Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Koryta

I would say of characters I've created, the one I've felt the most connected to emotionally was Adam Austin from 'The Prophet.' I think it was the connection to the idea that one decision you make innocently enough can have very serious, drastic consequences for someone else's life.

Michael Starke

I think it means the world to Brian. Adam would be honored to pass the torch to Brian.

Joe Sakic

For me, on a personal note, it was really tough to see both Adam and Peter go. I'm really going to miss them.

Leonard Levinson

History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.

Dave Schutter

I thought out of everybody on the team, Adam had the best performance on the weekend. Over the past two weeks since we came back from break, he's been wrestling better each consecutive week. It's about consistency and improving, and he's definitely been doing that over the last couple weeks.

Mike Redwine

I think it took Adam until the second quarter to get comfortable. He may have been a little anxious and trying too hard early, but he is definitely the right guy for this program.

Doug Flutie

I was just disappointed. You know, Adam has been a big part of this team for a number of years and his game-winning kicks, Super Bowl kicks, and all that, so he will be missed by his teammates, but it's just the nature of the business. He will be forever etched in the memories of New England sports fans.

Cameron Boyce

There is always something funny going on between scenes with Adam Sandler. He's always cracking jokes and yelling at people for no reason. It's pretty funny. He'll joke around during scenes, too. When he guest-starred on 'Jessie,' there was nothing in the script that he said first take.

Richard Petty

He was going to make it. He had a passion for driving a car ... Adam was never interested in anything else.

Claire Cameron

I'm very rigid about my schedule. I sit down at 8 A.M., and the Internet blocker goes on. My standard time is 120 minutes. I'm a compulsive writer, so it reminds me to stop writing... If I write more than that, I turn into an ogre for my kids.

Cynthia Voigt

I'm not a compulsive writer. I wish I could be compulsive about something. I have no regular writing routine.

Michael Platt

It seemed very, very similar to the experience of people who are compulsive gamblers, ... While it's always dangerous to anthropomorphize, it seemed as if these monkeys got a high out of getting a big reward that obliterated any memory of all the losses that they would experience following that big reward.

Edward Looney

We see compulsive gamblers of all sizes and shapes.

Keith Henson

The rewards that compulsive gamblers get are only one step removed from exogenous chemicals, unless you are a big winner.

Michael Gray

I'm always looking for a good deal. I'm meaner than a woman as far as going shopping. I'm a compulsive shopper.

Greg Wittrock

She's obsessed with cleaning. I think she has OCD, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder about dirt.

Nadine Velazquez

I'm a driven person, but I'm also cautious, and I overthink things sometimes.

Michael Raab

Going forward, DaimlerChrysler's fortunes will be driven by Mercedes Benz.

Bill Cowher

He's a special person; he means a lot to this team. He's been very much an inspiration to this team. I think we're driven very much by trying to make this a special year for him.

Mario Gabelli

I think we're going from a market that's driven by momentum and driven by a flow of funds to a stock picker's market. That's going to provide very good opportunities for those that are focused on given areas.

Don Perata

I think that we don't want to let this thing hang out there forever, but I don't want to be driven by a date.

Bob Thompson

I watch a lot of sports, and so far that's been what's driven the big-screen phenomenon. It's a status symbol; a lot of people get a lot of pleasure being able to show off this enormous piece of hardware.

Lawrence Eagles

Part of the recovery overnight (in the price of oil) may have been due to anti-Israeli protests in Jordan, where 30,000 protestors had to be driven back from the boarder by security forces,

Lawrence Summers

Our national savings rate is still far too low, driven by a personal savings rate that is not where it should be,

Cherie Blair

In my youngest days, the nuns at my grammar school drummed into us that we were in this world to make it a better place - not just for ourselves, but for other people, too. So from the very beginning, I've been driven by this idea that we have to make a difference, and it's one of the reasons I went into law in the first place.

Chuck Hillery

Kim was kind of limited with fouls. She hit some big free throws down the stretch.

Ed Pendt

I yelled at (Scheffer) as she was going by to go to the hoop. She went to the hoop, got fouled and made the free throws.

Gary Mills

He didn't shoot a great percentage this year, but he always makes his free throws when the game's on the line.

