Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brad Shaw

Once you've played in the NHL, I think you get a little misunderstood sometimes. These guys, with the salaries involved now and the way they get treated, people can lose perspective that these guys are human, too. Unfortunately, the job they've chosen, you don't get to have a bad day. It helps that I played in this league; it gives you a legitimacy right away ... But I don't know if there's that much advantage to it.

Olli Ahvenniemi

We had a size advantage, so of course they had a little advantage in quickness and speed, so we tried to press the boards.

Bob Wheeler

We wanted to be in the southern part of the country to take advantage of the growth and emergence of these markets versus what we're seeing in the northeast region. The company's intent is to bring local people on board and offer them the opportunity to join us as long-time associates. We're not here to fill 200 jobs from other places. We want to use local people.

Brad Blew

We wanted this game to be an up-and-down game. We felt like we were a little faster than West Fork overall, and they certainly have a size advantage over us.

Megan Baumgardner

We wanted revenge tonight. We used our quickness, speed and height to our advantage and came out with the win.

Gene Allen

We wanted to take advantage of our mismatches. We felt Darnell had not been getting the ball enough lately.

Terry Stotts

We wanted to take advantage of both those guys inside, they finished around the basket. They did a nice job of fighting when they were open.

Mary Lewis

We've grown up a lot. We struggled early in our careers here but we've learned a lot. Going into this year I thought we could do really well. I didn't think we'd make it to the dance. Now we're in it and we want to take advantage of it.

Joe Smith

We've had some tough losses the past couple games. This was a game we definitely wanted to come out and take care of our home games. Take advantage of some mismatches we had and just play basketball the right way.

Life, to me, is like a quiet forest pool, one that needs a direct hit from a big rock half-buried in the ground. You pull and you pull, but you can't get the rock out of the ground. So you give it a good kick, but you lose your balance and go skidding down the hill toward the pool. Then out comes a big Hawaiian man who was screwing his wife beside the pool because they thought it was real pretty. He tells you to get out of there, but you start faking it, like you're talking Hawaiian, and then he gets mad and chases you...

Trudi Canavan

The Magicians Apprentice was about someone from the low end of society manifesting magical power and how that completely messes up the balance of the whole system.

Richard Rohr

It is so important to balance orthodoxy with orthopraxy.

Valerie Cruz

I eat tons of green veggies to keep my PH balance in check.

Roger Ailes

Every other network has given all their shows to liberals. We are the balance.

Robert Redford

When I grew up, shame was used as a tool for check and balance. If you stood a chance of hearing someone say, "Shame on you," or "You should be ashamed of yourself," you thought twice. It doesn't seem to be a factor today.

Virginia Satir

Taste everything, but swallow only what fits.

Sarah Dessen

It’s never something huge that changes the everything, but instead the tiniest of details, irrevocably tweaking the balance of the universe while you’re busy focusing on the big picture.

Sandra Cisneros

I've come to some balance now and calmness. If anything happened to me and I got hit by a bus - I hope this doesn't happen, but if something happened - my body of work is something I could rest on. I don't feel, "Oh God, I have to hurry up . . ."

Alan Nicholl

Twenty-some shots is a tremendous game, offensively. For them not to score a goal, you have to hand it back to our kids; they put up such a great defensive effort.

Jimmy Just

The kids really deserve this. We've just got to step it up on the defensive end.

Josh Hartman

The kids played really well defensively the entire game. I'm proud of their defensive effort. Offensively, we stumbled a little in the third.

Julian Peterson

The last five, six years, we've been pretty much drafting defensive players to run with the Rams offense, ... We match up very well. We're not really threatened by their skill positions.

Steve Salwei

All the girls played well. We had a real strong defensive game today.

Brad Tingey

The mark of this team this year is we just find a way. Whoever is hot or what ever defensive stop we need, it's happened so far.

Robert Pires

All our opponents are now playing the same way. They opt for a very defensive set-up with seven or eight players packed on their side of the pitch,

Hugh Nall

A big part of it is our defensive ends are pretty good. I'm not so sure they're not better than what they were last year because they are improved and the speed is better. It's going to do nothing but make (Hart) better and the other tackles better.

