Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Whitehurst

It was a little bit (frustrating), with everyone else throwing. But we made that decision, knowing that two weeks later, I would be that much more healthy.

Kenenisa Bekele

It was a little bit difficult for him he is very young. I help him, we train together. I hope for him in the future he has a lot of talent.

Douglas Porter

These solid results suggest that the economy actually had a fair bit of momentum heading into 2003.

Nicole Andrews

The sheer magnitude of this event requires a little bit of patience.

Justin Berry

The seduction was slow, each request only went a bit further than the last and the horror of what was happening didn't strike me at that time.

Chris Mooney

These days, things are different, and young women and middle-aged women would like to see a woman governor. That's why I say this kind of gives her a bit of an edge in that direction.

Ric Klusman

The stock pumped up a bit towards the end of the day when the rumor started circulating.

Firas Askari

The stock market declines are a little bit scary. People want to take the dollar weaker.

Rob Patterson

The stock had a bit of a run leading into the result. We're happy with the result and the 10 percent earnings guidance.

Bobby Frankel

I'd rather not have the 1-hole. She doesn't have too much early speed. But she's brave. She's got a decent shot. You've got to be a little lucky from the rail, luckier than if you have the outside.

Bobby Cox

This ranks right up there. This goes back 14 years.

Sonam Kapoor

No relationship works without making an effort. That goes without saying. But you should never overcompensate.

Craig Biggio

The guy goes into the stands. How'd he pull it out? If I was a fan, I would've mauled him.

Mike Serba

A huge momentum shift. Raphael's been huge. When we're not playing as well as we want to, he's a guy who goes out and works (hard) and you get the momentum shifted back our way.

Lindsey Williams

A letter of this type goes out annually.

Rebecca Ryan

Everyone goes through a stage where they want to leave home, ... Let the young people leave the community, but then hit them with incentives to return when they're ready to settle down.

Stan Johnson

still in shock over the loss of O?Brien, who made a huge impact on the district. But life goes on.

Michael Berry

Not much of that goes on in the United States.

Buck Showalter

It's been a long trip, it obviously hasn't been fruitful. Everyone goes through periods, this is a tough period for us. Everyone knows what success is and we're not having it right now.

Marcelo Enriquez

South is a very good team and I knew they were going to be much more competitive the second round.

Joe Linta

Special teams will be his meal ticket. He's got good speed and good hands. He's a real good 51, 52 or 53-type guy on the roster who can do a lot of things for you.

Kyle McLaren

Special teams was good tonight, especially the penalty kill.

Kelly Wood

One good shot from the opposition (centre guard) and that's all they needed to win. We had to hit at least three-quarters and it hung straight. That's curling.

Thomas Fuller

One good head is better than a hundred strong hands

John Sharp

One can say all they want about politicians, but politicians to other politicians, their word is almost always good.

Rob Hermann

Once you get to this point, you just want to see the local guys do well. Dustin is a good kid, and we love to help as much as possible.

Chris Chambers

Once you wrap that screen around, and you get really good sound you get immersed, ... You mentally make the leap that you're in this game. It's really amazing.

Stephen Malkmus

One day I'm going to write a straight-ahead story. I really want to, but I can't at the moment. I'm not very good at it right now.

Toni Morrison

Say make me, remake me. You are free to do it and I am free to let you because look, look. Look where your hands are. Now.

Ricardo Montalban

If you shake your fist, the other guy will shake his too. But if you extend your hand to shake their hand, then they will extend theirs also, and you've made a friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I had learned to dwell with pleasure as a beloved daydream on the thought of the separation of these elements. If each I told myself could be housed in separate identities life would be relieved of all that was unbearable the unjust might go his way delivered from the aspirations and remorse of his more upright twin and the just could walk steadfastly and securely on his upward path doing the good things in which he found his pleasure and no longer exposed to disgrace and penitence by the hands of this extraneous evil.

Sarah Dessen

I looked down again at the sign in my hand - ENJOY THE RIDE! - and it seemed, suddenly, to be just that. A sign.

Voltaire

History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

William Standish Knowles

I was one who liked to work with my hands as well as my brain.

William Styron

I thought there's something to be said for honor in this world where there doesn't seem to be any honor left. I thought that maybe happiness wasn't really anything more than the knowledge of a life well spent, in spite of whatever immediate discomfort you had to undergo, and that if a life well spent meant compromises and conciliations and reconciliations, and suffering at the hands of the person you love, well then better that than live without honor.

William Powell

There is only one purpose in hand-to-hand combat, and that is to kill. Never face an enemy with the idea of knocking him out. The chances are extremely good that he will kill you.

