Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Nobers

Once we get the permits, it's about 120 days to get the store built, stocked and open.

Brendan Shanahan

The old days of having a two- or three-goal lead and just being able to lock on are over. You're just going to have to keep on playing.

Sherri Coale

After 30 days of practice and three wins now, it was not something I expected. I was very surprised there was a lack of poise from particularly my point guards.

Plaxico Burress

Some days you get the pretty lady. Some days you get the beast.

Michelle Monaghan

Some days I really love being a mom, and some days I don't! It's crazy - I'm tired of packing lunches!

Lora Ho

The sequential decline is mainly due to three fewer working days in February.

Ronnie Belliard

I started feeling a pinch in my right side a few days ago but figured I would just play through it,

Eric Zorn

I've been retired for about four days now.

Ali Omar

I've been trying to vote since 10 a.m.. They say I'm not registered to vote, but four days ago, I went to the police station to register and they said I could vote with my ID card. Today when I tried to vote, they said I couldn't.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Kurt Thomas

As long as I set a good pick and roll, get to the open spot, it's about me knocking down the shot. He knows when to find you.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Don Kloth

Normally, we're a very good free-throw shooting team. But tonight, we weren't.

Dean Wagenaar

Normally we're a good 3-point shooting team but we weren't hitting anything today, so they just plugged up the middle and took Chad's shots away. We panicked a little in the third quarter but the kids held together. Bruce's kids are so disciplined, and they really know how to protect their floor.

Levi Leipheimer

After the first two mountain stages people realized Lance was as good as ever.

Chris Riddell

Do you have hands? Excellent. That's a good start. Can you hold a pencil? Great. If you have a sketchbook, open it and start by making a line, a mark, wherever. Doodle.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

Jaromir Jagr

Of course, you can work hard, but you have to be lucky too and you have to have a lot of talent. And later in the season, it's just my opinion, the talent is always going to show up.

Pat Gerard

That's iron-fisted control, and sooner or later it's going to fail.

John Gibbons

We could probably use some of those later in the year.

James Corden

No one could have predicted on day one of rehearsals, that a year and a half later we would have shot a film and all be living in New York. It was surreal.

Dascha Polanco

I was raised in New York and then moved to Miami in my teenage years, returning to New York later on.

Stephen Harper

I would prefer to do it sooner rather than later but not immediately.

James Lowry

She said she was so mad at me for not making her very rich, but later she thanked me for making her even richer.

Joaquin Phoenix

Because of all the scenes of him writing songs, it wouldn't work to have me singing the lines while he's writing, and then have his voice come out later onstage,

Norv Turner

He's very sore today. It will be later in the week when we'll see how quickly the soreness leaves.

Wade Blaufuss

Progress has been slow but there has been progress. Negotiators are meeting around the clock.

Wade Blaufuss

Progress has been slow but there has been progress. ... Negotiators are meeting around the clock.

Frank Maguire

The take-away from the meeting is we're on the right track,

Sue Parks

Right now we just want to get a meet under our belts. This will give us some output upon what we need to work on, as well as realize where we are at this point of the season.

David Akin

This is an important meeting for his administration. He'd like to show there's a new tone to Ottawa-Washington relations.

Michael Vaughan

This is so special to come to the palace, meeting the queen here and being here with all the rest of the boys.

Paul Hewitt

The product and service we require meets with our customers' and our expectations.

Alain de Botton

When I'm writing, I write all day. Other days, I sit around thinking. Or I run around from one meeting to another, out in the world. It varies, and I like that.

Michael Nutter

To succeed in big-city politics requires a powerful, motivating vision of a better world, a plan to get there, a willingness to meet constituents on their terms, and a tough political skin.

Derek Damon

That's not how you want to be going to the NCAA Tournament.

Deonte Tatum

This was huge. We needed this just to keep rolling into the WAC Tournament. Our whole outlook is to win the WAC Tournament and get to the NCAA (Tournament), so it's important for us to win the rest of our games.

Miles Avery

We won back-to-back Big Ten championships and that's something to be proud of. It's two in a row, but we have to do more for the NCAA championships.

Claire Coggins

We are disappointed because there are some teams that are 14-16 (that got into the NCAA Tournament), and it doesn't seem right, but that's the way it goes, and we are really proud to get to play in the (W)NIT, and that we get to play at home.

Richard Midgley

Nobody talks about the NCAA Tournament, not the players or coaches. Only you guys.

