Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shivnarine Chanderpaul

We want to see some more patience in the batting line-up,

Virender Sehwag

We are progressing well. By the time of the World Cup, we will be ready in all departments -- bowling, batting order etc.

David Graveney

What he brings to the stage in terms of bowling, batting and fielding is exciting. He's a young guy, got plenty of talent and we're taking the opportunity of including a younger guy to learn as times goes on.

B. R. Hayden

We've well and truly done that now. We've got a really nice launching pad into tomorrow. With some good disciplined batting we can get a big lead,

Mickey Arthur

We are always a bat-first team, but the local guys said we could break through on the first morning and that days two and three would be best for batting. Well, we didn't make the breakthrough and batting certainly looked easy today.

Charles Thomas

Absolutely. That never gets old no matter what game it is. Honestly I just put in play what we do every day during the second round of batting practice: With guys in, you try to stay up the middle. I just made sure not do too much.

Joe Kennedy

It's just his batting style; he doesn't get out of the way.

Brian Graham

This guy does a lot of things well. We have to decide where he fits best and where his best development slot is. It's not a matter of where he plays. It's gotten down to a matter of where he hits in the batting order.

B. R. Hayden

This morning was as hard batting as we've had to do in a test match for a long time.

Ron Wilson

We actually got right down to the wire on both kills. I think maybe we let our guard down a little bit.

Jack Berry

We always hate to see employees move out, but we're always seeing movements, both in and out.

Atharva Veda

Wealth comes naturally to a person, who is endowed with both these qualities.

Louise Leakey

With the discovery of Zinjanthropus at Olduvai Gorge in 1959, my grandmother Mary Leakey pioneered the research in East Africa with my grandfather Louis. Many more spectacular fossil finds have since been made, both in Africa and elsewhere, by many researchers driven to understand our past.

Lisa Cholodenko

Wendy and I both wanted kids, but since we were pushing 40, the clock was ticking.

Mackenzie Astin

There is a healthy fraternal rivalry, but nothing serious and we both have been looking for a project to do together. I guess he may direct me in a project some day.

Ben Folds

The other reason Rufus and I are great together is that we're both really lazy. The rehearsing, the sound checks -- he's actually worse than I am, and that's something. To get us to do anything other than sit in our dressing rooms is a challenge. Who knows what will happen?

Duncan Chase

The potential is unbelievable with both those girls.

Tarun Das

The potential is huge for them both in sales and production.

Brian Lara

We are looking forward to the World Cup also. We hope the big event would do a lot of good for the cricket at grass roots level.

Clive Field

A meeting was held to discuss some Zimbabwe Cricket ideas for making progress on negotiations. But they have dug their heels in and are all adamant there will be no talks until payments have been fully made.

Malcolm Speed

For 18 months the ICC have been consistently reviewing the role that Twenty20 cricket could play internationally, and this response indicates there is strong interest from many parts of the cricket world in this type of event.

John Newcombe

I tried out for the cricket team, then found out I had to play Saturday mornings... or Saturday afternoons and practice twice a week.

Larry Lewis

There's an ebb and flow of cricket populations. When you have harsh, wet springs it can damage the egg sacs and cut down the numbers.

Runako Morton

It was disappointing to lose your skipper at that point in time. He felt like it could have been his day to get some runs but that's cricket - sometimes you get the hard knocks.

John Long

An essential part of the spirit of cricket is respecting the umpire's decision.

Steffan Rhodri

I've been a huge cricket fan since my teens, and I often used to go down to St. Helen's in Swansea in the summer. To me, it was like a 'rites of passage' experience to have the freedom of St. Helen's cricket ground.

Andrew Flintoff

The one-day game is so structured and you have your own roles back in your country, and a few players had to play outside those roles, whereas in Test cricket you just go out there and play, so there is no real structures to the game so hopefully we will be a better Test side.

Lauren Miller

Girls will go see anything. They're open and excited to go to the movies and laugh.

Mike Thomas

We're so excited and want to thank everyone who voted for us. It's a humbling experience.

Gerard Way

We're so excited about playing the new record that we just want to play the whole thing.

Paul Chavez

We're going to throw him in the fire right away. He's going to be participating on the golf team immediately. We're excited to have him on board.

Jeff Dellis

What a great team effort. I'm excited for the kids and the program.

Ethan Mentzer

With this, it was, yes, we were excited about it but it was something new that we hadn't done before being on national TV. You get one shot, one song and that's it. And you're in a room full of screaming girls and we played acoustically and couldn't hear ourselves.

Bob Woods

We're starting to talk about some things. We don't have anything planned immediately, but I think in the next few months you'll start to see some things come out, ... We're excited about all the stuff we can do with her and telling her story, so to speak, as it unfolds. Obviously, long-term she's going to have a prominent role in what we do at Nike Golf.

Justin Leone

We're not going to worry about losing. We had nothing to lose (against Sacramento). We're just excited about playing. I've said it before in interviews, but this team just has a lot of fun playing together.

