Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Rankin

The smoke was so thick it blocked out daylight.

Steve McKinney

The thing you notice about Domanick, like all great backs, when he's in there, he makes things happen. The line is blocking the same as they do with other backs, but for some reason when he's in there, you gain yards.

John Timoney

The one fortunate thing in this very tragic situation is that when it was happening, there were two officers from our SWAT unit just a block away, so they got here quite fast and were able to evacuate people from the scene,

Grant McCasland

South Plains has a talented wing in Harley but it looks like they've had other guys step up and play better for them. They're a team that can only get better. Our recipe for success no matter what is to get to the block and play inside-out.

Don Andrews

So you've got your face coming forward and his head coming back and they meet. ... It's like slamming your face into a concrete block, if the concrete block was doing 40 miles an hour back at you.

Chet Faker

Sometimes I have to deal with trolls, and I just block them. But most of the time, Twitter's heaps of fun, actually.

Tom Hayes

Now, it's a block and a half away. When you're limping, that's a long block.

Jonny Moseley

Now he's got it even worse because everybody wants a piece of him. But I think he should just block everything out, show up and finally win that thing.

Mike Cavic

No two pools are the same and at Stanford, we'll have to get used to the feeling of the starting block and what the wall looks like when we're coming in.

Jodi Picoult

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

Michelle Davis

That (penalty kick) was huge. We were very confident coming into this game and we thought it was going to be different. But it didn't happen that way.

Helen Humphreys

Our concern is that this is spring, and typically ground water and streams are recharged during the spring. Moreover, not only is precipitation down, but vegetation, which is coming out of its dormant state, will be drawing on the ground water.

Joe Hammer

People focus on the Nasdaq indices because in general they represent the kinds of companies that are coming out - younger companies,

Jamie Koch

The money this is coming from is already there. We're just honoring his contract.

Brenda Frese

Coming up to the arena, most of the players had no idea what we were doing. It showed them what we were playing for.

Rick Anderson

Coming up here, it was pretty quiet. You're just sitting there and thinking how unfair the whole situation is.

Mack Brown

Coming up here, everybody picked us to lose. Nobody gave us a chance.

O. Singh

Coming up here and trying to defend is my main priority. I like playing golf tournaments, I like winning golf tournaments and this is one of them I'd like to defend if I can.

Andy Xie

What we need to see are concrete measures aimed at getting the bureaucracy to pursue this objective, otherwise all this will be just more rhetoric.

Esther Dyson

We decided we needed to be something concrete rather than something nebulous you couldn't negotiate with. This is an interim board. Our job is to figure out how to create a permanent system with a permanent board.

Christin Baker

The United States hopes that differences can be narrowed by looking at concrete data, and moving from a theoretical discussion to real scenarios.

David Alexander

If we get concrete proof someone set out (to defraud), then we will pursue them.

Bruce Barton

I got more potholes in my concrete slab, ... than all of Venice has in their streets.

Michael Prell

Some concrete judgments have to be made. There is a long list of practical questions that need to be addressed, starting with which price index they should use, what the specific number or range should be, and to what time period it should apply.

Scott Peterson

She hit the ground so hard, she cracked the sidewalk and moved the concrete about four inches,

Hu Jintao

hoped that the Japanese side will demonstrate concrete actions, its adherence to the One-China policy and opposition to Taiwan's independence.

Jay Carson

He thinks that any ports' deal should be subject to full scrutiny and should take concrete steps to make U.S. ports safer.

H. Auden

Private faces in public places / Are wiser and nicer / Than public faces in private places.

Jose Theodore

People talk a lot about Pittsburgh, but Pittsburgh showed tonight they're really a good team. They have so many skilled players, it's scary to face them.

Fernando Ferrer

Oh, he went into the valley to do battle, and all the smart money was on Goliath. And, then, who had to face 'em?

Moises Alou

Anything can happen in the playoffs, especially when you face good pitching,

Armon Johnson

After a while, I think we got a hand in his face and cooled him down a little. But he's a great player. It's tough to stop a shooter when he gets hot like that.

J. Horton

Somebody out there knows this man. I know his face is covered, but if it were my husband and I saw him, I would still recognize his movements and his body.

