Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kelly Slater

He has a great knack for picking the right wave and he's a really smart competitor. He might even bust out a superman air. He has a few tricks up his sleeve. He always pulls reverses and airs that other people don't.

Casey Wilson

If you're going to be part of a nationally televised show that airs live and do sketches that haven't even been brainstormed a week earlier, you really can't be afraid to fail.

Brian Jaquet

You can watch 'Lost' the day after it airs without paying two bucks.

Jason Katims

I'm not somebody who goes online after every episode airs because that would be, for me, getting too much feedback and too much information.

William Cullen Bryant

The moon is at her full, and, riding high,Floods the calm fields with light.The airs that hover in the summer skyAre all asleep to-night.

Ruth Ginsburg

A plain speaker without airs or affectations, the chief fostered a spirit of collegiality among the nine of us perhaps unparalleled in the court's history.

Simon Cowell

There are no airs and graces about her. ... I like her.

Richard Garnett

There are no airs about this guy, no pretension,

Emma Willard

His daughter returned from her boarding school, improved in fashionable airs and expert in manufacturing fashionable toys; but, in her conversation, he sought in vain for that refined and fertile mind which he had fondly expected.

Russell Crowe

Just this one night is going to raise $1 million so I am going to get my nuts busted with jetlag for a couple of days, but it is really worth it.

Rich Harden

He's kind of been carrying us so far. He's such a great hitter, you knew he'd bust out with a big start sooner or later.

Charlie Whitehurst

I threw it to the wrong guy. They busted on defense, and it's kind of like they do the wrong thing, and it screws you up. I've got to make a play to somebody, and there's two or three guys open.

Rick Vrhovac

Players make plays. Coaches don't do anything except line them up. I take my hat off to my kids. They really busted their rear end tonight.

Doug Schreiber

Our offense was clicking in the final two games. We were able to bust it open and that is really good for our defense, pitching and coaches.

Anna Jarvis

I really busted my tail in (the 1,600). I got a PR (personal record) by about five seconds. This meet really motivated me.

Joan Hickson

I love getting back to Wivenhoe. I get out of my wig, bustle and costume in three minutes flat at the end of the play before jumping into a taxi outside the theater and catching the train home.

Kevin Armstrong

The hustle and bustle of Charlottesville has been great to me.

Steve McKinney

You can't win by just running three yards at a time, hoping to bust one out.

Paul Scheuring

I wouldn't be surprised if you saw something like 'Prison Break,' colon, and a few other words. But it's not going to be 'Prison Broke.

Curtis Eccles

Jack is taking fewer shots because of the double-teams. He's doing a good job of finding the open man.

Anthony Zinni

I would say we're within a week or so. We're ready now but there are a few more pieces to put in.

Michael Lloyd

I would say up until the recent few weeks, it looked like CSX might be doing a better job, now the shoe may be on the other foot, ... I'd be more worried about CSX going forward than Norfolk Southern.

Greg Shivers

Katie did much better in that game. Her pitching has really picked up the last few games.

Ramesh Chennithala

Karat had first said that he would react after the full report of the CAG comes out. It is now a few weeks and there has been no reaction from him.

John Gibbons

I talked to him today about a few things and I hope he got the message. You see guys on the other side like (Derek) Jeter and (Gary) Sheffield get down the line.

Dan Hendricks

He did it just about like the last few weeks. We'll come back next week with a three-quarters or so work Saturday or Sunday and we're all set.

Dr. Paulos

He did great. He's already rehabbing. He's a great athlete. He's a stud. He'll be back in a few months.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

B. B. King

Kevin did a great job tonight. He gutted it out there at the end for us. It was a great team win.

James Patterson

Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.

Mary Carskadon

Kids are too sleepy to learn well. They're too sleepy to be happy. And they're at great risk for such things as traffic accidents.

Alan Trammel

I wouldn't say it was one of his greatest performances, but he pitched well enough to win.

Jim Schmitz

Jake Wade did just such a great job throwing strikes, going right at them. He pitched six quality innings. It was just nice to see him come out like that.

Alden Ehrenreich

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.

Nick Parry

Kendra did a great job. She mixed it up and kept them off-balance all day.

Ray Depwe

He had a knack of knowing what to do.

Moliere

I have the knack of easing scruples.

Oliver Hardy

A knick-knack is a thing that sits on top of a whatnot.

Ben Whishaw

I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.

Fred Ray

Some people may have overlooked him. We practice together consistently. I know where they'll (receivers) will be. He has a knack for the ball.

