Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alafair Burke

I was downright obnoxious. In second grade, we had some program where we kept a public list of all the books we read. I think it even included the number of pages. In my nerdy mind, having the longest and most impressive list was somehow going to make up for the fact that I couldn't climb a rope or do a backwards summersault in PE.

Stan Perkins

I was a chunky little kid, and when they sat me in that wagon, it tipped backward and I banged my head on the (concrete) floor. I was howling pretty good, but Dad went outside and cried his eyes out.

Neil Strauss

All this stuff is backward engineered from what works. Nobody sat at a computer and invented these techniques. They watched guys who are successful and broke it down to what works.

Tony Vis

All of a sudden (in the second half) we started to play vertical, where now we're playing forward basketball rather than looking to throw the ball backward and going side to side. We got our players out running.

John Updike

The good ending dismisses us with a touch of ceremony and throws a backward light of significance over the story just read. It makes it, as they say, or unmakes it. A weak beginning is forgettable, but the end of a story bulks in the reader's mind like the giant foot in a foreshortened photograph.

Joe Ferrer

The horse went over backward once and came down. He got his left foot out of the stirrup but he couldn't get his right foot out in time.

Shawn Mendes

The first year I started hockey, I didn't know how to skate, so I got on the ice with all of the hockey players, and we were doing drills where we had to go backwards in figure eights. And I could not skate, and I just kept falling on my butt, and it was very embarrassing.

Joan Baker

Everyone's bent over backward in the Whitesboro school district,

Robert Greenstein

The new data are particularly troubling for working people, showing backward movement for most workers. In short, the census data provide new evidence that, as in 2002 and 2003, the recovery was neither robust nor broad-based.

Paul Doughty

Knowing that I have these younger girls who are playing and getting better every game is encouraging.

David Ward

Jacob pitched a really good game for us today. He was throwing pretty hard. If he can keep pitching like that, we'll be in good shape.

Larry Finucane

I would say the pressure is on them (Mills). They're the #6 or #7 seed and have the game on their home court.

Joe Torre

Just win as many games as we can and see where that leaves us when it's over.

Joel Allen

Joe has gotten the most out of his senior season and his selection to the all-star game reflects that.

Brian Thornton

Josh did a great job tonight, but it's not just tonight. He's done well the last several games and in practice. When Josh is playing well, it gives us a lot of versatility. When Josh is hitting shots and doing a great job on the boards, it gives us a lot more options.

Champ Bailey

John, he knows everything, he studies the game very hard and he'll knock you out.

Clint Hurdle

I talked to Todd (on Sunday) night after the game and left another message for him (Monday) morning. He told me he might not make it on this road trip and laughed.

Mo Rocca

It addresses a life-long concern, the risk of someone ruining your game. I just don't want you, 50 years down the road, to have your game killed by some guy with a shinier walker.

Chris Higginbottom

Going to the state tournament means lot for our team, the school and the community. I think it's been six years since they've been, and to go in my first year here, there's just nothing sweeter.

Jonathan Turley

Law professors like Obama tend to view the law as one means to an end, and others, like myself, tend to view it as the end itself.

Steven Forester

He'll be singing in his upper register to give the idea of what it means to be roasted on a spit.

Brian Dake

He means more to me than I think he will ever know.

Phil Klay

'Redeployment' is a military term. It means to transfer a unit from one area to another.

Craig Colten

Rebuilding here means so much more than walls and roofs and levees.

Akinobu Okada

Our rally was a little late, but things are by no means over.

Cheri Cihak

Parents who understand the risks recognize that it is important to keep teens from riding with other teens, even if it means playing 'chauffer' for one more year.

Les Brown

In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.

Paul Mara

He was on his back and I don't even think he saw where the puck was and he took a swipe at it. That's why he is one of the premier players in the league.

Mario Bailey

I'm just now starting to feel comfortable. I didn't really know all my players until the end of (last) season.

Greg Couch

I have no idea why he would say that. All the players had apartments. ... He said things we don't understand.

Gordon Smith

In my day, the players used to work their socks off. It's all-change now, obviously.

William Brown

I know there have been teams that have done well there. Shields is probably the favorite, but we feel like we have the players to be in contention.

Isiah Thomas

I'm trying to go out and get the players he wants me to go out and get. This is a player he wanted.

Jerry Jones

I'm sure you can take a lot of these players out here and find they need some surgery.

Roy Keane

You shouldn't have spoken to the players like that. No, you should have.

Susan Peele

These are players that have pretty much come all the way up through the program. They have all shared the same experiences here.

Mike Martz

He'll be back, but whether it's this week or not I don't know.

Annika Sorenstam

I have had two weeks off and I'm rested,

Ryan Kwanten

I'm more of a heat-of-the-moment type of guy. A friend will tell me about something coming up, maybe that weekend, and usually not an abundance of thought goes into my doing it.

Robert Redford

I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way.

Tony Mortensen

It's going to be a long, long bye week. Two weeks to think about this.

John Green

I do my precalc homework, and then when I'm done I actually sit with the textbook for like three hours and try to understand what I just did. That's the kind of weekend it is--the kind where you have so much time you go past the answers and start looking into the ideas.

Katherine Jenkins

At the weekend, one of the paparazzi left their lunch box filled with half-eaten pasta salad on my doorstep: it was like a little warning, you know? 'We have been here.'

Nick Hornby

…I've had a bad week." What's happened?" Nothing's happened. I've had a bad week in my head, is all.

Lesley-Anne Down

That Days of Our Lives thing for a week nearly killed me.