Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brad Holland

Win and we have a two-game lead plus the (head-to-head) tiebreaker. Obviously, finishing third or fourth and getting the bye is important.

E. O. Wilson

We couldn't get a shot when we needed one. We had trouble scoring on the perimeter all night. I guess (finishing) second is better than 30 something. Maybe later on down the road we'll be thankful for finishing second. ... I'm glad for (Miller) though because if I couldn't win it, I'm glad he could.

George Burley

Just because I think finishing third would be a good season does not mean we don't want to finish first

Joey Devine

I'm starting off strong, but the most important is finishing strong.

Pete Wilson

We haven't been finishing games lately. I'm not sure if we get too relaxed or what really is going through the girls' heads, but we have to concentrate on that. We have to learn to never let down our guard and finish the game.

Mark Larson

We are putting the finishing songs on our regular release.

Michael Campbell

Fortunately enough I managed to stumble over the finishing line,

Vince Strine

We're playing some good teams very close. We've improved a lot, we just don't have that finishing touch yet.

Bernie Bickerstaff

He has been very efficient. His shot selection has been much better and he's finishing going to the basket.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'

Wendelin Van Draanen

Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!

Jose Diaz

The police are not very nice in Mexico. And you learn that growing up.

Sharon Doering

The patents that are expiring make up a significant portion of their results. They're not going to be one of the top growth stories -- probably only single-digit (percentage-wise) in 2000 and 2001.

Tiffany Shlain

The past year has been one of outrageous growth for the Internet, and it's not only become bigger, but better... more substantial and more mature.

Brooke Smith

I remember seeing 'A Moon for the Misbegotten' with Colleen Dewhurst, and that made a really big impression on me, and I remember wanting to be like her and I still want to be like Colleen Dewhurst! My mom took me to a lot of theatre growing up, and I also remember seeing Pippin and being like, 'Wow!

C. S. Lewis

If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally.

C. S. Lewis

When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. A man does not always say to himself, "hullo! i'm growing up." It is only when he looks back that he realises what has happened and recognises it as what people call "growing up.

C. S. Lewis

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

John McGinnis

We could harvest day after day after day.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Demosthenes

The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.

Pamela Wilson

The kids have been just wonderful this week, ... They were interested as much in talking about the hurricane as they were the harvest tax in China.

Hayes Harbour

The next surprise was when I got ready to harvest some needles some ten years later. You can't harvest anything on that (cost-share program) land. Nothing. Not even pine needles. So, I got out of the program.

Dave Heineman

Diesel fuel is too important to our farmers at harvest time and to the truckers delivering commerce across Nebraska to allow a bureaucratic hurdle to slow the delivery of fuel.

Rob Clarke

We didn't harvest it, we didn't process it. We would never have knowingly distributed questionable material.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap.

John Bradley

This material does look very primitive. This is material we can work with. We can harvest science from this.

Gillian Armstrong

I have major credibility as a hip, out-there documentary filmmaker, and I'm not going to say, 'I'm only a drama filmmaker' anymore.

Buck Leonard

I was not bitter by not being allowed to play in the major leagues. I just said, 'The time has not come.'

Bryan Cogman

I hate when the major event of a show I watch is spoiled for me. And I'm wracked with guilt when/if I spoil something for someone else.

Bridget Kelly

For me, the majority of my music is really dark and to the point.

Frank Pierson

There's no question that the '70s themselves were really wide open. There was just so much being done at that time. Every year, the major studios were commissioning things that they would never touch today or even thought of touching in the 1950s.

Tony Benn

The anti-war movement now represents a majority in the country.

Steve Forbes

The American administration is making a major mistake, trying to pressure the Chinese. I wish we'd back off.

Sue Enquist

The ASA Major Championship is the pinnacle of women's major softball during the summer. I'm really proud of all the players that contributed to that team.

Arlen Specter

We have a major, major problem on our hands, ... It is a matter of very, very substantial urgency.

Mohammad Saeedi

We are in the transition state, and the inspectors will work under the NPT.

Bill Vaughan

It doesn't set off any alarm bells. As is typical with T. Rowe, no transition comes about abruptly; they tend to be planned pretty well.

Chaz Bono

When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in my life and how they would react to it and would I be rejected?

Alan Dundes

Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations.

Brit Hume

It's perfectly possible for somebody to make the transition from politics to journalism.

Brandon Sanderson

It seems that the rebels found the chaos of transition more difficult to accept than the tyranny they had known before. They joyfully welcomed back authority-even oppressive authority-for it was less painful for them than uncertainty.

Alfred Rosenberg

We are the transition from one education to the other.

Ann Brashares

There was a moment in between, a moment flung free in the midst of the transition, when he made contact. That was the moment she would dwell on.

Doug Freeman

It's a little gut-wrenching for me for us to have to make this decision, but at least we were able to transition into something new.

Carrie Fisher

Waiting, done at really high speeds, will frequently look like something else.

Carrie Underwood

I would love to see more women making their mark in the music that I love so much ... There are so many more out there just waiting for their shot. I hope they get it!

Carl Safina

But one doesn't wait for a revolution. One becomes it.

Bill Bryson

Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen.

Bill Bryson

In the countryside, litter doesn't have a friend. It doesn't have anybody who's saying, 'Wait a minute, this is really starting to get out of control.'

Bethenny Frankel

You choose happiness. You don't wait for it to choose you.

Bill Burr

I don't mind it. I just space it out. Every other week I go out. I used to get some time to myself but I've been pretty busy lately. But I've had it the other way, where I'm staring at the phone waiting for it to ring, so this is definitely better.

Bill Hicks

The role of the comedian is to say 'Wait a minute' when a consensus starts to form.

Ken Henderson

We have been waiting all year to put it all together.