Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Buford

As a team, we had a real good spring. Guys swung the bats real well, then all of a sudden everybody went into a slight batting slump together and right now they seem to be working their way out of that and hitting the ball consistently. We've hit some balls hard and haven't had any luck with the hits falling in, but now they're starting to fall in and that's the difference in winning.

Joe Lobendahn

As an individual, my goal is, of course, to have more (tackles) than I had last year. I still need to get an interception -- that's one of my goals, too ... and a touchdown, too. Honestly, as a defense, you're going to see us running to the ball more, everyone just swarming the ball.

Steve Kragthorpe

The bottom line is turnovers, and we did a great job of securing turnovers. We got the ball back with 2:20 left, and I challenged our team to get the first down and to stay on the field. And they did.

Alan Lomax

The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species.

Jim Gardner

The breakdown was trying to clear a ball through somebody when it would have been easier to touch it out of bounds. A lot of times those are the bounces of the game; when you try to clear it through somebody it usually bounces off them.

Ricky Ford

The big thing for us is to come out and have fun. We are just going to take one game at a time and try to come out here and win ball games.

Peter Boal

The big thing about the season is the festival. I'm excited because it's going to include many parts of the community, for example Donald Byrd's Spectrum Dance, and Oregon Ballet Theater.

Bob Schultz

The Big Ten gets the ball rolling and the cash flowing.

Toby Holbrook

A typical game for him. He threw hard on the side yesterday and had good stuff today. He hits the ball hard.

Greek proverb

The rose's prime lasts one brief hour of morn, That past, I find no rose - only a thorn

Kage Baker

A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.

Donald Selkin

We've gone up nine days in a row. I think we're probably in for a brief pullback next week, probably in response to the Fed statement.

Jason Robert Brown

I find I like the spotlight for a very brief period of time... and I sort of need it. But then, the minute that it's done, I have to sort of go hide. So I was never really meant, I think, to be a performer for a living.

Terry Paulson

When you're dealing with people in a clinical practice, you're dealing with people oftentimes at their lowest moment, when they're in crisis, ... Oftentimes in the business environment, what you're dealing with is a person who is somewhat on autopilot. What you can do in a brief period of time is give them a fresh window to look at their life.

Wendy Murphy

We can't even file a brief unless they reinstate the appeal,

Robert Long

We had a brief correction for a few days with some early tax-selling and some portfolio managers wanting to take profits, but we're back on track today.

Derek Loomis

As far as designing for girls, certain designs will cross right over.

Colin Shaha

Ralph Waldo Emerson had this philosophy about be silly, be honest and be kind. I really try to talk to a lot of people about that on the team, and Joy is certainly all those qualities.

Phil Klay

People should be able to tell stories that are important to them to try and understand what they mean. I don't think you figure anything out on your own. Certainly not war stories.

Dr. Schaffner

People are trying to work out contingency plans to make sure there's a more equitable distribution. I'm sure it will never be perfect, but without work now, it'll certainly be chaotic later.

John Yoo

The national government has certain kinds of compelling interests that conflict with the right of the press to keep their sources confidential, like national defense and security.

Audrey MacLean

The more evident it is that a certain company is going to become the market leader in a big market space, then the higher the valuation goes because the risk has been dramatically reduced.

Alan Greenspan

dramatic demographic change is certain to place enormous demands on our nation's resources.

Steve Nicol

Defensively we just had a day where we were no good. We've defended well all season. These things happen at certain stages.

Al Unser

Deep down, I do still think about driving, but you know that your reflexes and everything are just not the same, ... Once you've reached a certain level of racing, you know when you start fading. I can tell that I've faded.

Marco Coleman

As far as health, that's just a blessing. There's just so much that's out of your control, that you don't know how it's going to go. Really, you've just got to be really fortunate. You've got to be lucky.

Jon Evans

Defense is one thing you can always count on. You can't always control whether you'll have a hot shooting night, but you can always play strong defense and tonight was a good example.

Tim O'Reilly

I wanted more control of my life. I wanted work to fit in, not to dominate; to support, not to lead the pattern of my life.

Wang Tao

The most important task is to work out robust research-based plans to meet the specific demands of each element of the desert control battle.

HR McMaster

A couple of months ago, they might not have been able to pull it together after something like that. They showed a lot of resolve. Eventually, they will be able to control this city.

