Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Swisher

We've had this stretch before, and we've bounced right back. The difference is, there's a lot more riding right now. We've just got to dig deep, keep plugging along and see what happens.

Tom Miller

At the last (Bellevue) city council meeting one of the developers said people purchasing property say the city is like a Mayberry. Melbourne is a quaint little town along the river.

John Fiore

At the time when we played Woburn, they were still missing their quarterback and hadn't gotten their passing game back on track yet, ... Wakefield, with its passing game was really difficult to defend. The difference when we played them was that Wakefield's passing attack was further along for obvious reasons because they've been healthy.

Barbara Turner

Concentration and composure, when we lose those two things, that's usually when we struggle. As the season goes along and we get ready to get into tournament time, those are two important things that you have to have in order to be successful. Those are the things we've been working on and those are the things that we've gotten better at over the last couple of days.

Herman Edwards

Did we think he was going to be 100 percent? No. We knew we'd bring him along. We thought we brought it along all right.

Nancy Long

Diligent practice and preparation in the next two months, along with their classes with Mr. Leck, will transform our children into artistic musicians. It's my desire as their teacher that they be inspired to continue to develop their musical talents and develop a lifelong appreciation of great music.

Laurence Sterne

Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading! Take them out of this book, for instance, --you might as well take the book along with them; --one cold external winter would reign in every page of it; restore them to the writer; --he steps forth like a bridegroom, --bids All-hail; brings in variety, and forbids the appetite to fail.

Laura Blackann

To suggest the reason he signed a letter along with 35 other members of Congress opposing the establishment of a casino was because of anything other than his long-held anti-gaming position is both ludicrous and insulting.

Niaz Siddiqui

We are suspecting that the suicide bomber came to the venue along with a small rally, which merged into the gathering. He was close to the stage . . . and he blew himself up when the prayers were nearing their end.

Bobby Charlton

I've been asked about that goal every day for the last 40 years. We didn't have the technology back then to show whether it was a goal or not, which led to the controversy. I'd like to think one day we'll have the technology to show whether or not it was a goal.

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.

Ellen DeGeneres

When I asked her what she missed the most right now she said, 'My friends. I don't know where my friends are,' ... Tonight, let's show people on the Gulf Coast that they have friends all over the world . . . to give them shelter from the storm.

E. Hicks

When I moved out here during the late '70s, I had a neighbor who was a farmer who asked me 'What do you produce? ... I said, well, I don't produce, I publish, but he meant, you know, 'Do you grow tomatoes?'

Barkhad Abdi

It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. I'm not a politician.

Jacqueline Novogratz

You have to learn to ask questions in a way that will elicit more nuanced answers, rather than the answers you would like to get.

Ann Thomas

Tuesday at 2 p.m., I will ask for a voluntary evacuation if the weather predictions remain the same,

Harvey Karp

Toddlers are curious ? they want to touch this, taste that, but they can't reach it or ask for it.

Flava Sirk

We were in position to have a chance to win or tie the game at the end and that's all we can really ask for.

Billy Blanks

Where I am today, is where my mind and will put me, where I am tomorrow is where my mind will put me.

Dalai Lama

If your mind is scattered, it is quite powerless.

Dalai Lama

As human beings we have the same experience of destructive and constructive emotions. We also have a human mind capable of developing wisdom. We all have the same Buddha nature.

Christopher Reeve

Your body is not who you are. The mind and spirit transcend the body.

Christopher Walken

I come from a show-business family, so wanting to become an actor never crossed my mind. It was just a part of my life.

Christopher Paolini

The monsters of the mind are far worse than those that actually exist.

Christopher Morley

A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.

Ansel Adams

If what I see in my mind excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph.

Anne Bronte

No generous mind delights to oppress the weak, but rather to cherish and protect.

Ronald Neumann

These expectations of the people will have to be met,

Luther Jackson

The status quo is dead. And that's why people are so nervous.

Kevin Cronin

The statement was a little more hawkish than people anticipated.

Joe Napoli

The state is going to have to step in and see to it these people comply, if they have to shut them down, yank licenses.

Gawain Scott

I speak for the people of the street.

Matthew Morrison

I speak a little Spanish but I am so impressed by people who can speak a lot of different languages.

John Mackey

I sometimes think that unions don't understand that we live in a free society, and people have the right to not select union representation if they don't want it.

Pras Michel

I slept in the rain. My tent was stolen. I experienced how these people live.

Ryan Trecartin

I see people as being what their personality is at the moment of expression.