Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry Bradshaw

James Davison took me out to show me where Karl is living right now and where he's going to build. Karl wasn't at home. He was out there somewhere in the woods riding on some Caterpillar or some kind of tractor. But I figured we'd at least knock on the door to see if he was there. His wife answered the door. So we got to meet Kay before Karl.

Stuart Pearce

Joey Barton is a Manchester City player. I hope he'll stay. The way footballers answer anybody is by performing on the pitch and I thought he played extremely well.

Brad Brownell

John is as tough as it comes. At one point during the game, I asked him if he wanted to switch off and guard somebody else for a while. He glared back and me, so I knew what his answer was.

Evan Bayh

I think I should hear what the man has to say before making up my mind, ... Whoever is chosen for this spot could be on our nation's highest court for 30 years perhaps, and deal with some of the most fundamental liberties that we have in this country. So I think it's important we take our time, ask the right questions, listen carefully to the answers and then reach a considered judgment.

Jay Wright

I think in recruiting, it establishes us. I don't have to answer questions about, Are you going to be there? Are you going to be there when I'm finished playing?' It makes it very clean in recruiting.

Leon Brittan

It cannot be right to jeopardize relations between the EU and United States because you get an answer a few weeks after the time you want it,

E. O. Wilson

It apparently led to him putting the victim up into an apartment. He would call every two hours and if the victim did not answer the phone, he would then beat her. An average of twice a week, he would go to the apartment and have forced intercourse at times with the victim.

Paul Heath

It answers who did it and possibly why they did it, and to that extent, there is closure.

Arlen Specter

He did not give a definitive answer because obviously that question is going to be before the court again; it's going to be on the next term, ... But I think he - as they said in the old song, 'Kansas City,' he went about as far as he could go.

Diego Della Valle

I was looking for a name with an old English sound, very easy to pronounce in every language and easy to remember. At the beginning I used J. P. Tod's, but then in 1999 it was shortened since too many people were asking who was Mr. J. P. Tod's.

Ermias Belay

Is what is happening in Idaho an anomaly, a statistical fluke? That is possible. But once it exceeds 1.5 or 2 per million, you start asking questions. If they are all confirmed, it could be odd.

Bill Bryk

He just needs a third pitch. Here's a guy who the Twins were asking for in a big-league trade two years ago. So I look for good things from him.

Mike Fox

He just had a last-minute complication. It's a 12-hour drive round-trip and that was asking a great deal. He was hoping to be able to do it, but another situation necessitated other circumstances.

Peter Cappelli

Harvard Medical School is famous for asking interviewees to open a window that is nailed shut.

Robert Mcnair

What we've got to do is educate the union. Right now, what they're asking is just totally unrealistic. They need to get realistic about debt revenue and not gross revenue. That's where the big disconnect is.

Larry Kramer

He's a combination of a good reporter and the host of a talk show. The concept is for him to really moderate a debate. . . . That requires asking the right questions and being persistent.

Doug Risebrough

Going to the tournament and talking to him about the decisions he made and asking him how he put it together gave me a sense of his abilities. I talked to him (about the Wild management job) before this year's tournament and he said he couldn't talk about it until after the tournament.

John Skrzynski

He's asking you to say that what he did is all right. It's a crime. What he did is a murder.

Jerry Sloan

If you're supposed to be on a certain place on the floor defensively, you've got to get there. You can't just go crazy. And if you've got a certain assignment on the offensive end of the floor, that all remains the same. But if we break it down because we've got something else in mind, then the other four guys don't have any idea what we're doing. It's just basketball. But we have to play it together.

Mark DeRosa

I'm glad I went on rehab assignment to see some live pitching and get some at-bats. I said there were no excuses, I was seeing the ball well at Triple-A and I was able to come back and get it going.

Jonathan Casillas

Every night ... we'd watch film together, or we'd come in late from games together, it was just good because he knew exactly what I was going through. We were doing homework together because we knew we had to get the assignment done before we went on the trip. It was great.

Samuel Wilson

Once polymorphisms (or alleles) have been discovered, study groups can be held to consider the research required for assignment of allele frequency.

