Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Herbert Mead

Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future.

Cameron Johnson

He sees investment in education as being directly linked to the future of Oregon's economy.

John McCarthy

We're not working with American on this issue. We have proffered the offer directly to the shipping company.

Charles Polk

It is potentially an interesting alternative to Gallup polls or to specialists reporting from the region. It's a way of going directly to individuals in the region or outside who have knowledge or interest in the political and economic events in the area.

Stanlyn Placencia

I think we're progressing. I don't think we're directly on target, but there is progression.

Tommy Turner

Hopefully we'll be able to get him released directly into a (drug) treatment program.

P. J. Harvey

There are several parents who feel that it is time their students become part of the mainstream and go directly to Gene Witt Elementary. And there are a few that still feel they should remain in a small environment.

Jonathan Ames

I don't know that I've gotten much feedback directly from the literary world; sometimes I doubt even the notion that there is a literary world, though I guess there is or was.

Eric Greene

He talked directly about the Fed's forecasts, which Greenspan never did, and it is emblematic of his view that we have to make interest rate policies as easy to forecast as possible.

Rekalin Sims

I was knocking down shots. I hit the offensive boards. I just played better. Sometimes you have good games, sometimes you don't. I just felt like my rhythm was a lot better.

Jacki Gemelos

I was in the air, and I felt a pop in my right knee.

Terri Johnson

I was interested in these two performers who felt they could do something quite symbiotic,

Damien Chazelle

I was interested in music and making movies about musicians, but my own experiences, and doing what it felt like for me to be a drummer? Nah, I wasn't interested in that.

Phil Jackson

Kobe fought his way through it tonight. It was one of those games where the numbers of shots he took was too high, but he thought he was going to get fouled and he took the shots because he felt the pressure on him.

Dick Franti

I would say it's been a learning process. We were somewhat inexperienced when we started the year. Simon Store was really the only guy back with a lot of experience, so I kind of felt there would be come growing pains and there have been.

Nancy Giles

I yearn for a time when we are more engaged. When Dr. King was alive, no matter how you felt about him and what he was saying, people were talking.

Joe Williams

Kelly was also second in the 1600, so we felt pretty good about our young runners.

E. Hurley

Kelly's a sweetheart. And this is playful competition, but I felt a little ripped off losing to her.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you will grieve, and that's just given.

Janet Leigh

I was in that shower for seven days-70 set-ups. At least Hitchcock made sure that the water was warm.

Lori Cooper

Kim may also play some outside hitter for us this season.

Sue Adams

Kim hits a 3, and all of a sudden everyone just started playing.

Ryan Zimmerman

I wouldn't say I am a power hitter. I am a gap-to-gap guy. If I hit one like I did today, so be it.

Sarunas Jasikevicius

Jackson hit a lot of big shots. I thought that everyone stepped up. This was a big win for us.

Allison Johnson

Just like practice. I knew I just had to hit it hard.

Ron Whitehurst

Katy was hitting all her spots. She was able to pitch it inside and outside.

Ryan Short

Jon put it together today. He hit to all fields.

Jessica Lowndes

I love pampering myself, so going for a massage or getting a mani-pedi makes me feel instantly better. When my nails are done I feel so much better - it's the little things that make me so happy, and you literally feel polished.

Bob Barnes

I knew instantly he was the right choice.

Robert Creeley

Don't name it, as they say, because instantly you offer it to this peculiar authority.

John Roberts

could be instantly reversed when a new administration took office.

David Hall

You do see things instantly as they change.

Heidi Range

When we all met her, we instantly knew she was the only person to share the rest of the journey with us.

James DePreist

I thought it would be better to starve slowly over there than instantly over here.

Steve Albini

You see something happen to a population whereby everyone adopts something that's just preposterous in a way that makes it normal instantly. If any one person prior to the rash of puka shells, for example, was seen wearing puka shells, he would look like an idiot. But when everyone is wearing them, it instantly makes them normal.

Christie Brinkley

Smile. It instantly lifts the face, and it just lights up the room.

Norv Turner

Jake had his knee scoped this morning. It was a very short procedure. He has a slight torn cartilage edge, and it was scoped. It's probably in that three-to-four week range.

Brian Hendricks

I also had to get used to going down on my knee again, but that didn't take long to get totally comfortable with again.

Ben Braun

He'll be fine. He survived two knee operations, so he'll be alright. He really put us on his back tonight. He's a real warrior.

Ron Atkinson

The ball goes down the keeper's throat where it hits him on the knees to say the least.

Satchel Paige

Throw high risers at the chin; throw peas at the knees; throw it here when they're lookin' there; throw it there when they're lookin' here.

