Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francis Bacon

The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

Martin Brodeur

I've played enough in the NHL to know most of these guys. Most of the time I know their tendencies. I've been lucky. I've been fortunate to make some saves and help us win some games.

Erin Morgenstern

I go back and forth between input phases where I'm reading a lot or trying to get out and explore the world a bit and soak up inspirations and then I'll get back into output mode and write and write and write.

Paddy Moloney

We had such a nice time making that album. It's always a joy to work with such talented musicians. I'm very fortunate that such great players perform with us.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We do not know what really good or bad fortune is.

Terrence Holt

It was funny. We were going back and forth with each other, talking the whole game.

Joe Barton

Our Velma Kelly is Jill Kelly - no relation - of Fort Wayne.

Victor Hugo

The peculiarity of prudery is to multiply sentinels, in proportion as the fortress is less threatened

Aeschylus

To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals.

Mike Babcock

We weren't thinking, we were just kind of going, and that was nice to see. We looked like we could move.

David Sloan

I don't think we did the wrong thing. We spent a long time on this. We consulted experts. We looked at it ourselves, and looked at the totality of the circumstances and we didn't see anything egregious.

Jim Murphy

He's a special kid. He's someone to be looked at down the road.

Mike Price

He's just running around a little bit. He looked good, though.

Bobby Cox

He looked like a 20-game winner today. He really did. He can't pitch any better than he did today.

Bobby Frankel

If there is speed, I want to get the same trip. If there is no speed, he can go to the lead. It looked like the other day he could get the distance. He was very impressive.

Phil Garner

We send them (Marlins) out of town with no change. After those first two games, it looked bleak.

Samuel L. Jackson

Then he departs, ... We're not talking about weeks. We're speaking about a number of days. Now why is that being looked at as an unreasonable offer?

Jim Tressel

It looked to me like an incompletion, but I didn't know. I suppose that was about a 70- or an 80-yard play. I was just looking down here on the stats. We had 617 yards, so there were some other important plays.

Digger Phelps

The square is your friend. Behind every missed lay-up is a tale of the square neglected.

Douglas Hofstadter

Irrationality is the square root of all evil

Ezra Pound

Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for the human emotions. If one has a mind which inclines to magic rather than science, one will prefer to speak of these equations as spells or incantations; it sounds more arcane, mysterious, recondite.

Bruce McPherson

then we'll have to go back to square one.