Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clyde Drexler

I was lucky. I spent almost 12 years in Portland and came to Houston for the last 3 1/2 years, which was a nice. But when you can spend your hold career with one team, that's a blessing.

Scott White

I was always amazed that he had this uncanny knack for being able to pluck a Canadian angle out of almost any overseas story. He was a very gentle man, but had a bulldog's tenacity when it came to chasing down the Canadian angle.

Robby Ginepri

I was almost there, so I feel that anyone on any given day could take out anybody.

Mark Ellis

I was almost positive it would be a one-year deal, so I was a little surprised yesterday. I'm happy.

Brian Dawkins

I was almost in tears when I walked in there and saw that I was going to be a part of that, answering the phones and hearing the joy in peoples' hearts as they were giving.

Giuliana Sgrena

kept on talking and talking, you couldn't contain him, an avalanche of friendly phrases and jokes. I finally felt an almost physical consolation, warmth that I had forgotten for some time.

Kurt Barnard

Kmart is in a condition of repair right now, ... It is almost surprising they are down only 2 percent. They have a huge amount of over-age inventory they have to unload.

Kelvin Sampson

I wouldn't pay a lot of attention to what they say. If I were putting together a 64-team (field), I think it's almost impossible to say Colorado does not deserve it.

Jack Rio

I would think it would be out of character for a guy who has been a successful coach for as long as he has. It almost sounds desperate.

David Siegel

He was a big senior person on the ski patrol there, and he was the lead avalanche forecaster for the mountain. This is a big loss for Mammoth.

Bruce Peterson

I will be vocal. I will be heard. Avalanche fans have taken it pretty personal.

Greg Johnson

There is an elevated avalanche danger, and it's going to stay that way for a little while.

John Branch

I covered hockey for a few years in the late '90s and early 2000s for the 'Colorado Springs Gazette,' and I covered the Avalanche for some of the glory years. I've done hockey off and on as a sportswriter but never played it.

Rodriguez Zapatero

In the last few days we have had a different phenomenon, an avalanche of immigrants not seen before that surely has circumstantial causes that we will combat,

Milan Kundera

Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.

Jon Ronson

The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche.

Ed Waldapfel

The Forest Service issued a 'high' avalanche warning on Tuesday. It really became hazardous conditions because we had 12 to 16 inches of new snow on top of old snow, and then we had high winds and some rain.

Rep. Joyner

This has blossomed into a really big thing because now we know it's out there. That's why you see this avalanche now to try and stop it.

Scott Fraser

He knew something about everything. He was a walking encyclopedia. You couldn't play him in Trivial Pursuit. You could only try to contain him. He had not only read about everything, he had been there.

Grant Heslov

When you look at a film like 'The Ides of March' or 'Good Night, and Good Luck' even, those are really contained pictures.

Sophie Hannah

My crime novels are highly structured. I never start out with a dead body. I start with an impossible scenario. Opening questions should be mysterious, weird, intriguing, and contain the seeds of the solution. The structure has to be meticulous - I'm a structure freak.

Ike Nwaelele

He's a good player so I just tried to get a hand up and contain him and not let him get to the lane.

Rasoul Wilson

He's a great quarterback, and we can't stop him. We were out to contain him.

Kevin Davis

He's a great player. He can be in the mid-20s and you think you've done a great job on him. He's just so smooth around the basket. I thought we had enough guys come through on the back side and give him enough trouble all night that eventually it wears on him. You're not going to stop him. You just hope you can contain him.

Kyler Hall

He's definitely a talent. He's an exciting player. If you don't contain him, he can definitely hurt you.

Sammy Knight

He's going to make some plays. That's Randy Moss. Hopefully we can contain him and we did that at the end.

Chad Brown

He's a special player. He can do things no other player can. I've actually had him come around on a reverse on me. My job is to contain him and it was a little frightening.

Kathie Lee Gifford

I felt no stigma whatsoever in becoming the third Mrs. Gifford.

Rekalin Sims

I was knocking down shots. I hit the offensive boards. I just played better. Sometimes you have good games, sometimes you don't. I just felt like my rhythm was a lot better.

Jacki Gemelos

I was in the air, and I felt a pop in my right knee.

Terri Johnson

I was interested in these two performers who felt they could do something quite symbiotic,

Damien Chazelle

I was interested in music and making movies about musicians, but my own experiences, and doing what it felt like for me to be a drummer? Nah, I wasn't interested in that.

Tom Purtzer

Kind of a disappointing finish. All in all, I felt like I played pretty solid.

Phil Jackson

Kobe fought his way through it tonight. It was one of those games where the numbers of shots he took was too high, but he thought he was going to get fouled and he took the shots because he felt the pressure on him.

Dick Franti

I would say it's been a learning process. We were somewhat inexperienced when we started the year. Simon Store was really the only guy back with a lot of experience, so I kind of felt there would be come growing pains and there have been.

Nancy Giles

I yearn for a time when we are more engaged. When Dr. King was alive, no matter how you felt about him and what he was saying, people were talking.

M. Wolfe

Kenny Smith and I started working on a grant after Ivan. We finally got it and now we are ready for the worst. We never lost water after Ivan, but it got close. It made me real nervous.

Bobby Perry

I wouldn't say it was a slump. It just was not a good period. I knew I could still do this. It was just a matter of time, even though I was wondering when that time was finally going to come again.

Chris Hill

Kelvin seems a lot more energized now. He finally got his legs back.

Mark Shrader

Jon has had that potential all year. He's finally started to shoot that way here at the end of the year.

