Famous Quotes & Sayings

Saina Nehwal

Badminton is not as glamorous as cricket.

Taufik Hidayat

I hope the BWF (Badminton World Federation) will seriously do something about the Olympic qualifying format or risk getting badminton dropped from the Games.

Chris Olson

Currently programs are getting 1? hours to practice at West, which will not include inside space for girls soccer. Practices will finish around 10 p.m. We will be moving all volleyball games and badminton matches to the West Campus.

Saina Nehwal

Any girl who likes watching movies would like to work in them and would want to do all of that. I'm also one of them. But people know me for badminton and love me for it. So I'd stick to it right now. But maybe after badminton, I'll think about it.

Saina Nehwal

I never believed that India could win a medal in badminton because the competition is so tough.

Saina Nehwal

Badminton will gain momentum in a big manner after my win in Olympics. More players will participate in the game now.

Howard Bach

Badminton in Beijing is huge - it's one of their top three sports.

Howard Bach

Don Chew is the owner of the Orange County Badminton Club, the location where I train. He played badminton when he was young and always had the passion for it. He never made it at the international level, but he wanted to give back to the sport. The majority of the elite players train at Orange County Badminton Club.

Edward Witten

I don't care about movies. I tend to play badminton once a week.

Lisa Stevens

He's a climbing fiend. He's climbing all over the rocks, or he's climbing on his mother. And when he's not climbing on her, he's chewing on her. . . . She lets him treat her like a giant chew toy.

Don Young

He was probably helped early on by being a small player in a rapidly growing market. He honed his skills and management team, and whatever flaws he had, which were few, were gone by the late '90s, and he chewed up everybody in sight.

Dr. Roberts

He is more awake, and is able to chew and swallow soft foods. But he is still not able to speak with us.

Erik Larsen

I'm an overgrown fan so it's always fun to hang out with my fellow fans and chew the fat. It's even better when there are a lot of top flight creators thrown into the mix.

Mary Roach

Eighty percent of flavor comes from your nose, including a set of internal nostrils. When you chew food and hold it in your mouth, the gases that are released goes into these nostrils. People who wolf their food are missing some of the flavor.

Tucker Martin

It's hard to reach 7 million people. People spend millions of dollars marketing chewing gum. This is about choosing the next chief executive of Virginia. This is important.

Michael Haneke

It's because I am a coward. At school, when there were fights, I'd run away. I have always been scared of physical violence. Perhaps that's the reason. But it also angers me to see gratuitous violence, wrapped up like chewing gum to be consumed. It's irritating; it's cynical.

Najeh Davenport

It's gotten to the point where, you get chewed out by coach Sherman or by your position coach, but at the same time, you go on to the next play. You're taught to put it out of your mind and go to the next play. With this, you have to run and take the play off. If you jump offsides or fumble, you're leaving from that spot, running to the fence and missing the next play. I think it's going to help.

Chris Jones

Oh, that kitty-litter scoop looks good. I'll just chew on that for a while.

Greg Harris

He knew he was going to run for mayor when he got that money. People who gave to the county party didn't give for that purpose,

Ray Anderson

Harris County and Montgomery County will be part of the group that will do the maintenance work.

Bruce Johnson

It could have been Peggy, or it could have been me, or it could have been the grandbabies. The county needs to do something about this dog business. I think they should have put those dogs down.

David Samson

We told (Wolff) we wouldn't waste his time. We have too much respect for the county judge and the mayor. This has never been about leverage in South Florida. This is about finding a home for the Marlins.

Jeff Leitner

We may not be able to depend on having all our employees. The county tells us that as many as 30 percent of employees may not show up for work.

Scott Young

Huge. County championship. Oughtta be another big one.

Terry Brooks

If you live in the right county and get the right worker, you're going to win.

S. Hughes

Instead of subsidizing exporters in other counties, Schenectady County will share in revenues from these efforts.

Bill Dodd

If there is a legitimate criticism, it is that the county should have done a better job of looking at all their alternatives earlier. For that I take full responsibility.

Bob Francis

He can take it as far as he wants to. He has elite skills.

Bobby Burton

(Hunter is) one of the top players in the country, and you're talking about a guy who has scholarship offers from around the country. I think the thing that separates him from other linebackers is he doesn't have just good speed for a linebacker, he has elite speed and he still has that size, too.

Mark Romanek

I always wanted to be a feature filmmaker and tried to treat that experience as some sort of elite film school where I could learn the craft, and got paid to learn the craft.

Don Waddell

Ilya is an important part of our franchise and we share in our fans excitement that he is back with us for many seasons to come. He is one of the league's elite players and will play a pivotal role in our success.

Lamar Butler

Everybody said we weren't supposed to be here, and now we're in the Elite Eight. I'm just enjoying the rush from my head down to my feet.

James Garner

I've always wanted to work with Gena because she's such a wonderful actress. She's one of the elite in this business.

Dustin Lanz

It was an elite feeling, just knowing this is your alma mater. We took the kids to heights unknown at this school.

Helen Zille

This government's preoccupation with race has nothing to do with empowering those disadvantaged by apartheid. It has everything to do with empowering a small elite through cronyism and patronage.

Darren McCarty

That's what prime-time players do. They want the ball, they want the puck. It's what separates the elite from the great.

Pat Camden

just pulled up to people and started shooting at various victims and went from one location to the other.

Oliver Perez

I threw 100 percent. I used my splitter. My slider was good. My location was good. Right now, I feel really good.

Saul Bellow

It is sometimes necessary to repeat what all know. All mapmakers should place the Mississippi in the same location and avoid originality.

