Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Dillon

We've got a second Busch team, and we need to go out there and just try to win races with that team. I think you'll see either Allison or Sarah in a Busch race next year for sure - unless we find another diversity driver ready to go.

Max Gartner

This is a devastating blow to our team. Allison has been preparing for this Olympics really hard. I know she is going to be devastated. I feel really bad for her. This was her chance to shine.

Ned Bittner

It was a typical loser-out game, with two teams settling in and trying to get a feel for the game. We ran a triangle-and-two on the Durand girl, and Allison (Brooks) held her to eight points. Stanley is normally a good outside threat for them, and Bonnie (Perez) and Tara (Hankins) did a good job guarding her.

Randy McClure

South Gwinnett has really good shooters, and they play strong defense. Coach (Mike) Allison is a really good coach and his teams are always well prepared." ()

Lisa Link

Both Allison and Kate came on strong in consolation matches after playing tough first-round matches.

Mike Helton

We were down with four minutes left and Allison got us going. She scored four of six points in a crucial stretch for us. Bridgette Eastman hit a shot that tied it and Stout gave us the lead.

Dennis Mackey

We had a strong defensive effort and a big scoring nights from Allison and Jean to pull out a hard fought victory.

Mike Levenseller

To show you what kind of class he had, he called my house and told Allison and the kids before he told me (that he was going to USC).

Joe Getzin

We had a good weekend and a successful outing at Georgia Tech. We got consistent play out of Kristen Carroll and Lauren Moffett over the weekend which helped us succeed. Allison Weber has also stepped up and is playing well for us.

Alan Hansen

I was surprised, the triple-stack package produced eight to 15 more bushels.

Alan Bennett

At eighty things do not occur; they recur.

David Walliams

I've done panel shows, which I enjoy, and on those you're recording half-an-hour of TV and sometimes they film for two hours. But with 'Britain's Got Talent,' you're on camera for eight hours, with a large theatre audience watching - and in between you're being filmed for ITV2 as you eat your lunch.

Barry Corbin

For an actor, you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. You're not selling products, they're not turning down a car, they're turning you down. Most people can't handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way.

Jim Waggoner

The percentages say that the day after Christmas, the market goes up. Eighty percent of the time, stocks rise.

Manu Ginobili

We are a team of (13 players) and we lost eight back-to-backs? It can't be that hard. The legs help, but it's in the head, too.

Bill Masse

We stole one in the eighth and then we stole one in the ninth with the squeeze. It was kind of nice.

Tim Parmeter

We started off on a spurt, but every time we got up by eight or 10 (points), we let them back into it.

A.J. Jones

We started off all eight together, did some medium turns, then four went over to a jump.

Charles Dickens

Money and goods are certainly the best of references.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Alan Moore

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

Alan Alda

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Akira Kurosawa

A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.

Jonathan Tasini

The people who supported the war must be held accountable.

Jackie Robinson

We have a social responsibility and we are held to a higher standard than other institutions,

Dr. Fukino

We have never held out or said that we are doing everything perfectly, and we have accomplished everything. We have said that there's more work to be done, but that we are moving forward.

Kenneth Fisher

Fundamentally cheap stocks are often held in low regard by market participants. Something may be tainting their perception in investors' minds.

Bill Kennedy

We would've liked to have taken those points and held on to them a little.

Paul McGinley

We're in the room where Sam (Torrance) held all the team meetings in 2002, it's the first time I've been in here since then.

Katy Perry

I just feel like I have this gift that I've been given. It's like, 'Someone unwrap it! Here it is!' That drive can't be held down.

Maxine Russell

They took his passport away and they said it had to be held by the police.

Susan Jackson

It's miraculous that things have held up so well.

Charles Dickens

"There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones."

Charles Dickens

"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."

Charles Stross

I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went "aha!" - because what you need is an agent who knows the industry but who doesn't have a huge list of famous clients whose needs will inevitably be put ahead of you. So I emailed her, and ... well, 11 years later I am the client listed at the top of her masthead!

Charles Stross

What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.

Alan Watts

It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.

Alan Parker

Film-making is a physically hard job.

Alan Patricof

I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available.

Alan Rickman

One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right.

Alan Rickman

I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.

Jerry Conway

We're going to find seals in places they're not normally at, and where people are.

Brian Deedrick

This is a big deal. Normally this is produced around the world.

Charles Moore

It's normally between 30 and 40 (degrees latitude) north and 130 to 155 (degrees longitude) west.

