Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Ellis

I was almost positive it would be a one-year deal, so I was a little surprised yesterday. I'm happy.

Katie Gearlds

Just toughness. To have four games in four days with some players playing almost 40 minutes ... their will to get it done impressed me. We've got to come ready to play, that's for sure.

Jeff Banks

It almost got away from us. But we didn't give up just because we were behind. That's the best part.

Alex Rodriguez

It almost feels like we're in their shoes.

Mark Sweeney

He can throw a good one. He almost took my head off today. I didn't know where it was going. But in a game? He'd get killed. It's one thing to play catch. It's another thing to pitch.

Jerry Sloan

Greg didn't burn any bridges, ... Greg and I fought almost every day (but) I apologized to Greg more than anyone I've ever coached.

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Hallmark Card: "I'm so miserable without you, it's almost like you're still here.

Greg Behrendt

I don't have a massive fan base. I don't have Patton Oswalt numbers, but the fan base I have is incredibly generous, and of the 22,000 people who follow me on Twitter, I think almost all of those people participate.

Steve Nash

In the preseason, in the month of October, I work out almost every day, lifting weights for 20 or 30 minutes, and then during the season I usually lift weights twice a week, sometimes a little more.

Hanya Yanagihara

I was interested about how relationships change as you get older. You are great friends in your 20s. In your 30s, you get married. Your 40s are all about your kids. In your 50s, you get divorced, and your friendships become primary again.

Barry Collier

Kansas didn't just cut our hair. They shaved our head. They scored 196 or 96 or one or the other on us. It'll take a tremendous effort to slow them down and change that.

Mike Lowell

Josh was crying to me for five years with the Marlins that he always wanted No. 19 so I told him I'd be willing to give it up. I think change is good sometimes. So I figured why not? I'm on a new team, new number and everything is new. I'm kind of starting from scratch. I feel good about that.

John Silvia

I suspect that there's a little optimism that the Fed will signal that they are just about done, that they'll change their language from saying 'further policy firming may be' to saying it 'might be' needed.

Craig Hansen

I think it really changed the way some scouts look at Northeast kids and how they play ball.

Jim Zandri

I think it is a combination of things. A lot has changed in New Year's over the past few years.

Jim Duquette

It all started in his mind right after his wife went into the hospital. He started thinking about whether he really had the desire to keep going. We let him take a couple extra days just to make sure that was his final decision. He's not going to change his mind at this point.

Mack Brown

It¹s a compliment, because it¹s a place we haven¹t been in a long time and it sets our standard even higher. We also understand that the percentage points and the rankings can change weekly. What we have to do is concentrate on winning. That's the only thing we have control over. It¹s only October, and what we want to do is to be one of the top two teams in December.

Laura Miller

It also would help, of course, if we had the movie shot here, so we could change some of the old ?Dallas? TV show stereotypes that have lasted all these years.

Gwen Stefani

L.A.M.B. is a fashion line that -- fingers crossed -- will just get more and more sophisticated, ... What's different than what's out there is the way I put things together. And, if you look inside the pants, you'll find secret details in there.

Whoopi Goldberg

I think actually there's another young lady who would like to do it and so I've got my fingers crossed for her. I think it's Ellen. I think she would be good.

Jason Mitchell

It's a good feeling now, ... But when it was happening, I was down and out. I was mad because I know I was in on third down. I crossed the pylon. If you cross the pylon, it means you score, right?

Tom Pagano

It really shows us the privileged status of athletes. And it makes you wonder: Is this the first time they crossed the line, or is this just the first time they got caught?

Al Bowman

They're not professional lawyers going out there with petitions making sure every 't' is crossed and every 'i' is dotted.

Mariella Frostrup

Mixed messages are just part and parcel of the romantic terrain, and rather than berate yourself for any crossed wires, you'd do better to work on your future resilience.

Patrick Valenzuela

When we crossed the dirt, the leader drifted out and we got through. He just took off and got the job done.

James Watson

We're just sitting here with our fingers crossed and hoping the eye goes east of us. If the TVA transmission lines go down, we'll go down, because we're dependent on them. Our system is in good shape, but when you get 80-100 mile per hour winds, it's hard to predict what's going to happen. We're making preparations for the worst, but hoping for the best.

