Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tony Brown

Tony Allen was the key guy in that group. He was aggressive, he was attacking and played great defense down the stretch.

Rachel Sklar

Oddly, a search for 'jeggings' in my email inbox shows that my first exposure to the phenomenon came from - wait for it - Mike Allen of 'Politico,' who helpfully explained the concept on December 20, 2009.

Dennis Goldford

If he sees himself with a lot of support among religious conservatives, there are people out there already with national records working hard at that. You have Rick Santorum in Pennsylvania, Sam Brownback in Kansas, George Allen in Virginia, all from that segment of the party.

Billy Gardell

I come from a working-class family in Pittsburgh, whereas 'Mike & Molly' deals with the working class in Chicago. I swear a little, but I pretty much talk the same. It's not like when you see someone like Tim Allen and he's a lot bluer onstage.

Maurice Cheeks

I don't see there is a problem with Allen integrating a No. 2 guy. Chris is a star within his own self. He can pass, shoot, rebound. He loves to pass. When you have a guy like that, he's going to make Allen's life easier on the court.

Maurice Cheeks

I don't want to hear about Allen and Chris had X amount of points. We have to defend. We've been talking about (them) scoring all year, and we still never defend.

Louis Williams

How many 18-year-old guys can even have this opportunity? ... There's millions and millions of high-school basketball players out there in the world, and I get to practice every day with Allen Iverson .

Zach Braff

I'd love to do more theater in New York City. And I'd love the chance to do a big movie with a great director -- you know, the Coen brothers or Woody Allen or Steven Spielberg, ... I'd love a shot at that.

Jackie Miller

Historically, and unfortunately, and this doesn't reflect on Allen County's situation, law enforcement often is slow to come around to being willing to involve the emergency management coordinator, perhaps due to a reluctance to sharing the responsibility,

Dennis Miller

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Matthew Scully

An environmentalist can oppose factory farming because it's reckless stewardship. A conservative can oppose factory farming because it is destructive to small farmers and to the decent ethic of husbandry those farmers live by. A religious person can oppose factory farming because it is degrading to both man and animal - an offense to God.

Lord Byron

An old man / With an old soul, and both extremely blind.

Wally Walker

The Sonics & Storm family, including our players, coaches, staff and owners, recognizes the importance of aiding the massive relief effort, ... We welcome the community in joining us to support this important cause, both now and into the future.

Chip Dickinson

The thing I like most out of our girls in both games is ... the girls didn't get down. Their maturity level between last year and this year is a phenomenal difference.

Bobby Bowden

I want both of 'em practicing with a No. 1 mentality.

Michael Goodman

The music on both is pretty much the same. It's the N.F.L. and Ellen DeGeneres that builds a brand in the market, not 30 channels of rock music.

Will Rogers

A diplomat is one that says something that is equally misunderstood by both sides, and never clear to either.

Bobby Clark

The one thing I would be proud of the team, they kept trying really hard to win it. We forced both the overtimes - Notre Dame was the team looking to win the game.

Rebecca Kane

Sophomore year was a total 180 degrees from my freshman year. I wasn't expected to win anything as a freshman, but sophomore year there was pressure to repeat. I like that kind of pressure.

Buzz Peterson

I've been surprised to a degree by how well he's doing. But when you look at his work habits and see what a gym rat he is, you're not surprised. Jack works on all kinds of stuff. He has a friend in the gym rebounding for him all the time.

Ben Jonson

Freedom doth with degree dispense.

Tom Beekman

At this point in time it is not our intent to stop the project. This project has legs. The degree to which those legs can run is dependent upon whether or not we can reach a local agreement.

James Braun

We found that you can go down to 70 degrees and people will not complain. In fact, they won't even notice.

Ken Cockrell

We have a 31,000 module about 30 feet long, 14 feet in diameter, and we have to have it within 2 degrees of wobble to being perfectly lined up or it won't work.

Alex Borstein

I got my degree in rhetoric.

Clay Aiken

I could have a degree in music and come on the show, and Simon could still say 'You stink'.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

There needs no small degree of address to gain the reputation of benevolence without incurring the expense.

Dan McCarney

There's no question he's one of the top recruiters on my staff. He's earned this.

John Chavis

Obviously I think enough of (Mayo) to be a starter. That's what we've done, and he's earned that. I feel good about him playing.

Kyle Young

For most of our near 40-year history, we have earned in excess of 90 or 95 percent of our income. But now the job is just too big for us to handle alone.

Jacquie Fernandes

I have a spot on the team. Right now, I guess you could say I am a walk-on. But I will be treated just like any other player on the team. As far as a scholarship goes, he likes to reward players who work hard. Every player that has stayed with the program has earned a scholarship.

