Famous Quotes & Sayings

Morris Gleitzman

I've always been interested in setting my stories against a big event, the importance of which my younger readers are slowly becoming aware of as they move into their teens.

David Bowie

...And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds, they are immune to your consultations, they're quite aware of what they're going through...

Rainer Maria Rilke

I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.

William Bennett

Our Transportation Department has followed the progress of the union contract negotiations closely so we were aware of the potential for a strike for many months. As a result we had been having informal conversations with Penn transportation personnel for well over two months in preparation for how we would respond.

Bill Bradford

There have been a lot of people behind the scenes working on dinners, staging flowers and flags. They're also having trees come in, they're going to have a tree representing each campus, and then there's going to be a grove somewhere on the campus where the trees will be planted.

Keith Brooking

To get nine sacks and with our crowd behind us like they were, that would fluster any offensive line in the league,

Darrell Brooks

You have to pick up the flag and have another guy behind him and step up and be ready to come out here and make some plays.

Pat Riley

You have to leave the last two games behind us. We didn't like how we played up there. We didn't play very well. We didn't play well enough to win. Probably didn't deserve to win.

Luis Sojo

You have an accomplished hitter like Moises Alou behind him. He's quite capable of delivering a big hit.

Ron Wilson

You have a game plan. Not like a football game, but an idea of how you want to play, you establish it, and that's always the test when you fall behind early, to see if you can sustain what's been successful. That's kind of a test for us, to play as well as we did for 60 minutes.

Susan Bloir

Within his stories there are textual references to blind storytellers, remember Homer (the Homers) may not have existed at all. If this was one man, the fact that he could remember such complex stories and legends and tell them with a single, embedded story line is remarkable. That indicates to some that he may have been blind. When one is blind, the other senses are heightened. That is some of the rationale behind the statement that Homer may have been blind.

D. James

With home theater and media centers, there has been such an electronics boom within the last five years. But we're lacking behind in technology. Statistics show that 22 percent of new, upscale homes built now include a home theater. Yet builders here have no clue about these things or making homes more energy efficient. We're starting to educate builders and residents.

John Schultz

With him behind us, it does make blocking easier because he makes quick cuts and finds the holes.

Richard Skaggs

I'm not willing to give up on the Nasdaq today. It is only down a few points and we're not seeing a lot of weakness.

Peter Hain

I'm now going through, and indeed have been over the past week, a process in which I will be making an announcement in the next few days.

Simon Clarke

I'm happy where I finished and I'm looking forward to the next few months of racing.

Greg Puhalski

I'm sure teams will try a few wrinkles here and there, but I think you just have to go out and play hard.

Jovan Vavic

The Gaucho Invitational is the toughest tournament of the year because it includes all the top teams from the Stanford Invitational as well as LMU and a few other top teams in the nation.

Chris Gomez

It's more weird than I thought it would be, ... But after a few starts you get adjusted.

Ron Gideon

It seemed like the longer he went, the more he got settled. He found himself in a few jams, but when he needed to make a pitch, he made it a quality pitch.

Brendon Gale

It's what we work out over the next few weeks.

Janina Gavankar

I want to see what technology's going to be like in a few hundred years, if the human race hasn't completely obliterated itself by then.

Kathy Christie

No matter how good your intentions are, you still have to find the money. That's what states are struggling with.

M. Thompson

No matter how good the show is, a 2-inch screen is still not same as big screen TV.

Chrissie Fit

Sometimes you need a good laugh, and then there are times when you need a good cry.

Matt Mullenweg

Sometimes you might feel blogs are like TV: You have a thousand channels, but nothing good is on.

Lorraine Bracco

So that's been very good for us, the long hiatuses.

Pat Jones

Soquel did a good job of double- and triple-teaming her when she got the ball. They played to win.

Christopher Howell

Some were good plays on his behalf. We have to make those plays.

Delia Smith

So often much of the flavour and nutrients in vegetables are near the skin, and with a good peeler you really are only removing the skin.

Raul Rodriguez

So now we're back to square one. Hopefully we'll come out next week and have another good race. But it's not over 'til it's over.

Bobby Bowden

As I look back on my 51 years of coaching, ... that is the hardest thing to explain.

Torin Francis

We didn't panic at all. Hard work, you can't really work on that. It's just something we have to do.

Mark Riggin

We didn't hit the ball, and it's hard to win with only one run.

Sammy Day

We didn't hit it as hard as we have been, but we got the job done.

Stan McCain

We didn't have to do a whole lot throwing the ball. We're kind of hard headed. When we see a play that works, we stick with it.

Glenn Roeder

We had plenty of possession but we didn't make their keeper work hard enough.

Aaron Smith

We went there and it was hard work.

Robin Dezarn

This will be a very hard day for me.

Irish Proverbs

What is in the marrow is hard to take out of the bone.

Isaac Asimov

What would I do if I knew I only had six months to live? Type faster.

Jacob DiPietre

They've already been in the process of doing that for several months now.

Bobby Scott

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

David Arquette

I love round people, I love skinny people. I love people in general; we've got to get past labels and stop being so critical about everything.

Robert Herrick

When one is past, another care we have; Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.

Robert Herrick

Praise they that will times past, I joy to see My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.

Robert Henri

All the past up to a moment ago is your legacy. You have a right to it.

Suzy Kassem

Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.

Swami Vivekananda

The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present.

Tony Robbins

Have you ever said, 'I can't do that! I'm just not like that!'? If you've ever used this phrase, you've hit the boundary of how you've defined yourself in the past, and it's affecting the quality of your present-day life. Ask yourself, 'Where did these beliefs about who I am come from, and how old are they?' Maybe it's time to update your identity.

Tony Robbins

Break through the bonds of your past.

Tubby Smith

When a team shoots 72 percent, you're not really playing much defensively.

Bobby Labonte

If we start off and we're not in the top 10, we're going to be there before long,