Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wes Overton

(Witte) hit her spots and let her defense play behind for her a little bit and that's what she needed to do. You can't expect her to come out and strike out 14 every game, you have to play defense. And we played defense today.

Sloane Crosley

The reason that war is such a fascinating subject for writers is because it's a revealer. Put a bunch of people in an adrenaline-fuelled, life-or-death situation and their fundamental behaviours are exposed, the scrim is taken away and the motivations behind each personality come out to play.

Fred Russell

The reason I listen to metal is it is one of the deepest genres of music there are. It's meant to move you as a person, physically and emotionally. Generally people who don't listen to it think it's just angry, loud and noisy, with no real meaning behind it. This isn't always true ... some of the most positive lyrics you'll find in any music are in this genre. ... Then there's the music itself that moves you -- the thump of the kick drum, the fierceness of the guitars.

John Velazquez

The race set up just the way I wanted. I was able to sit behind horses the way I wanted, and then at the half-mile pole, I moved on her, and it was all her from there.

Jill Lepore

Theories of history used to be supernatural: the divine ruled time; the hand of God, a special providence, lay behind the fall of each sparrow. If the present differed from the past, it was usually worse: supernatural theories of history tend to involve decline, a fall from grace, the loss of God's favor, corruption.

Milka Duno

The opportunity to drive one of the world's fastest and most powerful race cars is a dream come true for me, and I am really looking forward to getting behind the wheel.

Pitt elder

There is something behind the throne greater than the King himself.

Stu Jackson

The original idea behind the clear path foul was we didn't want them to occur. But now, when they do occur, the offended team is not getting the yield point-wise that they should be.

Tom Cleveland

There is no real concern about problemsthe experts at the state have no reservations about it and are fully behind the program.

Peter Jacobs

I think the key is that next year, even though Boeing will see about a 15-16 percent decline in revenue, they should still be able to show improvement in the bottom line.

Kirby Moses

Ten of our 14 wrestlers scored points which helped us today. There were 15 teams and we didn't know what to expect. We were the smallest school there.

Deon Grant

We didn't play bad, ... But we sure didn't do a lot to help ourselves.

Bobby Cox

All these things can help a little bit, sure. It's going to make the umpire look like the bully. But there's nothing wrong with trying.

Josh McCown

David's help was just tremendous, ... When they did away with that office, I just thought, 'I hope I don't get another case.'" ()

Terry Porter

You think they were able to help us?

Mark McClellan

It's time for people with Medicare and those who care about them to start thinking about making Medicare decisions. And we will help them.

Bruce Willis

Never say never, but moving away didn't help our romance, that's for sure!

Alison Bales

It's always about defense. My teammates are thankful, because a lot of times they can pressure more because they know I'll be on their help side. It's a momentum stopper for the other team.

Tom Baker

It's going to help recruiting for all sports. People look at facilities. They don't want to play in a dump.

Alan Greenspan

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.

George Washington

[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the bottom, and provide radical cures.

Jimmy Carter

And so I say to you and to others around the world, whether they wish us well or ill - do not underestimate us Americans. We lack neither strength nor wisdom.

Emily Dickinson

A charm invests a face Imperfectly beheld,— The lady dare not lift her veil For fear it be dispelled. But peers beyond her mesh, And wishes, and denies,— Lest interview annul a want That image satisfies.

Ellen Page

I wish transphobia, biphobia, homophobia didn't exist, and I wish that's what the show could just be, but sadly that's not the situation around the world.

Henry James

You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.

Henry James

Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that she might have the pleasure of being as heroic as the occasion demanded.

Helene Cixous

She alone dares and wishes to know from within, where she, the outcast, has never ceased to hear the resonance of fore language. She lets the other language speak - the language of 1,000 tongues which knows neither enclosure nor death. To life she refuses nothing. Her language does not contain, it carries; it does not hold back; it makes possible.

George Mason

I wish I knew where to get a good one myself; for I find cold Sheets extreamly disagreeable.

John Ames

It was a tragedy, ... I wish it had never happened.