Famous Quotes & Sayings

August Krogh

In the giraffe with a total height of 5 m., the heart is at a height of about 2.5 m., and it would be extremely interesting to know just how the giraffe avoids the development of filtration oedema in its long legs.

Charles Schumer

I'm going to do everything I can to try and craft a compromise that avoids a lengthy trial,

Dennis Patterson

It's a short meet, so anything can happen. Garcia is getting on some live horses for some top barns, so he might have a good shot to pull off an upset if he avoids suspensions and injuries.

Don Murray

This avoids the scenario of a 17cm pair of scissors ending up sewn into somebody's abdomen,

Jack Layton

This avoids the holiday election that nobody wants,

Mitchell Ribitwer

It's a fair deal because it avoids any more trauma and misery for the Weinstein family.

David Adelman

The ruling eliminates the risk of a large-scale financial verdict, should increase the market's visibility of Philip Morris' long-term U.S. tobacco market share and profit growth, and avoids press coverage of the industry airing its internal issues in public.

Michael Chertoff

The whole point of this program is let people decide the fate of their own lives, ... And I think that avoids the whole issue of someone coming from outside and saying, 'You must do this' or 'You must do that.'

Larry Harvey

It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process.

Jay Lynch

It also seems far-fetched. People with osteoporosis have brittle bones and are prone to bone injuries. ... By its very nature, osteoporosis places one in the position of potential harm occurring. To say that a facility is negligent because osteoporosis creates falls that result in broken bones is illogical. Denying care for a resident's broken bones is harmful.

Fernando Bryant

I actually jammed the bone up into the skull, ... My senses weren't all there. ... It was pretty tough for a little while.

William Butler Yeats

He knows death to the bone --Man has created death.

Mark Parrish

Guys have as much confidence in Garth as they do in Rick. (Garth) keeps those old bones limber on the bench, so he's ready.

Julie Mikesell

Her ear infections were so bad, they got into the bone and pinched off the nerves in her face.

Mike Babcock

He's cut around the eye. I guess the bones are fine. They sent him for a CAT scan or whatever, but it sounds like he's just fine and everything's precautionary, so that's real positive.

Ryan Lawrence

We thought Will broke his leg, but he has a deep bone bruise. Nelson has horrible shin splints and Luis has a nasty bruise. It's yellow and purple. We've joked around that it looks like some kind of disease, because it's spread over his entire leg.

Kelvim Escobar

It has been a tough year for me. I went on the DL three times. I had the bone chip and the bone spur. To get to the point that I am right now, it makes me feel good.

Karen Hughes

I was just walking through the Bone Center and I heard someone singing so I just walked in and thought it sounded good. I enjoyed the whole thing.

Mike Archer

Knowing what I know now, I'd still come, ... My kids were here. I wanted to be close to them.

James Blake

Knowing that I was that close to a semi or final, it makes me realize that the goal going into these Slams isn't just getting to the second week. Maybe I can get in there and win one.

Duncan Fletcher

Key has had a shoulder operation and Shah has a knee injury which didn't look too serious at first but a closer look has shown it is a far more serious.

Niels From

I wouldn't position for sharp movements -- so close to the New Year investors won't want to take massive positions. My traders say that liquidity flowing is half of a normal market.

Ron Nelson

I wouldn't be surprised if you saw him close a couple of games. We wouldn't want to throw him more than an inning, though.

Michael Schroeder

I wouldn't be buying. When we were getting yields close to 4.50, I thought they were pretty attractive.

Richard Barnes

Jackson was the worst. That should have closed it. That should have thrown the whole thing out.

Matt Harris

I would say it's very closely being looked at. Growers want to know, sheds want to know: Are they going to continue dumping duties or are they finally going to drop them?

Mike McKee

I would say they're better than everyone else in the league. But the teams in the league are close enough that if someone is shooting it they can give them a run.

