Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Bevere

Offense cuts you off from God. We separate ourselves from the pipeline. I've never seen anything block blessings from Heaven except offense.

Dwight Hetzell

The more hours they purchase, the cheaper it is. A three-hour block is $21, and a five-hour block is $30. We also offer a membership plan that provides discounted rates to our regular gamers.

Vince Carter

During the game he's all business. And he punishes people. It's an honor to block for him.

Jim Foster

Defense is the variable you have control over. Shooting the percentage we shot from the 3-point line is not a realistic expectation and being able to score at will from the block is not a realistic expectation. You should have high expectations of yourself defensively because that's about you.

Karen Steuer

Any major change to convention regulations requires a three-fourths vote. Japan has a quarter block over the minority on most issues. That creates an uphill hurdle when it comes to increasing or decreasing protection for whales.

Chris Rankin

The smoke was so thick it blocked out daylight.

Lee Baca

(The suspect) had been circling the block for about four hours, in a strange manner, ... American Morning.

Arlene Rosenthal

The sound is throughout the park, and you can hear music a block away.

Steve McKinney

The thing you notice about Domanick, like all great backs, when he's in there, he makes things happen. The line is blocking the same as they do with other backs, but for some reason when he's in there, you gain yards.

Jonas Gahr Store

As foreign minister of Norway, I learnt how natural changes provoked by climate change are creating new sources of political instability.

Jim Calhoun

As far as we're concerned, we're incredibly happy to be a No. 1 seed. Obviously, I don't think anything we did changed us from being the overall No. 1. I think it's what Duke did.

Sergey Lavrov

As for relations between the European trio and Russia, we are not expecting any change in these relations. There is no need for that,

Tim Howard

As an OCD guy, I find change difficult.

Moran Atias

As actors, we get to hide. You can change your hair and your accent, and it's not you. You have tricks, these masks.

Neil Mellor

As always, markets will be looking to the statement. Each word holds implications for the markets, and each change will have implications for the dollar.

Gregory Benford

As a literature of change driven by technology, science fiction presents religion to a part of the reading public that probably seldom goes to church.

Gerry Adams

the big question is not if there is going to be change, but when there is going to be change and what change there is going to be.

George Moore

A very slight change of our habits is sufficient to destroy our sense of our daily reality, and the reality of the world around us

Casey Stengel

I stayed up last night and watched the Republican Convention all night long. I watched all of them talk, and listened to them and seen them and I'm not interested in politics. If you watch them and listen to them you can find out why.

Aaron McLear

We had such a successful convention in 2000, we knew Philadelphia could handle it.

Harold Ford, Jr.

I look forward to their convention and look forward to hearing the President talk about what he will do for the next four years. He hasn't done it up to this point.

Ralph Brennan

We need to be able to increase our efforts and the efforts of the CVB to sell the Convention Center. This is a huge investment for the state, and we need to make sure it pays off.

Rush Limbaugh

I reject most conventional wisdom.

Justin Trudeau

In 2012, the Liberal Party affirmed overwhelmingly at the policy convention that we are a pro-choice party. It means that we are a party that defends women's rights, and therefore, it would be inconsistent for any Liberal MP to be able to vote to take away women's rights.

Michael Long

If our party's convention was held next week, I think Spencer would be the choice.

Joan Didion

I lead a very conventional life.

Barack Obama

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn't have much to say about how they'd make it right. They want your vote, but they don't want you to know their plan.

Mike Shula

Offense is what creates excitement. Defense just wins games.

Lauren Spillers

Defense creates offense. We create turnovers and steals and that gives us easy chances.

Chucky Atkins

The second quarter was the difference. Our second unit gave us great energy to open the second quarter. When this team gets in sync quick and we're locking down on defense, it creates a lot more opportunities on the other end for us.

Tim Ryan

This creates a love of learning. We need to develop a love of learning in general ... that will help us be a competitive country.

M. Wolfe

Disorganization in an office environment creates a lot of stress. Getting organized is a real emotional process, and it always gets worse before it gets better.

Ron Hill

There's some offensive linemen to be had. Linebacker is a pretty strong position. It looks like you can get some defensive linemen, but not a lot of them. Teams are going to different fronts and doing different things, so it creates more room for a different style of lineman. You'll take a different guy for a 3-4 team than you would a 4-3 team, so that creates a different look and view there. There are more of those 3-4 guys than there are 4-3 guys at end.