Shanna Zolman

The thought never crossed our mind that we were going to lose.

Corey Holmes

He's a veteran quarterback who's been in this situation before. He had some down times in Calgary, but he's a Grey Cup quarterback.

Kiran More

It is a important tour for us as we will be playing at World Cup venues. It is an opportunity for players to experience the conditions.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

A World Cup without Zlatan is not worth watching.

Johnny Miller

If you are a bad putter, you will not make a putt. If you have a tendency to chili-dip wedges, you'll be chili-dipping them all over the place for sure. Whatever your weakness, it will come up in spades during the Ryder Cup.

Landon Donovan

You can't go into a World Cup timid, and you can't go into it shy thinking, well, it's just I'm happy to be there and let's get out and play. You're there for a reason, and we're there to win.

Kevin Quinn

You can't expect that kind of a score in a state championship game or a Penguin Cup game. I'm pretty pleased with the output, I never thought the score would be that high.

Roger Warren

The goal was to make sure that in a Ryder Cup year the performance of the players is rewarded. The new system rewards the game's hottest players.

Adrienne Clarkson

The Clarkson Cup is something that has evolved in the most wonderful and meaningful way,

Nancy Lopez

These players played their hearts out and it was a great team effort this week. Our young players are not rookies to me. They played like veterans out here. I'm proud to take the Cup back. They won it.

Paul Doughty

Knowing that I have these younger girls who are playing and getting better every game is encouraging.

David Ward

Jacob pitched a really good game for us today. He was throwing pretty hard. If he can keep pitching like that, we'll be in good shape.

Larry Finucane

I would say the pressure is on them (Mills). They're the #6 or #7 seed and have the game on their home court.

Joe Torre

Just win as many games as we can and see where that leaves us when it's over.

Joel Allen

Joe has gotten the most out of his senior season and his selection to the all-star game reflects that.

Brian Thornton

Josh did a great job tonight, but it's not just tonight. He's done well the last several games and in practice. When Josh is playing well, it gives us a lot of versatility. When Josh is hitting shots and doing a great job on the boards, it gives us a lot more options.

Champ Bailey

John, he knows everything, he studies the game very hard and he'll knock you out.

Mo Rocca

It addresses a life-long concern, the risk of someone ruining your game. I just don't want you, 50 years down the road, to have your game killed by some guy with a shinier walker.

Byron Scott

I think it's a good thing for our team right now. If we can win games without Chris, I think it gives these guys even more confidence. And it also shows when he comes back that we'll even be better.

Jerry Colangelo

He wants to win a gold medal. He said that very clearly. He said if asked, he would be honored.

Thomas Morgenstern

It is a dream. Two gold medals within two days.

George Babicz

He says his gold medal glows, and his silver medal sparkles.

Andrew Marvell

He hangs in shades the orange bright, / Like golden lamps in a green night.

Richard Barnfield

Gold is a deep-persuading orator.

Tracy K. Smith

time never stops, but does it end? and how many livesbefore take-off, before we find ourselves beyond ourselves, all glam-glow, all twinkle and gold?

Robert Plant

I can't moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl.

Samuel Johnson

The dangers gather as the treasures rise.

Virgil

The accursed hunger for gold.

Diana Yates

What would have happened to Citigroup under a weaker operating environment?

Robert Cross

I think it's very analogous to what happened in the 70's. The arguments are all the same.

Romola Garai

I was mad until I was about 25. Completely out of control with my emotions. Everything that happened to me was a tragedy. I've been much happier over 25.

Denzel Washington

When they said my name, I said, 'There is no way I can go up here without sharing it with Rubin,' ... Everything that has happened with this film and this moment is about the love that has come from him.

Duce Staley

I didn't get involved in an altercation. That happened in the club, but that didn't involve me. I wasn't robbed, and I had my 2 earrings. I lost my bracelet, that's all.

Kyle Williams

I don't know what happened out there. We played like a joke out there in the second half.

Patrice Lauzon

I don't know what happened, it's never happened before. The lifts are usually our strength and for some reason, Marie slipped.

Arthur Travers

I don't know where the shooting happened or how.

Branny Vickory

I don't know what kind of impact this sentencing that happened back in '91 had on his behavior.