Nancy Tellem

Jack's extensive background, contacts and expertise in the music industry make him the ideal person to become CBS' go-to executive for all music-related enterprises.

Buddy Gouldsmith

Keith's a contact guy and one thing he won't do is strike out. I didn't want us to go down swinging in that situation. I wanted contact, but I didn't know he was going to hit a grand slam.

Bob Woodward

Journalism is a contact sport, ... I was 29 when people who really knew how to shoot were around.

Paul Kennedy

I also had to make contact with native Palestinians and learn how I would go from Jerusalem to the checkpoint between Israel and the West Bank. Different routes were inaccessible, and some of the checkpoints were closed,

Bill Bailey

He very kindly let me set up so I could start communicating back to the insurance companies. The more I had contact with George, got to know him better, the more I realized this is a very wise man. He's been around a long time.

Aaron Brink

He knew who I was and that I was a fighter, and he said 'I'd like you train me, will you teach me?' And I ended up training this kid and then I ended up losing contact with him.

Tommy Tonelli

He's been tremendous for us all year. He's good at drawing contact and still being able to get a shot off. He's just a heck of a player.

Lindy Ruff

He's been put on the concussion program again, but the first one was so severe I think the program may go longer. There's no set time on when he can be back or when he can even resume practice. Symptom-free for a week doesn't necessarily mean he can have contact again. That could take weeks.

Marty Brown

He's a very humble guy. I am sure he's appreciative of everyone he's come in contact with.

Tom Casey

We support the . . . efforts and the proposal they have put forward to find a diplomatic solution to this problem.

Paul Shryock

It gives us a lot of product flexibility. It allows us to dip our toes collectively in the water.

Janice Kershaw

I think this plan is really exciting. It really makes the high school diploma more than just getting out of school.

Jerramy Stevens

He has been on some championship teams, so he knows when it's coming. He is able to dip out of that pretty slick.

Ye Xiaowen

We can establish diplomatic relations with the Vatican very soon if the two principles are accepted. But it is very hard for us to do so if the two principles are violated.

Arturo Gonzalez

In my view, this is the end of the political process. The only way these kids will get a diploma now is if a judge orders an injunction.

Alexander Rumyantsev

I support diplomatic solutions to all issues at those talks.

Lee Miller

The goal is for them to have a diploma in the spring of 2007.

Christopher Hill

Everybody has got an interest in solving this problem through diplomatic means. ... There will be a point at which we look at the deadline, but we are not at that point yet,

Larry Freed

The downward trend is due to consumers' increased expectations during the holiday season, a much larger influx of infrequent visitors that may not know how to navigate a site and shipping costs, and the unavailability of prominent items like the Xbox 360 due to low inventory.

Haruki Takahashi

It's hard to predict a support level with downward momentum so strong, but it could be as low as 16,000 for the mid-term. At this point, I'm not quite sure if a rebound on the Nasdaq could help Tokyo stocks recover.

Tim Rogers

The numbers are starting to suggest we're not going to see a big downward move in November and it will maybe be pushed back to next year.

Gary Bartlett

It looks like we're in a downward trend.

Ram Bhagavatula

It looks as if second-quarter GDP will be revised downward to 1.5 percent or slightly less than that.

Ned Riley

The market's reaction has been pretty benign. But I think the market is looking at this as more constructive than destructive. I think the market has absorbed this extremely well even though there is a downward bias.

Linus Yip

The market is drifting downward with uncertainties in the market.

John Cridland

UK Plc feels it has gone as far as it can in accommodating tax rises that have weakened our international competitive position. The trend we now want to see is a downward one not an upward one,

Kevin Hawkins

Another slight improvement in like-for like sales is very welcome, especially considering the downward trend in the first half of this year.

Keith McCoy

In a lot of ways, the hurricane really exposes our vulnerability. It's opened some eyes." ()

Scott Grimes

This exposes residents to The Villages' outdoor clubs.

Johnny Miller

Match play really exposes your character and how much of a will to win you have in your heart.

