Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Swisher

We've had this stretch before, and we've bounced right back. The difference is, there's a lot more riding right now. We've just got to dig deep, keep plugging along and see what happens.

Tom Miller

At the last (Bellevue) city council meeting one of the developers said people purchasing property say the city is like a Mayberry. Melbourne is a quaint little town along the river.

John Fiore

At the time when we played Woburn, they were still missing their quarterback and hadn't gotten their passing game back on track yet, ... Wakefield, with its passing game was really difficult to defend. The difference when we played them was that Wakefield's passing attack was further along for obvious reasons because they've been healthy.

Barbara Turner

Concentration and composure, when we lose those two things, that's usually when we struggle. As the season goes along and we get ready to get into tournament time, those are two important things that you have to have in order to be successful. Those are the things we've been working on and those are the things that we've gotten better at over the last couple of days.

Herman Edwards

Did we think he was going to be 100 percent? No. We knew we'd bring him along. We thought we brought it along all right.

Nancy Long

Diligent practice and preparation in the next two months, along with their classes with Mr. Leck, will transform our children into artistic musicians. It's my desire as their teacher that they be inspired to continue to develop their musical talents and develop a lifelong appreciation of great music.

Laurence Sterne

Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading! Take them out of this book, for instance, --you might as well take the book along with them; --one cold external winter would reign in every page of it; restore them to the writer; --he steps forth like a bridegroom, --bids All-hail; brings in variety, and forbids the appetite to fail.

Laura Blackann

To suggest the reason he signed a letter along with 35 other members of Congress opposing the establishment of a casino was because of anything other than his long-held anti-gaming position is both ludicrous and insulting.

Niaz Siddiqui

We are suspecting that the suicide bomber came to the venue along with a small rally, which merged into the gathering. He was close to the stage . . . and he blew himself up when the prayers were nearing their end.

Margaret Thatcher

Why do you climb philosophical hills? Because they are worth climbing. There are no hills to go down unless you start from the top.

Marta says the interesting thing about fly-fishing is that it's two lives connected by a thin strand. Come on, Marta. Grow up.

Bob Eason

We had a lot of good talent. Overall, of our 11 offensive starters, I think seven got full rides.

John Torchetti

I think I have to get them better prepared for the next game. I'm the coach, I'll take full responsibility.

P. J. Harvey

It'd be a good first full season for me.

Susan Gordon

We haven't seen the full peak of the storm. It may be later in the day around 4 or it could be that the peak will be less intense than we thought.

Mike Riley

You can go full speed with tackling for this long, but if you do everything but tackle, you can go this many more reps. And that's what we are looking for.

Gabriel Jafet

You just take one peek at what's going on in overseas markets and you'll feel like selling here. The market is full of sellers.

E. O. Wilson

We were never able to get that full momentum back and actually get ahead. They were able to get up on us and every time we tied it up they were able to turn it up a notch and we didn't match it.

Rob Honzo

We were missing a lot of the varsity. If we had our full lineup, I think we would have walked away with a win.

Mark French

We were able to come back, but not the full distance.

Rusty Wallace

The racetrack said, 'You get a release from the judge, we'll let you race,'

Bobby Hamilton

I don't think you can do it with 10 races to go in trucks because we only run 25 races,

Malcolm X

America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem.

Mark Twain

I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small way or a large way.

Katherine Heigl

We are all human beings, part of the human race, and we need to be compassionate and giving and kind with one another.

James Lankford

Race and sexual preferences are two different things. One is a behavior-related and preference-related and one is something inherently - skin color, something obvious, that kind of stuff.

Joan Fontaine

You know, I've had a helluva life. Not just the acting part. I've flown in an international balloon race. I've piloted my own plane. I've ridden to the hounds. I've done a lot of exciting things,

Jimmy Cannon

Joe Louis is a credit to his race - the human race.

Jimi Hendrix

Be respected as being new, and probably a decent change or a help for the human race or whatever, instead of keep carrying the same old burdens around with you.

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.

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!

Aldous Huxley

Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right

Alia Shawkat

American shows can go on for 20 years. I respond more to the British format. Three seasons is a long run for them to tell a story.

Ali Smith

You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, 'I'm a writer,' it would be gone. You wouldn't see anything for miles - even the dust would be running away.

Adolf Galland

As a fighter pilot I know from my own experiences how decisive surprise and luck can be for success, which in the long run comes only to the one who combines daring with cool thinking.

E. O. Wilson

The solutions like freezing zygotes, fertilized eggs, of all kinds of animals and so on, or keeping them in zoos and having arboreta where we have trees, all these things have been promoted. Even getting the complete genetic code of various fishes so we can let them pass away and then we'll pull them back. That is science fiction run amok.

Drew Barrymore

I know what the intimidation level of high school is. You're on a hamster wheel, running, running, running, trying so hard to fit in. It's all about how you deal with what you're given, feeling OK with being the odd man out before you're finally successful.