Savas Kyriacou

I think it's a day that Toronto has finally lost its innocence. It was a tragic loss and tragic day.

Nick Licari

I think it made me realize that I just need to get back and just play the way that I was playing before and just work hard every shift. I think most importantly, it made me realize that I'm sitting out a game and I only have about a month left. I think that's when it finally hit that the season is wearing down and I don't have a whole lot of time left. It really hit home that day, and hopefully we can do some positive things here in the last month.

Kenny Chesney

I think it is important for this record to finally get out to remind people I'm not in tabloids for a living. It comes with the territory right now and I understand it, but I'm looking forward to getting back to the music, because that's what is most important and what got me here in the first place.

Paul Ryan

It also tells the American people that we're finally getting serious about saving the Social Security surplus for Social Security benefits.

Stephen J. Cannell

I finally get to the place where the book has matured in my mind and I can hardly wait to start writing it. Then I just sit down and I start. I hit the go button. I have an outline, which is 70 pages, but I don't look at it. I never have to look at it.

Nayef Rajoub

Have you forgotten that Israel is the occupying power here? Do I need to remind you of an occupying power's obligations under international law?

Don Miller

He has not forgotten how to drive. I think he's proved that to everyone this year.

Walter Benjamin

What has been forgotten.... is never something purely individual.

Wesley Clark

I've forgotten more about national security than George W. Bush will ever learn.

Robert Jordan

Caution once forgotten could be forgotten once too often.

Leo Veness

If your roots are forgotten then your fruits will rotten.

Claire Tomalin

I had forgotten until I looked up old notes that I sold the film rights of my first book, a life of Mary Wollstonecraft: there was a lunch, a contract, a small sum of money, then nothing.

Jack Keefer

I had forgotten all about it, and Greg comes into my office walking funny with this huge smile and I didn't know what was going on. Then I remembered.

John Dawson

I just wanted to come back and spend one more night, ... I know I've forgotten a lot in my time, but good memories like staying here stay with me.

Charlie MacArthur

He was a friendly kid, he was quiet, not someone you'd think would be twisted up in something like this.

Jerry York

He was a friendly guy and kind of kept to his own from what I could see.

Atharva Veda

Grief is a friendly reminder, a good task-master; even a better teacher than joy.

Tony McCoy

Horses are like people - they have different personalities. They can be nice, friendly and hard-working, or awkward, difficult and lazy. If horses were people, some would be on the dole, and others would be entrepreneurs.

Rich Falasca

He's always positive, never negative. He's just a friendly guy that we can relate to.

Juli Lax

I was a paralegal who worked in the office quite a bit. I think she just realized I was a friendly person and responsible. She thought it would be a good jump for me.

George Bernard Shaw

It is only natural that a man should have established friendly relationship with the wives of his friends, but if he is wise he quits all ideas of sex out of the question.

Russell Lynes

Clutter is what happens to things when they become useless but friendly.

Rebecca Pidgeon

Be good, kind, and friendly to the receptionist. She's had a hard day.

Lamar Butler

Just to walk in, I kept thinking about Peyton Manning throwing all those touchdowns.

Lenora Fulani

he voiced his disagreement with me, and then kept right on going.

Daniel Gomez

He use to come here once and a while, but he was a musician and you know kept pretty much to himself.

Lee Dean

He couldn't sleep, ... He kept saying, 'What should I take? What should I bring?'

Reggie Theus

He could have played last week, but I kept him out because I wanted him to be 100 percent this week.

Frank Robinson

He kept yapping at me, and I was talking at him, and he's telling me, 'No more,' but he's still yakking at me, ... I'm trying to tell him, 'You stop talking to me if I can't talk to you.'

Brad Wilkerson

He kept us off-balance. He didn't really give up too many hard-hit balls.

Marc Suyematsu

He kept us off-balance and we were never able to string together any hits.

Joel Thompson

He kept those for a reason. He showed me those for a reason.

E. Hicks

He was belted, he was injected, he had things inserted, he just had a rough time, ... What he said to us (was that) he was injected with -- he doesn't know what it was -- and he went on to say other things that were done to him, he was belted and abused, physically and verbally.

Brian Cross

He's got more speed than you think he has, and he's more physical than you think.

Clint Hurdle

He's healthy, which is saying a lot. Physically and mentally, he's in a better position than he has been in for a long time.

Paul Hewitt

I thought we were ready. Wake took it to us physically and we didn't respond.

Bob Sanders

I think we did make a statement, because we played one of the most physical teams in the league.

Lee Bennett

It got physical and we weren't strong with the ball.

Jacques Santini

It is important for the players to relax physically and also psychologically,

David Reeves

He's a very physical kid, but I think he played physical in basketball, too, when I watched him. He was always up on you bumping guys.

Rick Newman

He was physically unable to get to the closing.

Ian McCulloch

I was like 'This is Mac' - I didn't even know who I was talking to." ()

William Farmer

I think it'll be ok; I think by the end of this year, we won't be talking about PeopleSoft at all.

Bob Lachky

I think you're talking about a two-year play at least.

Stephen Smith

It is frustrating because we're not getting 10 to 12 inches. You're talking about 2 to 4 inches. We live in Wisconsin. It is not like this is unusual.

Bill Callahan

What do you mean? What are you talking about?

Denise Holmes

It is significant. We're going from talking to doing.

Nancy Currie

I think some of the difficulties are in the tight tolerances that we are talking about,

Chris Lofton

He was just talking about how he wished it would have worked out for me up here.

Graham Murray

He was open-mouthed when Tallis walked up to him and started talking to him.