Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Herman Edwards

I've played that position. You get 10 interceptions in one season, that's pretty good. He had a great season for a guy coming off an injury.

Matt Stairs

I very easily could've went to a contender, ... but I felt very good about coming back to this organization.

Graham Taylor

It would be very much harder to win it without him. One of the criteria for most of the past World Cup winners is that they possess a 'special' player. You know, you have a Maradona, you have a Pele, and, in Rooney, England have that 'special' player coming into 2006 in Germany.

Greg Skidmore

It would be very easy for conferences to just fine schools like that. And if a school is being faced with a $100,000 fine, they're going to take the steps necessary to prevent fans from coming onto the court. It's just not that hard to do.

Robert Blake

I understand, and there's also an 'or else' in it. But I don't want to get to that just yet, ... I just want you to know where I'm coming from. I got the picture of where you're coming from.

Dan Corbin

It would've been a tremendous win for us, but now we got two tough ones coming up and it won't be easy.

Juan Uribe

it would turn into a major motion picture, coming to a theater near you.

Robert Parry

It would seem to me he would be more comfortable with a freer exchange of ideas, not coming in 100 percent convinced of what should be done.

Leo Beenhakker

He's still a great player. Nobody has to tell me that we still have a lot to do. The players can still improve. If it's good enough to surprise some of our opponents at the World Cup I don't know, but they still have a lot of room to grow.

Kiran More

It is a important tour for us as we will be playing at World Cup venues. It is an opportunity for players to experience the conditions.

Al Jourgensen

I've seen 48 Stanley Cups in my life. I was about six or seven when I started going to games with my dad.

Franz Beckenbauer

Unquestionably, it was also thanks to the World Cup win in 1974 that I was lucky enough to spend four years as a player in New York from 1977.

Sara Renner

I remember when she got her first World Cup points, and this year, we couldn't keep up with the champagne.

Tony Cox

Our goals are to expand the Hooters Pro Cup Series into another division in the near future. This race will be a perfect way to showcase our product to Midwestern fans on a grand stage and possibly lay the groundwork for a Midwest division.

Kevin Quinn

Our first team goal was to get an opportunity to get to (the Penguins Cup game). Now that we've won it, obviously our road doesn't end until we win our last game and that's the state championship.

Jurgen Klinsmann

Our World Cup preparations are firming up but the door remains open for interesting candidates.

Virender Sehwag

To participate in a World Cup is a great honour and achievement. I've played in three World Cups. The whole world watches you during a World Cup and expects you to play innings to win games for your country.

Ian Hislop

You can't understand Twenties England until you appreciate it was under a cloud of mourning. Nearly everyone was grieving.

David Beckham

When I was seven I wanted to be a footballer, but when I was 14, I wanted to be a model. Look where it's put me now!

Kevin Keegan

But I would be happy for him to join up if he is selected and put the matter in the hands of the England medical staff.

Michael Owen

If you have any setback in your life, like not being in the England squad was for me - any setback, like losing a family member - everyone handles it in different ways. When I first wasn't included I was numb. I'd been the main England striker for years and years. It was really disappointing.

Joseph O'Neill

I went to an international school in Holland, and I didn't have any memories of growing up in the United States or England or any of these places which other novelists are able to write about in relation to their childhoods.

Rogers Beasley

This surface has met every test in England.

Norv Turner

We knew the hardship of going to New England, playing right after the (roster) cuts, getting less time to prepare than other teams, the travel and all that. The other side is we get more time to prepare for the next game, from a mental and a physical standpoint. We've got to make the most of it.

Bob Benincasa

This year was a great experience for Josh. To have two years left and have already reached the New England championships is huge. I hope to help him reach his goal of being a state champion.

Darren Gough

We were really up for it, ... The Australians normally come at us hard from day one. To get one up on them was nice. It's 1-0 to England but it's a long summer.

Brian Perry

The older they get, the harder they are to find parts for,

Bobby Scott

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.

Alexander Cockburn

There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of a key. The significance of the past, as expressed in the manuscript by a deleted word or an inserted correction, is annulled in idle gusts of electronic massacre.

Aldous Huxley

The critics don't interest me because they're concerned with what's past and done, while I'm concerned with what comes next.

Alexander Pope

When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.

Alexander Pope

Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.

E. P. Thompson

We must not look at the past with the enormous condescension of posterity.

Doug Stanhope

The fact is that really no comedian sets out to offend you. Some comics enjoy the challenge of taking a subject that is likely to be found offensive and trying to make it funny‚ but the object is still to make you laugh. Offense is only a calculated risk. It's highly unlikely that a comedian whose only goal was to repulse you would ever make it past an open-mic stage, far less build a long career of touring theatres and television appearances.

Doug Stanhope

I don't like being in the UK for every other reason aside from the show. It's aesthetically uncomfortable to me on almost every level for reasons that might sound petty but I can't get past. The audiences are far more challenging and while I wouldn't say I prefer it, I certainly need it to ward off my inherent laziness.

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Nick Bollettieri

Only a few people have the background of Nick Saviano to take a player to the next level of excellence

Mose Allison

All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.

Philip Roth

All I can tell you with certainty is that I, for one, have no self, and that I am unwilling or unable to perpetrate upon myself the joke of a self.... What I have instead is a variety of impersonations I can do, and not only of myself — a troupe of players that I have internalised, a permanent company of actors that I can call upon when a self is required.... I am a theater and nothing more than a theater.

Penn Jillette

Every poker player is smarter than me.

Maria Sharapova

This decision will only strengthen the bond between women players and one of the world's great sporting events [on equal prize money at Wimbledon

Maria Sharapova

I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.

Maria Sharapova

I don't follow other players or the tournaments they play. I have my own schedule and do my own thing. I never really think, 'Oh, I want to be or play like so-and-so.' I just like being myself.

Shawne Merriman

It's a wonderful feeling that I get a chance to play with some of the best players in the world.

Barack Obama

I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

Drew Brees

When you wake up, think about winning the day. Don't worry about a week or a month from now -- just think about one day at a time.

Drew Barrymore

I'm okay with the idea that slow and steady wins the race.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have

Douglas Conant

Learning to celebrate success is a key component of learning how to win in the market.

Dorothy Hamill

I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal.

Dontrelle Willis

Whatever I can do to win, I'll do it, even if I have to get hit by a pitch, whatever it takes.

Don Nelson

If we're gonna win, we have to play up to and beyond our potential.

Dwayne Johnson

What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.