Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tony Brown

Tony Allen was the key guy in that group. He was aggressive, he was attacking and played great defense down the stretch.

Beth Young

There's still a lot of basketball to be played. We visit Allen on Tuesday and they're always tough. We have to be ready to play every night.

Mo Cheeks

If Allen is hurt to the point where he can't play, you know he's really, really hurt.

Bob Davies

I get nostalgic for the senior game anyway. The last game at Allen is always a toughie for us, because we're sentimental guys. I've been working on Colorado, reviewing their people, and I have to keep remembering that the game is the big story, even though we do have several sidebars this time.

Greg Kampe

He wears No. 3 and wears his hair in cornrows. Obviously he's not Allen Iverson, but he plays like that. He can make shots and is quick with the ball. If he gets going, he's difficult to guard.

Maurice Cheeks

One of the reasons why they were not going to play was that while we were in the playoff race Chris (Webber) and Allen (Iverson) were playing with a few injuries and they tried to continue to play. Then, once we fell out of the playoff race - it got a little tougher. Chris (Webber) had a bad back, Allen (Iverson) was playing with numerous injuries and once we were out of the race - there was no reason for them to play.

Marty Schottenheimer

I was impressed with their corners. Will Allen in particular, plays corner like a safety. He's a physical player and he will tattoo you if you get anywhere near him.

Rupert Holmes

I grew up watching Burns and Allen on TV. They did some amazing things on the TV show, they did surreal things. Gracie would be conspiring with her neighbor Blanche to put something over on George.

E. O. Wilson

If we really do get a president like Mackenzie Allen who is very tough without losing (her sense of) who she is, that's the kind of woman we want.

Chuck Anderson

The telephone company issue alone has been frustrating for us and so has the cost.

John Fitzgerald

The three of us have been alone for such a long time. We welcome a fourth person.

Joaquin Miller

The soul that feeds on books alone --/ I count that soul exceeding small / That lives alone by book and creed, --/ A soul that has not learned to read.

Richard Kite

The terrain there is very rough. It's riddled with concrete and rocks. It's difficult to walk on, let alone run on.

Danielle Fishel

I've lived on my own since I was 18, and I really love living alone. That, to me, is just great.

Greg Engstrom

I've never built anything, let alone a project of this magnitude. It's considerably more complicated than I imagined at the beginning. Everything has to be done in a certain order to keep the horse in front of the cart. All the processes, drawings and permits.

Daniel Keyes

I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damn thing. It only leads to violence and pain.

Connie Chung

I used to think I would never see a woman anchor the network evening news alone in my lifetime. This was the last vestige of male dominance. She already accomplished the unthinkable...just by getting the job.

Marilyn Monroe

I used to think as I looked at the Hollywood night, 'there must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.'

Allen Covert

As a parent with young children, I would always find little things that bothered me when I was reading bedtime stories or watching shows or listening to children's music. I couldn't find any stories, games or television shows that were fun and exciting while also being morally instructive and patriotic.

Bob Hill

Ray looks awful. Ray is not good. You could just look at him and tell he's sick without asking. We've got to get him to Miami and get him to bed and see if we can't get him ready to play (today).

Shannon Sessions

Officers surrounded the house, went inside and the suspect was in a bed, under the covers - he was arrested.

Mal Peet

I usually have about four books on the go - a bedside book, a lavatory book, a downstairs book, and the book in my study that I read sneakily while I should be writing. Short stories for the lavatory, obviously.

Lauren Enns

The motel has 10 rooms already booked and the bed-and-breakfast has been booked for about two months. It's going to be a big sale.

John Milton

So when the sun in bed, / Curtained with cloudy red, / Pillows his chin upon an orient wave.

Marybelle Hu

Nowadays, people like to buy traditional canopy beds, and use it not as a bed but as a living room piece.

Robert Evan

So she can have us both by her bedside at night.

Robert Blair

See yonder maker of the dead man's bed, The sexton, hoary-headed chronicle, Of hard, unmeaning face, down which ne'er stole A gentle tear.

Sharon Chang

People call each other when they see new books on the shelves. New books are usually checked out in two days, DVDs in (only) hours.

Mark Perakh

No relevant data which support hypotheses, laws, models and theories could be found in the papers and books by proponents of intelligent design, only unsubstantiated assumptions. Therefore, it can justifiably be viewed as pseudoscience.

Richard Curtis

Again, we turn down most books that have been self-published unless they have a special track record. We have taken a small number on, however, and sold them to major publishers for a nice sum. But that is an exception to the rule.

Chipper Jones

Any win is important nowadays. Obviously, Philly has been playing well and their score was posted on the scoreboard before we started. They lost and we knew we had a golden opportunity to gain a game. We went out and did it. So it's two more off the magic number, whatever it is. It's probably 100. But nonetheless, it's another day in the books and we gained a game.

L. Estrange

Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are like venomous spiders, extracting a poisonous quality, where the latter, like the bees, sip out a sweet and profitable juice

Mary Randolph

Sometimes it was September or October before we would get the books.

Richard Nash

These books now stand both as a testament to the resilience of the residents of New Orleans ... and as a map back from disaster, offered by the city's teenagers.

Oprah Winfrey

I've decided I will open the door to all books as potential Oprah's Book Club selections, ... I feel this will give the book club a whole new range of opportunities to explore the world through words.

Juicy J

I used to read music books when I was 13. My mom was working at a library. She's a librarian. I would get my mom to check out any kind of books that had anything to do with the music industry. I read a lot about royalities, publishing, marketing, stuff like that.

