Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Herbert Mead

Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure.

Rock Cartwright

The Eagles blocked a field goal and ran it back,

Malcolm Deans

(Webb) blocked a shot and sent it back into the stands after play had already stopped on a personal foul. It was an accident; he didn't mean to do it. But the call on him really fired our crowd up, which got us going.

John Doherty

The blocked extra points were huge, ... Especially the one in overtime.

Jeff Segall

The nice thing is that you don't get into a situation where you have old buildings blocked by new buildings; the hospital can grow from south to north.

Lou Holtz

It's sound. Nobody ever blocked us because of a scheme. They might have blocked us because we didn't block somebody.

Eric Shelton

That is the first blocked punt I've ever had I mean ever. I just came through free between the guard and the snapper and just blocked it. On the fumble, I stripped it but at first I was mad because I thought I had missed the tackle.

Jose Cano

They blocked me in so I couldn't get out. I couldn't escape. They started breaking the windows, then they choked me until I couldn't move. After that, they hit me in the face and knocked me out.

Jordan Foreman

They left us relying on our dribble penetration and they either blocked shots or changed a lot of shots.

Mary Pierce

Kim has been incredible on hard courts this year.

Michael Adams

Josef Ackermann's personal integrity is not in question. He didn't see the red line that some courts have seen. But it's a squishy concept.

Adam Barrett

I think we all feel better going into the tournament, including me. We know the layout of the Dome. We understand that the courts and the backboards are different. It's a different environment, but we've been there, so we understand that.

Gary Wagher

In the '80s, the water would seep up through the cracks when it warmed up and the courts would be slick. Plus, they sloped the courts from the east to the west instead of putting a slight grade on each side so that it would slop either direction. That didn't help with the drainage.

John Blackburn

Instead of going all the way to Alabama, Murray was kind enough to give us some neutral courts so we could meet Jacksonville and Samford half-way.

Matthew Myers

In this case, the courts are going to find that the FDA is right,

William Chandler

If neither the courts nor the markets are able to restrain executive compensation, and if you the decision-makers fail ... the result will be imposition of regulatory controls,

Diana Gabaldon

All romance novels are courtship stories, and I'm not really interested in that,

Bill Threlkeld

We feel the courts in the end will see it our way, but we have to let that process go through.

Joe Arpaio

I will continue to enforce all the laws, including illegal immigration. Nothing changes.

Arlen Specter

He will enforce the laws, no matter what his personal opinion may be.

Dax Shepard

You can't put the Hollywood sign in a movie without paying them. That is a landmark in L.A. I'm sorry, remove it from our skyline, then. You know? How dare they. That should be public domain, right? But it's privately owned, and they enforce that. They sue people. If you see it in the movie, they've paid for that.

Jeffrey Sweetin

That is one of the most heavily enforced highways in the world.

David Adamson

It will take a lot of officers' time to go out when a dog's squatting on someone else's property. They have some ordinances they don't enforce now.

Griffin Bell

the written rules were often ignored, never enforced and all the participants knew it.

Ted Cruz

There was reference made to our leaders being stupid. It's not a question of stupidity. It's that they don't want to enforce the immigration laws. That there are far too many in the Washington cartel that support amnesty.

Richard Shelby

What is the role of the CIA? Is it to enforce policies? is it to be an arbitrator? Is it to be bodyguards? I think not.

Jenell Atlas

For the sheriff to come in and enforce the law, enforce speeds, it has to be legally posted, and the rules have to be met.

Alan Cole

This was a goal of mine for a long time. To come over here and win a Fair race. My owner gives us what we need and this is how we should be running all the time.

Mike Holder

He's got some fairly serious injuries. He needs to get healthy. That's what we said in the press release.

Christopher Hill

I think it's fair to say we have a rather major disagreement on this point.

Tim Finchem

I think it's fair to say that the purse level increases year-to-year will not be as steep in the next six years.

Connie Mack

It is a fair plan. It shares the benefits.

Gray Davis

Whatever is done has to be done in a fair and objective manner,

Bill Shine

We try to make sure that everything is fair and is balanced. It's our slogan, but it's also what we live by.

