Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Lapointe

The overtime calls hurt the game. It's a big game, a big rivalry. the refs should let us play. I guess this is the new NHL. To lose a game on a cheap penalty is not the way to play hockey.

Ben Elliot

With offices in 64 cities around the world, it is sometimes a challenge to ensure that I've got my finger on the pulse with every one, everywhere. Staying in touch means early rising for calls with China and Japan, and late calls with the U.S.

Ray Lewis

My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding.

Lesley Sillaman

That would cost precious seconds because those calls would then be routed to Dane County because we are the only ones that have a dispatch center that can dispatch fire and ambulance service throughout the county.

Mike Tice

That would be a perfect scenario, where he works with that offensive staff through the whole week and works with Steve to formulate how the game will be called. Maybe Steve calls the game in, with the help of Jerry. But anything that can lighten the load of what I've taken on will be certainly fun.

Mike Tate

We have volunteers coming in a couple nights a week already to be making phone calls and talking to voters.

Roger Stone

Big brother listening in on your phone calls - I got a problem with that.

Pat Conroy

Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.

Michelle Ryan

We were getting five, six phone calls an hour going, 'Oh my God, you're closing?'

Warren Farrell

I am always someone who follows the research more than my self-interest. It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men. I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.

Walead Beshty

I certainly like it if the work is beautiful, but that's a surplus effect. I can only think about that after I consider how it's made.

Walter Crane

They had certainly exasperated them, and could not disperse them, as after every charge - and some of these drove the people right against the shutters in the shops in the Strand - they returned again.

Warren Stephens

We're certainly interested in maximizing our return and doing it - we're interested in maximizing our return, but we're also interested in doing it over a long period of time and in doing it in a way that never endangers the firm from a survivability standpoint.

William Kirby

The most important thing that certainly the United States and other Asian and Pacific actors have done is to urge that whatever happens, however the dispute is resolved, that it be resolved peacefully.

Vikram Seth

I certainly think it's very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

My earlier exposure to physics certainly helped me in the use of biophysical techniques like crystallography, the use of computing, calculations, etc.

Zubin Mehta

I miss the standard of the New York Philharmonic's playing very much. It has certainly been a high point in my life.

Ellen Key

Certainly it may, under present imperfect conditions, often be a duty not to destroy the outward form of marriage for the sake of the children. But by no means can this duty be preached as universally binding.

Ron Rubin

It doesn't do any good to formulate rules if nobody can live with them. If we had our druthers, we'd like the old rules that we didn't have to watch at all.

King Krule

A lot of people who have been perceiving my music have been trying to formulate a genre for it, and I think it's just a natural thing; it doesn't need to be categorized. It doesn't need to be sectioned, if you will.

Robert Barnett

He has been involved in all of the key issues, met with all of the important players and helped formulate the most important policies.

Richard Miranda

We're meeting to go over laboratory test results and formulate a plan for what we're going to do about this.

Johnny Almaraz

We're going to formulate individual plans for every player. We'll pull back when a player's fatigued.

Janne Darata

I was devastated. I had time to formulate a plan on how to make something positive out of this tragedy.

Russ Diamond

I wanted to know how they wanted to formulate the transfer of power. I wanted to get some people in here who are willing to do work.

Brad Smith

We want to formulate a new framework and new principles. Principles need to emerge.

Joseph Rotblat

The time has come to formulate guidelines for the ethical conduct of scientist, perhaps in the form of a voluntary Hippocratic Oath.

Yanis Varoufakis

Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.

Wayne Rooney

As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.

Viswanathan Anand

In Gujarat, we had the world record of largest number of chess games in a single venue - 20,500 - and in Tamil Nadu, I have been emphasizing on the positives of chess to the authorities.

Randy Petersen

The policy doesn't look overly generous, but right now this is the only game in town.

Age Hareide

The points mattered more than anything tonight. The results in the other games went our way, and now we can travel to Belarus knowing that we are in the play-offs. I hope our luck continues.

Malcolm Jenkins

The Penn State game was crazy. There were like 110,000 people there, and they were ready for it.

Ted Young

The pat on the back (for winning the regular season) is gone. The first do-or-die games for the girls are (today) and on Saturday for the boys. Everything you've worked for is gone on Saturday if you're not prepared for it mentally or physically.