Todd Engle

I think this is a team that we match up with pretty well when it comes to height. I think Abby (Nolan) creates a lot of problems for a lot of different people. I'm pretty sure that's where they'll focus their attention.

Ray Giacoletti

I think he is the most improved player in the league. He is so much more skilled offensively and creates a lot of problems inside.

Andrew Rotherham

It creates an incentive (for teachers) to move away from the most challenging schools, the most challenging kids. And it sends a signal to people looking at the profession that this is a profession where excellence is not rewarded.

Joe Girardi

Those are little hurdles you have to get over. Sometimes you have to learn to pitch with a lead, even if it's a slight lead.

Fatih Terim

We managed to pass the first hurdle by reaching the playoffs.

Mark Rowen

Their model has a lot of hurdles that they need to leap to get it to work.

Mike Tice

This is just another hurdle we have to overcome.

Bill Warlick

It looks like the last hurdles are something they can get over here.

David Mann

It's been increasing significantly over the last year and a half.

Alan Brown

The use of application processors in 3G mobile handsets is increasing the semiconductor value per handset and semiconductor revenue for suppliers of application processors.

Atsuko Abe

You reign, I rule. That is the Japanese way.

Jane Goodall

It's not Africa that is destroying the African rainforest, it's selling concessions to timber companies that are not African, they are from the developed world - Japan, America, Germany, Britain.

Barry Sheene

They were ridiculous times. After I won my World Championship in 1976, I went to Japan.

Amy Waldman

History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get the facts right - how a glove factory works, for example, or how courtesans in imperial Japan dressed.

Alex Cox

Yeah, I'd be happy to go back to Mexico or Japan to make another film.

Anthony Bourdain

I often look ridiculous in Japan. There's really no way to eat in Japan, particularly kaiseki in a traditional ryokan, without offending the Japanese horribly. Every gesture, every movement is just so atrociously wrong, and the more I try, the more hilarious it is.

Tony Abbott

It is very important for our long-term economic future that the relationship with Japan, Korea and China, who are our three biggest trading partners, be ever stronger.

Tite Kubo

In Japan there is a lot of manga, but around manga there are video games, manga on cellphones, manga in card games... so people not only enjoy manga but also the products around it.

Ronald Reagan

The United States trades more with the province of Ontario alone than with Japan.

Kevin Keane

People shouldn't overreact. It's a very small number of products and not major brands.

Subir Raha

The Syrian acquisition is a major breakthrough for us.

Pat Gelsinger

This is not a minor retooling. This is a major leap.

Zhou Jixiang

That's why we need to stretch to other major cities. We've only started the work with Shandong Province.

Mike Wallace

You say this, 'I would never have been a Major League-caliber player without steroids.' Right,

Mat Sprague

Considering where the program has come from, it's a major accomplishment.

James Thurber

And unless there is a major stumbling or bombshell, I think he will be confirmed.

Anatoly Chubais

And yet we must be ready to get into next winter without major failures.

Jorma Kaukonen

Even though I don't have a major label, everyone is doing it by themselves.

Tony McCoy

Racing may be a minority sport, but I wouldn't swap it for all the money in the world.

Arlen Specter

When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.

Nathan Brookwood

As soon as you let up, even for a quarter or two, you're in trouble.

Efraim Zuroff

Up to a quarter of the Latvian legion were volunteers.

Luis Castillo

Hopefully, it won't take me two quarters to get going this time.

Erik Satie

I liked the bit about quarter to eleven.

Kevin Rollins

The first quarter is always the toughest quarter for us.

Eli Manning

I'm not a 25-interception quarterback, I know that,

Jim McMahon

I don't like the rules about you can't hit the quarterback.

Scott Davis

We know the quarter is going to have EBITDA down 20 percent, but that will not be a surprise to anybody,

John Tyson

We said the second quarter would be very tough, and it was even tougher than we anticipated.

Jorge Paulo Lemann

I always say, 'To have a big dream requires the same effort as having a small dream. Dream big!'

Ricky Ponting

It's nice to put your hand up and do the big things the team requires of you.

John Wooden

The uphill climb is slow,but the downhill road is fast.