Famous Quotes & Sayings

Xun Zi

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

Gwen Moore

It is only with the passage of the Violence Against Women Act in 1994 that we have been able to put a dent in violence against women, and women have had a place to go.

John Vinocur

The American cemetery at Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer is a great lawn at the edge of the sea, white marble crosses and Stars of David against an open horizon. very American in the best sense: no phony piety, simple, easy.

Jeff Austreng

That will be the third time we'll have bowled each other this week. We're in the same league Monday and Wednesday nights and, oddly, our teams were scheduled against each other both nights. He kicked our butts Monday night, so I'll have to try to get him back. But he's a great bowler.

Jim Hinkle

That will be a tremendous game against Barrington. Whoever wins, gets the thrill of a lifetime against Glenbrook North. We're really looking forward to the opportunity.

Bob Turco

That was so important. Against Red Bank we started slow, but I think it was because these kids had never been there before. So we went back to practice, watched film and felt we had to come out strong.

Thad Matta

That was probably the lift we needed. In both of our games against Michigan, our bench has been the biggest difference.

Patrick Baker

That weekend is a tremendous opportunity for us. It is really the only true college weekend of competition that we have this spring. We play two very good teams in UAB and the traditional powerhouse of North Carolina. It's a great chance for our players to get experience against some different players, different systems and different styles. And then ultimately to play against arguably the best women's soccer program in the country under the lights should be terrific.

Kyle Brady

The 1994 season at Penn State was just a fabulous experience, ... We knew we had outstanding talent, but we also had a bunch of guys who were very focused, knew what they wanted and understood what it would take to get the job done and we went out and did it against some outstanding teams. When you see a bunch of young men coming together like that for a common goal, it is very satisfying.

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.

Tony Dungy

The Patriots have been a very, very good team. The last four years they have been the dominant team in the league, and a lot of people are chasing them, including us.

Andrei Kirilenko

We have to play hard and not let teams intimidate us in the first quarter like Miami and Orlando did. You have to keep chasing and chasing. Finally in the fourth quarter when you've got them, you have no energy.

Frank Beamer

I think Marcus showed he's going to be dangerous. That was a fast defense chasing him, and a couple of times he outran some fast guys.

Steven Snyder

I thought he was just going to pull in and park, but he kept driving and I knew it wasn't right when I saw police chasing him on foot.

Paul Jewell

We gifted them a goal and from 1-0 down we are left chasing the game. We have made mistakes in the last two matches now. They happen, but we have to cut them out. It's still a learning curve for us at this level.

Al Goldman

We are in a market that is momentum driven with money chasing a few stocks, particularly Internets and high-techs.

Tubby Smith

I think Patrick is better off when he can just concentrate on one guy. He did a very good job chasing McDonald around those screens. He seems to be better when he's doing that than if he's in a position of helping. He made McDonald take some tough shots, and I thought he rushed some shots.

Jon Sim

We're chasing the playoffs. We have to be better.

Carlos Tosca

We're chasing teams with quality depth. But if we stay healthy, I think it's realistic to say we'll be playing meaningful games in September.

Nicholas Garganas

The overall picture is that the recovery is broadening and deepening. My feeling is that euro-area growth will pick up at a faster pace than generally expected.

Jeff Nelson

The 2-2 pitch was pretty close, ... The 3-2 fastball wasn't.

Jason Maynard

The acquisition has effectively expanded Red Hat's market opportunity in one of the fastest growing sectors of software.

Shigenori Okazaki

That was a very big mistake. He should have kept everyone guessing. Now he seems to be losing influence much faster than we would have thought.

Ian Harrington

That was a terrible pitch. I left a fastball up and he made me pay for it.

Russell Sciandra

That would work a lot faster than the lawsuit.

Quincy Allen

That was two minutes faster than Tuesday and four minutes faster than Monday.

Sean Whalen

That was the first time she's swam it this year and it's the fastest on your team this year.

Sam Dresser

That way, we take out that player, put in a faster runner, and maybe score a run.

Irving Ravetch

Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.

Zakk Wylde

I love the whole process for each new album. The writing, the touring, everything. For me, it never gets old.

Wendy Kopp

It gets to whether we're a teacher-education model or a movement for social justice. I would say we're about the latter.

Bonnie Tyler

The international travelling gets harder as I get older, but when I'm performing on stage, it makes it all worth while.

