Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Jeffords

I was lucky to be able to call Christopher Reeve a friend.His passion for life and for improving the lives of all Americans serves an inspiration to all of us. He may have played the character of Superman in the movies, but he lived the role of a superman through his life.

Pierce Brosnan

I was looking forward to making (Bond) edgier and grittier -- and for all of that to go down in one phone call was highly disappointing,

Tony Oliva

Kirby meant to me a lot. For me, it's like my own son. He used to call me 'Papa', too.

Gregory Craig

I would urge the relatives in Miami, if they truly want to get back together with Juan Miguel and his family, that they give me a call and let's talk about timing. Let's discuss this in a civilized way, rather than having national press conferences where demands are made.

Cindy Mannes

I would not say it's an epidemic by any stretch, but it is a problem. We used to get one or two calls a year ... Now we're getting one or two calls a week.

Manny Fernandez

Jacques said any roll we can get on is a bonus. Well, I would start calling this a roll.

Rick Dunlap

I would say the ice fishing is what we call gravy. The lion's share is made in the summer and fall.

Mark DiCamillo

I would suspect his tone would change significantly if they don't make it onto the November ballot. If that happened, I could see calling the Legislature all sorts of names by the end of the campaign.

Brian Finnerty

I would still call it a trading-range market. It's nice for today and the short term, but I doubt it's sustainable.

Ted Woodward

He's been through a lot in this program and he has tremendous veteran leadership. He's always been a clutch guy.

Zach Freeman

I think it's just poise. A lot of senior leadership. We've got a lot of old guys. So I think that factors in whenever you're talking about clutch situations.

Benjie Wood

We thought we had her covered. We knew she was a clutch shooter, but we had a missed assignment, and I'll take responsibility for that.

Chris Paulson

That's a big, clutch shot. We needed that at that time.

Craig Drury

It's a tough place to play. I thought Tanner Gregory played a great game tonight. I can't say enough about the kid. Not only did he score but he made, I don't know how many, clutch plays for us.

David Stephenson

They got the hits (in clutch situations) and we didn't. They were a better team than we were (Monday) night.

Mamadi Diane

They're the leaders of our team. When the game is in clutch situations, they're supposed to take that big shot or make a big play. So when they get the ball, they take that on themselves.

Drew Miller

It starts at the plate and we just didn't compete. Our guys did a good job of doing what it takes to get on base, but we didn't come through with a big clutch hit.

Steve Sullivan

You can't just sit back and hold on to leads now. With the way the rules are now, you have to keep going after it. The rules don't let you clutch and grab, so it's more a game of offense.

Brooke Bingaman

Keep your fingers crossed. Wednesday looks like a break.

Glen Campbell

It hurts and I'm going to have to have it operated on. Sometimes, I have to use just three fingers on my left hand when I play.

Ian Paisley

There is a finger pointing tonight at IRA-Sinn Fein.

Stuart Pearce

I think Trevor has stretched ligaments in his knee but we will not know for sure until all the tests are done. I have got my fingers crossed.

Bode Miller

I don't have to put a finger on it. That's what's nice about being me instead of you. You're the one that has to put a finger on it.

Frank Ostanik

I didn't, for whatever reason, get our guys to play hard. I can't point fingers at our guys because I didn't get them ready to play the way they needed to.

Dusty Baker

He hadn't had anything to this point. We'll keep our fingers crossed.

Wole Soyinka

There's something about the theater which makes my fingertips tingle.

Adam Eaton

I'm healthy as can be. The finger is a non-issue.

Brooke Bingaman

Keep your fingers crossed. Wednesday looks like a break.

Glen Campbell

It hurts and I'm going to have to have it operated on. Sometimes, I have to use just three fingers on my left hand when I play.

Stuart Pearce

I think Trevor has stretched ligaments in his knee but we will not know for sure until all the tests are done. I have got my fingers crossed.

Frank Ostanik

I didn't, for whatever reason, get our guys to play hard. I can't point fingers at our guys because I didn't get them ready to play the way they needed to.

Dusty Baker

He hadn't had anything to this point. We'll keep our fingers crossed.

