Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Fink

We just didn't play smart in the first half. Rapids attacked the basket, and we gave them a lot of easy baskets by loosing somebody on defense.

Robert Kelly

We came out in the second half and we defended batter, our press began to wear them down. And offensively we started to run our break a lot better and we attacked the basket a lot better.

Pat Conroy

My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer. It forced me to draw some conclusions that were my own.

Matt Davenport

We had our chances and at the end, we got some goals. Marietta attacked well, and we gave Marietta too many chances. But we hung in there and scored when we needed to.

Orhan Pamuk

I have been attacked in Turkey more for my interviews than for my books. Political polemicists and columnists do not read novels there.

Andre Brown

Whoever went over there unplugged the phones and locked the door behind hisself, and then attacked my grandmother.

P. Herbert

While email DoS attacks are quite new, they are increasing and slowly making headlines. Most people think of online gambling websites when they think of targets of DoS attacks, however all businesses need to realise that they could easily be attacked through email. It's a danger facing us all.

Bill Laimbeer

You always get concerned when your team goes flat during the course of a game. But we attacked the rim, got to the free throw line and got back into the game.

Craig Kowal

We got everything going to the basket on offense. We didn't make the free throws to ice the game, but we attacked well inside and got everything in the lane.

Todd Rundgren

If bearing a reputation as a weirdo is all it takes to be a genius, I'm a shoo-in. Come to think of it, half the people I know are geniuses - the other half, peculiarly enough, idiots.

Isabella Bird

An Englishman bears with patience any ridicule which foreigners cast upon him. John Bull never laughs so loudly as when he laughs at himself; but the Americans are nationally sensitive and cannot endure that good-humoured raillery which jests at their weaknesses and foibles.

William Cavendish

The main secret for a horse that is heavy upon the hand, is for the rider to have a very light one; for when he finds nothing to bear upon with his mouth, he infallibly throws himself upon the haunches for his own security.

Ellen G. White

God's people are peculiar. Their spirit cannot mingle with the spirit and influence of the world. You do not wish to bear the Christian name and yet be unworthy of it.

Esther Rolle

I had a wonderful father, and I couldn't bear that television virtually ignored black fathers.

David A. Bednar

We should remember that bearing a heartfelt testimony is only a beginning. We need to bear testimony, we need to mean it, and most importantly we need consistently to live it. We need to both declare and live our testimonies.

Brian Bell

Truthfully, we don't want my Weezer affiliation to have any bearing on whether someone likes us or not. It's an entirely different thing. The Space Twins have our own chemistry.

John C. Calhoun

I would rather be an independent senator, governed by my own views, going for the good of the country, uncontrolled by any thing which mortal man can bring to bear upon me, than to be president of the United States, put there as presidents of the United States have been for many years past.

Ashton Kutcher

The scruffier your beard, the sharper you need to dress.

Garry Hynes

I still get called 'a stick of dynamite' or 'pint-sized dynamo,' stuff like that. Actually, I was too busy to notice there was anything unusual about being a woman director until the early 1980s, when I looked around the professional theater and realized there weren't many of us. You have to make more of a case for yourself than any man.

William Wirt

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

Wendell Mayes

We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.

Virginia Postrel

By giving unusual people an easy way to find one another, the Internet has also enabled them to pool rare talents, resources, and voices, then push their case into public consciousness. The response, in many cases, is a kind of hysteria.

Michael McLachlan

The policy language is specific and clear, and the jury verdict says that. I feel sorry for these people, I really do. This is a case we should have settled a long time ago.

Anthony Lewis

The Pentagon Papers case stands today as a barrier to silence by official edict.

Norman Ornstein

The pending complaint on DeLay was on the Texas case (over political fund raising),

John Danforth

The path is clear for us to get this case to a jury.

Dan Ravicher

The patent office's decision has no preclusive effect on a court, and there are indeed cases where the patent office made a decision in a re-examination supporting a patent and a court later looked at the same exact issue, disagreed with the PTO, and found the patent invalid.

Peter Sis

My father documented on film for the last time what Tibet looked like before the world got there.

Emmett Brown

One of the most troubling pieces of evidence (submitted by WRMA) was that 53.6 inches was at great odds with the documented information.

Deborah Nigrelli

I don't think society as a whole realizes that there are needy families in South County, that the numbers have been documented over the years. A lot of people do fall through the cracks.

John Lewis

The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobilized in over 30 states to stop it. These efforts are very partisan.

Harold Pinter

The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them.

Peter Watkins

I think it's safe to say that it's Southwest. I think it's well documented that he likes Southwest, Tex-Mex.

William Jarvis

Physicians, nurses ... have been documented repeatedly to not wash their hands properly, ... At best, it is 40 percent of the time that we recommend that they should wash their hands (that they really do).

Mark Fuhrman

I think you have to look at these cold cases. If they're done properly, if the homicides are done properly, and everything's documented properly, you have a lot of concrete statements from those people that they would be able to look at them and refresh their memory.

Bryan Cox

She later recanted. It was investigated and documented that she lied.

Giles Foden

Ordinary Kenyans rightly want to be able to shop safely, and there is a long history of them doing just that, irrespective of their religion or that of the shop owner.

Colm Meaney

It's interesting because I haven't done a lot of period work in the past, but I always wanted to because I'm interested in history.

Rick Perlstein

I'm reverent toward my sources. History is a team sport, and references are how you support your teammates.

F. Sionil Jose

My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.

Bernard Beckett

Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.

Bernard Berenson

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Antoine Rivarol

History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events.

Megan Smith

We have two boys, and one of our kids is much more interested in history and stories, so if you want him to do some calculations about lenses, you would start talking to him about Galileo... Then he would be into the lenses, but if you just start talking to him about lenses, he might not stay with you.

Scott Stossel

I've always been interested in intellectual history and in psychology, and anxiety is obviously something that's been a big part of my life.

Stephen Jones

We have visited with Mr. McVeigh. We are going to work with him today, tonight and tomorrow for the second stage on Wednesday. I can't say anything more at this time.

Marco Rubio

The second truism that we must understand is that poverty does not create our social problems, our social problems create our poverty.

Steve Schneider

You can always get to the decision-maker, but not always on the first, second or third call.

Chris Travers

I thought if we could get it down to three with 40 seconds left, we would have had a shot.

Nedim Pajevic

We had too many turnovers in the second half, and that's what killed us.

Art Briles

The quarterback part, to me, is secondary to him as a person. His background, being from West Texas, tough, unselfish, not spoiled ... he's a can't-miss guy, in my opinion.

Heidi Smith

I wish I was second because me and Dana are 1-2 at heart. But I'll take third.

Mitch Baker

I was two-tenths of a second away from going to state.

Barry Alvarez

I think I'll take a little time and go down to our place in Naples, Fla., before going back for the second semester.

Ann Patchett

Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.

Dan Fogelberg

Tennessee helps me open up. I'm much more vulnerable there, more willing to talk about anything.

Kenny Chesney

I grew up in east Tennessee, and everybody knew everybody's business.

Flannery O'Connor

Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too.

Jerry Lawler

I don't know of any wrestler who hasn't, at one time or another, been with a fan. One time I met a woman at a match in Tennessee, and afterward we went to a little roadside motel. We checked in, went to the room, and enjoyed each other for an hour or so.

Howard Baker

In Washington I'm thought of as a conservative, but in Tennessee I'm thought of as a Bolshevik.

Steve Spurrier

If you want to read about some full-blown fights, read about the Tennessee players, not our guys.

Queen Latifah

Dolly Parton made me chicken and dumplings. That Tennessee woman can burn some pots! And we know that I am not necessarily shy to a fork!