Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jodi Picoult

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

Bryan Price

We hope to see some real signs of the rotation coming to life in the last month. Or, inevitably, you're going to have to make a decision.

Robby Wine

Even today with the rain we had last night, the field's playing 10 times better. We're just jelling. Our team is coming together. The defense will be OK if we keep water on the field and the hops true.

Andrew Olvera

At 8:25 a.m. when they got there, they saw heavy smoke and fire coming from the second floor.

Bobby Brasel

We knew coming into the game Julia Montebello was 2-23 from the 3-point range, so we didn't concentrate on her as much. We have to tip our hat to her though because she made a big shot when it counted the most for them.

Tom Williams

We've not expressed anything. Our key thing we're doing right now is being in stock, ... When you have times like these, we have many people who are shopping with us who don't normally shop with us. We want them to keep coming back. We emphasize that at every meeting.

Audra Jeffers

We've got a lot of girls coming back so hopefully we can do well next year. Penn State won the Big Ten championship this year and our goal is to win it next fall. I'm having a lot of fun playing at Madison. So far it's been a great experience.

Bob Steele

We've got a lot of games coming up and I don't want Nobby to aggravate the little knock he picked up.

Dan Baker

We've got a lot of fast guys coming back that were in different events, and they're all a little faster this year.

Duane Joubert

We like to play full-court defense, but we can play half-court, too. I don't think Hughes Springs has faced a team that can play defense like we do.

Brooke Baker

Everything has been defense, defense, defense. However, I agree. We have got to improve our defense.

Joe Kuhn

Even though we scored 10 points in the first half, we were playing tough defense. We told the guys to pick up the offensive intensity.

Jennifer Granholm

Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures.

Jason Murgel

We were doing a good job of mixing and matching our zone and man-to-man defense in the first half. That's what kept us in the game.

Marcus Trufant

You are the last line of defense so anything that goes wrong on the back end usually results in six points. On the back end, pretty much, you've got to try and be perfect, and if you're not it's going to show.

Shane Wichers

We had a really great team effort, we made great decisions, and we played great team defense.

Sam Johnson

We wanted to end it there and that felt good. Our defense was shaky in Game 1, but we kept up in Game 2.

Cari Strange

We wanted to come out and put some pressure on them, (and) make them handle the ball. Our game plan was to use our defense and run on them, and I think we did that fairly well.

Andre Malraux

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

Woody Allen

Some actors like the total freedom Woody gives them, but I like to have some parameters, some structure.

Tony Vis

Their seniors stepped up and made free throws - I think of the two one-and-ones there at the end. You have to tip your hat to them. I don't think we lost it or gave it away as much as they made plays and won it.

Landon Donovan

The first half was sluggish. We didn't play so great. After the halftime, we got a little momentum and we started to get some free kicks in good areas. You knew that if we got a goal that they would be dead.

Morgan Spurlock

The greatest lesson those kids learned today was the importance of free speech.

George W. Bush

The image of the Iraqi soccer team playing in this Olympics, it's fantastic, isn't it? It wouldn't have been free if the United States had not acted.

Terry Hollander

You could see the pressure in those free throws when he went to the line. You could see how much of a weight he was carrying.

Clarence Darrow

You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am free.

Lorraine Berg

You can pay $50,000 or take the free tour.

Mike Jensen

Teams are looking and looking for ways to stop Brandon, and he's so good it's hard to stop him. I think you have to let him get what he gets.

Richard Parsons

Ted is my man. I love Ted, ... He knows more, particularly about the television space, which is at least a good third of this company. Ted and I have always had a wonderful relationship, and I am going to be reaching out to him, too.

Charlie Peprah

Tell him not to feel so bad, because he played a very good defense.

Ralph Connor

Terre Haute North is ranked 18th and it isn't hard to see why. Aubrey ran a really good race for us. She was about 10th at the half-mile and moved up. She ran a very smart race.

Nick Aliotti

Terrance was, first of all, just a great kid who always did the right thing. But also, as good a player as he was now, he hadn't even tapped his potential. The sky was the limit.

Mike Birbiglia

'Terminator 2' is so good. I love it.

Ken Karcher

Technically, he was not as good as he's been.

Fred A. Allen

Television is called a medium because anything good on it is rare

Joe Morton

Television has been really good to me in terms of the roles I've been able to get on TV as opposed to the roles I've gotten in film and in theater.

Demi Lovato

As a kid I'd play with homemade recipes, like putting pineapple on my face to exfoliate my skin and doing facial steams with lavender or peppermint oils. I just loved doing stuff like that. It's what motivated me to launch my skin care line.

Alice Hoffman

The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe

Anne Lamott

When I was a kid, our family used to watch 'Bonanza.' I really liked having a Sunday night TV ritual.

Anne Lamott

After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid.

Anne Lamott

All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often, grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.

Anne Lamott

It's intrusive for grandparents to think they're in charge. It's manipulative. Also, it's self-destructive, since if the parents have to resist you, you won't get your mitts on the kid as often.

Anna Chlumsky

A lot of movies treat kids like idiots.

Anna Chlumsky

Kids are truthful by nature.

Andy Roddick

I'm not the savior of men's tennis in America. I'm just a kid trying to win a few matches.

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Roy Keane

You shouldn't have spoken to the players like that. No, you should have.

Ned Colletti

Do I use VORP? I may be using it and not even know it, and if I am, it's nobody's business. There are a lot of different criteria in judging players. I think I use, um, esoteric qualitative mathematical review times five. That's one of them.

Charles Bukowski

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart

Douglas Massey

Markets are a social construction, they're made from institutions. We in a democratic society create markets, we constitute markets, we bring them into existence, and we shouldn't turn markets over to a narrow group of people who regulate them and run them in their interests, rather they should be run democratically for the common good.

Donald Barthelme

Some people', Miss R. said,'run to conceits or wisdom but I hold to the hard, brown, nutlike word. I might point out that there is enough aesthetic excitement here to satisfy anyone but a damned fool.

Donald Sutherland

I'm running out of time, and a Western is America's answer to a Greek tragedy, so that's what we did. [Kiefer] hired Brad [Mirman] to write the script and he had the ideas, and then he and I did stuff on the script to make it a little cleaner to ourselves. And then, we played it. We were just actors working together, and our DNA must have informed it somehow. Certainly, we came out of it purified a little bit.

Don Kardong

There's no such thing as a bad carbohydrate.

Colleen Hoover

It's not just lies they're referring to. It's life. You can't run to another town, another place, another state. Whatever it is you're running from-it goes with you. It stays with you until you find out how to confront it.

Dolores Huerta

You could really belong to a group of people and with other people, you could really make some significant changes - through the electoral process, of course, by registering people to vote, and by supporting good people who were running for office. For me, it was like I had found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Dolly Parton

It's great at this stage in my life to still be in the running, that people appreciate you.

Dolly Parton

Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary.

Madhur Bhandarkar

For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.