Famous Quotes & Sayings

Morris Gleitzman

When I did finally live in the Dandenongs, the mountain ash forests became an important part of my life.

Nancy Peterson

It became increasingly evident that we needed to do something in terms of a financial turnaround plan, or the place wasn't going to be a viable organization anymore.

Joan Smith

It became a bigger project than what we anticipated.

David Phillips

It became a $400-million hit. Most of that came from insurance losses, but also losses of infrastructure. And sadly, it cost four people their lives.

Peter Fincham

It also wouldn't have been what it became without them finding someone like me to do that.

Max von Sydow

I actually know the moment I became known. It was at the Cannes Film Festival, when they showed 'The Virgin Spring.' I walked into that theater as one person, and I walked out as another.

Josh Helman

I actually had the good fortune to work with Nick Hoult on 'Mad Max' in Africa, so we became really fast friends.

Chris Massoglia

I actually had a dream that one of my friends became president, and I was trying to help out with the campaign. It was pretty good.

E. P. Thompson

He was a complete surprise as far as I was concerned. There was a void in the lineup and there were two or three candidates. I decided to go with Jamie. He not only came through, he became a star.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did, ... I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

Mike Burgess

People can register the day of the race, but it's like anything else. You have to stand in line. It's always best to pre-register.

Luc Robitaille

Definitely you could tell tonight the guys wanted to win. That's probably the best game we've played in the last three weeks. We all gave it a little extra, and I'm thankful for that.

Carl Pettersson

Definitely, to me it is anyway, ... As a kid you always dreamed of playing on the PGA Tour and dreamed about winning. This is the best tour in the world, and this would be a dream come true.

Jana Lindsey

Definitely, the best in the world miss sometimes. You're always trying to go for it and go big and give it all you've got. Sometimes you pull through and sometimes it isn't your day.

Drew Brees

Definitely, it's best for both of us. Obviously, I'm not surprised by anything that happens any more. I've made it known I want to be here and, hopefully, that will happen. I'd like to say if it were up to me, they'd sign me long term and I'd be the guy here for my whole career. . . . You win football games and everything takes care of itself.

John Roberson

Definitely. Earl Campbell, whoever you got. That's the best I've seen him play...ever.

Adam Ereli

decisions about who should govern a country are best made by the citizens of that nation through an open and transparent process.

Tom Morgan

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Bobby Burton

You're talking about 35 million households who watched the Rose Bowl. That was putting the Longhorns front and center in a lot of future recruits.

Chellie Pingree

I love to come home and work on one of my other jobs. Just to remember that the floors gotta be mopped, and that everything isn't centered around what you fought about in Washington last week.

Jeanine Basinger

Magic in cinema is a bit like ventriloquism on the radio.

Jim Cummings

I grew up watching all the great Disney animated films and to be able to carry that torch and know that I'm contributing to the same magic and wonder for a whole new generation is a great thing.

Jesse Eisenberg

I feel very guilty doing magic because you're deceiving somebody.

Grant Morrison

Everyone does magic all the time in different ways. 'Life' plus 'significance' = magic.

George H. W. Bush

Competence is the creed of the technocrat who makes sure the gears mesh but doesn't for a second understand the magic of the machine.

Jim Butcher

I put the ick in magic.

Jim Butcher

There aren't any magical words, really. Words just hold the magic.

Jim Butcher

Magic comes from what is inside you. It is a part of you. You can't weave together a spell that you don't beleive in.

Iris Murdoch

The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime! Now I shall abjure magic and become a hermit : put myself in a situation where I can honestly say that I have nothing else to do but to learn to be good.

Tony Oppegard

It's the next enforcement step and it's never used.

Bill Dobbs

It's the next big thing for the anti-war movement.

Eileen Wieber

They didn't know any people there, or the bunnies next to them.

Peter Cardillo

The year-end rally should resume next week on window dressing.

Shawn Taggart

They are starting to play well. It's going to be a tough game. Next year they are going to be really, really good.

Sam Brownback

You don't have an unlimited number of bullets, so you save your next shot and go for then,

Matt Belisle

There was never a point that I was thinking I wouldn't be part of the next wave (of pitchers) over there (in Atlanta). The trade was something that was a surprise.

Kimi Raikkonen

The Renault was too quick, our congratulations to them and next year we try again.

Ray Evernham

This is the next step in our quest for a championship,

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.

Mark Cooper

My players should feel embarrassed, especially the seniors.

Ian Holloway

Sepp Blatter and all of them lot Mr Platini I know he was a good player but he aint very good at what he does, I don’t think. I think he’s useless you can quote me on that.

Ian Hacking

The bad player is the one who tries to calculate and play with the odds, as if his game, his life, were one of a large number of games. To do so is at best to succumb to another necessity, the necessity of large numbers. The good player does not fool himself, and accepts that there is exactly one chance, which produces by chance the necessity and even the purpose that he experiences.

Hugh Laurie

I would just hear piano players and I would hear music, and just think - I don't just want to sit here and passively listen; I want to get inside it.

Scott Niedermayer

If I can't go they'll have work to do, another player will need to go and they need to get organized.

Trey Anastasio

Ideally the point of music is community, not the player. Musicians are simply channels to link the audience to the music and to each other.

Santana Moss

Big time players make big time plays in big time games.

Vladimir Kramnik

In the current FIDE World Championship, on the knock-out system, weaker players have good chances. Those, who in a long match would practically have no chance, here may creep through.

Dick Peecher

She's very loyal. They were the first school to recruit her.

Terry Gough

I don't know what it is. Recruiting is crazy.

E. B. White

When we recruit running backs, we recruit big backs,

Gloria Naylor

Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane.

Kelly Slater

I haven't surfed since Japannot even one wave.

Steve Mottinger

These are things the state wants you to forget.

Gary Fischer

If they make the state meet, it could be fun.