Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Price

I think you need a legal chiropractor to make your way through some of the bends and twists of the case.

James Randi

If Uri Geller bends spoons with divine powers, then he's doing it the hard way.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

There is another bend in the road after this. No one knows what will happen.

Doug Kelly

The light wave is then reflected off the back of the raindrop's surface and bends as it goes outward at different angles.

Richard McMillan

It's a real mind game. There are so many crevices, bends and directions in the play, ... There are two themes: The knife-edge relationship between revenge and redemption and the duality of natures that you can have within one person.

Allan Cunningham

A wet sheet and a flowing sea, / A wind that follows fast / And fills the white and rustling sail / And bends the gallant mast.

Chinese Proverbs

A young branch takes on all the bends that one gives it

Ridley Scott

We're suffering from saturation, overkill. The market place is flooded by demand, and there are too many films, so everything gets watered down. Demand is the boss and everything bends to that will. Bigger and not necessarily better shows seem to be the order of the day. I can't watch most of them.

Isabella Bird

The cocoa-nut palm grows best near salt water, no matter how loose and sandy the soil is, and in these congenial circumstances needs neither manure nor care of any kind. It bends lovingly toward the sea and drops its ripe fruit into it.

Keke Palmer

I don't wish for anything. Wishing for a million dollars feels greedy. I just wish for the best for me.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

Krispy Kreme claims the 'batter is the best part.' Same with an Obama speech. It's all about what's on the outside, not what's inside.

Katherine Paterson

The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears.

Larry Hughes

I was just dealing with it, playing through it, but I knew something was wrong. This was the best time to do it. If it was later in the year, I would've kept playing.

Evgeni Nabokov

Kipper is a confident guy right now back there and, defensively, they're one of the best teams in the league. Their identity is they're not going to score four or five goals, they're going to score two or three, but it's going to be enough to win.

Mike Gansey

Kevin is one of the best all-around players in the conference. He's obviously one of the best shooters and his inside play has improved this season. Kevin is a big part of our team.

Bill Schneider

Kerry's line is, 'If this is the best we can do, we're in trouble,'

Peter Laviolette

I would think that we're going to take the best players available.

Greg Mason

Jacobson had his best game of the year and I was most encouraged by his defense.

Nathan Robertson

I was just desperate to win it. It was such a big occasion and right now it ranks as the best. We can win grand prix events but it is the medals you have won that define your career when it's all done.

Don Jordan

Ken was recognized early in his career as a man of integrity, strength and imagination. I hated it when he told me he was taking early retirement. I tried hard to talk him out of it.

Gary Griffiths

Kids need to be connected to the school and they need to feel someone cares about them. In a large school setting it can be extremely impersonal. There's nothing worse than a student in a large setting not being connected to anything. That's the height of loneliness.

Ayn Rand

know not if this earth on which I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a speck of dust lost in eternity. I know not and I care not. For I know what happiness is possible to me on earth.

Courtney LaVere

Knowing it's the end of the season and the end of my career possibly, I don't want to regret anything.

Santonio Holmes

Knowing I have three kids to take care of, I want them to have a dad, something I didn't have. I want to be there to support them. My mom was always a single parent raising four kids. I really want to support my mom.

Anthony Principi

Kids coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan . . . deserve to come back to 21st-century medical care, ... Whatever it costs, we need to incur that cost to provide that world-class care to an extraordinary group of men and women in harm's way.

Walt Jocketty

I would think it's a good fit, ... but that's not something for me to decide. He started his career there, and he's obviously one of the top managers in the game that's not employed as a manager. Jim is going to manage somewhere in 2006. Definitely.

David Skorton

I wouldn't be so presumptuous as to walk in here with approximately 90 seconds of experience and start telling the people who have made their careers here what the important issues are.

Alan Brien

The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting.

William Higgins

It's not always the most congenial guy who makes the most noise.

Orison Swett Marden

The true doctrine is that labor - systematic, effective, congenial labor - is not only a necessity, but is the source of the highest enjoyment.

Ken Johnson

He's a real congenial gentlemen, and he's out there trying to spread the Word. It's not every day you see someone doing that.

Elaine Pagels

After Ann Godoff, who was editor-in-chief at Random House, left and went to Viking, I got to know Viking and the people there, and liked them very much. I also found a wonderful editor there, Wendy Wolf. It's a very congenial press.

Andy Reid

It gets pointed at McMahon, but it's not all him. You can't have six or seven drops like we did Saturday.

James Farrior

He had a lot of drops today. I don't know what it was. Maybe Joey got in his head. His game plan all week was to try to get in Stevens' head and I think he might have done that.

Doug Johnson

Our main focus right now is our D zone coverage. Hopefully when the puck drops we'll be ready.

Annalee Newitz

'Interstellar' is a thematic sequel to Christopher Nolan's last original film, 'Inception'. It drops us into a dark future full of otherworldly landscapes and time distortions.

Chris Wickham

The helicopter and the aerial drops that we've been doing have made a difference.

