Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gunther Grass

The patience of poverty. In rice fields, backs bent forever.Amazing, man outoxens the oxen and still smiles.The mystery of India, say Indologists.

Corey Holmes

That would be something -- two backs rushing for over 1,000 yards. Has it ever been done in this league?

Rick White

We need to keep the focus on reasonably priced growth stocks, ... Inflation fears should have abated on the backs of economic numbers that have generally been more balanced than expected.

Trenton Hassell

We can't just hold the ball when the shot clock's running down and then swing it to him and want him to create a shot. I think it's on our backs to get him in better position and get him easy looks.

Jeff Mathews

We played our junior varsity in the second half. Everybody is spreading the ball out, but we're going to have to run the ball behind our big offensive line if we're going to compete. We have several good running backs that can do that.

Frank Beamer

We came out in the second half and really took it over. We said let's run the football and then occasionally get some play-action in there, and we didn't need much play-action, to be honest. I thought the backs ran well.

Raul Julia

Sometimes we used to eat once a day... chicken backs. You could buy four chicken backs for a quarter.

Sarah Kay

If I should have a daughter, instead of 'Mom,' she's gonna call me 'Point B,' because that way she knows that no matter what happens, at least she can always find her way to me. And I'm going to paint solar systems on the backs of her hands so she has to learn the entire universe before she can say, 'Oh, I know that like the back of my hand.'

Sarah Kay

Perusing colorful storylines on the backs of book jackets, I realized that none of them could possibly be as dramatic as my life to date. Then sadly, I also realized I could never find the ending of my story from the safety of an armchair.

Xavi

I spend the entire 90 minutes looking for space on the pitch. I'm always between the opposition's two holding midfielders and thinking, 'The defence is here, so I get the ball and I go there to where the space is.'

Twyla Tharp

At the ballet classes I took when I first came to New York, I would see great dancers like Cynthia Gregory and Lupe Serrano. I would look at them and study what they could do, and what I couldn't do. And then I'd think maybe they should try what I could do.

Thierry Henry

The only thing I won't watch is darts. And I don't watch cricket. How can you like a game that requires you to take four days off work to follow a Test? And I don't really like golf. I know a lot of English footballers play, but I know that if I go with the club to play, sooner or later I will end up trying to smash the ball with my foot.

Thierry Henry

But the moment I've got a ball at my feet, I'm happy.

Imelda May

There have never been so many women in the music industry, but they're doing ballads and pop. Where's the new Joan Jetts and the Wanda Jacksons and the Debbie Harrys, all these strong women? I wanna be the woman that rocks.

William Clay Ford, Jr.

We took our eye off the ball as a company.

Steve Friedman

The only crystal ball even more difficult to read than where one's own personal situation may be is where the country is headed and what the country's economic situation will be in 20 or 30 years.

Rick Adelman

The patience at the end of the game there when Brad hit the three was terrific. We had plenty of time, we moved the ball around and they made a mistake and left Brad standing there. Then in the overtime we took control, especially when Odom fouled out.

Phillip Hilliard

The past two games we haven't been hitting the ball. He had to be (critical) ? nobody was hitting the ball. We should've hit the ball a lot better, and we weren't focused on the fundamentals.

Gail Carson Levine

Most of my job life has had to do with welfare, first helping people find work and then as an administrator. The earlier experience was more direct and satisfying, and I enjoy thinking that a bunch of people somewhere are doing better today than they might have done if not for me.

Gene Ween

We had been working. We had a bunch of songs written and it came time to make the record, so we had our lawyer make the call to Elektra and ask for our advance. Then, we got dropped. It was actually exciting.

Will C. Barnes

'Mustanging' was like trout fishing. It is always the big ones that get away. When you did get a bunch of them into a corral, you found they did not look half so large and handsome as when they were first sighted on the prairie.

Constance Wu

The more you know about somebody's back story, the deeper you can delve into that well, and the more your comedic choices resonate full-body instead of just being quick, quippy one-liners that are just like a bunch of people trying to be clever. Because after a while, cleverness is just really obnoxious!

Jennifer Jones

The pieces can be difficult, but he teaches you how to feel the music and not just play a bunch of notes.

Ben Elliot

In summer, my Sundays are often taken up with cricket. I play with a bunch of other over-competitive and overenthusiastic guys who I have known for a very long time.

David Crosby

I gave up bread, and I've lost a bunch of weight, which is very good because I'm diabetic.

Dave Grohl

I love to play. And fortunately, I don't know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they're always up for playing.

Wanda Sykes

I'm shy. I am. I mean, if I get around, you know, in a room of a bunch of people especially I - you know, I don't know or - it takes me a while to warm up. I'm - and the real me, I'm not as witty as, you know, as the comic Wanda. The comic, she's had time to work on some things.

