Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alafair Burke

I was downright obnoxious. In second grade, we had some program where we kept a public list of all the books we read. I think it even included the number of pages. In my nerdy mind, having the longest and most impressive list was somehow going to make up for the fact that I couldn't climb a rope or do a backwards summersault in PE.

Linda Chavez

In fact, the U.S. military has bent over backwards to respect the religious beliefs of some very dangerous fanatics who want to kill us.

Scott Wilson

The city of Houston bent over backwards for these people, and I am glad we did it. But now we are absorbing some of their problems.

Robert Frost

The dog barks backwards without getting up; I can remember when he was a pup

Franklin D. Roosevelt

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Edgar Chen

The judges learned the lesson about self-representation too late. They bent over backwards for him.

John Duncan

All he has served to do by doing this in a backwards fashion is harden the U.S. administration's position,

Shawn Mendes

The first year I started hockey, I didn't know how to skate, so I got on the ice with all of the hockey players, and we were doing drills where we had to go backwards in figure eights. And I could not skate, and I just kept falling on my butt, and it was very embarrassing.

Clint Hurdle

The bigger issue is the first-pitch fastballs they are squaring up. He might have to start pitching backwards (by starting batters with breaking pitches) and doing some things different off the mound.

Bill Evans

Harrington gave us a lot of scares. He likes to cut back and he's low to the ground. We bent a few times but we didn't break, and we had a couple of goal-line stands inside the 15 that were good.

David Smith

I went to see what was going on. I seen him standing on the reef, waist deep in water. He yelled, help! then he was looking around, then bent over, look in the water, stand back up. I yelled back at him, Ed, help what?

Stephen Schwartz

If somebody was bent on using that material in a weapon, they would most likely kill themselves and their compatriots before they were ever able to use the bomb,

John Cronin

It seems that they're bent on destroying the structure of government itself,

Stuart Pearce

It's a 'suck it and see' situation with Georgios. But I think this weekend will be too soon for him. We will wait and see but he is hell bent on getting back as quick as he can.

Joseph Pilates

Americans! They want to go 600 miles an hour, and they don't know how to walk! Look at them in the street. Bent over. Coughing! Young men with gray faces! Why can't they look at the animals? Look at a cat. Look at any animal. The only animal that doesn't hold its stomach in is the pig.

Kevin Hall

There's a sense in the health and law enforcement communities that the situation, in fact, has gotten worse with time. The governor recently spent the weekend in Southwest Virginia, and a lot of folks bent his ear on the meth problem.

Ed Mitchell

The result in Idaho is that you could theoretically be a convicted cannibal and still have a hunting license. But if you are a convicted cannibal, you cannot legally own a bent BB gun in the state of Idaho.

Harry Hill

It was one of those years when God bent over and kissed California.

Sharon Osbourne

Last year I thought it was all about me actually. I thought it was all about the judges and that we could do what we wanted. But it's really not, in the big scheme of things.

Adnan Agca

The judges and prosecutors are under threat and pressure.

Jane Saville

This is more stressful in some ways. I don't want to stuff it up but at least there won't be any judges there to worry about how I'm walking or my technique.

Christopher Russell

It's like running a relay race. You're on your last leg and the judges suddenly say 'Stop.' You lose your momentum.

Lena Wosik

They really nailed her on the interview. The judges were ruthless.

Rita Johnson

It will be a nice way to fund-raise and then the judges will judge on the best-tasting chili,

John Thomas

We think it tastes good, but we don't know what the judges are going to say.

Lord Hailsham

Fortunately, Lord Chancellor, your judges do not appoint the Master of the Rolls. I do.

Granth Sahib

O Nanak, if someone judges himself, only then is he known as a real judge.

Troy Williamson

I wouldn't say frustrating. I would say more of a learning experience. I learned a lot of stuff.

Jody Conradt

Just when you think you've seen everything, you haven't. I've learned that during this season.

Tony Oller

I've learned the truth in these sayings: 'Luck is when opportunity meets preparation' and 'The right project will find you'.

Malcolm Deans

I think the lessons we learned this weekend were great, even though we didn't win.

Dick Jauron

What I learned is you better win. When you win, you're pretty smart. When you don't, you're not.

Harry Campbell

I went from summer school to merit roll. I learned that the more you do in school, the better you will be in life.

Lauren Hutton

I was making $50 a week as a house model at Christian Dior for nine months before I learned that photographic models made $50 an hour!

Angela Ruggiero

Cammi is USA Hockey, really. Every single player on our roster has learned something from Cammi Granato and she'll leave that legacy whether she's here or not.

Glenn Tilton

If there's anything I learned in 32 years in the oil business, it's not to speculate on oil prices.

Richelle Mead

You forgot my first lesson: don't hesitate.

Rob Bell

The lesson that has been hardest for me to learn: there is nothing to prove.

Rufus Wainwright

Well, my great lesson with that was I went to the same production twice - once completely high and once completely sober - and both times were equally wonderful.

Yolanda King

The best lessons, the best sermons are those that are lived.

Jay Rohr

I'm getting a lesson in post-Charley getting construction done.

Frank Robinson

It's going to be a work in progress. He got a little lesson today. We don't want to make the same kind of mistakes two or three times.

Elizabeth Taylor

I'm just an instinctive actress, I've never had a lesson in my life.

Eli Broad

You always learn lessons in business.

Randall L. Stephenson

The lesson of the Internet is that no audience is too small.

Peter Roebuck

It can be absurd, cantankerous, self-destructive and pompous, but it is never crass

Matt Bingham

His vision is impaired, and he will never be self-sufficient,

Anton LaVey

To the Maker the archetype, the self-sustainer, human interaction is usually a waste of the most precious thing in his vital existance: time.

Anton LaVey

Satanism represents a form of controlled selfishness.

Kimberly Elise

Self-esteem is such a challenging issue for young women.

Robbie Coltraine

Usually for a movie, if you want a 13-year-old, you get a 16-year-old who looks 13, because 13-year-olds dont have that level of self-awareness.

Richard Paul Evans

In your hurry to keep Christmas, you have forgotten Christmas. The truest gift of Christmas is the gift of self.

Richard Holbrooke

Know something about something. Don’t just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around.

Richard Hofstadter

To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption.