Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Kielty

Sometimes that's a case where you might take a pitch and see if he goes 3-0, but in that situation against a guy like that, you want to try to get a fastball. He threw a good pitch to hit and I was able to capitalize on it.

Jamie White

It was the only neighborhood around that was targeted. That in itself would say it's only against that area.

Bill Snyder

It was the worst quarter of the year for us. But that was the best team we've played. I think a lot of it had to do with them, not my coaching. We played well enough to still be around. We made a lot of uncharacteristic mistakes, like dribbling into the corner against a double team.

Joe Rodriguez

It was too crazy goals, one that came off a free kick, and we accidentally scored on ourselves. They never really broke our defense. Both goals were kind of a fluke. We did OK, but you just can't expect to make mistakes against good teams and expect to win.

Kyle Gordon

It was the second quarter that killed us. Without that one period, we played a pretty decent game against a good team.

Cooper Farris

It was the same thing against Co-Lin as it was with Jones. We can't play consistent enough to win two in a row. We didn't play well. We'll need to against Pearl River.

Kyle Kinchen

It was there, and I did. It won me the match. I was so happy to get a chance at my revenge against him.

Ayumi Onodera

It was unbelievable for me to win against Canada at the Olympic Games.

Anthony Becht

It was two great defenses. Our offense was sparking. We felt if we didn't make mistakes, we'd have a chance. At times, we looked really good against them. But they rushed hard. We have to suck it up and block it.

Bobby Labonte

A top-five finish in the 150 is a good start. It gives us something to build on for Sunday.

Robert Kiyosaki

When President Obama speaks about raising taxes on the rich, he speaks about high-income employees and small business owners, not entrepreneurs who build big businesses.

Chuck Wilson

We'll make whatever sacrifices are necessary to build the project while maintaining appropriate learning spaces and quality controls.

John Gardner

Lenox Township has 1,300 homes right now. We think some time in the next 10 years we'll build about 4,000 homes. We should see a 400-home increase in just the next few years.

Wayne Bopp

Lehman has been working to work away from fixed-income and build up the equity business. We're seeing a payoff.

Ron Ence

Last year was our first winning record, and now we are over the hump. Now we can start to compete for a region championship. Now people are going to have to take us seriously. We are trying to get something established here, trying to get things going. Hopefully, we can build a tradition here, and this will only be the beginning.

Jonathan Papelbon

Last year was a huge stepping-stone for me. Playoff experience, starting experience, relief experience, pressure situations -- I'm just trying to build on that, just keep building and take it into this year.

Mark Bartelstein

Leaving Pittsburgh was very hard, but he felt it was a great opportunity. He's the kind of guy they want to build the program around.

Roberto Denis

Certainly, gas plants cost a lot less money to build than a coal plant.

Sam Cassell

We're just the same old Clippers. That's all we are. We're just the same old Clippers. We want teams to continue to take us lightly.

Karolyn Grimes

Life continues to be difficult. It always will be because that's just life. But I am so glad I have put some happiness into the world.

Steve Bennett

I think it's going to continue to be difficult. They won't be working together.

Eddy Curry

I think it's going to continue spreading throughout the league because what players are finding is once they try them they really work. It's not just a fashion thing.

Greg Kennett

I think it's going to be tough playing in Des Moines over the weekend because Drake has a home court advantage. We are going to continue our same strategy, which is winning the doubles point and winning down low. If we keep our course, I think we will be in good shape.

Craig Thomas

I think it's fair to say if I'm going to continue working, I can do more for Wyoming with my seniority in the Senate than as governor.

Steve Nicol

I think it's been a steady focus. So far this year we've done it, and we need to continue to do it. It's good to hear the guys think that way; that's where they want to go.

Rick Johnson

I think it's been a group effort. We've got a ways to go, but we're making strides every day. And it's been through a group effort. I think those relationships are solid, and hopefully they'll continue that way.

David Whiles

I think it's an important vehicle for them to continue to help us meet their needs in terms of system design and usability of the system.

Arthur Schopenhauer

There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.

William Shakespeare

Then love-devouring Death do what he dare.

William Shakespeare

Unsubstantial Death is amorous.

William Shakespeare

The sudden hand of Death close up mine eye!

William Shakespeare

Till our King Henry had shook hands with Death.

William Shakespeare

When Death doth close his tender dying eyes.

William Shakespeare

Where hateful Death put on his ugliest mask.

William Shakespeare

Death, not Romeo, take my maidenhead!

William Shakespeare

Crack'd in pieces by malignant Death.

Morris Gleitzman

I used to get stuck trying to find the first sentence of a story, then I realised that it was often because I didn't know what problem a character was facing in the story. As soon as I did, I could have the character trying to do something about it or have the problem whack him between the eyes.

Of all the tall tales, I think my favorite is the one about Eli Whitney and the interchangeable parts.

Bob Holthus

I'm very happy with the draw. If Lawyer Ron could win this, he'd be one of the favorites for the Kentucky Derby. It's your lifelong dream.

Mary McCarthy

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process

Mark Twain

[I] shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes. Indeed, upon second thought, I will not use it then, for it is unchristian, inelegant, and degrading--though to speak truly I do not see how house rent and taxes are going to be discussed worth a cent without it.

