Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Owens

We want to throw high percentage stuff this year, but it's like I told Gary the other day, if we call a pass and it's not there, pull the ball down and run with it and we'll come back and call another play. We just don't want him trying to force things and make mistakes.

John Talbot

Wayne brings with him a wealth of experience and a fine reputation and I am confident that he will make a powerful contribution to English National Ballet and to the British dance world.

Limas Sweed

We always believe. That's something coach Brown talks about a lot. You always come out and believe in each other. We told the defense, 'We get the ball back, we're going to make things happen, we're going to make plays and that's exactly what we did.

Howard Davidowitz

The performance of the company over the last few years has been very erratic. It's also a smaller player. It was time for Milstein to take it easy and make a gigantic pot of money and turn the ball over to someone else.

Marty Schottenheimer

The point I've made very clear to him, and I made very clear to you: You will not play quarterback or any other position that possesses the ball for me. You have to take care of the ball because it's the difference between winning games in this league.

Linda Kilpatrick

The point guard is very solid. She handles the ball strong, runs the offense well and can hit the open shot.

Bob Ferguson

We've always been known as a option team. But we've been able to pass the ball the past couple of games and get ourselves out of some trouble. We hit some big third downs and some long passes and it was good for us.

M. Thompson

We started to go inside. We were in the bonus and double bonus early. We figured let's establish things in the post. We have two good posts and we got them the ball and let them go to work.

Ron Reed

We started to get loosened up there in the second half and that really made the game different. The kids shared the ball well, and they had fun. They were just a great group of kids.

Charles Dickens

Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.

Charles Soule

This might seem impossible to believe, but some lawyers actually like lawyering.

Charles Sturt

The year 1826 was remarkable for the commencement of one of those fearful droughts to which we have reason to believe the climate of New South Wales is periodically subject.

Charles Stanley

Believing you can achieve a goal is vital to reaching a goal.

Charles Spurgeon

I would rather believe a limited atonement that is efficacious for all men for whom it was intended, than a universal atonement that is not efficacious for anybody, except the will of men be added to it.

Charles Spurgeon

Believe only half of the praise and half of the criticism.

Charles Spurgeon

Faith is believing that Christ is what he is said to be, and that he will do what he has promised to do, and then to expect this of him.

Charles Spurgeon

I met another man who considered himself perfect, but he was thoroughly mad; and I do not believe that any of the pretenders to perfection are better than good maniacs... for while a man has got a spark of reason left in him, he cannot, unless he is the most impudent of impostors, talk about being perfect.

Charles Spurgeon

I do not believe in an atonement which is admirably wide, but fatally ineffectual.

Nick Saban

We want to support every player, and I think every player knows he has a responsibility for what to do and what not to do. As a coach, I also feel a responsibility to put a player in the best situation possible so he can have success.

Jeff Horner

We want to show people we're the best team in the conference. We want to win the Big Ten Tournament and show that maybe we did deserve a little bit of the Big Ten title.

Greg Bolton

We want to serve families the best we can within the economy of scale.

Mike Scioscia

We absorbed non-production from some guys the best we could,

Pat Onstad

We always have a good group, both on and off the field. It was that way with Frank (Yallop) and it continues with Dom. It's not about having the best players, but having the best group of players. We just always seem to gel.

Larry Kupczyk

We always get great crowds here. We played some of our best hockey that weekend.

Ron Allen

We always enjoy the games between us. We always have great contests. Larry and I have been best friends for 20 seasons out here.

Lord Melbourne

Wealth is so much the greatest good that Fortune has to bestow that in the Latin and English languages it has usurped her name.

Denis Waitley

The first best-kept secret of total success is that we must feel love inside ourselves before we can give it to others.

Josh Page

We want to pressure them and get some turnovers right away. Hopefully we can pressure their guards and not let them get comfortable in the half-court set.

David Reeves

We have security guards here and we monitor quite a bit.

Richard Thurin

We've got more size than they do, but they have the quickest guards in the area. They will be a challenge.

Steve Fisher

We guarded better. We were the reason, in my opinion, that they were 5-for-20.

Tom Rossley

We're going to let those guards play a lot during the game.

Tim Ehresman

We're going to have to guard them very tough. And Joe (Kalb) will be guarding one of the post guys.

James Otis

A man's house is his castle; and whilst he is quiet, he is as well guarded as a prince in his castle.

Bob Hofman

They made the plays when they had to, and we didn't. And their guards hit the big shots when they had to.

Scott Walker

They had to pull them straight down, put the mouth guard in and lock it in there.

Charles Caleb Colton

The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with this world, and indifferent about another, they at last lay violent hands upon themselves, and assume no small credit for the sang froid with which they meet death. But, alas! such beings can scarcely be said to die, for they have never truly lived.

Charles Caleb Colton

Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth; we shall get second-hand sense from the one, and original nonsense from the other.

Charles Dickens

If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you!

Charles Dickens

Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.

Charles Stross

I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries.

Charles Spurgeon

I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters.

Charles Spurgeon

Faith has a saving connection with Christ. Christ is on the shore, so to speak, holding the rope, and as we lay hold of it with the hand of our confidence, He pulls us to shore; but all good works having no connection with Christ are drifted along down the gulf of fell despair.

Charles Spurgeon

There’s no shame about any honest calling; don’t be afraid of soiling your hands, there’s plenty of soap to be had.

Alan Watts

Where does my fist go when I open up my hand? Where does my lap go when I stand up?

Alan Rickman

With the best intentions, the job of acting can become a display of accumulated bad habits, trapped instincts and blocked energies. Working with the Alexander Technique has given me sightings of another way... Mind and body, work and life together. Real imaginative freedom...

Alan Greenspan

At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock, wage-skill differentials would be stable, and the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.

Alan Chambers

I think we've made it a golden idol. I think we in the church have treated it differently than we've treated anything else. We've made it bigger; the resolution for this needs to be bigger than for other people. I think we have to do a better job than we've done. So I do think there is, people rush to judgment and rush to clarify their point on this issue in ways that they don't' rush to judgment and to clarity on other issues.

Al Roker

Never give up your day job. I do all sorts of things, but at the end of the day, it all boils down to The Today Show, and I love doing this thing, and they will have to blow me out of here with dynamite before I leave.

Al Jardine

I'm pretty satisfied with how 'Postcard' turned out. I think everybody did a great job.

Akio Morita

We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.

Akio Morita

I consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with because at Sony we know that a terrific idea is more likely to happen in an open, free and trusting atmosphere than when everything is calculated, every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.

Akio Morita

Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly; that may be the most important job management has in dealing with its engineers.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

I cannot recall, in any of my reading, a single instance of a prophet who applied for the job.

Satya Pradhuman

The point is, we're not out of the woods yet,

Craig Martin

The point is to get it right, not necessarily to get it done early.

Livan Hernandez

The point is, it's now or never. You try to make the playoffs.

Jim Clarke

We are at the point where we have succeeded in accomplishing what we wanted to do.

Tom Renney

We have to get to the point where he thinks he could play, and I don't think we're at that point.

Michael Ondaatje

You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which, for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel.

Ian Rosenberger

Watch for someone else to screw up, and then quietly point it out to everyone else,

Ben Nelson

We're going to run like we're 10 points down,

Dave Garza

We're going to put some big points on the board.