Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Foulkes

Kenny Laag was super on that mound, but Andy Reid was the man. He got ahead of a lot of hitters. He took charge out there. It was a big start for a senior, and he really stepped up and shined.

Todd Fairbourne

Jackie threw one heck of a game. She hit her spot 90-95 percent of the time and pitched ahead of the count.

Kim Clijsters

I think it's a compliment but, you know, I've got a tough match ahead of me, ... I'm not really thinking too much about being the favorite because I know what I have to do out there to win my matches.

Jay Wright

I think it changed the game. I think he was way ahead of his time. He caught the country by surprise the year he went to the Final Four. I think even after years he had all that success going to the Final Four, I think that it still took all of us a long time to catch up.

Felipe Lopez

He likes to get ahead of guys. For infielders, it keeps us on our toes. He keeps the game moving.

Chuck Grassley

He is putting the good of country and party ahead of his own personal ambitions.

Joel Bertsch

He learned from the guy ahead of him. He's a real smart kid, he makes good decisions, he's got a strong arm, he's a great leader and a real good field guy. The guys believe in him.

Hilton Armstrong

He knows what's going to happen before it happens. It's like playing a game of chess with him. He can see a couple moves ahead and orchestrate the game.

Tony Crescenzi

Greenspan usually refrains from saying anything market moving ahead of speeches before Congress,

Trent Reznor

Just spent the day discussing touring up through next summer, then played our asses off to the least responsive audience I can ever remember playing to. As I'm walking to the bus to leave Sacramento as soon as I can, I learn Jerome is back in the hospital. I have no idea what this means.

Glenn Stanton

John and I are both very disturbed by audience members who don't conduct themselves well, regardless of which side they are on. But that is very rare. Most people seem thankful for the way and seriousness with which we engage the issue and our obvious respect for each other.

Zhang Ziyi

He creates characters that draw in an audience no matter what language they speak. His insight into the human heart crosses all boundaries. I know he is also making a huge influence in the lives of younger filmmakers and actors.

Rory Bruer

Having a Jim Carrey film over the holidays is a pretty sure bet. Audiences trust he'll have the goods, and they want to laugh and have a good time this time of year.

George Pierce Baker

In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results.

Ingrid Jensen

There are so many pockets of places around the country where I play at tiny little towns, and the audiences in general there are so much more appreciative than big city audiences.

Cillian Murphy

He obviously knows through his movies how to exploit terror, and he seems to be able to investigate fears that we all have and exploit them or magnify them. There's a particular way of doing films like this. There's a particular way to manipulate the audience to get sort of a reaction out of them, and he can do that.

Wendy Liebmann

Here is this audience that is waiting to be plucked. They have a lot of money to spend, so they are a really big deal.

Frank Darabont

He's delighted with it, ... And indeed, I think that for him, this really came from the heart, this piece. So to have it represented well to the movie-going audience was quite a pleasure for him.

Gary Crane

Christina stepped up for us. She has been playing well throughout the holidays and has improved for us.

O. Henry

A holiday in a new dress—can earth offer anything more enchanting?

Mindy Kaling

I'm Indian-American and I think that when I think of myself as being culturally Indian, it had so much to do with when I lived with my parents and was a kid because they would take me to the Diwali festivals. They would take me to the temple, and they would teach me about all the different holidays.

Julia Cameron

As a writer, I find holidays often disturbing, not liberating, in their disruption of tempo, their open-ended time.

Paul Engle

I have published in 'The New Yorker,' 'Holiday,' 'Life,' 'Mademoiselle,' 'American Heritage,' 'Horizon,' 'The Ladies Home Journal,' 'The Kenyon Review,' 'The Sewanee Review,' 'Poetry,' 'Botteghe Oscure,' the 'Atlantic Monthly,' 'Harper's.'

Mike Carey

It's not a holiday until you overdo it!

Paul Ford

Being creative and playing with your content during the holidays is a great idea. But straying too far from your fundamental brand (from address, logo, etc.) can be a dangerous game. Your recipients need to be able to recognize you during this busy time of year.

Patrick O'Brian

For me the process works best with no interruptions, no breaks in the steady application, no letters to be answered, very little social life, no holidays; it is therefore a form of happy imprisonment.

Oprah Winfrey

Happiness is there for the taking - and the making.

Brian Waldron

We can co-exist with soccer, absolutely. They're essentially a summer sport and we're winter. We'll make it work beautifully.

Truman Capote

Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb. And there exudes a sour extra-human smell that makes the very stone seem flesh-alive, webbed and pulsing.

Rick Riordan

She'd secretly had a crush on him since they were twelve years old. Last summer, she'd fallen for him hard.

William Law

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

William Wordsworth

The moving accident is not my trade; To freeze the blood I have no ready arts: 'Tis my delight, alone in summer shade, To pipe a simple song for thinking hearts.

Will Durant

The dog that buried the bone which even a canine appetite could not manage, the squirrel that gathered nuts for a later feast, the bees that filled the comb with honey, the ants that laid up stores for a rainy day - these were among the first creators of civilization. It was they....who taught our ancestors the art of providing for tomorrow out of the surplus of today, or of preparing for winter in summer's time of plenty.

Sarah Rees Brennan

The poor lady must have dropped that", she said, and undid the gate stepping out to get it. Jared put his hand on it, "No". Mrs Jeffries stared down at him. "What do you mean...no?" Jared and Mrs.Jeffries stared back at each other,neither breaking eye contact in a perfect deadlock. Then Jared smiled at her. "I mean", he said with conviction, "it's mine." "It's what?" Jared stood up, pocketing the lipstick. "I know", he responded. "Everyone tells me i'm more of a summer". Mrs.Jeffries continued to stare. Jared continued to speak. "I'm going to go now. Me... and my lipstick.

Sarah Rees Brennan

They walked to school, talking about how much they were longing for the summer holidays. "Oh, I am planning things," said Jamie. "Great, great things. I could join a band." "You gave up the guitar after two lessons." "Well," he said, "I could be a backup dancer." "Backup dancers have to wear belly shirts and glitter," said Mae. "So obviously, I support this plan.

Sarah Silverman

As a kid, I was terrified. I was a bed wetter and I had to go to sleepaway camp every summer, which was humiliating and terrifying. I had lots of insecurities and scaredness. I covered it with being funny and tough, but it's hard to be tough when you're making your cot in your bunk over soaking wet sheets and acting like nobody can smell anything.