Lou Panzanaro

Most of them were role players. When this team is firing on all cylinders, I don't know if you can identify who the five starters are. They play so unselfishly. They all play together.

Lou DiBella

Most guys wouldn't be firing back when they are getting hit with that kind of (stuff),

Ryan Rowe

We'll do what we can and come out firing. If we come out firing in the doubles, we'll be firing the rest of the match.

Sean McAlinden

I don't remember GM ever doing anything like this before, not firing people and putting them out on the street with a box. They were called 'Mother GM' for a reason.

Sheldon Brown

I don't think he's lost respect in the locker room. If anything, he's gained respect from how he's handled it, by not firing back.

Debra Brown

He was firing his weapon the whole time.

Chuck D.

He just went crazy. She said the guy just went ballistic and starting firing off shots.

Rob Babcock

Waiving a player never is easy, because you essentially are firing someone, ... But looking at our team, this was the most logical choice.

Corey Simon

We have to go into the playoffs firing on all cylinders. I don't think we're there yet.

Yotam Ottolenghi

You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.

Yanni

The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.

Yanis Varoufakis

I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.

Thierry Henry

I've always loved New York; I've been visiting New York since 1996. People don't look at you like, 'What are you doing? What are you wearing?' There is also that thing that when people know that you have worked hard to get something, people have that respect for that here. You worked hard - good for you.

Iggy Azalea

I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.

Ice T

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

Idina Menzel

I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?

Idina Menzel

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

Ivar Giaever

Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.

Yousuf Karsh

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

Todd Rundgren

It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.

Idina Menzel

I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

Idina Menzel

I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.

Ian Frazier

I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.

Ian Mckellen

Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.

Ismail Kadare

In antiquity, there were three regions in southern Europe: Greece, Rome, and Ilyria. Albanian is the only survivor of the Ilyrian languages. That is why it has always intrigued the great linguists of the past.

Gaines Adams

I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.

Gad Elmaleh

There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.

Eric Combs

I think maybe there were two walk-ons last year who were juniors or above.

Chad Logan

We really have a lot of experience. Our juniors saw considerable time last year and look to start as seniors.

Alan Johnston

Tim's team played with a lot of intensity. We should have had that kind of intensity. I have 13 juniors who don't know how to see forward, yet.

Adora Svitak

The unsaid message of that endless rack of juniors' pushup bras? No matter what size you are, it still isn't good enough.

Carl Wong

It is not uncommon for juniors and seniors to take a reduced load.

Andy Murray

I've always been a good returner since my junior days - I don't know why that was.

Larry Swim

We're young. We only had one senior who made it to state. The rest are juniors and sophomores. We'll be back.

Larry McKissack

We put pressure on the ball. They have a lot of sophomores and juniors and so do I so I know how they'll react. They make mistakes.

Henry Morris

That's it for me, no more from now on. I'll still be a supporter, always have been, but it's back to the Juniors for me now.

Bill Hader

When you're performing, you're playing to the back row. With acting, you have to be more nuanced.

Rosario Dawson

That was something that we really worked on, not repeating ourselves. But I was like, 'This is not going to be a problem because I'm playing a woman.'

Chris Masoner

That was really important for us. We really wanted it ... It's so important for us to go into the playoffs playing like this.

Tiger Woods

We need to keep playing more in Ohio. It's that simple. We don't have enough tournaments here.

Kobe Bryant

We have to understand that we're not playing for right now; we're playing for the long haul. It's important to be patient. It will come.

Paul Eenhoorn

I walk into a scene, and I do the scene. That's my job. I don't have an objective. I have the words, and I have whoever I'm playing with.

Landon Donovan

We were getting slaughtered, ... We weren't playing well at all yet we're up, two-zero. But that's soccer.

Kevin Williams

We were still playing for a title, because we were playing for second.

Colby Armstrong

Typical Devils-type game. They wait for you to make a mistake. They've been playing that way for a long time.

Bill Budge

The power of the computer is starting to spread.

Simon Gagne

I'm starting to feel better. ... I have to say, I think the three of us are starting to feel a little more energy.

Beck

Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.

Andre Williams

I think everybody's starting to realize, we've got to make it work. We've got to get through it.

August Wilson

It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself.

Tom Coughlin

He is starting to go through the throwing motion, ... He's doing soft-toss, not for any distance.

Nick Saban

Guys, let's get off this starting quarterback thing.

Rob Niedermayer

I didn't want to go. I really wanted to stay. Things were starting to go well. I was pretty disappointed when I got traded.

Dan McCarney

I don't know who the starting kicker's going to be.