Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jodi Picoult

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

Michelle Duffourc

The mix is very different than what it was before, as it was at least 80 percent tourism and convention business. Now it is one-third tourism, one-third relief and recovery and one-third families coming back and forth.

Joe Morgan

you would see more Willie Mays coming out of the inner city.

Sharon Stoll

You wouldn't have me coming and working with you if you didn't have a major problem.

Bill Granville

You would have a real hard time getting through your day without coming in contact with something with lime.

Stephen Alexander

You've seen it coming the past couple weeks.

Charles Hill

You've really got to focus on what's coming up in the future.

Mark Buehrle

You see him coming in with an 0-2 (record) and a 5 (ERA) and you wonder, 'How? How's that possible?

Tony MacAulay

You score an empty-net goal and it?s 5-2, it should be done. But they get a third goal. That?s the part that worried me coming into (Sunday). We thought we just did enough. You have to work 60 minutes. We took some things for granted. We were three seconds away from getting a point, and it was a precious point.

Jeff VandeLoo

The way King played us defensively, it was obvious how they felt about Adam. I don't think you focus a defense like that unless a guy is a big-time stud.

Adrian Beltre

The way I'm hitting, I'd better make those plays. This year, I'm getting paid for my defense. I work hard at it, I take pride in it. In games like this, small plays make a difference.

Cedric Bozeman

This is special and this is a special group of guys. We play defense. That's what we do. We didn't let them walk over us.

Mike Scioscia

This is out of the blue. Everything you could have messed up, we messed up out there. These guys have played terrific defense all year, so it's very uncharacteristic.

Chris Richard

This game will be a lot tougher. If we just play the defense like we played the last time, maybe a little harder, we should be OK.

Tim Brasic

That's when I really took a picture of the defense and everything started slowing down. I just saw everything so perfectly on that play. I really started to get a good feel for it.

Duane Akina

That's what we want our identity to be. We want to be a defense that runs and hits. That's what we want people to talk about.

Rodney Carney

That's what we've been concentrating on throughout our other victories: defense. Once we got the defense clicking, the lead just extended.

Ed Swanson

That's what we start with from day one. The kids play with a high energy level, and that allows us to do a lot of different things on defense. Our defense is our staple.

Keith Newman

Defensively, I think we've got to get off to a better start than what we have. I think we've got to go out there and set the tone early in the game.

Brian Jones

The September report was taken too early to get the full effect.

Dana Altman

We've won some games we shouldn't. We probably lost some games we should've won. We just need to focus on getting better. If a few weeks down the line we're still in the hunt, we can talk about it later. But it's too early for our team to be talking about anything like that.

Barry Trotz

Early in the year we were getting a lot of grief from people, saying you're playing some teams that aren't quite as strong. But they were strong teams, we just sort of got their number early.

Ramon Ortiz

Early in the year, we know what happened. I didn't feel too good. I was scared about the groin. I feel good now, and everything is working. I don't feel anything in the leg.

Terry Cornett

We just started slow. We didn't take it to them early like we did in the first game.

Demarshay Johnson

We just had lapses defensively. We let them make plays early in the game. Once they get going, it's hard to stop a good player.

Caronica DeBose

We just had a tough time getting it started. We can't get down early like that in the first quarter because all that does is take away energy of trying to get back into the game.

Terri Sullivan

We just got more aggressive. They have a good pitching staff but early on in the first game we were looking at a lot of good pitches. When you do that you can't get your rhythm going and that's important with hitting.

Jeff Probst

I finally met someone who could teach me about love.

James Garner

I said, 'Well, I'll give myself five years to see if I can make a living at it.' And after five years I was 30 and I said, 'Yeah, I can go another five years on just the reputation I have now' and then I went another five, and another five, and another five, and finally -- at 50 years old -- I said 'You know, I think I have a career,'

Bobby Carpenter

We've done about 30 or so of these. Now, it's finally winding down.

Jackson Pollock

I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident.

Jackson Pollock

When I am painting I have a general notion as to what I am about. I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident.

Henepola Gunaratana

You can't make radical changes in the pattern of your life until you see yourself exactly as you are now. As soon as you do that changes will flow naturally.

Henry Ford

When one speaks of increasing power, machinery, and industry there comes up a picture of a cold, metallic sort of world in which great factories will drive away the trees, the flowers, the birds, and the green fields. And that then we shall have a world composed of metal machines and human machines. With all of that I do not agree. I think that unless we know more about the machines and their use, unless we better understand the mechanical portion of life, we cannot have the time to enjoy the trees, and the birds, and the flowers, and the green fields.

Mamata Banerjee

Change is a continuous process. You cannot assess it with the static yardstick of a limited time frame. When a seed is sown into the ground, you cannot immediately see the plant. You have to be patient. With time, it grows into a large tree. And then the flowers bloom, and only then can the fruits be plucked.

James Joyce

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

James Joyce

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.

James Schuyler

I wish i could press snowflakes in a book like flowers.

James Russell Lowell

Suddenly all the sky is hid As with the shutting of a lid, One by one great drops are falling Doubtful and slow, Down the pane they are crookedly crawling, And the wind breathes low; Slowly the circles widen on the river, Widen and mingle, one and all; Here and there the slenderer flowers shiver, Struck by an icy rain-drop’s fall.

Michael Beasley

It was an honor to be a part of history, but honestly I don't remember all the games we've played. I do remember the trips, though, and that's what we will miss the most ? all those good times.

Daniel Barrow

Brantley did a great job keeping his composure. He read the defenses well and made some nice passes. As the game progressed, I thought we did a better job up the middle with our fullback trap and isolation plays.

Dick Jauron

(Bettis) is the kind of player that the game needs, the game thrives on, and the game grows around.

Dane Fife

Everything I know of Kelvin Sampson is positive. What I can remember is his teams were very disciplined, they played hard and they played the game the right way.

Shawn Chacon

Everything leading up to this (start), it matters, ... But it doesn't when you're in the playoffs and it's win or go home. Nothing else matters. You don't want the last thing people remember you by (is) you lost the playoff game and your team got sent home.

Lofa Tatupu

Everything is structured. He gives you a number of things to prepare for the week. You go to the game knowing what to expect.

Dwan Hurt

Even though we lost, we're confident. That game made us a better team.

Riley Wallace

Even though we lost the game (to Penn), I think it will help us get ready for the league.

Jeff Neal

Even though we lost the game big, it was good for us to upgrade the schedule.

Garrick Phillips

We set the tone late in the first quarter and then more so in the second.

Stephen Harper

I would prefer to do it sooner rather than later but not immediately.

Cristie Kerr

I'm playing so well lately that I have a lot of confidence,

David Briggs

That seems to be the latest reason to sell.

Mark Cuban

As I would learn later in life, money makes you extremely handsome.

Matt Kiefer

That zone really threw us for a loop. We didn't run our offense like we should. Then Horner just went off. He was on fire. There's nothing we could do.