Zakk Wylde

I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage.

Yves Saint Laurent

I don't really like knees.

Darcy Tucker

I'll test the knee in the morning and see how it goes.

Dontrelle Willis

I popped my knee but it wasn't a big deal. Those things happen.

David Allan

We then resorted to watching them through a telescope and marked the places where they landed to pick up sample droppings for viral tests,

Jeff Nigbur

It rolled off the left side of the road and landed on its top.

Johnny Whitaker

the only way he could have landed where he landed was if he jumped.

Jeff Quackenbush

We like where we landed on the bracket. Now we just have to go out and make the most of that opportunity.

John Carver

Twenty years ago, I didn't have a passion to do lighting. I started on stage, worked my way around and landed in lighting.

Zhang Xin

Quickly, after I landed in England, I found out ways to get scholarships. England turned out to be a very encouraging place for me.

Mathias Rust

I approached Red Square three times, trying to find somewhere to land, before discovering a wide bridge nearby. I landed there and taxied into Red Square.

Dennis Kuhl

We were some of the first Americans who landed in Vietnam without weapons in our hands, you might say.

Cindy Morgan

I landed the role in 'Caddyshack' auditioning, like everybody else. It wasn't a role I thought I'd get, so I had nothing to lose.

Anthony Curtis

I think it makes sense. The only thing left that's new might just be old. If you've already got an old place, you wouldn't want to tear it down and start from scratch if you didn't have to.

D. H. Lawrence

He liked to watch his fellow-clerks at work. The man was the work and the work was the man, one thing, for the time being. It was different with the girls. The real woman never seemed to be there at the task, but as if left out, waiting.

Mike Dunne

He left voluntarily. He said it was time to move on.

David Broder

He left his editor, our editor, blindsided for two years and he went out and talked disparagingly about the significance of the investigation without disclosing his role in it.

Mark Lamoreaux

There is more left in the car. That's the encouraging part. I've had a perfect car. This one isn't there yet, but it's pretty good.

Ani Difranco

we thought we left possession behindbut truth is i was yours and you were mine

Larry Summers

I think what went on in Gainesville he left in Gainesville. I haven't seen any of that stuff. He's started off new.

Larry Summers

I think what went on in Gainesville he left in Gainesville, ... I haven't seen any of that stuff. He's started off new.

Alisha Marigoni

I think when he left I was a size 18 or a 16.

Mike Robinson

Jose looked like he was in state placer form. He's wrestling really well.

James Bond

He just stayed there . . . no one looked at him to see if he was okay.

Elian Gonzalez

He just looked so relaxed and so calm, it's just something I ... have been thinking about since that day.

Jennifer Byrd

He just looked like he was sleeping, honestly.

Danny Aiello

I used to make up stories about my father. I would go to the movies and look for a character who looked like my father.

Wayne Allen

Have we ever looked at something like that?

Jim Murphy

He's a special kid. He's someone to be looked at down the road.

Mike Price

He's just running around a little bit. He looked good, though.

John Tortorella

I thought we were ready to play. But we looked surprised that there was another team on ice.

Steve Ralston

I was in the right place at the right time . . . if I had missed that one, it would have been embarrassing,

Dinara Safina

I think I played well today. I just missed some really important shots.

Claude Tarver

I think a lot of them are wondering if they may have missed out on him.

Rick Barnes

I think it was a situation on this night that (Tech) missed a lot of shots. We were obviously taller and longer, so we could get those rebounds.

Bob Carroll

He missed a fairway once, at least I'm pretty sure he did. Back in the '70s, I think.

Bruce Allen

Really, what took place is he missed so much of training camp,

Thad Lear

In years past, down three scores, we would have folded up the tent and went home. We had our shot, but we missed it.

Arlen Specter

I read in the morning papers that we are under a lot of pressure. You may have missed the papers, but you won't miss the pressure.

Joe Crawford

I had a lot of opportunities to score, and I missed a lot of those. This is going to propel me to play better.

Sarah Rose

Just so relieved we have another year to turn things around for St. Joe's.

Mary Pierce

I am just very relieved to get through,

Carolyn Battaglia

I'm just relieved that the situation has been resolved.

Ann Brashares

How is it that a person could be so relieved and so disappointed, both at the same time.

Jim Marshall

On one hand, (they're) relieved and on the other hand, they're soldiers and they want to be there,

Danica Patrick

More than anything, I'm more relieved after this run.

Art Pulaski

He's rethinking some of his takeaways. We're relieved that he is.

Michael DeRiso

He's relieved that he's not going to jail.

Denise Baklid

We are ecstatic. We are relieved and we are truly blessed.