Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brad Buckman

Any given day any player on this team can shoot the ball. Daniel did it (Saturday) against Baylor and then did it again tonight.

Mike Grier

As badly as it is, it's effective what he does out there. He draws penalties. He gets under the other team's skin. So I think we are all aware of how he plays the game. It's just something you have to deal with when you play against him.

Stuart Pearce

As a young man trying to make your way in life, you feel your back is against the wall and you are scrapping against the whole world,

David Wilder

The burns were horrible, but she appeared to be doing OK. Her age was against her.

David Long

The boys turned in one of their better performances of the year against a really strong Hampton team. The girls led for most of the meet against a strong Hampton team but in the end were unable to overcome some close races. Overall though, the girls swam well.

Kenny Miller

The boys defended brilliantly against Carew at the back and we were just too strong for Norway. We might also have scored more goals as we had some chances in the second half.

Patrick Knapp

The Brown game was a simple story. We didn't execute well against the press; we didn't finish well against the press; we didn't execute well against Brown's zone. ... Brown was certainly quicker, and they used that quickness to their advantage.

E. O. Wilson

The Bush White House and its right-wing allies are responding to Cindy Sheehan and the military families' vigil in central Texas in the same way that they always respond to bad news ? by unleashing personal attacks and smears against her.

John Yoo

The Bush administration policy is against torture of any kind; it's prohibited by federal criminal law.

Paul Elliott

As a team, I think we're right where want to be (entering the conference schedule). I'm happy with our effort so far.

Kevin Stallings

As I told them right after the game last night, we won our first two conference games last year, then we proceeded to lose four of six. Our response to that game is more important than the game itself.

Joe Sakic

Our conference is so tight, and the play is tight, we are watching the scoreboard every night. Tonight is just one game, and we are in first for a day. We just will hope to continue it.

Jamie Dixon

Our conference has prepared us better than any other conference since I've been around the Big East. I'm not surprised how it has played out because of how many good teams there are here.

Brian Barber

Southmont is a conference rival, and it's a senior-dominated team. We know they're going to come after us. We're going to have to win three games to win it, so we have to go the long route.

Bill Fennelly

It would be a phenomenal upset for us to go real deep in this tournament. The conference tournaments were created to make money and give teams hope. The Big 12 can make the money, and we'll have the hope.

Derek Dougan

The way he pitched tonight he's looking really good. He's definitely going to be a factor in this conference season.

Joe Dumars

That's what we all have to live with, because we've set a very high standard here. We've been at least to the conference finals three straight years and we've been a 50-win team four years in a row.

Avery Johnson

We hope we're back, as like any Western Conference team that's going to playoffs. But we've got too much work to do.

Alan Horowitz

I've always been a confident person, and this just helped.

Jenny Condon

Sarah's probably our most confident player. She doesn't get rattled in any situation. She's the kind of player who thrives in a pressure situation. She's been great for us in that leadership role.

Bastien Ripoll

It was very very hard (but) it's great to win a race that worked perfectly. It was exactly what we expected. We were very confident during the warm up and we knew it was our chance.

Robert McCann

This is a solid deal for us at Merrill Lynch , and we are confident about the long-term benefits. We will definitely consider other acquisitions like this when they become available.

Ken Schrader

You've just got to be confident or you wouldn't be here at this level.

Lindy Ruff

We really feel we've got a hidden gem if we can get him back to that level that he was at the end of '03-04. I'm confident that we can get him there.

Daniel Gibson

We're a confident group of guys. We definitely think that we can go all the way.

Bill Simmons

Even though a decision has been made, the war is not over. Some of those jobs we are confident will stay here.

Rene Mirandilla

We wanted to see how confident we are and how we measure up in the state playoffs. We're quite tested, and I think we're ready.

S. Walker

Ashton's just a workhorse. To have one touchdown on offense, one on defense and one on special teams really says a lot.

Doug Wojcik

As a team, we play defense well and our kids listen. Memphis did a poor job at the free throw line (26-of-41) and that really kept us in the game.

Michael Lambert

As a human being I was incensed. As a defense attorney, I was incensed.

Scott Skiles

As long as they're good shots. You have to earn the right to take that many shots, and you do that by taking good shots, making a good percentage of them, by playing good defense and staying out of foul trouble.

Derek Thomas

Our shots weren't falling, but we were able to do it by locking up on defense and we just didn't let them score. On the other end, we had guys passing the ball, not turning it over and it got exciting.

Ed Sennett

Our defense took them out of it. It looked like their kids were a little tired. They played three pretty hard games in a row. We put the defense on them, got ahead, and when you're tired, it's hard to come back.

Jack Siedlecki

Our defense stood up each time we turned it over.

Doug Palow

Our defense shut down just about everything tonight.

Ken Shumate

Our defense set our offense up with great field position all night.

Connie Chung

are an incredible couple, with an edge. Even when they argue, you just know there's a great emotional tie between them. Sometimes they do it for sport, sometimes just to wind the other person up.

Mark Calcavecchia

I've always been an emotional player, I'm an emotional guy,

Joe Williams

A friend of mine once said that hate is too important an emotion to waste on someone you don't like. And I've tried desperately to get my psyche in shape to more or less fend off any of those feeling that are going to mar my life.

Kate Winslet

Thank God I'm in touch with my emotions enough to be able to pick up my children, kiss them all over and say 'I love you' over and over.

Craig Swartout

Sometimes, because they're young, they don't harness their emotions like they're supposed to and it can hurt them. And we try to let them know that it can hurt the team, too.

Jonathan Demme

Seeing Neil Young expressing these lyrics and seeing the emotions that register on his face in his style of presentation is a sublime extra for understanding his music.

Michael Allen

It was an emotional roller-coaster all day long. I did not play well at all for most of the day, but I was able to get it together at the end. Making three (birdies) in a row to finish the round at least makes you feel like you had a good day. I got in my own way today, and I've got to figure out a way to rectify that before tomorrow.

Nelson Cundiff

The win was emotional a high and a low. We have great kids. She (Kurtz) apologized for getting hurt. Here we have an injured player, and she's worried about letting me and the team down.

Led Zeppelin

These are the seasons of emotion and like the winds they rise and fall...Upon us all a little rain must fall.

Mike Sivertson

The way to score with our system is to force turnovers and to not give up big plays. That is one of the reasons that the game went the way it did.

Deepak Chopra

Every force field is simultaneously a field of information because even physics now acknowledges that an atom is not only a hierarchy of different states of energy, or different states of force fields.

Deepak Chopra

I'm finding myself very comfortable talking to medical audiences, and proving to them that underlying the material fields of the universe are force fields.

Tite Kubo

What's up, Hachi?" "Someone......Just slipped through my force-field." "!!!" "A soul reaper?" "No. The Hachigyo Sogai (Twin Cliffs) I set is an original technique I developed after I became a visored. It can't be broken by a soul reaper's kido." "Then who is it? Another visored?" "I don't know. The strange thing is that they didn't break through the force-field. They Slipped through. Not even a visored should be able to do that." "Then, who or what is it?" "...It's coming." "It's a Human?" "Uh...Um...E-excuse me...where's the Bathroom?

Suzanne Collins

Beetee is still messing round the tree, doing I don't know what. At one point he snaps off a sliver of bark, joins us, and throws it against the force field. It bounces back and lands on the ground, glowing. In a few moments it returns to its original color. "Well, that explains a lot," says Beetee. I look at Peeta and can't help biting my lip to keep from laughing since it explains absolutely nothing to anyone but Beetee.

Suzanne Collins

Since Mags seems to have no ill effects from the nuts, Peeta collects bunches of them and fries them by bouncing them off the force field.

Tacitus

We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]

Ralph Abernathy

I will always be open to receive my friends. I will not force myself on them.

