Famous Quotes & Sayings

Xavi

I spend the entire 90 minutes looking for space on the pitch. I'm always between the opposition's two holding midfielders and thinking, 'The defence is here, so I get the ball and I go there to where the space is.'

Twyla Tharp

At the ballet classes I took when I first came to New York, I would see great dancers like Cynthia Gregory and Lupe Serrano. I would look at them and study what they could do, and what I couldn't do. And then I'd think maybe they should try what I could do.

Thierry Henry

The only thing I won't watch is darts. And I don't watch cricket. How can you like a game that requires you to take four days off work to follow a Test? And I don't really like golf. I know a lot of English footballers play, but I know that if I go with the club to play, sooner or later I will end up trying to smash the ball with my foot.

Thierry Henry

But the moment I've got a ball at my feet, I'm happy.

Imelda May

There have never been so many women in the music industry, but they're doing ballads and pop. Where's the new Joan Jetts and the Wanda Jacksons and the Debbie Harrys, all these strong women? I wanna be the woman that rocks.

William Clay Ford, Jr.

We took our eye off the ball as a company.

Steve Friedman

The only crystal ball even more difficult to read than where one's own personal situation may be is where the country is headed and what the country's economic situation will be in 20 or 30 years.

Rick Adelman

The patience at the end of the game there when Brad hit the three was terrific. We had plenty of time, we moved the ball around and they made a mistake and left Brad standing there. Then in the overtime we took control, especially when Odom fouled out.

Phillip Hilliard

The past two games we haven't been hitting the ball. He had to be (critical) ? nobody was hitting the ball. We should've hit the ball a lot better, and we weren't focused on the fundamentals.

Tyra Banks

I wish I was harder; I wish I didn't care so much about being the nice girl all the time because a lot of the time people can take kindness for weakness, so I wish I had a little bit more 'oomph' in me.

Yann Tiersen

In France the music schools are a bit old fashioned. I was more excited about doing my own stuff or to play with my friend in my band, than studying the piano.

Imelda May

I'm not saying that women shouldn't pursue careers, but if it is going to be equal in the workplace, it should certainly pan out to be a little bit more equal in the home, too.

Imelda May

Music rules a lot of my life - I was bitten by the bug young.

Iggy Azalea

I've been a little bit Las Vegas and casino-obsessed. So, I love some trashy glamour... and I think nothing's trashier or more glamorous than a bit of a sheer number!

Ice T

I think that men need to have a little bit of manism. You have feminism. I don't have a problem with that.

Ian Mckellen

Gandalf the Grey was always the guy I prefer. Gandalf the White was driven to do a particular job, whereas Gandalf the Grey is a bit more humane.

Ian Mckellen

Doing some of the 'Lord Of The Rings' press junkets got a bit claustrophobic.

Ian Mckellen

It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.

Ahmed Chalabi

Without a doubt, I'm being set up, ... to discredit the family and discredit the tribunal.

Michael Redd

He (Mason) wants to be with a winner, not to discredit New Orleans. He did so much for the organization, and we're going to miss him, but at the same time we're going to welcome Jamaal in.

Norma McCorvey

They tried to discredit me. I used to tell them, There's many wonderful people out there who can't have children, who would want to have these children." ()

Alejandro Toledo

If something happens it will be because the intelligence services provoke incidents to discredit us.

Rick Comley

Somebody just said to me and I think it's true, 'We just ran out of time,' and that's not to discredit Maine.

Chris Garcia

People who wish to discredit him will hunt for possible blemishes on his record.

Stanley Williams

They would try at every turn to discredit me, but I was game,

Oleg Vyugin

This restriction will be subsequently lifted and will not discredit investors because they can place 70% of their issue in depositary receipts.

Steve McClain

We gave him 10 points early in the game and after that we did a good job on him. He's a good player. You can't discredit what he did.

William E. Conway, Jr.

More effective than giving away half my fortune before I die is finding a way to help people have a good-paying job.

Denis Napthine

We want to protect freedom of speech, but it is not unlimited freedom of speech. There has always been rules around defamation, slander and libel, and in Victoria, we have effective rules on racial and religious vilification.

Nash Grier

As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.

Ann Falsey

We've known for more than 100 years that hand washing prevents infection, but we still can't get people to wash their hands. Hand washing is the simplest, most effective way to keep from getting sick and making others sick.

Robert Zoellick

An empowered public is the foundation for a stronger society, more effective government, and a more successful state.

Jan Egeland

I think it would be a massive undertaking to actually have a full-fledged tsunami warning system that would really be effective in many of these places,

Ralph Norris

We haven't been as effective as we could have been in handling our IT operations.

Ethan Moreau

It feels the same way as the last game. I thought I was effective in that last game.

Cindy Sheehan

I think I'm more effective on the outside than on the inside.

Irving Ravetch

Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.

Zakk Wylde

I love the whole process for each new album. The writing, the touring, everything. For me, it never gets old.

Wendy Kopp

It gets to whether we're a teacher-education model or a movement for social justice. I would say we're about the latter.

Bonnie Tyler

The international travelling gets harder as I get older, but when I'm performing on stage, it makes it all worth while.

David Carson

Just because something's legible doesn't means it communicates. More importantly, it doesn't mean it communicates the right thing. So, what is the message sent before somebody actually gets into the material? And I think that's sometimes an overlooked area.

