Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Rowe

He used to be bigger. It's kind of like Charles Barkley. If you can play with it, don't mess with it.

Quincy Jones

I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.

H. Hunt

He's been a great friend to the St. Charles Singers.

Robert Gottlieb

'River of Light,' to a dense but powerful score commissioned from Charles Wuorinen and with ravishing lighting by Mark Stanley, has depth and resonance.

Joe Adams

Despite his enormous success, artistically and financially, Ray Charles was a humble man,

Sandra Tsing Loh

Approaching 50, I am living a life that is less sunlit Waldman/Chabon than tattered Charles Bukowski.

Jeff Kinney

There are two ways to look at my publishing career. One is that I'm a novelist churning out books, who is eight into a series; the other way is that I'm a cartoonist, just starting out. Most cartoonists have long careers: Charles Schulz drew Peanuts for 50 years.

John Tucker

What we interpret here has a major impact on the American life we have today. We have the Constitution and Charles Pinckney, we have the Revolutionary War and Fort Moultrie and we have the Civil War here at Fort Sumter.

Mr Bush

There is a process to get Charles Taylor to the court in the Netherlands.

Ian Michaels

It's unlikely that the only part of the roadway that was damaged was that car-shaped hole.

Gore Vidal

By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America's hegemony lasted exactly five years.

Barry Gibb

Unknown to myself, I damaged all my joints.

Leigh Matthews

The poor bugger. It's been 12 months (since he initially damaged his knee).

Gregory Craig

emotionally damaged and exploited this most wonderful little boy.

Ken Bacon

This operation will continue. Nothing has damaged our resolve.

John Garamendi

The problem is hidden. It's hidden in the electronics that have been damaged with water.

Matt Mitchell

We are in the process of rebuilding structures damaged by Hurricane Dennis.

Miles Frieden

We'll go to Hemingway's house if it's available. It was damaged by one of this year's hurricanes, and I'm told it's been deteriorating for years.

Julie Chapman

Katie could also be ready to do one or two events for us at Sectionals if we qualify.

Kenny Wallace

I always do look forward to the stand-alone events,

Chip Howard

There are so many events there - the floor is put up and taken down all the time, and that shortens the shelf life quite a bit.

Melinda Gilpin

We've been very pleased with the response and interest. This is the kind of event people would want to come to.

Michel Bonnefous

What does that prove for later on? Probably not much, because now the event really starts.

Eric Howe

I think what makes a strong team is being able to have a group of girls where maybe not one of them is going to lead the all-around every single meet, but having that handful of girls like we've had this year that can really push on in a single event every meet. That's what we've been doing.

Valentino Castellani

It has been a great celebration of sports. We learned that fair play and respect for your opponents are strong values of this fantastic event that we have lived together.

Jean Brown

It is not so much what I did, but that the event was recognized.

Zhang Hao

It is hard to go from one event to the next in such a short time. But we had a nice performance today given the short practice.

Erik Engstrom

I'm obviously very disappointed. We fought really hard and we let it slip away at the end. ... Sometimes games just don't go your way.

Keenan McCardell

The first one I was real close. You've got to give Henry a lot of credit. He fought it all the way down till we were on the ground. I had it and he stuck his hand in between. He made a good play. He waited till the last minute to stick his hand through there and he got it.

Lynn Washowich

Alston is tough. I was disappointed we let them get out like that, but we fought back.

E. O. Wilson

The girls played hard. It was a well fought game.

O. Henry

The game got physical, and we had too many turnovers. But all year, our girls fought hard, and they did tonight until the very end. I was very proud of them.

Liu Xiaobo

The free world led by the U.S. fought almost all regimes that trampled on human rights.

Phyllis Miller

All Dr. King fought for is now just on paper, ... They used to use ropes to hang us. Now they use bullets.

Avery Johnson

We battled, we fought - this was a playoff atmosphere. We wish we would have been able to match their intensity down the stretch, but we didn't.

Lewis Jackson

It's really surprising how well he's playing. You see him walking, and he's walking with a limp, and you never would think that he's been able to play like he is. But he's worked his tail off and he's fought to get where he is.

Hal McRae

If somebody else tried to do what Jimmy does, they'd leave here in a straightjacket. He's different. What works for him probably wouldn't work for somebody else. He's so gifted, and that's probably made what he's going through worse.

