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.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can't have any regrets.

Milo Ventimiglia

I was used to playing misled youth, rough-and-tumble guys. It was nice to get back to a big-hearted, warm and gentle soul, a guy who is destined for something a lot larger than he ever expected.

Yiddish Proverbs

If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water.

Buffalo Bill

I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.

Jackie Speier

When we foster an economy without hope, we guarantee that a segment of our population will be destined to know homelessness on a permanent basis, and not for the one night I voluntarily spent at a shelter.

Lori Wilde

I knew from the time I was a young girl that I was destined to be a writer. I'm incredibly stubborn. The more someone tells me I can't do something, the harder I work to prove them wrong. My father's nickname for me when I was growing up was 'Hardhead.'

Sergei Kupriyanov

We have information from the ground that shows Ukraine has started illegally siphoning off Russian gas destined for European consumers.

African Proverb

The day the monkey is destined to die, all the trees get slippery

Suzanne Pleshette

Troy was a sweet, good man. We just were never destined to be married. We just didn't have the same values. But I'm not bitter. He taught me how to laugh.

Louis Whorton

That was the story of the game. They were hitting two shots to our one. We didn't rebound worth a flip, and they doubled us on rebounding.

Mike Conrad

Timely hitting has been our nemesis in this tournament.

Bill Doba

We've had enough hitting. The kids are tired of hitting each other.

Johnny Smith

We just went back to the fundamentals of hitting this year. It's just making contact. We're not trying to hit home runs.

John Neal

I thought he was going to make it, because I was late and he'd been hitting everything. He kicked his legs out and kinda jumped into me.

Lt. Sanders

Just keep hitting them, that's how we make a dent.

Bernhard Langer

I'm still in shock. I started hitting double-crosses out here and you can't do that. I didn't hit another fairway the rest of the round.

Rex Walters

I'm hitting the road tonight to find some players.

Darren Clarke

I'm hitting it nicely and I'll try to keep it going. There are a lot of people who want to win this a lot more than I do. I would love to do it myself, but it's not that important.

Skip Snow

It could be literally thousands. It could be a number I don't want to know. It could be scary.

Rick Hoffman

We traveled literally over 10,000 miles by car, looking at places,

Bill Turnage

He literally got it with 10 seconds to spare.

Daniel Petrocelli

He literally could have conducted an examination (by) putting a prop up there.

Patti Savrick

We're quite worried. She's literally on minute-to-minute care.

Chuck Morton

We've started off with literally nothing, and now we have 60 students.

Vint Cerf

The Internet is literally a network of networks.

Vera Farmiga

There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.

Warren Spector

I would love to take 'Ultimata Underworld' and literally update the graphics.

Etel Adnan

I love Nicolas de Stael particularly, and my work can remind people of him. But looked at attentively, our works are not similar at all.

Cilla Black

It's true what they say: 'You don't appreciate what you've got until it's gone.' I miss love. I miss being looked after.

Goldie Hawn

Oftentimes, actors are looked at as court jesters. They are not looked at as deep-thinking, smart people who do many other things or have gifts in other areas.

Paul Cullen

In a very simple sense I want everything that's in a work to be there for the reason that it's needed. It's not an ornamentation. It's not there because I thought it looked nice but because it has to be there.

Patricia McBride

I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.

Wayne Hale

We've looked end-to-end at the shuttle to make improvements and make it safer than it has ever been.

Brian Billick

We've looked at these quarterbacks more than we've looked at any position since I've been here,

Don Thomas

We've looked at some (locations) that have potential.

Brad White

We've looked at it long enough. We've got to do something about it.

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.

Jeff Flowers

We just couldn't get it done at the plate today.

Rusty Wallace

When I took the plate off, I went 'Holy (smoke), you don't want to do this,'

Xiaodong Song

We're talking about 50,000 times that of plate tectonic motion.

Jerry Angelo

We've got as lot of plates in the air.

Tracey Emin

Women, at 50, are on a plateau with their careers, but later they ascend.

Keith Baird

It's not an earthquake, it's more of a plate shift,

Bud Grant

I've got more on my plate than I can handle.

Gabriel Lippmann

I got quite good results from protein plates.

Randy Johnson

Everything I threw over the plate they hit.

Robert Frost

Time and Tide wait for no man,but time always stands still for a woman of thirty.

Robert Mueller

I will tell you we have no one person, specifically, that stands out at this juncture.

Fred Miller

He has that persona. He stands in there. He's poised.

Jim Hawkins

For writing style and pace, your work stands alone.

Lee Whitnum

The only thing that stands between corporate greed and poverty is the union.

Faith Hunter

There are lots of antagonists in the 'Jane Yellowrock' series, but one stands out as uber-evil to me, and that is Lucas DeAllyon.

Margaret DiNinno

Right now that's where it stands to be.

Aubrey de Vere

Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.

Clem Metz

She just stands there -- like some employees.

CC Sabathia

As long as we win games while I'm on the mound, I feel good.

Catullus

Away with you, water, destruction of wine!

Cecil Rhodes

To be born English is to win first prize in the lottery of life.

Carrie Underwood

Throw caution to the wind and just do it.

Carl Sagan

If the greenhouse effect is a blanket in which we wrap ourselves to keep warm, nuclear winter kicks the blanket off.

Carl Sagan

Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the fifth century B.C. by the Ionian philosopher Heraclitus as 'night walkers, magicians, priests of Bacchus, priestesses of the wine-vat, mystery-mongers.' But science is more intricate and subtle, reveals a much richer universe, and powerfully evokes our sense of wonder. And it has the additional and important virtue-to whatever extent the word has any meaning-of being true.

Bethenny Frankel

It's hard to wind down, but then I beat myself up because I have a tense back.

Bette Davis

I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn't been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they'd given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I'm an Aries. I never lose.

Bette Davis

Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.