Troy Percival

I feel very fortunate for everything I've had. I worked hard to get it. I feel I earned it. I just wish it would have ended a little differently. I don't have any negative feelings about it at all at this point.

Mike Albring

He's made a lot of progress. He's earned his playing time.

Patricia Prout

The medal stand was amazing. I still get tears in my eyes when I think about it. We are very proud of Michael and our other two children. They have all worked hard and earned everything they have. Michael has had to work harder to show people that he can do the same thing as everyone else.

Ken Hitchcock

We want first badly. As hard as we've worked, we've earned that right. At one time, before we were decimated by injuries, we were first overall in points. Today and Friday are points we must have.

Bonnie Tyler

I went to all the shops in the village looking for work. I didn't have any qualifications. I ended up working in a grocery shop for about a year and then went to a confectioner, where I earned three pounds 10 shillings. I gave the money to my mother and father, but I also managed to save five shillings a week.

Ashley Watkins

North's got two players that are hard to guard man-to-man, so we got in that zone. It was working, so we stayed there.

Gina Jones

Now that the truth is out, I want justice. I want the guards and nurse to be arrested.

Jon Scheyer

I think it wore him down a little having to guard me. I was trying to run off screens a lot in the second half and just make him tired.

Bill Laimbeer

We were looking for a guard who can play the 1 or 2.

Ken Carey

We played awesome. We let our guard down in the sixth.

Tom Izzo

He can guard anybody. I'd let him guard a post guy,

Jason Hanson

He can guard a guard or an inside player. It doesn't matter where he does whatever you ask.

Vance Downs

I'd say about the mid-point of the third quarter, they got on a run and hit some big shots. There were stretches of that quarter where we didn't guard very well. We've got to make those corrections and get better (defensively).

Terry Stotts

I don't want to slow it down. With a guard like T.J. Ford, there's no way you can slow it down. I'd like to push it up for 82 games.

Jason Witten

Seeing some of these guys is pretty special. They've done a lot for us, the young players.

Gilles Muller

I see these guys in a different way,

Albert Pujols

This is something I can do for my country. Definitely, I want to participate in this. It's big for me and I'm pretty sure that's the same way a lot of guys look at it.

Chris Ault

That Virden keeps showing up. He has done a very nice job. He might be the most improved secondary guy we have got.

Charles Barkley

If Michael Jordan was a damn plumber, he couldn't get a date. Any guy got $500 million looks good.

Craig Counsell

There are plenty of guys who have this, who are playing through it. There is no reason I can't be another one of them.

Frank Haith

We're playing better. When you're in a tournament like this, the more you win, the more guys realize they're playing for something.

Ricardo Patton

We have done well on that all season. We have not had to rely on one guy for our 3-point shots.

Ricky Ray

(Belli) is a guy that plays a little different out there,

Jack Schrader

From top to bottom, I just don't see how there could be a better league in the nation.

Brian Kilrea

He's their Danny. I think he's been a top goaltender in this league for years,

Nate Robinson

He played like he has been in the league for 10 years.

Lastings Milledge

I want to get to the big leagues as quick as I can. But I want to stay there. I could be ready now or I couldn't be.

P. G. Wodehouse

Half a league Half a league Half a league onward With a hey-nonny-nonny And a hot cha-cha.

Mike Powell

I love gaming, I'm actually more of a nerd than a metal head and if you see me at shows chances are I'm by our merch table playing league of legends on my laptop or playing super Nintendo or Playstation through an emulator. My Nintendo pretty much raised me.

Paul Jewell

Our only objective at the start of the season was to stay in this league and we should do that. If we don't it'll be the Devon Loch of all Devon Lochs.

Tony Dungy

Smallest packet of scheduled stuff I remember getting at a league meeting.

Ted Lyons

I lost the good stuff on my fastball. I had to come up with something to keep me in the league. The knuckler rescued me then.

Pete Hald

I've never had three players at the same time who can score like they do.

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.

Dikembe Mutombo

The NBA has more than 435 players and there are at least 100-some players doing more than expected. Shaq is doing a lot. Dwight Howard, [Manu] Ginobli. Dirk [Nowitzki] is doing a lot, and not just in Europe; he's reaching out to Africa and all other places.

Joe Legerski

We've had a lot of different players step up for us (in the post).

Jerry Angelo

To get valued players you have to be willing to give value.

Andrew Bird

I'm a terrible Scrabble player.

Tony Levin

I'm a player and I do it because I love playing whether it's for my album or someone else's.