David Carson

Just because something's legible doesn't means it communicates. More importantly, it doesn't mean it communicates the right thing. So, what is the message sent before somebody actually gets into the material? And I think that's sometimes an overlooked area.

Nile Rodgers

My career has been wacky and not at all normal. I've never had a manager, nobody gets jobs for me. I wind up working with artists that I meet.

Nas

I don't want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I'm not perfect, and I'm just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?

Tony Russa

That was vintage Carpenter. He had first and second, the middle of the lineup, and he gets out of it. That's what he does.

Bill Hanlon

That way they're thinking about the word and how it's used in an analogy. It gets them thinking the same way the test makers are thinking.

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.

Chuck Palahniuk

So much of 'Fight Club' was a rant against fathers.

Pete Vasil

That was a special play I have for him. We ran it for him and he was open.

David Jones

We have always done a very wide range of plays.

Jane Taylor

Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother.

Michael Pittman

I was tired. I just ran that kickoff back, and I was tired. I got to the 30-yard line, and I had no more in me. It was a big play to spark the team.

Kathy Davis

Yesterday we were swamped before we ran out of gas,

Igor Shpilband

Unfortunately they ran out of steam a little bit.

Shawn Springs

We were just overmatched. We ran into a team that was just better than us.

Sam Allardyce

I was at the game, but he never rang me.

Yoko Ono

After I was 70, I realized that, 'Okay, I would like to have another 50 years, and I probably could.' But part of me is saying, 'Maybe I'm not going to have that much time.'

Leo Veness

We will all soon realize that we are a society of spirit

Melissa McCarthy

I have an overactive sense of justice. I want women to realize you don't have to work for the company. You can run the company. I want the scope for them to be endless.

Steven Lopez

Winning had become kind of automatic, but I realized in 2008 that at any moment that could be taken away from me.

Chuck D.

I think they realized the timing was all wrong.

Hugh Godsey

I think they realized if they didn't do that they we were going to the house.

Lynndie England

I was used by Pvt. Graner, ... I didn't realize it at the time.

Billy Donovan

We realize the toughest stretch of the season is here.

John Magnie

We realized we really do better when when we're all together.

Jon Gruden

That was the play of the game. He runs down on that and just makes an unbelievable effort. There were just a lot of things like that for us today.

Neil Morris

That would be a dream. Every time we get him to the races, he runs a big race.

Rickey Henderson

To me the most important thing was stirring things up and scoring some runs so we could win a ballgame.

Lane Kiffin

We had our backups and we like to play somewhat realistic. We had about six straight runs before that.

Rich Falter

We have a little different theory about when teams get runs on us. We like to keep it up tempo and tire teams out.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Microsoft runs the world's biggest blogging platform, MSN Spaces.

Al Horford

Who runs the apartment? They'd probably say I do. I'll say Jo does too, but it's my show.

Jim Tracy

We got the three runs in the third, but we did nothing else. That's all we did.

Rogers Beasley

Water runs right through it. No more sloppy racetracks.

Gaines Adams

I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.

George Allen

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

Zadie Smith

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

Zadie Smith

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.

Ann Richards

She's always going to take on whatever is the toughest challenge.

Mack Brown

It will come down to who will be the toughest the longest.

Stacey Koerner

Tuesday and Wednesday at 9 are probably the toughest battlegrounds.

Carole James

It was the toughest work I'd ever done.

Dusty Baker

That's what you want, to be better than .500 on the road. That's usually the toughest part of the equation, but we didn't play well at home.

Sergei Brylin

This is probably the toughest we (have had it) in a long time.

Matt Gray

This is one of the toughest conferences in the state.

Gordon Brown

This is the toughest and most challenging year for the economy.

Joe Nemechek

The toughest break, I think, we had was the Coca-Cola 600.

Willie Nelson

It can't get much worse, 100 yards an hour, ... It's frustrating bumper-to-bumper.

Bob Dylan

I got this grave yard woman.

Larry Leopardi

We probably had about 300 cubic yards on Wednesday.

Steven Schier

We are many, many yards away from a score.

Adam Grant

Being a giver is not good for a 100-yard dash, but it’s valuable in a marathon.

Carl Jung

Remember when you picked me up like a frisbee and tossed me across you yard?

Greg Peterson

Let nature be in your yard.

Jennifer Garner

I knew we were going to marry someday, but I was absolutely surprised when he actually proposed. And surprised he had bought a ring. I ran around the yard screaming.

Seth Rogen

The good thing about L.A. is that there's always someone more famous 100 yards away from me.