Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joyce Bickers

As always, there are things to work on, but I am seeing the players incorporating things we work on in practice into the matches, whereas before they would work on it in practice, but never attempt in an actual game. These players are growing with each play and getting stronger and stronger and more confident.

Terry Yeast

He also just got his new shoes he's been asking for. This is the first meet he's worn actual triple jumpers' shoes.

Chris Eigeman

If I can feel that actual people made the thing, and that they have deeply felt opinions about it, and care about this, and don't care about that and so on and so on - then I think it falls into the 'independent' file.

Ronda Rousey

I don't lift weights at all. Every muscle on my body is for an actual task; there is no muscle that I train for show. If I want to be able to do a certain move or action, I train really hard until I can. And with all of that training comes muscle definition, so it's really an afterthought.

Tim Hamilton

If Congress does not address the exports problem, company simply will pocket tax breaks. Any actual increase in production occurring in the U.S. will likely to find its way out of the county and prices will continue to climb.

Mike Rizzo

And, of course, ... if we get the equivalent of J.D.'s actual production, well, we're kind of screwed. But, no matter what happens, it still can't possibly be as bad of a signing as Russ Ortiz .

Mike Nichols

It's very, very corrupting to the spirit, doing comedy. And you have to be almost a saint, like Jack Benny was, like Steve Martin is, to avoid the corrupting of it, because there's very little work where the actual work and the reward are simultaneous, and comedy is that.

Neil Diamond

I t was a difficult time, but the actual creation of the record in the studio was the most eye-opening thing for me of the whole process,

Brett Hall

It will be the largest veto in terms of actual dollars in the history of the commonwealth. But, then, we've never had a capital budget this large.

Kevin Boyer

The win was almost perfect. It was our last conference game at home; it's nice to go out on top.

M. Thompson

The wind pattern is almost identical to the one we had when we broke the record on Lakota. We should have a fast run up the north sea to coincide with a low pressure arriving in the Shetland Islands.

Paige Patterson

This is definitely the most demanding role I've ever had. It's almost like a job. I've found myself having to do research and really work at this character. It's much harder memorizing lines when they're all in a thick Irish accent.

David Koo

This is an exceptional period of time for astronomy, because for the first time we are able to combine data from almost all of the important wavelengths.

Bill Gibson

This is really a great prize -- all the bowl games, flying on a private jet, staying in nice hotels. I'm a big college football fan so I'm looking forward to seeing some great games. I still can't believe I won. My sons put me in front of the computer almost a dozen times to register, and luck took care of the rest.

Nancy Kress

Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.

Jeff Hester

You're not just looking at shrapnel of the explosion, you're looking at a bubble. It's just this expanse that is filled with matter and antimatter electrons moving at almost the speed of light.

Jesse L. Martin

You remember what you go through as a kid, what's going to make you listen, what's going to make you respond. I held onto that. People who treated me like that when I was younger got every bit of respect and attention I could give them, because I knew that they were coming at me from almost an equal level.

Lynn Trachte

You're been waiting for so long that it almost doesn't seem real, and then, all of a sudden, you have her.

Lenny Goldberg

Various companies have sought refundable credits, and those have been rejected as essentially corporate welfare or handouts based not on economics but solely based on special pleadings.

Justin Hawkins

There's no way that a fan of The Darkness, based on what we did on the last record, is not going to love this record even more than the first one.

John Galbraith

The traveler to the United States will do well to prepare himself for the class-consciousness of the natives. This differs from the already familiar English version in being more extreme and based more firmly on the conviction that the class to which the speaker belongs is inherently superior to all others.

Walt Jocketty

We signed him with that purpose in mind, based on his past career. It provides more depth to our rotation, more depth to our pitching staff, and that has been the priority of our off-season plan.

Harvey Pekar

I kept on buying records and listening to them. Finally, I was able to hear the relationship between the jazz improvisers' solos and the underlying structure that it's based on, the chord progression. That was pretty easy to do in the swing era, y'know, when jazz was, like, pop music, you know. It had made the charts and everything like that.

Shek Borkowski

Well, that is pretty subjective. It's not like they have seen us play or anything. The ranking is based on last year's championships in the Women's Premier Soccer League (WPSL) and the Women's Open Cup.

Alix Smith

What I find most satisfying about photography is the way in which it allows me to document 'reality' while at the same time creating my own version thereof; in other words, the reality I present is a reality based upon what I choose to include in the frame and what I choose to leave out.

Michael Woods

What I felt from George is a sense of confidence - he will know the numbers well, talk to people in laymen's terms about those numbers and win people over based on those numbers,

Liane Moriarty

Friends and family do not believe you write fiction. They truly believe that every word you write is either autobiographical or based on them. I once had a character say that she never wanted to be invited to another children's birthday party, and I never received another children's birthday party invitation ever again.

Libby Doggett

Pre-K is gradually being integrated into the K-12 education system nationwide. In a state that has so many great universities like Purdue, Indiana and Notre Dame, it's a shame (Indiana) won't do more to ensure its own children are better prepared to enter those schools with high quality pre-K.

Ogden Nash

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Charles Dyer

We feel very strongly about all children having an equal opportunity for education,

Lesleigh Drye

We got our favorite cookie and our favorite chocolate and our favorite nut mix. And then we got suckers to make our children happy.

Mona Simpson

We go to college, live together or marry, and have kids - often with little more thought to the daily routines of raising children than our grandparents gave them, when women by and large stayed at home.

Mark Finkelstein

We're very excited about this. This is a great thing for the children.

Nina Holland

Very young children can just not protect themselves as effectively as adults can.

Orson Scott Card

It's easy to manipulate your children when they're absolutely sure you're stupid.

Christine Mazier

You do your children a disservice if you don't find time for yourself. If you're always making sacrifices for them, they won't learn to respect your time as they grow.

Michael Jackson

the proceedings have been a nightmare for my family

Ambrose Bierce

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

Anna Quindlen

I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.

Amy Tan

My mother imparted her daily truths so she could help my older brothers and me rise above our circumstances. We lived in San Francisco's Chinatown. Like most of the other Chinese children who played in the back alleys of restaurants and curio shops, I didn't think we were poor. My bowl was always full, three five-course meals every day, beginning with a soup full of mysterious things I didn't want to know the names of.

Anthony Anderson

I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.

Anais Nin

I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.

Anne Hathaway

I grew up in a pretty large family. We were really close-knit, so I definitely want to have lots and lots of children.

Robert Kiyosaki

My family wasn't rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, 'Err on the side of caution.'

John Vines

The problem is, the security mission goes on here and if we take some out, those that are left are at some risk ? it increases their risk, ... Unfortunately, we're not able at this time ? unless someone is known to have a family member wounded or injured or killed ? we're not in a position to make those adjustments.

Morris Chestnut

I remember when we were in rehearsals and we were going through it, because we rehearsed before we went to Toronto, and it's more of the same. She and I had to deal with a lot of stuff in this movie and we really have to take ourselves there. It actually started in rehearsals, and just revisiting that piece of it all. Just the way Monica is and what she says and the way she looks at me, it really affects me throughout rehearsals and throughout the scenes.

Bruce Springsteen

The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence.

Leonard Maltin

Documentarian Laura Poitras has crafted a first-rate Hitchcockian-type thriller telling the story of Edward Snowden.

Neil LaBute

Everyone has a story.

Kate Seredy

[My stories were] an excuse for making pictures.

Lili Taylor

As a woman, a lot of stories haven't been told and we've got a lot of catching up to do.

Leo Tolstoy

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

Peter Gabriel

Whenever there's a camera around, a video or film camera, it's a great deal harder for those in power to bury the story.

Paz Vega

I like small stories.

Phil Crosby

Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.