Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brittany Hunter

I think in this setting it's a little odd because I haven't seem them in basketball gear in a while.

Billy Donovan

He was a great guy. It was such a tragedy, what happened. He touched a lot of lives. I know with St. Francis, he and (athletic director) Randy Maris had a lot of plans, he wanted to give Bud the chance to build a basketball program and unfortunately it didn't work out. At least his family, his kids, will have something they can hold to and remember him by.

Chris Wallinger

He was a good shooter and dribbler. He was actually better at basketball than soccer.

Garrett Temple

He used to be just fat. Chubby. He was a ballplayer, but he was chubby. Now, he's taller. He's still big, but he's a great basketball player. He's not just a big guy in the middle.

Bob Wilkinson

He was a wonderful man. He is the one who made me into a high school basketball star.

Terry Stotts

He can run, and he has a high basketball IQ. You'll see the ball in his hands as a playmaker. He's very competitive, and he wants to win. I liked his demeanor on the court and the way he reacted with his teammates. It's reassuring.

Ray Young

Heck, you're talking about three of the top 100 basketball players in the (history of) the NBA. But that's a great goal to work up to.

Steve Wright

He can wear that kilt to school if he wants, to the prom, to a basketball game.

Pat Riley

He kept telling me he's ready. But I'm a stubborn old coach.

Jodi Benson

I am blessed to perform in the studio and on the concert stage.

Tyler Perry

Ever since I've been blessed with success, I've struggled a little with anonymity and even family. I've had people calling asking for money, and I have to ask them first, 'Are you working? Have you been trying to help yourself?' Then I feel like I can help.

William Wordsworth

That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world is lightened.

Rebecca De Mornay

I've never had a manager, and I've had various agents, and, fortunately or unfortunately, I've been blessed.

Tupac Shakur

I truly believe I've been blessed by God, and God walks with me

Uma Thurman

I certainly know I have been blessed with much more empathy than I ever knew I would feel for other people.

Robert Redford

As an artist I just can't think of a better life than the one I've been blessed with. It's just a great ride.

Robert Lowell

Those blessed structures, plot and rhyme-- why are they no help to me now I want to make something imagined, not recalled?

Robert Ludlum

Blessed are the flexible for they will not allow themselves to become bent out of shape!

Linda Allen

Kim kept going back to medical, complaining about the contractions, but they just kept sending her back to her cell.

Ken Smith

Having to get more than one market pass hasn't been on the same level of complaints as high hotel rates and other hospitality costs.

Dexter Williams

Whatever Josh allegedly did, I'm very shocked because Josh is a good kid. Since he's been with us, our relationship has been good. We didn't have any complaints from teachers or anything.

John Jones

We try to look for solutions rather than just complain about the problems of being poor.

Liz Smith

We took all the technological know-how that we had and took all the things women complained about and married the two.

Richard M. Nixon

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

Saint Francis de Sales

He who complains, sins.

Wim Wenders

Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice.

Larry Moore

I'm proud of how the kids played. The only thing that I can complain about is that we didn't win the game.

Chris Linsley

His personality shined back through, and we knew we still had our old Dillon. He looked at his mother and mumbled the words 'Mama,' which made us glad to hear that.

Laurie Glass

I thought we executed our game-plan very well. We served very aggressively, and that got them out of their offense. They've had a great season, and they have a great volleyball program here, and I'm glad we got out of here with a win.

Adam Dunn

I obviously didn't want to go to arbitration, didn't want to have something like arbitration hanging over my head for the spring and the year. I'm glad everything worked out.

David Douglas

In poor plight, weary and travel-soiled, glad at heart, though possessing nothing but a shirt, leather trousers and an old hat, having lost my jacket, neck-kerchief and worn out my shoes.

Mike Fratello

I'm happy we bounced back from three (straight) losses. You have to be glad about playing hard before the playoffs. This is what it's all about.

Matt Meredith

I like the underdog role. We are glad to be going, and we met our goal for the year of making it this far.

Wendy Miller

I'm just thrilled they're going to name it after her. She was a wonderful woman and I'm glad she's getting some of the recognition she deserves.

Carl Krauser

I'm just glad we have the opportunity to learn from this now and not down the road. It's not a good time to get a loss, but it's a reasonable time.

Bruce Levenson

I'm just glad to be up here on this stage with Mr. Knight.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

Herb Cytyrn

Jake is a very good skier and I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to sectionals.

Bill Walsh

I would say that we made a lot of good trades, but that may have been the best.

Alan Greenspan

Keeping out competitively priced goods would materially lower our standard of living.

Tim Kohs

Kayla can guard any kid in the state and make them miserable. In the past, I've always had one or two kids who raised the level of the team by their intensity at practice and their commitment. McCarthy and Finn are as good as any kids I've had like that.

Ken Auletta

Journalists prize independence, not teamwork. Journalists understand waste is inherent to good journalism ... that good reporting and writing is hard to quantify.

Bobby Cox

John is not 100 percent. But if he's 95 percent, that's good enough.

Hector Garcia

John has pretty good quickness for a big guy,

Susan Murray

kind of hard to get to your car.

Laura Lange

I wouldn't say I've progressed since last year. I don't think I'm going to play in college, so this is my last year playing and I'm going to play as hard as I can.

Mark Mulder

Izzy told me the first time you're traded or released and go somewhere else is the hardest. After that, it's no problem. I can now understand why people say that. It wasn't hard making an adjustment. It was just different.

