Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mario Monti

A few years ago, if a European regulator had raised two eyebrows or even one, the chief executive would have backed off. The courage wasn't there. Now, in a sense, the king is naked.

Bob Letsch

(Roncalli) backed off of him and gave him that shot. A lot of times people think that we just try to get the ball inside ... but we can shoot the 3, too.

Terry Goodson

We did a good job on the big guy and kept him out of the game. We fronted and backed him and hoped they didn't hit the threes. If they hit the threes, we would have had to change the strategy.

Mark Howell

She was kind of the outspoken conscience of Philadelphia, Mississippi in the turbulent times. She never backed down from her principles.

Lorie Cook

She knows the tradition, the expectations for several years and she hasn't backed off from either of those. She's stepped right up. Sometimes kids aren't too confident competing. She thinks it's really fun. She's very motivated to get better. She doesn't mind hard work.

Trot Nixon

I didn't have any fan interference at all. They backed away. I commend those fans there. I gave them a little tip of the cap.

Jon Favreau

Movies like 'Chef' are not really box-office monsters in the summertime and don't really fit into Hollywood's business model any longer. Even if 'Chef' is successful, it will be successful in the context of what it is. There's a limited upside to a film that's so small, but there's also limited exposure for the people who backed me.

Billy Cox

(Jimi) was so into it -- if you listen closely you will see that I stayed on him, ... And when he started 'The Star Spangled Banner,' that impromptu thing, you hear the first four, five, or six notes; I'm in there with him. Then I said, 'Wait a minute, we didn't rehearse this, and it doesn't sound too good with me playing.' I backed away, and he continued and made a classic out of that.

Rep. Schultheis

I'm not about to vote for something that is a sham. This bill backed off from any real enforcement at all. You don't have enforcement, you don't have a bill, and let's not fool the public.

Chris Rankin

The smoke was so thick it blocked out daylight.

Brooke Bingaman

We do see spring in our future. There will be a block of dry weather early next week that could transition us into more typical spring weather than the persistent rain we've been experiencing for so long.

Scott Walker

We showed we could play with them and score five-on-five, which was important. I don't know if it was a mental block or what, but it was good to get those. Guys were going to the net hard and it made a difference.

Doris Lessing

In fact I've reached the stage where I look at people and say - he or she, they are whole at all because they've chosen to block off at this stage or that. People stay sane by blocking off, by limiting themselves.

Doris Lessing

I'm going to make the obvious point that maybe the word neurotic means the condition of being highly conscious and developed. The essence of neurosis is conflict. But the essence of living now, fully, not blocking off to what goes on, is conflict. In fact I've reached the stage where I look at people and say - he or she, they are whole at all because they've chosen to block off at this stage or that. People stay sane by blocking off, by limiting themselves.

Donnie Wahlberg

In high school, I was one of the cofounders of New Kids on the Block my freshman year in high school. But I also started studying theatre in high school my freshman year as well. So throughout high school, I was actually doing both.

Cory Doctorow

If surgeons don't get surgeon's block, then why are you allowed to get writer's block?

Clive Cussler

I plot as I go. Many novelists write an outline that has almost as many pages as their ultimate book. Others knock out a brief synopsis... Do what is comfortable. If you have to plot out every move your characters make, so be it. Just make sure there is a plausible purpose behind their machinations. A good reader can smell a phony plot a block away.

Donald Trump

People move into a house a block down the road. You know who`s going in. You can see and you report them to the local police. Everybody`s their own cop in a way. You got to do it.

Jim Noonan

I was surprised that one didn't go in too.

Maria Sharapova

I surprised myself in the first round, that's for sure.

Kathy Pulley

He's a whole lot better than we ever imagined. I am surprised that he wasn't just shattered.

Howard Opinsky

I was as surprised as everyone else was to see it.

Jerry Jones

I was very surprised that he was still there.

Jordan Leopold

I was actually kind of surprised but it's OK. We get all of the attention.

David Hayes

I'm surprised to see him doing so well

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Jane Hamilton

Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Dalai Lama

The time has come to think more wisely, hasn't it?

Todd Burns

We just started to see these things within the (past) hour. Our crews haven't had time to get there and find the cause.

Brad Feld

While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

Janet Jackson

I've never been into what am I going to do next, trying to reinvent myself.

Miley Cyrus

I've never just been able to be alone, and I'm obsessed with being alone and hearing my thoughts. I'm trying to take this alone time — the five minutes I do have a day — to learn as much as I can.

Miley Cyrus

Maybe it's your time to lift off and fly You won't know if you never try.

Billy Corgan

I never seemed to fit in. But it made me try to strive for things ten times harder.

Dean Kamen

Life is so short. Why waste a single day of it doing something that doesn't matter, that doesn't try to do something big?

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

One has to get through a big pile of mail every day. I don't pass my letters on to a secretary; rather, I try to take care of all of them myself.

Brad Williams

Every now and then you'll say something that didn't quite work. But the important thing is, as a comic, you try to learn why it didn't. And then you adjust and figure out how to either make it work or just abandon it because it's just not funny.

Brian McDermott

Sometimes you have got to look at things really positively - without putting your head in the sand, you have got to manage the negatives and keep putting a positive slant on it, keep trying to find answers.