Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marty Hurney

It's just one piece of the puzzle. It's a guideline, but obviously you're looking for players that can come in and grasp the system you're teaching and what you want to do.

Chris Carpenter

It's a simple pitch to throw if you grasp the concept,

Peter Fader

It's not like Sony is going out of business, but there are so many stories to tell about the company's inability to grasp opportunities.

Kobe Bryant

It really hasn't set in. To sit here and say I grasp what happened tonight, I'd be lying.

Manny Legace

It was in our grasp tonight, and I didn't come up with the big save.

Lanny Barnes

Definitely, it's very inspiring. He was within grasp of a medal. It should motivate us for tomorrow.

A. R. Rahman

I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start working, and something unpredictable comes out from a third element. The mind, the more active it is, the more productive it is.

Jon Katz

I'm one of those people who has always struggled with emotions and revealing them. When my dog Orson died, I did this very male thing of 'It's just a dog and I'll just move on.' I was very slow to grasp the emotion. But Orson is the reason I started writing about dogs.

Dave Wood

You can just see it. (Quarterback) Mike Lomas and the rest of the guys on offense have a great grasp of what we?re trying to do because they haven?t had to learn a new system. They?re working on refining what they know instead of learning a new offense.

Alan Bean

One of the great things about the universe is that it's fair.

Susan Gibson

We want to show people how they can look great for very little money.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Greatness depends on where you are coming from.

Edward Gibbon

[The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought.

Audrey Hepburn

My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

Athenaeus

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

Arnold Palmer

Swing your swing. Not some idea of a swing. Not a swing you saw on TV. Not that swing you wish you had. No, swing your swing. Capable of greatness. Prized only by you. Perfect in it's imperfection. Swing your swing. I know, I did.

Willie Kemp

Wayne, he's a great player, but we're moving on. We're still going to be friends.

Denis Waitley

The seeds of greatness are ideas you learn from people who've been great in their service to others.

Alan Faneca

When you've got 50-plus guys doing it one way, those guys will adapt. It may not be who they were, but it's who they became.

The Eagles

We want to put it on the defense's shoulders. More than anything we want to score on defense. We weren't able to do that, but we held on long enough so those guys could pick it up. They got in their rhythm and they did their thing.

Kevin Garnett

We have to hang on to our leads. We give them away like they're candy. It's frustrating. You have to understand the personnel. We have a young team. Our guys haven't been in these situations, and they're learning.

Sean Payton

We have to get some of these heavy guys up to speed quick.

John Tortorella

We have no problems with those three guys being in the lineup this time of year.

Rodney Harrison

We have so many veteran guys like Willie McGinest, Mike Vrabel, Richard Seymour, Larry Izzo, guys that have been in the fire. We lose those two guys (Bruschi and Johnson), but other guys have really stepped up to really meet that challenge.

Avery Johnson

We want our main guys to start playing now. You'll see some different looks.

Gary Tague

We were a young team that just missed on some things last year. This year, most of those guys are back.

John Richardson

We were a stronger team than they were. I thought we were a little tentative at times, but halfway through first set the guys played smart tennis. The last set scores were pretty convincing.

Mayor Barse

We are looking for the removal of radioactive materials instead of sealing it. This is a Vineland issue.

Ken Banks

We'd like to do more of these instead of ships. If people go back to these over time, they'll see them develop.

Ross Levin

We're spooning money into the market now instead of dumping it in.

Matt Pfau

When we get open, we shoot right away, instead of taking a look at where the goalie is at and placing the ball. (Scoring) is going to come as the season goes.

Melissa Dennett

We would settle and think that it was OK instead of going, going, going.

Norma McCorvey

They could have been nice to me instead of treating me like an idiot." ()

Kenneth Fisher

The more you talk about investing problems, the worse you feel. Instead of complaining, it's better to do something.

Kermit Baker

For consumers, this means they are going to get contractors who return phone calls, and they are going to be able to get two or three bids, instead of just one.

Mo Ibrahim

It's time Africa started listening to our young people instead of always telling them what to do.

Wissam Nasr

We want to stop profiling. The more that people learn about Islam, the more tolerant they become.

David Hood

Accepting the key premise that the learner is the primary customer of schooling means others follow naturally. ... The core business of schooling is learning, and the quality of learning experienced by all learners should be the standard against which performance is measured.

Nicholas Negroponte

We all learned how to walk and talk by interacting with our environment, with real goals and rewards.

Nolan Sotillo

I play guitar, piano, and I'm learning to play the drums.

