

Terrence had one of his best days. In the finals he was down early but worked to beat Raymond's Walter Crow (by a 6-3 decision), who was fourth in state (last year).

Rod Barnes

(Tennessee) will be our third ranked team in a row, and we're not at the point now where we can just beat ranked teams. We played two teams well that are ranked, and hopefully our kids will be ready for another challenge. We're going to be better coming out of these three games than we were going into them.

Keith Newman

Defensively, I think we've got to get off to a better start than what we have. I think we've got to go out there and set the tone early in the game.

Jake Shields

I've only seen two of his fights, and it was hard to get a feel for him because he had his man on the ground most of the time. I'm going to have to feel him out early on and see what he's got.

Brian Jones

The September report was taken too early to get the full effect.

Dave Moates

That's high school baseball. It's not earth-shattering. It's early in the year, too. They have to learn to pitch and play in games like this to be successful in games like this in April.

Bob Cook

We have incorporated the teachers into an early intervention team which visits all our nurseries up to twice a week.

Dana Altman

We've won some games we shouldn't. We probably lost some games we should've won. We just need to focus on getting better. If a few weeks down the line we're still in the hunt, we can talk about it later. But it's too early for our team to be talking about anything like that.

Frank Schade

Early in the year we would have been fouling in that situation. Toward the end of the year we've gone away from that.

Barry Trotz

Early in the year we were getting a lot of grief from people, saying you're playing some teams that aren't quite as strong. But they were strong teams, we just sort of got their number early.

Ramon Ortiz

Early in the year, we know what happened. I didn't feel too good. I was scared about the groin. I feel good now, and everything is working. I don't feel anything in the leg.

Brian Perry

The older they get, the harder they are to find parts for,

Riley Wallace

(Substituting is) our job. They need to play hard and we need to watch them.

S. Walker

Once you hook them up and they start pulling that sled, they just want to go and go and go. The hard part is to reel them in.

Brian Fanelli

Once you get down by 12 or 13 and you get it all the way back to two it's hard to sustain and keep going.

Clarence Curry

Once you get a taste of making it in the NFL you don't want to go back. I just want to play hard and become part of the organization.

Robert Davies

Sometimes, it's hard to tell people what to do.

Frank Ostanik

Saint Martin's knows that the only way they can win is to play as hard as they can and they did that tonight. My hats off to them, because they took us out of everything we wanted to do.

Jonathan Turley

Prosecutors haven't revealed everything they have, so it's hard to render judgment on them.

Joah Tucker

Put on a hard hat and come play.

R. Robinson

We wish we were playing for something, but we're playing for pride and that's a big thing in itself. Also, just to let 'em know that, hey, if things worked out a little differently, this is what y'all would've got.

Rodney Atkins

With videos, I find I'm better off if I'm playing a role inside of it. The more you do it, the more you understand it.

Jim Thome

I got to see more pitches. I got over 30 at-bats in three days. When I got back to playing in the regular games, it just seemed to click.

David Perno

Hopefully, he'll keep playing that type of baseball.

Rosario Dawson

That was something that we really worked on, not repeating ourselves. But I was like, 'This is not going to be a problem because I'm playing a woman.'

Jeff Carter

That was one of the big things when they talked about playing me there at the start of the season.

Ilya Bryzgalov

I wasn't nervous. It is hockey. Why am I supposed to be nervous? I'm relaxed just playing the game.

Charles Rhodes

(Mason) is playing like a different team now.

Annika Sorenstam

Liselotte was wondering who she was playing with.

Li Zhaoxing

They were so indifferent. They simply said, 'Well, we're sorry.' Then they shrugged their shoulders and walked away.

Jamie Spencer

We've got two different teams here. It's like this every year.

Bernie Bickerstaff

Most teams that you have, they have one or two go-to guys. They've got a go-to team.

Jamelle Cornley

We can play with anybody, teams know that.