Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Half a crown in the bill, if you look at the waiter.

John Campbell

He's just getting into racing shape to go with these horses. With his third-place finish in the Breeders Crown last year, he showed he could be a top horse. Hopefully, he improves off this race for the final.

William Cowper

I crown thee king of intimate delights,Fire-side enjoyments, home-born happiness.

Virgil

A chaplet of leaves crowns the victor.

Samuel Johnson

The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act. If I fling half a crown to a beggar with intention to break his head and he picks it up and buy victuals with it, the physical effect is good. But with respect to me the action is very wrong.

Paul Burrell

I once walked in on the queen wearing her crown and pink, fluffy slippers.

Mark Waugh

I have to say, however, that I can't see any team wrestling the world crown from Australia. They play just too well.

David Cole

The electronics part of Delphi really is one of its crown jewels.

Tom Johnson

The difficult part is I love Crown Point. It was the first place I ever lived, including where I grew up, where I really felt like I was at home,

Wayne Taylor

Kevin was a good friend to me. After his death, and seeing his little boy, I got to thinking ? I'm going to do it. Kevin started that house three years ago, and we joked with him about having to finish it for him. Then this happened.

Ryan Hollins

Knowing it could be your last game, you want to finish with no regrets in your mind. There is no could have done this, or could have done that. This is something I am not taking for granted.

Brent Newman

Jake was trailing most of that race. He finished super strong and just out-touched the other two.

Mark Harris

just long enough to finish his training at the academy.

Chris Bryant

I think it could've been better. We've got to finish and we've got to find people to step up who can finish.

Teri Hatcher

I actually thought 'Desperate Housewives' finished very well. I just think there's still stories to be told. I feel like I get that from fans that they weren't done watching those people's lives.

Nancy Karl

He was about 95 percent finished when he died,

Casey Schweitzer

He didn't place and finished 3-2. He was a little disgusted, frustrated with his performance. He thought he could place.

Florence Mumba

He just got to finish the race, you can see the finish line and I think Zambians will never forgive him if he did not finish. We have people who have sacrificed their lives to support us.

Lori Lucas

If you save just 2% more and retire at 67 instead of 65, it dramatically improves your retirement outlook.

Bob Muglia

That really improves security and reduces management cost.

Richard Li

I want to create something like Sony. Not in terms of manufacturing products but creating something that is innovative, makes money, improves peoples' lives.

Tom Izzo

(Brown) improves his stock if he comes back.

Tom Buffenbarger

How long this strike lasts is anyone's guess. But unless and until the Boeing Co. improves their last offer significantly, the machinists will be pounding the pavement.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

If Indonesia improves governance of the fisheries sector and invests in large-scale maritime transport, it can double fish production by 2019.

Bill Parcells

I was kind of thinking back to Seattle last year, ... We kind of talked about that. We're just fortunate, really.

Joe Edgens

Kelley is going to be right up to the last minute before it's done.

Dave Kaplan

(Jocelyn) bounced back from a rough outing last time. Very nicely done. She's going to get another start, and we're going to keep working with her.

Will Grace

JLo-so karen hows married life?Karen-well it only lasted 20 minutesJLo-Oh is that short?

Bobbie Davis

I think I said to the players last year that they had one day to celebrate. And then they had to start concentrating and thinking about this year.

Keyshawn Johnson

It ain't no rebirth. I realized it last year when he was here, then he was gone. Quickly.

John Brady

He was 338 last season, ... We said he was at 320, but we lied. Now he's at 306 or 312. Really. He was quick last year. At 310, he's like nimble quick.

Bobby Cox

He couldn't wiggle out of the last one. Thought he might, but he didn't.

Jack Parker

He couldn't make a pass or shoot a puck. If this wasn't his senior year, if he was a junior, we probably wouldn't have played him this weekend. I didn't want to miss what could have been, at any moment, his last game.

Andrew Cooper

We feel it would be inappropriate for us to race.

Alex Jones

Some people say they're gathering DNA. Perhaps they're gathering it for the future when the human race is stronger or weaker, who knows. That's science fiction and mere speculation.

Keith Williams

I thought the races would be a little closer,

Greg Gilchrist

I want to win this race really badly,

Allison Duncan

I don't know that there is any more urgency now that Erin has run a Busch race,

Sarah McCune

I don't know what happened. It's not the way you want any race to go, especially when you're leading." ()

Rebecca West

Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed.

Ryan Hall

I race kind of sparingly.

Ryan Lochte

I enjoy racing so much. Ever since I was 8 or 9, I trained every stroke, because it was the only way I could race a lot.

Jeff Gordon

I like Matt. I like racing with him. I didn't like racing him today.

Joe Nemechek

All types of racing costs a lot of money no matter what you're doing.

Cassandra Clare

He would look so young. They were both so young. Tessa knew it was unusual to marry at seventeen and eighteen, but they were racing a clock. The clock of Jem's life, before it wound down.

Murray Walker

And now Jacques Laffitte is as close to Surer as Surer is to Laffitte

Murray Walker

I wonder if Watson is in the relaxed state of mind he's in

Murray Walker

Alain Prost is in a commanding second position

Murray Walker

And all Niki really has to do now is coast

Murray Walker

You can't see a digital clock because there isn't one

Murray Walker

... the lead is now 6.9 seconds. In fact it's just under 7 seconds

Robert Collier

Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.

Sarah Rees Brennan

Down the well," Angela repeated, and had to go sit down and hold on to her letter opener. It was in the shape of a dagger. Angela said holding it soothed her; seeing Angela hold it did not soothe Kami.

Rob Bell

We shape our God, and then our God shapes us.

Rick Yancey

But monsters, I now know, come in all shapes and sizes, and only their appetite for human flesh defines them.

Rick Warren

The way you see your life shapes your life.

Craig Thompson

Christianity and Islam, they have the same morals, same lifestyle, some of the same stories that shaped them.

Felipe Alou

I'll take the swing. The shape is really not that important.

Luc Montagnier

We did not purify [isolate] ... We saw some particles but they did not have the morphology [shape] typical of retroviruses ... They were very different ... What we did not have, as I have always recognized it, is that it was truly the cause of AIDS.

Eric Hoffer

It is startling to see how the oppressed almost invariably shape themselves in the image of their hated oppressors.

Kerri Brown

Guarding the opponent's top scorer is a lot of work, and we all know that.

Jeremie Cook

I was disappointed. He was unbeaten. I didn't do what I wanted on top in my final.

Paul Malone

I think that will put us over the top and make the story simple,

Dennis Thompson

I don't know what I'm going to say, ... I'll just go off the top of my head.

Robert Townsend

"Top" management is supposed to be a tree full of owls-hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.

William Henry Harrison

To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity.

Tyra Banks

From offstage until the moment I walk onstage, I constantly tweak my talk show and 'Top Model', but at the same time, I often leave my private life by the wayside.

Jeremy Mayfield

If you're not careful, this thing can get to you, trying to get in the top 10 for the chase.

Chris Barclay

I just told him to top that, if he could.