Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gayle Alvarez

I was like a kid on Christmas morning.

Poncho Broner

I think it happened during our Christmas tournament. It had been a few games.

Monica Johnson

I'm not going to tell you to meditate on what Christmas really means and be thankful.

John Greene

He's a demon. He said he needed money for Christmas gifts. It's the lamest excuse I could hear.

Philippe Lopez

He's dying to get into that car. He's like a kid on Christmas morning when the parents won't wake up.

John Oates

I think it's kind of difficult to write a good Christmas song because you have a narrow framework of references that you have to work within, and at the same time you want to do something that's personally original and hopefully somewhat unique.

Diane Swonk

I think the market is tired of Christmas. We've already seen the Christmas reports. As far as the market is concerned, that's old news.

Tom Williams

I think the one thing you can say about Christmas is that it always comes, ... We think it will be a good Christmas.

Steve Young

I thought Everett did a lot of the things we expected them to do. They're a very structured hockey club. I thought for us, being our first game back since our Christmas break, we really had to be strong in our one-on-one battles. It got better as the game went on, but to start with we weren't as strong as I felt we should have been.

Darryl Jenkins

I wouldn't put my retirement money on the line for something like this, ... It is a very difficult environment for startups right now, with jet fuel so high. That scares investors away.

Will Ferrell

I would tend to shy away from that, only because hosting those type of things is an extremely difficult task. I'd rather watch at home.

Dennis Hastert

Jack Ryan made the right decision, ... I know it must have been a difficult one.

Allan Kaplan

I would say that this a minor loss for the industry. I would say this is going to make it more difficult for them in their negotiations in terms of a settlement.

Kevin Sutherland

Just the streak in itself is amazing. I don't think people realize how difficult it is to make that many in a row. That shows how hard he plays every time he tees it up.

Kevin Sutherland

Just the streak in itself is amazing, ... I don't think people realize how difficult it is to make that many in a row. That shows how hard he plays every time he tees it up.

William Keeler

I take this occasion to express publicly my apologies to all who have been victims and, in a very special way, to Mr. Stokes who is suffering, has suffered intensely because of the difficulty in which he now finds himself and which we find ourselves, ... I express my sympathy and to his family members, to all who suffered, because of what has been transpiring.

Jeremy Foley

I think it's a huge home-court advantage. I think the fact that everybody is on top of the court, the job the students have done making that a difficult place to play ... people say how loud it is in there. It's a different environment.

Mike Sanford

I think it helped us to learn more about him and what his strengths are. It was very difficult (with the injury).

Heraldo Munoz

It is not ideal but it is still a noteworthy improvement. It is a new institutional framework that will oversee the promotion and protection of human rights for many decades.

Ahmad Fawzi

If we come out of this meeting with a framework for the process for a political transition, then we will have succeeded. This is the first step in a long road toward establishing good governance in Afghanistan.

Mike Rucker

In the framework of their schemes and the way the rules are, it's legal. You just have to roll with the punches, there are a lot of things people don't like. You've just got to play it better, put your hands down (on the blocker) and try not to get cut.

Mike Rucker

In the framework of their schemes and the way the rules are, it's legal. I just kind of got caught. I'll roll with it.

John Wade

In a nutshell, the framework plan will look at Wyoming's water shortages from a statewide perspective, water use trends, and a summary of where we are.

Paul Will

Once the framework is down, they go up pretty quick.

Shannon Staub

That is the framework we should use with this.

Scott Woodgate

All of these products will inherit WWF, like they do the .Net Framework today.

Josh Paul

It starts to wear on you by the end of the day. You start to get to know the person by sorting through their things, but then, it's just wooden framework left.

Ken Hill

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

John Fisher

I was like, 'You're kidding me. How could I be leading, not peddling a good portion of the course?'

Charles Warren

I was like, 'Wow,' something's going on here, ... Something good is about to happen.

Shacoi Berry

I was kind of tired and I didn't warm up that good before the first match. I got a much better warm-up in before this last match and I wrestled a lot better.

Robert Crandall

I was looking for somebody who could operate effectively and had good personal chemistry.

Ramon Hernandez

I was looking for a fastball. I got it on the good part of the bat. It went where no one could get it.

Brandon Perkins

I was in the right place at the right time. The other side did a good job of containing, and (the quarterback) couldn't go anywhere. I just had to go get him.

Ben Sheets

I was in pretty good shape. I don't know how you could prevent it. It seems like it could happen at any time.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Craig Biggio

Just seeing it in spring training was something that was pretty special. We wanted the winning one, and hopefully we can turn that around and maybe get one.

Tony Delk

I think it had to do with me playing a lot of minutes. Just getting an opportunity, though, I have to make tough shots. Hopefully that will come around again.

Mark Yates

He wants to win things. Hopefully he's come to the right place.

Galvin Morris

He just got into a groove. Hopefully it continues.

Mark Shapiro

He'll be in the middle and hopefully we'll let him work his way toward the back.

Ron Johnson

He rolled his ankle. He's got a little swelling in it. But he was walking around. Hopefully he'll be all right.

Chuck D.

He's got a strong leg. Hopefully he can kick some in the end zone and make opponents start at the 20.

Chris Coghlan

There is a kind of sense of urgency. We do need to win two of three and hopefully even sweep.

Matt Doherty

We just have to be smarter, and hopefully we will be smarter in league play.

Danielle Brooks

I like to play people who are underdogs and misfits. People who are not on a straight and narrow path. That's exciting for me.

Alan Curbishley

Once they have got preliminary discussions out of the way they will narrow it down because they want to do it before the World Cup.

Andrew Maynard

Product development will always outstrip our understanding of risk, but there is a lot we can do to narrow that gap.

James Baker

I understand personally that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.

Madeline Albright

There are gaps. We're trying to narrow those gaps,

Waris Ahluwalia

My go-to jeans are a straight, narrow cut from A.P.C. or BLK DNM.

Ernest Hemingway

Oak Park is a neighborhood of wide lawns and narrow minds.

Willie Randolph

I don't think you can look at one leader, ... You narrow yourself and get into trouble when it's only one guy. Because if he isn't always there, what are you going to do?

Patrick Cunningham

It is a very narrow population and this is pretty much unique,

Ken Robinson

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random.

Antoni Gaudi

Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.

Antoni Gaudi

Originality is going back to origins.

Mark Leyner

This wasn't calculated. We didn't sit down and think, 'In three weeks, we can sell 500,000 copies.' But Billy's original idea was a stroke of genius.

Mark Leyner

This wasn't calculated, ... We didn't sit down and think, 'In three weeks, we can sell 500,000 copies.' But Billy's original idea was a stroke of genius.

Samuel Beckett

All has not been said and never will be.

William Arthur Ward

Once trust is tarnished, it is hard to restore it to its original glow.

William Ralph Inge

Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism.

William Ralph Inge

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

Nick Cave

Personally I find the story of Christ incredibly moving.

Linda McCarthy

I did not know Mick personally but he was part of the town.

Alan Miller

Our reporter on the scene talked personally to the governor, who told her the 12 were alive.

Claudia Vercellotti

Participating in the legislative process has been personally devastating and a rude awakening. We never stood a chance.

Sandra Bullock

If you went to go see 'Why You Were Sleeping' or anything else, you wouldn't necessarily think that's me. Those who know me personally would say (Sarah) is me. 'Cause that is more me,

Elliott Abrams

I personally would not talk to a Jew for Jesus.

Bryan Blair

I personally think this is just going to be another tax.

Jim Thorpe

I personally think the tour is better without them.

Noam Chomsky

I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors.

Gary Goddard

I think we probably get somewhat better prices,

Nick Saban

Right tackle has been somewhat of a problem,

David Spade

Everyone is so weird in L.A. that if you're somewhat normal, it's exotic.

Jack Kilby

It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company.

Don Lindburg

It really is turning out to be somewhat of a hardship.

Charles Bona

The swings are going to be very rapid, and they could be somewhat sizeable.

David Pittman

That's why I think this study is somewhat surprising.

Jeff Evans

She's cooperating, she's upset. Somewhat relieved, she said.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

If he's going there to grandstand, then I think it's somewhat embarrassing.

Ricky Fante

I wrote the song in tribute ... at the time she was murdered,

Dan Hill

Songs sometimes are so connected to the sociology of the time.

Estelle

Labrinth is a super talented singer, producer, songwriter from London.

Nick Cave

I would hate to think my songs were giving advice to people.

Robert Cray

Normally when we go in and write the songs we write, we think about doing a cover, but never a covers record. That would be, for us, a concept. We don't want to have a concept!

Rob Thomas

I've had the pleasure of working closely with Marc Von Em as a singer, but when I heard his original stuff, I asked him to open up a 10,000 seat gig. Just him, his guitar, and his songs. He killed it!

Rob Sheffield

'Drive,' that's the one. I love dozens of songs by R.E.M., but that's the one, even though it took me 7 or 8 years to start liking it.

Rob Sheffield

Every moment of my life has a soundtrack, so I never know when some song is going to jump me by surprise and bring the memory alive.

Rob Sheffield

It was R.E.M. who showed other Eighties bands how to get away with ignoring the rules - they lived in some weird town nobody never heard of, they didn't play power chords, they probably couldn't even spell 'spandex.' All they had was songs.

Emily Lyons

I was in the right place, just at the wrong time that day.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Janet Fitch

I write all the time, whether I feel like it or not. I never get inspired unless I'm already writing.

Denny Green

J.J. is the starter. I said that a long time ago.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

David Small

I think it's a generational thing. It's time for a change.

James Hughes

I think it's about time we do something about it.

Leslie Cohen

I think it'll be time at the end of this year for them to go off and try something new, ... It'll be torture. It'll be torture.

Mary Lambert

I think I streaked one time when I was 16, which was scary.

Bob Greenly

Justus is very much a work in progress, ... but he's getting better all the time.

Waris Ahluwalia

I take my work seriously, but I don't necessarily take myself seriously.

Mads Mikkelsen

I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.

Dan Kane

It can happen. We just all have to work together.

Eric Kristenson

It can be as much of a workout as you want it to be.

Tory Burch

I think you can have it all. You just have to know it's going to work.

Taylor Hawkins

Why go on vacation when work is so much more fun.

Steve Bigam

The only thing that didn't work out was we lost.

Lord Warner

What we've got to work on is the rest,