Carlos Castaneda

When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become.

Jordan Spieth

Whenever the heat's on, my whole life, I've just kind of learned to focus a little more.

Eugene Doro

When you see a team like that, you can learn by just watching them play.

Chanakya

One destitute of wealth is not destitute, he is indeed rich, but the man devoid of learning is destitute in every way.

Charles Handy

Learning is experience understood in tranquility.

David Hood

Accepting the key premise that the learner is the primary customer of schooling means others follow naturally. ... The core business of schooling is learning, and the quality of learning experienced by all learners should be the standard against which performance is measured.

Nolan Sotillo

I play guitar, piano, and I'm learning to play the drums.

Carlos Castaneda

When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become.

Chanakya

One destitute of wealth is not destitute, he is indeed rich, but the man devoid of learning is destitute in every way.

Charles Handy

Learning is experience understood in tranquility.

Charles Godfrey Leland

The Lord of Learning who upraised mankind from being silent brutes to singing men.

Beth Brooke

Setbacks are just learning experiences.

Bernard Malamud

A man had to learn, it was his nature.

Bill Watterson

Calvin: Today for show and tell, I've brought a tiny miracle of nature: a single snowflake! I think we might all learn a lesson from how this utterly unique and exquisite crystal turns into an ordinary, boring molecule of water just like every other one when you bring it into the classroom. And now, while the analogy sinks in, I will be leaving you drips and going outside...

Lesley Manville

When I make films, I work with Mike Leigh, who's the most prolific director in England.

Terry Stotts

They obviously made Mike a priority. They didn't give him any open looks.

Tom Connelly

There were many personal attacks, and Mike was in the cross-hairs of those attacks. It got to him.

Leo Kottke

Sometimes you see that place dimly, and you work on whatever you're working on to see it better. I really can just go running around in it when Mike and I are playing.

Tom Arnold

That's funny, Mike Tice. Is that your joke?

Mike Huckabee

I have often been characterized by one sound bite, and people say, 'That is the whole of Mike Huckabee, because we have him on this off-the-cuff moment.'

Jamie McMurray

There's something about when Mike Helton talks, everyone listens.

Wayne Puglisi

Buddy, Mike and A.J. have played together forever. They should be in for another big year on offense if they stay healthy.

Nicholas Hytner

Mike was a little nervous ... We weren't, because his reputation is so immense.

David Gibbs

We started so slow and they started so fast. We can't put our offense in that kind of hole.

Bob Marquardt

We struggled to get into our offense a little bit.

Corky Card

We struggled on offense with our spacing and timing.

Aaron Harang

With the offense we have, all you have to worry about is (making) your pitches. We know the offense is going to score.

Ben Roethlisberger

A lot of people said that if we had to throw the ball, we can't win. Myself, the line, the receivers, we kind of took offense to that. We've kind of proven that's not the case.

Juan Pierre

They had the timely hits, and they made the most of their opportunities and we didn't. Our offense is a lot better than it's displayed.

Chad Jilek

They (the Little Cyclones) don't put a lot of pressure on you. We just have to make sure that we're smart in our half-court offense and not just throwing shots up.

Kevin Sneddon

They're very patient. They don't press too much in terms of going after offense when it's not there but they have enough skill to score goals.

Albert Young

It's tough to explain. We know we have a better offense than that.

Charles Stanley

When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.

Daymond John

Make sure you're doing something that you love, that you're willing to do for the rest of your life. If you're doing it for money, that's the only thing you won't make.

Audre Lorde

I learned to read from Mrs. Augusta Baker, the children's librarian. ... If that was the only good deed that lady ever did in her life, may she rest in peace. Because that deed saved my life, if not sooner, then later, when sometimes the only thing I had to hold on to was knowing I could read.

Doug Flynn

We're in inning 2 of the new ballgame. So get in and let it go the rest of the innings.

Jim Tracy

We're not going to say we're not going to see him for the rest of the year, ... We're going to take it day-by-day.

Charlize Theron

My thoughts and love go out to the Mandela family. Rest in peace Madiba. You will be missed, but your impact on this world will live forever.

Calvin Trillin

I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.

Debbie DeCarlo

Word got out. He only got two cookies. The rest went in 20 minutes.

John Fitzgibbons

We're starting to see something out of the restaurant sector now.

Charles Dickens

Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.

Charles Spurgeon

Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original

Charles Spurgeon

The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.

Alan Watts

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Alan Watts

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

Alan Watts

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

Alan Parsons

That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.

Alan Moore

I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.

Alan Ball

I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.