Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wayne Dyer

Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts that weaken you.

Jonah Rapino

It seems like it's the classic of classics. I think we had been avoiding it for a little while.

Bob Dozier

It's a tough area. South of the school, there are high- and upper-middle-class citizens - lots of doctors, lawyers, teachers and principals. North of the school, where Jerome lived, you have the inner city. It's a pretty tough area. Jerome and his parents did a great job avoiding the pitfalls of that.

Jon Daniels

Avoiding the arbitration process for the next two years with a core player such as Mark is an important step for both he and the club. We're hopeful the contract is the continuation of a relationship that will last well beyond the term of this agreement.

Bob Motzko

That (pass) was a great play. You guys have been following me with Hooton, and I just can't explain it. He just can't get points. I've never seen anything like it and I can't figure it out because he doesn't have a lot of flaws. He's got great hands, shoots well and competes his tail off, but he's just got a way of avoiding points.

Roberto Goizueta

The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Peter DeLorenzo

After gorging on faddish, oversized SUVs for years, while studiously avoiding more rational vehicle choices, drivers in this country have woken up with a relentless hangover from Katrina made up of the double-whammy of tight supplies and jaw-dropping prices.

Joe Schwieterman

Now it's a matter of damage control for the union. They may be looking for a face-saving maneuver to rejuvenate the membership, while avoiding the permanent loss of jobs.

Jeff Mikulina

This is nothing more than special-interest legislation for an irresponsible developer who was nailed by the 3rd Circuit Court for polluting the water and desecrating burials and avoiding our land-use law, and now the Legislature's going to bail him out at the expense of our agricultural land.

Sharon Stoll

In sport we have moved away from honorable behavior.

Jo Frost

Children need boundaries and ground rules. When children don't have structure, they make up their own rules and negative behavior is what they use to get your attention.

Mike McCurry

I'm troubled by some of my own behavior sometimes. I think about it. I worry about it. I pray about it. I see if I can do better next time around." ()

Roz Chast

I'm sure that my parents' behavior has entered my work, I'm sorry to say. I don't think you need to have a difficult childhood to be funny, but it helps.

Jim Scherr

In Beijing, China's public will have the opportunity to experience firsthand our country through the conduct of our delegation at those Games. So their behavior and how they conduct themselves will be exceptionally important.

Capt. Conklin

Initially, there was a lot fear and concern, but you've got a lot of family-oriented people bringing up families out there, and I think they realize that this type of behavior has to stop or their loved ones could fall victim to it.

Warden Rustin

I'm really going to take a look at the whole situation to find what's enabling this type of behavior to happen.

Javier Solana

The military clock is ticking. It can be stopped, of course, if a change in behavior of the Serbian side is produced in a very short period of time.

John Bolton

The issue is how is it possible this kind of behavior persists of denying the existence of a member state of the United Nations. I have viewed the map question as a potential pivot point to change this anti-Israel culture.

Jarome Iginla

Kipper, he's played like that all year. He's been amazing. Especially early tonight, they had some chances and he made some timely saves.

Bryan Robson

It is a good away point for us with a clean sheet. We had the better of the half chances but you have to score a goal at home to take the points and we haven't done that.

Larry DiGiovanni

We told the kids to get shots up on the rim and that we'd take our chances from there. We knew we had an advantage, so we did what we could to capitalize.

Lindy Ruff

I thought we got what we needed. We've gotten scoring chances out of them, they haven't been a liability when they've been on the ice, and they've had some punishing hits. Those guys have really served their purpose the last two games.

Brian Ching

I think we had our chances and we were definitely dangerous toward the end of the game when we were pushing forward. We let our guard down a couple of times and they punished us for it. It's frustrating and personally I don't think I played very well.

Fabio Capello

I think that with the chances we had we should have won it. We didn't get a look-in for the first 25 minutes and the first goal was a gift but in the second half we must have had five or six good scoring chances.

Gayle Fallon

There are no second chances on this or we could see our schools out of control.

Rief Gilg

We made too many mistakes, and when you make that many mistakes, you're not going to win. We left to many chances offensively. We were down inside the five, we fumbled going in. That's the problem. We scored 34, but we probably left 14 to 21 hanging in the locker room, and that's going to come back and haunt you.

Claude Julien

He's playing well and earning chances to play well. If we had turned the page on this kid, he'd be gone by now.

James Salter

I think you can be taught to write. You can't be taught to be a good writer. For that, you have to bring something to it, yourself, something that can't be given to you.

Ed Comeau

We talk about winning as a team and on any given night we think we have the talent to get all our guys scoring. We want that type of balance; we don't want to rely on (Grant) and Willy to score seven between them.

Maria Semple

I think a novel has to be about where you are at a given moment in time. I think it really needs to represent some specific pain you're going through. it's not just a story.

Jack Kokinda

He's given up one run in the last 42 innings. That's the reason why we're winning. If teams can't score, they can't win.

Gary Patterson

He's given TCU three great years. All you can say is it shows that TCU has arrived.

J. Horton

He's given me all the passes in the world. The least I could do is give him one once in a while.

Ron Gardenhire

He's given everything he has, and that's all you ask.

Denny Green

He's been given a lot of God-given talent, but he's really motivated. He likes to be the best. It's how he sees himself. And he's got an unusual body. He's strong as hell. He's one of the strongest guys in the league.

Ed Orgeron

He was picking it up and was given just enough time for the routes to come open. I don't know if you're going to totally stop him.

Lara Flynn Boyle

I don't have a problem with my body. I don't diet, and I'm not hiding anything. I'm not going to be the subject of a movie of the week 10 years from now.

Kevyn Aucoin

I spent much of my life hiding.

Dido Armstrong

Inside everybody's hiding something.

Ally Carter

Hiding is for amateurs.

Jerzy Kosinski

All my life I've been hiding.

Pat Robertson

We were sort of hiding the congressmen. They wouldn't let Dick Armey and people like that get on the platform.

Richard Page

As someone who has shot in most disciplines, I can tell the House that when one is lying on ones stomach in Bisley with a sling round ones arm to hold the rifle steady, it is hard enough to hit the target on the right spot even when it is obligingly staying still. Foxes do not stay still. They move with remarkable rapidity.

Willie Brown

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.

Woody Allen

If I had my choice in life I would have had the gifts of Tennessee Williams or Eugene O'Neill. Unfortunately my gifts lie in comedy and so comedy comes fairly easy to me and I occasionally have an idea for a very serious piece and I do it, but the ideas don't come that readily to me.

Woody Allen

This is my perspective and has always been my perspective on life: I have a very grim, pessimistic view of it. I always have, since I was a little boy. It hasn't gotten worse with age or anything. I do feel that it's a grim, painful, nightmarish, meaningless experience, and that the only way that you can be happy is if you tell yourself some lies and deceive yourself.

Woody Allen

It's very hard to keep your spirits up. You've got to keep selling yourself a bill of goods, and some people are better at lying to themselves than others. If you face reality too much, it kills you.... you've got to find an answer to the question: Why go on?

William Westmoreland

I don't take criticism lying down.

William Wordsworth

For oft, when on my couch I lie in vacant or in pensive mood they flash upon that inward eye which is the bliss of solitude

William Wordsworth

But trailing clouds of glory do we come, From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy!.

William Wordsworth

To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

Kevin Sneddon

Just really disappointed in the third goal; it really took the wind out of our sails. That was just a really soft goal.

Lisa Fernandez

[T]he game's got to be played on the field, and that's the one day that's got to be the most important day.

Alan Moore

As I see it, a successful story of any kind should be almost like hypnosis: You fascinate the reader with your first sentence, draw them in further with your second sentence and have them in a mild trance by the third. Then, being careful not to wake them, you carry them away up the back alley of your narrative and when they are hopelessly lost within the story, having surrendered themselves to it, you do them terrible violence with a softball bag and then lead them whimpering to the exit on the last page. Believe me, they'll thank you for it.

Bill Veeck

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.

Augusten Burroughs

I never could have written the screenplay because I would have been forced to learn new software and I can't learn one more thing.

Aimee Mullins

Success isn't winning every time. A lot of different factors go into every race, and you can't control all of them. Success means doing as excellent a job as you can on that particular day. The people I admire most aren't necessarily the most wonderful athletes. I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.

Brandi Chastain

You're going to make mistakes in life. It's what you do after the mistakes that counts.

Frank Beamer

We had a streak . . . it's not all Florida. We had a lot of soft commitments going on. I thought they were just making a reservation with us and going to look at some other schools. I didn't think that was the way to do it.

Steve Jobs

When we started off we didn't know how to spell software.