Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Grier

As badly as it is, it's effective what he does out there. He draws penalties. He gets under the other team's skin. So I think we are all aware of how he plays the game. It's just something you have to deal with when you play against him.

Stuart Pearce

As a young man trying to make your way in life, you feel your back is against the wall and you are scrapping against the whole world,

Tom Halbmaier

As poorly as we shot the ball last Friday night against Rogers, I was hoping we would come out tonight and shoot the ball extremely well.

Chuck Grassley

As part of the consensus building process, I agreed to take out a death penalty provision for crimes of violence committed against children that result in the death of a child,

May Yan

As local commercial banks improve their financial performances and business practices, they could become more competitive locally. Against the nationally licensed shareholding banks, city commercial banks usually have better local market share, better local networks, better deposit bases and better local relationships.

Greg Day

As Linux becomes more common, we'll see more attacks against it.

George Karl

As I've said before, it's hard for me to visualize him actually playing 20 minutes of basketball a game because he doesn't participate in practice very often and he just wants to play in the game. That philosophically doesn't make any sense to me. I think he has a big- time heart. I think he's a big-time competitor and he did a hell of a job in the second half against Brand in Game 1.

David Smith

As I've always said, the region championship goes through Stratford. We played well over there, and hope to have a significant game against them at our place on April 3.

Clive Woodward

As it turns out he got his chance and did fantastically well against Wales,

Don Buford

As a team, we had a real good spring. Guys swung the bats real well, then all of a sudden everybody went into a slight batting slump together and right now they seem to be working their way out of that and hitting the ball consistently. We've hit some balls hard and haven't had any luck with the hits falling in, but now they're starting to fall in and that's the difference in winning.

Steve Kragthorpe

The bottom line is turnovers, and we did a great job of securing turnovers. We got the ball back with 2:20 left, and I challenged our team to get the first down and to stay on the field. And they did.

Alan Lomax

The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species.

Abraham Lincoln

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets

Connie Higgins

Ballots are automatically mailed out if you're registered to vote.

Jeff Bridges

Ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. I love to draw and paint; I do ceramics and photography. I'm interested in a lot of creative stuff.

Jared Brown

That play was huge for us. Brett was throwing the ball real well. That really set the tone for the game for us.

Jim Smith

That play really energized us back up. I told the kids that we can score quick and I know we can. We can also grind it out too. We drove the ball really well tonight, we just didn't put it in the end zone.

Ozzie Guillen

That play could have cost the game. A ball on the line and a couple of runs are going to score. Ozuna has been playing well for us. He's playing pretty good defense and doing well at the plate.

Dennis Quaid

I used to eat a lot of fish, but I've been shying away from it because of the mercury thing. I eat more beef and chicken now.

Hope Solo

I have no personal beef with Brandi Chastain. There's nothing personal.

Jay Haugland

If he put on 25 pounds, he would be a force as a defender. That's his plan - to beef up this summer so he can play at the next level.

Kelli O'Hara

Corned beef and cabbage - that's our favorite holiday meal when all the O' Haras gather around the table.

Wally Szczerbiak

I don't have a beef with him at all. I've never had a problem with him. I just set a screen, and I didn't even try to put anything into it. I just tried to brace myself. He's a strong guy.

Sasha Grey

I'm not 18 anymore, so I'm not into starting unnecessary beefs. It's tacky.

David Sax

A Jewish deli should specialize in, first and foremost, Yiddish foods, the foods of the Eastern European Ashkenazi Jews. So, if it's a place that specializes in pizza or chicken wings or diner food and then does a corned beef sandwich on the side, it's not a Jewish delicatessen.

John Tyson

This is a unique opportunity for Tyson foods, the number one company in the chicken category, and the folks at IBP, who are the number one in the beef and pork industry, ... Seldom do you get the chance to put the leaders together in an industry and then move forward.

Davy Zinke

They're going to beef him up. They're going to tune up his skills and as far as focus, they won't have a problem.

Ben Mendelsohn

As soon as you start acting in an accent, you're sort of out of your comfort zone. Maybe people start getting used to accents after a long period of time. But as soon as you do that, it's not so much as capturing the sound of the way other people speak, it's being able to actually be and move around in the sound.

Barbara Kingsolver

I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.

Barbara Kingsolver

Ah, the mysterious croak. Here today, gone tomorrow. It's the best reason I can think of to throw open the blinds and risk belief. Right now, this minute, time to move out into the grief and glory. High tide.

Ayn Rand

Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose a mix of contradictions, it will clog your motor, corrode your transmission and wreck you on your first attempt to move with a machine which you, the driver, have corrupted.

Ayn Rand

Who was it that said he needed a fulcrum? Give me an unobstructed right-of-way and I'll show them how to move the earth!

Miley Cyrus

There's always gonna be another mountain, I'm always gonna wanna make it move, Always gonna be a uphill battle, Sometimes I'm gonna have to lose, Ain't about how fast I get there, Ain't about what's waiting on the other side, It's the climb

Alan Cranston

Inflation is not all bad. After all, it has allowed every American to live in a more expensive neighborhood without moving.

Al Franken

The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.

James Wolcott

In 2008, Barack Obama did get Democrats hyperventilating, whipped up to a creamy froth, while John McCain creaked ahead like a cranky granddad whom Republicans let move to the front of the buffet line, deferring to seniority, as they had in 1996, when Bob Dole turtled to the top of the ticket.

Mike Richards

That's when we needed to make a run, right there. That's when we needed to make the plays to get it closer.

Brian Dawkins

Did I do everything I needed to do?

Chuck Long

We got 29 practices in August, ... and we needed more.

John Stanczykiewicz

Every time they needed a rebound, she seemed to get it.

John Wooden

Be at your best when your best is needed.

Andy Serkis

My father was interested in justice, always working for people who needed to be supported.

John Fuller

Now we are being told to stay put, because there is the possibility that our resources will be needed here.

Olympia Snowe

needed to offer a personal, passionate and sincere renunciation of racism and segregation in all its forms, and he did that.

Donald Rumsfeld

from all over the world, from where they're not needed to a place they're needed.

Brett Gardner

I never go up there trying to hit a home run

Brandon Sanderson

Everyone gets scared, Princess. Even brave men sometimes run the first time they see battle. In armies, that's why there's so much training. The ones who hold aren't the courageous ones, they're the well-trained ones. We have instincts like any other animal.

Barbara Jordan

I never wanted to be run of the mill.

Barbara Jordan

I never intended to be a run-of-the-mill person.

Arthur Lydiard

The idea that you can't lose contact with the leaders has cut more throats than it has saved.

Arthur Lydiard

I discovered years ago that the best results in this respect could be gained by running 100 miles weekly at my near best aerobic efforts and that, supplementary to this, running as many easy miles as I could

Arthur Lydiard

When aerobic running becomes a daily habit, strength and confidence follow.

Arthur Lydiard

You must realize one thing. In every little village in the world there are great potential champions who only need motivation, development and good exercise evaluation.

Arthur Lydiard

They're very tenacious. They're dedicated. Once a woman decides she's going to do something, she'll probably stick to it. The only problem with women is if there's anything wrong with them, they won't tell you. They'll get out there and run on one leg. They don't moan and groan like a lot of men do.