Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wole Soyinka

Some of the greatest uprisings and consequent civil wars in Mexico have centered squarely on the ownership of land.

Patricia Richardson

Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened.

Benny Hinn

You have so much today that is pure flesh, yet people have labeled it as the Spirit. It's not the Spirit, because it's not centered on Christ.

Jeff Gray

There is a greater level of detail (in the new plan). There is also a section centered on implementation strategy.

Richie Sambora

I always felt there was some kind of nobility centered in my desire and passion for what I do.

Martin Freeman

I can live without endless television programmes and films just centered around computers. I can sort of live without that.

Brian McQuade

We're going to see a lot of the money that has been parked in real estate move back to stocks. Wealth should not be centered in your residential real estate, which is going to return to more stable to flat appreciation.

Katrina Bowden

It is a challenge at times, but trying to stay centered and balanced helps me keep things in perspective.

Yumei Wang

This produced much stronger ground motion than similar quakes centered at Swan Island or Kelley Point in North Portland.

Esther Rolle

We feel we have to put concrete on every inch of land. It disturbs the ecology, and it takes away the experience of a child going out into the woods and seeing all of nature.

Richard G. Scott

The Book of Mormon is concrete and solid, they can hold it, and they can visualize that they have to pray to decide if this physical thing is true. There is no room for interpretation.

Zhang Jianguo

We have this intention in the long-term, but at present we don't have any concrete plan.

Pedro Reyes

Architects often have a mindset where you solve a problem, so you have a set of needs that you have to address. Often I feel that my projects have to have concrete applications.

Carrie Bores

We haven't really heard any concrete information about it yet. We like going down to Madison, when you think of the state meet you think about Madison. I swam there for my state meet and it's always been such a big deal to go to Madison.

Dennis Davis

I think (impact fees) have been overshadowed by the increase in concrete and steel. It seems to have settled down.

Edilberto Adan

We hope that in the next few hours, or thereabouts, we will get more concrete information about these hostages,

Debbie Adair

We hope it shows ? yes these things are effective. We want concrete evidence.

Michael Curtis

We have taken the leadership role we promised last year. This is by pushing for concrete targets and timetables,

John Breaux

We don't suggest that because San Francisco lies on top of an earthquake fault that it should be moved.

Alice Cooper

On the last day of school, it's the national anthem. On that day, it's the most popular song on the planet. (Laughs.) I become Francis Scott Key for one day.

Patti Smith

I was studying Francis of Assisi for quite some time, when Benedict was still the pope. And I was studying it for a song that I did for my last album, 'Banga.'

Patrick Noonan

I don't think it's over yet. We still have our heads up. St. Francis has to play Driscoll next week.

Susan Danly

Here is someone who sits in Maine and works here in Portland, but this show takes you to San Francisco and takes you to Rome through imagination and architecture.

Rod Scott

I feel like St. Francis will be challenging and a great opportunity for her. Her height and physical size are a plus for her. She has good hands and moves well around the basket.

John Sprague

Frank is a very patriotic man. He joined the Sons of the American Revolution late in life. Not because of Francis Scott Key, but because of Frank's great-great-great grandfather, John Ross Key.

Mark Schmidt

We started off too slow and didn't seem to have our legs. I think they were itching to play because of the time off, and it was hard to get back into it. But give St. Francis credit. They made a run, and we didn't do a good job stopping it.

Eugene Kennedy

From his first hours as pope, Francis has re-enacted or spoken of the great pastoral transformation of Vatican II as his own agenda.

Yanis Varoufakis

Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.

Wayne Rooney

As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.

Viswanathan Anand

In Gujarat, we had the world record of largest number of chess games in a single venue - 20,500 - and in Tamil Nadu, I have been emphasizing on the positives of chess to the authorities.

Age Hareide

The points mattered more than anything tonight. The results in the other games went our way, and now we can travel to Belarus knowing that we are in the play-offs. I hope our luck continues.

Ted Young

The pat on the back (for winning the regular season) is gone. The first do-or-die games for the girls are (today) and on Saturday for the boys. Everything you've worked for is gone on Saturday if you're not prepared for it mentally or physically.

Darren Mathews

We need to have these kinds of games to prepare us for late in the season.

Tom Typrowicz

We could lose a million games and I wouldn't care. I want these young ladies to leave these games knowing what life is about and what it's going to take.

Brett Tomko

We can't let these opportunities slip away. Before we know it, we're going to be out of games. This next series is huge. If we can take three, then we've got a shot.

Tim Brasic

We can't let guys come in here and do what they're doing to us at home. Our last two home games have been just embarrassing.

Bronson Pinchot

I go to the gym a lot, and I see these guys, these young actors or models there, really punishing themselves - I mean, just killing themselves. And then I'll see one of them on a billboard, with the artfully messy hair, looking as though it's just natural and easy to have a body like that.

Pamela Anderson

I was a gymnast when I was little, like 8, 9, 10.

Alex Levine

We put a trainer with them, in their head and in the gym that they already work out in.

Brian Giorgis

We'll make sure she's in shape for it. We're going to work on ball-handling drills, and we'll get her in the gym shooting as many shots as possible.

Seth Numrich

I have never been able to hold onto a really strict gym regime because I get bored.

Carrie Burggraf

Gymnastics is not a sport that most people do. It is unique but it helps a lot in other sports with strength, coordination and balance.

Craig Vigil

We talked about stepping up our play. We wanted to make sure we left this gym with a win.

Eric Burnett

He was in the gym shooting yesterday, and he can knock those down. He's got it in him.

Denise Marshall

I also collaborated with the Heart Health Institute because I can provide the personal training and they can provide the gym membership.

Arnold Schoenberg

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played

Martin Bouygues

My successor may need to be more modern than I am. It's a question of generations.

B. R. Ambedkar

The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.

Dean Miller

I don't think people want chains. People want modern conveniences, but they don't want chains.

Jory Hancock

He is kind of a missionary of modern dance.

Barry Commoner

The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'.

Camille Paglia

How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons.

Aubrey McClendon

Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production.

Dan Stevens

I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.

Chris Jones

Just to be able to play every day in stadiums like this.

Jacob Ruppert

Yankee Stadium is a mistake: Not mine - the Giants'.

John Alexander

We would have to have a year trialing the new stadium through Super 14 before the World Cup.

Jason Giambi

That was a Yankee Stadium homer, for sure,

Chris Gray

It's been unbelievable. It's probably one of the loudest, if not the loudest, stadiums I've ever been in.

Dan Kaiser

It wouldn't be a stadium type of a thing.

Gary Hetherington

Without the new stadium we probably wouldn't be going to Cardiff,

Brett Heyl

It was everything you'd think it would be. Walking through the tunnel into that stadium with your country's team, there's nothing like it.

Simon Jordan

Even if I built a 50,000-seater stadium and bought Ronaldinho, there'd still be complaints about crap hotdogs.