Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alafair Burke

I was downright obnoxious. In second grade, we had some program where we kept a public list of all the books we read. I think it even included the number of pages. In my nerdy mind, having the longest and most impressive list was somehow going to make up for the fact that I couldn't climb a rope or do a backwards summersault in PE.

Stan Perkins

I was a chunky little kid, and when they sat me in that wagon, it tipped backward and I banged my head on the (concrete) floor. I was howling pretty good, but Dad went outside and cried his eyes out.

Neil Strauss

All this stuff is backward engineered from what works. Nobody sat at a computer and invented these techniques. They watched guys who are successful and broke it down to what works.

Tony Vis

All of a sudden (in the second half) we started to play vertical, where now we're playing forward basketball rather than looking to throw the ball backward and going side to side. We got our players out running.

John Updike

The good ending dismisses us with a touch of ceremony and throws a backward light of significance over the story just read. It makes it, as they say, or unmakes it. A weak beginning is forgettable, but the end of a story bulks in the reader's mind like the giant foot in a foreshortened photograph.

Joe Ferrer

The horse went over backward once and came down. He got his left foot out of the stirrup but he couldn't get his right foot out in time.

Shawn Mendes

The first year I started hockey, I didn't know how to skate, so I got on the ice with all of the hockey players, and we were doing drills where we had to go backwards in figure eights. And I could not skate, and I just kept falling on my butt, and it was very embarrassing.

Joan Baker

Everyone's bent over backward in the Whitesboro school district,

Robert Greenstein

The new data are particularly troubling for working people, showing backward movement for most workers. In short, the census data provide new evidence that, as in 2002 and 2003, the recovery was neither robust nor broad-based.

Dusty Baker

It was only appropriate that we won on Sandberg's day. It was quite a ceremony and we played well.

Ed Chapdelaine

It's a ceremony to honor those who gave the last full measure of devotion for the freedoms we enjoy today. They did not die in a combat situation, but they were members of the military and were eventually going to be deployed to a military situation.

Russ Hellickson

We are proud to be able to honor Ray. We are looking forward to sharing this ceremony with all of his family. He certainly earned it.

Deborah Benaim

We have a special ceremony to give out the medals, complete with the Olympic fanfare music. At the end of the 11 weeks, the person who has lost the most weight out of the two teams wins a trip to Italy.

Donna Taylor

On this memorable day, we were honored to witness 50 petitioners, representing 24 different countries, take the oath of United States citizenship at a naturalization ceremony in the courtroom of Judge Gregory Frost. Having the privilege of watching this naturalization ceremony was an experience these fourth-graders and their teachers will never forget.

Andre McGee

I think it did have to be this way, so he could get the ending he deserved.

Ronald Utt

I think as a consequence you are ending up with a program that is excessively costly and socially destructive.

Randy Sherman

I think that served as a lesson to them. Every thing ending up alright.

The Vikings

I just saw the shot, did my routine and it worked out. I'm very glad we finished before the rain and storms came. It was just really nice to have a good day and it was a good ending to the official season.

Heather Williams

I just do not want to be a part of ending that life.

Folarin Campbell

I know it. We wanted a better ending to our story, but it had to end some way.

Pau Gasol

It's been a mad ending to the game.

Hugh Walsh

Dollar/yen is under pressure and euro/yen is under pressure in anticipation of them (Japan) ending their zero interest rate policy as we head into March and Japan's fiscal year end.

Matt Reeves

It's crazy when you think about the 'Apes' franchise and how dark all of the endings are and how dark the movies are, and yet there's something very pleasurable about these movies. It really comes down to the potency of this idea, of seeing intelligent apes.

Paul Gascoigne

Kevin has done a tremendous job here and now it's a matter of trying to work together and move the team forward. We want to give the supporters something to look forward to and get them in the Football League.

Dirk Koetter

Keegan Herring has been outstanding, but he is making the jump from high school football to the largest stage in college. I just think it is much better for us to have Randy help transition Keegan in as well.

Ron Yoda

Just observing the levels of foot traffic, it's been substantially more than we normally see.

Scott Schmitz

Joe is just a hard-nosed football player. He loves the game.

Josh Aciukewicz

He just kept pushing me around. At times, it seemed more like a football game.

Damon Allen

He is the heartbeat of this football team and possibly the heartbeat of this city.

Rob Ciarlo

He likes to show off his guns. He?s a good kid. He played football and he?s trying to be more of a leader.