Dan Glickman

Kansas is not going to become the Hollywood of the future. But the film studios are looking to make quality stories, interesting stories, all over the country.

Sam Simon

I don't think the spirit of Hollywood is such a spirit of generosity. I think people really begrudge giving. In New York, it's like that.

Johnny Grant

his vigor and passion for Hollywood that's just so infectious and so important.

Robin Wright

Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it.

Robert Redford

It seems everyone in Hollywood is getting pinched, lifted and pulled. I'm looking weird because I'm not.

Robin Thicke

I grew up in a Hollywood family with money, so money is not the reason I make music. I'm as Hollywood as it gets. Not internally but externally - that's my bloodline.

Nick Cave

I just sat down and banged it out in the spirit of those old Hollywood guys.

Mike Leigh

The main problem is that the Hollywood system has already made the film before the director shoots a single frame.

Kevin Smith

In Hollywood you kind of fail upwards

Danny Bonaduce

It's weird because horses kind of come and go in my life.

Ben Howland

He's going to be with our trainer all night. It will take a team of horses to keep him out.

Frank Berry

He looked a nice horse on the day and he won well. There are no plans for him at the moment, but he will stay with Tommy.

Rick Riordan

If not for the horses, Piper would've died.

William Henry Ashley

We continued to move forward without loss of time, hoping to be able to reach the wood described by the Indians before all our horses should become exhausted.

Wayne White

I hate the whole group of artists who are so hermetic and completely indecipherable on some level and they're all proud of themselves for it. It's like, how obnoxious, how pretentious. And that's part of my mission as an artist is to kick down those people or make fun of that type of high horse attitude.

Ward Churchill

I'm a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride, and I'm wanted (want-ed...!) dead or alive...

Ronnie Wood

I love to get into a landscape and paint my horses.

Xenophanes

If cows and horses had hands and could draw, cows would draw gods that look like cows and horses would draw gods that look like horses.

Kay Redfield Jamison

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

Mack Strong

Just things that I've never experienced in my life.

Tom Arnold

I swear on my life that is true.

Quentin Blake

You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.

William Ellery Channing

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

Chris Stapleton

I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paintsville.

Cate Blanchett

It is so interesting when you meet an actor in real life and they look completely different.

Carine Roitfeld

I think when I became a grandmother my life changed a lot, and I think I changed personally.

Ron Shock

It has been a wonderful life for me. It's just been a blessing. I can't say I would have done it any other way. I have no regrets. I like what I do.

Richard Cook

There are a lot of different paths that you can be on. We just have to wait to see which one.

Richard M. Nixon

It is sad that it was necessary that Santa Barbara should be the example that had to bring it to the attention of the American people. What is involved is the use of our resources of the sea and of the land in a more effective way and with more concern for preserving the beauty and the natural resources that are so important to any kind of society that we want for the future. The Santa Barbara incident has frankly touched the conscience of the American people.

Joe Nichols

I was probably nine or ten the first time I heard there was no Santa Claus.

Tina St. John

Santa Claus has already been here and everything. Want to see what he brought for you?" "Is it a big present?" "Very big." "With a big red bow on it?

Michelle Malkin

I stand with the Santa Barbara News-Press. How about you?

Esther Dyson

I joined the board of the Santa Fe Institute.

Jeff Bridges

Work takes me away from my wife, Sue, and my life in Santa Barbara.

Jean Baudrillard

Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.

Jim Butcher

I felt like I had just double-tapped Santa.

Ellen Bass

I live in Santa Cruz. I moved here in 1974 and couldn't leave.

Charles Fletcher

He could've won by 10 lengths if he wanted to.

Curtis White

I think we should have won by more (against Muncie Central), but we've been off (from competition) for a bit, and we're kind of rusty.

Catherine Jones

I was wondering that myself. I don't know.

Vincente Minnelli

I see wonderful films by Bertolucci, Visconti, and Fellini.

Robert Caro

As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life.

Vasily Grossman

Ivan tells Anna: "I used to imagine that being embraced by a woman . . . as something so wonderful that it would make me forget everthing . . . [But] happiness, it turns out, will be to share with you the burden I can't share with anyone else.

Walt Disney

The wonders of nature are endless...

Scott Macartney

I'm having a wonderful time. It's a wonderful experience.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

To wonder is to begin to understand.