Thomas Hardy

And meadow rivulets overflow, And drops on gate-bars hang in a row, And rooks in families homeward go, And so do I

Dirk Johnson

It's just painful, ... I could run on a treadmill forever, but anything side to side was very painful. Rolling out of bed. Getting out of a car. The problem is when you have to open your hips. Which he does every time he drops back.

Scott Hettrick

They (people) suddenly have their interest piqued in Johnny Carson. Clearly, the first week is pretty strong. Then it drops off pretty quickly.

Don Zilverberg

One day the market can be very good, and then you have an outbreak of something like BSE and the market drops tremendously.

Michael Chertoff

We're now starting to see the fruits of seeds that were harvested when we started talking about this strategy a year or so ago.

Walter Isaacson

I think this problem could be solved in 20 minutes. It's low-hanging fruit and not that expensive.

Ray Anderson

It isn't just the low-hanging fruit we go after.

French Proverb

It is only the tree loaded with fruit that the people throw stones at

Nick Cave

It's possible to get through life without a religious structure, but I don't think that's a very fruitful way to live.

Robin Gibb

I don't like fruit but I'm vegetarian, so eat a lot of veggies.

Sathya Baba

In order to lead a fruitful and meaningful life, render service to mankind, which will take you nearer to God.

Ed DeChellis

I really wanted our players to have an opportunity to play again. I'm happy for our kids, happy for our coaches, who worked really hard, and hopefully we'll see the fruits of our labor.

William Blake

The Child's Toys and the Old Man's ReasonsAre the Fruits of the Two seasons.

Andrew Wilson

I think it's tough for the young guys to really understand what the NIT is all about because nobody really grows up watching the NIT. Unless you've been there and played in it, it's hard to have a feel for how intense it is.

Woody Allen

I don't get depressed; I grow a tumor instead.

Woody Allen

I can't express anger. I grow a tumor instead.

Annie Golden

If I wrote a memoir, it would be like 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.'

Oliver Bierhoff

It's the sum of many parts which grow to be something great.

Mark Victor Hansen

You never know how much you can grow.

David Hobson

To boldly grow where no one has groan before.

Bear Grylls

As a society, we've become terrified of failure, but you can't grow without risking it.

Michael Nutter

Our economy grows from the middle out, not the top down.

Alex Solis

He was so relaxed; he made the track look fast. The track was loose but he still went 1:12 1/5, just breezing. He was real happy.

Paul Costa

I just picked up a loose puck and finished.

David Attenborough

You were never quite sure which were pickpockets or loose ladies.

Gil Garcetti

It's like if you have a quilt and a thread is loose and they see that thread, they say, 'Forget the rest of the quilt. ... It's not guilty,'

Greg Biffle

It's something I'm going to think about for a long, long time. I lost the championship by 35 points and we lost over 50 (points) with the loose wheel.

Mike McKenzie

It took a little while for our staff to see who played well together. Then we played loose and aggressive.

Taurean Green

They physically killed us. They got every rebound, every loose ball.

Shawn Williams

They outworked us to the ball, got loose balls. We were shooting. We just didn't make shots.

Tom Kenna

They got loose on the threes. They made 12. They shot the three in transition.

Bill Freeman

Just patriotism, ... No matter what went down, we were supporting our own nation and land.

David Eckstein

Just stepping to the plate, just understanding it's you vs. him, that's all that really mattered at that point.

Greg Puhalski

He didn't play too badly. It's just a matter of getting a little rust off.

Doug Miller

He comes up with a lot of big plays no matter where you put him.

Sally Field

The only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

Sloane Crosley

Going to a museum is one of those inexplicably tiring things. You're not actually doing anything, more shifting your weight from room to room than walking. And yet it is one of the more tiring things one can do, no matter how thrilled you are by the exhibits.

Brian Beckwith

His success is all to him. It's all a matter of how he thinks each night and how he prepares for each game.

Dave Duncan

His stuff is there, it's just going to be a matter of time. He'll get into the swing of things.

Arlen Specter

I think it's more a matter for them than us because we've got ... a lot of matters which take precedence over this for our own time,

Mychal Williams

Kendra stepped up and played a solid game, nearly getting a double-double.

Thomas Powell

What you do is not nearly as important as who you are.

Paul Gillmor

To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000 in public debt riding on our backs.

Fletcher Smith

He was nowhere near the scene of the incident. But unfortunately the vehicle is registered under his name.

Bobby Cox

I don't know what Wilson was thinking, there was nobody near him. He tried to tell me, but I couldn't quite understand what he was saying.

Dan Anderson

In the state of Nevada there is nobody near her, nobody. She is a real competitor.

David Filo

The Internet is not nearly as fail-safe as the phone system.

English 14th Century Proverbs

The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat.

George Burley

They will be in the squad. We will look at things nearer the time but the team has done very well and I've been very pleased with them.

Mike Slive

Just the fundamental format, I think, needs explanation.

Linda Holmes

I think it needs to be a very slow process.

Susan Carney

He wants to do well and will give it everything he's got. Myles will do what he needs to do during the season to play tough competition.