Tony La Russa

Toughest thing for me as a young manager is that a lot of my players saw me play. They know how bad I was.

Steven Gerrard

The foreign players seem to be reveling in the European games and they've put in some massive performances for us. (on Liverpool)

Paul Perry

I think that positions No. 2 through 7 could be inter-changeable all year.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

No company should depend on one person no matter how that person is smart or genius, whether it's Apple or News Corp, or Citibank or any other company in the world.

Alain de Botton

The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.

Derrick Rose

I don't want to be in my meetings all sore or be at my son's graduation all sore just because of something I did in the past. (I'm) just learning and being smart.

Bob Dylan

Every writer at the New Yorker is smarter than me.

E. B. White

If I can fool a bug... I can surely fool a man. People are not as smart as bugs.

Adam Carolla

People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'

Donald Luskin

I'd always rather be lucky than smart.

Dwayne Johnson

If you are halfway smart, and you could really listen to the audience, you could really learn a lot.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general.... They win battles, and they make me lucky.

Mike Connors

It went pretty much straight into the ground.

Azar Nafisi

The more we die, the stronger we will become

Carl Sandburg

Time says hush: by the gong of time you live. Listen and you hear time saying you were silent long before you came to life and you will again be silent long after you leave it, why not be a little silent now? Hush yourself, noisy little man. Time hushes all: the gong of time rang for you to come out of the hush and you were born. The gong of time will ring for you to go back to the same hush you came from. Winners and losers, the weak and the strong, those who say little and try to say it well, and those who babble and prattle their lives away, time hushes all.

C. S. Lewis

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?

Cesar Chavez

We are tired of words, of betrayals, of indifference...they years are gone when the farm worker said nothing an did nothing to help himself...Now we have new faith. Through our strong will, our movement is changing these conditions...We shall be heard.

Bellamy Young

The more I resist anything, the stronger it gets.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

Claire Messud

I always thought I'd get farther. I'd like to blame the world for what I've failed to do, but the failure - the failure that sometimes washes over me as anger, makes me so angry I could spit - is all mine, in the end. What made my obstacles insurmountable, what consigned me to mediocrity, is me, just me. I thought for so long, forever, that I was strong enough -- or I misunderstood what strength was.

Brent Weeks

I am Sa’kagé a lord of shadows. I claim the shadows that the Shadow may not. I am the strong arm of deliverance. I am Shadowstrider. I am the Scales of Justice. I am He-Who-Guards-Unseen. I am Shadowslayer. I am Nameless. The coranti shall not go unpunished. My way is hard but I serve unbroken. In ignobility nobility. In shame honor. In darkness light. I will do justice and love mercy. Until the king returns I shall not lay my burden down.” --(Durzo Blint to Jorses Alkestes, quoted to Skylar at the edge of Ezra's Forest.)

Booker T. Washington

Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.

Carol Burnett

Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief.

Steven Hall

Texas has no system in place, and what you have is chaos.

Thomas Haden Church

I don't want my hair to be ridiculous. But in Texas I do wear a hat a lot, so I probably have hat-head more than I'm aware of.

George Strait

I love to fish offshore for billfish, and have fished all over for them from the Bahamas, St. Thomas, Venezuela, Panama, Costa Rica, Mexico to the Texas gulf. I haven't made it to Australia yet, but someday I'm going.

Buzz Bissinger

I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.

Jenny Lawson

When I was young, my family didn't go on outings to the circus or trips to Disneyland. We couldn't afford them. Instead, we stayed in our small rural West Texas town, and my parents took us to cemeteries.

George H. W. Bush

Karyn is with us. A West Texas girl, just like me.

Sheila Jackson Lee

I am about the people of the United States of America and the people of Houston, Texas.

Lee Trevino

If you've ever driven across Texas, you know how different one area of the state can be from another. Take El Paso. It looks as much like Dallas as I look like Jack Nicklaus

Charles Howard

Once we started doing those three things, we got going.

Andrew Walpole

There would not be any replacements for Vaughan as we have already got three newcomers.

Jamie Redknapp

Gareth Bale literally has three lungs

Robert Burns

To make three guineas do the work of five.

Sinead O'Connor

I've been married three times, really I should only have been married once.

Matsuo Basho

He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.

Paulo Coelho

I was arrested three times and tortured once.

Marisha Pessl

Juliet and Romeo be damned, you can't be in love until you've flossed your teeth next to the person at least three hundred times...

Marjane Satrapi

To tell you the truth, I never wanted to become a moviemaker. It was like I was a cinepihile, and I go, like, three or four times per week to the cinema, and I like to watch films.