Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lee Humphrey

It always looks like he's on a downhill slope. I don't know what else to say. It's a sight to see.

Turkish Proverb

There is an uphill for every downhill, and a downhill for every uphill.

Jeremiah Adrian

He got a takedown late in the first period and then put me on my back in the second and I was down 5-0 and it just went downhill from there. It was a good feeling to be out here tonight after not winning a match my first two times here.

Drew Stanton

I had Brandon Hoyte running downhill at me. So I had to pitch the ball.

Larry Bird

I never dreamed that it would be like this. We're very disappointed in the fact that we had the guys here to do it and to get off to the start we did is very frustrating. We've gone downhill since then. But hopefully we're back on the right track and we can move forward.

Rex Buchanan

In a mature oil-producing region like Kansas, all the big discoveries have been made. Kansas is one of the most densely drilled places in the world. For a long time, we've been on the downhill side of the production curve.

Kent Jones

I hit that putt downhill for par, and that was big to keep the round going.

Freddie Tidmore

I'm proud of how physical we were, especially early in the game. Our new linebackers played good. They worked downhill well.

Maria Sharapova

The first set was really downhill for me. I don't think there was one positive thing in the first set that I did.

Ron Johnson

Jon?s probably at a point where we can start to tweak some things. It?s all part of the development. That cutter he throws looks like he?s tossing darts.

Chris Bucknam

I think it looks to be an outstanding stadium.

Matt Osborne

He didn't get many looks at the basket. But he picked it up defensively and he had six rebounds and six steals.

Bill Cowher

He can time things up and be very explosive. It looks sometimes like he's walking and not moving, but he can go from Point A to Point B very quickly. He's a very sudden player, and I think that's what makes him unique.

Miley Cyrus

I just stick my tongue out because I hate smiling in pictures. It's so awkward. It looks so cheesy.

Quvenzhane Wallis

Doing the long lines - it looks easy when actresses do it: they just say it straight up, looks like they do nothing wrong, they just keep going, but it's not like that.

Frank Taylor

He's a big, strong, really good-bodied horse, and he looks really fast.

David Hofmans

He's a big, strong homebred, and he looks like Giacomo, too. Same sire, same color.

Tony Mowbray

He's been training all week and he looks fit, sharp and aggressive.

Richard Perle

We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.

Rebecca West

... it is nearly impossible to understand those who are beyond our sight, who are not explained to us by ties of birth or the contact of the flesh.

William Jennings Bryan

The Bible holds up before us ideals that are within sight of the weakest and the lowliest, and yet so high that the best and the noblest are kept with their faces turned ever upward. It carries the call of the Saviour to the remotest corners of the earth; on its pages are written the assurances of the present and our hopes for the future

Woodrow Wilson

The legislator must be in advance of his age. Across the mind of the statesman flash ever and anon the brilliant, though partial, intimations of future events.... Something which is more than fore-sight and less than prophetic knowledge marks the statesman a peculiar being among his contemporaries.

William James

Humanism . . . is not a single hypothesis or theorem, and it dwells on no new facts. It is rather a slow shifting in the philosophic perspective, making things appear as from a new centre of interest or point of sight.

William James

The first effect of the mind growing cultivated is that processes once multiple get to be performed in a single act. Lazarus has called this the progressive "condensation" of thought. ... Steps really sink from sight. An advanced thinker sees the relations of his topics is such masses and so instantaneously that when he comes to explain to younger minds it is often hard ... Bowditch, who translated and annotated Laplace's Méchanique Céleste, said that whenever his author prefaced a proposition by the words "it is evident," he knew that many hours of hard study lay before him.

William Gilmore Simms

The only true source of politeness is consideration,--that vigilant moral sense which never loses sight of the rights, the claims, and the sensibilities of others. This is the one quality, over all others, necessary to make a gentleman.

Robin Green

I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight.

Robert Schumann

Thus it is ever in life. The aims we once pursued no longer satisfy us; we aim, we strive, we aspire, until sight fails, and mind and body find rest in the grave.