Ned Yost

It's possible Wise or Santana will go out on a rehab assignment to pitch a few innings. We just want to make sure they're OK before we make a roster move and send somebody out.

Craig Littlepage

It's much like the question about injuries - it has to be considered, it has to be brought up. The committee member who has the monitoring assignment for that team and for that conference would be obliged to bring that to the attention of the committee.

Ed Orgeron

It's more of an assignment thing with Kendrick, but eventually he and Antonio will play. They aren't ready to play right now.

Rocky Hager

It's a dangerous offense. They force a defense to be assignment oriented. You can't slide off and help because then you will get hurt.

Richard Fenick

Of course, you can only imagine how busy we are now with tax work. We make sure, though, that each assignment we're given is done within 24 hours.

Steve Ralston

Italy is a very defensive team, very well organized, they look to counter-attack. Their defense is rock solid.

R. Inge

He just knows how to pound the zone once he gets ahead. He just lets his defense work for him. He's a smart pitcher. He knows what he's doing.

Kris Kleeman

I thought the first half defense was very good. I wish we could have scored some points there to get a lead. We missed our first 10 shots to start the game, we had good shots that we have to be able to make. We didn't make them and kept them in the game.

Les Miles

I thought that our defense stymied them all day, and really played extremely well,

Allan Ray

I think we fed off our defense a little more in the second half, and we got into a flow offensively as a result.

Cappie Pondexter

I think we rebounded and played great defense (during the run). Once we got away from that, they started getting comfortable, started hitting shots.

Mike Klembara

I think we had the proper game plan. We wanted to slow the tempo and play our 3 defense (a 3-2 zone). They were just a little more mature down the stretch than we were.

Kawika Mitchell

I think we did that. But we still have some room to improve. Our style of defense is getting after the offense. However, you want to do that. Whether it's a zone defense or blitzes, we're going to do that.

Dave Pettit

I think we did it to ourselves. We were kind of sleepwalking and took quick shots. We didn't make them play much defense tonight.

S. Walker

I actually had to do my homework to pass the time. It was horrible.

Tom Turner

I think its important that kids have homework about every night,

Alex Wood

He had done his homework on me. I like that. He was serious about me.

Donna Shalala

It's coaches. It's people that are involved in kids' lives at every level, and it's supporting their parents. Their parents need better jobs. So that they can help them with their homework and don't have to work two jobs.

Peter Lynch

If you have the stomach for stocks, but neither the time nor the inclination to do the homework, invest in equity mutual funds.

Silas Lee

He's someone respected for doing his homework on issues. He's viewed as a very serious, very studious person.

James Dickey

To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.

Rob Sheffield

Like any teenager who reads The Great Gatsby, probably, I was madly in love with the teacher who had opened it up for me.

Richelle Mead

You are an exceptional, talented, and brilliant young woman. Do not ever let anyone make you feel like you’re less. Do not ever let anyone make you feel invisible. Do not let anyone—not even a teacher who constantly sends you for coffee—push you around.

William Zinsser

Writers who think THEY are being criticized when only that writing is being criticized are beyond a teacher's reach. Writing can only be learned when a writer coldly separates himself from what he has written and looks at it with the objectivity of a plumber examining a newly piped bathroom to see if he got all the joints tight.

William Sanderson

The best came from my martial arts teacher, who also taught Elvis. He said, Your ego will get you killed.

William Matthews

Intercourse is after all man's best teacher. "Know thyself" is an excellent maxim; but even self-knowledge cannot be perfected in closets and cloisters--nor amid lake scenery, and on the sunny side of the mountains. Men who seldom mix with their fellow-creatures are almost sure to be one-sided--the victims of fixed ideas, that sometimes lead to insanity.

William Wordsworth

Let Nature be your teacher

William Saroyan

Whoever the kid had been, whoever had had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the admonishment of parents, teachers, governments, religions, and the law: )You just change your attitude now please, young man.

William Nicholson

Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.

William James

From all these facts there emerges a very simple abstract program for the teacher to follow in keeping the attention of the child: Begin with the line of his native interests, and offer him objects that have some immediate connection with these.