Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Swank

Having Scott in the top five made me very happy. We would like to have beaten Western, but we were two points short.

Sandy Botham

Hats off to Butler. They played an incredible game. On top of that they came in with a chip on their shoulder. They haven't beaten us in a while. They came in and played with great confidence and great intensity and held strong.

Mark McGrath

He's a good wrestler, and tonight he wrestled extremely well. Who's to say he wouldn't have beaten Malachi if he'd been healthy.

Brandon Roy

He's a good player. But I still think we should have beaten them.

Jim Shires

He said he had been assaulted. He had been beaten up. We don't know to what extent.

Wayne Hawkes

He's just got beaten a bob of the head in the Caulfield Guineas but is bigger and stronger now and has done well.

Angel Jr.

He's good enough for me. I won't say he's a superhorse because you're never a superhorse until you're retired. Any horse can be beaten on any given day.

John Barrett

I think it's an excellent deal for the city of North Adams, ... It relieves the city of taxes, allows us to boost up our reserves, which have been beaten up over recent years, and allows us to retain our water rights. I'm very confident that the watershed, being in the hands of the Forest Service, will be protected indefinitely.

Jerry Warren

We're pretty strong, but we don't have a lot of depth. The teams that have beaten us are just very, very good teams. These kids were thrown into the fire last year, and they've come through this year.

Daryl Dickey

He couldn't get to the practice field quick enough to correct some things and learn from his mistakes.

Clark Haggans

He just made some passes and they got some yardage, ... They executed better. But it's the third week of the season. We'll correct our mistakes.

Jesse Berman

He just got it wrong and corrected it right away.

Kazunori Jinnai

What we have been seeing today and yesterday is a rather normal correction after the nearly vertical rise in high-tech shares in recent sessions. Investors will be taking refuge in other sectors until high-tech stocks find a floor.

Steve Burtt

He's a grammar fanatic. He has a grammar fetish. He's the one who corrects everybody.

Peter Grandich

Gold's momentum is likely to take it to either side of $600, but then a serious correction is likely to unfold.

Steven Wood

It confirms that the (Fed) was correct in pausing their tightening cycle at last week's meeting.

John Mielke

I thought were weren't getting our people to the correct spots. In the second half, we got people within our zone offense to where they needed to be. We got some looks and knocked them down.

Debra Pegram

I though we played great in the second half to correct some things, I knew they were going to play us tough.

Tom Fontana

It is about love and sex, when they cohabit and when they are in opposition to each other. There are some very frank conversations and some silly conversations.

Roger McNamee

I think what we've seen is a phase shift on Wall Street. And frankly investors are looking for a reason to sell.

Eddie Rodriguez

I was just trying to get Frank out of there. He was pretty upset. As upset as I've ever seen him.

Kweisi Mfume

He was genuinely interested in what I had to say, ... So I'm hoping that at least, because it was a very frank and a very open dialogue, that it has served some purpose.

Tracy Morgan

Michael's the ultimate entertainer. After Michael Jackson, it's Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, and Bruce Lee.

Anna Kalifa

If you go there, it's pretty empty. It's unpleasant to go to frankly because it's so large.

Richard Butler

I quite frankly don't think I'll be seeking an extension.

Harvey Pitt

I frankly think every one of them who's responsible ... should do hard time for their crimes,

Bobby Howard

I know other people might have a different perspective, but I can only judge Frank on how he's treated me and my family, and he's been nothing but first class. He likes to talk, he's very intelligent, and he'll tell you what's on his mind. I think sometimes that gets him in trouble, but he's a great person.

Joan Didion

I never actually learned the rules of grammar, relying instead only on what sounded right.

Stephen King

American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar, but it has its own scruffy charm.

Horace

Grammatici certant et adhuc sub iudice lis est. - Grammarians dispute, and the case it still before the courts.

Troy Williamson

I wouldn't say frustrating. I would say more of a learning experience. I learned a lot of stuff.

Jody Conradt

Just when you think you've seen everything, you haven't. I've learned that during this season.

Tony Oller

I've learned the truth in these sayings: 'Luck is when opportunity meets preparation' and 'The right project will find you'.

Malcolm Deans

I think the lessons we learned this weekend were great, even though we didn't win.

Dick Jauron

What I learned is you better win. When you win, you're pretty smart. When you don't, you're not.

Harry Campbell

I went from summer school to merit roll. I learned that the more you do in school, the better you will be in life.

Lauren Hutton

I was making $50 a week as a house model at Christian Dior for nine months before I learned that photographic models made $50 an hour!

Angela Ruggiero

Cammi is USA Hockey, really. Every single player on our roster has learned something from Cammi Granato and she'll leave that legacy whether she's here or not.

Glenn Tilton

If there's anything I learned in 32 years in the oil business, it's not to speculate on oil prices.

Richelle Mead

Oh God. Why, oh why, did I have to be the one to deliver this news? Why couldn’t I be locked away in my room or the library doing something enjoyable, like homework?

Richard Russo

Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.

Zadie Smith

The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.

Walter Savage Landor

Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.

William Osler

For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him.

Bob Richardson

presents all the options; we show the library of tea.

Jorge Luis Borges

In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense.

Jorge Luis Borges

Yo, que me figuraba el Paraíso / Bajo la especie de una biblioteca. I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library.

George Bancroft

Libraries collect the works of genius of every language and every age.

Thomas Mesereau

He is permanently living outside of the United States.

Sathya Baba

It is not the standard of living that is important, but the manner of living.

David Franks

I will not work with them. I'll work with other breeders. We'll do our own thing, but right now it's a living we're making, a living here. And if there doing that we'll find out someday. The truth will come out.

