Famous Quotes & Sayings

Larry Robinson

What makes him the player that he is, ... is also a detriment too.

Chris McNeil

Our state representative has been in office for (nine) years, and we still have not gotten this roadway expanded to the detriment of all neighborhoods and businesses.

Larry Flynt

Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.

Jim Higgins

I'm feeling personally that 24-hour operation is going to be a detriment to the neighborhood.

John Moores

In such a small county, that is a great detriment to the district attorney's office.

Paul Dergarabedian

But if it's a really fine film, it won't be a detriment to its success.

Gbola Amusa

You might have less competitive intensity than you think. It will be competitive, but not to the detriment of players involved. There's room to grow for the entire business, and rising tides will lift all boats.

Arlen Specter

your adversaries to speculate on this issue to the detriment of your nomination.

Timothy Ferriss

There's an entire generation of male strength and endurance athletes, even recreational lifters, who have never gotten off the ephedrine-caffeine-aspirin stack. The process of getting off stimulants is really horrible.

Ismail Kadare

For a writer, New York works well. Literary work is very elitist. I worked two hours a day, maximum, and the time after that was very agreeable. I walked a lot with pleasure. Those two hours augmented the day. I wrote more here than in Paris, an entire chapter of a new novel.

William Cavendish

You may observe in all my lessons, that I tell you how the legs go, and those who are unacquainted with that, are entirely ignorant and work in the dark.

Walter Smith

There are people for whom Rangers Football Club is their entire way of life.

Debbie Stothard

The pattern of detaining, releasing and detaining Aung San Suu Kyi is symbolic of the one step forward, two steps back strategy the regime has perpetrated on the entire country.

David Remnick

The Cold War was wildly expensive and consumed the entire globe.

Janice Biggers

The actor was perfect. He really had Truman down. I thought the entire movie was excellent. Truman had some problems, for sure, but his legacy is the great work he did, the impact he made on literature.

Sadaharu Oh

That was the mindset of the entire team. We kept pushing hard and our players played with all their might.

Greg Dempsey

That win was huge. Not only for the football program, but for the entire school and our community.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'

Wendelin Van Draanen

Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!

Jose Diaz

The police are not very nice in Mexico. And you learn that growing up.

Sharon Doering

The patents that are expiring make up a significant portion of their results. They're not going to be one of the top growth stories -- probably only single-digit (percentage-wise) in 2000 and 2001.

Tiffany Shlain

The past year has been one of outrageous growth for the Internet, and it's not only become bigger, but better... more substantial and more mature.

Brooke Smith

I remember seeing 'A Moon for the Misbegotten' with Colleen Dewhurst, and that made a really big impression on me, and I remember wanting to be like her and I still want to be like Colleen Dewhurst! My mom took me to a lot of theatre growing up, and I also remember seeing Pippin and being like, 'Wow!

C. S. Lewis

If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally.

C. S. Lewis

When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. A man does not always say to himself, "hullo! i'm growing up." It is only when he looks back that he realises what has happened and recognises it as what people call "growing up.

C. S. Lewis

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

Marty Reid

We just didn't match their intensity tonight, plain and simple.

Jaromir Jagr

We have a lot of rookies in the lineup. More than anybody, I would say. Its going to be something new for them. They have to understand that it's totally different hockey in the playoffs. Starting with the fans, the intensity of the game, every mistake counts.

Nate Meerstein

We have a lot of momentum going after this weekend. If we can just keep that going and keep our intensity high, we should be all right.

Tim Dougherty

We have to make sure our intensity level stays up and we can't take anything for granted,

Cindy Fitzgerald

We have to learn how to be on a varsity team and the intensity it brings. We?re getting there. We made progress from Monday, so that?s the positive.

Paul Pierce

We just couldn't match their intensity in the second half.

Tim Wise

We haven't played with the intensity on that end that we need. That's where we'll put our emphasis.

Erin Sullivan

We realized that we had the opportunity to win. We kept our intensity up.

Kevin Raylman

We didn't come out in the first period with the intensity that we needed.

Irving Stone

My goal always is to tell a universal story, meaning it's about a person who has an idea, a vision, a dream, an ambition to make the world somewhat less chaotic.

Wendelin Van Draanen

I write early in the morning at the computer, and people think I'm crazy, but I still use my Mac-Classic even though we have a state-of-the-art PC. There are just less distractions with the simpler machine.

Pat Craig

The police like that it's in the afternoon. They think less people will be drunk.

Phillip Neuhart

The picture is getting less and less pretty.

Winona LaDuke

Eliminating some 3600 post offices - mostly rural - will save the USPS less than seven tenths of one percent of their operating budget, but nationally, a number of tribal communities will be hit.

Joyce Cary

It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything.

Larry Colagiovanni

That was his normal route. He said he didn't like (Interstate) 95. Less traffic. Less lights.

Kati Haycock

That we have such problems is clear. The way to better results is less clear.

Porter Goss

We need to have this surveillance, and if there's a way we can do it differently in ways that are less offensive to some people, that might be a matter worth discussing.

Brad Goreski

I enjoy lifting weights, but I hate doing cardio.

Lindy Ruff

I think it would've been a very big disappointment if we didn't win. You don't know what (a loss) would've done to the psyche of a young team. But to win, that lifts everybody.

Lamar Odom

We get to have a light practice, lift a little weights, have a steak and relax a little bit.

Fred Jones

We haven't even met with lift manufacturers to know what our options are.

Stacy Pendleton

To get her back is a big lift for us.

Doug Biega

His spirits are lifted. He's got the weight of the world lifted off his shoulders.

Sherman Yellen

The people there truly love musicals. They have a passion for them that lifts everyone's spirits.

Stu Barnes

He could have sat back there and played it safe and waited and got ready for the puck. It's a play that needed to be made and he made it. That's a big lift for everybody.

B. F. Skinner

I don't know of a better way to lift a team.

Victoria Strauss

Very wonderful books might be published, and very terrible books might be published.

Herman Edwards

That was something that might not have been as special to him as it was to all of us, he's not that kind of guy. He's about the team, that's what makes him so unique.

Brad Johnson

Most communities will not have any trouble by 2008, but 2013 might be a little tougher.

Thomas Reid

might not be an appropriate place for him to stay.

Chuck Smith

Might be guilty' isn't enough. 'Possibly guilty' isn't enough. 'Probably guilty' isn't enough.

Eliot Spitzer

Who might or might not be my opponent on the other side of the aisle, I'll just wait and see how it plays out,

Eliot Spitzer

who might not understand the ways of Wall Street.

Kweisi Mfume

who might not like what we have to say.

Chris Morrison

Who knows? You don't know who you might draw.

John Bernett

We know that we have players who could be at other schools scoring 20 points. For us, we are just here to win.

Michelle Snow

We have a lot of players on this team that can make shots and when you have your veterans that are not shooting (well),

Robbie Nichols

We will recognize our players at the end of the season.

Nicole Scott

We wanted to make sure their post players didn't score a lot inside. That was important for us.

Steve Bender

We've made tremendous progress. Our inexperienced post players have come long way, and our freshmen.

Urs Linsi

We have to make sure the players don't suffer from burnout.

Bobby Cox

Usually you have two players for one position,

Rich Rodriguez

Most of our players have never been in there before.

Ron Zook

You have to do what you feel like your players do best,

Robert Mitchell

I think it smells good, like rising bread, but some don't like it,

David Talbot

EFR has incredible leverage to the rising uranium price and its projects have massive potential.

Carter G. Woodson

The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers.

Charles Caleb Colton

Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number; and not only enables us to enjoy more of existence in the same time, but increases also the measure.

Chinua Achebe

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

Charlie Munger

Those who keep learning, will keep rising in life

Ed Balls

The national deficit is not rising.

Janet Yellen

My bottom line is that monetary policy should react to rising prices for houses or other assets only insofar as they affect the central bank's goal variables - output, employment, and inflation.

Dean Koontz

In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of our lives, this place was exactly where we belonged. We were not drifting but rising, rising toward something right and of significance.

Vince Clarke

When we start to write for a new record, we never really know what we're doing. We don't come into the room with a set of ideas, but miraculously, a song comes out of it.

Carrie Fisher

I really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing.

Bill Bruford

And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.

Madonna Ciccone

I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.

Pat Nixon

I'll have to have a room of my own. Nobody could sleep with Dick. He wakes up during the night, switches on the lights, speaks into his tape recorder.

Tony Russa

I think the thing not to misunderstand is that he has not been sitting in the training room or on a bench. He's been taking 100 swings a day.

Richard Riley

little room for testing or for any slippage in their schedules.

Terrence Holt

I still have my same room over there. I can still crash.

Richard Kovalcheck

We don't have room to not be focused,

Bill O'Reilly

Tide goes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. You can't explain that. You can't explain why the tide goes in.

Bill O'Reilly

Tide comes in, tide goes out, you can't explain it!

Bayard Taylor

And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy's bonfire spread.

Austin O'Malley

Wealth is a tide which flows into one place by ebbing from another.

Anant Agarwal

Online education is like a rising tide, it's going to lift all boats,

Cormac McCarthy

It's the tide. It's the dismal tide. It's not the one thing.

Jules Verne

Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.

Pat Conroy

In families, there are no crimes beyond forgiveness.

Pat Conroy

The only word for goodness is goodness, and it is not enough.