Famous Quotes & Sayings

P. Herbert

I volunteered for it; I wanted to help out any way I could. Last year we averaged 4.8 on punt returns and 19.1 on kickoffs. That's horrible. But we have worked hard on it this year, and Johnny and I are ready to go. There are no excuses this year.

Max Mayfield

The 1940s through the 1960s experienced an above-average number of major hurricanes, while the 1970s into the mid-1990s averaged fewer hurricanes.

John Pickard

I averaged about 10-15 hours of work a week, ... But it was more motivation for me to get in there and improve my work.

Tony Haynes

We've averaged 20-plus wins a year for the last five years, five straight NCAA tournaments. Kids graduate. Hey, that's a successful program.

L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

I only did about one novel a year while I was working full time, but since 1993, I've averaged two and a half books a year.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

DIE, n. The singular of ""dice."" We seldom hear the word, because there is a prohibitory proverb, ""Never say die."" At long intervals, however, some one says: ""The die is cast,"" which is not true, for it is cut. The word is found in an immortal couplet by that eminent poet and domestic economist, Senator Depew:A cube of cheese no larger than a die May bait the trap to catch a nibbling mie.

Brian Duplechain

You have to use a little more patience. You are going to be in deeper water, like on the edge of a creek channel, so you are going to have to slow down to get the bait down.

Plato

Pleasure is the bait of sin

Scott Sickau

In northeast Iowa at a small bait and tackle shop, I bought a cheap kit for $10 or $15 that had been sitting on the shelf for many years, and started using all the materials to tie flies.

John Dyer

I used to spend most of my free time on the beach playing in the rock pools, swimming, flying kites, and occasionally horse riding.

Ross Lynch

'Teen Beach Movie' was a lot of fun because we were in Puerto Rico on an island - you can't even call it work!

Edmund Hillary

Waihi Beach. It's a lovely beach, and we're right on the shore and I get a lot of pleasure out of waking up in the morning and hearing the waves roll in.

Don Rickles

No matter where you go in this world, you will always find a Jew sitting in the beach chair next to you.

Richard Brautigan

I saw thousands of pumpkins last night come floating in on the tide, bumping up against the rocks and rolling up on the beaches; it must be Halloween in the sea

Sonia Braga

People have reacted to the length of "Aquarius" in very positive ways. For example, at the beginning, you have people in a car on the beach at night. One character says, "I'm going to play you this great track." She pushes in a cassette tape, and they listen to about 45 seconds of Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust." You can actually see the pleasure registering on their faces, but it takes time, and audiences have appreciated that.

Roger Craig Smith

I smoke two cartons of unfiltered cigs and down a bottle of American rye whiskey as a warm up, generally. Then swallow beach sand and general aggregate to get some texture in the voice, followed by a stick of butter to smooth it all out. This works for me, but may not be for everyone.

Rush Limbaugh

If I lose my mind again and I tell you that I'm thinking of getting married, I want you to put me in a straight jacket and take me to the beach at high tide.

Rush Limbaugh

I don't know whether to admit it or not. You think I should tell them, Snerdley? Okay. Folks, some good friends of mine who live here in Palm Beach bought a Smart Car... and there's a picture of me in it.

Ken Simonson

Last year, 32 states and the District of Columbia were short of cement. Many will have worse shortages this year,

Trey Gowdy

I was on the campaign trail for 18 months. I never got a question about the District of Columbia in South Carolina.

Linda Hale

We had a dinner party with eight people last week. And six of the eight got lost. One ended up in Kentucky, one (group) on Columbia Parkway and another ... on the opposite side of Mount Adams.

Mikhail Youzhny

I am really happy because I finally won a tournament after two years, ... I had been playing well but, for some reason, I couldn't win a tournament.

Kiaran McLaughlin

She finished second so many times, and I'm glad she finally got a graded stakes win. She's a very good filly.

Jeff Probst

I finally met someone who could teach me about love.

Jerramy Stevens

I think so. We're finally getting that respect we've been wanting all year.

James Garner

I said, 'Well, I'll give myself five years to see if I can make a living at it.' And after five years I was 30 and I said, 'Yeah, I can go another five years on just the reputation I have now' and then I went another five, and another five, and another five, and finally -- at 50 years old -- I said 'You know, I think I have a career,'

M.I.A.

In my head, I actually think my songs are pop songs. I think, 'Damn, that's a pop song!' I can practice in front of the mirror with my hairbrush for as long as I want to. But when it finally comes out, it sounds avant-garde to people.

Chad Arko

It's nice for him to finally get rewarded.

Troy Smith

It's great that finally a single restaurant gets noticed in the D/FW area.

Abby Fennessey

It was a big relief to finally get a goal. I knew if I kept shooting something would finally go in, and I'm glad it did.

Paul Lee

Fishing is our main hobby and I think it is the only thing we are good at.

Don Stevens

We want to fish or we want to be paid not to fish.

E. M. Forster

English literature is a flying fish.

Stephen Leacock

It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.

Henry David Thoreau

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.

Eugene Field

The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away.

Ty Burrell

I got a little bit of a sense for the subculture, which is the equivalent of any subculture, really. The stakes are high, even if you live in a small town. It's like the annual bass fishing contests, or whatever it is. The stakes are always absurdly high, and this is no different. The competition at this butter carving things, from what I understand, is not that far off from what we're depicting in the movie.

Ted Williams

I object to fishing tournaments less for what they do to fish than what they do to fishermen.

John Plenke

There's a lot for people to think about. A fish is not worth risking your life for.

C. S. Lewis

Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.

Bobby Scott

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

Dennis Potter

We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there.

Eckhart Tolle

The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be...

Nat Friedman

We've really taken the product a long way in the past year,

Joe Gibbs

We wish the past two years could have been smoother.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.

Crispin Glover

In the past, I've never tried to discount or stop what people are saying because on some levels I find it interesting.

Craig Shirley

If we are to put the past on trial, where do we stop?

Michel de Montaigne

As soon as women become ours we are no longer theirs.

Kobe Bryant

The big three he took says a lot about him because he hadn't been shooting threes well all night. And he pulls up down there in the stretch, on a big possession and not only takes it but drills it.

Caron Butler

Yeah, it was ugly, but we won. We'll take it, especially after the trip we just had.