Famous Quotes & Sayings

I. Stone

Brittany was dead-on with her angles and she controlled her rebounds. She kept her composure in a pressure-cooker type of game and showed a lot of confidence tonight.

David Barker

Um, well, it varies, doesn't it? I think it's a mix. I think you've got to have research. I would like you to come up with some original material that no one has written about or known before. And a personal angle that kind of brings it to life for the reader. It's a mix of four or five different things, and I think it's interesting how some writers do 10 percent of this and 90 percent of the other. And some people do 20 percent of everything.

John Farrell

There's no denying work ethic and creativity. He wasn't an overpowering pitcher during his career. He had to find every angle possible to compete and have success, which he did. So he brings in a different viewpoint.

Dale Carnegie

Always avoid the acute angle.

Mike Drass

Several defenders had an angle on Larry, but he simply outran them all.

Laura Haddock

I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.

John Gallagher, Jr.

One thing that happens on the 'Newsroom' is that every time a real story does get incorporated into the show, there's always an angle that's provided that hasn't really been dealt with yet.

Dave Sarachan

From my angle I had no chance to see if it was the correct call. It was frustrating because we were battling and battling for every opportunity to get back in the game.

Tomas Vokoun

From every angle that you look at it, it was important. You want to separate from ninth place as much as possible. It seems like everyone is winning, so we need points.

Tom Daschle

A new year brings a new opportunity to start over,

Robert Long

I wanted something for this boutique that would reflect Manhattan, New York, which is my favorite place on the planet, ... Allure's boutique is really something different. It is fashion-forward. It brings things up to date, because the New York fashions are traditionally years ahead.

Tom Hansen

I've talked to some of these convenience stores that do like this touch play because they say it brings income into their stores. Again, if there were more people living out in the country, they wouldn't need these touch play machines because there would be more people in their stores buying things.

Vance Law

These were two big wins for us and it brings us closer to .500. Our younger players are coming through for us in big ways and we've had some outstanding pitching from our starters.

Brady Quinn

The way he handles quarterbacks is much more intense, a much more hands-on kind of approach, and you see the intensity not only that he brings to practice, but that he brings with the quarterbacks,

Michael Hayes

This is a nice event because it brings people together. It's radiant. You feel real Christian values.

Randy Bigum

This data link brings the war-fighter a great deal of flexibility after the missile is launched.

Dave Pauli

That's what keeps us going. Every one of them brings a tear to your eyes and makes these sleepless nights worth it.

Emmett Shear

Our app for Xbox 360 brings Twitch video to the television and into the living room of millions of Xbox Live members for the first time. The app will let every Xbox Live gamer find and watch streams of their favorite games from their couch.

Linette Johnson

Actually it was more like five times. I over exaggerated.

Mike Slive

I used to go to more games than I do now. Every game you see in person you probably miss somewhere between five and 10 games.

Mark Haley

I wanted five good innings. Kellen Raab was going to be ready if we needed him. But Jackson just kept going and going.

Ichiro Suzuki

I've seen a lot of great plays in my five years in the majors. And I know we have enough talent on our team to be able to contend.

Caroline Paul

I should really be lifting only five days. I'm sort of obsessed, and I end up going in six, sometimes seven, and that's not good. Something that I preach but don't practice - moderation.

Matt Sylvester

I've been giving him assists for five years; he owed me one.

William Rehnquist

I used to worry about every little footnote, ... Now I realize you just need five votes.

George Carlin

I've never had a 10, but one night I had five twos

Carlos Silva

That's kids, and sometimes they don't know what to ask, so they repeat a question five times. Really, those are the types of things that makes it fun.

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.

Author unknown

I should've known it wasn't going to work out between my ex-wife and me. After all, I'm a Libra and she's a bitch.

Robert McCloskey

That neighborhood has never been known for racial tensions." ()

Jermaine Jackson

Had we known that the price that we would have to pay for this success, we never would have wanted it.

Chris Crutcher

Once a thing is known,it can't be UNknown.

Essence Carson

We like to play like what we're known for.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

As the planet warms, evolution speeds. We've known this for a long time.

Herman Edwards

Warrick was with us in Tampa so I've known him since he was a rookie,

Rita Ora

To me, I have my friends who I've known my whole life, and I can count them on one hand. They're people I went to school with, my mum's friends' daughters. You know?

Tom Badger

This was in a slope we've known to be a problem.

Johann G. Seume

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Linda Foley

The ones who are serving life sentences are victims.

Ken Scholen

The older you are, the more money you can get because life expectancy is shorter.

Larry Brown

After a year in therapy my psychiatrist said to me, "Maybe life isn't for everyone

Gore Vidal

After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.

Manju Warrier

After my 10th standard, my life took me into the world of cinema, but I never severed my ties with my love for reading.

Tim Howard

The most important thing in my life is Christ. He's more important than winning or losing or whether I'm playing or not. Everything else is just a bonus.

Robert Edwards

The most important thing in life is having a child. Nothing is more special than a child.

Henry Selick

Stop-motion is sort of twitchy; you can feel the life in it. If we were to remove that completely, there'd be no point in it.

Jan Connelley

In the past, there has been up to 100 yards of material in the basket.

Dan Modzelewski

We're using materials that are very tough and very strong to withstand the weather.

Jeff Bridges

I've always tried to mix up my roles as much as I can.

Jesse Harris

I usually make records very quickly. I usually go in and record them and mix them, and I'm done within a couple of weeks.

Vicki Kramer

It was the perfect mix of ingredients for West Nile.

Michael Socha

I should have lived through the '80s, not been born in it. My style is a mix of hip-hop and '80s casual.

Dale Decker

The mix will stick to the rubber tires on the pneumatic rollers.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

My go-to shoes for red-carpet events are usually always black, but I mix between my pointed stilettos and platform heels.

Steve Tuttle

There are some pepper sprays that don't mix well with Tasers.

M. Thompson

We have played a lot at the SCG with mixed results.

Cameron Crowe

And yeah, she would put 'Pride (In the Name of Love)' on it. You do go for some obvious stuff when you make a mix tape because it reinvents itself.

Steve Martin

I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct.

Rumi

There is an original inside me.

Michael Eisner

Sometimes you have to be worn out and burnt out to become authentic and original.

John Steinbeck

Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.

Theodore Roosevelt

It is always better to be an original than an imitation.

Anthony Storr

Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

Gene Fowler

If they haven't heard it before it's original.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I really do not aim at any originality.

Ray Stevens

I originally passed on 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head' in 1969, so they gave it to B.J. Thomas.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Dave Chanley

Other people stepped up, and we got enough production to win.

Ben Gordon

Other people may be surprised, but I always thought I should go No. 1.

Patrick Taylor

Other people could come up with different models.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Nick Kamberis

People scoff at that, but they're legit. We sent his tape out and all 122 are on there.

Sarah Waters

People say, 'You're like Dickens', but I'm not like Dickens. Zadie Smith is a Dickensian writer because she's writing about society now, just as Dickens was writing about his society.

Bill Bullard

As a regular commissioner, it takes about 50 percent of my time, ... As chairman, it's about 90 percent of my time. It's significantly more work and more hours.

Frank Barnaby

A vast percentage of centrifuges have to be rejected in testing, up to 60% rejection.

Padraig Harrington

These fairways are at least 50 percent narrower that anything you would see in the States.

Greg Anderson

We have 50 percent of the units reserved and that's very exciting.

Craig Shniderman

Percentage of sales--the table contributions, which often represent about 50 percent of the table revenue--actually go up.

Chris Cooney

Only 10 percent say very unfavorable after 20 years of work.

Melissa Etheridge

I would say I'm 97 percent back now,

Thomas A. Edison

Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

Lawrence Lindsey

I would not be surprised to see 5 percent unemployment by the end of the summer. I would be surprised to see 6 percent.

Bob Clarke

Some questions are of a personal nature, which I don't think should be documented.

Anthony Sampson

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

Jane Goodall

To me, trees are living beings and they have their own sort of personalities.

Booth Tarkington

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.

David M. Kelley

I always found that if you handle a problem in a benevolent way and a transparent way and involve other people, so it's just not your personal opinion, that people get to the other side of these difficult conversations being more enthusiastic.

Samora Machel

Personalities and fame pass; the revolution must remain.

T. S. Eliot

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion,

Tony Robbins

If you are driven by certainty you can't grow. If you are driven by certainty if somebody messes with you, you can get very intense, even violent, depending upon the person's personality.

Tom Petty

I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.

Burt Rutan

A true creator researches how to have confidence in nonsense.

Janet Reno

I have inquired for most of my adult life about studies that might show that the death penalty is a deterrent. And I have not seen any research that would substantiate that point.

Ron Perlman

I'm continuing to do research into biker culture.

Rolf-Dieter Heuer

If you don't invest in basic research at some stage you start losing the basis of applied research.

Vernor Vinge

Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.

Stan Sakai

All my knowledge comes from research.

Richard Hamming

Beware of finding what you're looking for. A favorite aphorism he often used.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

If a scientist is not befuddled by what they're looking at, then they're not a research scientist.

Ted Nelson

The objective of hypertext research is to save the planet.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

Sara Sheridan

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

Sevyn Streeter

You should find the dopest producer in your area, and that producer is always going to want songs written to his beat.

Bram Cohen

Up to now, we'd get a written notification ... Now it will be expedited.

Felipe Alou

What a script. Wow. It was like it was written to be that way.

Allen Tate

What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.

Seamus Heaney

I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.

David Dein

He has written his own part in Arsenal's history,

Mark Johnson

It's been unbelievable. We couldn't have written a better script.

John Drinkwater

The written word is everything.

John Lydon

Every single lyric I've ever written I meant.