Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Sheffield

We got what we wanted, a contested shot at the end.

Arlen Specter

We're facing a daunting workload with a very heavy backlog of controversial and contested judicial nominees.

Kenton Paulino

It's just a fog to me right now. I'm not sure if it was contested or not. I was able to shoot it like a normal shot, though.

Dana Addis

They have been in every game except one. When Copley and Revere get together, you just throw out the records. It's always a hotly contested game.

Chris Fitz

It will be a hotly contested race, and I think the initiative will win.

London School

This is the first time we've had a good contested race in the time I've been here,

Elizabeth Price

Because it's difficult to have a career as an artist, and in every situation where it's difficult to have a career, it's even harder for women, for all the other reasons that it's harder in other fiercely contested fields.

Randy Foye

Florida did a great job finding our shooters, defending the three-point line. Every time we took a shot, they made sure it was a contested shot.

Ginger Davis

Brevard did great. It was a very hard, hotly contested event.

Colin Trevorrow

Michael Giacchino is a fiercely creative musical mind and a true 'Jurassic Park' fan.

Rebecca Ferguson

I think being a mum gives you extra qualities. I'm more feisty, fiercely protective and less selfish. The main trait I want to instill in my kids is kindness. I think it's the most important thing. If you're kind, you'll go a long way.

Katherine Paterson

Peace is not won by those who fiercely guard their differences but by those who with open minds and hearts seek out connections.

Bianca Kajlich

Too many people get married and lose themselves. You have to fiercely hold on to who you are, and you need to celebrate that in the other person because that's what made you fall in love in the first place.

Amanda Harlech

I am not good wife material because I'm fiercely independent and like to go off and do my own thing.

Don Samuel

When you tell a lie, it's always harder to remember what you said.

Holly Lisle

Writing, for all that it's harder than nursing ever was, is also more joyous and more fun and a lot less dangerous. And the major themes of my life have become the major themes of my writing, too - so it has all worked out pretty well.

Charles Grodin

Everyone is having a harder time than it appears.

Maggie Shayne

Whether labeled as such or not, I think every book I've ever written has been, more or less, a romantic suspense. I have always put tremendous effort into making each book a page turner: The harder it is for the reader to put it down, the better I've done my job.

Rob Davis

What this is all about is getting a taste of success. It doesn't matter who you beat, once you know what it takes to win, you'll work harder and that opens up other opportunities.

Freddy Sanchez

What he needed to do was to work harder than the normal person just to get back to where he needed to be. This is probably the strongest I've ever seen him.

Glen Spain

A lot of people are going to lose their jobs. It will mean ocean-catch salmon will be much harder to get. And it will be much more expensive.

Larry Terry

They know all the positions and that makes it harder for teams to know who's lining up where.

Phil Jackson

They played Kobe tough and a little harder than the refs wanted to see.

Nick Flynn

The only strategy I know of is to write every day, which I don't always do, because sometimes I just can't, for various reasons that seem out of my control.

Steve Pugliese

It seems pretty shallow, the reasons we've been given.

Herb Thomas

There's a lot of reasons not to reinvent the wheel here.

Penelope Cruz

There are roles I have said no to, but for different reasons. And, I never talk about those because I feel it's disrespectful to say, 'Oh, I said no to this project or that other project.' I'd rather talk about the ones that I said yes to and the reasons why.

Christopher Chute

It would solve a big bottleneck. One of the reasons video has always been cumbersome . . . is it requires so much storage space.

Kurt Barnard

One of the reasons why stores did not do better than they did is because there were not enough new designs, not enough new fashions.

John Grisham

One of the reasons we wanted to target Mississippi is, obviously, we are from there,

Debra Conner

One of the reasons we have been so successful as a staff is every single staff person was a volunteer before being a staff member.

Tom Davies

I think there are several reasons for that.

Steve Blake

As we put them in outlying areas, contamination has been more of a problem. We are still experimenting with different situations and locations.

Carol Majeske

It's just a stressful situation for wildlife who are already stressed out in the winter.

Joe Gibbs

It's a situation where it's tough for Tom and tough for us, ... We think the world of him.

Michael Irvin

It's a situation that is not as it seemed.

Janice Kruger

A lot of things do stay the same over the years. But there are also a lot of things that are different, and those things keep a real special situation here every year.

Bobby Bowden

They need to be in a game-like situation and play as a unit and see how they respond. Because you can't do it much in the fall.

George Hudson

It's more about the situation that the team will be in,

Kelly Holcomb

It's not my decision. You're competitive. You want to play. But you also have to know the situation and I do.

Shlomo Dror

They are going because they want to leave. The situation is dangerous.

Charles Caleb Colton

Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.

Alan Ayckbourn

If you are flattering a woman, it pays to be a little more subtle. You don't have to bother with men, they believe any compliment automatically.

Chris Abani

Your anatomy is a mystery that nobody bothers explaining to us. Even when we think we have mastered one woman's body, every body is different.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Some people ask: "Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?" Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general-but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women.

Edith Sitwell

Most women dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous reincarnation, or hope to be one in the next.

Edith Sitwell

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

Edith Sitwell

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.

Edith Wharton

Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.

Earl Wilson

To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible.