Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Tortorella

I think it's the maturity level of our club. I think we've shown that the last little while. We've stayed with it. We haven't turned into individuals, we've just tried to keep banging away.

Etan Thomas

I'm having fun out there getting more time. Coach has more confidence in me and it's fun. I'm going to keep banging and keep playing hard.

Kathy Roberts

I heard some banging noises. I thought it was thunder and rain.

Eddie Jordan

I'm getting a lot of mail from shooting coaches around the country, ... They are banging the door down to come in and work with our guys and talk to our guys, so maybe I'm going to have to interview some people. No, I don't know. It's been our main guys missing. One game, everybody missed them. They're working on it. It's a long season and you hope that eventually we'll catch ourselves and improve.

Geraldine Brooks

I had this story that had been banging around in my head and I thought, 'I'll just see if there's anything there.' So I wrote a few chapters of the book that became 'Year of Wonders,' and lucky for me it found its readers.

Larry Bigbie

I just can't do any running, I can't do any banging around. I think it'll be an easy transition when it is time to play.

Dave Allison

The guys did a great job of keeping the puck in on that first goal. Then they kept banging away and we got rolling from there.

Brian Clark

All of a sudden I hear this banging on the wall and this voice, strange voice crying in the darkness somewhere on the 81st floor,

Drew Henson

It's not as many people as other places, but you have 20,000 people blowing their whistles and banging their drums. I've never seen anything like it.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I don't hang out with the glitteringly successful people; I hang out with people who've been friends for many years, and to some extent I feel my worldly success is a bit uncomfortable for them.

Mike Cameron

I was kind of using it as a joke. But I wanted a team with a little bit of character to it, some diversity. I wanted (the Padres) to get some young, talented athletes.

Chad Reitz

I was looking forward to the 2005 season when things fell apart. I ended up in a dispute with my sister (Chanda) and father (Les) about our race team, and we parted ways. It was a bitter ending and there are still a lot of hard feelings.

Jack Rew

Kevin knew quite a bit and he got me into more and more. I liked it and I got to be pretty decent.

John Beilein

Kevin came in here on a mission. I thought we were a little bit out of character at Pitt. We probably tried to do a little bit too much and probably didn't realize what good defense Pitt plays. We took shots we thought were good and they weren't because Pitt guards you.

Shawn Reynolds

Kent pitched a good game. His pitch count started to get high and I didn't want to kill the kid. We talked a little bit before and he was getting a little tired. We can rely on (Weaver) to close it out.

Nicole Sullivan

kick in a little bit of money for the house.

Kaley Cuoco

I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.

Jim Veltman

I wouldn't be surprised just because Brad tries to be as responsible as possible and he has a job to do and if he feels he needs to delve into this a little bit more than he has, so be it.

Jordan Metzl

Kids' bodies are different than adults', ... They have cartilage growth plates at the edge of bones that are soft and still growing.

Seth Shostak

We're not just any star stuff, most of which is humdrum hydrogen and listless helium. Our bodies include fancier ingredients like carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorous, and a few other herbs and spices.

Saint Ignatius

Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.

Raziq Bugti

There are still some bodies lying under the water but we are facing problems in retrieving them because they are traditional people who do not want unknown males to touch the bodies of their women.

Rod Smith

It is a lot of pressure, but there is pressure on all of us, and the thing is, you have to do whatever you have to do to get yourself back on the field. Sometimes, they don't have time to go and get treatment or they don't have time to do the little extra things to try and get their bodies where it needs to be. I say, 'That's your fault.' The trainers can only treat you if you are there, and if you don't let them know things are happening, you will be the one suffering in the end.

Phil Gramm

The people who are dragging American bodies (through Somalia) don't look very hungry to the people of Texas

Chad Buczek

We've been training our bodies to get ready for routines for two days and maybe even longer.

Thomas Brewer

I think we'll find some bodies in attics, where people went as the water rose,

Bob Woodruff

I think back to the tsunami, and I remember being so astonished, 2 1/2 weeks after it hit, to be standing in the capital of Indonesia and see a dead body on the ground. I never thought, never in a million years, that I would find something like that in the United States. But 10 days afterward in New Orleans, one of the great cities in America, and there were dead bodies on the ground. It's tough to have that happen in your own country.

Kevin Ford

Harris Interactive has been diligent in creating a voting panel that is balanced, statistically valid, and representative of all I-A conferences and independents.

Jiang Zemin

There are still in this world a few interest groups which always want to seek gains by creating tension here and there,

Derek Damon

His numbers speak for themselves. He hasn't let up a goal in the NCAA tournament. So obviously we are going to have to make sure we are creating a lot of traffic for him.

Lenny Klompus

The people themselves feel they are part of something and they are helping to make something and are creating the initiatives that the governor wants to do.

Stephen Allen

What I'm actually doing is proposing to invest in Indiana. I'm actually talking about creating jobs here.

Jeff Southard

What you're doing is creating an expectation in the public that you're doing something that VDOT won't be able to fulfill. You're setting VDOT up for failure. You're setting VDOT up to take the fall.

Cameron Rast

I thought we looked very sharp and started the game very quickly. We did a good job of forcing the issue and creating opportunities and we found ourselves up by three goals early. If I had to say there was one thing I feel we need to learn from this match, it is how to play with a lead. We weren't as sharp in the second half and didn't quite force our flow to the game.

Sam Smith

We may end up spending what the governor wants to spend. But if we do, we are creating a massive hole for next year.

Ronde Barber

We looked at that standard of Hardy (Nickerson) and John (Lynch) and the Rufus Porters of the world. Those guys laid the foundation of the standard that we're trying to live up to. We know we have to get back to it. It's that physical type of football. Safeties capping off piles, creating turnovers. We're getting there. We're getting there.

Paul Doughty

Knowing that I have these younger girls who are playing and getting better every game is encouraging.

Tom Renney

Kevin was fine. I thought it was more an opportunity to wake up 18 guys and get ourselves back in the hockey game by doing what we have to do in terms of managing the puck, and maybe give yourself to play 5-on-5 hockey or better.

Dion Phaneuf

I wouldn't pinpoint any one thing. I just have to play my game and I didn't do that for the first little bit.

David Ward

Jacob pitched a really good game for us today. He was throwing pretty hard. If he can keep pitching like that, we'll be in good shape.

Larry Finucane

I would say the pressure is on them (Mills). They're the #6 or #7 seed and have the game on their home court.

Rich Kaelin

Katie really looks up to some of my seniors. But that's the nice thing about softball. It's very competitive on the field, but once the game is over most of these girls are friends.

Joe Torre

Just win as many games as we can and see where that leaves us when it's over.

Jeff Ackermann

Keir Jeter played a tremendous game tonight. He was awesome.

Tom Massolio

Just the speed of the game (isn't there). We try to practice like it's a game, at the same speed. But you don't have the jitters of a game.

Ken Hill

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

Charles Warren

I was like, 'Wow,' something's going on here, ... Something good is about to happen.

Ramon Hernandez

I was looking for a fastball. I got it on the good part of the bat. It went where no one could get it.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Buck Showalter

Kenny was effective. They've seen Kenny so much. They hit some good pitches for hits. He bent, but he didn't break.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

John Crumbley

(Key West) had a tough week this week, but (starting pitcher Daniel) Foltz pitched a good game. It was good to be in this type of pressure situation.

Jim Brown

Kids today don't have any idea about these tools, or what they were used for. It a good history lesson for them.

Buck Showalter

Knuckleball guys are going to have their ups and downs. This was a down for R.A., who's had some good ones for us. We'll sit down and talk about it.

Bob Lilley

Joey and J.J. matched up well up front. We were unlucky not to get a second and third.

Patrick Sparks

Joe was in there mixing it up. That's what we needed.

Al Horford

Joe was all over the place. He was terrific.

Dave Joppie

Joe Scott, that's another quality start for him, and he got in the win column.

Bobby Bowden

Joe is not with us and that's all that I can say about it.

Phil Collen

Joe has been wanting to do this for 20 or so years,

Paul Kane

Joe Barnes was the racer. If they want to do a one year memorial, that's great, but Joe would've just wanted us to go out there and have fun.

Udonis Haslem

I threw my mouthpiece at the ground. Looking at it on TV, I could see how Joey would think I was throwing it at him.

Jeff Tedford

I was a little shocked that Joe struggled like he did,

E. Howard Hunt

I would say this in terms of my career, that my career provided me with everything that I wanted, and I think a man is fortunate if he can say that at the end of his life.

Carmelo Anthony

(Karl) just told us management had to make a decision.

David Pickering

He is the right man at the right time to take Wales forward.

Scott Cooley

He is one of the smartest managers around.

Bill Ross

He is tight with his mom. He has such an old-fashioned sense of responsibility. He is the man of the house.

Shane Victorino

He's a silent assassin. He's a big man and can be intimidating, but he's so soft-spoken. But you always know when he's around.

Rosemary Dillard

He should be murdered, killed. I mean, this man has no remorse.

Donald Wildmon

I think the man wants to be the next Fidel Castro.

Rod Thorn

I think with Dajuan, he's obviously a very talented young man,

Arnold Schwarzenegger

know that there has to be a spending limit.

Kelli O'Hara

I don't ever think about the roads I didn't take because I spend too much time thinking what's ahead. I don't go backwards.

Sam Huber

He doesn't like to run. He spends most of his time on the couch.

William S. Burroughs

If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.

Wilbur Ross

You cannot just keep borrowing more and more and keep spending more and more without eventually having a day of reckoning.

Cheryln Bennett

If you make a little money, you spend it on other things (for artwork).

David Greene

I'm trying to spend as little as possible,

Brian McBride

And, of course, I like to spend time with my wife and my two-year-old daughter.

Jim Romaniszyn

I wanted to spend more time with the kids.

Alex Villalobos

I think that if we play our style and do what we have to do and make them play our game, we'll be OK.

Ronnie Brewer

We've got to play our style of basketball. (Being physical) is not our style of basketball.

Richard Whately

Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.

Richard Whately

The first requisite of style, not only in rhetoric, but in all compositions, is perspicuity.

Toyo Ito

I will never fix my architectural style and never be satisfied with my works.

Woodrow Wilson

I must beg you to indulge me in the matter of hyphens.... You will find that I have marked out a great many in the proofs. We arein danger of Germanizing our printing by using them so much, and I have a very decided preference in the matter.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning also.

Samuel Johnson

Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected; that which elevates must always surprise.

Wallace Stevens

Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates.

Emily Lyons

I was in the right place, just at the wrong time that day.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Denny Green

J.J. is the starter. I said that a long time ago.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Leslie Cohen

I think it'll be time at the end of this year for them to go off and try something new, ... It'll be torture. It'll be torture.

Mary Lambert

I think I streaked one time when I was 16, which was scary.

Cynthia Johnson

He didn't get the time that we may feel he deserved, and he may not get it in this lifetime. But before it's all over with, he will get it.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Tony Jaa

As a director, I think it is important to keep a space between yourself and your film. It's like you are in the movie, but at the same time you are watching it from the outside.

Brad Anderson

I live in Seattle, but I never see this much traffic clustered in one place.

Moby

Traffic terrifies me.

Dick Martin

It's not like there are wrecks or anything like that. It's just that the traffic is not moving.

Bob Campbell

(Developers) don't see the traffic because it's not there yet. But it will be.

David Williams

Right now we have to do this for our residents and we have to do something to alleviate these traffic concerns.

Ryan Seacrest

What it allows me to do is . . . be the traffic cop.

Terry Pratchett

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.

Jim Struzzi

Fortunately, traffic was stopped, so no one was injured.

Jim Capaldi

Traffic was very, very free. It was great.