James Blake

He didn't get many free points on his serve and I was getting some on mine,

Jakob Bohme

God wills in man only that which is good, in the kingdom of his grace; where the free will yields itself up into the grace, there God wills that which is good in the will, through the grace.

Carl Forti

Going to Freedom's Watch was a job opportunity that presented itself, so I jumped at it.

Friedrich Muller

His thought is quiet, quiet are his word and deed, when he has obtained freedom by true knowledge, when he has thus become a quiet man.

Lupita Nyong'o

I thrive on structure. I find my freedom in structure.

Dale Reed

I thought a big key for us was that even though we didn't play well, we kept grinding and playing hard. If we would have made our free throws and gotten some more of our shots, our lead would have been 20 points instead of eight.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

B. B. King

Kevin did a great job tonight. He gutted it out there at the end for us. It was a great team win.

James Patterson

Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.

Mary Carskadon

Kids are too sleepy to learn well. They're too sleepy to be happy. And they're at great risk for such things as traffic accidents.

Alan Trammel

I wouldn't say it was one of his greatest performances, but he pitched well enough to win.

Jim Schmitz

Jake Wade did just such a great job throwing strikes, going right at them. He pitched six quality innings. It was just nice to see him come out like that.

Steve Box

Jake did a great job defensively. The kid has been averaging 17 points a game, but we took him out of his rhythm. He never really got going until the last quarter.

Lawrence Summers

Jack Meyer did a great job for Harvard.

Jay Alford

I was looking to them as the guys that make the plays and run around and get to the ball. So that's what I'm trying to do this year.

Joey Miller

I was looking at these guys on TV last year. Now I'm one of them. It's really awesome.

John Doherty

Kevin threw three picks early, but he stayed the course, ... He's our No. 1 man and he kept the rest of the guys pushing. He didn't let anything get to him.

Tim Hanson

Jake is a very talented freshman. Our varsity lineup has some guys that will be running varsity for the first time, so it will be interesting to see.

DeShaun Foster

Just like those two guys were different kinds of backs, we got the same thing here,'' Skipper says.

Jake Abel

I think it is possible to be friends even if you're competing. You know, there's so many guys in rooms that try to psych each other out, and it doesn't work. It only hinders their work.

William Hanson

He was a fighter, ... He's one of those guys who didn't want to live by medicine. He didn't want anything.

Jim Christian

He wants to do so well that sometimes he presses. He's trying to do so much, and he sees guys making plays, and he wants to do well.

Ed Torres

He didn't have to score a lot because of the other guys we had. But he knew we'd rely on him some more this season.

Brian Cashman

He's a unique player. Not only is he someone who is incredibly talented on the field, but that talent actually translates to success in New York,

Paul Gregg

I think it's incredibly sad at the moment that we are actually contemplating selling Wayne Rooney,

Colin Egglesfield

I think it's incredibly important for kids to be able to express who they are and feel like they can be themselves without being persecuted for it or bullied for it.

Donald Stewart

It invites chaos. Leaving a job precipitously is just incredibly foolish.

Annalee Newitz

I think a lot of us responded intensely to 'True Detective' because it was so incredibly earnest. That's what made it heartbreaking and involving.

Jason Treutelaar

He was incredibly strong as we sealed up the win. He took it to the hole.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Recipes can be incredibly vague where chillies are concerned.

Stella Young

In many ways, I'm incredibly lucky to have been born with my impairment and that it's visible. It means my path has been predictable.

Maria Altmann

I'm incredibly happy. ... If you are persistent, you will succeed.

Herman Edwards

He likes trying to make the big kick,

Kurt Busch

He likes to talk a lot. We like to race.

Priscilla Hill

He likes that they respect the sport there, not like in America, where it's all about football.

Graeme Base

Whether one likes it or not, the screen is a profoundly important source of imagery and storytelling for this generation. For me, books remain a stunning place to tell stories, but the screen has a place.

Ruth Reichl

I think it's hard, when you're someone who likes to please people, as I am, to be a boss. I had to learn how to rein myself in and not terrify people.

Andre Johnson

I think any offensive player likes to touch the ball, ... That's what you're supposed to do.

Buddy Bell

He's come a long way, ... He likes being in that situation.

Sarah Rees Brennan

And about that," he continued. "Now that Kami and I have met, she likes me better than you. So you can leave.