Slavoj Zizek

The force of universalism is in you Basques, not in the Spanish state

Michael Bennet

Often times, political games prevent senators from even beginning to debate some of the most important issues.

Joseph Biden

are playing a game here, a gambit here, but that doesn't mean we can't out-negotiate them.

Scott Robinson

A point for us is good but we made some mistakes out there and I thought this was a game we could have won. Normally in three-on-three someone scores after a game like this but we'll take the positives and move on into the new year.

Ted Roof

Anything that can help the game, I'm for. Provided it doesn't make the game significantly longer.

Gary Chapman

Anything she can do to work on her game is obviously good.

Brian Buchanan

And then I see them at the games, and they just go, go, go. I never hear them complain. Heck, they're always so happy to be there. And it reminds me how lucky we are to have them.

Kevin Porter

The start of the game was huge and we didn't start well. It seemed like we never got that momentum rolling.

Stan Heath

The start is a key. We have to be prepared for a rough game that goes down to the last two or three possessions and find a way to win it.

Phil Jackson

The star of the game obviously goes to Tim Thomas.

Steve Chavis

We're pretty geared up for the conference. We try to produce the state-of-the-art men's ministry weekend.

Jennifer Long

I thought they did a nice job on defense. We struggled to get our offense going. The girls were really geared up for this game. I have a lot of respect for Sofia and her capabilities. She involves her teammates, and that's very commendable.

John Wiater

When they get moving on the construction, there will be 75-80 construction workers, and when the plant is all geared up, the workforce will (more than) double. All hiring is done under the West Virginia Jobs Act, which means 75 percent of them have to be local workers.

Perry Hill

I know what Andino needs to work on and what he needs to do. I've just got to slow him down. He gets a little geared up at times.

Susana Lopez

You don't have to be a Latina to join. You just have to be geared toward Latina issues.

Cory Schaefer

We had to settle down. We were too geared up to play and once we settled down it was too little, too late.

Henry Rollins

As a young person growing up in Washington, D.C., summers were hot, humid and relentless. My friends and I grew more restless and adventurous with every passing year.

Maeve Binchy

The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.

Maryann Keller

These were people who grew up inside those companies,

Corneille Ewango

I speak French, and I grew up with French, so my English is Franglais.

Scott Weiland

I used to just write about my own apathy, but that youthful, apathetic way of looking at things grew thin as I got older.

Joy Hollingsworth

It would have been nice to play for the Huskies. I grew up watching them. It would have been nice but things didn't work out that way. I'm happy where I am.

Tim Thomas

That's what you want as a player, to play the way you grew up on the playground and YMCA. Look around here. Guys here are loose.

Mike Grell

That's not even a question. You go with what you grew up with.

Mo Ibrahim

Young people are better educated. They grew up in a society which is well connected, well informed. They are able to communicate to one another, to know what is happening.

Kenneth Branagh

I choose to be inspired by things that have been done well in the past. So, I don't worry about being compared, because I think that does paralyze you.

Damon Dash

There are certain things I do because I am creatively inspired and artistic.

Jessie Miller

She is what inspired me. I was so angry.

Rachel Johnson

Mr. Milner not only taught us, he inspired us to make a difference.

Bertrand Russell

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results.

Chris Tucker

You just inspired me and my whole generation,

Wayne Dyer

When you're inspired you attract abundance.

Elaine Stritch

I am not influenced by other human beings. But I am inspired.

Ben Okri

It is easy to forget how mysterious and mighty stories are. They do their work in silence, invisibly. They work with all the internal materials of your mind and self. They become part of you while changing you. Beware the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.

Art Garfunkel

They say in the darkest night there is a light beyond

Brian Jacques

So here is my story, may it bring Some smiles and a tear or so, It happened once upon a time, Far away, and long ago, Outside the night wind keens and wails, Come listen to me, the Teller of Tales!

