Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Herbert Mead

Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure.

Anders Rasmussen

It is positive that the (EU) Commission is trying to reduce the short-term impact by proposing to let the blocked textiles into the market,

Jeff Samardzija

I thought we blocked exceptionally well. We hurt them with screen passes and every time we had three or four guys leading the way.

Jerry Bailey

I didn't get to a spot as early as I needed to. I got blocked and had nowhere to go. I had a feeling it was going to be too little too late.

Ashley Lelie

I blocked well, I was physical, I didn't let myself be guarded, ... They didn't do a great job covering me, I just didn't make the plays like the easy catches or the read with Jake downfield.

Chris Hetherington

He is great, he runs hard. He's studied the offense pretty well. He sets up my blocks pretty well. I think he is going to gain a lot of yards. It is going to be fun to block for him. I have blocked for a lot of good running backs, and they can really make your job easier by setting up blocks, making the correct reads.

Billy Donovan

Our blocks in the Miami game came the right way. They came with our big guys playing good post defense, moving their feet. When someone from Miami committed to shooting the basketball, most of our blocked shots were on the ball.

Aftab Sherpao

Right now people are angry. They are wailing and crying. Some of them have blocked roads in the town and we are trying to control the situation.

Erwin Chemerinsky

Robert Bork was blocked in large part because he said in his writings that there was no constitutional right to privacy.

Joey Harrington

He said, 'I'm trying to make too many big plays,' ... He was trying to make a big play each time he touched the ball, when really if he stuck with his blocks and what he knows how to do, good things will happen.

David Baker

by lifting road blocks and increasing freedom of movement, and the terrorists have exploited these humanitarian measures.

Brad Blank

Chris (Chambers) is a good receiver, just like (New England's top wide receiver) Deion Branch. David is able to help his other receivers a lot and he also blocks well for running backs. So I think he'd be a nice fit.

James Lane

Caffeine only temporarily blocks the signals to your brain that let you know you?re tired.

David Walton

I lived in Koreatown for five years, and I lived blocks away from about seven karaoke bars.

Jean Williams

I had a friend that lived here on Waccamaw Drive not too far from the pier, but I couldn't find her house, ... We finally found it a couple of blocks west.

Joyce Smith

I love the river, ... We lived right on the Mississippi, four blocks away.

Hilary Clinton

I love the idea of New Yorkers being able to move blocks and blocks through Manhattan without encountering a single car, bus or truck,

Kevin Kwan

I know an elderly society matron in Singapore who would rather walk in the scorching sun for blocks on end rather than have her chauffeur drive into the Central Business District at peak hour and pay the $1.50 surcharge.

Daryl Dickey

He couldn't get to the practice field quick enough to correct some things and learn from his mistakes.

Clark Haggans

He just made some passes and they got some yardage, ... They executed better. But it's the third week of the season. We'll correct our mistakes.

Jesse Berman

He just got it wrong and corrected it right away.

Kazunori Jinnai

What we have been seeing today and yesterday is a rather normal correction after the nearly vertical rise in high-tech shares in recent sessions. Investors will be taking refuge in other sectors until high-tech stocks find a floor.

Steve Burtt

He's a grammar fanatic. He has a grammar fetish. He's the one who corrects everybody.

Peter Grandich

Gold's momentum is likely to take it to either side of $600, but then a serious correction is likely to unfold.

Steven Wood

It confirms that the (Fed) was correct in pausing their tightening cycle at last week's meeting.

John Mielke

I thought were weren't getting our people to the correct spots. In the second half, we got people within our zone offense to where they needed to be. We got some looks and knocked them down.

Debra Pegram

I though we played great in the second half to correct some things, I knew they were going to play us tough.

Doug Flutie

I think it's actually easier for me to simulate him than it would be a Peyton Manning, ... but you can't do it to the full extent. You can't stand there flat-footed and sling the thing 65, 70 yards off your back foot, or when you take off and run.

Dr. Jones

I think it probably could work in terms of making it easier to feel lumps.

Jim Thorpe

I think it played easier today than it did in the pro-am.

Rickey Henderson

He can steal as many as he wants. He's got unbelievable speed but he doesn't have the greatest jump. Right now, he's just running on raw speed. But if you watch a pitcher's move and get a good jump, sometimes you don't have to run as hard and it's easier to steal second.

Christopher McQuarrie

I think it's a lot easier to tell a war story about two sides of a conflict with one another as opposed to one side in conflict with itself.

Noe Cerezo

It could have been much easier. It's not going to get any easier now. It's going to get harder.

Megan Ronhovde

It is a lot of thinking and every game we make some minor adjustments. You go man-to-man it's a little more simplistic. I think it's been a little easier for the younger girls.

Mick McCarthy

It is a lot easier to talk about a game after we have played well and won than when we've played well and lost,

David Orr

It is a complicated for the judges to administer. It should be an easier system for our voters to use.

Jamie Richardson

Kim's stuffing recipe was sent out to the media in a holiday press release just as a fun marketing tool,

Mark Mooradian

Kickoffs are a lot of fun. I go out there and just nail it.

John Tuozzo

Kids playing sports should be about learning the game they're playing and having fun doing it.

Mats Wilander

James Blake's playing tennis for the right reasons. He's playing to have fun and to find out about himself, not to win the U.S. Open.

Rusty Robinett

Jake has been working hard and that's just a lot of hard work that paid off for him. Jake is very mature for his age, but he has a lot of fun out there.

David Pierce

Kelsey Grammer is wickedly funny. He's like an 8-year-old child. He's always doing pranks, and we have a great time.

Willie Randolph

Keep it going, I love it. The guys were having fun tonight and obviously everyone was making a contribution. That's what you need to do the job on the road and hopefully we can get something special going.

Ben Curtis

Just seems like one good thing's led to another. Everything has kind of come together at the right time. It's just fun to go out and play again.

Henry Nutbrown

I think in the end, it's inevitable we'll be talking with all of our funding partners.

Thomas Szasz

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Howard Dean

Karl Rove breached our national security for partisan gain and that is unpatriotic and wrong.

Jill Koenitzer

I think in some ways there are more things gained through this type of day versus a traditional first day.

Patricia Mercado

What women have gained is one thing. How we have been received is another. It's not with open arms.

Bob Saveikis

I think you win and it speaks volumes, but if you win in the playoffs, that's where the respect is gained. I think, with our first time in the playoffs, we want to win whether we're 15th-seed, 16th-seed. You still have to play the games, so I don't want to say there's a lack of respect. But if you don't win, you don't gain respect.

B. F. Skinner

When he was in school and worked in the store, I think the interaction between people is really what gained his interest.

Eddy Cue

We've gained a lot of credibility in the industry in the past 2 1/2 years with what we did with songs. And that's what we're trying to mirror in the video space.

Bernadette Devlin

To gain that worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else

English 20th Century Proverbs

What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts.

Ken Hill

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

Charles Warren

I was like, 'Wow,' something's going on here, ... Something good is about to happen.

Ramon Hernandez

I was looking for a fastball. I got it on the good part of the bat. It went where no one could get it.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Buck Showalter

Kenny was effective. They've seen Kenny so much. They hit some good pitches for hits. He bent, but he didn't break.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

John Crumbley

(Key West) had a tough week this week, but (starting pitcher Daniel) Foltz pitched a good game. It was good to be in this type of pressure situation.

Paul Wood

Kim is a real good person to have on the team because she is fun, but also knows when to take it serious, ... Leshia will play between the midfield and the attack. She is like a new player for us. We hope she can come back healthy.

Morris Gleitzman

Kids who are nine, 10 and 11 are pretty sophisticated readers; they know that there isn't always a good outcome every time and that problems don't always have solutions.

Greg Jackson

Kids who come here, I see them grow. My philosophy is not winning and losing. When I see a kid like Tracey, it puts this job in perspective.

Travis Moyer

Jordan did a very nice job out there. He pitched excellent. He only made one mistake.

Scott Rice

Joey's a talented kid. He did a nice job on his routes.

Matt McKay

Joe did an outstanding job on Biggs. We didn't want him shooting 3s.

Galen Hall

Joe did a miraculous job keeping that squad from not splitting offensively and defensively.

John Caudwell

Journalists like to say I started off sweeping the pottery floors. But it was just a short-lived part time job doing that after I left school.

Garrett Gravesen

Jobs can wait, but the lives of these kids cannot. And because no one else was doing anything else about it.

Glen Smith

He viewed it as a job that had to be done.

Allard Baird

He comes into Spring Training where it's his job to lose.

Tim Bennett

We talk about all three phases of the game. You have to win not only into offense or defense, but special teams. We put a lot of work into our special teams.

Andrei Kirilenko

I think we just started rushing at the end and putting up a lot of jumpers. They were getting rebounds and playing 24 seconds of offense each possession.

