Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Walters

Katrina has blown that outreach away. This has become a powerful emotional issue - a national issue - that will severely limit Bush's future outreach efforts, because the victims in Louisiana and Mississippi have huge family networks scattered all over the country.

Casey Nicholaw

It blows me away that my parents, they really weren't much into theater, but they recognized that in me. When I think about the things they did to support that, I'm blown away.

Larry Clark

It blows his mind, my mind, his wife's mind.

Daniel Bruhl

When I went to the 'Rush' audition, I was blown away by the script. I thought it was fantastic.

David Cole

He's different than Perot and Smale because he does know the business and he's been close to it for a long, long time. Jerry is a disciplined guy. His intent is not to blow the place up.

Alan Chadwick

He's down for the year, which is a big blow to the team. We lost a great team leader. The other guys will have to step forward.

Bruce Bochy

I think it's fair to say he is one guy we can't lose, ... That would be a tremendous blow for us if we had him go down.

Avery Johnson

It didn't make any sense to blow this team up and have Dirk come back and not recognize any of his teammates.

Rafael Benitez

It is a blow to us because of the big games in Europe that we have coming up, but we have a good squad and we will have to cope without him.

Franco Carraro

Italy is seeded because it deserved it. It was a logical choice.

Terry Mannor

I'm proud of the way this team worked. They never got down and really hung together. They deserved to be in the position they are in.

Jason Muzzatti

Ah, it was crushing. We were on the way to winning, I thought we deserved to win.

Charlie Peprah

This is long deserved and we're not stopping here. This is for everybody who stayed with us.

Steven Lee

We're not frustrated with what happened because Bella Vista did win and they deserved it. All we're frustrated with is that it took so long. We got our hopes up.

Michael Boulware

Steve Smith deserves that kind of credit, and you know you have to give him that kind of respect. But we wanted to show people that we deserved to be here, that we also deserved that kind of respect. We knew we were better than what people were saying about us.

Kyle Visser

Desperation maybe. Maybe it was knowing that these seniors deserved more than that regular season that we experienced.

Jim Tressel

The No. 1 goal we had was to make sure our seniors left with a wonderful memory. It was a tough football game, but our kids deserved to win it.

Kimo Oelhoffen

That kid deserved a shot to play in this game.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

Alden Ehrenreich

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.

Chuck D.

Joey wrestled a great tournament, and we don't want him to get lost in the shuffle. He was solid all weekend.

Tim Ehresman

Joe was great tonight. He did things tonight he's been practicing all year. Come heck or high water, he was going to make it (to the regional tournament) again.

Ike Turner

Joe Louis is a great artist. He kind of helped me somewhat getting back to the blues.

Fay Vincent

John is the hero. He did a great job. Now Rose admits John was correct.

Mitchel McLaughlin

John Hume has, I think, demonstrated great sensitivity and judgment throughout this peace process. And I think it's hard to imagine a more inappropriate moment to make that suggestion.

Donnie Henderson

I think it's a great opportunity. You always want to hear your name, and now a team has actually called. It's exciting.

Greg Beratlis

I would've liked to have heard something out of his mouth. Yes, anything. A plea for his life or just his opinion on what went on over the last two years,

Mark Mandel

John is never at a loss for words. But when he heard the news, he was speechless.

Cindy Sheehan

Have you ever heard the sound of a nation-

Carl Dodd

Her mother done told her a lot of stories. My plan is to sit down and talk to her and let her know that a lot of things she heard aren't true, and let her be the judge.

Charles Smith

He said he was worried about his sister. He hadn't heard from her since the Sunday before the storm.

Kelly Williams

He's heard it from gang-bangers right in his ear when he played at Crenshaw.

The Beatles

To every word of love I heard you whisper, the raindrops seem to play a sweet refrain.

Jeff Soref

I thought this system could lead to us being re-marginalized by the party. I have seen or heard nothing since that makes me feel that is not happening.

Denise Wilson

I think it's so new that people haven't heard about it yet.

Darryl Sutter

Kipper is always one of the main reasons why we win hockey games.

Mark Richards

I think we've talked about that a lot, about the opportunity and how it's knocking at our door. There's a lot of players who played minor-league hockey for 10-15 years that never made it past the first round.

Steve Yzerman

It's true that in Canada, we pride ourselves on the game, and we like to think we're the dominant hockey nation in the world.

Wade Belak

He's one of those guys whose English gets worse every year. But as long as it doesn't affect his play, we're all right.

Kevin Smith

I liked hockey, and I still like hockey.

Kevin Bleyer

Never mind what makes Canadas constitution so special. Probably something to do with hockey, or the inalienable right to poutine, or securing the blessings of Rick Moranis.

Lester B. Pearson

This fastest of all games [hockey] has become almost as much of a national svmbol as the maple leaf.

John Tortorella

All we're looking for is just an opportunity to try to get out of this and find some way to win a hockey game.

O. Winston Link

You can show me some stick ice cream and I can tell you if it's good or not just looking at it.

Glenn Hoddle

Jody has played in a practice match and has improved,

Greg Helstrom

He just never missed anything. It starts to wear on you after awhile, but that's what you have to do in match play wear your opponent down.

Sepp Blatter

He retired because he was the victim during a match of unacceptable physical and psychological abuse.

Bruce Aidells

It has a coarse texture and a rich, beefy taste only matched by hanger steak.

Emilio Butragueno

I think this is the toughest match of the draw,

Mark Jula

We matched them hoop for hoop in the third quarter. We needed a stop and then they got some breaks.

Chris Carlisle

He has been a perfect match since he got here.

Rodney Eade

He'll probably miss this week's practice match and then he'll be fine.

Mike Hayes

In order to wrestle him (Allen) again, I have to win each match. I need to take it one match at a time.

Rick Riordan

Americans are an odd bunch, but they grow on you.

Lewis Black

I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not.

Raza Jaffrey

There isn't really a theatre culture in L.A., which is odd when there are so many brilliant actors there.

Tyler Cowen

Sports is remarkably cognitive. I think it's underrated just how smart it is. Actually, if I had more time, I would spend more time with sports. Watching it, reading about it, I think it's oddly underrated.

Jim Macaluso

It would be tough for Vegas to put odds on this thing.

Joe Hughes

That's kind of an odd statistic. You don't see that too often.

Ricky Gervais

I've probably done the odd thing. I've probably done more than I would have done and some things you don't say no to. You don't say no to working with "The Simpsons"... the greatest comedy show on television. You mustn't. Even though going to my bad judgment, I remember saying that all I can do is make this show slightly worse.

Charles Bukowski

I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers.

Stephen Jay Gould

What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering other mechanisms as adjuncts to selection's centrality.

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.

Rex Stout

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

Salman Rushdie

Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.

Salman Rushdie

An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.

Roddy Doyle

No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words.

Robert Penn Warren

You don’t choose a story, it chooses you.

Wally Lamb

I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.

Walt Disney

You'll be a poorer person all your life if you don't know some of the great stories and great poems.

Rohinton Mistry

So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different

Susie Orbach

Dare to be as physically robust and varied as you always were.