Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Hughs

Oil is on everyone's mind. We're expecting a fall in inventories, but instead we get a rise,

Shlomo Yosef

The situation is still serious, but it's stable. All the parameters ... are as expected following this type of surgery. Part of the treatment of the prime minister, in order to preserve low pressure in the skull, is sedation and respiration for at least the next 24 hours.

Laura Bush

is horribly disappointing and the sort of thing I normally expect from left-wingers.

O. Winston Link

I never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.

Jon Groth

You can't do that and expect to win after that inning. We had three outs to come back and it just wasn't enough time. It was a very disappointing way to lose.

Norv Turner

You can't do that and expect to win.

Ben Luber

You can't be down 20 points in the second half and expect to get back in the game.

Harry Shearer

You can never expect a movie to have a life that lasts this long, really.

Masaki Iso

We've had a good year and I expect another good one in the next fiscal year.

James Flecker

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon - / With few but with how splendid stars / The mirrors of the sea are strewn / Between their silver bars.

Marco Polo

At school, a few people know that I'm over here. I don't know about everybody, professors, curling people and a few kids in class.

Rick Woodard

The thing I'd like for us to work on is getting better quality shots. I'd rather us get fewer shots that go in than to take more shots that don't. I'd rather have quality than quantity.

Jan Popa

A few personal photos are OK, but it's pretty hard for people to walk by a wedding picture without looking at it.

Karen Evans

A few of the service providers did not do what they said they were going to do.

Meghan Coward

Sometimes Molly will fly out to L.A. for a few days, raid the gallery scene there, and come back with a list of names and try to lure them down here.

Ian Woosnam

I've used it on the putting green a few times. I'm good with it, but I've not done it on the course, not in competition.

G. H. Hardy

I've tried to get out a few times, but I always seem to come back.

Phil Jackson

I've seen a few 60-point ballgames in my time, but none of them had been done by the third quarter.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

John Tavares

Any player in the NHL would be a great comparison, but when you name a guy like Sidney Crosby . . . but I don't know if I'll be able to do things he's done in the league because we're different types of players,

David Phillips

Are we no longer the Great White North? It's incredible.

John Lawlor

The sum of the parts is greater than the whole.

Julie Stradling

I've always thought KP was a great player. She's a great passer, a great point guard and a great shooter, too. We really needed her tonight and she did a great job.

Dick Fazio

I used to sit there and look over my shoulder at Irv when he was playing and wonder, what did this guy sound like 50 years ago when he was in his 30s? He was a great musician up until the end.

Mark Tauscher

Stupidity and mistakes aside, I think we had a great shot at winning. We're stuck in a really tough spot. You need a win, you want a win and we just didn't do it.

Terri Sullivan

Southern Illinois is a great program with great coaches. They play solid softball. We just have to play our style of softball if we want to win.

Don Haskins

I spent 18 months, off and on, with the script writer. I might as well have not spent one second with him.

Gordon Strachan

You might as well scrap offside now if you are not going to rule that offside.

Bret Harte

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'

Pat Olmi

We might go over there and watch 'em. We can sit back and rest a little bit.

Ryan Ward

We might be related, but it's very distant.

E. B. White

And you can use the time as you want. You could say, 'I need you to go pick up a prescription for me,' and that might take up 15 minutes of your time allotment.

Ashley Wagner

I might be more of a tomboy on the ice, but when it comes to fashion and things like that, I'm a total girlie-girl.

James Matthews

We've had tickets sold all over the state, so I don't know where the winner might come from,

Lyle Setencich

We've had some problems. If we want to stop the run, we can stop the run. But we might not be able to stop the pass.

Pete Hald

I've never had three players at the same time who can score like they do.

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Dikembe Mutombo

The NBA has more than 435 players and there are at least 100-some players doing more than expected. Shaq is doing a lot. Dwight Howard, [Manu] Ginobli. Dirk [Nowitzki] is doing a lot, and not just in Europe; he's reaching out to Africa and all other places.

Joe Legerski

We've had a lot of different players step up for us (in the post).

Jerry Angelo

To get valued players you have to be willing to give value.

Andrew Bird

I'm a terrible Scrabble player.

Tony Levin

I'm a player and I do it because I love playing whether it's for my album or someone else's.

Tony La Russa

Toughest thing for me as a young manager is that a lot of my players saw me play. They know how bad I was.

Steven Gerrard

The foreign players seem to be reveling in the European games and they've put in some massive performances for us. (on Liverpool)

Toby Hall

Electric. His stuff was electric. That was unbelievable. Even some of their lefties were saying they had no chance.

Peter Ashkenaz

Pharmacists are saying there are still some bumps, but things are getting better.

Richie Benaud

If it was me, I probably wouldn't be saying anything.

Wazhma Mojaddidi

He's saying that she couldn't see the evidence, couldn't see he was guilty.

Greg Rucka

When they're saying 'it's too dark,' they're saying, 'I'm scared.'

Charles Caleb Colton

There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less than the truth on others. But the fact is that they are in both instances as fraudulant as he would be that exacted more than his due from his debtors, and paid less than their due to his creditors.

Tom Ferguson

We're just saying we want him to stay. He's saying he doesn't want any more than the teachers get.

Kevin Smith

We're not saying we're a sequel. No, no, no.

Denis Breslin

We're not saying a whole lot right now.