Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alafair Burke

I was downright obnoxious. In second grade, we had some program where we kept a public list of all the books we read. I think it even included the number of pages. In my nerdy mind, having the longest and most impressive list was somehow going to make up for the fact that I couldn't climb a rope or do a backwards summersault in PE.

Shawn Mendes

The first year I started hockey, I didn't know how to skate, so I got on the ice with all of the hockey players, and we were doing drills where we had to go backwards in figure eights. And I could not skate, and I just kept falling on my butt, and it was very embarrassing.

David Del Tredici

A maverick feels like he has no choice however difficult his choice of expression. In my case, it was going backwards into tonality. It seemed so wrong. The idea that progress is going into the past in a new way is very strange, even though there are precedents.

Herbie Hancock

A lot of this look backwards in society and musically is to find some of the real roots, because they can't find them here. There are roots in the past, but not so much now. Maybe this explains their need to do that, and if that's the case, it's OK.

Rick Peterson

They've all been trying to bend over backwards to make sure we're OK. We'll have to wait and see; they've got a lot to do.

Charlie Kaufman

It's about this guy who finds out that his girlfriend of two years has had this surgical procedure which has erased him from her memory. So he's freaked out and trying to live with it and he can't, so he decides to have the same procedure. Most of the movie takes place in his brain as she's being erased, and you see their whole relationship, moment-by-moment, backwards from this sort of bad end to the better beginning. Halfway through, as the memories start getting better, he decides he doesn't want the procedure.

Cassandra Clare

I believe that writer's block is a symptom. It's not a disease, it's the symptom of a disease. So what I try to do is kind of do it like 'House'; write down the symptom and write down the other symptoms. Try to work backwards to figure out what the problem is.

Drew Goddard

In the 'Buffy' room, it was never about a plot twist, ever. It was always about, 'Tell the story, tell the characters, complicate their lives, make things get worse,' but we never worked backwards from the plot, and it was always a great lesson.

Eric Hughes

We started rehearsing this backwards ... so that once the students were on the spot, they would be more confident with that.

Kelly Rowland

Self-reflection is so healthy. Journaling works for me - when I record the details of what I'm going through, whether it's a relationship issue or negative thoughts, I can look back and see how far I've come. It makes me proud to see my progress and how I got through a bad situation.

Kazuo Ishiguro

We always like to keep our children in a kind of bubble and censor the bad news about the world. We like to tell them the world is full of benevolent, nice people.

Katy Perry

I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease.

John Huston

I was in such a bad position probably a couple of months ago I just decided to start playing every week. I wanted to see if I could kind of get some sort of a feel for the game back.... I've started playing a little better.

Joyce Johnson

I was in really bad shape. I don't remember a lot of it. But after I got out of there, I spent a week and a half in the hospital. Half of it in the intensive care unit.

Nicholson Baker

Keyboard work creates a class of unwanted things - one-letter typos, failures of phrasing, bad punctuation. If you don't want to delete these entirely, you can use the Return key to push them to the bottom of the screen.

Joan Greene

Kids today are very bright. They know bad things happen, and they need to know that this man who has been so wonderful has done nothing wrong.

Richard Armitage

I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the appearance is that you reward bad behavior. But if North Korea behaves for some period of time, I would pretty much favor direct talks.

Paul Di Filippo

'James and the Giant Peach' magnificently starts out Dahl's career as a blithe and droll Bad Uncle corrupter and affirmer of youth. Its influence can be subsequently traced down the decades in everything from Maurice Sendak to Lemony Snicket to J. K. Rowling.

Michael Bradley

Kids are exposed to this at incredibly early ages, when their brains are going through profound developmental changes. This has caught parents off guard. (Porn) has always been there, but it's always been in a lower volume.

Greg Walker

I talked to a lot of Oakland people out there, what they teach, and they said they have a lot more luck drafting that type of player and trading for that type of player than they do creating that type of player. I think it's just the way your brain works. It's very hard to teach.

Zach Day

He didn't want to overwhelm me with a bunch of stuff, ... But I picked his brain and said, 'I don't care if you overwhelm me. I've got a lot of stuff to work on and the last month and all off-season to work on it and want to get right.'

Shiloh Walker

Ah, typical writing day? Well, I tend to do e-mail and the business stuff of writing more in the morning while my brain wakes up and then write more in the afternoon, sometimes from about 11 until 5, or 12 until 5. If a story is driving me nuts, I'll work more in the evenings, but usually I try not to do that. That's family time.

Ozzy Osbourne

What is this? It's music to get a brain seizure by.

Michelle Paver

Have you ever held a snake? They are so strong. You can see why there are so many myths about them: they are unlike any other creature. It's extraordinary how that little brain can keep everything moving in different directions.

Ernie Irvan

Having this inaugural event at MIS is a testimony to those living with brain injuries. I am truly appreciative of the support everyone has shown - especially those who have registered to walk and the sponsors who have joined me in this mission.

Nick Nolte

I can't get any satiation. My brain is wired in such a way that I - in my research, I probably have a lack of D1 and D2 receptor sites. These are dopamine receptor sites, and satiation is a process that involves a cascade.

Mark Pagel

Humans like to think of themselves as unusual. We've got big brains that make it possible for us to think, and we think that we have free will and that our behavior can't be described by some mechanistic set of theorems or ideas. But even in terms of much of our behavior, we really aren't very different from other animals.

Bill Richardson

Here's my hope, ... If OPEC meets and decides to increase production at a sizable level, late spring, early summer you will see a gradual decrease in gasoline and diesel prices.

Sam Miller

Whatever the Legislature decides is fine with us.

Noam Chomsky

I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can't explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?

Steve Clarke

Remember, it's the judge who decides the sentence.

Jeff Henley

In addition, our sales force is getting smarter about how to sell in this environment. Finally, high (return on investment) projects around e-business can only get delayed so long before management decides they need to press ahead.

Joshua Cohen

In Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Jekyll & Hyde,' the hero decides on the terms of his transformation in a process that's explained not through the supernatural but the natural or, at least, through biochemistry.

David Kelly

I fully expect that when the Fed decides to put an end to rate hikes they will give us notice,

Julia Olin

The festival is going to be happening this weekend. Everyone who decides to come down is going to have a lot of fun even if it is a little drizzly.

Ron Meyer

Students using vouchers will now be welcomed back into Florida public schools. It decides with finality that the voucher program is unconstitutional.

Elton Brand

In the past, we might have folded, but we erased that 12-point lead and we're up three at halftime. It's a great, great feeling. It's much different than before.

David Boyer

Then it erased it and wrote it again, and did it all day. People loved it.

Tim O'Brien

The world comes at me that way - comes at me in clumps of stuff, sometimes little vignettes and sometimes whole stories. And then the rest is erased by the internal filter that erases things for the same reason you'd forget swatting a mosquito.

Cliff Lee

I give up two and Victor gets us back. That was huge. It was like he erased what I did and we were back to 0-0.

I. Stone

Chandeleur Island pretty much was erased by Hurricane Ivan and it was starting to recover,

Roman Harper

He's a genius, a really smart guy. He just finds a way to get things done. That's how you live life.

Simon Gagne

He sees me pretty well on the ice. He's amazing. He finds me everywhere. He's fun to play with.

Chris Scanlen

I think we've had 10 finds so far.

Matt Hasselbeck

He has been around. He understands how defenses work, how coverages work. He finds the openings.

Corey Williams

He finds the talent - there's no question about that. We've just been really fortunate to have a talented group here at all times so, when somebody leaves, someone will step up.

Howard Davidowitz

The nightmare goes on and when Wall Street finds that out, the stock price goes right back down,

Chris Johnson

All of the imagery, all of the symbolism of American hierarchy of what's viewed as powerful and desirable, really finds its most immediate symbol, in this case, in lacrosse players.

Joss Whedon

The master plan does not have a master plan. Television ultimately finds itself, and after it finds itself, it finds itself changing.

Frank Haith

As you can see, it didn't help because he still got 30 points. He finds ways. He is smart. It is like anything you do, it will work for a short period of time.

Reggie Lee

I swear to God I was freaked out about the Aswang when I was a kid in the Philippines.

Shellie Samuels

He shot people on TV, he shot people in the movies, but he never really shot people in real life, ... It freaked him out.

Henry Thomas

It was like that for the first six months after 'E.T.' was in cinemas. I'd go out and get mobbed. I was a shy kid, and being approached by adults all the time just freaked me out.

David Ewalt

A lot of people have kind of been freaked out by it. It really makes you stop and think about your life in a way that you usually don't.

Kelly Stone

It was so smoky. I was a little freaked out because we were on the top of that mountain, and we could see the smoke from all the fires.

Aimee Mullins

'Triumph over tragedy' - how pathetic! I think people are generally freaked out that I'm multifaceted. You don't hear people saying, 'Gwyneth Paltrow won an Oscar - and she's blonde!'

Penny Gienger

We freaked out. We knew they were going to pressure. ... We just weren't ready.

Evan Savoie

I got up and I was freaked out, so we started running. I was just paranoid and scared.

Sofia Vassilieva

When I first started on 'Medium,' they didn't like me growing my hair too long. But I was freaked out when the hairdresser cut off even an inch.

Willie Smith

I think when he lost his girlfriend that that was the last straw for him. She was his everything.

Carl Jung

So it's a yes, then?" To blue-corn pancakes or being your girlfriend?

Lauren Alcorn

He'll never change. He thinks he's invincible. I feel sorry for his girlfriend because he will always stray.

Robbie Amell

My girlfriend doesn't think I'm funny at all.

Tyler Hoechlin

My girlfriend and I never let each other forget how much we love each other. It's all about reminding the other person how important and special she is to you.

Rick Riordan

Annabeth realized that if six of them went on these two quests, it would leave Percy alone on the ship with Coach Hedge, which was maybe not a situation a caring girlfriend should put him in. Nor was she eager to let Percy out of her sight again—not after they’d been apart for so many months.

Rick Riordan

My girlfriend: sophomore honors student, demigod, and—oh, yeah—head architect for redesigning the palace of the gods on Mount Olympus in her spare time.

Wale

I dated a lot, but I never really had anyone who was worthy of an anniversary. And most girlfriends never made it to a year, anyway.

Salman Khan

Shah Rukh is not my girlfriend that I should remember him. When I don't remember my past girlfriends, what will I remember Shah Rukh for?

Christina Lee

I was just bawling. That's when I realized this guy was for real. His heart is so pure.

Jay Alford

I was looking to them as the guys that make the plays and run around and get to the ball. So that's what I'm trying to do this year.

Joey Miller

I was looking at these guys on TV last year. Now I'm one of them. It's really awesome.

John Doherty

Kevin threw three picks early, but he stayed the course, ... He's our No. 1 man and he kept the rest of the guys pushing. He didn't let anything get to him.

Sonny Lubick

Jake really helped himself. He will be a guy who is hard to keep out of the lineup next fall.

Tim Hanson

Jake is a very talented freshman. Our varsity lineup has some guys that will be running varsity for the first time, so it will be interesting to see.

Hines Ward

Ken has done a phenomenal job of distributing the ball. Every week, it's a different guy stepping up.

DeShaun Foster

Just like those two guys were different kinds of backs, we got the same thing here,'' Skipper says.

Scott Olsen

Just like my last start. You want to go out there and match what the other guy is doing.

Schatzi Hageman

He was halfway red and halfway loving it.

Peter Henning

or a very short sentence in a halfway house.

Sylvester Croom

It really increases our speed in the pass rush and still allows us to play the run halfway decent.

Loretta Lynn

You can't be halfway in this business. If you don't meet the fans, you lose all you've got.

Bob Beamon

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Irish Proverb

A questioning man is halfway to being wise.

Clint Hurdle

The thing was, people we had talked to over the winter didn't want to come our way. We were able to get three of them halfway through the season. So it wasn't by design.

Robin Ross

Right now we're about halfway through our spring practices so this is kind of like a midterm exam.

Mark Twain

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes

Carl Jung

And I start to say, no. Start to ask him to please just take it off and put it away. Start to explain how it holds far too many memories for me. But then I remember what Damen said once about memories - that they're haunting things. And because I refuse to be haunted by mine - I just take a deep breath and smile when I say, "You know, I think it looks really good on you. You should defiantly keep it.

Rob Sheffield

Tonight, I feel like my whole body is made out of memories. I'm a mix-tape, a cassette that's been rewound so many times you can hear the fingerprints smudged on the tape.

Richard Paul Evans

Old friends are memories personified.

Richard Dawkins

The psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has shown great courage, in the face of spiteful vested interests, in demonstrating how easy it is for people to concoct memories that are entirely false but which seem, to the victim, every bit as real as true memories.

Richelle Mead

People often ask where I get my inspiration from, and I always say I have no good answer because, well, inspiration comes from everywhere: people, places, memories.

Richelle Mead

I nearly dropped the plate I held. "You've asked me out tons of times." "Not really. I've made inapproprite suggestions and frequently pushed for nudity. But I've never asked you out on a real date. And, if memory serves, you did say you'd give me a fair chance once I let you clean out my trust fund." "I didn't clean it out," I scoffed.

Richelle Mead

That’s the last time you’re going to kiss me,” I warned when it ended. He smiled knowingly, and in his eyes, I could see his own memories of that night. “So you say.

Rebecca West

The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.

Rebecca West

My memory is certainly in my hands. I can remember things only if I have a pencil and I can write with it and I can play with it. ... I think your hand concentrates for you. I don't know why it should be so.

Charles Gittins

He did the procedures that are required to do a proper periscope search. Unfortunately, he didn't see the target.

Phil Roe

I'm a veteran. If I go into the V.A. hospital in Tennessee, I want to know that the procedures they're doing to me are being done properly. That is not unreasonable.

Julie Andrews

a routine procedure that I was told would not be threatening to my vocal chords.

Alan Perlis

If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.

Larry Parker

Yes, I think some procedures can be tightened up. Improvements can be made.

Robert Poole

There's actually now a well-established procedure for every project.

Alan Doss

We haven't had the long queues we had before, but that may be in part because the procedure was simpler ... just two candidates.

Marianne Moore

I never 'plan' a stanza. Words cluster like chromosomes, determining the procedure.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

He used to sit on my lap. I was sort of ambivalent about that. He was surviving any way he could.

Jennifer Hinson

It is a little frustrating. It's sort of put us into a year-by-year situation.

Michael Leunig

In my journey as a cartoonist, I seem to have accidentally stumbled into all sorts of traps, damnations and blacklists.

Jason Robinson

If you have got a problem, then go to the person and sort it out.

Jason Anderson

I know it's got a lot of sports fields. We're going to set all sorts of records.

Sam Heughan

I never once dreamed of sort of being able to be in an American TV series, you know? It was all about theater and touring and sort of being an actor around Scottish theater.

Stockard Channing

I never really thought of that. I just thought she was funny. Really, I just thought this was funny, sort of sweet, touching and human.

Grimes

I'm not, like, a natural performer. It's sort of a thing that I've had to learn to do.

Michelle Monaghan

I'm not so Hollywood; I live in New York, so it's very normal. I don't have many friends in the industry. My friends come from all sorts of different backgrounds and careers.

Jay Hopson

It all starts with him. He can do it all.

Nick Saban

Guys, let's get off this starting quarterback thing.

Lauren Bacall

There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree.

Sven Eriksson

He showed he is important even if he starts on the bench.

Brian Finnerty

I think when we start to get strong numbers, that's when we take off again.

Mike Bradley

We're off to a strong start in 2006.

Assemblywoman Leslie

We've got to start somewhere. I want to see something in place.

Dale Jr

I think we're all right. I think we're going to start third and fifth. I don't know; the 38's on the pole, right?

Tim Ryan

I think we were a little timid to start the game. We had some trouble getting into our stuff.

Amy Robach

Having cancer is one thing; looking like you have cancer is another thing. It's a disease that already takes so much.

Spike Jonze

If you focus your energy on the camera, it takes away from the time you have to focus on the performances.

Lykke Li

Being on tour really takes a toll, so you have to find ways to stay healthy.

Z. Sheppard

I'm getting better. It takes a little time, but I'm getting better.

Jennifer Walker

It takes us a while to warm up, for some reason.

Eric Duncan

It still takes some getting used to. You walk around here and you see some pretty big names.

Karel Amaranth

It really takes a village. We're all responsible for all children.

Jane Smith

This kind of work takes too much time. Mine's all needlework.

Eido Carney

It's at least 15 years. It takes that long.

Bryan Ball

I was just battling. Trying to give us a chance.

Kevin Madden

It can be done without trying to browbeat people.

Jennifer Fallon

I actually started writing publishable stuff the day I decided I'd actually like to write something I'd like to read, and stopped trying to think what does everyone actually want.

Drew Brees

We're trying to be that franchise that year-in and year-out is competing for a championship.

Mark Krikorian

I think it's going to implode. They're trying to do too much.

Estelle

I think the one group I am trying to appeal to is the world. That would be big enough.

Greg Bowers

We've been trying to play at Brooke's level, and we've been disappointed in past, but this is an accomplishment.

Andre Iguodala

I was just trying to put on a show.

Josh Bernoff

I think they may just be trying to ratchet the expectations down.