Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mohsin Hamid

Like many kids, I used to pretend all sorts of things. I would climb into a tree and imagine that I was on an island, that the grass below we was an ocean, that the leaves were the fins of sharks. Perhaps unlike many people, I never really stopped. I still have a childlike predisposition to fantasise and share my fantasies.

Terry Kennedy

We started out at a level below my expectations. But now it is there. Some players have come into the league who have made it better. It's a high-Class A league, maybe even better than that.

Asif Kapadia

We spent four days filming in a helicopter. I had never seen London from that viewpoint - you get a sense of how big it is and how easy it is to get lost. There was one day when we couldn't find Brick Lane: we spent 25 minutes looking and then realised it was directly below us.

Chris Meyer

When you take out the 15 cents and the 20 cents, you can get a number which actually was below consensus. And that's obviously in stark contrast to what we saw from Lehman Brothers yesterday.

Nell Newman

When coffee prices fall below production costs, farmers are often forced off their land, and they lose their homes, everything. With fair trade, farmers get a fair price for their harvest with a guaranteed minimum, so they can invest in their crops.

J. M. Roberts

We've always said this about Alaska: nasty-ass weather, warm people. I never experienced 32 below before. ... My Irish blood has been thinned out by years of living in California.

Joyce Foreman

When we were living there, we always knew there was the danger of something catastrophic happening down there because New Orleans is below sea level.

Ryan Stilphen

We're still below .500 in the MAAC so no one's head is too big.

Keith Schwer

We're seeing adjustments that are below the radar like the coal(-fired power) plant Nevada Power wants to build in Ely.

Frank Berry

Until now, the virtualization market has been dominated by high-end solutions consisting of software (snapshot, replication, etc.) running on high-end chassis hardware (Cisco).

Eric Ross

We're seeing a real resurgence in the use of wallpaper. For a while it was so out of style that many smaller manufacturers went out of business. The paint and faux finishes just dominated home design; that is no longer the case.

Anthony Davis

A lot of people don't understand how good that team was. We dominated from start to finish.

Paul Marsh

They dominated the last time we played them. Last time we played them, we had trouble with their press. They are very quick.

Roberto Mancini

It's two points lost, we should have won, ... We dominated the second half and there was only one team in it. It's a lot of effort for little reward.

Ron Averill

It's not like we haven't been here before. It's just impressive the way the guys dominated throughout those finals matches.

Billy Donovan

For 50 or 60 years, Kentucky has dominated this league. You can't expect every year for them to do what they have done.

Claudio Reyna

It was our fault that we didn't finish well but also their goalkeeper. That said, we're happy because we dominated the game and we got the three points we needed.

Phil Gabrielsen

It was exactly what we wanted to do with the slow starts we've been having. We pretty much dominated the entire first shift.

Charles Dickens

Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.

Charles Dickens

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

Charles Stross

I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer.

Tim Short

We've won playoff games before, but not down 18 on someone else's home court. Yeah, this is pretty special.

Mike Pomerenke

We've won more games this year than we'd won all of last year already. And you know, that's a huge improvement.

Chris Bosh

You don't have to appreciate me - I hope you underestimate me. That way, when I have a good game, it'll hit you even harder.

Chris Bosh

I've modeled my game after Kevin Garnett and Tim Duncan.

Chris Bosh

I know how the game is played, and I'm always working on it.

Eddie Kaye Thomas

If I have the TV on, it's either a Mets game or 'SportsCenter.'

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye. But I gotta make the first move 'cause if I don't you're gonna start hating me.

Chinua Achebe

I don't want to be the one to tell somebody, You will not make it, even though I know that the majority of those who come to me with their manuscripts are not really good enough.

China Mieville

In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye.

Edith Wharton

There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart you knew. I have kept her with me all this time, but now we are going to part, and I have brought her back to you - I am going to leave her here. When I go out presently she will not go with me. I shall like to think that she has stayed with you.

Daymond John

Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.

David Hyde Pierce

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

David Icke

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

Ben Whishaw

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

Mark Sanders

We started this for the kids. We wanted to try to get it going, give the kids something to do. Even the high school kids hang out here on the weekend now.

Reggie Bush

We're in state of shock. It's tough, but at the same time we have nothing to hang our heads about.

Dennis Lehane

Or maybe I'd do what I always do - hang out and see what develops. Fatalist to the core.

Ben Affleck

The best cure for a hangover is something one straight man can't do for another straight man.

Jimmy Harris

We got up on them big early. But then we let them hang around so long they got confident.

Marty McNeill

With the Iran situation hanging out there, people are not going to sell their positions, and that supports the market.

Keke Palmer

I'm totally normal. I love watching movies and hanging out with my friends at my house. I still go to the mall; I love to text and go on my computer. I'm totally normal - sounds kind of boring, right?

Thomas Pock

We let them hang around, and they got a lucky break.

Justin Chiera

We let them hang around and that?s why they got the win.

Roy Williams

They got off to a little blip going 0-3 to start league play. Since then they have played about as well as anybody.

Charles Ramsey

They're ultra-quick, they're very aggressive?they led the league in steals?so that means you have to punch them in the mouth before they can punch you.

Jamie Dixon

They seem to be playing well. But it didn't matter who we were going to be playing, we were going to be playing someone good. Everyone in the league is playing well right now.

Lastings Milledge

It's not important for me to just get a taste at the big league level. I want to be there for a long time.

Dave Cassaw

For being a league game, it was awesome.

Mark Mazzoleni

They are the highest-scoring team in the league and we limited them to one goal.

Andrew Preston

This makes us 3-0 going into league play which is what we wanted.

Lawyer Milloy

I told him this league is about winning and losing. It doesn't matter what your stats are, as long as you're the quarterback on a winning team you're going to be a star.

Dave Klontz

This is the kind of league we love to be in. This is fun. If it wasn't, I wouldn't be doing it.

Dennis Howard

They're in the big leagues now. And they're paying big league money for this chance.

Neil Strother

While they are doing well, the process to getting with the big leagues is quite a leap.

Chuck D.

He thought he was ready for the major leagues the day we signed him. That's why we signed him.

Jorge Posada

He's a no-miss. He will be in the major leagues soon. I won't be surprised if I see him before the year is over.

Ezequiel Astacio

(Garner) told me he's been in the big leagues a long time and to listen to him, ... He's taught me a lot.

Joel Guzman

If I hit, I'll be in the Major Leagues and that's where I want to be.

Marta

But the reason that women's football is still unknown is because it's not on television and not widely publicised for a wide majority of the leagues in the world.

Bill Self

I look around the county, and I see a lit of leagues like ours. With parity a lot of people think that means mediocrity.

Lastings Milledge

I want to get to the big leagues as quick as I can. But I want to stay there. I could be ready now or I couldn't be.

Alanis Morissette

I just feel compelled to continue to be transparent. It just really levels the playing field and eradicates the shame that I have, or that one might have, about being human. So I'm going to just keep going.

James Allen

We want to see what's out there and is it worthwhile to take anything to the next level of funding.

Chris Copeland

Keep being aggressive, that's what my teammates and my coaches ask me to do. If I see things are going well, I know there's more of a comfort level for me to continue to do that.

Chogyam Trungpa

Spirituality doesn’t exist on another level different from ordinary life.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

Ben Whishaw

When I finished my A-levels, I assumed I'd be able to get work as an actor. But I couldn't. I didn't get an audition. Nothing. So I thought I'd better train and then the parts would come.

August Strindberg

By attempting the impossible one can attain the highest level of the possible.

Michael Moriarty

When I saw Paul Scofield do 'Love's Labor's Lost at Stratford,' that's when I saw the potential of the level of truth that could go on up there on a stage. I said, 'This is what I want to do.'

Jim Boeheim

We struggled at times, but most of it was because of our schedule. It was more the product of our schedule than how we were playing. We really didn't play at the level we could until New York.

D. James

We started out a little slow, a little sluggish. I think it was because the refs weren't on time. We warmed up and got the sweat and everything going in the anticipation of the match only to have to wait another half-hour until kickoff.

Jerry McSwords

We were a match away from making it look a little more respectable.

John Paquette

We've always said part of the reason for the repeat matches is for television.

Ron Hutchins

We're going to take it one match at a time.

Andre Agassi

When we got done with that match I said he's a top-10 player,

Jennifer Barretta

Usually, for me, when I get through that first match the nerves go away and I can get into a groove.

Scott Bogumil

We're really excited. We wanted to keep playing at night and we matched our goal.

Lewis Jackson

At first it was sort of awkward. Now, everybody's getting used to it. Overall, we just need to be able to match out intensity.

Tim Siegel

It's just one match at a time. They're all going to be very tough.