Trent Dilfer

They feel so sorry for me because I am so old that I think they are playing a little better than they normally would.

Savannah Cowley

It was really low, relative to where slides normally happen.

Tom Verica

Most shows are normally 40 or 50 pages.

John Gifford

Normally you don't find 9,500 year-old wooden artifacts.

Jane Goldman

Normally with film, it's normal for the screenwriter to never be seen again after finishing until the premiere.

Jim Shelhorse

Normally we wait and give them about two or three weeks leeway.

Al Pacino

Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.

Chloe Sevigny

It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that; I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like. Maybe that will always keep me an outsider, I don't know. But that's fine.

Chloe Sevigny

I've been an outsider all my life - I don't care.

Antony Sher

I love playing outsiders, I always do.

Bill O'Reilly

I know that Oswald killed Kennedy. Now, was he pushed? Encouraged to do it by outsiders? Possibly. Possibly. Was he sitting down with Fidel Castro? No.

Buddy Trask

We were at the rim, and didn't have to rely on outside shooting and we made the big plays when we had to make them. We always want to make it interesting though.

Chris Boyd

We were trying to live outside regular society three months.

Charles de Lint

I've always been interested in the outsider.

John Roberts

You don't look to your own values and beliefs. You look outside yourself to other sources.

Jason Taylor

The play worked, ... Randy was wide open.

C. S. Lewis

Well,' said Ransom, 'if it is a delusion, it's a pretty stubborn one.

Ben Casnocha

Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible.

Jason Shelton

It's a situation where we'll have to play very well just to stay in the game. There's a reason why Union is ranked so high. They're very, very good.

John Gilbride

They utilized a wide range of smuggling, the most repulsive of which was the use of puppies.

Jim Stone

They (USDB) have a wonderful range of capabilities.

Chuck Wood

They ran well, but we need to work on our speed.

Bruce Shearer

They ran through our tackles. They've got pretty much every weapon you would want as a coach.

Craig Milburn

They ran themselves out of the seventh inning.

Yvonne Williams

When I was a child, I'd go down to see the water after a storm, just to see it settling down, for reassurance,

Kara Cook

We're just now settling down. It's a lot of fun.

David Ginola

I have found a flat on Merseyside and am settling down here. If I can keep playing and get back to full match fitness, I know I have a lot to offer still.

Janis Joplin

You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.

Janis Joplin

You are what you settle for.

Confucius

Settle one difficulty, and you keep a hundred away.

Cindy Gallop

I realized I was an attractive older woman who never wanted to settle down.

John Calipari

We were just settling for two many 3s.

Tony Robbins

Stop bullshitting yourself. You're not satisfied. You lowered your standards and are settling for a lot less.

Olivier Megaton

I like David Lynch; I like Stanley Kubrick. I'm a big fan of Kubrick.

Henrik Zetterberg

We want to win the whole thing (the Stanley Cup).

Walter Leger

The other teams have left, and they're still not really back. We haven't left, and we're not going anywhere.

Alain Vigneault

We've already made the decision. Most teams put five, but we're going to put six.

Donald Rumsfeld

We've got multi-agency teams doing what they do,

Bruce Lewis

We've tried to set it up where we put teams together that are pretty evenly matched.

Bob Lennon

We'll see the course, and we'll see most of the teams that we'll see at district, too.

Dave Harris

Amador and Bret Harte are the teams to beat.

Ozzie Guillen

A lot of teams are going through this,

Philippe Boucher

A lot of teams are changing, and they're going to have new faces,

Sean Carney

They got it back together pretty quickly. They showed why they are one of the better teams around.

Steve Cummings

When we have those incidents, when there is a threat of violence, we take it very seriously.

Rob Mullens

It is very much a threat at this point.

Shawn Willett

It's a threat that they are trying to make into a friend.

Raymond Kelly

The threat was very, very specific, ... We had to do what we did.

Julia Dixon

The threat exists. We're trying to extinguish that threat.

Hironari Nozaki

Aeon isn't going to be a threat to the big banks.

Gao Zhisheng

I've been threatened before. But this time they wanted to kill me.

Dan Hitchings

You're going to have what you had (before Katrina), and that's all you're going to get. The threat is the same.

Busta Rhymes

The personal threat is something that's always been a part of our lives

Charles Dickens

Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.

Charles Spurgeon

Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original

Charles Spurgeon

The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.

Alan Watts

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Alan Watts

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

Alan Watts

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

Alan Parsons

That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.

Alan Moore

I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.

Alan Arkin

Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another theme, incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.

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.