Rich Lowry

Calculation has its advantages, but no one likes naked calculation.

Linda Gray

I am not obsessive about anything except my health.

Deepika Padukone

I am methodical to the point of being obsessive-compulsive. And I have always been good at multi-tasking.

Chace Crawford

Personally I'm obsessive-compulsive about the placement and cleanliness of my things.

Demi Moore

I know I have an eccentric, obsessive-compulsive side.

Antony Beevor

I get slightly obsessive about working in archives because you don't know what you're going to find. In fact, you don't know what you're looking for until you find it.

Daniel Craig

When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.

Victoria Beckham

I become quite obsessive when I get into something.

Karan Johar

When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.

Brian Sabean

I would say it has to be somebody who's a veteran, who's an innings-(eater) who's had reasonable success on a winning team.

Joanna Lumley

I switch off lights like a maniac. I drive at reasonable speeds so that I don't waste petrol.

Susanna Moore

Young writers reasonably say, 'I don't know what to write about,' so writing about yourself is a very literal way to begin.

Mohamed ElBaradei

If you have nothing to hide, there is no reason not to be transparent.

Terri Johnson

He's a big reason why we're having the success we are as a program.

Jeff Tarter

I think it's a reasonable model. It eliminates flakiness of patching and upgrading software.

Joel Fox

There is every reason to take it seriously when they are involved.

Sen Sears

I think we have come to a reasonable consensus. I think it will have strong support in the Senate.

Ron Ellis

It has been frustrating, but there is no reason why he can't come back at 100 percent.

Dan Hopkins

With the kind of support he sees around the state, he thinks it would be something important to enact.

Nate Burleson

It was tough for him. When Superman sees Kryptonite for the first time, it's shocking.

Genesis Rodriguez

I'm bicultural, and everyone sees me as a Latina, but in my head I see myself as both Latina and American.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist see what he has come to see.

Richard Engel

Israel sees the world just beyond its borders collapsing.

Jeff Gundy

We'll know more after he sees the doctor. He's had it for a long time. It has to do with his toenail and having his toenail removed.

Jack Nance

Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people.

Dave Tippett

He sees them as well as anybody, and I trust what he has to stay.

Greg Rusedski

(John) McEnroe sees him in the top 20, I see him getting into the top 50 and then the top 20.

Keri Nichols

It also wasn't one of our better shooting games.

Greg Brunner

He was better shooting tonight than he has been.

Kyle Shiloh

When he's shooting like that, let him go.

Neil Dougherty

We survived the first, but we couldn't survive the second. If you're talking about shooting the ball, (Terry) was the difference. He made some big, timely shots.

Lindsay Williams

I was just shooting to get it off of my foot.

Monique Bond

Having conducted a preliminary investigation, the shooting was justified.

Richelle Mead

Theyʹre shooting at us,ʺ I said incredulously. ʺTheyʹre actually shooting at us!

William S. Burroughs

Shooting is my principal pastime.

Sanaa Lathan

I didn't get to see Predator until halfway through shooting. It was great to get an education while I was shooting because it made me excited to be part of this legacy.

Justin Gray

I take tough shots all season. I do take a lot of them. You end up making some.

Andy Reid

He wanted to go deep. He wanted one more shot deep.

Doug Gay

He unloaded a shotgun on them. He killed one and maimed the other one.

Brad Buckman

He could have made any shot he chose.

Barbara Saunders

Having a special strategy is critical. You can't use the shotgun approach,

Nick Harkaway

'Gone-Away World' was a shotgun blast, an explosion out of the box I'd put myself into writing film scripts. 'Tigerman' is shorter, tighter, more crafted.

Frank Sciolla

It didn't matter. We were getting lay-ups. We were getting all the shots we wanted. They just weren't going in.

Mike Shanahan

We feel like he's got some skills. We like the way he plays. When you take a shot on somebody, you're not really sure it's going to work out. But we thought it was worth a gamble.

Keith Bogans

We've got to make the shots when they double-team Yao. That's what it comes down to.

Carroll Ballard

It throws me in the toilet. I'm going to have a lot of trouble getting another picture.

Maureen Allyn

This may be what throws us into recession.

Dan Hawkins

Very talented, I like the way he throws the football,

Ashley Lewie

When Ari throws a pitch, I know where it is going to go.