Nile Rodgers

My career has been wacky and not at all normal. I've never had a manager, nobody gets jobs for me. I wind up working with artists that I meet.

Nas

I don't want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I'm not perfect, and I'm just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?

Tony Russa

That was vintage Carpenter. He had first and second, the middle of the lineup, and he gets out of it. That's what he does.

Bill Hanlon

That way they're thinking about the word and how it's used in an analogy. It gets them thinking the same way the test makers are thinking.

William Lashner

In fiction, the reader will make jumps with you. If you can make the reader make that leap with you, it's a thrilling moment for everyone.

Eric Schmidt

We just didn't really have that jump in our step tonight, we were very passive.

Joann Erenhouse

We have to jump on this as soon as possible.

Sasha Cohen

I think I was probably not nervous but just a little apprehensive. Ultimately, the jumps just weren't there.

Mike Wilton

Jump serves are good, but only if you keep them in play. No. 1 is a serving error. There's nothing worse.

Michelle Lamb

Jump ropes, come here to the skipping stones.

Christina Hendricks

I tend to take things personally. But I can only take so much, and then I jump back. I have strong survival skills.

Noelle Quinn

I think she has one of the purest jump shots in the NCAA right now.

Justin Dentmon

I think people underestimate his jump shot, and he can drive. He?s a nightmare for any team.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

F. Stone

The annuals, the yearbooks, brochures and programs of old plays and musicals...that all tells the story about what they did.

Ed Swanson

That was huge. The kid's got guts. She can be 0-for-6 from 3, and she's going to shoot that seventh shot the way she shot that first shot. She plays with confidence.

Greg Graham

That was a tough one. We made all the plays down the stretch. We got big stops, we just ran out of time.

Maryann Mitts

We just didn't connect. We didn't make the plays and they did.

Kelly Sears

We just didn't come up with the plays at the right times.

Brian Hill

We had our chances. That's what it comes down to in tight games. Who is going to make the shots, make the plays at the end of the game.

Rhett Bomar

We have the plays that will work and we know what to do.

Derrick Coleman

We were sluggish, and they just made more of the toughness plays than we did.

Wayne Gretzky

We've talked about this for it seems like months. When the team plays disciplined, plays smart and plays the way that they need to play to be successful, we have some success.

Elayne Boosler

My breakup with AT&T is final, and I'm done with Skype as the rebound guy.

Mary Klinger

We need to rebound the ball, obviously. Defensively, they are very physical.

Joe Crawford

It didn't surprise me because they saw that they were getting the rebounds and they stuck with it.

Crystal Langhorne

We have to rebound and stop their transition game. Their speed is incredible.

Don Bringle

We've got to rebound and become strong. It will take a little time to do that, but we will, and we'll survive that process.

Avery Johnson

He got some big stops and rebounds for us and stopped them from getting some rebounds and that is what he's here for.

Irv DeGraw

With the rebound in the semiconductor industry, we think it'll do pretty well.

Rahshon Clark

We let them get a lot of rebounds that we should have come up with that were real crucial.

Harry DeFrank

I was worried about the boards. They've got three strong girls, and we had to rebound with them.

Robert Kiyosaki

Don't do anything for the money you WILL make, but instead for the SKILLS you will learn.

Robert Kiyosaki

The key to financial freedom and great wealth is a person's ability or skill to convert earned income into passive income and/or portfolio income.

Dan Murphy

Most companies' tendency is to overestimate the skills they need.

William Shakespeare

When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.

Bob Mason

He's got the talent and skills to play at this level.

Warren Sapp

He has all the skills but I've been trying to get him to get better at the little things. He's like a big sponge. You have to slap him around and throw him back in the water every now and then but he'll be right back to soak up some more.

Dave Franco

I don't know if this is an illusion but I would love to be able to take my card-throwing skills and be able to puncture a watermelon. Now I know I can take this question and say, "I would want to solve the economic problems in the world" - but I want to stick that card in that watermelon.

Charles Caleb Colton

Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.

Charles Stross

We're currently living with a generation of established novelists who are embarrassingly out of date with respect to social networking, internet skills, and so on.

Bethenny Frankel

I'm stronger than anything in my way. Holla!

Sena Drawer

I think they're each getting stronger and more used to one another on the court.

Chris Sierzant

I have 14-year-olds that are stronger than some adults.

Rusty Agte

Her voice is much stronger than it was, and getting better each day.

Michael Culver

I wrote: Vicki and Michael, stronger than fire.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A concept is stronger than a fact.

Eartha Kitt

I have used all the manure that has been thrown on me as fertilizer to make me stronger.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.

Adam Pine

We've always had it in us. The men's team will keep getting stronger and stronger.

Boy George

I suppose there is a lot of toughness in me.

Imelda May

My parents never told me to get a real job. They always said, 'Go for it! If this is what you want to do, work hard.' They were always very supportive.

Ian Mckellen

I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.

Gale Harold

I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.

Gaines Adams

Every day I went to work at Tampa, I gave it my all.

Donald Trump

I always look at it that I work with my employees as opposed to them working for me.

William Quigley

I never wanted to be someone who's asking someone to put my work in their gallery. I wanted to be asked.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Zubin Mehta

The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.

Wynton Marsalis

I generally work right up to when I have to do something - I'm always doing a lot.