Ron Beard

Jimmy was in the groove. He looked unstoppable.

Don Reed

Wherever you go in Montana, you are going to run into someone who knows Jimmy Dow in athletics.

Pat Burrell

Without Jimmy doing what he does, we're not where we are now. He's what makes us go. To not see that is pretty bad.

Anthony Curtis

I think it makes sense. The only thing left that's new might just be old. If you've already got an old place, you wouldn't want to tear it down and start from scratch if you didn't have to.

David Broder

He left his editor, our editor, blindsided for two years and he went out and talked disparagingly about the significance of the investigation without disclosing his role in it.

Mark Lamoreaux

There is more left in the car. That's the encouraging part. I've had a perfect car. This one isn't there yet, but it's pretty good.

Ani Difranco

we thought we left possession behindbut truth is i was yours and you were mine

John Sacchi

There aren't any soft spots left in our schedule. We need to realize that every upcoming match is going to be a brawl and we better be ready fight.

Wayne Brady

I like to be left alone when I'm not working.

Kurt Busch

Roger told me to stand on the right pedal, turn left and go fast. He doesn't want me to do anything different. Just race hard, race smart.

Bill Womack

Our left side should be really solid and we should be strong up the middle.

Brian Griese

If you look at our running game, the push that they're getting off the line of scrimmage on the left side is something we haven't had here before. It's been very impressive.

Alice Cooper

I'm on in 80 cities. Madison was the first place we went No. 1 in the ratings.

Gary Jennings

When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.

Jeff Garcia

I am going to do everything that I can to maintain my physical strength, maintain my physical conditioning. I'll even sit on my butt and throw the football, just so I can keep that motion intact.

Robert Venturi

Main Street is almost alright.

Kip Winger

Rock stardom and all that stuff like that was never like my main M.O., my main M.O. is musical growth, and if I become a rock star in the process, great!

Carlos Ghosn

Our objective is to maintain the successful momentum of the team.

Tanya Lysacek

Our main role is to be supportive caregivers and parents.

Richard Goodfellow

Our main priority is to get our staff working, and that is what we are seeking to do.

E. B. White

Our main goal, obviously, was to get sanctioned in Nevada,

Nicky Hilton

Our main demographic is 12 (years old) to 30 (years old), but I've had women in their 50s come to my signing wearing pieces from the collection.

John Mueller

His main pitch will be that you're safer with us than with the other guys.

William De Morgan

A Corpse or a Ghost- I'd sooner be one or t'other, square and fair, than a Ghost in a Corpse, which is my feelins at present.

Bruce McPherson

then we'll have to go back to square one.

William Shakespeare

Fie, fie, how frantically I square my talk!

Danny Meyer

Union Square Cafe is all soul, not brain.

Ben Okri

I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile.

Bridget Riley

I couldn’t get near what I wanted through seeing, recognizing and recreating, so I stood the problem on its head. I started studying squares, rectangles, triangles and the sensations they give rise to It is untrue that my work depends on any literary impulse or has any illustrative intention. The marks on the canvas are sole and essential agents in a series of relationships which form the structure of the painting.

Digger Phelps

The square is your friend. Behind every missed lay-up is a tale of the square neglected.

Edmund Spenser

Me seemes the world is runne quite out of square,From the first point of his appointed sourse,And being once amisse growes daily wourse and wourse.

Elbert Hubbard

You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.

Charles Fletcher

He could've won by 10 lengths if he wanted to.

Curtis White

I think we should have won by more (against Muncie Central), but we've been off (from competition) for a bit, and we're kind of rusty.

Catherine Jones

I was wondering that myself. I don't know.

Vincente Minnelli

I see wonderful films by Bertolucci, Visconti, and Fellini.

Robert Caro

As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life.

Vasily Grossman

Ivan tells Anna: "I used to imagine that being embraced by a woman . . . as something so wonderful that it would make me forget everthing . . . [But] happiness, it turns out, will be to share with you the burden I can't share with anyone else.

Walt Disney

The wonders of nature are endless...

Scott Macartney

I'm having a wonderful time. It's a wonderful experience.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

To wonder is to begin to understand.