Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alafair Burke

I was downright obnoxious. In second grade, we had some program where we kept a public list of all the books we read. I think it even included the number of pages. In my nerdy mind, having the longest and most impressive list was somehow going to make up for the fact that I couldn't climb a rope or do a backwards summersault in PE.

Stan Perkins

I was a chunky little kid, and when they sat me in that wagon, it tipped backward and I banged my head on the (concrete) floor. I was howling pretty good, but Dad went outside and cried his eyes out.

Neil Strauss

All this stuff is backward engineered from what works. Nobody sat at a computer and invented these techniques. They watched guys who are successful and broke it down to what works.

Tony Vis

All of a sudden (in the second half) we started to play vertical, where now we're playing forward basketball rather than looking to throw the ball backward and going side to side. We got our players out running.

John Updike

The good ending dismisses us with a touch of ceremony and throws a backward light of significance over the story just read. It makes it, as they say, or unmakes it. A weak beginning is forgettable, but the end of a story bulks in the reader's mind like the giant foot in a foreshortened photograph.

Joe Ferrer

The horse went over backward once and came down. He got his left foot out of the stirrup but he couldn't get his right foot out in time.

Shawn Mendes

The first year I started hockey, I didn't know how to skate, so I got on the ice with all of the hockey players, and we were doing drills where we had to go backwards in figure eights. And I could not skate, and I just kept falling on my butt, and it was very embarrassing.

Joan Baker

Everyone's bent over backward in the Whitesboro school district,

Robert Greenstein

The new data are particularly troubling for working people, showing backward movement for most workers. In short, the census data provide new evidence that, as in 2002 and 2003, the recovery was neither robust nor broad-based.

Geno Auriemma

Right now she?s playing with a lot of confidence. There?s nothing Barbara can?t do out there; it?s just a matter of being locked in mentally and right now she seems to be.

Peter Guralnick

They looked up to him. Even Barbara -- she's still trying to understand Sam. And J.W. -- Sam was the person he'd liked to have been.

Michael Specter

For decades, Barbara Walters has been described as a broadcast pioneer - and with good reason. In 1974, Walters became the first female host of the 'Today' show. In 1976, she became the first woman to serve as a network-news anchor. In 1984, she moderated the first presidential debate between Walter Mondale and Ronald Reagan.

Ted Olson

Barbara would have insisted that I live my life and that I go on and do the best possible job I could as solicitor general of the United States.

Karen Meredith

Barbara is definitely the heart and soul of this school.

Don Leclair

Barbara has served Ford well in her role in Investor Relations. She always put the Company's interests first, and we wish her well in her future endeavors.

Keith Wilbur

Santa Barbara is a very good team. They are currently ranked No. 10, and more than anything, we will expect them to be really physical. This will be a good opportunity for us to see if we learned and improved upon some things from playing Davis because it will probably be a similar type of game.

Boris Becker

Before, I wouldn't have sacrificed anything for tennis but when I met Barbara it was different. I would have sacrificed tennis for Barbara.

Cathy Marie Buchanan

A tour of the Mexico City of Diego Rivera and Frieda Kahlo led by Barbara Kingsolver would be nice. And I certainly wouldn't turn down a tour of Johannes Vermeer's Delft led by Tracey Chevalier.

Ray Waddell

In the first half of last year, you had a lot of the big tours early - Madonna, Prince, Bette Midler, Simon and Garfunkel. This year it's backloaded . . . that's just the way it worked out.

Vesta Williams

A lot of people have called me the black Bette Midler, and I regard that as a compliment.

Lesley Nicol

I met Bette Midler, who I absolutely love.

Christopher Paolini

Never ask an elf for help; they might decide your better off dead, eh?" (Orik) (Eldest) (Page 207)

Sidney Poitier

You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.

Donna Mills

I always loved Bette Davis-she's probably my very favorite. She had an influence on me in that I felt I knew what she was thinking. She was thinking the things she wanted me to know about. When you're in extreme close-up, all you have to do is think, and the thoughts will read.

Suzan-Lori Parks

I love beautiful black-and-white movies - anything Bette Davis, especially 'Now', 'Voyager', 'Casablanca', 'Mildred Pierce'; anything by Orson Welles, Truffaut, or Godard; and 'Paper Moon' by Peter Bogdanovich.

