Famous Quotes & Sayings

Colby Armstrong

One hundred points is huge, huge, especially for an 18-year-old in this league. That's pretty unbelievable. It's definitely something I want to help him achieve. Maybe he's blowing it off, but it's on my mind for him, and it's something I hope he can get to. But I think he's just going to play his game. He's pretty level-headed, and I know it sounds cliche, but he really does just take it one game at a time. And that's good on his part just to stay focused. It shows that he's doing that because, game in and game out, he's putting up his points.

Joseph Abboud

I think we have to have traditional roots, but then make things modern for the 90s. I think it makes us more creative by taking traditional concepts and blowing them out a little bit.

Franco Pavoncello

That in my opinion would be a serious blow in the sense that he would be a convicted prime minister in office,

Lloyd Carr

That's a big blow to us. Our plans were to play him at quarterback this spring. So we'll have to see how that goes.

Lakhdar Brahimi

If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up.

Paul Mooney

My comedy is a nuclear bomb inside my mind. It's a weapon that's never been tested. It just blows up and flattens everybody.

Paul Hornung

Because if it didn't work out, I didn't want to blow the whole day.

Ken Dryden

It was the kind of light blow that is exchanged without notice or consequence hundreds of times in a game.

Ken Follett

President Wilson says a leader must treat public opinion the way a sailor deals with the wind, using it to blow the ship in one direction or another, but never trying to go directly against it.

Thad Schultz

We hope to have at least 50 kids, somewhere between 50 and 75. The people calling are very excited, very positive about what we did last year.

Scott Walker

Certainly political capital-slash-celebrity attention, whatever you want to call it, certainly is part of the reason why I've been reaching out to CEOs. There's a lot of folks who probably would have taken a call from me before but are even more inclined now and are interested in what we're doing because of all the attention.

Paul Nunes

So long as there is a chance that a customer will call you with a problem, you don't really know what the profit is on that particular machine.

I hate it when people say somebody has a ""speech impediment"", even if he does, because it could hurt his feelings. So instead, I call it a ""speech improvement"", and I go up to the guy and say, ""Hey, Bob, I like your speech improvement."" I think this makes him feel better.

Friedrich Muller

That fetter wise people call strong which drags down, yields, but is difficult to undo; after having cut this at last, people leave the world, free from cares, and leaving desires and pleasures behind.

S. Hughes

I was really looking to being wanted . . . to have a place to call home and finish my career out,

Bryan Thomas

I wasn't expecting to go to California. I got the call the day before the North-South game. I came home for Christmas and flew out (Dec. 26). Right after the game we flew back that night.

Charles Dickens

I wish you could make a friend of me, Lizzie. Do you think you could? I have no more of what they call character, my dear, than a canary-bird, but I know I am trustworthy.

Mariano Puerta

I was having dinner in the players' restaurant when the call came.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

There is no land like England, Where'er the light of day be; There are no hearts like English hearts, Such hearts of oak as they be; There is no land like England, Where'er the light of day be: There are no men like Englishmen, So tall and bold as they be! And these will strike for England, And man and maid be free To foil and spoil the tyrant Beneath the greenwood tree.

Alexander MacLaren

Transiency is stamped on all our possessions, occupations, and delights. We have the hunger for eternity in our souls, the thought of eternity in our hearts, the destination for eternity written on our inmost being, and the need to ally ourselves with eternity proclaimed by the most short-lived trifles of time. Either these things will be the blessing or the curse of our lives. Which do yon mean that they shall be for you?

Alexander Pope

Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.

Alexander Pope

Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake.

Alexander Pope

"With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?"-She wants a heart.

Alexander Pope

Every woman is at heart a rake.

Alexander Pope

A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.

Alexander Pope

What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.

Alexa Chung

Nobody goes through life without having their heart broken and one day you'll wake up and it'll be okay.

Charles Bukowski

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart

Alberto Salazar

I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.

Alberto Salazar

I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.

Alfred Kazin

Brooklyn Heights itself is a window on the port. Here, where the perspective is fixed by the towers of Manhattan and the hills of New Jersey and Staten Island, the channels running between seem fingers of the world ocean. Here one can easily embrace the suggestion, which Whitman felt so easily, that the whole American world opens out from here, north and west.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Alex D. Linz

Home Alone was a lot and a lot and a lot of standing and sitting and walking and running and it was physically demanding but in this, I'm doing back flips and riding ostriches. It's physically demanding in a new way, so it's fun.

Alex Garland

When you develop an infatuation for someone you always find a reason to believe that this is exactly the person for you. It doesn’t need to be a good reason. Taking photographs of the night sky, for example. Now, in the long run, that’s just the kind of dumb, irritating habit that would cause you to split up. But in the haze of infatuation, it’s just what you’ve been searching for all these years.

Alex Ferguson

David impresses by his example on the field. He never stops running, he plays with supreme confidence, he always tries his hardest and he scores important goals. (on David Beckham)

Alec Baldwin

Anderson Cooper has a job to do. And that job is to try to reinforce his credibility in the gay community after the fact that you couldn’t get him out of the closet for 10 years with a canister of tear gas. Now he’s the sheriff; now he’s running around writing everybody a ticket!

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Henri Bergson

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Charlie King

Right place at the right time is all I can say about that one.

Gil Brandt

Really? I think for a long time they probably didn't have a quarterback because they were a wishbone team.

Robert Battle

Reflection is not something you have a lot of time for.

Sarah MacLean

If you think back to your time as a teenager, everything was dramatic.