Nolan Bushnell

'Pong' hit the fancy. It was sort of the perfect storm of a game which has two players highly social, a game that women could play better than a guy, and sort of an acceptance of this social nature of games in a bar.

Brian Burke

That would be a huge plus for this hockey club, if he can go over there, get in shape and get his game back.

Wesley Clark

The Ukrainians don't have the military means to stand up to Russia, but we haven't helped them militarily, either.

Brittany Curran

Playing Chelsea on 'The Suite Life of Zack and Cody' really helped with my over-the-top comedy.

Dean Geyer

I think my time on 'Australian Idol' really helped train my voice for a lot of genres.

Cilla Black

I helped make the Sixties swing, and I'm very proud of that.

Christopher Dodd

It's vital that we help them get the right start, nurture their development and provide for their well-being.

Alice Walker

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

Bill Vaughan

The things which must be, must be for the best, God helps us do our duty and not shrink, And trust His mercy humbly for the rest.

Lukata Mjumbe

The applicants will still be responsible for their bills. The program will only help them up until March.

E. O. Wilson

The association earns money by helping to sell them and working at the store on the day of the event.

Jenna D'Alie

When it's tense during practice, I tend to lighten up the mood a bit.

Lauren Brightwell

Whenever you get any new skill you really want to use it. I think he should lighten up a little.

Ray Neidl

Long-term to me, ... is a year in this business. If we're going to have a recession, you should probably lighten up on your airlines, because they're still cyclical. But there has been a lot of restructuring in the airlines, the way they run their business. I think they will come through the next recession.

Don Jennings

Another thing we've tried to do is lighten practice a little bit. We're on the ice 22 times this month (for games) so we're trying to make it fun.

Brit Hume

was considerably tongue-in-cheek, and some of the responses have been notably humorless. Lighten up a little bit!

Mark Martin

I made a promise to myself that I would lighten up this year, and have some fun.

Mark Lambert

You just can't load sick people on a Greyhound and take off.

Andrae Crouch

I write just knowing that I enjoy writing. But if I have to write, it seems like nothing comes. But when I go there for my own pleasure, the Lord might just give me loads of stuff all at once.

Andrew Buchan

I'm not a booky actor, I don't go away and do loads of reading up on a part, generally. I'm more interested in what the people we're portraying do physically, and looking at their sentence construction.

Terry Fleming

We have a very successful team and we are loaded with talent.

Carol Bruce

I think people need to put in a driveway, load it up and get it out of there.

Andrew Stacy

We have to play well. Batavia is very good. They are loaded year in and year out.

Greg Bensel

We'll load up as much as we can, and get as much as we can back to San Antonio and make an office out of it.

Jack Baker

One thing's for sure, people aren't going to load up on stocks going into tomorrow's speech.

Mike Fratello

I don't think it's any secret that we're a different team when we make shots. We have to make shots on the perimeter when they load up on Pau down low.

Zoe Sugg

When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'

Whitey Ford

I never threw the spitter, well maybe once or twice when I really needed to get a guy out real bad.

Van Morrison

I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.

Yayoi Kusama

I want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw.

Yayoi Kusama

When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.

David Foster

I think that most of my romance comes out in my music. And if you look at my track record of three ex-wives, maybe there's something to that.

Chris Capuano

That was a sloppy inning. Take it away, and maybe we win.

Alex Rodriguez

That will never end. Maybe when I retire it will stop. I use it as a motivation.

Randy Moss

I think I played in Lambeau maybe 14, 15 times. I've played there a lot of times. It's in the teens, double digit. I've had success on that field, won and lost.

Donny Burnett

We could have rebounded better today. We got out rebounded, especially on the offensive end. They had more second and third opportunities than we did first chances.

Dan Miller

I thought offensive rebounding killed us in the first half. They just pounded us on the glass.

Don Johnson

I think one of the reasons we haven't seen more of an official response to this is that the signs aren't offensive in any way,

Ryan Barnes

We can penetrate and give the offensive linemen a fight.

Jabari Levey

I feel like I could be a first day pick. This is going to be a big year for offensive linemen.

Paul Woolpert

He's a big guy. We let him get too many offensive rebounds in the second half.

Bruce Bochy

He's got some pop. Khalil is going to be an offensive shortstop. He's going to supply some power.

