Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terri McColloch

We still missed too many serves and we played a little sloppy in games one and two. We played better in games three and four and there were streaks where our blocks were real good." ()

Nicholas Kristof

Most of the time in the 21st century, we dominate our surroundings: We tweak the thermostat, and the temperature falls one degree. We push a button, and Taylor Swift sings for us. It's the opposite in the wilderness, which teaches us constantly that we are not lords of the universe but rather building blocks of it.

Gregg Williams

Whether you call it a low-grade separation or a contusion, he practiced every day. He won't get treatment for it. He blocks out pain. He plays through it. It's a testament to his toughness as a football player.

Pete Foley

A couple blocks from the Olympic village they were having an exhibition for rock climbing. They're hoping to get it as an exhibition sport in the next Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

Chris Cooley

A lot of big plays happened when things broke down, ... The linemen picked up their blocks and guys got open.

Herman Frazier

A lot of times we field calls about the large blocks of tickets that are held by corporations and different people who sometimes don't come to the contests. Now they will be able to put those tickets back into the system.

Dean Sullivan

(They) got in their own vehicles and chased that car down, and caught up with it a few blocks away. Family members confronted the suspect while the mother retrieved the boy.

Jay McShann

They had the music being piped right out on the street. I'd be three or four blocks from there and I couldn't get there fast enough because I'd hear old Joe holler them words.

Bill Sammler

It's not like performing an evacuation before a hurricane. You only want to move inland two or three blocks or get up to the second story of a building.

Charles Dickens

Do you want to be a gentleman, to spite her or to gain her over? Because, if it is to spite her, I should think - but you know best - that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think - but you know best - she was not worth gaining over.

Charles Dickens

The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him.

Alain Prost

People don't understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it's wet.

Alain Prost

I don't like to go over curbs, because I don't want to be hard on the car.

Linda Gray

We want them to have exposure to females who have a career and a family. We want to let them know that you don't have to choose one or the other.

Hiltrud Breyer

We want to show the red card to forced prostitution. It has nothing to do with fair play, it's a crime.

Chris Bennett

Everything you do has to drive content, and the rest takes care of itself.

Chris Bangle

A car designer is really a sculptor.

Chris Bangle

Cars are the sculptures of our everyday lives

Denzel Washington

Every punch that's thrown is mine. Every punch that's caught, I catch....

Steve Foley

We started slow, and they caught us off-guard a lot. It was all about us turning it up and not letting them stick around because we could end up on the wrong end.

Arturo Dubois

We are a defensive team, but I guess at one point we got caught up trying to score with them.

Gilbert Arenas

When you turn on the tube you see him hitting six 3s in a game, so you know he can shoot the ball. And this was just one of those nights when he caught fire.

Heath Schroyer

We're not going to sign a post guy just because he's a post guy, ... Too many times, guys get caught up in, 'I have to have this.' You have to recruit players.

Tim Duncan

When he gets into a rhythm like that where he starts going, it's like you want to sit there and watch him play. You get caught up in what he does and that's probably the worst thing that we can do is just sit there and watch him play, but you get mesmerized by what he's doing.

Josh Fox

Watching a film should feel like you just tore a hole out of the air and the void caught fire.

Brandon Williams

We found out Wednesday. It caught us by surprise. We didn't have much time to figure out how to play without him.

Katy Perry

I pray for humility, honestly, because it's very easy to be caught up in this world.

Mike Browning

We're not going to stop Gilbert Arenas. Larry chased him around off screens and tried to contest every shot Gil took.

Dave Pinkham

We were as tired as we could be. We haven't been forced with the situation of chasing people and that's what we were doing toward the end of the game. In the first half they chased us.

Jess Sapp

(It was) so exciting. (It) makes the race even a little more exciting because you know you chased down at least three of the top riders. It makes it so much more exciting for the riders and the fans.

Jermaine Wallace

After Kerwin shot, my job was to get the rebound long. I chased it down. I shot as I fell and saw it go in.

John Rutledge

Some techs have been chased up to valuations so that no matter what they deliver, the stock performance will be disappointing.

Jeffrey Sconce

They are always terrorized and chased by sadists and psychos,

Tad Williams

Don't go out in the world and get chased by monsters and madmen. Don't make enemies.

Rodney Taylor

Courtney made some great plays for us tonight. She chased down two of them that probably prevented runs.

Bob Hartley

Tonight was not a typical Thrashers effort. We chased them all night. We didn't play our game.

Mark Fulghum

They were confronted by three men. The man was hit over the head and they were robbed.

David Horowitz

There was England. And then there was the United States. If the pacifist betrayers of the West had not been so powerful in the 1930s and Western governments had confronted Hitler early, 70 million lives would have been saved. Americans would do well to remember this now.

Sam Buell

They're going to be confronted for the first time with lots of detailed questions that they didn't face before because the questioners didn't know all the facts yet.

John Tate

Raymond had a .22-caliber rifle with him when he confronted Betancourt, and shot him.

Ken Starr

After an extensive investigation, the office produced a report that addressed the many questions that confronted the difficult issues, it laid out new evidence, and it reached a definitive conclusion.

Henry Hyde

The statute of limitations has long since passed on my youthful indiscretions. Suffice it to say, Cherie Snodgrass and I were good friends a long, long time ago. After Mr. Snodgrass confronted my wife, the friendship ended and my marriage remained intact.

Michael Leunig

Many people first encounter Jesus during childhood when they are suddenly confronted by a horrifying statue of a man nailed to a cross, and this is often a most unfortunate and repulsive beginning.

Oliver North

What I am saying to you, and you know what I'm talking about, what they are confronted with,

Nick Hornby

I'm a liberal, unrepentantly so, but I often wonder and fear what would happen if I were confronted by any of my liberal beliefs, by somebody who actually who wanted to put them into practice.

David Draiman

I would like to thank a world that never understood or accepted me, family and friends that never believed in me, and a God with one hell of a sense of humor. You have all made me what I am today. Let that weigh heavily on your consciences.

Antonio Tabucchi

I live quietly at home among my family and friends.

Luke Bracey

I've still got to go and see the world, but I will come back to Australia in the end, when I have my family, in many moons to come.

Kristinn Taylor

We are preparing for as many as 20,000 people, just to be on the safe side. People have been fired up over the past month, especially military family members, and they want to be heard.

Lisa Stanford

We are a very close-knit family. Sara was worried about her grandpa, not herself.

Joe Leveroni

We strongly oppose the pending project. Our family has lived on and ranched this property for 85 years. Our property is not for sale.

Matthew Goode

When you've got a new family, any kind of security you can have is great.

Matt Keator

When you throw in his charisma, his size and his family values, you know this kid will do whatever it takes to make it.

Nigel Barker

My favorite memory is Tomorrow. Tomorrow's family moments are what I look forward to every day. No single favorite. Just Tomorrow.

Madhur Bhandarkar

I have registered few titles like 'Bharat Bandh,' 'Calendar Girl,' 'Money Politics.' The titles just intrigued me, so I registered. I had a title, 'Jai Ho,' which I gave to Sohail Khan for his next film with Salman Khan. These are typical Madhur Bhandarkar kind of films. I may make a film or not on such titles... not sure yet.

Mark Kennedy

Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education.

Nick Offerman

There have been a few occurrences where people in restaurants have sent me a rasher of bacon, which I am not going to turn my nose up at. I never let them down.

Nnedi Okorafor

I think speculative fiction has fewer unspoken prerequisites than literary fiction for writers of color.

Nonso Anozie

'Ender's Game' is fantastic, and I've gotten to see quite a few bits, and I love the way it's turned out.

Raghav Bahl

When you start something new, you can be sure that the first few years will be full of failures and disappointments.

