Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Litchfield

We're in a playoff situation, and we had to win this game. We didn't win, and we go home.

Rick Carlisle

We're in a must-win situation every night. We have to win games. It's important to be a playoff team. We have a string of years and we want to keep that going.

John LaFontaine

We want to play (tonight) as if it's a playoff game.

Alan Trammel

This is a big win for the playoff situation,

Ron Gardenhire

It really was a playoff atmosphere. I'm sweating, and it wasn't even that hot.

Eric Miles

This is what the playoffs are all about.

Rasheed Wallace

It wasn't no statement. It was just another game. Statements aren't to be made until playoff time.

Kevin Foley

Any playoff your going to be nervous. But I had time to get settled down and get focused.

Sarunas Jasikevicius

Sometimes we are very good, and other times we are very bad. Hopefully, we can get in the playoffs and do well.

Charles Dickens

He lived in chambers that had once belonged to his deceased partner. They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering pile of building up a yard, where it had so little business to be, that one could scarcely help fancying it must have run there when it was a young house, playing at hide-and-seek with other houses, and forgotten the way out again.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.

Charles Caleb Colton

When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so. He that stops first, views as from a fixed point the horrible extravagance that transports the rest.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some men are very entertaining for a first interview, but after that they are exhausted, and run out; on a second meeting we shall find them flat and monotonous; like hand-organs, we have heard all their tunes.

Charles Dickens

He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.

Charles Dickens

I took a good deal o' pains with his eddication, sir; let him run in the streets when he was very young, and shift for hisself. It's the only way to make a boy sharp, sir.

Charles Stross

My gut feeling is that SF as we know it today is actually a heavily propagandized field that grew out of a specific set of cultural trends running in the USA and Europe between 1918 and 1950, during the post-imperial modernization period.

Charles Stross

Humans are not as unsophisticated as mulch wrigglers, they can see the writing on the wall. Is it any surprise, that among the ones who look outward, the real debate is not over whether to run, but over how far and how fast?

Charles Stross

Experiments in digitizing and running neural wetware under emulation are well established; some radical libertarians claim that, as the technology matures, death with its draconian curtailment of property and voting rights will become the biggest civil rights issue of all.

Kurt Tsue

The surf spots are still not deemed safe.

Denny Green

Some spots you have to be a starter or it doesn't work,

James Lind

They all in general had putrid gums, the spots and lassitude, with weakness of their knees.

Archibald MacLeish

History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can't be heard.

Ben Gibbard

I've always had a soft spot for Phil Collins. He's a great vocalist.

Brad Thor

There are writers who go their whole lives and never hit that No. 1 spot.

Bruce Montgomery

Different VCs have different sweet spots for where they want to invest.

Neil Diamond

I'm not really comfortable in any one spot.

Mark Twain

I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.

Wendy Palmer

It stands for the big three in my life. God, me and family.

Joan Maloney

It stands for a time, not a place.

Dale Tea

As it stands now, I don't know what it means.

Robert Lansing

I wanted to be that cranky old guy that stands on his porch and yells at the neighborhood kids.

Michael Waltrip

I've been doing this for a long time. Bill's won races, and I just like what he stands for and how he conducts business.

Aubrey de Vere

Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.

Jim Hawkins

For writing style and pace, your work stands alone.

Clem Metz

She just stands there -- like some employees.

Robert Mueller

I will tell you we have no one person, specifically, that stands out at this juncture.

Herman Edwards

They said 2-5 teams don't make the playoffs, either, but we did it,

Mike Berg

They're one of the top two or three teams in the state, without a doubt.

Patrick Sparks

We play two top-10 teams (this) week. It's in our hands.

Camelia Sams

We play a lot of tough teams out of the district. It's tough, but we need the practice.

Richard Jefferson

Our expectations are high. But we're just like a lot of teams at this time of the year. We're going to try to win 16 games.

Daniel Snyder

Some teams are contributing a little more than others. It's really a win-win situation.

Jamie Dixon

Teams lose. It's how you respond, and we've always responded well.

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

Jim Calhoun

Teams do get into ruts. (Other) teams do play defense.

Alain Prost

In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.

Chris Copeland

The three-ball is an easy shot if you're uncontested, but when they know you can shoot, it's a lot harder to get off.

Bill Wright

The other three have really made strides. They're consistently getting better.

William Shakespeare

Preferred three hours quicker over one moment late.

Agnes Varda

When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It's like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high - you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.

Chiang Kai-shek

There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Purpose, and to be thoroughly wedded to that purpose, is three quarters of salvation.

Bill Maher

Recognition is one of the three big elements of comedy.

Bill Bailey

Three blokes go into a pub. Something happens. The outcome was hilarious!!