Brandon Lee

I always had a pretty good knack for raising hell

Craig Ferguson

She still cared for me, and the best way I could make amends to her was to be happy. I do have a knack for finding great women.

Thomas Vanek

Those two have a special knack together I don't think I quite have with those two.

Gary Dunn

She has always had a real knack for this stuff. She has training in something and she can make a living at it.

M. Wolfe

I would think he's worth it. They might not.

Jim Edmonds

I think it might be why I struggled in the World Series,

Ozzie Guillen

He did it all today. He might be in the lineup tomorrow.

Bryan Smolinski

(Hasek) was the reason we won. It was really tough taking those penalties in the first seven minutes, but then we got one at the end and that might have taken the wind out of their sails.

Stephanie Mills

Onstage, you can be anything you want to be. In concert, I might project a different side of myself, but I wouldn't do anything I'd be embarrassed of.

Alphonso Jackson

have come to realize they might not go back to New Orleans.

Andy Reust

It could be a possibility he might run it. At this point, I don't know where I'm going to go with it.

Scott Arneson

I think the proof is in the pudding. The Valley produces state championship contenders every year. Some people might not think that the Valley is that tough, but no one has proven otherwise.

Scott Cohen

Whatever is in the minivan might be whatever they have right now.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

H. Hunt

He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.

Jason Phillips

He catches everything in the outfield, and he throws people out. He's good. Real good.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Just like my parents immigrated from ranch to ranch picking crops, I have migrated from city to city.

Jack Baker

If you are not in the stock, I'd start picking away at it.

Lamar Butler

I'm picking up every memento I can find in this building. I'm taking everything back home.

Mark Teixeira

You can't go wrong going with the United States and picking us as the favorites.

Anthony Chan

The unemployment rate is picking up, but it's picking up at a very slow pace,

Jan Pronk

All we did was picking up the pieces and muddling through, doing too little too late.

Spike Lee

Where are the slaves? Who's picking the cotton?

Amy White

They are picking things up really fast. Things went really well.

David Brody

It's a little overwhelming for her, ... but she's picking up phrases very easily.

Larry Rothschild

If he pulls something, even though it's not the spot where we're concentrating on, it could set him back too far. We probably did the right thing.

Jensen Ackles

I'm just a regular boy who goofs around, pulls pranks, and makes jokes. I'm not Mr. Debonair Suave. I'm just a regular boy who goofs around, pulls pranks, and makes jokes. That doesn't sound very hot to me.

David Daniels

He's got to be smarter with his pitches.

Jake Shulaw

Lance is one of the smartest wrestlers I've ever had.

Tony VanHorn

I think it was a smart move, but not something we would do.

Mel Gardner

He wasn't overpowering like he usually is. He wasn't throwing as hard, but he pitched a smart game.

Robbie Coltraine

Crows are incredibly smart. They can be taught five things on the drop.

Truman Capote

Lively, too. Talky as a jaybird. With something smart to say on every subject: better than the radio.

Rick Riordan

He had no idea where the stereotype of dumb giggly blondes came from. Ever since he'd met Annabeth at the Grand Canyon last winter,when she'd marched toward him with that Give me Percy Jackson or I’ll kill you expression, Leo had thought of blondes as much too smart and much too dangerous.

Woody Allen

I was a smart kid and I was not understood by my parents.

William J. Clinton

I think the idea of moving to a cleaner energy future and doing more energy efficiency makes smart sense.

James Harrison

Superman ain't got nothing on me, ... Kryptonite? C'mon now.

Bobby Johnson

He can do some Superman stuff. I'd like to see it.

Tracy Morgan

To me, politics is a pile of tricks.

Dorothy Richardson

If there was a trick, there must be a trickster.

Shaun White

I can't really describe a trick as much as I just feel it.

James Rota

There are no tricks with us. What you see is what you get.

Van Morrison

Into the Music was about the first album where I felt, 'I'm starting here'...the Wavelength thing, I didn't really feel that was me.

Jim Hooper

Eventually, the waves get big enough and the Jell-O fails.

Neil Young

Every wave is new until it breaks.

P. G. Wodehouse

I shuddered from stem to stern, as stout barks do when buffeted by the waves.

Paul Wesley

When I was 18 I was just absorbing everything around me: whatever happens, happens. I was so naive and willing to ride whatever wave life threw at me.

Shia LaBeouf

I didn't jump onto anyone else's coattail and ride their wave.

Elaine Chao

The attacks on Sept. 11 really sent a shock wave through our economy, and the full reverberation of that is not yet known,

Chester W. Nimitz

If you're not making waves, you're not under weigh.

Adam Braun

I realized that even big waves start with small ripples