Ron Polk

He used to be a power pitcher, but after shoulder surgery he's had some hard luck.

Joey Cora

He didn't pitch that bad. He threw strikes, and that's the key for him. He didn't get hit hard at all. He just wasn't lucky.

Ben Braun

He can take a lot of pride knowing he is playing for a championship now as he leaves Cal. He has worked so hard over the years.

George Herman

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

Sufjan Stevens

It's hard to say if actual places really affect the way you write.

Danny Shafer

There are so many people who are working so hard to have so little these days. It's disturbing, because this is the most politics I've ever talked about out of 500 interviews.

Greg Beratlis

I would've liked to have heard something out of his mouth. Yes, anything. A plea for his life or just his opinion on what went on over the last two years,

Mark Mandel

John is never at a loss for words. But when he heard the news, he was speechless.

Laura Stromberg

I think, in general, people just want a new, refreshing voice, and they're hearing that from Kinky.

Dean Acosta

He wanted to hear from everyone, no matter what they have to say.

S. Hughes

He just went AWOL (absent without leave) on us. I think he just lost his heart for the battle. But he was a lovely lad. They all seem to be lovely lads from Trinidad.

Daniel Inouye

Henry was an acquaintance of presidents and kings, but his heart was always with the native people of Hawaii, who are still struggling for their moment in the sun,

Roberto Torres

Have the heart of a lion and the mind of an eagle.

Jim Kaat

He (Rodriguez) has been hearing it from the crowd.

Carl Dodd

Her mother done told her a lot of stories. My plan is to sit down and talk to her and let her know that a lot of things she heard aren't true, and let her be the judge.

Garrett Gravesen

Jobs can wait, but the lives of these kids cannot. And because no one else was doing anything else about it.

Two Chainz

Entertainment is such a great job to have.

John Carr

I'd like for our controllers to feel much more secure doing their jobs, ... They should be watching their radar scopes, not watching their backs.

Richelle Mead

Nah. I’m a consultant, of course. Everyone’s favorite nondescript yet well-paid white-collar job.

Russell Crowe

Every building you come out of, there is a parasite there exercising his constitutional right to make money out of being a parasite, trying to take your photo. Frankly, folks, I go to work, I do my job. I really concentrate, and if you go to the cinema, pay your money and have a good time. That's the end of it, as far as I'm concerned.

Russell Baker

A person whose job is deep thinking about atomic war would no more call a 'megadeath' a 'million corpses' than an embalmer would refer to a 'loved one' as a 'stiff.'

Rose McGowan

A guy friend I was speaking to said he was talking to a group of male producersand he was just shocked that they said, "But if we give women directors a job they're going to take jobs away from the men." I almost fell out of my chair. But when I encounter this kind of thing, what I try to do is give a chiropractic adjustment to the mind, quickly.

Romola Garai

I feel that it's important to fail now and again. For instance, if I go for a job and I don't get it, that makes me not a better person, but more balanced, more aware of what life is really like.

Romola Garai

Acting is a strange job because your control is very limited.

William Graham Sumner

Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society.

Ashley Jones

I'm really proud of an independent movie called 'Angel's Perch' that you can get now on demand. It's a labor of love. People worked really, really hard, and it's a beautiful film.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

What is there that is illustrious that is not also attended by labor?

Ken Goldstein

The labor market indicators turned a little more positive this summer.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

From labor there shall come forth rest.

Douglas Porter

This points out that the labor market remains as tight as ever.

C. Wright Mills

[A]s a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things , more handle people and symbols .

Donald Davidson

The Southerner does not have to labor to learn some things. We already know from the start who we are, where we are, where we belong, what we live by, what we live for.

Horace

The mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be born.

David Franks

I will not work with them. I'll work with other breeders. We'll do our own thing, but right now it's a living we're making, a living here. And if there doing that we'll find out someday. The truth will come out.

Virender Sehwag

One should always be happy, irrespective of what you achieve in a match or in life. That's how I live my life.

Bruce Brown

I'm living in the middle of a nightmare.

Carol Wood

We're living in a different world now. We have lots of security measures in place.

James Ellis

It's no longer a museum piece. She's actually a living ship.

Dick Durbin

Evergreen tenants should not have to spend another day living in substandard conditions,

Steve Berry

It's sobering. Living in the Midwest, you don't feel nearly as vulnerable, but it's these times when we probably feel the most vulnerable.

Luis Ramirez

It's been hard, we've been living day by day. We don't have any place to live, to work, nothing.

Brad Dennis

It's important to know who's living around us, and what's living around us.

Robert Hogan

He was ducking down, and he kind of stayed moving,

Darrel Mitchell

That stayed with me all night. Then it was pretty much over.

Jason Bowen

They stayed right in there, and after the first 10 minutes, Greenwood was never a threat to us.

Todd Galloway

I tried to (play) through it, but it stayed tight.

Lillian Carter

Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, "Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.

James Long

I've stayed in Hiltons before, but I'd have to say that this was one of the best. They did everything for us.

Matthew Lillard

I stayed at a Howard Johnson's once when I was 19 and that kind of scarred me for life.

Chris Palmer

If Tim had stayed healthy, I think ultimately he would have been successful (in Cleveland).

John Short

She never showed up, ... We stayed until 4 in the morning. We don't know why she didn't come.