Famous Quotes & Sayings

Phil Jackson

They almost made me get up and walk out of the building in the third quarter. They got it righted and played good defense to get back in the game. I knew that Kobe would find a way out there to help us win.

Corey Dillon

They almost burnt me with a Marlboro or something. They threw hot coffee on my leg. Or maybe it was hot chocolate. It was hot, though. It burnt my leg a little bit. It's not a big issue.

Kevin Boyer

The win was almost perfect. It was our last conference game at home; it's nice to go out on top.

M. Thompson

The wind pattern is almost identical to the one we had when we broke the record on Lakota. We should have a fast run up the north sea to coincide with a low pressure arriving in the Shetland Islands.

R. Inge

The way he's been pitching lately, we almost feel obligated to go out there and get him some runs. Confidence is the key in baseball. When you feel confident, you're going to put up good numbers.

Jeff Johnson

The waterline was almost at the top of the basement when they began dewatering. I am amazed at how fast they've been able to remove so much water. I didn't expect this much progress for months. Amazing.

Ken Tower

These are things that people can be nervous about and, yes, they're concerns. But let's face it: the world has trouble almost every day. It's probably not a major factor for our market.

Jeremy Friesen

The rift, if not civil war, within the Liberal party also presents an almost Herculean task for any new leader.

John Pratt

The richest man in the world got wealthy even though his company sells almost nothing tangible.

Michael Jackson

What we call single-factor authentication is a basic password and ID. Now we're asking banks to use another form of identification.

Diana Sebzda

We are asking people to call and register first so we can see what the group is going to be like. If it meets with success, I'd love to see it continue.

Rosario Dawson

I remember everyone asking, 'What did you do to get so thin? You looked great.' I looked emaciated.

Michelle Obama

Like so many American families, our families weren't asking for much. They didn't begrudge anyone else's success or care that others had much more than they did... in fact, they admired it.

John Tukey

All we know about the world teaches us that the effects of A and B are always different-in some decimal place-for any A and B. Thus asking "are the effects different?" is foolish.

Oscar Wilde

It is always worth while asking a question, though it is not always worth while answering one.

Margaret Millar

If you go around looking for accidents, asking for them, they can't be called accidents any more.

Toba Beta

Let us think for a moment about alien, regarding possibility of the existence of other civilization beyond our dear planet earth. We probably conclude that it's all just hoax, or some rumors issued by ruling government for some purpose. Now, we can contemplate a bit about it by asking this simple rhetorical question, 'How could possibly people be able to think about something unknown, which have never been popped out in human minds at all?'

Pat Burke

(Legislators) are reinventing the wheel, making it square and asking us to do it for them.

Donnie Edwards

Marty has been talking about us finishing games. ... He has been stressing about making plays when you have to.

Dennis Erickson

I'm going to finish what I need to do. I hope I'm here. I want to be a part of it.

Daniel Alfredsson

I'm going to finish out this year and that will be good for me. It's time for somebody else to step in and do the job ... I've done it for three years. I'm going to step aside,

Wallace Spearmon

I'm going to try to finish up his duties,

Bernie Bickerstaff

The competitiveness in me says you don't want to finish with the worst record. That's not our goal.

Wade Vickery

And now, to finish on the mountain top this year makes this championship really special.

Buck Showalter

It's hard to maintain it, especially at the level he was spoiling us with. I think he is going to finish strong. Hank is a smart young man, and I think he will learn from it. He is only going to get better and better.

Doris Anderson

It's a very high-energy activity. It's a workout. By the time you finish class, you're tired.

Annika Sorenstam

It's great to get off to a good start, but I think it's also important to finish well.

Michael Beasley

It was an honor to be a part of history, but honestly I don't remember all the games we've played. I do remember the trips, though, and that's what we will miss the most ? all those good times.

Daniel Barrow

Brantley did a great job keeping his composure. He read the defenses well and made some nice passes. As the game progressed, I thought we did a better job up the middle with our fullback trap and isolation plays.

Dick Jauron

(Bettis) is the kind of player that the game needs, the game thrives on, and the game grows around.

Shawn Chacon

Everything leading up to this (start), it matters, ... But it doesn't when you're in the playoffs and it's win or go home. Nothing else matters. You don't want the last thing people remember you by (is) you lost the playoff game and your team got sent home.

Lofa Tatupu

Everything is structured. He gives you a number of things to prepare for the week. You go to the game knowing what to expect.

Dwan Hurt

Even though we lost, we're confident. That game made us a better team.

Jeff Neal

Even though we lost the game big, it was good for us to upgrade the schedule.

Brian Urlacher

Even though you're not in the game, you still like to win and see your teammates do well, so it was a little frustrating. But at the same time, we got out of this game healthy with the people we need to get to the Super Bowl, and that's the number one goal we wanted to take into the playoffs.

Byron Scott

Even though we won the game we have a lot of things to learn from. Our athleticism and our quickness are the keys to our team and we need to use them to our advantage.

Jack Kerouac

Nothing ever happened - Not even this

Martin Straka

If you play like that for 10 years in the NHL, there's no way you lose it in a year.

If you lose your job, your marriage and your mind all in one week, try to lose your mind first, because then the other stuff won't matter that much

Larry David

I tend to stay with the panic. I embrace the panic.

Bobby Jones

We're still 12-2. It's not like we're pushing the panic button.

Bobby Labonte

If we start off and we're not in the top 10, we're going to be there before long,

Azar Nafisi

A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.

Bertrand Russell

Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

Charles Kettering

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Demi Lovato

When I look back, it saddens me to think that I was so hard on myself - when I was younger, I thought I had to look like everyone else, but I learned that beauty comes from how you feel about yourself. Once I started taking care of my mind, body, and soul, I realized that I didn't need to conform to what's "normal" and started to love myself.

Demetri Martin

I think it's interesting that cologne rhymes with alone.

Bernie Sanders

What the Des Moines Register said - you know, there were coin - I think there were half a dozen coin flips - a fairly chaotic type situation. At the end of the day, no matter how it's recounted, it will break roughly even. I love and respect the caucus process in Iowa. See, and I don't have to say it, because they voted already.

Donna Tartt

It's funny, but thinking back on it now, I realize that this particular point in time, as I stood there blinking in the deserted hall, was the one point at which I might have chosen to do something very much different from what I actually did. But of course I didn't see this crucial moment for what it actually was; I suppose we never do. Instead, I only yawned, and shook myself from the momentary daze that had come upon me, and went on my way down the stairs.

Donald Evans

And when you really think about the 9-11 event, the horrific attack on our land here in America and the death of three thousand of out loved ones, it was a defining moment.

Donald Johanson

I think that many of my ideas are correct, but I'll bet you, before my death other discoveries will be made that will prompt me to alter various ideas I have about human evolution.