Famous Quotes & Sayings

Greta Gnagy

We're a little young again. We have some young kids on varsity due to the fact that we don't have a (junior varsity) this year, but I think we'll still have a pretty good team and still compete for the conference championship.

Jim Reed

I called a timeout and tried to light a fire under them. We continued to compete and we responded in the stretch run.

Joe Scott

I definitely liked the effort. If our guys compete like that on a nightly basis, I don't know how many games we have left but I know we're going to be in position to win every game.

Janica Kostelic

I definitely don't feel well. There's no reason to compete while I'm feeling like this. I'm very tired and I'm not 100 percent sure I'll start tomorrow.

Morgan Pressel

I can't wait for the season to start, to be able to fully compete and be a part of the rookie race.

Ralph Cindrich

I don't think there's any question he's going into the position to compete for the job. That was made clear.

Jeremy Bloom

I dreamed big as a kid, but I never thought in a million years that in a span of a week, I'd be able to compete in the Olympics and be at the NFL combine.

Marty Simmons

I am proud of the guys. We tied for the West Division Championship. That's a heck of an accomplishment. Are we disappointed that we weren't able to win it out right at home in the last two games? I don't think there is any question. Our guys have put themselves in a position to compete for the conference championship.

Frank Murray

I am now writing to seek confirmation of the provenance of the software you have developed in order to compete with Focus. Our main concern relates to the speed with which you have developed your product.

Rand Paul

The Ukraine has a long history of either being part of the Soviet Union or within that sphere.

Nicole Perrot

This is a good golf course. You never know. I have a chance. I'm either going on to the ADT or I'm going back home to Chile, so either way will be good for me.

Evan Walters

This season has been a lot of runs, either we're on or we're not. We know we can pull it together.

David Wilmot

Either do it with Republicans or don't waste your time. Republicans run the government. If you do not work with them, you will not be successful.

Conrad Black

Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right.

Sharon Kesselring

Everyone is preparing to come home as soon as possible, either Tuesday or Wednesday.

Jason Williams

After watching (Ross) last year and seeing all the great things he did, it was in the back of my mind, 'I can either be as good as him, or try to be better than him,'

Justin Bradshaw

It's really simple mechanically. If we need parts, most of them are either Volkswagen parts or generic ones you can get at NAPA.

Jeremy Mylymok

Any time you go to a shootout, it could go either way.

Marcelo Enriquez

South is a very good team and I knew they were going to be much more competitive the second round.

Joe Linta

Special teams will be his meal ticket. He's got good speed and good hands. He's a real good 51, 52 or 53-type guy on the roster who can do a lot of things for you.

Kyle McLaren

Special teams was good tonight, especially the penalty kill.

Kelly Wood

One good shot from the opposition (centre guard) and that's all they needed to win. We had to hit at least three-quarters and it hung straight. That's curling.

Thomas Fuller

One good head is better than a hundred strong hands

John Sharp

One can say all they want about politicians, but politicians to other politicians, their word is almost always good.

Rob Hermann

Once you get to this point, you just want to see the local guys do well. Dustin is a good kid, and we love to help as much as possible.

Chris Chambers

Once you wrap that screen around, and you get really good sound you get immersed, ... You mentally make the leap that you're in this game. It's really amazing.

Stephen Malkmus

One day I'm going to write a straight-ahead story. I really want to, but I can't at the moment. I'm not very good at it right now.

Sonakshi Sinha

I enjoy my work, no matter who I am working with. Even if you give me a solo silent film, I will enjoy it.

Erinn Smart

Being one point ahead at the end - that's all that matters.

Dan Callahan

Matt hasn't been out there much. He hasn't been in that situation often. However, when it's all said and done, he is going to be a factor.

Pete Carroll

Matt did everything he was supposed to do.

