Famous Quotes & Sayings

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...

Neville Isdell

We have a long way to go in mastering that art, ... As we identified the fact we were under pricing, the pendulum swung too far over to only improve price. The pendulum should be stopped in the middle so we have a proper balance between volume and price.

Shaun Pollock

To protect a defeat and still go down 1-0 in the series is pointless. We've got to give ourselves a chance to win.

Albert Pujols

It's not how you start the season, it's how you finish. If you wind up helping the team make the playoffs, that's what you play for. You don't play to put up your numbers, but to try to get a chance to make it to the World Series.

Bill Delahunt

This is a chance for me to listen and learn. There's no more important and rewarding part of my job.

Bernard Barton

Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot.

Bruce Pearl

To do special things you need have special players and special performances. Obviously you saw one tonight from Chris Lofton. We did a pretty good job of getting him open and guys did a pretty good job of turning shots down to get him shots because he (Lofton) clearly had a pretty good chance of making what he put up.

Rick Dudley

Todd is known as a very good guy in the locker room and is well known for working with younger players. He has a chance to become one of the veteran leaders of this team and we're going to give him that opportunity.

Steve Richey

We had a hard time handling their big man inside. They got a lot of second chance baskets and that hurt us in the second half.

LeBron James

We wanted to be mentally focused. We didn't want to give Portland a chance to get back in it. We did a great job of closing it out.

Steve Bruce

We've had two opportunities and to give yourself any chance here you have to take one of them and unfortunately for us we didn't.

Daryl Patton

We're a pressure team. We're going to give up some big plays at time but overall ... we gave up some big plays but the kids responded usually with something positive right after that.

Caitlyn Jenner

'Esquire Magazine' just gave me 'Father of the Year'. I'll put it right up there with my gold medal. I survived; that's why they gave it to me.

Tommy Hill

It wasn't what I wanted. I'd rather leave here with a third than (leave) with nothing at all like I did last year. I guess I wrestled a lot better once I lost because it gave me the drive.

Marc Bulger

It was sort of a wakeup call. It gave us a little spark that we didn't have. I can't say how much that turned the game.

Bobby Keys

I first went on the road with the Rolling Stones in the year of our Lord, 1969. But my grandfather gave me away to a drummer when I was 15 years old.

Nick Zito

Sometimes running a rabbit works, sometimes it backfires. People have been using rabbits for hundreds of years. The rabbit has to be a good horse because they might not necessarily be able to do the job.

Tom Mihalovich

Sometimes we try too hard. We were trying to make too good of plays.

Kent Mueller

Sometimes we get, I don't want to say unrealistic, but our expectations are awfully high. That's not to take anything away from Madison. We had some lapses defensively, which is not typical. But at the same time, the offense was so good so early, which really isn't typical.

Gerard Houllier

Sometimes we do not know what happens inside ourselves, but the good thing is that it seems a minor thing and he will be back training the team,

Brad Richards

Sometimes those things happen. You put the puck on net and good things happen. Sometimes you are on the right side of the puck.

Ted Epley

Sometimes they just don't go in. We had good looks from inside and out.

Bill Brown

Sometimes there are too many people who tell you how good they are. And Jordan is the opposite. He'll just go out and show you.

Andi Ferris

Sometimes it's harder to hang onto a small lead than it is to come back from one. It's frustrating at times, but it's part of coaching. The ladies did a good job of protecting the ball, and the lead today; we did a good job all-around.

Paul Stewart

Sometimes, it's good to spend more and get quality service that's going to save you money in the long run.

Sete Gibernau

We've done all the work that HRC wanted on the twin and the project has been completed. We were consistently up there with the top guys and that is what HRC wanted to prove.

Scott Weiland

Shoot the bad guys and I'll gladly sing a tune for you.

Scott Westerfeld

it's not called the Rusty Ruins because some guy called Rusty found them.

Steven Tyler

I have a big ego, but I don't buy into it. I can't live off the ego. It's an honor that I get to be that guy onstage. It's not something I earned.

Robbie Lawler

I had never thought about being a professional fighter but meeting Pat [ Militich ] and the guys just pushed me in that direction.

Rider Strong

Maybe that's my lot in life as an actor, to be the guy who gets crapped on everywhere he goes. Oh God.

Richard Serra

Now when you have administrators deciding what sexuality is, and whats a taboo and whats not in terms of content, you got guys, like, Trent Lott who equates homosexuality with a disease.

Randy Quaid

all skinny guys with beards are jerks

Randa Abdel-Fattah

I want to be with one person in my life. I want to know that the guy I spend the rest of my life with is the first person I share something so intimate and exciting with.

Earl Nightingale

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Sam Mendes

You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.

Rosa Parks

I did not want to be mistreated, I did not want to be deprived of a seat that I had paid for. It was just time… there was opportunity for me to take a stand to express the way I felt about being treated in that manner. I had not planned to get arrested. I had plenty to do without having to end up in jail. But when I had to face that decision, I didn't hesitate to do so because I felt that we had endured that too long. The more we gave in, the more we complied with that kind of treatment, the more oppressive it became.

Ron Perlman

I had an opportunity to be in Frank's [Sinatra] circle, but I couldn't take advantage of it because I couldn't get over how awed I was by him. It was so uncomfortable for me because he meant so much to me, but I just couldn't be myself, so I fled rather than having those great nights hanging out.

Susan Rice

Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities.

Steve Jobs

We all have a short period of time on this earth-We probably only have the opportunity to do a few things really great and do them well. None of us has any idea how long we're going to be here nor do I, but my feeling is I've got to accomplish a lot of these things while I'm young.

Steve Case

The pace of change and the threat of disruption creates tremendous opportunities...

Sri Chinmoy

An unaspiring person always complaints. There is no end to his complaints. He bitterly complains even when the blessings of opportunity knock at his very door.

Sri Chinmoy

You fool, You have been dangling For such a long time! When will you seize the opportunity Or feel the necessity To untangle the taut knot Of your bondage-life?