Joe Glenn

We're not going to reinvent the wheel. We just have to make fewer errors.

Jovon Johnson

When you run a blitz, a lot of things have to happen. It might take a few games for it to feel natural.

Ryan Gentles

We were trying to do less media and fewer big things. We could have done as much as the first album, but we just turned some down on purpose.

Nong Duc Manh

All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations.

Jim Moore

As you can imagine, it's been an ordeal for all members of the family.

Yuvraj Singh

They have become responsible and seasoned. They are senior members of the team in every way.

Mark Blondin

They had their way with our members in 2002.

Joe Mullins

This allows us to customize our services to the membership base.

Richard Grasso

This is a violation of the trust that all members have in each other here,

Rep. Baudler

They're predators, and they're predators on our most vulnerable members of society.

Larry Noble

It's a very big perk for members (of Congress) and a very big lobbying tool for companies.

Buzz Hargrove

It was a tough set of bargaining, ... To get that kind of endorsement from the membership is just exhilarating.

Charles Dickens

As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were long before the days of photographs), my first fancies regarding what they were like, were unreasonably derived from their tombstones. The shape of the letters on my father's, gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair. From the character and turn of the inscription, "Also Georgiana Wife of the Above", I drew a childish conclusion that my mother was freckled and sickly.

Charles Dickens

Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues - faith and hope.

Charles Dickens

what I want you to be - I don't mean physically but morally: you are very well physically - is a firm fellow, a fine firm fellow, with a will of your own, with resolution. with determination. with strength of character that is not to be influenced except on good reason by anybody, or by anything. That's what I want you to be. That's what your father, & your mother might both have been

Charles Dickens

The two stand in the fast-thinning throng of victims, but they speak as if they were alone. Eye to eye, voice to voice, hand to hand, heart to heart, these two children of the Universal Mother, else so wide apart and differing, have come together on the dark highway, to repair home together and to rest in her bosom.

Charles Dickens

Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred. A father, sister, and mother, were gained, and lost, in that one moment. Joy and grief were mingled in the cup; but there were no bitter tears: for even grief arose so softened, and clothed in such sweet and tender recollections, that it became a solemn pleasure, and lost all character of pain.

Charles Dickens

The evening wind made such a disturbance just now, among some tall old elm-trees at the bottom of the garden, that neither my mother nor Miss Betsey could forbear glancing that way. As the elms bent to one another, like giants who were whispering secrets, and after a few seconds of such repose, fell into a violent flurry, tossing their wild arms about, as if their late confidences were really too wicked for their peace of mind...

Charles Dickens

Now I am in the garden at the back . . . a very preserve of butterflies as I remember it, with a high fence, and a gate . . . where the fruit clusters on the trees, riper and richer than fruit has ever been since, in any other garden, and where my mother gathers some in a basket while I stand by, bolting furtive gooseberries, and trying to look unnerved.

Charles Simmons

If you would reform the world from its errors and vices, begin by enlisting the mothers.

Charles Stross

Biggest influence: my mother.

Ted White

The suspects had no idea who they were trying to rob.

Doug Tobin

The victim and the suspect did not know each other. The victim was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Gabrielle Zevin

For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'

Tom Perkins

We'll have to find some way around it. There probably is a way...I suspect something will come up.

Tom Rosenstiel

Some Americans will be curious, but I suspect most will be wary. Some will be infuriated.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other.

Robyn Regehr

I don't know if we were waiting around for the usual suspects to try and get us going or what.

Michael Boss

I would suspect we'll go out with a whimper.

Brad Bankston

I suspect this is something that will work in the future.

Roxanne Dey

He was ramming vehicles out of his way. That's how it was described to me.

Sgt. Frevola

We were having so many headlight thieves, on high-end vehicles with halogen lights.

Ray Carter

You can't get any vehicles to come into the city, and we can't get any out.