C.C. Sabathia

Some people may not know us. But I guarantee you that in clubhouses around the league, they know who we are. We don't have to see our faces on TV every night. As long as we're playing in October.

Marilyn Miller

Protesting in the face of a grieving family is unacceptable.

Ted Shaw

Quite a few of the men I've recommended for release have failed, and I've had to face that.

Terrence Gabriel

The Nasdaq has at least the Microsoft report to look forward to, which should be strong.

Richard Robinson

Once you start, you'll probably be hooked. Because everyone that I know that's ever done it gets hooked, so to speak. They look forward to doing it again.

E. B. White

Once you get (a national title) once, you want to get it again. She is not the type to be satisfied. We are looking forward to the outdoor season and hopefully she can lead us and get another one.

Chris Hatcher

No two teams are ever the same. It's just the start of a new season. And as a coach, if you don't look forward to the start of a new season then you're in the wrong business.

Shawn Estes

Sometimes you want it to rain. Today wasn't one of those. I was looking forward to getting out there.

Sean Donohue

Ted remains a thriving part of United and we look forward to another great year.

Paul Tagliabue

Sometimes it seems we're taking two steps forward and one step back.

Todd Taylor

Roughly 13 million American taxpayers filed their tax returns over the Internet last year and the industry is looking forward to another year of double-digit growth.

Joe Perry

Practice has gone well and I am really looking forward to Sheffield.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of one's own

Nick Zito

It was tough yesterday. I just had to leave really early. It all just got to me with High Fly. I've got a headache right now just talking about it. But that's the way it goes.

Ayn Rand

A good quotation must be a complete entity. It must be like a headline - sharp, clear, whole.

Dan Lankheit

As I said, the head on this thing was unreal.

Bill Damude

With Hilton Head we're pretty evenly matched. All the matches are all close. It'll come down pretty much to the end.

Ledawn Gibson

You had so many doubters, all of them saying we couldn't come back. I told them (her players) to hold your head up.

Gene Upshaw

We're taking the position it will not get resolved. We're just not there yet. Today, we might as well head to an uncapped year.

J. C. Watts

We all knew what we had to do. It was just a matter of going out and doing it. We all kept our head where it was supposed to be, which was on the track.

Arthur Schopenhauer

There is something in us wiser than our head

Liu Peng

During the Games, the test laboratories will work for 24 hours a day, and all the staff are under training now.

Kate Thompson

I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of events and things and not getting work done, and it's not just a question of having hours at the desk.

Terry Mattingly

You can make a part in one hour that would have taken six hours years ago.

Kevin Smith

Every hour that he's on the loose is another hour he could hurt somebody. So we need to do everything we can to find him, and we are.

J. R. R. Tolkien

A star shone at the hour of our meeting.

Sharon Anderson

Did they ever look at why the hours weren't used?

Simon McBurney

When I was doing 'A Disappearing Number' in Plymouth, we had to go on an hour and a half late, and I still hadn't written an end, so we had to make one up, and then we had to go out literally with our pants round our ankles.

Gregory Olsen

We did antigravity training in weightless chambers, tested for space suit leaks. We spent nearly six hours a day at a time inside the shuttle, training.

Elizabeth Lewis

This was the only hurricane where we had less than 24 hours notice it was going to hit,

Dennis Smith

The smoke could be seen from miles away.

Dr. Shannon

These are two very, very important milestones as we progress.

Jason Biggs

Anyone wanna buy my Malaysian Airlines frequent flier miles?

Bill Sadler

Don't think of it as 60 miles a day.

Greg Edwards

Every 100 miles you go, you've got a new arena, ... Everybody's got one.

Kenneth Blackwell

We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio.

Thomas Haden Church

And there have certainly been movies I wanted to be in and milestones I wanted to surpass that did not happen.

Bruce Donald

Seventeen miles of the proposed 25 miles of the greenway are completed.

Mark Calcavecchia

Obviously, money is not an issue. They don't need the money, which is nice to be in that position. But it's just golf, you know? It's not a marathon. It's not the Ironman out here, swim 26 miles or something. It's just golf. Take next month off.