Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gayle Lynds

For a decade, I was a stay-at-home mom. I sent my husband to his law office, sat on PTA boards and baked cookies - great cookies. All of a sudden, I had no husband, no job, few prospects, and two small children who had grown accustomed to eating.

Greg Davis

There's going to be some ups and downs. ... A couple of times they didn't play to the standard that they're accustomed to, and I think we'll see the very best of it.

Yevgeny Adamov

By 1998, the Americans got accustomed to the fact that people in Russia must listen to them and they don't have to listen to anyone here,

Antawn Jamison

We really put it upon our shoulders to come out and play well. Caron had it going early and I had it going late. Those are the things that we're accustomed to. Teams know that we're the highest-scoring trio in the league. If we're playing well, it's going to be hard to beat us.

James Olson

We had heavy-duty equipment on the site, and I'm accustomed to working around the water. We thought it was a thing we could do.

Rime Allaf

I think they're accustomed to seeing the Palestinians acting different from other Arab regimes.

Dave Marzano

John will be a great player once he gets accustomed to varsity pitching. In addition to his bat, he has a strong arm. He threw out two of four base runners in the first three games.

Andy Cerroni

We just couldn't make shots we're accustomed to making. It was disappointing for us and I know the kids were disappointed. The season ended too quickly for all of us.

Alex Gonzalez

You can get accustomed to certain balls off the bat. I had one tough ball that I'm glad I had. The more balls I get hit to me, the more comfortable I'll feel. I hope it works out, and I hope to get to a point where I'm comfortable.

Jeffrey Pfeffer

Every day, every hour, every minute, they're adjusting in real time.

Larry Potts

As far as me getting signed at my age, the chances are less than zero. But if you've got any kind of art inside of you, you have a responsibility to share it with other people. The worst thing that can happen with any artist is not to believe in what you do.

S. Walker

He's extremely mature for his age, and looks 15 or 16.

David Janollari

We were looking to cast this young witch who is about her age. She was on the list of available actors. We loved her work on '8 Simple Rules.' She was interested. It was that simple. She's young and spunky and sassy, and she will give the show another voice.

Todd Bertuzzi

We have to smarten up on situations like that. In this day and age, in this league, teams can come back. It's something we're going to have to learn.

Graham Gooch

He played like I expected him to. He's got a lot of self-belief, he's very mature for his age, he's got a good temperament which will stand him in good stead for his career.

Paul Tracy

I figure, at my age, I still have three, four, maybe five years in (Champ Car) left in me, but it could be the right time to make a change and I want to take a good look at it. I've talked with some other teams over there (in NASCAR), but Richard Childress is the only one who has stepped up and made something happen at this point.

Sasha Cohen

Ice is maintenance. When you get to be my age, with six or seven years competing at the senior level, you have to take care of your body. It's not brand new.

Catherine Hardwicke

I don't think about age. It's more about the spirit. I've known Nikki since she was five. And Nikki is a special spirit.

Claire Danes

I became very successful at a young age, ... I had lots of opportunities and lots of power and had no idea how to focus it.

O. Henry

Decisions are made on a case-by-case basis in the best interest of the individual. So we need to look at how much rugby any given player has had since the beginning of the year, the amount of contact, their position, plus any injury history.

O. Henry

The team showed a huge amount of character and heart out there. Maybe they wouldn't have handled it at other times.

Patrick Fearon

The survey for the final reading would have taken place over the past 10 days or so, when market volatility was particularly high, ... Because of that, the final reading very well could have come in below the preliminary reading. The fact it came in higher shows a certain amount of resilience in the consumer sector.

Kevin Murphy

So this wasn't just a slight stabbing, this was something with a huge amount of force put into it.

Richard Morris

(Santa Fe) started out very slow because we had a lot of new players but our fly half, Hulbert, is from New Zealand, and his experience made a tremendous amount of difference.

Robin Ross

Things are going real well for us. This will be a big weekend for us and we're hoping to sign a fair amount of players on Wednesday.

Jeff Cohen

They already feel a certain amount of responsibility for what happened to them.

Fred Hoiberg

They all say there is a small amount of risk. They have differing opinions on how much there is. They can't put a number on that risk, because nobody has ever played with my condition. At the end of the day, with the family I have, I think the smartest thing for me to do is retire.

Rich Irr

They all have the green light and know the coaching staff has a tremendous amount of confidence in everyone that was out there. Even when they're not scoring, they're playing defense.

O. Henry

prepare Christian men and women who will lead our nation and shape our culture with timeless biblical values and fidelity to the spirit of the American founding.

Jan Karon

I try to put my heart out there to everybody. They don't have to be Christian. For example, I have lots of Jewish readers. I love my Jewish readers.

C. S. Lewis

Love, in the Christian sense, does not mean an emotion. It is a state not of the feelings but of the will; that state of the will which we have naturally about ourselves, and must learn to have about other people.

C. S. Lewis

God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than of any other slackers. If you are thinking of becoming a Christian, I warn you you are embarking on something which is going to take the whole of you, brains and all ...

C. S. Lewis

God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair?

Charles R. Swindoll

People who inspire others are those who see invisible bridges at the end of dead-end streets

Charles R. Swindoll

My order of priorities reflects the level of my commitment to Christ. Whoever or whatever is in first place, if it isn't the Lord Jesus, is in the wrong place.

Desiderius Erasmus

Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians.