Larry Coker

It sets you back a lot. When you don't practice, you don't get better. Willie has a lot of ability. He needs to get schooled in the defensive scheme.

Mark Shields

Due to the vast quantity of material, it will take some time to review them all, but so far we have observed no celebrities, no politicians, no senior police officers, members of the clergy, or sporting figures on any of the images.

Angie Martinez

The fact that they're taking this service away is disheartening.

Thomas Hobbes

The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History .

Mike Sherman

I still haven't come to grips with the fact that he would be unavailable - because he's always been there, ... But we're not going to put him out there and put him at risk if that's going to be the case.

James Mangold

June and John are the last generation who can sing about these things first hand, ... The fact is, these people grew up in a field and they were singing about what they saw.

Mike Cooley

You know I have not seen people doing back flips about the fact that he's mountain biking. But I think we'll see a few more people getting into it. I know the governor has turned into quite a cyclist, and I think there are other people out there that will probably sample it now that the president has given it a go.

Steve Squyres

Wind has to be involved at some level you figure. Frost might have helped. A frost build-up on arrays could coagulate the dust...but the fact is that we don't understand it very well. But I'll take it.

David Davidson

Whilst I welcome the fact that the minister has taken this step, I am exasperated by the executive's foot-dragging on the need for a replacement crossing.

Keith Cooper

We couldn't get over the hump, but I liked the fact that after they got up 25, we battled back.

Arthur Hardy

We hope it will signify our comeback. The fact that we're down but not out. We're doing it for group therapy.

Cam Newton

The NBA definitely has some trendsetters that stay up on the latest fashion, but I think you're starting to see guys like myself and others get some much-deserved respect in the style department.

Charles Bukowski

Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it. To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art.

Andrew Sullivan

Monsters remain human beings. In fact, to reduce them to a subhuman level is to exonerate them of their acts of terrorism and mass murder — just as animals are not deemed morally responsible for killing. Insisting on the humanity of terrorists is, in fact, critical to maintaining their profound responsibility for the evil they commit. And, if they are human, then they must necessarily not be treated in an inhuman fashion. You cannot lower the moral baseline of a terrorist to the subhuman without betraying a fundamental value.

D. H. Lawrence

I'd be ashamed to see a woman walking around with my name-label on her, address and railway station, like a wardrobe trunk.

Cristobal Balenciaga

Elegance is elimination.

Danny Masterson

I really like fashion, but I'm not a fashionista by any means.

Darren Criss

Fashion is about owning whatever you're wearing, regardless of if it's a high fashion statement or not.

David Harewood

Forget fashion, dress for comfort and for ease of getting through security, so no hats, belts or unnecessary accessories.

Corey Feldman

When God put everybody here, I don't think that he had a master plan of a pecking order. That's not what you see in the Bible. I disagree with that notion, so in my estimation, we've all been put on this planet to share it. It is our duty and our obligation and our responsibility to make sure that we've done so in the proper fashion.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

Amy Robach

Telling my children was the toughest part. But that's when you get strong, because you have to be strong for other people.

Alison Lohman

I mean, I like to think of myself as being strong and independent, but I definitely wasn't like that at 14

Ann Jillian

I wish everybody finds the serenity that good, strong faith brings.

Ann Brashares

She had to have faith not just in trying but in failing. Was she strong enough to fail Was she strong enough not to

Ann Brashares

There were those emotions down there, and though she couldn't quite feel them, they were strong and she feared them. It was like watching a thunderhead from high up in a plane, and though you weren't under it, you knew how it would feel if you were. You knew you'd have to land eventually.

Ann Brashares

She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone. She was ravenous.

Ann Coulter

The most we can hope for is strong marriages. Married women vote Republican; single women vote Democratic.

Andrzej Wajda

In the same period, Polish literature also underwent some significant changes. From social-political literature, which had a great tradition and strong motivation to be that way, Polish literature changed its focus to a psychological rather than a social one.