Tony Stewart

I have to relearn how to walk again. It's not that you have to reteach yourself. But your mind and your foot have to get back on the same page, and remind yourself that it's OK to do this. You've done this before. It's reminding it what it's supposed to do again.

Jim Duncan

He's a good player for us, ... He's not a huge bulky linebacker, but just a good wrestler-type of a football player.

Honore de

Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pygmy hatreds.

Joe Clark

He was a giant of a man, had an extraordinary impact on the country.

Ned Colletti

He has not informed the Giants of that decision.

Michael Bergin

I never learned to ignore the hot lights and the giant fans. And it all seemed so ridiculous. Run in place. Look angry. Look at me like you love me.

James Hansen

Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. That is the equivalent of what we face now [with climate change], yet we dither.

Elizabeth Bowen

Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant - impossible socially, but full-scale - and it's the knockings and battering we sometimes hear in each other that keep our intercourse from utter banality

Cervantes Saavedra

Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.

Charles Schumer

not a panacea, but it's a giant step forward.

Murray Rothbard

Monetary inflation not only raises prices and destroys the value of the currency unit; it also acts as a giant system of expropriation.

Carl Pohlad

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

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

Herb Cytyrn

Jake is a very good skier and I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to sectionals.

Bill Walsh

I would say that we made a lot of good trades, but that may have been the best.

Billy Beane

Ken did a great job for us. We've always said that. He was a good enough manager for us to want him back before, and he's still a good enough manager to come back.

Alan Greenspan

Keeping out competitively priced goods would materially lower our standard of living.

Tim Kohs

Kayla can guard any kid in the state and make them miserable. In the past, I've always had one or two kids who raised the level of the team by their intensity at practice and their commitment. McCarthy and Finn are as good as any kids I've had like that.

Ken Auletta

Journalists prize independence, not teamwork. Journalists understand waste is inherent to good journalism ... that good reporting and writing is hard to quantify.

Bobby Cox

John is not 100 percent. But if he's 95 percent, that's good enough.

Sheikh Ahmad

He is very stubborn. When he puts his mind into something, he will do it.

Alex Solis

He really won it very easy. That's what I had in my mind, not to squeeze him.

Heywood Broun

Her mind is so open that the wind whistles through it

Dave Tippett

His mind is in the right place now.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

I think the body is the ultimate thing. The soul and mind are part of the body. I don't think there is anything outside of that. Your physical self is who you are. Some people feel that that is reductionist, but I don't think it is. It's just true.

Shane Battier

We're playing to win. I've always been of the mind-frame that you've got to play.

Rick Tocchet

We've got to try to win 2-1 right now. That's our mind-set. That's what we tried to stress today. (We said) 'Don't worry about scoring a ton of goals, just try to win 2-1' and we did.

Martin Brodeur

I thought we played really well. We've got to get the third period out of our mind and be comfortable with how we played.

Darrell Bevell

It had to do with his feet, and where his mind was at the time.

Maureen Allyn

This may be what throws us into recession.

Dan Hawkins

Very talented, I like the way he throws the football,

Ashley Lewie

When Ari throws a pitch, I know where it is going to go.

Louis Walsh

I couldn't make it because I've got a touch of the flu.

Walter Benjamin

All disgust is originally disgust at touching.

Jamie Brown

It touched the ceiling, ... They don't look as big on the farm.

Frank Iero

When the water touched my balls, that's when I got scared.

Pope Francis

Like the Good Samaritan, may we not be ashamed of touching the wounds of those who suffer, but try to heal them with concrete acts of love.

Natsuki Takaya

He's just explaining the situation to her, but he's all over her every chance he gets! Kureno! Touching Tohru!!!

Joan Sutherland

The world we are born into-this complicated, difficult, hauntingly touching world-is the one whole thing. It is the world we awaken in, and awaken to.

Bob Ross

Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.

Rumi

You transform all those who are touched by You.

Samuel Johnson

To be prejudiced is always to be weak

Laurence Olivier

Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.

B. F. Skinner

We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understand the weakness of force and aggression.

Tennessee Williams

The helpless can't help the helpless.

Shusaku Endo

Every weakness contains within itself a strength.

Taylor Swift

being open isn't the same as being weak.

Rachel Field

It's terrible when the weak are also cruel for then we are defenseless against them.

George MacDonald

All haste implies weakness.

John F. Kennedy

So let us begin anew -- remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate. Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.