Jane Fonda

In spite of the incident, my experience in Kansas City was wonderful and I thank all the warm and supportive people, including so many veterans, who came to welcome me last night.

Jamie Farr

The entire behind the scenes of Saturday Night Live are all Canadian.

Caprice Bourret

It's like night and day... to do business, in Europe, there is no bull, they are pretty straightforward.

Jane Austen

When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.

Jane Austen

Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person, whom you think the most agreeable in the world, the person who interests you at this present time, more than all the rest of the world put together.

James Wolcott

Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night.

Martin Brodeur

The opponent was always so petrified of him.

David Taras

He's pre-empting any opponents by saying he's already leaving,

Branco Milenkovic

It has become very frustrating, to say the least, trying to secure an opponent for our man.

Neal Stephenson

Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor.

Caroline Wozniacki

There are so many tough opponents out there and tough competitors so I've never liked to look ahead.

Brent Sutter

We've got to get better and we will get better. That being said, our opponent was a tough opponent. At the end of a day, it's a win.

Jessica Valenti

As a kid, I wasn't sure that I would ever get married - I was not the kind of little girl who played at being a bride.

Charles Terry

I've played 654 concerts. That's never been done.

Joe Tiller

The secondary played better in many phases. We are in a situation that we are switching things up to see what the result is and tonight it was a better product.

Manson Hill

The whole team played well and battled hard.

Philip Rivers

This is not a setback. I haven't played a ton, that's true. But I've had the two years, and I know the abilities I do have.

Dick Corn

This is special for these kids. It was really a gutsy performance, they played when they had to play.

Jimmy Breslin

I played football. I played trumpet. I could draw.

Matt Creamer

We have a refuse-to-lose mentality. We played pretty well. We played intense. We didn't play smart, but I can't remember a better game.

O. J. Simpson

We have quality players and we played the team around them.

Uli Hoeness

We're playing for the people, not for the regime. We want to reduce this to soccer only.

Sarah Olson

We're playing better as a team. This was more respectable than the first time we saw them.

Matt Hasselbeck

The Pro Bowl. But I don't feel like playing right now.

Arlen Specter

I've been playing squash almost daily for 38 years.

Joe Gibbs

We think somebody who's 24 years old is going to be playing here a long time.

Scott Heffley

We didn't make the switch until the season had already started but now they seem to be getting comfortable with each other and anticipating where each other is going to be. Right now they are just playing off each other and working really well together. It seems if one is scoring, the other one is getting the assist.

David Kelley

We got as much out of this team as we could. We've been playing undersized and outmanned all season.

Kobe Bryant

We want to go into the road trip playing with some momentum, playing with some kind of rhythm.

Jason Ferguson

We weren't up to playing the way we were supposed to play.

Bill Clarke

That's where we are now. You take what they give you in this offense. That what we saw and worked with it.

Carl Sandburg

The buffaloes are gone. And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.

Alan Vega

It was when I saw Iggy Pop, that's what did it for me. That changed my life pretty much.

Bob Dylan

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

Dennis Rodman

If I die young, everybody's going to say they saw it coming.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour.

Amy Winehouse

I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn't recognize myself.

Alexander Ovechkin

I saw the rebound and when the puck came to me, I said, oh my God, puck, I must shoot.

Andrew Bryniarski

The Saw Is Family is a great site. You can quote me on that.

Patrick McVerry

Defensively, again, we are going to be tops in the league.

Lance Corcoran

Anything and everything they are doing at the top is not translating to the staff, to the facilities.

Daniel Payne

That's my top goal, to go to college.

Mike Smith

We're going to be on top of that very quick.

J. Taylor

There's no better way to top it off.

Charli Turner

We want the top spot. That's our goal.

Dick Morris

... the top 10 percent of incomes pay 70 percent of the income taxes and cast about 25 percent of the vote.

Sam Nunn

Leadership must be established from the top down.

Tom Brokaw

Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down.