Famous Quotes & Sayings

Xavi

I spend the entire 90 minutes looking for space on the pitch. I'm always between the opposition's two holding midfielders and thinking, 'The defence is here, so I get the ball and I go there to where the space is.'

Twyla Tharp

At the ballet classes I took when I first came to New York, I would see great dancers like Cynthia Gregory and Lupe Serrano. I would look at them and study what they could do, and what I couldn't do. And then I'd think maybe they should try what I could do.

Thierry Henry

The only thing I won't watch is darts. And I don't watch cricket. How can you like a game that requires you to take four days off work to follow a Test? And I don't really like golf. I know a lot of English footballers play, but I know that if I go with the club to play, sooner or later I will end up trying to smash the ball with my foot.

Thierry Henry

But the moment I've got a ball at my feet, I'm happy.

Imelda May

There have never been so many women in the music industry, but they're doing ballads and pop. Where's the new Joan Jetts and the Wanda Jacksons and the Debbie Harrys, all these strong women? I wanna be the woman that rocks.

William Clay Ford, Jr.

We took our eye off the ball as a company.

Steve Friedman

The only crystal ball even more difficult to read than where one's own personal situation may be is where the country is headed and what the country's economic situation will be in 20 or 30 years.

Rick Adelman

The patience at the end of the game there when Brad hit the three was terrific. We had plenty of time, we moved the ball around and they made a mistake and left Brad standing there. Then in the overtime we took control, especially when Odom fouled out.

Phillip Hilliard

The past two games we haven't been hitting the ball. He had to be (critical) ? nobody was hitting the ball. We should've hit the ball a lot better, and we weren't focused on the fundamentals.

Timothy Noah

Health care probably contributes a lot more to the common wealth than finance.

Irving Stone

I slept in van Gogh's bed. I worked in the room where he painted. I saw the place where he was cared for when he cut off his ear. I lived in the jail cell where he stayed. And I looked out the window. You remember that picture of the cornfields through the bars? That was what I saw.

Zack Snyder

To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.

Warren Farrell

The women themselves say they're far more likely to care about flexibility. The men say, 'I'm far more likely to care about money.'

William John Wills

It is of great importance to note these meteors, even the small ones, as very little is yet known of them; and every observation, if carefully made, will some day help to show what they are.

Virginia Postrel

When I was in college, I wanted to be editor of 'Reason' when I grew up. It was an impractical ambition, especially since the magazine was located in Santa Barbara, way off any journalist's normal career path.

Billy Graham

Rose Adams is a wonderful Christian woman who cared for my mother, Morrow Coffey Graham, in her last years of life.

Clotilde Hesme

I don't have a career plan. I'm not strategic enough.

Clive Thompson

Insurance firms have always carefully studied real-world data to figure out what, precisely, constitutes a risky activity.

Eric Mangini

I think Chad is a great competitor. I think he's a hard worker. I think he's smart, and I respect all the things Chad has done. I haven't talked to any of the doctors. I haven't sat down with Chad. So until I do that, I won't really feel comfortable commenting any further.

Ronny Turiaf

I think I'm like the Chad Johnson of basketball.

Sigi Schmid

We played much better in the first half. I thought Chad's goal was a good one off the free kick. We should have scored a couple more. I thought Chad Marshall was very good. Can't say the same about everyone that played in the second half, giving up soft goals.

Ike Taylor

You always want to step up to the plate and show what you can do. Chad has always been a premier receiver and a Pro-Bowl receiver.

John Johnston

One thing I would like to point out is that Chad Harris has become the fifth player at East Henderson to score over 1,000 points in his career.

Laura Bush

I was so excited to see Chad win. He's from Houston.

David Tom

I felt like the key to me having a good round today was feeding off of Chad Campbell. He played unbelievable. I was just trying to keep up. I made a couple nice putts there on the back nine that you're not supposed to make, but that's what you do when you have a hot round.

Curtis Martin

I don't think you'll ever talk to Chad and he'll say that he's at his best, ... because he's always pushing it.

Greg Hirsch

Fortunately, we're fairly deep on defense. Chad is a freshman but doesn't play like a freshman. He's pretty tough.

Mike Lowry

We need to have the social investments by which to quote unquote distribute some of that wealth.

Chad Hurley

People think about the world of TV and the world of online video as being different ways to distribute video. But what happens when every TV is connected to wi-fi with a browser?

Greg Kampe

We play very fast and like to press. And we need a point guard that can distribute and score.

Walter Martin

You see, 30 years ago I didn't have near the audience I have now. My tapes on the cults have reached a circulation of 15 million. those are not my figures but the figures of the people who distribute them.

Jeremy Allaire

It is now possible to distribute high quality programming that has been produced by much smaller entities.

Mark Helprin

'Creative Commons' is the self-congratulatory name of a self-congratulatory movement. Somewhat like kibbutz on the Internet, the idea is to write programs - 'free ware' - and distribute them without charge.

Jen Friedberg

It provides a way to distribute a variety of media without having to download different programs. It's the only program that can do it all.

Francis Bacon

Seek not proud wealth; but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and love contentedly

Muhtar Kent

The model of Coca-Cola is local, whether it's investing, partnering, sourcing, producing, or selling. We market and distribute locally; we pay taxes locally. And it works.

Gianni Agnelli

And I don't say that we didn't expect it, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the generosity of their foreign policy; and the generosity of their foreign policy at that moment was expressed through the Marshall Plan.

Virginia Postrel

I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother.

Jacek Tyszkiewicz

The pavement underneath the asphalt is crumbling. The drainage wasn't that particularly good. The planners back in the 1960's expect only 150,000 vehicles a day.

Mike Quade

The past two or three weeks we've pitched it the way I thought we would from the get-go. This is also the kind of pitching I expect from Mitre.

Bill Bruford

People come with expectations and as a bandleader I constantly try to remind the audience to leave its expectations in the lobby.

Bill Bradley

When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.

Chris Allen

The 3 percent kicks in during year three. On paper, we're not expecting to show a profit for the first year; we hope to show a small profit in year two.

Erik Anderson

The 9-hole is my most favorite position in the lineup. Nobody ever expects that player can hit.

Chris Liddell

The analysts were expecting more of a launch spike than we were,

Chinua Achebe

...Nothing puzzles God

Albert Einstein

It is really a puzzle what drives one to take one's work so devilishly seriously.

Greg Hebden

It was a different puzzle to put together.

Neal Soss

You don't see the symptoms, and that's one of the puzzles of the moment.

David Riley

They require a lot of thought, strategy, puzzle solving.

Lincoln Steffens

I am really puzzled to understand myself.

Jon Gruden

That was the play of the game. He runs down on that and just makes an unbelievable effort. There were just a lot of things like that for us today.

Neil Morris

That would be a dream. Every time we get him to the races, he runs a big race.

Rickey Henderson

To me the most important thing was stirring things up and scoring some runs so we could win a ballgame.

Lane Kiffin

We had our backups and we like to play somewhat realistic. We had about six straight runs before that.

Rich Falter

We have a little different theory about when teams get runs on us. We like to keep it up tempo and tire teams out.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Microsoft runs the world's biggest blogging platform, MSN Spaces.

Al Horford

Who runs the apartment? They'd probably say I do. I'll say Jo does too, but it's my show.

Jim Tracy

We got the three runs in the third, but we did nothing else. That's all we did.

Rogers Beasley

Water runs right through it. No more sloppy racetracks.