John Bernhardt

His offensive play was pivotal to our staying in the game.

Randy Carlisle

It all started with our offensive line, whenever you rush for that many yards, it has to start with your offensive line.

Anton Corbijn

Grain is life, there's all this striving for perfection with digital stuff. Striving is fine, but getting there is not great. I want a sense of the human and that is what breathes life into a picture. For me, imperfection is perfection.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Perfection is reachednot when there's nothing to add, but when there's nothing to take away.

Baz Luhrmann

I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.

Megan Fox

I think it's perfectly acceptable not to run with cliques.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

Azzedine Alaia

Perfection is never achieved, so you need to go on working.

William Shakespeare

How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection!

Samuel Dalembert

That would have been a tough decision. If the staff didn't change, it would have been something to think about.

Joe Nathan

We've got our staff back. We've got a better lineup. We're going to be a lot better.

Dusty Baker

We have a support staff here I think that can make a difference.

Jay Carson

Forty-one just wanted to come by and say hello. He was really great, and our staff really appreciated it.

Cherry Loney

We are already strained in terms of our staff and space.

Allen Weinstein

NARA must provide security at our facilities to protect our public patrons, our staff, and our holdings.

Cynthia Johnson

Our staff don't take to rhetoric, they need proof.

Ralph Brennan

Staff is our most significant challenge. We already know that many of them will not return.

John Roberts

I was a staff lawyer, ... I didn't have a position.

David Steinberg

When I talk to Steve Martin, he's joyful when he talks about comedy.

Xavier Niel

I don't think Steve Jobs had much desire to share his fortune.

Digger Phelps

If this happens, this is time for Steve to make that move.

Bus Cook

We have to get some things resolved. I'm sure the Titans want to keep Steve, and I'm sure they will. Steve wants to stay, and we want to keep him in Tennessee.

Allen Iverson

Steve set the tone for them and everyone else just followed.

Matt Birk

Steve Hutchinson, in my opinion, is worth that money.

Rafael Benitez

It is only a possibility that Steven can play.

Tom Muller

One job, one wife, one house. That's Steve Flores.

Dale Murray

I told Steve he won't be out the door. He could still be on the staff.

C. S. Lewis

Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.

Cecelia Ahern

She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.

Cecelia Ahern

Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road, stuff I didn’t care about so that I couldn’t lose anything I really loved ever again.

Carrie Brownstein

I think one of the reasons I haven't been doing music is because I think that some of my performance, like, needs are being taken care of in other mediums.

Carl Sagan

We are the first species to have taken our evolution into our own hands.

Carl Sagan

We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species to have taken evolution into our own hands.

Benjamin Rush

It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, 'till he returns to them again.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

I've spent more time than many will believe [making microscopic observations], but I've done them with joy, and I've taken no notice those who have said why take so much trouble and what good is it?

Antoni Tapies

At lucky moments this emanation could overwhelm the spectator in such a way, that because of all sorts of associations in his thinking, he could finally be taken to those areas which also had moved me so deeply and made me think I should draw the attention of others to it.

Carrie Fisher

You know how most illnesses have symptoms you can recognize? Like fever, upset stomach, chills, whatever. Well, with manic depression, it's sexual promiscuity, excessive spending, and substance abuse - and that just sounds like a fantastic weekend in Vegas to me!

Joan Bonvicini

That week was surreal. We were numb, we made it through it.

James Blake

It doesn't get better than this, ... If every week were like this I would never retire.

Dena Crews

We're celebrating it all week here at the library.

Joe Gibbs

Two weeks in a row, he's been pretty impressive.

Mike Holmgren

I was going to come out and wing it around. It had nothing to do with the week before.

Tom Chambers

I wish we could have been there a week before,

Brian Goorjian

It could be two weeks or it could be the season.

Mike Martz

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

Walead Beshty

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

Shane McAnally

When something works on a huge level, everybody does it.

Frank Thomas

If I'm in a cast, I can't do it. We'll see how it works out, but I'll be around.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

The 21st-century curator works in a supremely globalised reality.

Andy Reid

We'll see what's out there. We've evaluated a lot of players. We'll see how it all works out here.

Cy Coleman

We're doing a workshop over the first two weeks of December, I believe, with Graciella Daniele directing it.

Val McDermid

Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.

Ira Glass

Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

Romesh Gunesekera

Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.