Benjamin Franklin

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Larry McReynolds

He (Wallace) has fire in his eyes and wants go out a a winner.

Paul Tagliabue

He was a warrior, a neighbor and a friend ... In the eyes of many he was the greatest football player of all time.

Teller

Reality seems so simple. We just open our eyes and there it is. But that doesn't mean it is simple.

Yiddish Proverb

What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth

William Wordsworth

Her eyes as stars of twilight fair;Like twilight's, too, her dusky hair. . . .

William Wordsworth

Her eyes as stars of twilight fair; Like twilight's, too, her dusky hair. . . .

Peter Dawson

Golf likes to come to St Andrews with reasonable frequency and when the eyes of the world are on St Andrews it does the Open a lot of good.

Joe Girardi

He's got no fear. He could throw all of his pitches over at any time. He opened a lot of eyes this spring. He's come a long way in a short period of time.

Jose Antonio Vargas

I think the hardest stories we tell are always the ones about ourselves. And as a journalist, I was taught that I'm never supposed to put myself in the story. So I spent what, 11, 12 years of my life writing about other people so I don't have to face my own life.

Craig Alexander

It is one of the hardest things to forecast. So, get used to it.

Kyle Williams

I don't know who's No. 2. There are 10 to 15 teams as talented as each other, and it's all about who's going to work the hardest to get there.

Mike Caciari

He has always been the hardest worker on the team. He always wants to be better.

Yogi Berra

The hardest thing is to get started, but the really hardest thing is to finish.

Brian Lane

In the second mile, you have to push yourself the hardest to pick up your pace. That's where you want to put in a surge because it's a mental game.

Ren Zamora

I hope Nokia can stabilize its selling prices. That's the hardest point because if volume does slow down and they're still at these levels, Nokia could be in trouble.

Philip Hoffman

The last thing I wanted to do was mimic him. I wanted to get his essence. It was the hardest thing I ever did on film.

Stella McCartney

I'm incredibly sad that my mother's not here to see my kids and that my kids don't get to know her. And she didn't meet my husband. That's one of the hardest things. I don't even know how to put that into words.

Matt Hammitt

Just to find the time to think about everything, just trying to wrap our heads around everything that was going on, and to try to go out and headline a show every night was really hard.

Paul Franklin

Keep your heads up, boys. This is your job. Don't let these (suicide bombers) intimidate you. We're here for the right reasons.

Eddie Cibrian

He could see through his neck, ... but the head was way up here.

Rod Barton

He just shook his head and said something like, 'People put in what they want to put in.

Rick Rudesill

He keeps it simple. He's not flashy. It looks like he plays to win, not to look good. He's a heady player and keeps it under control.

Steve Irwin

Because when they strike it can be that quick that if they're within range, you're dead, you're dead in your tracks. And his head weighs more than my body so it's WHACK!

Michael Nylander

Here, he has been standing on his head. Why wouldn't he stand on his head there?

John Greenwood

Her Majesty is not the supreme head of the church.

Peter Fonda

Her heart was in the right place, but her head wasn't.

Paul Franklin

Keep your heads up, boys. This is your job. Don't let these (suicide bombers) intimidate you. We're here for the right reasons.

Paul Pierce

We've got to keep our heads up. We're going to turn this around sooner or later.

Charles Stross

I don't do villains often enough. There are two approaches: give them sympathetic, reasonable motivations for doing the most unspeakable things, or get inside heads that are interestingly broken.

William Cowper

Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule.

Rashad Mitchell

It helped a ton. We never put our heads down and thought because we were down that we were going to lose. We just kept pushing and pushing.

Michael Lehmann

I really like getting inside the heads of female characters. I think I can do that well, and I enjoy it.

Jill Soloway

I really like writing television, and I like the collaborative writers room feeling. It's ten people, and you're together every day laughing your heads off.

