Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Bochy

I've touched base with him just to make sure he is ahead of schedule at this point. He's fully aware of how important it is for him to be in a little better shape to start out spring training than what he's probably accustomed to.

Farris Lowery

That swing at the end of the first half was an example of something happening that we're not accustomed to. We're usually pretty good in that situation ... but not that time.

Gayle Lynds

For a decade, I was a stay-at-home mom. I sent my husband to his law office, sat on PTA boards and baked cookies - great cookies. All of a sudden, I had no husband, no job, few prospects, and two small children who had grown accustomed to eating.

Dan Burton

Due to the unrelenting 'self-promoting' actions of the committee's investigative coordinator, I have been unable to implement the standards of professional conduct I have been accustomed to at the United States attorney's office,

Jeremy Foley

First of all, Urban has brought together a fan base that was fractured. We were not having as much success as we were accustomed to, and here in Gator Nation people expect us to be successful. People look at Urban, look at his record, and they like what they see.

Antonya Nelson

Empathy is not as complicated when you have some aspects in common with your character; it's not impossible to know someone who's like you in many ways but different in one. This is true especially if you are a reader. Reading makes you accustomed to inhabiting other lives and sensibilities.

Frank Robinson

Brooks never impressed me because you were accustomed to him making the plays. This kid reminds me a lot of Brooks on those plays. Brooks owned those things. Brooks was very good on those slow rollers coming in.

John Battelle

Bitcoin woke us all up to a new way to pay, and culturally, I think a much larger percentage of us have become accustomed to the idea that money no longer comes with the friction it once had.

Barry Sternlicht

There has to be a way to live the life you're accustomed to and not sacrifice things. Americans are not very good about sacrificing.

Ron Polk

We had a lot of depth then, when Brooks was cut. Plus, he's gotten better. He's very good defensively. He's paid his dues.

Richard Courtney

Her first commitment is to Donald Trump , but her second commitment (is) writing songs for Garth Brooks .

Ricky Ray

I'm going to give Brooks a call this week and wish him good luck,

Laura Bell Bundy

Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood... and I've followed it ever since.

Robert Frost

This as it will be seen is other far / Than with brooks taken otherwhere in song. / We love the things we love for what they are.

Derek Blasberg

I used to sleep in the T-shirt I wore during the day and whatever ratty old gym shorts I could find on the floor. But one year for Christmas, someone gave me a very chic, comfortable pair of pajamas from Brooks Brothers, and I realized the error of my ways.

Peter V. Brett

Tolkien is considered the grandfather of fantasy and, for me, I consider myself the grandson, with Terry Brooks as the kind of crazy uncle of fantasy, being the one who brought me into it.

Jodi Picoult

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

Michelle Davis

That (penalty kick) was huge. We were very confident coming into this game and we thought it was going to be different. But it didn't happen that way.

Helen Humphreys

Our concern is that this is spring, and typically ground water and streams are recharged during the spring. Moreover, not only is precipitation down, but vegetation, which is coming out of its dormant state, will be drawing on the ground water.

Joe Hammer

People focus on the Nasdaq indices because in general they represent the kinds of companies that are coming out - younger companies,

Jamie Koch

The money this is coming from is already there. We're just honoring his contract.

Salomon Torres

The momentum of the game, I liked it, ... Because even though we were losing, it was coming in our favor. The guys never stopped fighting.

Condoleezza Rice

The moment of truth is coming here, ... and it's time for the co-sponsors to get together and discuss it.

Ronnie Wood

During the Eighties, when I was hurting for money, I thought, 'Hang on a minute - I can paint.' I was living in New York and I thought it would get the grocery money coming in, and it escalated from there.

Tim Bajarin

Dell is notorious for taking a wait-and-see approach, and then, if something catches on, coming in and dominating it.

Kirk Kaczor

Any time a team shows frustration it makes you feel good because you know you're doing your job.

Richard Hyman

Any idiot can amass intelligence. It is being able to leverage that knowledge. They are good at that.

Henry Stern

Any hill is a good hill, just watch out for rocks.

Raymond E. Feist

Any good story can galvanize a person, make him/her think about things a different way, reassess their own motives and needs, but that's never my intent. That's an unintended consequence of me just trying to entertain, to write what we used to call 'ripping yarns.'

Chevy Chase

Any good actor has to have a good sense of humour, too; they have to be able to manipulate people.

James Hogg

A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart - better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?

Vic Rimmer

Ashdown did a good job of maintaining what they had.

Terry Stotts

As good as we were in Seattle over that five-year period, and that five-year period was as good a five-year period as there had been in the history of the league, I don't know if we had a 14-game winning streak.

Greg Zipadelli

As good as we've been in the past, we've never been as good as this.

Ryan Giggs

Some said he had too much influence, but I don't agree. He impressed me from the start.

Tim Sheldon

I've been trying to get them to play with a little heart. We've been in this situation before and we've let down. They impressed me today.

Asa Dotzler

We're very impressed with the videos that have been contributed so far.

Sakie Yokota

I was impressed that they seriously listened to each of our comments.

Eric Puma

I was impressed by the way we started and how we learned to keep and protect a lead. We haven't had to do that before today and they did a nice job getting the lead and keeping it.

Al Hammell

I was impressed by how well our players interacted.

Jim Oberdorf

She should be very good. She impressed me last year.

Sidney Blumenthal

Sidney did more than fine. Everyone is impressed at how Sidney stayed low key.

Sue Peet

She really impressed me as our captain. She really stepped up and made everyone feel okay. She didn't show disappointment (after losing in the finals) and she let her teammates know how proud she was of them.

Brian Jacques

Any time I go into anything like this, I make sure, before I ever put pen to paper, that I've got the say, ... If you don't, it's like putting your kid in an orphanage.

Rodman Philbrick

As a young, ambitious novelist, writing for kids never crossed my mind.

Robyn Hitchcock

As an amorphous, shapeless kid that wanted to be a singer but didn't know how you went about it, that seemed like a starting place.

Ron Scott

As a kindergarten teacher, I feel secure having her here. These kids are young, and they rely on her.

Michael Clarke

A year ago, we saw what that kid could do when he got in a groove. He put on a nice show out there in muddy conditions.

Charles Coe

Randolph has come up big last two weeks. He's a strong kid and deceptively fast.

Jeff Boogaart

Ramsey has a 6-8 kid and two quick guards. They played us tough and they've got some kids who take up a lot of space in the middle.

Al Martin

People up here liked the quieter versions. But kids would like the rock 'n' roll version.

Harold Chitwood

Our shots would not go down and we were down by 10 at the half. In the second half, they were too much for us. They were quicker than us and they had a lot of kids to keep running at us.

Daniel Petrocelli

I would have never owned those ugly-ass shoes.

Frank Hamblen

If I owned a team or was in charge, I'd want Phil Jackson, also.

John Scalzi

Reddit is not a public utility or a public square; it's a privately owned space on the Internet.

Byron Dorgan

I know of no concessions (the Chinese) have owned up to.

Todd Tate

They pretty much did whatever they wanted to do. They owned us on the glass.

Gene Kitts

That's why this is such a slow process.

Bob Johnson

(Brady) really wanted to play a slow tempo. But we got some steals and were able to up the tempo (after the first quarter).

David Snowdon

We can't do anything today to slow down the development of Alzheimer's lesions, ... we can do something about strokes.

Jeff Johnson

I have to tell her to slow down sometimes.

Jason Guffey

I?m disappointed because I wanted to win the match, but it?s just going to make me work harder. I can?t let this slow me down at all.

Rosie Jones

I'm going to go out slower than I anticipated.

Michael Apted

It's still the same job, the same anxieties, but it did feel a lot different, that kind of budget, that schedule, and frankly, the slowness of it all, and also having a lot of other units working.

Eric Turner

Summer is the slower part of the year, so we have (fewer) openings.

Julian Casablancas

I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising.