Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald Ray Pollock

'Knockemstiff' is a collection of short stories set in the holler of the same name in southern Ohio where I grew up. I tried to link the stories together through the place and some recurring characters.

Jim Edmonds

What we have now at the Port of Houston is a collection of docks that we operate and a variety of cargoes. At the port, there are 200 trading nations and 1,000 ports that deal with Houston.

Rick Rashid

Going forward, we plan to develop a countrywide mechanism with the Indian department of science and technology for spatial data creation, collection and dissemination that can be used for multiple applications such as disaster management.

Derrick Brooks

Going up in my collection with all my other stuff.

R. Ingram

It is a fine, well-centered collection of materials for the history of science.

Steve Lee

We are extremely proud of our collection of historical railroad equipment, which is the largest of any U. S. railroad, especially our steam locomotives.

Jean Paul Gaultier

I think that the collection is very much sophisticated and very woman. It's elegant, not at all sportswear. But it's very much like daytime, but elegant.

Patricia Stevens

I was always enthralled in Latin American art. I even got to work on a collection of Latin women self-portraits. They were so beautiful.

Melissa Peterman

I have been tossing around the idea of writing some non-fiction. Maybe a collection of short stories about my experience being a mom and how not to be perfect.

Matthew Morrison

I actually grew up break-dancing. When you break-dance you listen to hip-hop and rap, so I've been listening to that music since I was a kid.

Bill Sharpe

Guys like Greg and Rusty grew up as watermen, because their dad's one, too. And being a hot surfer was secondary to being a true waterman.

Bob DiBiasio

Hal was a real journalist. He grew up in a time when newspapers were kings and always kept the sense that the printed word was magic.

Quinton Aaron

I like to be someone else. I like to be someone other than myself. I grew up watching movies and being a fan of what I'd seen portrayed in the movies, and I always wanted to do that one day.

Laura Vandervoort

I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt.

Sean Maguire

For me, personally, I grew up watching American heroes and American movies and TV.

Stefan Edberg

I think that over the years people grew to understand what I stood for. They knew what type of player I was. I think they respected me for that.

Sue Hershey

We talked a lot about how that region grew and how students were recruited. We need to be ready to train a workforce for these jobs.

Mirek Porosa

When he settled down, his volleyball level just grew tremendously.

John McGahern

I think it's linked to the realisation that we're not going to live forever and that the way of saying and the language become more important than the story.

Jack Olsen

I think the night was a raving success. It's a tremendous opportunity for us to link the end user and the producer back together.

Gen. Hermogenes

It is presumed that they have already linked up.

Mike Williams

I think we're always going to be linked together,

Shari Brill

I think this is too new and too recent in people's memories for it to become a day that turns into that and not a day of reflection. Linking his memory to a sale would seem really ... opportunistic.

Anna Lindh

It is irresponsible to link these kind of questions.

Woody Allen

But it was I, yes I, who discovered the link between excessive masturbation and entry into politics!

Robyn Carr

I can't find a person without some link to the armed forces!

William Cowper

A tale should be judicious, clear, succinct; The language plain, and incidents well link'd; Tell not as new what ev'ry body knows; and, new or old, still hasten to a close.

Robert Pozen

I am a great believer in the OHIO principle: Only handle it once. When you read an e-mail, decide whether or not to reply to it, and, if you need to reply, do so right then and there. I have found that about 80 percent of all e-mails, whether internal or external, do not require a response.

Urban Meyer

The future is bright at Ohio State.

John Boehner

When I met Paul Ryan 22 years ago, he was a student at Miami of Ohio volunteering on my campaign.

Joe Shuster

I came from Canada when I was about 10 years old, and our family settled in Cleveland, Ohio.

Julia Cameron

And why are we supposed to be serious about God? Did God show up and crack the whip? “You there, Annie in Ohio, I see you laughing a lot and frankly it really pisses Me off . . . “ (50)

Mike DeWine

There's no typical person [addicted to heroin]. It just has permeated every segment of society in Ohio.

Mike DeWine

There is no place in Ohio where you couldn't have drugs delivered to you in 15, 20 minutes.

Mike DeWine

It's in every single county. It's in our cities but it's also in our wealthier suburbs. It's in our small towns. There is no place in Ohio where you can hide from drug epidemic .

Muhammad Ali

I came back to Louisville after the Olympics with my shiny gold medal. Went into a luncheonette where black folks couldn't eat. Thought I'd put them on the spot. I sat down and asked for a meal. The Olympic champion wearing his gold medal. They said, "We don't serve niggers here." I said, "That's okay, I don't eat 'em." But they put me out in the street. So I went down to the river, the Ohio River, and threw my gold medal in it.

Tracy Chapman

Love's a recurring theme through my work.

Gary Speed

Goal scoring is a recurring theme. If you aren't scoring then you aren't going to win games. That's obvious.

Ron Howard

We're not going to think about that at all because we've got Southern Utah to worry about.

Woodrow Wilson

The only place in the world that nothing has to be explained to me is the South.

Sarah Addison Allen

She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.

Ric Keller

Illegal immigration presents a huge problem. That is why I decided to spend a week along the southern border to see firsthand how bad the problem is and, more importantly, what Congress can do to fix it.

Willard Scott

I'm Southern Baptist, not a meteorologist.

Wilbur Smith

I am a closet birdwatcher. I can identify Southern African species, but it irks me I can barely tell a jay from a blackbird in the U.K.

Walter Scott

There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.

Yogi Berra

I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.

Vince Gill

I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.

Paul Slavin

There are stories that you don't have to be first on.

Candace Bushnell

I was a freelancer all through my twenties. I did about one story a month and I wanted to write fiction, so the stories that I would do were precursors to 'Sex and the City.'

Joe Meno

What makes my work my own is where I'm writing from. And I feel like I have a million stories to write about Chicago.

Trinny Woodall

I don't have a problem with the stories saying I'm skinny at all.

Jocelyn Moorhouse

I am interested in stories that concern women.

Richard Paul Evans

I've yet to read a love story that compares with mine.

Richard Wright

I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true [...].

Richelle Mead

But I didn't know about the other story." "What other story?” "About how you and Adrian Ivashkov are—" "No, whatever you heard it’s not true." "But it was really romantic" "Then it’s definitely not true.

Richard Bausch

A good story needs only a good storyteller.

Jonas Jennings

Have you ever tried to write with one hand?

Vernell Brown

He's got some big ones. If I was a coach, no way I'd have tried that.

Jim Gallagher

I didn't get a sense of what the temperature is on that. I tried to allay the fears, and there are significant fears.

Nate Robinson

I am going to go at him (Iverson). I am going to make him play defense. That is what I tried to do tonight.

Marc Grossman

had some questions, we tried to give some answers... it was not negotiations.

Lloyd Jones

If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded.

Michael Campbell

I just tried to give us some confidence.

Travis Garrison

I just tried to do what I could.

Kwame Brown

I just tried to play the right way.