Anthony Ricco

He is living in a mud hut in the middle of nowhere with his Koran, his wife, and his child,

Virender Sehwag

One should always be happy, irrespective of what you achieve in a match or in life. That's how I live my life.

William Gibson

I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing.

Paul Simon

If you were to pick a role model on the court, living or dead, what role model or composite role model would it be?

Donald Calloway

I put that woman through a living nightmare with what I was doing, ... Her son was dying.

Karl Wallenda

Being on a tightrope is living; everything else is waiting

Mike Slive

Just the fundamental format, I think, needs explanation.

Linda Holmes

I think it needs to be a very slow process.

Susan Carney

He wants to do well and will give it everything he's got. Myles will do what he needs to do during the season to play tough competition.

Glenn Thomas

He just needs to take a long vacation.

Billy Donovan

He just needs to let it go. It's really that simple for our team.

Darrell Bevell

He just needs as many reps as he can get.

Jolanda Schreurs

I think it's an opportunity to redress that and start working in concert. Our needs should be aligned.

Ozzie Guillen

I think the only sport that really needs it is football,

Roy Williams

We're open to serve the humanitarian needs for the community.

Sean Collins

I had no idea there was any speculation whatsoever. None of the Wisconsin players complained afterward, so I didn't know what they were talking about. I had no idea it was off.

Charlie Strong

I'm real concerned. No one has stepped up. We have the guys. But none of them has taken the job.

Julien Pain

We sent letters, we tried to phone them. And none of them ever replied to us.

Adam Rayner

I've done shows that aired on American TV, but none of them proved to be successful, so yes, no one here knows who I am.

Joseph Cook

None of them had anything new to say,

Daniel Johnston

None of the alternatives, ... are even close.

Ron Wilson

None of our players want to go out there and prove anything to Darryl. They have a lot of respect for him.

Mike Scioscia

None of our pitchers are in Chicago. We're going to use every pitcher we need tonight to get past tonight's game.

Norm Stamper

None of our officers has encountered this individual, or even seen him,

Josh Sharpless

I was a lot calmer and relaxed this time. I didn't feel like everything was going 1,000 mph. It just seemed like a normal game. I didn't have the butterflies this time around. I just went out and pitched.

Scott Skiles

Just to run down and double-team Shaq all over the place, it normally doesn't pay off.

Mo Johnston

He said he was sorry. End of story. I'm not worried about that. He buckled down in the second half. Normally in the past, he would be sent off.

Bill Ward

I think it's just going back to a more normal level.

Cindy Winstead

We're not your normal organization. We have no funding, it's just me.

Clive Woodward

We take our normal precautions which are professional and thorough,

Vincent Farrell

I think technology stocks are in for a correction, but it's a perfectly normal correction. This is a seasonably weak period of time.

Michael Steele

I don't know that much about the club, the membership, nor do I care, quite frankly, because I don't play golf.

Billy Donovan

He got back to playing the way he normally does.

J. A. Konrath

Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.

Martha Grimes

I have readers tell me that I must be bored, but that's not true. I am never bored with the characters. I like them.

Khaled Hosseini

Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

Julian Barnes

If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that.

Mark Millar

The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor.

Oliver North

Writers are storytellers. So are readers.

Joseph J. Ellis

I would say readers can trust my work more than anyone else's.

George MacDonald

If there be music in my reader, I would gladly wake it.

Nick Harkaway

I am an avid reader of comics, though I came to them late.

Stacy Flores

He did nothing wrong. He was just a victim of retaliation for reporting a crime.

John Felmy

What you have is an important set of steps in terms of these are high-temperature, high-pressure facilities. And that's if you have not had any damage, and we know from preliminary reports that's not the case.

Anna Olson

There is no fabrication of snow reporting here. We have a reputation, if anything, for underreporting.

Chris Collins

I think actually the scouting report was to kind of shoot it low, so I don't know what I was doing.

Upma Chawdhry

It has been indicated that this was reported late.

Jack Rio

I don't have anything to report other than he was awake, alert, still conscious.

Ronda Tompkins

I didn't do anything extraordinary. I just reported what I saw that night.

Robert Scheer

I was a finalist for the Pulitzer as a reporter.

Floyd Abrams

Reporters should keep their word to their sources.

Ted Cruz

I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.

A. Hodge

No one truth is rightly held till it is clearly conceived and stated, and no single truth is adequately comprehended till it is viewed in harmonious relations to all the other truths of the system of which Christ is the centre

Richard P. Feynman

You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. When you get it right, it is obvious that it is right -- at least if you have any experience -- because usually what happens is that more comes out than goes in.

Richard Bach

So much of what we said sounded crazy, yet none of it was false... as if two theoretical physicists stood on stage to say that when we travel near lightspeed, we get younger than nontravellers; that a mile of space next to the sun is differnt than a mile of space next to the earth because the sun-mile space is curved more than the the earth-mile. Silly ideas, worth the admission price in smiles, but they're true. Is high-energy physics interesting because it's true or because it's crazy?

Russell Lynes

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Travis Walton

The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.

William Safire

Never assume the obvious is true.

William S. Burroughs

Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

William Wordsworth

To be a Prodigal's favourite,-then, worse truth, A Miser's pensioner,-behold our lot!

Mark Leibovich

I like to be read. That's most of what any writer could want.

Meg Rosoff

The more you live, the better writer you are.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Chevy Stevens

Unfortunately, there's still a lot of beginning writers who think you can just write your first draft and hand it in.

Robert Klein

In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate.

Scott Adsit

'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

Aminatta Forna

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

Claire Tomalin

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.