Shia LaBeouf

Matt Damon in 'Bagger Vance' trained for a week,

Judy Shepard

We are trying to do what we think Matt would want us to do with this opportunity of having a voice. He's with me every day when I do this. I know it or I couldn't do this because I'm a shy, private person.

Tori Amos

I think musically, if you talk to (drummer) Matt Chamberlain, he'll tell you it's really complicated rhythmically.

Angelina Jolie

We'll be on our way to Pakistan in a matter of days.

Nick Saban

I would think in all probability it would be someone else other than Matt because he hasn't been able to do it to this point.

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Tony Parker

I still have a lot of room for improvement. I need to become a more skilled player.

Tony Parker

In France, if you talk to little boys, they know all of the NBA players and not one single Pro A player.

Urban Meyer

But what I didnt want to have happen, and I made this clear to Jeremy (Florida AD), if I am able to go coach, I want to coach at one place, the University of Florida. It would be a travesty, it would be ridiculous to all of a sudden come back and get the feeling back, get the health back, feel good again and then all of a sudden go throw some other colors on my shirt and go coach? I dont want to do that. I have too much love for this University and these players and for what weve built.

Robert Manne

The Australian sees itself not as a mere newspaper, but as a player in the game of national politics, calling upon the vast resources of the Murdoch empire and the millions of words it has available to it to try to make and unmake governments.

Rogers Hornsby

Players who stand flat footed and swing with their arms are golfers, not hitters.

Robin Trower

Oddly enough, Hendrix is not my favorite guitar player. There are very few guitar players I get feeling from.

Warren Moon

I was always geared towards either wanting to finish number one or be number one as far as the best player that I could be, or be the best player at my position in the league. I wanted that to be a constant reminder to my teammates that they looked to their leader who is wearing that number, this is what you should strive for as well.

Will Oldham

I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything.

Nick Swisher

It's been like that all spring. It's just that balls decided to hang up there. It's hard to catch it when you can't see it. But that's how it's going to be in Oakland in the afternoon anyway.

Georg Brandes

The loathing of mankind is a force that surprises and overwhelms one, fed by hundreds of springs concealed his subconsciousness. One only detects its presence after having long entertained it unawares.

William Ellery Channing

It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions , from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

'Tis a month before the month of May, And the spring comes slowly up this way.

Samuel L. Jackson

The Romans had, like other Pagan nations, a nature festival, called by them Saturnalia, and the Northern peoples had Yule; both celebrated the turn of the year from the death of winter to the life of spring - the winter solstice. As this was an auspicious change the festival was a very joyous one... The giving of presents and the burning of candles characterized it. Among the Northern people the lighting of a huge log in the houses of the great and with appropriate ceremonies was a feature.

W. S. Merwin

I have been younger in October than in all the months of spring.

William Cowper

Pity! Religion has so seldom found A skilful guide into poetic ground! The flowers would spring where'er she deign'd to stray And every muse attend her in her way.

William Cowper

Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock'd in the cradle of the western breeze.

Tove Jansson

It's a funny thing about bogs. You can fill them with rocks and sand and old logs and make a little fenced-in yard on top with a woodpile and chopping block - but bogs go right on behaving like bogs. Early in the spring they breathe ice and make their own mist, in remembrance of the time when they had black water and their own sedge blossoming untouched.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.

Ellen Swallow Richards

I had been in the hurrying waters too long not to appreciate an opportunity to lie on the bank and rest, watch others, and gain strength for the coming years.

Edward Dahlberg

Man is at the nadir of his stregth when the Earth, the seas, the mountains are not in him, for without them his soul is unsourced, and he has no images by which to abide.

Edward Dahlberg

Look at this poet William Carlos Williams: he is primitive and native, and his roots are in raw forest and violent places; he is word-sick and place-crazy. He admires strength, but for what? Violence! This is the cult of the frontier mind.

Hermann Hesse

Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

All your strength in is your union. All your danger is in discord. Therefore be at peace henceforward, And as brothers live together.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

Henrik Ibsen

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.