Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Smith

I do want to credit the girls for playing great defense. Our achilles heel was not being able to handle the press at the end of the game and not getting the ball handling we needed to get.

Matt Kordsmeier

I thought we picked up the intensity in the third quarter. Offensively, we started shooting well. That has been our Achilles heel this season, but when we can do that, a lot of good things will happen for us.

Dan Messmann

Our Achilles heel has been our free throw shooting. When it comes down to the end and it is a one-point game, you need to make those.

David Schatsky

It has been the Achilles heel for online retailers over the last couple of years. Many had items out of stock, or they were taking too long to deliver, or it was taking too long to shop.

Kevin Pietersen

An achilles, if it doesn't heal right, there could be a danger of not playing again.

Oscar Gonzalez

The labor market remains the Achilles heel of a robust economic recovery. With the Fed talking about lowering interest rates to zero to get the economy growing strongly again, getting people back to work and increasing demand may be the Fed's primary worry.

Larry Eberst

This time, we got off to a good start, which has been our Achilles heel this season. But we struggled with their press in the second quarter and got away from our game plan. It's been different things that have hurt us at different times. It's not just one phase of the game that is consistently hurting us.

James Johnson

The software version is an improved version that provide other kinds of bells and whistles.

Jessica Valenti

When I started blogging in 2004, I responded to every comment no matter how nasty the reader was. I was generally polite, believing that these critics would be so charmed by my professionalism that they would see the error of their misogynist ways and swiftly run out to read a bell hooks book. Ha!

Henry David Thoreau

We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.

Sylvia Plath

When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know.

Glenn Tilton

So far, the pressure is not that great. It's sort of ringing the bell for us. We've learned to compete effectively with Frontier, and we'll do the same with Southwest.

Dan Patrick

If we don't, we could end up with Democrats in the Legislature and, Heaven forbid, a liberal like Chris Bell for governor.

Bill Callahan

He's a guy who has taken more pride in his preparation, ... He understands his role as a leader on the defense. He's kind of a bell cow out there, and he's going to get everybody on the same page.

Irwin Michael

I don't know how Toronto would be without Bell and Northern Telecom... those two stocks are helping to drive the market. If you look at New York...logically our market would be a little to the softer side.

Anthony Doerr

My mom is a science teacher in high school, and one of my brothers works in optics at Bell Labs, and so I was always surrounded by it.

Pat Doyle

The movie was outstanding, very compelling and very well done.

David Treadwell

The most important thing for Windows is being compelling to developers. Developers are the linchpin for the success of Windows.

Marjory LeBreton

There would have to be a compelling reason.

Adam Rayner

Everyone working on 'Tyrant' wants to present the world and the issues in it in an intelligent, open, fair, non-reductive kind of way. For the actors, we have to try and make these stories as truthful and compelling as possible.

Robert Wilson

Usually in theater, the visual repeats the verbal. The visual dwindles into decoration. But I think with my eyes. For me, the visual is not an afterthought, not an illustration of the text. If it says the same thing as the words, why look? The visual must be so compelling that a deaf man would sit though the performance fascinated.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

William Daley

I don't think you play it safe. I think you try to be very natural and lay out in a forward way the compelling reasons for the election going your way,

Scott Higgins

If the filmmaker has not done the work to grab the viewer with compelling storytelling, then the shock will probably be little more than a passing gimmick or an obscenity.

Steve Elmendorf

I think Kerry's dead because I don't think he has anything to say. Message has something to do with this, and I don't think he has anything interesting or compelling to say. He's a weak third in Iowa and a weak second in New Hampshire, and I think if you finish third in Iowa and a weak second in New Hampshire, you're through.

John Bennett

He needs to feel like he can still drive, and I think it's pretty important to him not to be dependent on someone to drive him around all the time.

Jim Paine

I?m not totally dependent on the BlackBerry. I still do heavy e-mail work at night from a laptop.

Reghan Cloudman

It's all dependent on the weather. It can happen at any time of the year, and we're just realizing that now.

Donella Meadows

We are dependent not so much on Earth, the third planet orbiting the sun, as on Gaea, the integrated system that includes, sustains and is shaped by life.

Nicola Sturgeon

There are lots of jobs and investment in Scotland dependent on our membership of the E.U. single market.

John Bunting

I've never seen so many flags fly in a game.

Vinny Cerrato

You have to investigate further. Is it a habit or a one-time thing? That would throw up a red flag to me.

Stephen Colbert

Liberals want to burn the flag, but progressives just want to microwave it?

John Wayne

I am an old-fashioned, honest-to-goodness, flag waving patriot.

Robert Martinez

On her first throw, she threw over 140 feet. It was a throw that could have won the whole thing, and then I saw the red flag go up. She scratched on the third throw, and I think that kind of rattled her.

Meredith Vieira

But some people wrap themselves in the flag ? I mean, that's what some liberals are against.

Craig Ross

Four successive national anthems -- it was just an unbelievable sight. To have the New Zealand flag raised four times ... very moving, very emotional, and just great for our sport.

Chad Lavalais

If it was illegal the ref should have thrown a flag then and there, but being that I haven't really established myself in this league and he has, they're going to protect the quarterback and I understand that. They lost the game and we won. That's all that matters.