Charles M. Schwab

As the train rounded the curve, the great smoking stacks of the Edgar Thomson works, the flaming converters belching forth, made such a vivid impression upon my youthful mind that it will never fade. I thought I had seen the very acme of what might be accomplished in an industrial way.

Martin Jol

We have a terrific young squad but we lack a winning mentality which you can only get through experience. He has the mentality to help us make a big step. Everybody tells me we have the players, but we have to prove it. Away from home we have to do better. Edgar can help us.

Ross Lynch

My favorite poem ever was 'Annabel Lee' by Edgar Allan Poe.

Mike Matz

It's probably not what we wanted. It may force us to use him too early. I just hope we can get good position -- that's what we hired Edgar (Prado) to do.

Rick Smolan

I wonder if 50 years from now we'll look back, and maybe Julian Assange will be the hero and J. Edgar Hoover will be the enemy of the state.

Dan Wilson

To be one of 30 nominees is quite an honor, and to have Edgar win it last year and Jamie the year before makes it even more meaningful,

Billy Thornton

There is a real fantasy with the American West, ... When you really make it big in Hollywood or on Wall Street, you want to fulfill that fantasy.

George Gurdjieff

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

E. L. James

God forbid that women have fantasies.

Steven Spielberg

Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.

Meghan Ory

I'm a huge 'Harry Potter' fan. When you're acting, it's a fantasy already, maybe it's the costumes, I love it. It's so fun.

Jennifer Lopez

I like to maintain a certain sense of fantasy in my life.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory

Gurdjieff Gurdjieff

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he ''lives'' his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

Cassandra Clare

The more that you travel the more you get the sense of the word as a larger place and the more you get a sense of the variety of history and mythology. And when you know about these things you can incorporate them into what I feel is a more rich and more large tapestry of fantasy.

Hanya Yanagihara

I wrote my second novel, 'A Little Life,' in what I still think of as a fever dream: For 18 months, I was unable to properly concentrate on anything else.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

ADMONITION, n. Gentle reproof, as with a meat-axe. Friendly warning.Consigned by way of admonition, His soul forever to perdition. --Judibras

Adoniram Judson

A life once spent is irrevocable. It will remain to be contemplated through eternity. If it be marked with sins, the marks will be indelible. If it has been a useless life, it can never be improved. Such it will stand forever and ever. The same may be said of each day.

Alan Lightman

Scientists will forever have to live with the fact that their product is, in the end, impersonal.

Jane Siberry

it takes forever if you go by inertia...

Bellamy Young

I miss singing. I did Broadway forever.

Bruce Dickinson

Nothing lasts forever but the certainty of change

Eddie Vedder

Leave it to me as I find a way to be Consider me a satellite, forever orbiting I knew all the rules, but the rules did not know me Guaranteed

Dirk Benedict

There is a divine moment in our lives when we all become one. It's called procreation, and it is reborn, continually and forever.

Kofi Annan

The tragedy of Srebrenica will forever haunt the history of the United Nations

Sam Davis

Once we got a lead, we said make them come out and guard you. Once they opened up the floor, our perimeter play is pretty good and our kids are smart. We did a great job of running our offense in the fourth quarter.

Hugh Johnson

The stuff that worked in the fourth quarter and the first part of this year isn't working any more, like Internet stocks, large-cap tech stocks, and other large-cap names.

John Tavares

I've been able to handle the pace, ... I've got four goals in four games so I feel pretty good. Obviously today wasn't a great day, but hopefully I can come back next week and have a good one.

Main Street

I used to walk down there on the Fourth of July,

David Jones

Then all of a sudden, in the fourth quarter the other team's back in it.

Pete Carroll

I've never understood how two-thirds of the thing can vote for you one way and one third can knock you into fourth place. It looks like it should be third, third, third, but that's my simple math.

Ozzie Guillen

I've only been thrown out four times in my career, not my managing career. If I get tossed from the game, I think I let the team down. If a manager is not there in a playoff game I think you lose the respect of your team. I need my players and my players need me.

Dan Spellman

The second and fourth quarter, we didn't shoot all that well. Defensively, we did a real nice job.

Chris Raso

I've been watching these girls since they were in fourth grade. I knew what stride they could play at. I thought four years ago that we could possibly get to this level.

Nicole Murphy

A lot of people get the impression that it's BS, but there is a lot involved in it. We do play a lot of games, but what we actually do has a lot of structure to it.

John Rampe

Our initial impression is that they aren't that large, aren't that significant. Whether we pull the trigger on whether or not to do more work, we don't know yet.

Diego Della Valle

I remember seeing the Colosseum for the first time when I was a young boy. It left a lasting impression on me.

Alphonse Lamartine

Sad is the lot, who, once at least in his life, had not been a poet

Wilfred Owen

All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the truest poets must be truthful.

Juvenal

Indignation leads to the making of poetry. [Lat., Facit indignatio versum.]

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

Denis Diderot

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

Edward Young

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

Elbert Hubbard

A person born with an instinct for poverty.

E. Hicks

We've hadour wisdom wrungfrom emotion's spongeand yet it still drips

Anna Jameson

Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may be, religion.

Lillian Carter

Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, "Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.

James Long

I've stayed in Hiltons before, but I'd have to say that this was one of the best. They did everything for us.

Matthew Lillard

I stayed at a Howard Johnson's once when I was 19 and that kind of scarred me for life.

Robert Hogan

He was ducking down, and he kind of stayed moving,

Darrel Mitchell

That stayed with me all night. Then it was pretty much over.

Jason Bowen

They stayed right in there, and after the first 10 minutes, Greenwood was never a threat to us.

Todd Galloway

I tried to (play) through it, but it stayed tight.