Famous Quotes & Sayings

Xavi

I spend the entire 90 minutes looking for space on the pitch. I'm always between the opposition's two holding midfielders and thinking, 'The defence is here, so I get the ball and I go there to where the space is.'

Twyla Tharp

At the ballet classes I took when I first came to New York, I would see great dancers like Cynthia Gregory and Lupe Serrano. I would look at them and study what they could do, and what I couldn't do. And then I'd think maybe they should try what I could do.

Thierry Henry

The only thing I won't watch is darts. And I don't watch cricket. How can you like a game that requires you to take four days off work to follow a Test? And I don't really like golf. I know a lot of English footballers play, but I know that if I go with the club to play, sooner or later I will end up trying to smash the ball with my foot.

Thierry Henry

But the moment I've got a ball at my feet, I'm happy.

Imelda May

There have never been so many women in the music industry, but they're doing ballads and pop. Where's the new Joan Jetts and the Wanda Jacksons and the Debbie Harrys, all these strong women? I wanna be the woman that rocks.

William Clay Ford, Jr.

We took our eye off the ball as a company.

Steve Friedman

The only crystal ball even more difficult to read than where one's own personal situation may be is where the country is headed and what the country's economic situation will be in 20 or 30 years.

Rick Adelman

The patience at the end of the game there when Brad hit the three was terrific. We had plenty of time, we moved the ball around and they made a mistake and left Brad standing there. Then in the overtime we took control, especially when Odom fouled out.

Phillip Hilliard

The past two games we haven't been hitting the ball. He had to be (critical) ? nobody was hitting the ball. We should've hit the ball a lot better, and we weren't focused on the fundamentals.

Gina Bellman

I eat tons, three full meals a day, and I never go to the gym. When I was a child, my geography teacher said, 'You may be slim now but if you carry on eating like that, you'll end up being really fat.' Fortunately, I really don't think I've changed much in the past two decades, so that teacher was an idiot.

Wendelin Van Draanen

My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they can do anything they set their minds to.

Virginia Postrel

Fit experts envision a future in which you'd carry your body scan in your cell phone or on a thumb drive, using the data to order clothes online or find them in stores. But who's going to pay for all those scanners, which cost about $35,000 each, and the staff to run them?

Billy Graham

While I have never learned to use a computer, I am surrounded by family and friends who carry information to me from blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and various websites.

Constance Wu

I feel like I could carry a movie or a show, and I'll mess up here and there, and I'll learn from those things.

Jack Anderson

The police chief works directly for the city manager, who works for the city council, so there is a direct line between city council goals for public safety and the law enforcement and safety professionals who carry out those goals,

Jiao Yang

The police are now carrying an all-out investigation into the case. And this is only a single case.

Jorge Belevan

The pilot's skill made it possible to carry out an emergency landing and save lives.

Art Hogan

The overall passion for Internet stocks is carrying over to the index itself,

Billy Donovan

We could have had potentially seven or eight first-round draft picks in our league right now.

Roger Goodell

The draft is one of my favorite events because it is about football. People are focused on how their teams improve. It's a celebration of football. And most importantly, it represents a very important time in the lives of these men who are entering the NFL, and their families.

Brock Spack

Usually the first day of the draft is on the day of the spring game, so you miss it. But we have some equipment people keep an eye on it and they will come and let us know.

Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

In a democratic set-up, people who are being governed should also be a part of the governing system. They should be drafted into the governance.

Billy Knight

You can get booed on draft day and loved on the parade.

DeAngelo Williams

I'm staying away from the speculations. People think it's the day before the draft and I know where I'm going. I don't. I'm also not going to spend all day tomorrow speculating. I'll just get the call, and I'll probably be playing a video game or listening to the draft.

Tom Benson

We drafted Terrell Owens in the first round ... YOU hammer out his extension.

Duane Starks

We're all professionals. They went through the same draft process to get to where they are as I did, so I'm going to make plays, they're going to make plays.

