Famous Quotes & Sayings

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Nick, on the Buchanans: ""They were careless people, Tom and Daisy -- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made

Brian Hill

Some of it was Chicago's defense and some of it was us being careless with the ball. They deserved to win. It was not one of our better efforts.

Greg Elliott

We played just hard enough to win and just careless enough to lose.

William Williams

I have had my dream -- like others -- and it has come to nothing, so that I remain now carelessly with feet planted on the ground and look up at the sky.

Daniel Briere

I never saw him. It was careless on my part, but it wasn't on purpose. Sometimes that's going to happen.

Ben Jonson

A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.

Robert Jones

As directed in a letter on March 7 demanding payment of wages, arrangements have been made to ensure that all employees are paid wages owed them.

Mirko Mikelic

People are very surprised that there is strong demand out there. There's still a strong housing market.

Eivind Reiten

Demand for energy will double in the next decade. Energy supply is fundamental to societal value.

Scott Browne

Strip away inventories and the government sector, and private-sector demand really wasn't that strong -- private-sector sales were up just 0.8 percent. We're still in a transition phase and not on a sustainable growth path yet.

Wendy Seltzer

Rather than demanding that 60 million people sharing music files turn themselves in with a so-called 'amnesty' program, the recording industry should take this opportunity to make file-sharing legal in exchange for a reasonable fee.

Joe Breschi

The schedule is the toughest we've had in years. The staff and players are excited about having six night games, as well as a number of great teams on the schedule. Each week will be demanding and our guys must be focused and prepared for each opponent.

John Pomfret

The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession.

Sushil Koirala

This is not enough, the King has not addressed the minimum demands of the seven-parties alliance.

John Coffee

This is not a populist demand for reduced compensation. This is a demand for more accountable compensation that in effect allows investors to relate pay to performance.

Carlos Casteneda

Any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you

Jane Bryant

Term rates keep dropping and dropping and dropping; it's just amazing.

Jerry Palm

Tennessee is dropping like a rock. It's looking like whichever team ends up with the higher seed (UNC or Tennessee) will end up in Greensboro with Duke.

Phil Brown

There would be no better man to replace Eriksson. Sam would have no problems dropping big-name players.

Sarah Miller

Dropping people off, picking them up, practice, school.

Victor Hugo

Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

Kelly Ryan

She wasn't stiff. She was very heavy. Very heavy. Very, very. And I remember that she, she was (a) mess, and so heavy I think I probably ended up dropping her.

Gary Hargrove

When we shut down our missing persons operation, all of a sudden here they come... dropping in all these files. Now we have to re-task people. We're trying to work it in with our regular duties.

John Brockington

Plunkett was dropping passes in between three guys; he was hitting guys falling down. . . . We were a much better team.

Bob Howell

I've been around long enough to know that football only occupies a portion of what I do in life,

Herman Edwards

It would be the first time he didn't show up for one since I've been here. The one thing about Curtis Martin, if he doesn't think he can help the football team, he won't do it. If he thinks he can help the football team then he will play.

Gianluca Vialli

You should take your time and do it now and again, like watching football

Brett Favre

Just, you never know what the next day is going to bring. That goes for football, goes for off the field, and I gave up a long time ago trying to predict the future and trying to deal with things I couldn't deal with.

Brett Favre

I've always been a Packer, always will be a Packer.

Brandon Marshall

Football is easy, it's not success. To me success is being a world changer. Football is my platform but not my purpose.

Brian Urlacher

I love football in the rain. That is what it's all about.

Brian Bosworth

If you can miss getting up in the morning and running into a wall, I miss playing football. I'll never be a frustrated athlete.

Brian Bosworth

Football is so barbaric. Sometimes I wonder what I was thinking by playing it. I feel almost like I escaped from boot camp.

Brandon Sanderson

Everyone gets scared, Princess. Even brave men sometimes run the first time they see battle. In armies, that's why there's so much training. The ones who hold aren't the courageous ones, they're the well-trained ones. We have instincts like any other animal.

Arthur Lydiard

The idea that you can't lose contact with the leaders has cut more throats than it has saved.

Arthur Lydiard

I discovered years ago that the best results in this respect could be gained by running 100 miles weekly at my near best aerobic efforts and that, supplementary to this, running as many easy miles as I could

Arthur Lydiard

When aerobic running becomes a daily habit, strength and confidence follow.

Arthur Lydiard

You must realize one thing. In every little village in the world there are great potential champions who only need motivation, development and good exercise evaluation.

Arthur Lydiard

They're very tenacious. They're dedicated. Once a woman decides she's going to do something, she'll probably stick to it. The only problem with women is if there's anything wrong with them, they won't tell you. They'll get out there and run on one leg. They don't moan and groan like a lot of men do.

Arthur Lydiard

Athletes need to enjoy their training. They don't enjoy going down to the track with a coach making them do repetitions until they're exhausted. From enjoyment comes the will to win.

Arthur Machen

Very softly, but very swiftly, Last, the man with the grey face and the staring eyes, bolted for his life, down and away from the White House. Once in the road, free from the fields and brakes, he changed his run into a walk, and he never paused or stopped, till he came with a gulp of relief into the ugly streets of the big industrial town. He made hi way to the station at once, and found that he was an hour too soon for the London express. So, there was plenty of time for breakfast; which consisted of brandy.

Aubrey McClendon

American business would be run better today if there was more alignment between CEOs' interest and the company. For example, would the financial crisis of 2008 have occurred if the CEO of Lehman and Morgan Stanley and Goldman and Citibank had to take a very small percentage of every mortgage-backed security... or every loan they made?