Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jamal Crawford

He's a calming influence for us, a great veteran, a great leader and we're going to miss him.

Ian McIntyre

He's been outstanding back there the last two years and he's a calming presence. We're going to rely on him more than ever. He's a very hard worker and determined to improve.

Steve Hawkins

He makes great decisions and plays at a fantastic pace. He has the game under control and is a very calming influence on us, which we need because we're a very young team. So it's a very different season for Brian.

Harold Brooks

Pat had a knack for taking on the most difficult kind of assignments and making it look easy. She had a wonderful skill and wisdom for calming everyone down and making them play well together.

Roger Hawk

Part of reason we delayed having this meeting for three years is that the city went through a learning process on traffic calming issues.

Brad Wilkerson

I'm swinging at everything. It's a matter of calming down.

David Eckstein

I'll take my chances, win or lose, ... It's a calming feeling to be up at the plate at that time.

Devan Downey

I'm just calming down and playing. My teammates are trusting me. I'm not so worried that I'm going to make a mistake and they're going to be mad.

Dan Daniel

I mentioned to a mutual friend this morning that he had a calming influence on me. Which I needed in that transitional period following the departure of the great Joe O'Brien.

Darryl Jenkins

I wouldn't put my retirement money on the line for something like this, ... It is a very difficult environment for startups right now, with jet fuel so high. That scares investors away.

Will Ferrell

I would tend to shy away from that, only because hosting those type of things is an extremely difficult task. I'd rather watch at home.

Allan Kaplan

I would say that this a minor loss for the industry. I would say this is going to make it more difficult for them in their negotiations in terms of a settlement.

Kevin Sutherland

Just the streak in itself is amazing, ... I don't think people realize how difficult it is to make that many in a row. That shows how hard he plays every time he tees it up.

Jeremy Foley

I think it's a huge home-court advantage. I think the fact that everybody is on top of the court, the job the students have done making that a difficult place to play ... people say how loud it is in there. It's a different environment.

Mike Sanford

I think it helped us to learn more about him and what his strengths are. It was very difficult (with the injury).

Jack Riley

It can be difficult to find people who live in a precinct, with schedules and time constraints and all.

Reggie Collier

It can be difficult at times, especially during the season when you're so focused to be prepared for Saturday. I tell kids all the time to enjoy it while you can.

John Stevens

He was a good friend, maintaining his sense of humor and proportion throughout the difficult period that marked his most recent service,

Ray Depwe

He had a knack of knowing what to do.

Moliere

I have the knack of easing scruples.

Oliver Hardy

A knick-knack is a thing that sits on top of a whatnot.

Ben Whishaw

I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.

Fred Ray

Some people may have overlooked him. We practice together consistently. I know where they'll (receivers) will be. He has a knack for the ball.

Brandon Lee

I always had a pretty good knack for raising hell

Craig Ferguson

She still cared for me, and the best way I could make amends to her was to be happy. I do have a knack for finding great women.

Thomas Vanek

Those two have a special knack together I don't think I quite have with those two.

Gary Dunn

She has always had a real knack for this stuff. She has training in something and she can make a living at it.

Randy Moss

Just to see him come out here and work with us every day, have the patience with us every day, it's exciting.

John Mitchell

I suspect it's a pattern you will see here.

Tom Liston

The only thing it does is patch that single function.

Ron Gardenhire

He's just rushing. He's not being patient enough.

Craig McHugh

We're pleased about the patent and the protection it provides us. We're evaluating all the alternatives.

Bob Cimmino

I was a little more patient with him after that.

Condoleezza Rice

unfortunately on a path right now where relations are not improving, but are worsening.

Anton LaVey

Be as a lion in the path. Be dangerous even in defeat.

Gail Dudack

We have to be patient with this recovery. It's not going to be a youthful one; it will be a slow, lumbering one.

Brent Sutter

I think what everyone underestimated about us was our skill level.

Richard Davidson

Happiness and well-being are actually best regarded as skills.

William S. Burroughs

The photo collage is a way to travel that must be used with skill and precision if we are to arrive... The collage as a flexible hieroglyph language of juxtaposition: A collage makes a statement.

William J. Clinton

When you're president, you learn to act like you know what you're talking about. And it's a great skill.

Roger Ascham

To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill.

Sarah Wayne Callies

Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick - it seems like a decent skill to have.

Vincent Nichols

We're losing social skills, the human interaction skills, how to read a person's mood, to read their body language, how to be patient until the moment is right to make or press a point. Too much exclusive use of electronic information dehumanises what is a very, very important part of community life and living together.

Will Smith

Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft.

Vladimir Bukovsky

Investigation is a subtle process, requiring patience and fine analytical ability, as well as a skill in cultivating one's sources. When torture is condoned, these rare talented people leave the service, having been outstripped by less gifted colleagues with their quick-fix methods, and the service itself degenerates into a playground for sadists.

Warren Buffett

Take the high road; it's far less crowded.

Wellington Mara

I'm not taking that. Go ahead, it's here, just take it.

Maureen Caddigan

I know he is taking this very seriously.

Bam Margera

I just had the worst wake up ever, so I'm taking it out on Dunn.

Cedric Bozeman

I'm just taking it day to day. It's tough to handle.

Chet Edwards

taking the most from those who have the least and nothing from those who have the most.

Harrison Ford

It's very little trouble for me to accomodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.

Cecilia Johnson

They are very much taking it seriously. We're very optimistic.

Scott McGaffic

It wasn't a very pretty sight. But I'm taking it in stride.

Euripides

He is wise that is wise to himself.

Richard Baxter

You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning.

Reinhold Niebuhr

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. This prayer was first printed in a monthly bulletin of the Federal Council of Churches and has become enormously popular. It has been circulated in millions of copies.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.

Woody Allen

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

Woody Allen

Whosoever loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird.

William Wordsworth

Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none

William Wordsworth

Wisdom sits with children round her knees.

William J. Clinton

That all depends on what "is" is.

Tom Ferguson

I think (the Fringe) is wonderful because . . . this is not 'Annie Get Your Gun,'

Mary Campbell

We feel it is a wonderful program, and they do wonderful things.

Jim Rash

I think what's wonderful is that 'Community' has always had its voice, has always had it's vision, and that started from the very beginning.

Anne Murphy

We can have all these wonderful things in place,

Vincente Minnelli

I see wonderful films by Bertolucci, Visconti, and Fellini.

Robert Caro

As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life.

Roald Dahl

Come right up close to me and I will show you something wonderful.

Werner Herzog

You have to be very prudent with what you are doing and what sort of tools you are utilizing. Drones have become a wonderful new tool in filmmaking.

Vasily Grossman

Ivan tells Anna: "I used to imagine that being embraced by a woman . . . as something so wonderful that it would make me forget everthing . . . [But] happiness, it turns out, will be to share with you the burden I can't share with anyone else.