Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nikki Grimes

In one sense, the stories I read betrayed me. Too few gave me back my mirror image. Fewer still spoke to, or acknowledged, the existence of the problems I faced as a black foster child from a dysfunctional and badly broken home.

Iker Casillas

When we beat them there (in Barcelona) in the Champions League (in 2002) no one applauded us. If we play well and win that will be great and if we play badly and win that will be great too.

Constantine Karamanlis

We are given to the cult of personality; when things go badly we look to some messiah to save us. If by chance we think we have found one, it will not be long before we destroy him.

Kay Yow

We knew we were tired, but not that tired to play that badly in the first half. We got into a deep hole and then we were just fighting for our lives.

Allen Iverson

All of it is bad. We just struggled so badly offensively. We just couldn't put the ball in the basket. They did a great job with Tracy (McGrady) struggling. Sloppy, we just didn't play well, just didn't take care of the ball.

Phil Garner

They have beaten us up pretty badly this year. They have really thumped us pretty good. Just as a matter of pride, we would not want to see them celebrate here again. We'd like to change that.

Phil Garner

They have beaten us up pretty badly this year, ... They have really thumped us pretty good. Just as a matter of pride, we would not want to see them celebrate here again. We'd like to change that.

Gloria Borger

They don't want to think that, Bob. And they know that that would be a real uphill fight for the Democrats, but they're beginning to believe that this smells really, really badly for them, and they're very, very worried about it now because they know they cannot depend on this president and his coattails any longer.

Mike Hargrove

It's not very typical of him to miss as badly as he missed. That was an indication that he was feeling it tonight. But he shut them down pretty good and came back and threw well.

Amber Smith

We actually came out pretty flat-footed. Even though we had a lot of goals, they had a lot of mental breakdowns today. ... But we're glad to come out with a win.

Joe Masleh

We accomplished what we came here to do due to great senior leadership.

Terry Butcher

Wayne Rooney is wasted switching between the right and left hand side. He's got to play through the middle, playing to his strengths. He came inside in the second half but didn't know what he was doing.

Carlos Levorin

The possibility of an upgrade in Mexico's rating came out, the Mexican stock market went up and the other markets followed suit.

Jim Owens

The person that was sitting in front of me came flying over the desk, ... and it was then that the sound registered.

Kenny Brooks

The people who kept Shirley McCall off the all-conference teams are crazy. She?s one of the most valuable players in this league, and I?m just happy she came out and played extremely well today.

Steve Tobin

unseen strength. New Yorkers came together in a way that no one imagined New Yorkers could or would. The generosity and compassion spread around the country and the world.

Gary Wilson

We've already mailed them out. Today being a holiday, they will probably get them on (today). They came out really nice. They are orange, the same style as in the movie 'Glory Road.' No one had the trim that they used, so we had to contact the company that made the uniforms for the movie and get it from them.

Ben Brooks

We started to execute more and our team did not have as many turnovers. We just played better as a team in the fourth quarter. I was a little nervous at first, a little nervous. They played us real tough, but we came through.

Charles Dickens

We all have some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done before, in a remote time - of our having been surrounded, dim ages ago, by the same faces, objects, and circumstances.

Alain Robert

It's a great feeling to know that 100 cops want to stop you doing something and they can't.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Christ dazzles me and stirs within me such feelings of amazement that I can never get over Him.

Chloe Sevigny

If I'm feeling down in the dumps, or like I need a pop of colour, I'll put on MAC's Lipstick in Lady Danger. I discovered red lipstick when I did the Oscar season: Chanel sent me one and I realised how classic and glamorous it can be.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed. That's the only way I can express it.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Your life belongs to you and you alone.

Eartha Kitt

I'm still with that feeling that I am afraid of doing the wrong thing, because somebody is going to punish me.

David Hume

.. that which renders morality an active principle and constitutes virtue our happiness, and vice our misery: it is probable, I say, that this final sentence depends on some internal sense or feeling, which nature has made universal in the whole species.

David Burnett

The greatest photographs are motivated by human feeling.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye. But I gotta make the first move 'cause if I don't you're gonna start hating me.

Chinua Achebe

I don't want to be the one to tell somebody, You will not make it, even though I know that the majority of those who come to me with their manuscripts are not really good enough.

China Mieville

In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye.

Edith Wharton

There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart you knew. I have kept her with me all this time, but now we are going to part, and I have brought her back to you - I am going to leave her here. When I go out presently she will not go with me. I shall like to think that she has stayed with you.

Daymond John

Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.

David Hyde Pierce

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

David Icke

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

Ben Whishaw

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

Vickie Warehime

We have no indication that anybody's been harmed.

Bob Burke

What they're saying is there's no indication at all of mechanical failure.

Brian Billick

They put him in a cast, so that accelerates it. That's not an indication that it's any more serious.

Gina Uccelli

They have a decision? When we left, they said they would let us know verbally. They really didn't give us any indication it would be this soon.

F. Schumacher

There was some indication over the winter, but if you go back to the winter before 2004 there were similar indications but we managed to solve the situation, ... This year we didn't.

Herb Sendek

There was no indication that we would perform the way we did tonight.

Herb Kelleher

There was no indication that the runway was wet and they have no indications of any problems at all with the plane,

Margaret Gallardo

There was no indication that anything was wrong.

Mike Stofile

There is no transformation at all, not even an indication of it.

Charles Studd

A good thing to have up your sleeve is a sanctified funny-bone.

Charles Studd

Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible.

Alan Hansen

He's sharp, he can score and he doesn't worry about missing.

Terri Smith

We want them to know missions are not just something in Africa; they can be done right next door.

Megan Wing

We want to think about it, see how much we miss it.

Chris Cleave

That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not miss having a future because I did not know I was entitled to one.

David Brenner

We cannot attain the presence of God. We're already totally in the presence of God. What's missing is awareness.

David Brainerd

Oh, that I could spend every moment of my life to God's glory!

David Brainerd

I love to live on the brink of eternity.

Tony Lopez

All my friends think we?re going to get slaughtered. I really do think we?re going to win. I just want to shut everyone up.

Riad Seif

They shut us down before we could even say a single word.

Larry Brown

It's not something where we'll have to shut him down.

Phillip Thompson

It's not on, but at least you can shut the door,

Elias Levy

They're not getting infected, but they're still shutting down.

Mike Maddux

A year ago, you couldn't get the word 'Boo!' out of him. Now, you can't shut him up.

Chris Crutcher

There's only one thing to say to the censors: Shut up.

Chris Hadfield

When I did my spacewalks, it was during space station construction. So the shuttle was docked to the fledgling ISS at the time. So we would always stay tethered.

Steve Baldwin

And you don't have to feel it has to be presentable all the time. You can shut the door.

Herman Edwards

They didn't see who threw the punch. I wasn't going to tell. I'm not a tattletale.

Herman Edwards

They didn't see who threw the punch, ... I wasn't going to tell. I'm not a tattletale.

Eric Myers

After I threw that, I told myself I wasn't going to throw that again.

Marvin Moss

That turnover I had at the end where I threw it deep, that was stupid.

Mack Brown

Vince was able to throw it at will. And he threw it well.

Bill Snyder

Every time we put him on his back, he threw to the end zone.

Mary Stazzone

She threw up all the meat, but we couldn't find the stick.

Dan Carlson

He's a quarterback, he was scrambling and he threw a touchdown - to Schultz again.

Matt Kiefer

That zone really threw us for a loop.

Luis von Ahn

I put a lot of weight on feelings and am weirdly in touch with them, which is not typical for an engineer.

Ben Bernanke

If current trends continue, the typical U.S. worker will be considerably more productive several decades from now. Thus, one might argue that letting future generations bear the burden of population aging is appropriate, as they will likely be richer than we are even taking that burden into account.

James Mullen

As you can appreciate, this is more complicated than a typical drug launch.

Dennis Robinson

It's not the typical setting. We wanted a homey atmosphere.

Erik Skabelund

This is typical this year -- where there's one down, there's five.

Bob Podges

It was a typical Stow-Barberton game. Back-and-forth, down-to-the wire, that's how they all are.

Scott Gomez

It was a typical Scott Stevens win, I guess.

Daryl Hall

The song 'Laughing Down Crying' is not a typical Daryl song.

James Hall

Things like that really don't happen, but this is not your typical suburb, it's part of the city.