Ian Somerhalder

True statement: Live it, love it, leave the wold better off than when you got here.

Val Guest

Oh, yes, we were on location with Another Man's Poison, which I wrote for Bette Davis.

Tony Quinn

He was larger than life, not a Gray Davis or Pete Wilson, who were technicians. He said, 'I am Arnold. I can move mountains.' But then he didn't deliver?. He delivered midgets when he promised giants.

Michael Turner

He had only generous words for Ray Davis and Koshiba.

Mark Shapiro

Our original plan in the off-season was to slate the No. 5 spot in the rotation for a younger player (Jason Davis or Fausto Carmona) and to spend money to upgrade elsewhere. When we were unable to get some other things done, we saw an opportunity to improve the team by signing Jason. The young guys still could end up playing a role for us in 2006.

Mack Brown

It's a possible 14-point swing and, for sure, a 10-point swing, ... Greg Davis did a really great job of getting two plays called at the line of scrimmage. He called it before they could get into position.

Padraig Harrington

It's actually not a tough way to lose. I was expecting Davis to get up-and-down on the last and I'd have to hole mine out to go to 19. I was prepared for that, but maybe not prepared for him holing out.

Kerry Collins

It's a testament to the organization and to Mr. Davis that they're willing to go out and do those kind of things and get guys like Randy in here, re-sign Jerry, getting LaMont. It's a great feeling for me. I'm excited about the year. I'm excited to work hard and just see how good we can be and how we can all put it together.

Paul Weller

No one told Miles Davis or BB King to pack it in. John Lee Hooker played literally up to the day he died. Why should pop musicians be any different?

Pat Williams

Ray Davis made some big 3s for us. I told my kids that if they didn't want to hear me yell, then they better play hard.

Scott Skiles

Antonio Davis can't help but be a good influence on the other guys and Jerome Williams hustles all the time. He gets up and down the floor.

Dawn Hudson

I think that's terrific that independent films are getting more and more mainstream press.

Jake Busey

I don't have a favorite role because there's been so many films that I've done that I've really enjoyed.

Asif Kapadia

I often make films about subjects I don't really know much about. Maybe it's laziness, but I don't go in there having done a tonne of research; the research happens while I'm making the film.

Asif Kapadia

I like to make films where I learn along the way, like the audience.

Chris Robinson

These are films you won't see on Teletoon.

Scott Snyder

These films are a nice enhancement to what we usually do, which is to screen movies that would otherwise go unseen in the Lehigh Valley.

Cole Mueller

Everyone knows USC films help launch actors' careers. USC film students know what they're doing.

Alicia Keys

Everyone on the set had been working on films for 20-plus years. I was enraptured.

Kyle MacLachlan

Everyone has their 'Showgirls.' We remember the great films actors have been in, and the rest get forgotten. But occasionally, people like to revisit the ones that get swept aside.

Julie Klausner

I have nothing snarky to say about Joan Rivers' appearance. We should all be that happy with how we look on camera, frankly.

Amber Tamblyn

I think that people are definitely interested in the idea that Joan has conversations with God.

Graham Elliot

Dining should be something that isn't always taken extremely seriously.

Tony Stewart

I'm scared of saying something that may get taken the wrong way.

George Best

It has been a long week but things have taken a turn for the best. I am very optimistic.

Richelle Mead

I’ve come to ask you where Seth is.” "Funny,” said Andrea. “We were going to ask you the same thing.” I was taken aback. “How would I know?” They both just stared. "I don’t!

Ron Chernow

A prudent silence will frequently be taken for wisdom and a sentence or two cautiously thrown in will sometimes gain the palm of knowledge, while a man well informed but indiscreet and unreserved will not uncommonly talk himself out of all consideration and weight. (Alexander Hamilton's 'thesis on discretion' written to his son James shortly before his fatal duel with Burr.)

Tryon Edwards

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.

William S. Burroughs

Everything Jack says is to be taken with considerable reserve.

William J. Clinton

People ought to be going over this, finding things they don't like. Congress has clearly proved they can act in a hurry. If there's something wrong with it, it can be amended. If something needs to be kicked in, it can be put in. If something needs to be taken out, it can be taken out.

Will Ferrell

I guess ultimately a lot of comedians just wanna be taken seriously.