Famous Quotes & Sayings

P. Herbert

I volunteered for it; I wanted to help out any way I could. Last year we averaged 4.8 on punt returns and 19.1 on kickoffs. That's horrible. But we have worked hard on it this year, and Johnny and I are ready to go. There are no excuses this year.

Max Mayfield

The 1940s through the 1960s experienced an above-average number of major hurricanes, while the 1970s into the mid-1990s averaged fewer hurricanes.

John Pickard

I averaged about 10-15 hours of work a week, ... But it was more motivation for me to get in there and improve my work.

Tony Haynes

We've averaged 20-plus wins a year for the last five years, five straight NCAA tournaments. Kids graduate. Hey, that's a successful program.

L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

I only did about one novel a year while I was working full time, but since 1993, I've averaged two and a half books a year.

Don Buford

As a team, we had a real good spring. Guys swung the bats real well, then all of a sudden everybody went into a slight batting slump together and right now they seem to be working their way out of that and hitting the ball consistently. We've hit some balls hard and haven't had any luck with the hits falling in, but now they're starting to fall in and that's the difference in winning.

Connie Higgins

Ballots are automatically mailed out if you're registered to vote.

Jeff Bridges

Ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. I love to draw and paint; I do ceramics and photography. I'm interested in a lot of creative stuff.

Shawn Stenger

Rain isn't our deal, but we came out and it didn't bother us. We moved the ball around pretty well in the first half.

Tim Ford

Our defense played awfully well. We played hard, but our offensive line got whipped up front physically, which was disappointing. Our defense was the key. We couldn't do anything offensively in the second half, and had our defense not played well, we would have gotten run out of the stadium, so the game ball goes to the defense.

Mike White

Our defense has played well, but we've got to put the ball in the end zone. We moved the ball well tonight, but we'd get so far and then make a silly mistake. We are a little down after the loss, but our seniors won't let us drop as a team.

Doug Kilby

Our defense did an outstanding job. In the second half we played ball control.

Vince Strine

Our defense did a good job of keeping the ball for our offense. We just had a hard time finishing. We're young, but I feel like we're getting better at those things.

Sid Sweet

Our defense and our team intensity stood out. However, we need to work on our ball management, and we had 3 girls foul out.

Lori Bennett

Our serve and service return was very weak in the first two games. But we had a lot of things that worked well. So for the third game, we focused on serving more aggressively.

Michael Barrett

The one thing I like about this team is as great as it was, as fun as it was, there's no real celebrating what happened today. It means we're focused and moving on.

Jane Garvey

The whole issue of wiring is something that people have been focused on for a while,

Mike Scioscia

This win was a good win for the team and gave us a big lift. We have to focus on winning from here on out.

Craig Sherman

Focusing on the long term and building a great product that is scalable ultimately leads to a great company.

Kurt Faust

The opponent we're playing this week is the one in the mirror. We need to focus on ourselves and get better.

Al Rauch

We think it might make sense for them to try and focus on what they do well, which is Phase III testing and marketing,

S. Hughes

We try really hard to maintain the focus of this day on the kids.

Christian Olsen

We try not to focus too much on that stuff. We're just going to show up and play with whoever we have.

O. J. Simpson

It was tough. Some of the greens hold well and then some of them release. I think the greens are tough to putt, at least for me. I made my short ones, but those 15- to 20-footers are tough.

Ben Bernanke

the policies and policy strategies established during the Greenspan years.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Brian Tracy

Do your own market research; ask your last ten customers exactly why they bought from you.

Bobby Lutz

We're a better team right now, the way we've played the last 10 games.

Kelly Holcomb

We've won the last two. We've got ourselves back to .500.

Elbert Hubbard

It is not deeds or acts that last: it is the written record of those deeds and acts.

AJ Pierzynski

Do we feel lucky? No. Did they feel lucky when they won last night?

Jeffrey Lurie

We wanted this tribute to be a lasting one.

Josh Schwartz

We did a lot of that last year. Where that story line is going is not what people are expecting.

Mark Clifford

We scored some points; our offense competed better (than last week).

David Berry

Sometimes I get lost in the books, if they're good,

Italian Proverb

The stitch is lost unless the thread be knotted

Chris Lynne

Zach had a lead, but we lost that with seven seconds left.

Dean Koontz

I fell in love with her for her sense of humour. If she ever lost her sense of humour, I would have to dump her. Then I'd kill myself because I couldn't live without her.

Daniel Handler

All cannot be lost when there is still so much being found

Elijah Wood

I watched the Lost series in the US and it's great.

Pat Robinson

We have residents here who have lost people. It's very sad.

Taylor Swift

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

Mitch Albom

Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all.

David Lynch

There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.

Eknath Easwaran

I like to remind my friends frequently how short life is. This is the important message of death: not a day to waste, not a day to quarrel, not a day to brood upon yourself. This is not losing the joy of life; this is gaining the joy of life.

Mackenzie Astin

Life can only be understood backwards.

Tim Bedwell

We are short on the street, but they're in the pipeline.

Kristin Baker

I've matured. I think I work better with the team.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Jane Fonda

The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

Julia Glass

The old adage is, 'Write what you know.' But if you only do that, your work becomes claustrophobic. I say, 'Write what you want to know.'

Brian Eno

I often work by avoidance.

Billy Connolly

Don't work out, work in.

Greg Aiello

We were disappointed we weren't able to work it out with him.

Elbert Hubbard

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Ayn Rand

He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning...

Brad Pitt

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all

Jan Schakowsky

In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.

Al Davis

If it weren't for a new rule that came into being, we'd have played three years in a row in the championship game.

Al Franken

For 35 years, I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren't funny. Some of them weren't appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.

Al Franken

Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had. He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.

Frank Gehry

We want that center, we yearn for it, we need it. It shouldn't look like New York or Paris, it should look like us.

Janice Dickinson

I started Botox the first year it came out. I was the first one in line, and I have had Botox every six months since then.

Aung San Suu Kyi

In terms of the history of a far reaching movement, 20 years is not that long.