Jim Knowles

We hope he gets drafted on the first day. It's great for us and the Ivy League in general.

Gianni Agnelli

And the buying of new machinery meant not only the possibility of production, but even the new technology, 'cos as I mentioned before, we were back of seven, eight years.

Bobb'e J. Thompson

I'm in the eighth grade and am not the height of the rest of my class. But I don't worry about that. I'm just me!

Barack Obama

Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.

Woody Harrelson

You know, I was on 'Cheers' for eight years, and I couldn't get another job, and I thought, 'I'm going to be Woody Boyd forever.' Which is not bad, but I really thought I was capable of more.

Steve Fisher

That was huge. We turned it over 24 times in our last game and eight times in a 10-possession stretch. Without a doubt, it makes a big, big, big difference.

Dorothy Rothschild Parker

That woman speaks eight languages and can't say no in any of them.

Jake Palluzzi

That was a huge win for us. It is nice to take some of the pressure of getting eight wins off our back. Now we just have to worry about playing well and getting healthy.

Denny Green

We could go play eight or nine more weeks. The guys have not lost their enthusiasm for playing. Some of those games we let get away, they wish we could get them back.

Jose Vidro

We can't let this go on. I know it's early. It's only eight games, but we have to make this change.

Donnie Nelson

Michael has played a huge role in rebuilding this franchise and taking it to where it is today.

Phil Jackson

We couldn't do anything better that would make this franchise better.

Bob Harlan

Those men established and raised this franchise to new heights.

Derrick Brooks

For whatever reason, as a team, we haven't been able to get it done, ... It's one of the things we talked about in training camp, doing things that this franchise has never done before.

Steve Kelley

He saved this franchise really. I think this franchise would be in L.A now if it weren't for him.

David Mott

We still have some work to do, particularly getting our influenza franchise where we want it to be.

Gary Bettman

Long term for all franchises, especially for a well-run franchise like the Avalanche, having a predictable, stable system is better.

Shane Battier

Pau played a man's game tonight. That's what a franchise player does.

Sage Rosenfels

Hopefully this will turn things around and get this franchise back to its winning ways.

Inga Cadranel

When we were growing up, we had all these crazy, in-your-face guys around the house. For us, it was like, 'Ugh! Actors again.'

Val Kilmer

I've been very fortunate and met the guys that have become, basically, philosophers and have a kind of sensibility about life that's very precious.

Chuck Palahniuk

When I first used to tour, guys would come up and say, 'Where's the fight club in my area?' and I would say, 'There isn't one.' And they'd say, 'No, no, you can tell me, you can tell me.'

will.i.am

When you think about the guys who started Twitter, and the Google guys, and the Facebook guys and the Napster guys, and the Microsoft guys, and the Dell guys and the Instagram guys, it's all guys. The girls, they're being left behind.

Alberto Martinez

The overriding theme of these numbers is that these guys are pretty much tied, and will likely stay that way for a long time.

Brian Bell

The guys in the Twins understand that the better Weezer does, the more people will probably care about us.

Wade Henderson

We have a lot of young guys who haven't jelled yet. It's tough when you lose (last year's seniors), but you have to learn to play without them.

Mark Marquess

We have a lot of young guys and we'll see where we stand.

Lindsey Hunter

We need to have our showers, there's some guys in here who should be showering more often than they are.

William Lashner

I write novels with a lawyer as the hero, no matter how oxymoronic that might sound.

Dennis Franchione

The only ranking that really matters to us is how we feel about this class, and we feel like we have another good, solid class.

Adrian Moss

The past means nothing. It really doesn't matter until you get out there and play.

Simon Cowell

The past is the past, no matter how successful it's been. For me, it's only tomorrow that's interesting.

Nick Jonas

The one mentality I've always tried to have is that no matter what stage in your career that you are in as a musician or a performer or a songwriter or whatever, there's always more to learn.