Charles Richardson

Their heads were down when we were making big shots and big plays. We had them on their heels and we didn't let up.

Paul Pierce

The main thing is we kept our heads up, didn't get down. We said (the streak is) going to end, we just have to stay together, regardless of the injuries.

Ron Artest

The only thing on my mind is getting in shape. I've got an injury. So the only thing on my mind is getting over my injury and getting in shape.

Marty Hurney

He obviously is very disappointed because he wants to get out and play and we would have liked to have seen that as well. It was something that he didn't realize he did when the injury occurred.

Brian Billick

He's been told that there's a possibility of surgery since the injury happened. There was always that possibility. I don't know if it's any more viable now than it was before.

Dino Novak

It could even be setting you up for injury if you have muscle imbalances.

Mickey Matthews

I think that's what everyone's getting right now. Like Astroturf, you don't have to water it and mow it, so the maintenance is very low on it. And it doesn't have nearly the injury problems that Astroturf has.

Bill Cowher

He's fine. I'm not listing him (on the injury report), so he's fine.

Jonathan Leslie

He was just having a really, really long match, and he's had some injury problems. Going into the spring, there's really no sense in pushing it through that second set.

Yiddish Proverb

He who puts up with insult invites injury

Jose Mourinho

He has a thigh injury and is not in the squad. Are they liars in the FA? That is the question for you. I have never disciplined Glen Johnson - he is a top professional.

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.

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.

Jim Snyder

He did a ton of wrestling this off-season. He?s always done a little, but this year, he has done much more and I think it is because of the success he had last year.

Ray Allen

He didn't play the last time we were down here, so he was the new X-factor thrown into the mix and I'm sure they weren't prepared for that.

Chris Widger

He just tried to wipe the last two starts out, and he went out there and tried to start over.

Joel Klein

has been and always remains open to a settlement.

Tom Driscoll

We're opening up the day after Mother's Day.

Eric Wicks

I thought they'd try to run a lot more outside to open up the field. I think after a while, they were just trying to make a play, anywhere.

Lorrie Miller

It is just as open to me as it is to them.

E. Hicks

I welcome them all with open arms. At least we can get through practice.

Heath Miller

I was able to get open and Tommy got me the ball,

Marscilla Packer

I was just trying to get open, and when I got an open look I shot the ball.

Jabar Gaffney

I was just getting open, working to get open and that just put me in a position to make some plays.

Mark DiCamillo

He's getting more people to be open to his re-election.

Justin Fishman

GW has always had talented players because of where it's located.

Michael Barrett

I think it?s going to be a lot more like home. I think players are going to end up spending a lot more time here.

Mathias Kiwanuka

Whatever it was, we took it in stride and the younger players defensively stepped up.

Dave Schroeder

We took the shackles off them. There used to be rules (about talking with fans). We tell the players to be themselves.

David Grewe

We've got to make our players tougher, and we've got to make our players understand the value of winning. And this sure helps.

Robert H. Connelly

I think it was just the combination of players we had in. It seemed we always had one player out of position.

Rahshon Clark

It got really out of hand. It was teams trying to play aggressive, and (Kansas) players didn't like it.

Paul Mara

He was on his back. I don't think he ever saw where the puck was. He just made a swat at it. That's why he's one of the premiere players in the league. He makes plays like that.

Paul Mara

He was on his back and I don't even think he saw where the puck was and he took a swipe at it. That's why he is one of the premier players in the league.

S. Hughes

It is so important in this time of dispossession taking place that we recognize we have one another, and we have the Lord,

Tanya Vanasse

If you know Stewart, you'd probably recognize it.

Jan Dawson

It's unusual, to be honest, to have a vendor recognize that there are things being done well.

Tanya Kach

It was her idea. She said it was so they didn't recognize me.

Stephanie Williams

It's supply and demand. It's better to recognize it now than wait, because recruiting and retraining (drivers) is more expensive.

