Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Adamo

From the late Classical period and more so in Romantic and Modern opera, the weight settled into the orchestra, with the voices as a free obbligato above it, ... That just drives me crazy. I want the vocal line to be as much the core as the bass line. I want to create the illusion that the voice generates harmony, color, line, everything.

Al Alvarez

I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else.

Charles Dickens

I have been looking on, this evening, at a merry company of children assembled round that pretty German toy, a Christmas Tree. The tree was planted in the middle of a great round table, and towered high above their heads. It was brilliantly lighted by a multitude of little tapers; and everywhere sparkled and glittered with bright objects.

Peter Capaldi

I hated improvisation because in my early days as an actor, improvisation meant somebody had just come down from Oxford and they were doing a play above a pub in Kentish Town, and the biggest ego would win.

Alan Page

I felt like I played in a very tough football game with no hitting above the waist.

Jimmy Walker

I feel sad to see our former president picture in handcuffs but happy to know that no one is above the law.

Paul Emanovsky

I did go through his pockets and I did not find any identification. There is a badge above his shirt pocket but it was corroded.

Champ Bailey

I can't go too far above my head because of it. It keeps me from going in the wrong direction. I can still catch balls and pick the ball off.

Al Naomi

I can't go above it by law. That's what I am authorized to do. Anything above that means I have to spend money that Congress specifically authorizes for that purpose. Only then we can go build it. It's not simple.

Herman Edwards

I've always had great expectations for defense. Your mind-set as a coach, you know you win with defense, you sell tickets with offense. They understand where I'm coming from. You grow up on one side of the ball you always feel that way.

Charlie Whitehurst

I used to think if I had the ball in my hands, anything is possible, ... I don't think that anymore. I think the game is won on the offensive and defensive lines.

Brian Roper

I wanted the ball to be in Brady's hands; he's our best playmaker.

Chris Quinn

I wanted the ball in my hands to make a big play and it ended up costing us.

Jessie Davis

I wanted the ball in my hands. I knew the O line was going to block hard so I could get through.

J. Horton

I wanted the ball in my hands down the stretch, not necessarily to score but to make plays and I was able to do that.

Sophia Young

I wanted the ball because I felt like the game was getting out of control.

Anthony Winchester

I wanted the ball, and I'm always gonna try to get the ball in that situation. I can't do anything about missing them now. We just kept our confidence and won it with our defense.

Mo Johnston

I wanted more from Amado Guevara tonight. When you look at it, you want Amado Guevara on the ball more than he was tonight.

Paul Duca

It is a lot of fun catching these guys. You have four guys who can throw a no-hitter at any time. That makes it interesting.

If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy.

Willie Smith

We want him to catch everything in front of us. We don't want him to catch any long passes. If we can keep him over the middle, we have good linebackers that can make him pay.

Whenever I hear the sparrow chirping, watch the woodpecker chirp, catch a chirping trout, or listen to the sad howl of the chirp rat, I think: Oh boy! I'm going insane again.

Paul Ballew

We're seeing a good, solid performance so far this year.

Michael Toudouze

We're finally putting San Antonio on the map. Nobody gets recruited down here because I guess we're too far south. But there's a lot of talent down here that people are finding out about now.

Peter Gallagher

I feel like I won the Lotto, as far as that show's concerned.

Bethany Koch

We have one more step. We've been waiting for this game. We just have to realize this is it. Our season is going to be over by (next) Saturday, win or lose. We have to get our heads straight.

Adrian Schmidt

The performance was stronger than the headline numbers suggest. It suggests that manufacturing is accelerating.

Michael Franti

After a show, I'll get the 16-year-old white kid whose lip is pierced, his head is shaved and his parents hate him, and the young gangster from the screwed-up 'hood, and they say that now they realize there's someone out there who thinks like they do.

Petter Solberg

What can we do? Loeb just keeps taking every stage from us and no-one can keep up.

Bobby Jackson

They just wanted it more. We did all the right things in the first 12 minutes, and did all the wrong things from then on out.