Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Johnson

That was a close call, but it was the right one. There was never any doubt that (Byrd) won that match.

Brad Gushue

There will either be a lot a lot of sick days or a lot of TVs in offices. In Newfoundland, nothing has ever come close to this.

Alaina Huffman

I ultimately wanna do big movies, and I've been so close so many times. They keep giving my roles to girls with just a little more exposure than me.

Robert H. Connelly

It was unlike any feeling I've ever had, ... because we're so close to these Marines.

Matt Herges

It was a bomb, but that close to 500? Not for me.

Corey Parish

These close ballgames are great learning tools. I am extremely proud of these guys.

Jacques Chirac

These statements, presented as medical, are in fact texts devised by the patient, those close to him, his aides, ... authentic.

Larry Dixon

The Shootout trophies sit right next to my championship trophies, ... My rookie year, I think the only thing we didn't do was win the championship. We won all the big races that year, Gainesville, Englishtown and Indy, and then to close out the year with a win in the Shootout made for a storybook season.

Georg Hackl

These will be the last runs of my career, I'm very close to the end.

James Flecker

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon - / With few but with how splendid stars / The mirrors of the sea are strewn / Between their silver bars.

Marco Polo

At school, a few people know that I'm over here. I don't know about everybody, professors, curling people and a few kids in class.

Rick Woodard

The thing I'd like for us to work on is getting better quality shots. I'd rather us get fewer shots that go in than to take more shots that don't. I'd rather have quality than quantity.

Jan Popa

A few personal photos are OK, but it's pretty hard for people to walk by a wedding picture without looking at it.

Karen Evans

A few of the service providers did not do what they said they were going to do.

Meghan Coward

Sometimes Molly will fly out to L.A. for a few days, raid the gallery scene there, and come back with a list of names and try to lure them down here.

Ian Woosnam

I've used it on the putting green a few times. I'm good with it, but I've not done it on the course, not in competition.

G. H. Hardy

I've tried to get out a few times, but I always seem to come back.

Phil Jackson

I've seen a few 60-point ballgames in my time, but none of them had been done by the third quarter.

Bucky Dent

The rivalry's gotten back to where it used to be.

Rachel Tolkien

Everything to me that is the most important, and the most moving in the book, they've gotten on the stage.

Tony Gray

Ever year his stick has gotten better and better.

Marvin Parvez

As the winter comes in, the situation has gotten more grim.

Jim Woods

The problem is, we haven't gotten to that point,

Jeff Harris

Two years ago, at this time, I had just gotten released in Mexico. So I'm thankful for the situation that I'm in right now.

Ellen Gerton

Maggie has worked really hard and her skills have gotten so much better.

Rick Forney

Life as we know it in New Orleans and Tulane has changed. We have leaned on each other and gotten support. And there may be a stronger resolve than there has ever been.

Grant Billmeier

Losing Kelly and Donald, that's a huge loss. They got us 18 wins. Without those guys, I don't know if we would have gotten 10. They were leaders on and off the court. I'm real thankful for that.

Colby Armstrong

A hundred points is huge, huge, especially for an 18-year-old. It's unbelievable.

Confucius

One hundred women are not worth a single testicle.

Daren Kagasoff

It's a feeling you get. You could have a hundred actors reading for one part, and they could all be spectacular, but one sticks out for some reason.

Michael Kors

In the '80s, it got to the point where we'd have shows with a hundred looks. You'd want to order a pizza before it was over!

Warren Ellis

I was originally going to train as a journalist, passing a series of exams that winnowed ten thousand applicants down to one hundred places on a National Union of Journalists course.

Holly Black

Three hundred words in a day is not a lot. So much of it is thinking before writing. And then there's the cutting. But you do what you do and keep moving forward.

Michael Mahoney

We're enrolling several hundred new kids per month.

Trey Anastasio

We're never going to stop! Three hundred shows a year forever!

Louis XIV

Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate.

William Blake

A petty sneaking thief I knew - / O! Mr Cr-, how do you do?