Stephanie Williams

It's supply and demand, ... It's better to recognize it now than wait, because recruiting and retraining (drivers) is more expensive.

Robert Barnes

They recognize that without the traveler, there is nothing to reorganize.

Chris Priester

They recognized that we need this new hospital.

Gail Goestenkors

We've watched enough tapes of them to recognize they are scrappy.

Simon Spurr

Spring 2010 is the second season that I'm showing the double-breasted suit. I think the right double-breasted suit is young again.

Doug Tolin

I thought we would come out and play better in the second half. But we could never really get anything going. It kind of went the other way on us.

Jim Court

I thought about it for 10 seconds or so.

Sue Donohoe

When he wanted to know what time it was, you had to get down there. You didn't tell him that it was 30 seconds left.

Jim Calhoun

We've got to take away 3-point shooting and not get fatigued by the shot clock. They make as many shots under 12 seconds as any team you're going to play.

Bruce Bainter

I went down there and it was up over the second step.

Manny Acta

I don't know Soriano as an outfielder. He is here to play second base.

Jerry Russo

He had trouble his first inning. His second inning was terrific.

Daunte Culpepper

He had a tremendous second half,'' Burleson said.

Zeke Jones

I think in some spots we competed well and there were some spots where we could have done a little better.

Riccardo Muti

I'm not shy in the spotlight. I might seem austere and even arrogant, but far from it, I'm actually shy.

Sarah McLachlan

I didn't get hugely famous really quick. It was a slow, gradual process, so I was able to sort of grow into myself and figure out who I was and what I wanted without the glaring spotlight on me telling me who I was.

Vincent Cassel

I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.

Harvey Fierstein

I just don't like politics. My rule is if I can put a spotlight on something, I'll do that.

NeNe Leakes

I have arrived, and the spotlight is on me, honey!

Nelson Mandela

It is your duty to examine the conduct of public figures and to place them in the spotlight - that is your duty.

Kirsten Dunst

I don't live in the spotlight, and I don't live my life in front of the paparazzi. I live very comfortably and quietly as possible.

Marion Cotillard

It's pretty refreshing to be in a situation where the spotlight is on someone else.

Sasha Roiz

I have this tendency to play these horrible, horrible characters.

Jason Bateman

I have a tendency to evolve into William Shatner, with my big fat face.

Mark Hendrickson

That's always been my tendency the first inning of spring.

Laurie Helgoe

I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan.

Dan Shechtman

Israel, in general, should learn from other nations. We have a tendency to teach the world. In many cases, we should learn from the world, because they make advances.

Debbie Ryan

We just went cold. We have a tendency to do that.

Chris Adrian

My natural tendency is to write about zombie bunnies, but one of my first writing teachers got incorporated into my writing superego, and I keep hearing his admonition to make things feel more real the weirder they get.

Beth Walters

We made it interesting. That's what we have a tendency to do, whether we need to or not.

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.

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.

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.

Cynthia Johnson

He didn't get the time that we may feel he deserved, and he may not get it in this lifetime. But before it's all over with, he will get it.

Grant Heslov

It takes a long time to get a film made.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

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.

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.

Juan Hernandez's

I'm on top of the world. My world, at least.

Henry Rollins

I guess, topic to topic, you could consider me a left-leaning person.

Laurence J. Peter

Bore : A fellow who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.

William Wordsworth

We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.

Sargent Shriver

The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should.

Willa Cather

It is cremated youth. It is all yours--no one gave it to you.

Salvador Dali

The problem with the youth of today' is that one is no longer part of it.

Samuel Johnson

It is not easy to surround life with any circumstances in which youth will not be delightful.

Marcel Proust

For every sin there is forgiveness, and especially for the sins of youth.

Narendra Modi

Coming out of indecisiveness and being determined is the pre condition for being called young.

Henry David Thoreau

The youth may build or plant or sail, only let him not be hindered from doing that which he tells me he would like to do.

James Russell Lowell

To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.