Adam Haluska

We can go into the (Big Ten) tournament without any worry about the NCAA tournament. There's no pressure on us.

Mike Nardi

We're ready to go and we're prepared for the NCAA Tournament.

Jane Austen

She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

Ann Macbeth

Ten years ago I was not heavily involved in the film world but on reflection it was a boom time with the mineral boom happening, so there was immense growth for industrial training films, documentaries to do with the mining, and the outback world.

Duke Ellington

Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.

Ricky Martin

I'm like a shark, right at the top of the food chain. I take what I want, when I want. I truly am the reflection of perfection.

Stanley Hauerwas

We complain of the increased tempo of our lives, but our frenetic lives are just reflection of the economic system that we have created.

Sebastian Faulks

I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.

John Podhoretz

Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.

Nicolas Cage

I don't drink blood, and last time I looked in the mirror, I had a reflection.

Gaston Bachelard

It is not a question of observation which propels mankind forward as if toward a looking glass of great magnitude; it is an instance of aggrandized reflection that insinuates the human psyche to the inhuman.

Jane Kaczmarek

I grew up playing in an alley on the south side of Milwaukee.

Abraham Lincoln

It is not 'Is God on my side', but 'Am I on God's side'.

Abraham Lincoln

Don't pray that God's on our side, pray that we're on his side.

Ally Carter

Waffles. Im craving waffles." Bex rolled onto her side. "Tell your waffles hi for me.

Ann Coulter

Until you can intelligently articulate the other side's position, you are not an adult. You are a liberal.

Adolf Loos

Be truthful. Nature only sides with truth.

Alexander Pope

He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.

E. M. Forster

By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.

Donella Meadows

A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor

Bruce Lee

If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.

Andy Serkis

When I played Gollum in 'Lord of the Rings,' if I was climbing up the side of a mountain, which I physically did, you know, I was on every single occasion swimming through streams, all of that, that wasn't captured. That was filmed on 35 millimeter, and for certain of those shots, it was rotoscoped and painted over.

Thomas Cahill

In becoming an Irishman, Patrick wedded his world to theirs, his faith to their life…Patrick found a way of swimming down to the depths of the Irish psyche and warming and transforming Irish imagination – making it more humane and more noble while keeping it Irish.

Mark Ruffalo

I grew up on Lake Michigan during the PCB explosion, and I remember seeing the sick, dead fish with tumors, the weird deformed seagulls, the scum and the filth floating. We couldn't go swimming.

Esther Williams

I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies.

Ryan Lochte

The swimming community is really small, but why can't it be as big as the NBA or the NFL?

Rick Riordan

Words had started swimming off the page, circling my head, the letters doing one-eighties as if they were riding skateboards.

Mark Bittman

Let me pose you a question. Can farm-raised salmon be organic when its feed has nothing to do with its natural diet, even if the feed itself is supposedly organic, and the fish themselves are packed tightly in pens, swimming in their own filth?

Miriam Makeba

my thoughts are like quick little fish that swim out of my grasp.

Cedric Benson

As a competitor, you want to be out there, making something happen, especially when the team is losing. But my time will come.

Sarah Martin

Our team worked really hard. Well, I told them to work really hard.

Jim Balsillie

No question, we took one for the team here.

Mark Ehlen

Anything that I've said to the team hasn't been effective. I've been mad, I've stomped, I've screamed, I've been encouraging and positive, and nothing matters.

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

Jami Finan

It was a long time. Our team could not have wanted it more than anything in the world.

George C. Williams

This is one of the best, if not the best, teams we've had here in a long time,

Frank Permuy

You really can't compare. Every year is different, every team is different.

Brett Hull

Canadian hockey fans... They boo me every time I go anywhere. Because I play for Team USA.

Jane Austen

If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.

Diane Ackerman

Adventure is not something you travel to find. It's something you take with you, or you're not going to find it when you arrive.

Brian Eno

It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.

Donald Miller

Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.

Clare Boothe Luce

the only time travelers are really gay is when they are traveling for no good reason at all.

Christopher Walken

I like to go to work, and also, I don't have any kids. I don't have any hobbies. I don't like to travel. So going to work is kind of it.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.

Anna Louise Strong

Strong I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived.

Daniel J. Boorstin

The traveler used to go about the world to encounter the natives. A function of travel agencies now is to prevent this encounter.