Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Gascoigne

And that way, I don't blame other people. I'm the one that has to keep off the drink. I'm taking responsibility for my life on everything.

Don Larsen

When it was over, I was so happy, I felt like crying. I wanted to win this one for Casey. After what I did in Brooklyn, he could have forgotten about me and who would blame him? But he gave me another chance and I'm grateful.

E. P. Thompson

Every time the taxes went up, we got blamed for it. But our tax rate at the school district hasn't changed over a decade.

Pedro Noguera

We starve them, ... We don't give them the resources they need and then blame them for the results.

Patrick Knapp

When you are 2-10 you can't blame the coaching staff for going in a different direction. We played different people ... it was simply strategic and we will do that the rest of the year.

Alexander Pope

Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.

Marcus Camby

We haven't gotten out of the first round (the past two seasons) and you can't blame him. A team has to get the job done collectively. . . . I think (Anthony) is ready to step out. Hopefully, it will be in (these) playoffs. This will kind of be his coming-out party.

J. Hoover

The president gets credit for the sunshine and blame for the rain - and there's a lot of rain here.

Brad Johnson

The quarterback is going to take the blame for losing, and we started 0-4 ... no denying that,

David Vitter

The situation has gotten a lot better. The water is not rising right now in New Orleans.

Shari Brill

I've always gotten a kick out that show.

Rich Aurilia

The one thing I wish would have happened was we would have scored one more run for Milton. I wish he could have gotten a win out of that instead of a no-decision.

Timothy Ghriskey

So the message here, spread your investments around, ... If you've gotten hurt this year in technology, learn from that and diversify your investments.

David Hunt

Publicly, we're saying we're better at fighting terrorism. Privately, we know that the bureaucracy has only gotten worse, since the high-level people are scared of being held responsible for 9/11.

Alan Thicke

The Seavers would have properly registered all firearms. They would have obeyed all the rules about firearms. And they would also have gotten training. ... Growing Pains

Damarius Bilbo

I should have gotten the message after 10 games,

Ron Artest

I should have gotten myself more involved in the first nine minutes. I had to have gotten myself more involved in the first quarter.

Sen Winters

The word hasn't gotten out. People need to know that help exists.

Chris Shays

No, what I wanted you to do was do your job,

Brett Ratner

Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job.

Brett Favre

My job is to throw passes and be a leader.

Brandon T. Jackson

I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.

Brandon Sanderson

Remember that your job as a practicing writer is to remember it's never going to be perfect on your first pass.

Brandon Sanderson

My job is not to save 'The Wheel of Time', to fix 'The Wheel of Time', or anything like that. My job is not to screw it up.

Barbara Steele

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.

Benigno Aquino III

I'm not concentrated or concerned with any other factors rather than just being able to do the best job that I can.

Benjamin Bratt

Your job as an actor is to stay employed.

John Allen

As pope, he has to be the pastor of everyone.

Orlando Bloom

Now my favourite pastime is to take a bath with my son.

Art Buchwald

We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.

Aziz Ansari

To be honest, I tend to romanticize the past, and though I appreciate all the conveniences of modern life, sometimes I yearn for simpler times.

C. S. Lewis

Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.

Bryant H. McGill

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

Celia Green

Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.

Brian Eno

I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'

Bram Fischer

I can no longer serve justice in the way I have attempted to do during the past 30 years - I can do it only in the way I have now chosen.

Frank Robinson

Ready or not, here it comes. It's not going to wait for us.

Jeff Suppan

Really I'm just getting ready to pitch, whenever that is.

Bill Shepherd

Sail her well, ... I am ready to be relieved.

Jake Peavy

It was an ER in there at 6:30, getting me ready to go out.

Rick Barnes

It was about like getting ready for a trip to the dentist.

Jose Castillo

I've been working out every day and I feel very strong. I'm ready to go.

Jerry Glanville

You've got to stop their weapons and they have weapons everywhere. You have to have all weapons accounted for. I think we're ready to go.

Lukas Krajicek

This is big. Every shift is going to be crucial, so I have to be ready to show what I can do.

Jim Gordon

We're as ready as we're going to be.

Rich Miller

This is really like our first round of the playoffs.

Sarah Brightman

I have the sort of round face that you complain about when you're younger, but which serves you well as you get older.

Samantha Fox

It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.

Lefty Grove

You've got a little round ball and a little round bat and anything can happen.

Scott Downs

As a whole staff, we're just trying to step it up while Doc and Teddy are out,

Deion Sanders

The thrill is gone. It's time for me to step away.

Mark Russinovich

This is a step they should have taken immediately.

Al Horford

We're here to win it. This is just the first step to get there.

Ayn Rand

whose steps were a restless substitute for flight.

Burt Reynolds

I can tell a young person where the mines are, but he's probably going to step on them anyway.

Antonio Porchia

I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away.

Hugh Johnson

(This) week is time for two steps forward,

Sarah Lowe

When I stepped up there, I just told myself that I had to relax. I had to put myself in a different place and just not even worry about the score, not worry about anything.

Cedric Benson

As a competitor, you want to be out there, making something happen, especially when the team is losing. But my time will come.

Sarah Martin

Our team worked really hard. Well, I told them to work really hard.

Jim Balsillie

No question, we took one for the team here.

Mark Ehlen

Anything that I've said to the team hasn't been effective. I've been mad, I've stomped, I've screamed, I've been encouraging and positive, and nothing matters.

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

Jami Finan

It was a long time. Our team could not have wanted it more than anything in the world.

Kenny Rogers

They are a better team than us right now. Those are the facts.

George C. Williams

This is one of the best, if not the best, teams we've had here in a long time,

Ronnie Brewer

You've just got to play through that. That's basketball. I think we're a big enough team to play through that.