William Powell

I can fully appreciate the fury and anger that a person can feel when put through a humiliating experience by a cop, but I would recommend strongly that a person maintain his cool, and in no circumstances lose his temper. If you lose your temper, you are playing right into the cop's hands.

Bobby Bowden

As I look back on my 51 years of coaching, ... that is the hardest thing to explain.

Russ McKenzie

Brandon is the picture of hard work and perseverance. Most kids would have quit in his first two years, with the beatings he took in the room. But he didn't.

John Peterson

We had a really hard time shooting today. We just couldn't get them to fall.

Stew Morrill

We had a hard time with La. Tech and trying to rebound the ball. We were able to stay with them on the boards.

Dusty Baker

We had a hard time holding up our end of the bargain.

Curt Fredrickson

We had a hard time getting the big hit when we needed it. Overall, I was very pleased with our pitching and our defense.

Mike Marshall

We had a hard time getting any rhythm. We made a lot of mistakes and we could not get anything going.

Mary LeBlanc

We had a hard life, but we stuck together. We worked together.

Will Blalock

We wanted to take his 3-ball out of the equation. In the second half, he woke up and really played hard for them. That's why they got the win.

As we were driving, we saw a sign that said ""Watch for Rocks."" Marta said it should read ""Watch for Pretty Rocks."" I told her she should write in her suggestion to the highway department, but she started saying it was a joke - just to get out of writing a simple letter! And I thought I was lazy!

Charles Peabody

It's a really high price and not many people are willing to pay that, so I think Lehman is the more obvious,

Dick Bronson

This is the high point of the year for these kids.

Steve Bolman

Our used portion is about the same size as the old Kenilworth Junior High School.

Margaret D. Nadauld

The kind of young woman who can be a terrific torchbearer has high standards all the time, not just in her prom dress, but every, ordinary day.

Felix Baumgartner

Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.

Anna Netrebko

As a soprano who sings 'Lucia di Lammermoor,' I have the high notes and the trills. No problems there. But going into the low registers is lots of work.

Joseph Bernier

We just didn't have it as a high priority,

Joseph LaVorgna

Treasuries are going to seek higher yields over the next weeks. The labor market looks quite healthy.

Tim Ricketts

This is our third straight win and to win on the road like this is a nice victory.

Bella Thorne

The Humane Society is so great to work with. Because everyone there is so nice and supportive, and they're all animal lovers like me.

Bobby Robson

Anything from 1-0 to 2-0 would be a nice result

Debby Ryan

T.V. acting is a great skill to have, and it's nice to have that stability.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Alright, you'll get your bonus, buy play nice with her. Keep your sarcasm to a minimum. (Kyrian) Yes, O Great Lord and Master. Be nice to woman, keep mouth shut. (Nick)

Max Azria

Yes, e-commerce is a strange situation for an old guy like me. You can buy a TV online, OK, but to buy a dress or shoes? Ugh. The customer has to go back to the store and breathe and smell and have a good time. Because shopping is a good time - like going to a nice restaurant.

Jerry Spinelli

Life is populated with scarecrows—all those people and things that seem so scary and trouble our sleep. Isn't it nice to know that most of them turn out to be made of nothing but straw?

Felicity Jones

It's nice to have some continuity you can come back to. I feel that in coming home, coming back to London.

Gary Oldman

So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is thrilling.

Chris Larsen

Some people would say we're being overly-conservative. But I say we're being realistic for our first year planning.

Source Unknown

Some people would rather be wrong than quiet for a minute.

Harry Wang

Some people will not be tolerant about this.

Jill Lepore

Some people will always think they know how to make other people's marriages better, and, after a while, they'll get to cudgeling you or selling you something; the really entrepreneurial types will sell you the cudgel.

John Cassidy

Some people were frightened, ran to their basement, or ran out of doors.

Michelle Lombardo

Some people watched the show just because of the wardrobe, ... That's exciting.

Tracey Emin

Some people use just one condom, right? But we use tons.

Andy Johnson

Some people think that because it's a threatened species, that every one we save is good. But not if they never get to live in the wild.

Andrew Niccol

Some people think 'Lord of War' is a political film,

Amy Winehouse

I always try to write a song to work things out with myself and I want to do it with a little punchline at the end, because I never want to remember anything bad in my life.

Amy Winehouse

I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and atmospheric. You'd have an entire story in song. I never listen to, like, white music - I couldn't sing you a Zeppelin or Floyd song.

Amy Winehouse

I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.

Amy Winehouse

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

Amy Winehouse

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.

Alexander Pope

Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose; Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?

Alexander Pope

Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.

Alex Turner

Every time you write a song, you're looking for some sort of perfection, and you never quite reach it. You're always looking for that extra missing piece.

Alex Turner

Sometimes writing songs is like waiting for deliveries.