Famous Quotes & Sayings

Myles Brand

This season has revealed the character of Mike Davis. It revealed his resilience, his grace under pressure, and his ability to unite and motivate young men.

Troy Polamalu

To me, he is the MVP of that team. He's a very accurate thrower. He feels very confident with their offense. His scrambling ability gives their offense another avenue as well. He's been playing great, and I think that's why they've been successful. They can't click without him.

Jeff Santarsiero

There is always a concern about being rusty with such a long layoff. I was pleased with our effort and with our ability to knock down shots when we needed to score.

Harry Reid

The reason the legislation was passed (creating the stockpile and the price trigger) is to have the president have the ability at times like this to pull heating oil from that reserve,

Billy Davis

The reason it's a 3-4 group is because they're very deep at linebacker, with a number of those linebackers having the ability to pass rush. So you have a great dynamic in a fourth or fifth pass rusher when you have those four linebackers on the field.

Eric Wallace

The reason I play is because God gave me both ability and height. Every game, every day I try to keep a level head and do what I have to do.

Flip Saunders

The reason in the playoffs that defensive-oriented teams are successful is because the longer you play someone, you become more comfortable with how guys are getting their shots and what they're doing. You have the ability to lock down more from a defensive standpoint.

J. M. Roberts

The reason for the lights is simple. Wellesley has very limited open space, and our playing field space is extremely tight. Having the ability to put lights at Reidy would allow us to, really, double the utilization of our primary field.

Dave Schroeder

The original challenge allowed any users to have local accounts to access the machine via SSH. This is an important distinction, because if you have local -- or physical -- access to a computer, you have a very distinct leg-up in terms of the ability to escalate your privileges.

Jody Bronson

We've been working toward getting everybody healthy in practice. They showed a lot of heart out there today. It was an all-around effort.

Robert Gordon

Basically, we want everybody to stop for a minute and think about what it is they love about Litchfield, so it will be an example of what we're trying to save.

Here's a good trick: Get a job as a judge at the Olympics. Then, if some guy sets a world record, pretend that you didn't see it and go, "Okay, is everybody ready to start now?".

Linda Evans

There are no words to express this. Everybody says there's nothing they can do. This is outrageous.

Marvin Emerson

I told the guys at halftime that's why everybody practices. We just needed to be patient, get into our offense, and not let them get a run.

Marilyn Monroe

Why haven't I the right to grow and expand like everybody else?

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Roy Keane

You shouldn't have spoken to the players like that. No, you should have.

Ned Colletti

Do I use VORP? I may be using it and not even know it, and if I am, it's nobody's business. There are a lot of different criteria in judging players. I think I use, um, esoteric qualitative mathematical review times five. That's one of them.

Andy Roddick

I cook a little - I've never taken classes or anything - but enough to get by.

Margaret Mead

If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think certain government officials, industrialists and celebrated persons should make it clear they are prepared to be sacrificed if taken hostage. If that were done, what gain would there be for terrorists in taking hostages?

Napoleon Hill

The bottom is a monotonous, dreary, unprofitable place for any person. That is why I have taken the time to describe how lowly beginnings may be circumvented by proper planning.

Marshall McLuhan

Gramophone and movies were merely the mechanization of speech and gesture. But the radio and TV were not just the electronification of speech and gesture but the electronification of the entire range of human personal expressiveness. With electronification the flow is taken out of the wire and into the vacuum tube circuit, which confers freedom and flexibility such as are in metaphor and in words themselves.

Mark Helprin

As the clockwork of the millennia moved a notch in front of their eyes, it had taken their thoughts from small things and reminded them of how vulnerable they were to time.

Mark Helprin

She died on a windy gray day in March when the sky was full of darting crows and the world lay prostrate and defeated after winter. Peter Lake was at her side and it ruined him forever. It broke him as he had not ever imagined he could have been broken. He would never again be young, or able to remember what it was like to be young. What he had once taken to be pleasures would appear to him in his defeat as hideous and deserved punishments for reckless vanity.

Mark Haddon

Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.

Marion Jones

I am against performance-enhancing drugs. I have never taken them and I never will take them.

Oswald Chambers

Is He going to help Himself to your life, or are you taken up with your conception of what you are going to do? God is responsible for our lives, and the one great keynote is reckless reliance upon Him.