Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Terry Grant

They want me to play running back. Wherever you go, you've got to work to be the best. Competition is good.

Jody Bronson

We've been working toward getting everybody healthy in practice. They showed a lot of heart out there today. It was an all-around effort.

Robert Gordon

Basically, we want everybody to stop for a minute and think about what it is they love about Litchfield, so it will be an example of what we're trying to save.

Here's a good trick: Get a job as a judge at the Olympics. Then, if some guy sets a world record, pretend that you didn't see it and go, "Okay, is everybody ready to start now?".

Linda Evans

There are no words to express this. Everybody says there's nothing they can do. This is outrageous.

Marvin Emerson

I told the guys at halftime that's why everybody practices. We just needed to be patient, get into our offense, and not let them get a run.

Marilyn Monroe

Why haven't I the right to grow and expand like everybody else?

Bob Uecker

The MRI scan looked like I had swallowed a cantaloupe. It was an abdominal aortic aneurysm. I was shocked because, except for the back pain, I felt good.

Jon Holmes

The performance of the national team is very important. This season soccer has been fairly abysmal.

Ichiro Suzuki

That was embarrassing. If I'm satisfied with the way I played today, I might as well quit.

John Stack

That's the uniqueness of this story. We're in the southeastern part of the U.S., but we might as well be in a Third World country.

Tony Dungy

That's their style of play. I think Mike might be disappointed if they didn't play that way.

Robert Kirshner

That's very weird. But it's not unprecedented that weird things might be true things.

Riley Wallace

That's the road trip you have to look back on and think what might be if we got one, or both, of them. We'd be right up there.

Andy Fisher

That's the question all the parents would like to know. It's quite challenging. We're trying to find alternative placement for them for the rest of the year - what their options might be next year.

James Blake

I would like to think I might have taken something out of Andre's legs,

Empress Michiko

I would like to tell Sayako just what comes to my mind on the morning of the wedding, but like my mother before me, perhaps I too might not be able to say anything at all,

Brad Johnson

Most communities will not have any trouble by 2008, but 2013 might be a little tougher.

Buddy Guy

I said, I'm going to stand up and somebody is going to pay attention to me.

Shelby Lynne

Well, I had a record deal since I was 18, and it got me where I am.

Charles Bukowski

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart

Alec Baldwin

Anderson Cooper has a job to do. And that job is to try to reinforce his credibility in the gay community after the fact that you couldn’t get him out of the closet for 10 years with a canister of tear gas. Now he’s the sheriff; now he’s running around writing everybody a ticket!

Ali Smith

You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, 'I'm a writer,' it would be gone. You wouldn't see anything for miles - even the dust would be running away.

Adolf Galland

As a fighter pilot I know from my own experiences how decisive surprise and luck can be for success, which in the long run comes only to the one who combines daring with cool thinking.

Douglas Massey

Markets are a social construction, they're made from institutions. We in a democratic society create markets, we constitute markets, we bring them into existence, and we shouldn't turn markets over to a narrow group of people who regulate them and run them in their interests, rather they should be run democratically for the common good.

Donald Barthelme

Some people', Miss R. said,'run to conceits or wisdom but I hold to the hard, brown, nutlike word. I might point out that there is enough aesthetic excitement here to satisfy anyone but a damned fool.

Don DeLillo

Time seems to pass. The world happens, unrolling into moments, and you stop to glance at a spider pressed to its web. There is a quickness of light and a sense of things outlined precisely and streaks of running luster on the bay. You know more surely who you are on a strong bright day after a storm when the smallest falling leaf is stabbed with self-awareness. The wind makes a sound in the pines and the world comes into being, irreversibly, and the spider rides the wind-swayed web.

Donald Sutherland

I'm running out of time, and a Western is America's answer to a Greek tragedy, so that's what we did. [Kiefer] hired Brad [Mirman] to write the script and he had the ideas, and then he and I did stuff on the script to make it a little cleaner to ourselves. And then, we played it. We were just actors working together, and our DNA must have informed it somehow. Certainly, we came out of it purified a little bit.

Don Kardong

There's no such thing as a bad carbohydrate.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Denise Miller

If you live here and you see wreck after wreck after wreck, you think about that every time you're in that intersection.

Stephen Graham

I like time ticking the way it is.

Marie Kondo

Being packed all the time, even when not in use, must feel something like going to bed on an empty stomach.

Maggie Cheung

I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.

Julie Morgenstern

If there's an emergency, someone will come get you. Use this time to think strategically about your work.