Yahoo Serious

I think we have an optimistic view of the world. I think we're a very positive race, and I think we're very egalitarian - we give everyone a fair go.

Sean Sutton

I think when it first happened, I thought it's an opportunity to grow as a person. This is not fair for (the players), but life is not fair sometimes. It's unfortunate, but I thought they handled it as well as they possibly could.

Barack Obama

I also think the media's presence simply raised the question: If the media could get to these places, why couldn't the federal government?

Vicki Arroyo

It is going to be a piecemeal approach, people are not going to know what their regulatory commitments are from one state to another. And you are then going to have different product standards in different states. It just doesn't make sense. We need a federal policy and that is what we are trying to promote.

Roy Wilson

I think we have some lessons to learn from the past week, realizing the federal government is not going to come to our rescue in the first 72 hours,

Graham Fraser

It is madness that the federal government is still spending millions on teaching middle-aged bureaucrats how to pass language tests rather than sending young, enthusiastic recruits to the public service to work in another language and culture.

Adam Kidan

I have cooperated fully with the federal investigation for the past three years because I have nothing to hide.

Eric Lamoureux

Other states rely much more heavily on their state government and the federal government to come in and manage the support. In California, emergencies are managed on the local level.

Jessica Thill

Right now our two U.S. Senators and our U.S. Congressman are all over the place in terms of what they're thinking and how they're voting on this issue. So, I would really like to see our Federal Government representation get on the same page.

James Frederick

Our overall goal is to see the federal government step up to the plate.

Katsuhiko Kodama

Investors want to see the U.S. stock market's reaction to whatever the Federal Reserve says, which might set the tone for global high-techs for a while.

Joe Neff

I thought we'd be a fourth or fifth seed, but the way things are set up, anything in the top 10 is pretty good. We've seen a lot of these teams. I like where we're at.

Jim Noyes

I think sometimes in basketball, just like everything else, when things don't go right you want to roll over and die. But we played well today, and we want to come back tomorrow and win fifth place.

Phil Garner

Roger Clemens is pitching the fifth game right now,

Carlos Garcia

I need that first big win. I'm always fifth or sixth but never first and I hope here I can do that,

Buddy Bell

I really wanted keep Gobble out there for the fifth but this was his first start and we wanted to keep him at about 60 pitches.

LaDainian Tomlinson

I'm only in my fifth year, and we still have five games to go down the stretch, and the offensive line is just now getting healthy, ... So I'm looking forward to what we have here in the future.

Korey Kostur

I knew he finished fifth in his region, so he probably wasn't that good. He didn't look very good, but sometimes the goofier guys are the better ones.

Jerome Forneris

I'm fifth all-time, and I fit in somewhere, ... It was like, wait a minute, I'm not just an ordinary guy. I've been able to do some extraordinary things in an ordinary body, but I'm not an ordinary guy.

Colin Edwards

It?s not front row, but it?s not the fifth row.

Glenn Morris

Just simply splashing around in the water, if there is sewage contamination there is a risk you could get it onto your hands and get it into your mouth,

Jeff Koinange

hands down, even if in jail or in the grave.

Rob Niedermayer

He's got the sweetest hands I think I've seen on a guy. He doesn't panic with the puck at all. He doesn't let too much intimidate him or rattle him out there, and that's a big thing.

James Woods

Whatever it takes to get the job done. We need all hands on deck.

Paul Hefner

The purpose of this is to shift power from one set of hands to another.

Stephen Johnson

I think we need to put it in the hands of someone who knows real estate.

Matt Kiefer

I think that thought process will go through my mind whenever the season is over with, (then) I'll get to that. I'll have a lot of time on my hands without basketball, so I'll be able to reflect on that.

Tammy Johnson

I was very upset. No teacher has a right to put her hands on a child. This is not a one-time incident. This has happened before.

Heath Miller

I was able to get my hands inside and I probably used a little nudge from J.B. (Bettis) in the back to help me out a little bit.

Laura Stromberg

I think, in general, people just want a new, refreshing voice, and they're hearing that from Kinky.

Jim Kaat

He (Rodriguez) has been hearing it from the crowd.