Glenn Thomas

He just needs to take a long vacation.

Billy Donovan

He just needs to let it go. It's really that simple for our team.

Darrell Bevell

He just needs as many reps as he can get.

Jolanda Schreurs

I think it's an opportunity to redress that and start working in concert. Our needs should be aligned.

Ozzie Guillen

I think the only sport that really needs it is football,

Roy Williams

We're open to serve the humanitarian needs for the community.

Bhagavad Gita

There is neither Self-knowledge nor Self-perception to those whose senses are not under control. Without Self-perception there is no peace; and without peace there can be no happiness.

Monica Crowley

In many ways, Nixon started the modern notion of 'compassionate conservatism,' which as we all know is neither 'compassionate' nor 'conservative.'

Jacques Chirac

A new resolution is neither useful nor necessary,

Said Nursi

Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary.

Dave Reynolds

One thing about them is neither one will give up. They're tenacious, they really are.

Scott Brewer

Neither team made many errors. It was well played.

Larry Greene

Neither Savannah nor Brunswick has any kind of safe mooring or anchorage,

Michael Barnett

Neither of these goaltenders has ever been viewed as backups.

Dr. Chauvet

I don't tolerate insensitivity and neither do they.

Josh Sharpless

I was a lot calmer and relaxed this time. I didn't feel like everything was going 1,000 mph. It just seemed like a normal game. I didn't have the butterflies this time around. I just went out and pitched.

Scott Skiles

Just to run down and double-team Shaq all over the place, it normally doesn't pay off.

Mo Johnston

He said he was sorry. End of story. I'm not worried about that. He buckled down in the second half. Normally in the past, he would be sent off.

Bill Ward

I think it's just going back to a more normal level.

Cindy Winstead

We're not your normal organization. We have no funding, it's just me.

Clive Woodward

We take our normal precautions which are professional and thorough,

Vincent Farrell

I think technology stocks are in for a correction, but it's a perfectly normal correction. This is a seasonably weak period of time.

Michael Steele

I don't know that much about the club, the membership, nor do I care, quite frankly, because I don't play golf.

Billy Donovan

He got back to playing the way he normally does.

Alyce Robertson

In the summertime, if you walk down the street, and all you have is a palm tree shading you . . . that doesn't do it for me.

Arnold Palmer

You don't go to Palm Springs in the summer unless you're building a golf course.

Michael Jacobson

Switching to butter, palm oil, anything else would be an improvement.

Brian Dennehy

The people who go to the Palm change. But when I go into a Palm, it is always the same for me.

Darin Erstad

It doesn't matter. It's where I've spent most of my time. My palms will sweat a little less.

Eric Benhamou

Palm executed quite well in a down market.

Kathie Lee Gifford

When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe.

Jody Watley

The time was ripe for Flower. The vibe was right.

Zadie Smith

For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt--something is gained but something is lost.

Sharon Johnson

They were already vulnerable. This is just salt to the wound.

Joe Dumars

Any coach worth his salt will take a look at that and say, 'I'll take my chances with that'

Kajol

If I read in a paper that somebody has said something about me, I'm going to take it with a pinch of salt; I really am!

Terry Bradshaw

When I played for the Steelers and I got my bell rung, I'd take smelling salts and go right back out there.

James Castle

Anyplace worth its salt has a 'parking problem'

Harry Reid

You see some of these big homes; they look OK, ... But they've been soaking in salt water for two weeks. They're gone. They'll tear them down.

Curt Schilling

When you say you are a gamer and you are a celebrity or a former celebrity there's a grain of salt that everybody takes that with.

Victor Hugo

Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.

Sparky Anderson

The day I got a hit off (Sandy) Koufax was when he knew it was all over.

William Zinsser

Most writers sow adjectives almost unconsciously into the soil of their prose to make it more lush and pretty. The sentences become longer and longer as they fill up with stately elms and graceful boughs and frisky kittens and sleepy lagoons.

Robert T. Bakker

Stegosaurus was common only on well drained, dry soil.

Virgil

Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses

Friedrich Schiller

Strange customs do not thrive in foreign soil.

Novalis

Friends , the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests .

Eric Ries

A Start Up is an institution designed to thrive in the soil of extreme uncertainty

Ovid

Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget.

Pat Buchanan

Or will it take some cataclysmic act of violence on U.S. soil to finally awaken our gamesmen to the costs of global hegemony?

Earl Scruggs

My music came up from the soil of North Carolina,

Samuel Larsen

I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.

Bible Bible

And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.

Maurice Cheeks

We still have a long way to go and we're still working toward that.

Jane McGonigal

We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence.

John Gandy

As we got toward the end of the year, he was indicating some things he had to complete.

Ryan Getzlaf

We're just working toward that now. Everyone wants to be in the same place at the end.

David Dearborn

Essentially, we're all working toward the same goal.

Larry Davis

Everything has to go perfect. We're working toward that date. We'll see if we make it.

William Benet

One speck within vast star-space lyingAwoke, arose, resumed its clothing,And crawled another day toward dying.