Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Scott

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!

Trilby Lundberg

The gasoline price has broken records repeatedly in 2005, but until September 9 it did not exceed the true all-time high.

Will Rogers

When everybody has got money they cut taxes, and when they're broke they raise 'em. That's statesmanship of the highest order.

Gilbert Arenas

We fought hard. It came down to another night with a call at the end of the game that broke our back. At the end, we went to a zone and Gary hit that three. He hit it and got the game within reach. From then on they got to the free throw line and got some easy baskets.

Jodi Picoult

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

Bryan Price

We hope to see some real signs of the rotation coming to life in the last month. Or, inevitably, you're going to have to make a decision.

Robby Wine

Even today with the rain we had last night, the field's playing 10 times better. We're just jelling. Our team is coming together. The defense will be OK if we keep water on the field and the hops true.

Andrew Olvera

At 8:25 a.m. when they got there, they saw heavy smoke and fire coming from the second floor.

Bobby Brasel

We knew coming into the game Julia Montebello was 2-23 from the 3-point range, so we didn't concentrate on her as much. We have to tip our hat to her though because she made a big shot when it counted the most for them.

Sue Smith

This year he's been coming out of his shell. He doesn't know the full effect of what happened to him.

Tom Williams

We've not expressed anything. Our key thing we're doing right now is being in stock, ... When you have times like these, we have many people who are shopping with us who don't normally shop with us. We want them to keep coming back. We emphasize that at every meeting.

Mike Cordray

We've got a lot of new kids coming on, but we're only losing two of our boys. So we'll still be fairly strong.

Charlie Coles

We've got a lot of guys coming back, but they've got to get better.

Marty Schottenheimer

He struggled. There's just eight million things going on out there.

Jennifer Weiner

So here I am. Twenty-eight years old, with thirty looming on the horizon. Drunk. Fat. Alone. Unloved. And, worst of all, a cliche, Ally McBeal and Bridget Jones put together, which was probably about how much I weighed...

Eoin Colfer

Doobie always wanted to see the badge. It was shiny, and he was eight.

Jasper Fforde

Acceptable rules of conduct were suspended when it came to the spoon shortage. The deficit had gotten so bad that prices were all but unaffordable, and dynastic spoon succession had become a matter of considerable interest. Spoons were even postcode engraved and carried on one's person to eliminate theft, and good table manners, one of the eight pillars upon which the Collective was built, had been relaxed to allow tea to be stirred - shockingly - with the handle of a fork.

Jasper Fforde

You nearly killed eight people!" I managed to gasp out loud. "My count was closer to twelve," returned Havisham as she opened the door. "And anyhow, you can't nearly kill someone. Either they are dead or they are not.

Roy Ellis

But I killed seven or eight fruit trees before hitting on the secret.

Guy Lafleur

That's why I made a comeback in 1988. I knew there were chances of not making it, but I didn't want to end up at sixty years old and say I should have tried when I was thirty-eight.

Guy Maddin

I literally designed and built the sets myself, and I kind of liked it. I always gave myself eight weeks to do that - sometimes even 10 - and the shooting took five or six weeks.

Greg Evigan

I've been playing the bad guy in the last seven or eight projects I've done. I like it. It's a lot more interesting! Being the good guy gets a little stale after a while, you know?

Steve Begin

But we talked after the first period and we went out and did everything we wanted. Guys went to the net and were rewarded with goals.

Jeremy Fishbein

Because of the heat and the humidity, we had to get some guys more minutes. So there were players that couldn't go the whole game.

Joe Andruzzi

Basically, ... he was telling the guys not to take things for granted.

Jarvis Herring

Because of the way we practice, there will be a lot better effort. Guys are relaxed, they're rested up and they're going at it.

Jerry Jeff Walker

I'm a Texan. Some of me is still nestled up there in the Catskill Mountains: the summers I spent with my grandfather on the farm and the guys I played basketball with in high school. But then that was it.

Denny Green

I'm an 'all hands on deck' type guy. All of the guys who can play in my opinion should play.

Ron Gardenhire

I'm a little biased, but I think he's the best. There's other guys that have better numbers à but to me, it doesn't get much better than Johan in this league. Not much better than him.

Jeff Slayton

No one has more heart than Nick. When other guys get pinned, we need others to pick up the slack, and Nick did that tonight.

J. J. Johnson

No, no. I'm not a shooter. I could run the show and get it to guys like you 'cause you can shoot it. That was my job.