Willie Ponder

I didn?t know they were offsides. I saw the flag when I was getting up,

Ryutaro Kono

The rise in the numbers shows that growth is on a solid footing.

Kevin Johnson

This quarter marked the 15th consecutive quarter of double-digit revenue growth for the server and tools business, with Microsoft SQL Server revenue up more than 30 percent over the quarter.

Brian Tracy

Dedicate yourself to continuous personal improvement you are your most precious resource

John Chambers

While there were a number of highlights, it was probably the U.S. that topped the highlight list with strong order growth of approximately 20 percent year over year. This is better order growth than we've experienced in the last six quarters in the U.S..

Clara Barton

Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant, to shoot up in the summerand wither in the frosts. The Red Cross is a part of us--it has come to stay--and like the sturdy oak, its spreading branches shall yet encompass and shelter the relief of the nation.

Sidney Poitier

I find myself, at this time in my life, no less challenged, no less plagued, no less intrigued by what I still don't know.

Stuart Rossmiller

If they're going to get a venture-capital rate of return on what has traditionally been a slow growth business, they will have to revolutionize the educational publishing market.

Kent Newcomb

Sixteen percent growth is outstanding. There's no other way to put it.

Martin Sorrell

I have never heard such optimism, and such positive noise about growth and development in India,

Siti Supari

The suspected person is now in a healthy condition.

Lorrin Lee

Study healthy people to learn how to be healthy.

Demi Lovato

Aside from eating healthy and taking care of my body, I've always been passionate about skincare. It's an essential part of my daily regimen, which is why I decided to create my own skincare line, DEVONNE by Demi. When my skin is clean, I feel my best!

Adelle Davis

As I see it every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.

Sydney J. Harris

Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.

Tony Parsons

I box for four hours a week and my diet is pretty healthy.

Ron Paul

You can't have a healthy economy without sound money, which is why we're on the verge of very serious economic problem.

Steve Jobs

One of my beliefs very strongly is that any democracy depends on a free, healthy press.

Swami Vivekananda

No negative, all positive, affirmative. I am, God is, everything is in me. I will manifest health, purity, knowledge, whatever I want.

Tracy Morgan

You have to be highly intelligent to get away with a dumb joke. That takes a pretty smart fella.

Kraig Terpstra

The practices have been highly intense and the kids have been very focused. They have prepared to be here, and they want to make the most of the opportunity.

Shemar Moore

I always speak so highly of my mom because she's my partner in crime, and none of this would be possible without her love and support. Always have to make time for Mom.

Donna Jones

She was a quite a lady. And a leader. Everyone spoke so highly of her.

Mark Schlosser

It is amazing. It says what kind of people are living in this town. It just speaks highly of them.

Thomas Needham

He seems to be a very highly regarded young man.

Bob Trezise

It is a highly unique and 21st century-like company, like the type that we'd like to inspire here in the Lansing area. They can go other places in the country.

Steven Galson

This is a very highly innovative product that will improve the quality of life for millions of Americans with diabetes.

Alan Ackerman

The world is looking for lower interest rates. Clearly, the psychology world-wide remains highly nervous.

Anthony Marra

Grozny's been largely rebuilt. But at the same time, I think the war is very much being waged inside its survivors.

Jim Lushine

Rain will be as heavy, if not heavier. You don't want to be walking around out there with possible downed power lines and debris. It's not over until it's over.

John O'Brien

PPI this morning was in line with what was expected, showing low inflation.

Derrick Jensen

The big dividing line is not and has never been between those who advocate more or less militant forms of resistance, or between mainstream and grassroots activists. The dividing line is between those who do something and those who do nothing.

Damon Lindelof

In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.

Ayatollah Ali

Continuation of this stance and observing (these issues) as a red line is the only way for success.

Reggie McNeal

We missed him a little bit, ... but whoever is the second man in line has to step up and play.

Dan Harmon

There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere.

Ani Difranco

Somedays the line I walk turns out to be straight - Other days the line tends to deviate.

Angela Sarafyan

I prefer for things to happen serendipitously, but honestly, I also love terrible pickup lines.

Isaiah Kacyvenski

We all wanted to have a song to get our minds right to run down the field.

Freeman Dyson

It is better to be wrong than to be vague.

Curt Schilling

I don't go out there with the mindset that he did this, now I'm going to better him. This game's too hard.

Hans Rosling

Let the dataset change your mindset

William Mapother

I'm ready for conventions. You know what's interesting, the sort of questions that Lost raises are of a different sort from this movie. In other words, Lost is about figuring out the world of the show, whereas this one seems to raise questions about the world that we know. But I'm happy to entertain both.

Richard Maloney

This is a strike that should not have happened.

Dave Vestal

We showed we could strike through the air. We showed we could come back.

Vance Wilson

If you look at the way he was continually getting strike one down in the zone ... if he does that, he can do whatever he wants.

Steve Friswell

They can't come to work when they feel like it and strike when they feel like it.

Amy Grant

Somebody who has been in a very bad wreck is going to be very conscientious about not speeding through a yellow light... You just learn so many good lessons when you go through a failed marriage.

Zora Neale Hurston

If it was so honorable and glorious to be black, why was it the yellow-skinned people among us had so much prestige?

Eddie Huang

I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.