Jarkko Nieminen

The second set was huge. I knew at the end of the second set that I could win.

Jasper Johns

The only logical thing I can think of is that I knew there were such things as artists, and I knew there were none where I lived. So I knew that to be an artist you had to be somewhere else. And I very much wanted to be somewhere else.

Joan Baez

I see a young man playing 'Plaisir d'Amour' on guitar. I knew I didn't want to go to college; I was already playing a ukulele, and after I saw that, I was hooked. All I wanted to do was play guitar and sing.

Kristi Toliver

As soon as it left my hand, I knew it was going in. I knew I was going to take that shot. Big-time players take big-time shots.

Billy Henning

As soon as I saw the name on the postcard I knew who it was. You could've knocked me over with a feather.

Roy Harper

As soon as I heard skiffle, I loved it and I knew that I wanted to play it.

John Barrett

Did I know what they were? ... I didn't have a clue. But I knew that there was something on the horizon. I knew something was there.

Safa Rashtchy

To me, it was a very solid quarter. I'm not disappointed at all. We knew the point would come when operations would match expectations.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Brian Tracy

Do your own market research; ask your last ten customers exactly why they bought from you.

Bobby Lutz

We're a better team right now, the way we've played the last 10 games.

Kelly Holcomb

We've won the last two. We've got ourselves back to .500.

AJ Pierzynski

Do we feel lucky? No. Did they feel lucky when they won last night?

Jeffrey Lurie

We wanted this tribute to be a lasting one.

Josh Schwartz

We did a lot of that last year. Where that story line is going is not what people are expecting.

Chris Sullivan

I started passing people (in the last mile) and was able to stay up in the top 25.

Bobby Lamb

We signed 23 last year, and this year we signed 12. This year we were very selective because we were looking at taking one at every position, basically.

Carol Ann Duffy

What will you do now with the gift of your left life?

Grover Norquist

The only whiners left by next week will be the registered bigots.

Dan Kusnetzky

This type of movement is likely to see a lot of momentum. No one wants to be left out of a major trend like this.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I depleted myself to the point where I had nothing left.

Brendan Taman

We've never been in this situation before where there's a month left in the season and you're living on a mathematical wing and a prayer.

Ray Edwards

My grandmother works nights at Wal-Mart. I want to put a stop to that. That's why I left school early.

Charles Adams

If an S and an I and an O and a U - With an X at the end spell Su; And an E and a Y and an E spell I, - Pray what is a speller to do? Then, if also an S and an I and a G - And an HED spell side, There's nothing much left for a speller to do, But to g

Marc Pado

Net-net, there's probably plenty of oil in the market. OPEC left production quotas, so that's a plus for the market this morning.

Dee Smith

Just as one of our spotters to the north called in that he'd spotted a tornado, another one from the south said he saw another one. But they went around and pretty much left us alone.

Baltasar Gracian

An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness.

James Thurber

A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.

Shaun White

I was sponsored when I was about seven by Burton Snowboards.

Michael Ian Black

The Atkins' diet is where you eat bacon for six or seven months...and the end result is that you lose weight. Because you're dead.

Teri Garr

Seventy-five percent of MS sufferers are women

Tom Taulli

Seven years ago Buy.com had sizzle. But this doesn't have a lot of sizzle to it.

O. Singh

Seven shots around here is not much at all,

Mike Hathaway

I'd say right now there are seven teams (that could win it).

Walter Scott

If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

I have a second-degree black belt in Okinawan kobudo weapons training.

Nader al-Masri

I have a coach but there's nobody at my level in Gaza. I have to do most of my training sessions on my own.

Gina Carano

I am always training because I love it.

Haile Gebrselassie

In my life I do a lot of things but I never forget my training.

Mark Twain

There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I don't have any training in dance. I can convince an audience that I know how to dance because I'm a convincing actor.

Marcus Luttrell

To break a Navy Seal, you have to kill us. That's why we can make it into our training. That's why we can call ourselves Seals because the only way your gonna break us is to kill us.

Juliet Mills

Do some work in the theater if you can. It is the best training you can get.