Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Salter

I think you can be taught to write. You can't be taught to be a good writer. For that, you have to bring something to it, yourself, something that can't be given to you.

Ed Comeau

We talk about winning as a team and on any given night we think we have the talent to get all our guys scoring. We want that type of balance; we don't want to rely on (Grant) and Willy to score seven between them.

Maria Semple

I think a novel has to be about where you are at a given moment in time. I think it really needs to represent some specific pain you're going through. it's not just a story.

Jack Kokinda

He's given up one run in the last 42 innings. That's the reason why we're winning. If teams can't score, they can't win.

Gary Patterson

He's given TCU three great years. All you can say is it shows that TCU has arrived.

J. Horton

He's given me all the passes in the world. The least I could do is give him one once in a while.

Ron Gardenhire

He's given everything he has, and that's all you ask.

Denny Green

He's been given a lot of God-given talent, but he's really motivated. He likes to be the best. It's how he sees himself. And he's got an unusual body. He's strong as hell. He's one of the strongest guys in the league.

Ed Orgeron

He was picking it up and was given just enough time for the routes to come open. I don't know if you're going to totally stop him.

Harry Redknapp

I was looking for a reaction in the second half and I got it.

John Wardle

Kevin has got one and a half seasons to go so we are not silly enough to sit back and say that we are not going to do anything.

Franz Humer

I would say that we would see an acceleration (in drug sales), especially in the second half of the year, with the introduction of new products, with the acceleration also of the penetration of the oncology line in the non-U.S. markets,

Kevin Mench

He said he'd never seen 'turf toe' in the second toe. He said, 'Your shoes are a half size too small.

Mike Myers

We've been trying to price things at roughly half the market value.

Mike Chere

We thought we had some momentum going to start the second half (back to a 10-point deficit), but they kept hitting their shots.

Jeff Simpson

I thought the rebounding in the first half hurt us. We got one shot and they had second and third opportunities.

Bill Gibbons

I thought that run in the second half that Maine made was the key - where they really rebounded it and went out on the break.

Schatzi Hageman

He was halfway red and halfway loving it.

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.

Chauncey Billups

He's a volume shooter and he's pretty much the No. 1 and No. 2 options for them. He's going to shoot a lot of shots, and he's going to make some tough ones and score some points. We'll be right there doing whatever we can to make it harder on him.

Shari Schau

I think we just played harder than they did.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

I think at places like 'Slate' or the magazine where I work, there was a really poor record of hiring African-American writers. It was really that simple. And I think with the proliferation of the Internet and Internet media, it has been a little harder to maintain that gatekeeper position.

Herman Edwards

It is harder for me because we know all the work he has put into it,

Barry Bonds

I'm used to it. It's harder with my leg, though, a lot harder. Why should it be different past to present?

H. Hunt

If the purpose was to simplify the process, why are we throwing up obstacles? ... Where I'm hearing this going is that we're making it harder ... for an overlay than for a conservation district.

Jeff Taylor

If there's savings there, we can work a little longer, a little harder on some work projects in the summer.

Joni Pitkanen

I push myself to play harder and I feel stronger. Just keep going.

James Haynes

I'm just going to work harder and train harder for next year.

Rupert Grint

Are you kidding? This is Harry Potter! I love every last moment of it.

Jason Fuchs

I'm a sucker for 'When Harry Met Sally' and all that romantic stuff.

Matt Murphy

He said that he had partied with Prince Harry and that he knew (actress) Hilary Duff, which, even for royalty, didn't make any sense.

Rob Bishop

He's right on this one, ... Harry Reid has been talking about recycling and on-site storage (at nuclear power plants), and that is the real long-term solution for everybody. It solves Nevada's problem and it solves Utah's problem.

Orlando Bloom

My mother's husband Harry Bloom was a writer, a novelist, a reporter, and an anti-apartheid activist.

Rupert Grint

Well, before I knew there was going to be a film. I was the biggest Harry Potter fan. I read all the books.

Joe Piscopo

It's vital to getting out the vote because the kids identify with it so much.

Marcia Townsend

There were more than 100 plants. We had a wonderful time trying to identify all of them.

Alan Brown

Would you identify the man in this picture?

Cierra Ramirez

I've loved taking on roles that have a very universal message that lots of people can identify and relate to - and at the end of the day can get people talking.

Anne M. Mulcahy

When you get in a job, the tendency is to say, 'I've got to know it. I've got to give direction to others. I'm in this job because I'm better and smarter.' I always took a different view, that the key was to identify the people who really knew and learn from them.

Eric Coyne

As soon as they can find and identify a suitable person.

William Johnson

If they are not in school and they are supposed to be in school you can identify the ones that are supposed to be in school and the ones not supposed to be in school.

Ben Horowitz

If I'm in my position at a company, I may not have the knowledge of the C.E.O., I may not know what's possible, or I may not have the creativity, but if I can identify a problem, that's a valuable thing.

Ed Cogswell

We can use them and if a need presents, I'm sure we do. But we do not want to identify what our sources are.

Henry George Bohn

Every potter praises his own pot.

J. K. Rowling

According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else.

Nick Saban

Guys, let's get off this starting quarterback thing.

Lauren Bacall

There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree.

Sven Eriksson

He showed he is important even if he starts on the bench.

Assemblywoman Leslie

We've got to start somewhere. I want to see something in place.

Glenn Richardson

I think it's time we start talking about it,

Maurice Cheeks

I think it starts tomorrow. We have to start evaluating and find out where we are and see what it takes to get better.

Anquan Boldin

I think we are just starting to get where we need to be.

Marcus Williams

I think that we know we're good. I wouldn't say it's 100 percent, but we're starting to see flashes.

Jim Tracy

He's been very professional about this right from the start of spring.

Tommy Bowden

He's as talented a tight end as we've had here in a while, but doesn't understand the tempo.

Barbara Corcoran

Don't teach talent that isn't there.

Haruki Murakami

You can have tons of talent, but it won't necessarily keep you fed. If you have sharp instincts, through, you'll never go hungry.

John C. Maxwell

You have no control over how much talent you possess. You control only what you do with it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own.

Joan Sutherland

One is just given a talent, and it's one's duty to make the most of it.

Billy Wagner

You have to be mentally 'there.' Your talent is there, but you have to be mentally there, too.

John Connolly

Norton-Knight is a very talented player. He's versatile. He did very well at the weekend.

Beth Jones

I've always thought she could do it. It's a big step, but the talent is there.

Joss Stone

The British press has been unfair to me and the public has followed.

Neil Gaiman

It is neither fair nor unfair, Nobody Owens. It simply is

Chris Rock

Yeah, it's unfair that you can get judged by something you didn't do, but it's also unfair that you can inherit money that you didn't work for.

Kevin Sutherland

It's worked out pretty good, but now I need the space.

Carolyn Clark

As you can see, you get really dirty. But you know you worked if you get dirty.

Gene Fraise

It's the same as it is at home. We've always worked together.

Shanna Zolman

There's a lot of things that need to be worked on before we get to where we need to be.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Bryson Sumlin

That's not in the playbook, ... That's just excitement. Everything worked as clockwork.

Scott Aukerman

I look back on our productivity in the 'Mr. Show' days, and think, 'We probably could have worked harder.'

Joe Balogh

This was something we worked to get. It was important for us.

Mitch Ashmore

We have not executed well all year on things like that. We made them make a play, and it just worked out well.