C. S. Lewis

Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior.

Cecelia Ahern

Stop and take your time to notice things and make those things you notice matter.

Bill Bryson

In three minutes, 98 percent of all the matter there is or will ever be has been produced. We have a universe

Bertrand Russell

Orthodoxy is the grave of intelligence, no matter what orthodoxy it may be.

Carrie Brownstein

Rock Band is more like Stairmaster than it is like rock 'n' roll - it's the same steps with different degrees of difficulty.

Carrie Underwood

Peace Love Rock and Roll!!!

Art Alexakis

I loved hard-rock bands, and I loved songwriters who told stories.

Art Alexakis

A lot of people do not like singer-songwriters, and a lot of people who like them do not like hard rock. It's either-or.

Bertrand Russell

When we look at a rock what we are seeing is not the rock, but the effect of the rock upon us.

Kevin Millar

You are a rock star when you play in that city.

Richard Tucker

I tease them about geezer rock and now they're seeing it themselves.

John Varvatos

When I think of artists that I would have loved to work with, it's Jimi Hendrix. And Steve McQueen. He's not a rock star, but he's kind of a rock star to me.

Bill Belichick

We executed it pretty well, ... I thought we could have done all right in the 3-4. We just got off to a rocky start.

Jan Ullrich

Today, I had trouble because it was slippery and dangerous,

Jonathan Haidt

Legalizing homosexuality is not the first step on a slippery slope to legalizing everything.

Thomas Peterffy

Never bend the rules. You bend the rules a little bit and then it's a slippery slope.

Bobb'e J. Thompson

I'm blessed, and I say it all the time that I don't take anything for granted. I studied my craft and just stick with it.

Carrie Underwood

If you stick to what you know; you sell yourself short.

Rashad Anderson

We just didn't come out and put them away. It's not easy. It sticks with you until you play again.

Zoe McLellan

I dream in numbers, and I like to look up the meaning of numbers, and numbers stick out to me.

Joey Porter

I still stick to my word: that's not smash-mouth football. We play smash-mouth football.

Ozzie Guillen

We have to stick together for when the tough times come.

Ben Wallace

We're always going to stick to our concept. There's no need to change.

Jayme Wilson

We know it?s going to be a challenge. We?re going to try to stick to what we do and give them a game.

Alan Simpson

You'd like to stick it in his gazoo.

Dan Hendricks

I think this is a very deep, talented group.

Joel Thompson

We're not the most talented squad. We have to outwork our opponent.

Thomas Needham

From what they tell me he is a smart, hardworking and talented person.

Jeff Bzdelik

I don't know that it was anything (SDSU) did that really factored into that. But they are just so much more talented than they have been in the past.

Virat Kohli

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn't mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

Ricky Woods

I think they may be the most talented team we've ever played.

Joe Girardi

He's a talented young man. You know what, he's going to make some mistakes.

Tommy Bowden

He's as talented a tight end as we've had here in a while, but doesn't understand the tempo.

Carl Taylor

He's a very talented young man. He is really the only one that does that (voice call) especially at his age.

Carrie Fisher

You know how most illnesses have symptoms you can recognize? Like fever, upset stomach, chills, whatever. Well, with manic depression, it's sexual promiscuity, excessive spending, and substance abuse - and that just sounds like a fantastic weekend in Vegas to me!

Joan Bonvicini

That week was surreal. We were numb, we made it through it.

James Blake

It doesn't get better than this, ... If every week were like this I would never retire.

Dena Crews

We're celebrating it all week here at the library.

Joe Gibbs

Two weeks in a row, he's been pretty impressive.

Mike Holmgren

I was going to come out and wing it around. It had nothing to do with the week before.

Tom Chambers

I wish we could have been there a week before,

Brian Goorjian

It could be two weeks or it could be the season.

Mike Martz

He'll be back, but whether it's this week or not I don't know.