Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wade Leppert

I've been competing since eighth-grade. It gives me the ability to fight off blocks and overpower people.

Tony Fratto

The World Bank's analysis seems to give greater credence to the ability of a Niger to pay back its unsustainable debt than it does for the G-8 countries to meet their commitments.

Subra Suresh

These are tools that were not available five years ago. They could help to answer one of the key questions as a disease progresses in the human body: What is the connection between the development of the disease and the ability of a cell to change shape, move through the body, and stick to a blood vessel wall?

Gray Davis

These are serious questions, which, if true, raise doubts about his ability to govern this state. You need to think about whether this is a risk California should take,

John McCoy

This is as important affiliation for us in that our stated objective is to be one of the top three banks in the markets we serve, ... We are very pleased to be joining Banc One, which has demonstrated an exceptional ability to dramatically improve operating performance of its affiliates." ()

Suzanne York

This is essentially another pathway into the profession. It's a little more intensive, but it actually offers access into the profession and the ability to practice medicine with a smaller financial output.

Scott Linehan

This is an exciting sign for us. This particular player became available, fortunately for us, just prior to the weekend (in) a big need area for us. He's going to fit a big part of what we're trying to get done here, and add some veteran leadership, as well as his obvious playing ability on the defensive front.

Jim Nussle

This is huge when it comes to our ability to come together with an almost three-month jump we'll have on Democrats.

David Rohrer

This is a tragedy and would be on any day, but its occurrence on Christmas Day only seems to highlight our sense of loss and makes our ability to comprehend that much more difficult.

Frank Morgan

I was an admirer of Art Pepper even before I went to California, when he was still in Kenton's band. His playing is joyous, great.

John Brockington

Plunkett was dropping passes in between three guys; he was hitting guys falling down. . . . We were a much better team.

If you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let'em go, because, man, they're gone.

If you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let 'em go, because man, they're gone.

Billy Blanks

When you become confident with your inner-self, the outside's just going to fall into place.

Bobby Darin

I had these shoes made and 2 to 3 inch lifts inside and the heel was another 2 and half inches. I walked around that way, wherever I could without falling over.

Aeschylus

Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, 'Let no more riches enter!'.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope.

Alexander Hamilton

Has it been found that bodies of men act with more rectitude or greater disinterestedness than individuals? The contrary of this has been inferred by all accurate observers of the conduct of mankind; and the inference is founded upon obvious reasons. Regard to reputation has a less active influence, when the infamy of a bad action is to be divided among a number than when it is to fall singly upon one.

Alexander McCall Smith

If your ceiling should fall down, then you have lost a room, but gained a courtyard. Think of it that way.

Don DeLillo

A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable.

Amber Valletta

I wish the word supermodel would just fall off the face of the earth. Anyone can be a supermodel now.

Chuck Palahniuk

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.

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.

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.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Henri Bergson

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Charlie King

Right place at the right time is all I can say about that one.

Gil Brandt

Really? I think for a long time they probably didn't have a quarterback because they were a wishbone team.

Robert Battle

Reflection is not something you have a lot of time for.

Sarah MacLean

If you think back to your time as a teenager, everything was dramatic.