John Jones

I just talked to my owner, and he's negative. We're an Oakland institution. We've been in Oakland since 1921 and in this location about 25 years.

Cliff Lee

I missed with my location on that one. I got lucky there.

Meg Whitman

The geographical location is just perfect for us,

John Cassavetes

The greatest location in the world is the human face.

Joss Whedon

We had the camera locked, but not the location of the sun.

Buddy Bell

It wasn't one of his better starts. The location wasn't as good, but (the Yankees) have a tough lineup.

Phil Goff

It is not within the power of the president to remove the prime minister other than on the vote of a majority of the house,

Samuel Johnson

The majority of a society is the true definition of the public.

Chris Patten

The new administration must be broad-based with a mandate to speak for a majority of the people of Afghanistan,

Pope Benedict XVI

Truth is not determined by a majority vote.

John Kenneth Galbraith

There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.

Peter Jackson

The vast majority of the CGI budget is labor.

Kendrick Lamar

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

Larry Niven

The majority is always sane.

Mahatma Gandhi

A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority

Woody Allen

Please forgive me. My pedicurist had a stroke. She fell forward onto the orange stick and plunged it into my toe. It required bandaging.

Zora Neale Hurston

So Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time and an orange time.

Kenneth Clark

Few people can look at a painting longer than it takes to peel an orange and eat it.

Paul Eluard

The earth is blue like an orange.

Jonathan Carroll

I forgive nothing. If you stole my orange crayon in the fifth grade, you're still on my hit list, buddy.

Darren Criss

I like orange and blue together, but I would never wear them.

Ann Aguirre

He'd said the sun could burn me. It certainly looked angry enough, all orange and glowing mad.

Stephen Brady

We'll go out and make it safe, electrically. If the orange cones are there, then we have been out there.

Simone de Beauvoir

I would stand transfixed before the windows of the confectioners' shops, fascinated by the luminous sparkle of candied fruits, the cloudy lustre of jellies, the kaleidoscope inflorescence of acidulated fruit drops - red, green, orange, violet: I coveted the colours themselves as much as the pleasure they promised me.

Brian Regan

The owner tends to source these things separately,

Alex Miller

I have to pinch myself today to think that I actually am a part owner of this business.

James Cook

A business owner who is liberal probably inherited the business.

Brian Berger

They have ownership of this field, it's their baby. It's going to give them a sense of pride.

Michael Spears

It's a lot like a church, ... Everyone really takes ownership for the children's education.

Pete Rozelle

The most difficult owner for me was the late George Marshall of Washington.

Ellen Hopkins

Why doesn't love come with an owner's manual?

Eduardo Galeano

From their castle in Zurich, the owners of soccer do not propose, they impose. That's their way.

Jeffrey Skilling

I sold some shares, but on a net basis, significantly increased my ownership.

Dave Pirner

I was just a punk-rock kid who never played acoustic guitar.

Lindsay Davenport

I was just able to eke out the second set, and the third set I just played a lot better and she started to make a lot more unforced errors.

David Duncan

Kirby was 8 of 15 from the field. That's pretty good. She played well.

Jarome Iginla

Kipper, he's played like that all year. He's been amazing.

David Cash

I wouldn't say it's pressure. We played our way into this position we can play our way out of it.

Tiger Woods

I think I played really well - even though I had three bogeys, I think 10 birdies usually offsets that.

Leonard Little

It can't do nothing but get better now. We've played the worst that we can play.

Stephen Jackson

He was aggressive. He didn't let the referees get in his head, he just played well. He's getting a feel for the game.

Myron Rolle

He just told me not to put any undue pressure on myself. He said if I just relaxed and played my game, the big plays would come.

Justin Fishman

GW has always had talented players because of where it's located.

Michael Barrett

I think it?s going to be a lot more like home. I think players are going to end up spending a lot more time here.

Mathias Kiwanuka

Whatever it was, we took it in stride and the younger players defensively stepped up.

Dave Schroeder

We took the shackles off them. There used to be rules (about talking with fans). We tell the players to be themselves.

David Grewe

We've got to make our players tougher, and we've got to make our players understand the value of winning. And this sure helps.

Robert H. Connelly

I think it was just the combination of players we had in. It seemed we always had one player out of position.

Paul Mara

He was on his back and I don't even think he saw where the puck was and he took a swipe at it. That's why he is one of the premier players in the league.

Mario Bailey

I'm just now starting to feel comfortable. I didn't really know all my players until the end of (last) season.

Greg Couch

I have no idea why he would say that. All the players had apartments. ... He said things we don't understand.

Geoff Stults

In sports, every day you can be the hero or the goat.

Dick Enberg

He was the first superstar of sports television.

Retief Goosen

I'm not that clued up on the American sports yet, really.

Rube Goldberg

When I did sports cartoons, I used to uh, go to fights.

Ruben Studdard

But I also live to perform and I've been performing my whole life, whether it's been in sports or you know in band or with my singing.

Rose Leslie

I now LOVE archery, I find it a very therapeutic sport. I would be taken away for a couple of hours before we started filming to get back into the rhythm so that it was a fluid movement of picking up the bow and then the arrows and just being able to make it look as authentic as possible.

William Law

If you attempt to talk with a dying man about sports or business, he is no longer interested. He now sees other things as more important. People who are dying recognize what we often forget, that we are standing on the brink of another world.

Vinny Testaverde

First you have to spread on the rust performer, then you add a coat of protective enamel, and then you spray on the satin finish so you look good.

Woody Allen

I came home one night, some month ago, and I went to the closet in my bedroom...and a moth ate my sports jacket. He was laying on the floor, nauseous, y'know.