Marian Keyes

I am prone to despair. We are all born with a particular personality. I get afraid and then I don't want to leave the house.

Nicholas Sparks

Who did she know in Raleigh who took the time off to fix a house? Or read Whitman or Eliot, finding images in the mind, thoughts of the spirit? Or hunted dawn from the bow of a canoe? These weren't the things that drove society, but she felt they shouldn't be treated as unimportant. They made living worthwhile.

Muhammad Ali

When I beat Sonny Liston, I shocked the world. When I joined the Muslims, I shocked the world. When I beat George Forman, I shocked the world. I am from the House of Shock

Mark Hoppus

Every single day that you walk outside your house is something new and different and exciting.

Nathan Lane

I have my aluminum siding business, and that's going like a house afire.

R. C. Sproul

The house that is built upon the sand will crumble at the first sign of a windstorm.

Paul Prudhomme

I'd like to have the first restaurant that can deliver incredible quality food to your table at your house at any time-right where you live.

Alan Greenspan

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.

Blaise Pascal

We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.

Gloria Steinem

Knowing About Victoria Woodhull inspires women to be daring, outrageous and creative.

J. K. Rowling

I cared more about your happiness than your knowing the truth, more for your peace of mind than my plan, more for your life than the lives that might be lost if the plan failed. In other words I acted exactly as Voldemort expects we fools who love to act.

H. L. Mencken

One seldom discovers a true believer that is worth knowing

H. L. Mencken

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

Grace Paley

There is a long time in me between knowing and telling.

Gilbert Burnet

. . . for the most part the worst instructed, and the least knowing of any of their rank, I ever went amongst.

Jerry B. Jenkins

The most comforting feeling ever is knowing that someone truly likes your entire existence. I feel that way right now. Thank you.

Pauletta Vaughn

I feel like I've reached a milestone. This has been my passion. It's an accomplishment for me, knowing that the work I'm doing (is) going to save someone's life.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Bobby Lutz

We're a better team right now, the way we've played the last 10 games.

Bobby Lamb

We signed 23 last year, and this year we signed 12. This year we were very selective because we were looking at taking one at every position, basically.

Nikola Tesla

The last 29 days of the month are the toughest!

Rabindranath Tagore

Let this be my last word, that I trust in your love.

Octavio Dotel

What I saw today, it made me feel good. It made my work for the last nine months look good. I've been waiting for it.

David Akers

It's not going to be easy, but I think things were encouraging. It's better than what it was last Sunday, by far.

Martin Straka

If you play like that for 10 years in the NHL, there's no way you lose it in a year.

If you lose your job, your marriage and your mind all in one week, try to lose your mind first, because then the other stuff won't matter that much

Isaac Asimov

What would I do if I knew I only had six months to live? Type faster.

Jacob DiPietre

They've already been in the process of doing that for several months now.

Earl Nightingale

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Sam Mendes

You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.

Rosa Parks

I did not want to be mistreated, I did not want to be deprived of a seat that I had paid for. It was just time… there was opportunity for me to take a stand to express the way I felt about being treated in that manner. I had not planned to get arrested. I had plenty to do without having to end up in jail. But when I had to face that decision, I didn't hesitate to do so because I felt that we had endured that too long. The more we gave in, the more we complied with that kind of treatment, the more oppressive it became.

Ron Perlman

I had an opportunity to be in Frank's [Sinatra] circle, but I couldn't take advantage of it because I couldn't get over how awed I was by him. It was so uncomfortable for me because he meant so much to me, but I just couldn't be myself, so I fled rather than having those great nights hanging out.

Susan Rice

Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities.

Steve Jobs

We all have a short period of time on this earth-We probably only have the opportunity to do a few things really great and do them well. None of us has any idea how long we're going to be here nor do I, but my feeling is I've got to accomplish a lot of these things while I'm young.

Steve Case

The pace of change and the threat of disruption creates tremendous opportunities...

Sri Chinmoy

An unaspiring person always complaints. There is no end to his complaints. He bitterly complains even when the blessings of opportunity knock at his very door.

Sri Chinmoy

You fool, You have been dangling For such a long time! When will you seize the opportunity Or feel the necessity To untangle the taut knot Of your bondage-life?

Bobby Scott

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

Rick Riordan

I past another telkhine, who was so startled he dropped his Lil' Demons lunch box. I left him alive - partly because he had a cool lunch box...

Richard Branson

One day offices will be a thing of the past

Richard Branson

I think bands will actually make more money without record companies; a much bigger share of the money will go to the bands. You won't have record shops taking 40 percent of the money. You won't have record labels taking 40 percent of the money. So they don't have to sell as many albums as they used to in the past. So it's not necessarily a bad thing if record companies disappear.

Swami Vivekananda

We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into a fuller life and march beyond even their great achievements.

Swami Vivekananda

There cannot be a cause without an effect, the present must have had its cause in the past and will have its effect in the future.

Swami Vivekananda

The cause of today is the effect of the past and the cause for the future.

Tim Gunn

I have my flaws and my issues, past and present and who knows what will happen in the future. I want people to know Im vulnerable too and each one of us is.

Thor Heyerdahl

For every minute, the future is becoming the past.