Conor Cruise O'Brien

Nothing does more to activate Christian divisions than talk about Christian unity.

Julian Bond

People who are poor who are living on the edge of poverty or who are living under poverty are tucked away some place else. I don't see them; they don't see me; we don't interact; we have no relation one to the other; no physical relation.

Ken Hitchcock

Goats is a very emotional player who plays on the edge, and sometimes that edge tilts.

Ray Liotta

I get up at six to work out. I've done it since school, it's always been part of my life. It's a good way to take the edge off. I like getting up early; I've got a daughter, I'm a single dad.

Jon Cox

I want to see another city. Better than DC. It?s a true edge city.

Martin Evans

I have always been interested - indeed, waylaid - by the leading edges of technology, even during my Ph.D. years when I pioneered (but did not publish) agarose gel electrophoresis for RNA fractionation. Also, much later, I was instrumental in showing that Green Fluorescent Protein and RNAi could be made to work in mammalian cells.

Michael Beasley

It was an honor to be a part of history, but honestly I don't remember all the games we've played. I do remember the trips, though, and that's what we will miss the most ? all those good times.

Leroy Franklin

These are two very big games for us. We have a young team that is really is starting to come on and we're getting better with each game.

Rien Long

These are the games d-linemen live for. We were grooving.

Jerry Stackhouse

This is starting to become who we are. We feel that we are going to win these games and have the wherewithal to sustain anything any team throws at us.

Jim Tressel

This is one of those games that I don't know that you have to worry about getting anyone's attention,

Marc Bulger

You want it to be more balanced, ... You're not going to win many games in the NFL throwing it 60 or 70 times. It might work in high school and sometimes in college, but in the NFL you've got to have a running game.

Andy Reid

You're not going to win too many games in the NFL with six turnovers. When you really get down to it today, that was the problem.

Arianna Huffington

Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.

Mark Buehrle

Ever since the All-Star break, it seems like I haven't had too many good games. It's frustrating. We've still got six games with Cleveland. And the way that they're playing, they could sweep us right now. If we keep on playing like we're playing, we're not going to the playoffs. We'll be home on Oct. 3.

Brad Little

Your keeping the rich rich and the poor poor,

George Bernard Shaw

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

Brad Ranson

I think we got the cobwebs out in the second quarter. At first, we were a little nervous. I thought the key was the second quarter, getting up by a big 10 points and just keeping the lead throughout the game.

Scott Downs

I'm just riding a wave right now. Pitching right now is fun. I'm going out there and keeping my team in the game.

Cristie Kerr

She's 16 now, so young, but she's matured quite a bit,

Jerry Hayes

We just shut down as a team, ... They got more physical and we shut down.

Joe Haldeman

I like the physical action of writing down by hand, and I don't just use it for writing my fiction.

Pete Hald

I've never had three players at the same time who can score like they do.

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Dikembe Mutombo

The NBA has more than 435 players and there are at least 100-some players doing more than expected. Shaq is doing a lot. Dwight Howard, [Manu] Ginobli. Dirk [Nowitzki] is doing a lot, and not just in Europe; he's reaching out to Africa and all other places.

Joe Legerski

We've had a lot of different players step up for us (in the post).

Jerry Angelo

To get valued players you have to be willing to give value.

Andrew Bird

I'm a terrible Scrabble player.

Russell Wilson

We were 6-4 and everybody doubted us. We lost to the Kansas City Chiefs and that week we had a players meeting and really talked about where we really want to go. It's not about the record. At the end of the day it comes down to are we going to keep focusing on each other and are we going to keep getting better day by day? We ignored the noise, we ignored all the talk from the outside.

Sparky Anderson

The players make the manager, it's never the other way.

Slash

I just play, just you know, If i just sit down with the guitar and just do whatever for, you know, an half an hour or an hour whatever. That's pretty much, that should do it for me.

English 16th Century Proverbs

A woman and a ship ever want mending.

Russ Miller

Profits are up 15%, but are premiums going down?

Carlo Ciampi

A project once seen as utopian has become reality,

Clint Zandt

A profile is an investigative tool. It is not science, it is not DNA, it is not latent fingerprints. ... It is just one more tool investigators have. But a profile does not tell you who did the crime.

Lindsey Williams

The talks have been constructive. We have had progress.

Kofi Annan

Africans are making important progress on all fronts,

Zheng Jingping

So there must be trade surplus in the processing trade.

Bob Hazel

Teachers have enough problems as it is. It's sure not positive.

Jim Soukup

The whole project should take about two weeks.

Anna Wintour

Tears? Are you going for a Barbara Walters moment?

Ambrose Bierce

PRICE, n. Value, plus a reasonable sum for the wear and tear of conscience in demanding it.

Thomas Hood

My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread.

Rip Taylor

Red Skelton... I broke into tears when I met him.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

We weep when we are born, Not when we die!

Tacitus

Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.

Mason Cooley

Tears are great peace-makers.

Bob Marley

Dry your tears, have no fears.

Benjamin Franklin

When nature gave us tears, She gave us leave to weep.

Don Cherry

I never, ever said 'don't wear a visor,'

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The key to wealth is that it doesn't matter. Once you've had it, you don't think anything of it; you can wear cheap watches.

Natalia Kills

I really can't break away from wearing black and leather!

Harry Graf Kessler

I am utterly, consummately intense, wearing sunflowers and poppies and dahlias in my buttonhole.

Bill Young

We're wearing out our troops, we're wearing out the equipment,