Hassan Adams

Stuff like that I don't worry about because I can't control it.

Bill Tierney

Something is going to have to give. We know they have hot shooters. We are going to have to stay with them and take control of possessions.

Avi Rubin

Somebody with questionable moral judgment isn't someone you want to have control of your networks.

Susan Stewart

Now is the time to start learning and read the financial press and find out. Women control household spending. So they really do have their hands on the pulse of what's going on in America. A lot of women over 40 do have the money saved ? but now it's that fear, 'How do I invest it wisely?' That's the more difficult equation.

Brad Shaw

Sometimes it's better to take 30 minutes out of your day and talk about something other than hockey.

Paul Whitworth

And we're 35 minutes away from Silicon Valley,

Amy Poehler

The minute anyone makes you feel weird and non-included or not supported, you know, either beat it or tell them to beat it.

Anne Robinson

I do have a rule that very few meetings are worth more than ten minutes.

Sara Lewis

Unfortunately that wasn't done until 20 minutes into the call.

Stephenie Meyer

I thought about that for a minute - about what I wanted.

Stephen Chbosky

After a few minutes, it was time for me to leave. I don't know who decides these things. It just happens.

Ron White

Diamonds - that'll shut her up... for a minute!

Richard Schwab

But if you want to get into REM sleep, you're going to have to sleep 90 minutes or so.

Sue Miller

Right now, we're stretched payday to payday, but we'll get it done.

Geno Auriemma

She's stretching it out. She does whatever she has to do.

Lewis Carroll

He taught us Drawling, Stretching and Fainting in Coils.

Mark Hendrickson

It was more important for me to get stretched out.

Brian O'Driscoll

A physical therapist does some unbelievable stretching with me.

Brandon Sanderson

Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good thing can become destructive if taken to excess.

Auguste Rodin

Recently I have taken to isolating limbs, the torso. Why am I blamed for it? Why is the head allowed and not portions of the body? Every part of the human figure is expressive.

Augusten Burroughs

I don't read memoirs. But if you write a memoir, I would think you'd want people to know, "O.K., look, I've taken some liberties here." It's just a matter of being open with your readers.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I embrace technology and I just think that in 1984 when James Cameron wrote about the technology, everyone thought he was totally way out there and it was science fiction. Now it's almost reality what he talked about. The machines have taken over, except they have not become self-aware, like in Terminator. So this is really one thing that we have to watch out for, but I think technology is good.

Ayn Rand

Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one's own benefit is evil. Thus the beneficiary of an action is the only criterion of moral value - and so long as that beneficiary is anybody other than oneself, anything goes.

Audie Murphy

I'm glad that it didn't take as long to get Shepard off the ground as it's taken this series. I'd begun to think the Congo would be ahead of us in the space race before Whispering Smith ever got on the air.

Benjamin Cardozo

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.

Cameron Mackintosh

I've taken considerable gambles on shows, but they're very considered gambles.

C. S. Lewis

They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.

Loren Loverde

Dell has a lot of momentum, and they were tough competitors.

Terry Francona

Once you give up five, ... if they peck away and get one here and get one there, it makes it tougher to win.

Carole James

It was the toughest work I'd ever done.

Ashton Irwin

If things are going bad and life is tough, hang in there. Ride it out. Come out on top.

Rich Davis

Britt made a tough play. It would have been tough to get around it.

Ronald Coleman

This was my decision. It's a tough day.

Steve Barrow

We think it is unlikely, but it's a tough call.

Jason Smith

We just need to keep doing everything we're already doing. Play tough with hard-nosed defense.

Donald Trump

Going through tough times is a wonderful thing, and everybody should try it. Once.

Kris Britton

And they went in there and turned it up.

Monty Python

-She turned me into a newt! -A newt?-I got better...

Huston Street

Ginter and Elly, they turned it so quick. Off the bat, I thought they had no chance. That right there is the game. It's another run.

Heath Sager

I think so. I thought we were much better than an 0-3 team. Now we've kind of turned the corner.

Haven Herrin

We were turned away yesterday, and we heeded that, but today, we will not be deterred.

Dudley Etheridge

He kind of turned it around for us.

Dan Hinote

I made the hit, turned around and it was chaos. I still don't know what happened.

Tamra Strano

Once I turned in the packet, I didn't have another thought about it.

Steve Olson

It turned out to be the right project.