Dean Tower

We've got a nice pack developing; we've just got to get them a little faster. I think we'll be pretty competitive by the regional. We're real excited about Sarah and Mary.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye. But I gotta make the first move 'cause if I don't you're gonna start hating me.

Chinua Achebe

I don't want to be the one to tell somebody, You will not make it, even though I know that the majority of those who come to me with their manuscripts are not really good enough.

China Mieville

In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye.

Edith Wharton

There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart you knew. I have kept her with me all this time, but now we are going to part, and I have brought her back to you - I am going to leave her here. When I go out presently she will not go with me. I shall like to think that she has stayed with you.

Daymond John

Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.

David Hyde Pierce

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

David Icke

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

Ben Whishaw

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

Bruce Aidells

It has a coarse texture and a rich, beefy taste only matched by hanger steak.

Mark Jula

We matched them hoop for hoop in the third quarter. We needed a stop and then they got some breaks.

Barry Alvarez

I'd like for him to be matched up that way all day. I don't think we'll have that luxury.

Scott Bogumil

We're really excited. We wanted to keep playing at night and we matched our goal.

Jim Seals

Everything matched psychologically and physically. Then it was a matter of just putting me into the (donor) system. I got a week's notice and went to Spokane,

James Morris

For too many ordinary people, political progress must now be matched by substantial humanitarian assistance.

Edward Kennedy

By some measures, we've matched or surpassed where HBC is today.

Jon Monti

We thought Beecher would be patient. We matched that patience when it was necessary.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is curious that we pay statesmen for what they say, not for what they do; and judge of them from what they do, not from what they say. Hence they have one code of maxims for profession and another for practice, and make up their consciences as the Neapolitans do their beds, with one set of furniture for show and another for use.

Alan Watts

Breathing is important in the practice of meditation because it is the faculty in us that is simultaneously voluntary and involuntary. You can feel that you are breathing, and equally you can feel that it is breathing you. So it is a sort of bridge between the voluntary world and the involuntary world — a place where they are one.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

If (the West) shows its rigidity by making unjust decisions and putting their threats into practice, the Iranian people will not be the only ones to pay the price.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God's justice stands forever against the sinner in utter severity. The vague and tenuous hope that God is 'too kind' to punish the ungodly has become deadly opiate for the consciences of millions. It hushes their fears and allows them to practice all pleasant forms of iniquity while death draws everyday nearer and the command to repent goes unregarded. As responsible moral beings, we dare not so trifle with our eternal future.

Edward Jenner

I hope that some day the practice of producing cowpox in human beings will spread over the world - when that day comes, there will be no more smallpox.

David Hilbert

The tool which serves as intermediary between theory and practice, between thought and observation, is mathematics; it is mathematics which builds the linking bridges and gives the ever more reliable forms.

David Hume

.. that a rule, which, in speculation, may seem the most advantageous to society, may yet be found, in practice, totally pernicious and destructive.

David Brooks

The key factor separating geniuses from the merely accomplished is not a divine spark. It's not I.Q., a generally bad predictor of success, even in realms like chess. Instead, it's deliberate practice. Top performers spend more hours (many more hours) rigorously practicing their craft.

Barry Commoner

Technologists practice faith too; 'Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.'

Edward Gibbon

Rational confidence [is] the just result of knowledge and experience.

Jason Terry

We accomplished most of our goals, and now it's time to put it all together. The results will be sweet if we do.

Bob Riley

When money follows results - we will get more results for our money

Romeo Crennel

When we get the results on that, we'll let you know.

Bill Gates

I am results-oriented.

Mirek Porosa

It was a total domination. We outplayed them with every volleyball skill and the results speak for themselves.

Clint Hurdle

As a player, I was a quick-fix type guy, ... I wanted it now. The society we live in wants everything now. We're results-oriented. Well, I've come to understand that results are just that. And sometimes they come in their own time.

Sal Sinatra

The tests from New Bolton were inconclusive. More tests are going to be done at Cornell University, and I should know the results by Tuesday.

Zahir Azimi

We are waiting for the results and they could come any time.

Herman Edwards

They said 2-5 teams don't make the playoffs, either, but we did it,

Mike Berg

They're one of the top two or three teams in the state, without a doubt.

Patrick Sparks

We play two top-10 teams (this) week. It's in our hands.

Camelia Sams

We play a lot of tough teams out of the district. It's tough, but we need the practice.

Richard Jefferson

Our expectations are high. But we're just like a lot of teams at this time of the year. We're going to try to win 16 games.

Daniel Snyder

Some teams are contributing a little more than others. It's really a win-win situation.

Jamie Dixon

Teams lose. It's how you respond, and we've always responded well.

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

Jim Calhoun

Teams do get into ruts. (Other) teams do play defense.

Eartha Kitt

I have to keep testing myself.

Arnold Bennett

The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.

C. S. Lewis

The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it.

Agnes Macphail

We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

Bill Watterson

Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.

Eric Elliott

We're not going to use them unless we can test them.

Edwin Land

The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society.

Bjarne Stroustrup

How to test?" is a question that cannot be answered in general. "When to test?" however, does have a general answer: as early and as often as possible.

Bill Dwyer

It's been tested here and we know we can do it.