Tom Grippa

I thought our offense would do more, and we didn't. They shocked us with their offense, and once we got behind, we weren't ready to come from behind.

Paul Bauer

He has been the centerpiece of the offense so far. We will see how he comes out of it.

Johnnie Morton

Our offense was very sluggish out there, ... and we never had our tempo.

Jeremy Bauer

Our offense is there. We've been putting up a lot of runs so far.

Clay Jordan

Our offense is one dimensional, ... We have to be able to throw.

Joey Harrington

Our offense isn't doing what it's supposed to be doing. A lot of different people not quite working together.

Sean Georges

Our offense is going to be much slower than we predicted.

Robert Gilmore

It all starts with who we got running the country,

Andy Reid

He can run, ... This doesn't stop him from running the football.

Donna Myers

What you are doing is running the seniors out of Worthington.

Lindsay Whalen

It could be worse, ... I'm already kind of running around and jumping. They kind of said to me, 'Just see how you feel.'

Derrick Williams

We talked all week about establishing the running game. We established out running game, and now we can see that we can run and pass.

Toney Baker

I was just running and I lowered my shoulder. That's it.

Carl Jung

You cannot outwalk your problems. Can never run fast enough to evade them completely.

Al Scates

He was running different routes. I don't know where he was going. He was doing a lot of verbal routes. It was between him and Dennis. He was running all over the place.

Gary Burkholder

I don't know about that one, but I know we're in the running for Taylor Road.

John Sullivan

It is important our door-to-door service runs efficiently, ... I'm worried about the transportation issue.

Bill Rees

In some ways, he may be more of an unknown than Vince Young. He didn't have the supporting cast. But he runs well and has a lot of ability.

James Altucher

Being a leader doesn't mean you are the guy who runs things.

Rusty Wallace

I'm having better runs than I've had in a long time, ... I want to go out on top of my game, and I'm doing that right now.

Rory Bremner

If the oil runs out, we'll be reduced to fracking Alex Salmond.

Ryan Howard

It worked today. We got runs and we won the game.

Chris Capuano

It seems like we've been scoring a lot of runs in my starts. Even when I haven't pitched well, we've been able to find ways to win.

Alan Trammel

A lot of things aren't going our way. You score that many runs in the first inning and then give up six, it's depleting and it takes its toll on you.

Phillip Fulmer

They split the reps (in practice). We have two quarterbacks. Whoever runs out there first will be first.

Gregg Marshall

It all sets up for a lot of drama.

Alastair Reynolds

I think the danger with using the term 'trilogy' is that it sets up particular expectations in the reader's mind.

Marcos Baghdatis

The first two sets I was really stressed out, I didn't know what to do.

Shana Martin

I want to be the person who sets the curve.

Dinah Maria Mulock

It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.

Mark Polansky

When the application sets are similar, there?s movement.

David Hallberg

When stress sets in, and pressure, I focus.

Cass Elliot

I've been fat since I was seven, and being fat sets you apart.

Amy Cooper

When Kyra sets it makes her a lot more vocal and involved. She has a tendency when she's not setting to become an island. Kyra's a really smart player.

Ariel Sharon

I have begun, with my colleagues, setting up a new party,

Gilbert Arenas

I'd been setting up my team all night, ... I'm going to win the game. That's what I do. . . . They didn't say it was going to be easy.

Richard Greenberg

The implication is that these settings would actually be hospitable to life,

Veruschka von Lehndorff

In the Sixties, fashion was about liberation. It was about setting women free; it wasn't about being unable to walk.

Simeon Rice

So we accomplished one mission. We're setting out for many more.

William Ramsay

(This is not about) setting up some supranational scheme.

Sam Aiona

There are various interpretations of the new law. It is setting us back.

Kevin Henkes

When I work on a novel, I usually have one character and a setting in mind.

David Leslie

I don't think it's so much of a disadvantage setting up from scratch.

Marcelo Balboa

I never really studied the game. I just watched tape of who I had to cover. That was my studying.

Edward Brooke

I never studied much at Howard, but at Boston University, I didn't do much else but study.

Steven Blair

We've studied this from many perspectives in women and in men, and we get the same answer: It's not the obesity, it's the fitness.

Idina Menzel

Growing up I studied classically and did lots of shows in school.

Poe Ballantine

I studied a truckload of true crime, praying for illumination, but most true crime relies on luridness and voyeurism for effect.

Flea

I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.