Gerard Mestrallet

I don't know Mr. Conti, I have not had the pleasure of hearing his voice, even by telephone.

Anne Mills

I can feel your sympathy. But seeing is what will impact you, even more than hearing the stories.

Charles Schumer

If there ever was a time when the hearings are going to make a huge difference, it's now,

Bruce Braley

I remember hearing on NPR from pharmacists who had their lives turned upside down.

Don Lindburg

I'm not hearing anything like that, and I would be very, very surprised.

Mike Tranghese

I keep hearing the question, 'Are we going to survive?'

Russ Carnahan

The International Relations Committee, on which I sit, has held only two hearings this year regarding Iraq - a woefully insufficient number.

Brian Regan

The owner tends to source these things separately,

James Cook

A business owner who is liberal probably inherited the business.

Brian Berger

They have ownership of this field, it's their baby. It's going to give them a sense of pride.

Michael Spears

It's a lot like a church, ... Everyone really takes ownership for the children's education.

Ellen Hopkins

Why doesn't love come with an owner's manual?

Eduardo Galeano

From their castle in Zurich, the owners of soccer do not propose, they impose. That's their way.

Jeffrey Skilling

I sold some shares, but on a net basis, significantly increased my ownership.

Bobby Frankel

I didn't even know she was a Cal-bred until the owner told me.

Henry James

Most of the time they can get the loan, but it's not 100 percent. The owner usually has to come up with 35 to 40 percent of the money.

James Cook

A business owner who is liberal probably inherited the business.

Brian Berger

They have ownership of this field, it's their baby. It's going to give them a sense of pride.

Michael Spears

It's a lot like a church, ... Everyone really takes ownership for the children's education.

Ellen Hopkins

Why doesn't love come with an owner's manual?

Eduardo Galeano

From their castle in Zurich, the owners of soccer do not propose, they impose. That's their way.

Jeffrey Skilling

I sold some shares, but on a net basis, significantly increased my ownership.

Arthur Blank

There are a lot of reasons owners vote the way they vote. They have their reasons, usually very legitimate.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Never be a minion, always be an owner.

Ron Perry

When you give them the ownership and the responsibility, it makes them more independent.

Charles Yates

I'd like to sell them some oceanfront property in Dickenson County.

Mark Gottlieb

The development rights of the ... property predate the ordinance.

Carlos Gutierrez

Theft of intellectual property is not tolerated and will not be tolerated.

Bill Swanson

Each property seems to be independent of the other.

Publilius Syrus

The property of others is always more inviting than our own; and that which we ourselves possess is most pleasing to others.

Dan Quinn

I told my wife this would be the only lakefront property we'd ever have,

Rep. Chalk

My whole view is that we can't legitimately look at property tax reform if we don't look at all these things.

Hank Klumpp

My property value has been stolen from me and my family.

Charles Abrams

We don't think for a second the property won't be developed. We aren't naive. We just want something that's reasonable and well thought out and well financed.

Sim Osborn

I had these toys in my house, I've thrown them out, and told everyone I know.

Jim Edmonds

It kind of bounced off pretty hard, so I didn't really know. I didn't want to get thrown out.

Bobby Bowden

I wanted to see what we could do throwing the ball,

Mike Holmgren

They have you outnumbered just a little bit. Now it is safer, I suppose, than throwing a pass, but you can't worry too much about that.

Jim Tracy

All Scott Strickland has done is throw strikes.

David Berry

You can't keep throwing us around. Accommodate your own people.

Maureen Allyn

This may be what throws us into recession.

Michael Robinson

They're in my ear, 'Tell 'em to throw it deep, Mike, throw it deep. They want the ball, and they're going to make some plays.

Andre Johnson

We know we're not out there trying to throw games. If we were really trying to lose, how did we win this one?

Ricardo Semler

The era of using people as production tools is coming to an end. Participation is infinitely more complex to practice than conventional corporate unilateralism, just as democracy is much more cumbersome than dictatorship. But there will be few companies that can afford to ignore either of them.

Sam Phillips

I'll never retire. I'm just using up somebody else's oxygen if I retire.

Theodore Sturgeon

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.