Bruce Dungan

The Virginia legislature is never snap your fingers and it's done. It's a long process.

Baltasar Gracian

Do not show your wounded finger for everything will knock up against it.

Jamie Foxx

Don't kill this guy. Don't kill him. We've got our fingers crossed.

Chris Coleman

We'll just have to wait and see what happens. We'll just have to keep our fingers crossed.

George Williams

I had a grip on it (the gun). I would not let it go.

Elliott Sadler

I'm kind of scared on how much grip is out there right now, ... It's too much grip for this racetrack. I liked it better two years ago when you slid around a lot.

Rose Nix

You can't take it too seriously. One day, you're going to hang up those grips and when you look back, you don't want it to have been so serious that it's not fun.

Carol Bellamy

We still have to learn the lesson of the grip poverty has,

Bobby Higginson

It's safe to say. I've come to grips with it already.

Nick Heidfeld

It seems to have noticeably more grip than its predecessor.

Tony Crescenzi

The Treasury market has come to grips with the notion that stocks have recovered,

Akinori Otsuka

I couldn't get a grip and hooked it a little too much.

Ron Gardenhire

In this league, you're going to get hammered if you just throw fastballs.

Willis Reed

All I can say is that those nails dodged the hammer a lot. I would not hire Walton and Artis to work on my house.

Marcus Camby

It's real tough. It's tough for players getting hammered every day, ripped in the media every day. I've been there, so I know.

Emily Dickinson

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Ron Hargrave

The rumors are lies. There were a lot of people said we're not going to play; that we don't have a contract. ... We got it worked out; got it hammered out.

John Ruskin

If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of them at the end of every cadence of the Bible verses.

Markus Zusak

Grimly, she realized that clocks don't make a sound that even remotely resembles ticking, tocking. It was more the sound of a hammer, upside down, hacking methodically at the earth. It was the sound of a grave.

Erwin Rommel

I would rather be the hammer than the anvil

Jason Statham

Your body is like a piece of dynamite. You can tap it with a pencil all day, but you'll never make it explode. You hit it once with a hammer: Bang! Get serious. Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and half of nonsense. It's so much more rewarding.

Jiang Zemin

I was invited by President Clinton, ... So it will be up to the United States to handle these events.

Jeff Kinney

Kids can sniff out a moral. They can feel the heavy hand of an adult.

Christopher Birchby

I wouldn't play the hand any differently. I made my move and 80 percent of the time, you win with that hand. I took my shot and it didn't work out.

Andy Holt

I would urged Nico Hinds to hand himself in to the police.

Gary Shaw

I wouldn't be shocked if he had his hands raised (in victory).

Lee Evans

Kelly just ran the offense. He took high-percentage passes and put it in our hands to make plays.

Glenn Morris

Just simply splashing around in the water, if there is sewage contamination there is a risk you could get it onto your hands and get it into your mouth,

Don Imus

He didn't shoot Harry on purpose, but you're handling this horribly and you're just trying to spin me.

Bengie Molina

He kept saying he was sore, he was sore. He couldn't do another pitch. He couldn't handle it.

Anthony Anderson

Kangaroo Jack is the first movie I've been in where I was the star, or co-star, so this is my baby. This is the one that holds special meaning to me.

Alan Trammel

He wants to play, ... We're probably the ones who have been holding him back a little bit, but we have to.

Ted Cottrell

He knows when you have to hold back now. He's reacting a lot more to where the tackle is going and making his move, rather than preplanning like he did last year.

Sheila Nevins

I get very nervous when it's quiet, because I think it's dead. What I learned in the moment was to hold back a little before you talk.

Gore Vidal

God, no. Unless you hold office, there's no point in being there.

Colin Falls

He's just making one move and not thinking about it. I think sometimes he holds onto it and over-analyzes. He catches and makes his move (and) that opens us up on the outside.

Jennifer Schack

Hold on to your hat. The winds will pick up for the afternoon.

Josh Hall

I think that people actually just like to hold on to the map.

Ryan Coleman

I think we're doing a tremendous job defensively. We're holding our opponents to 50 points or less, which is right where they need to be.

Robert Goldstein

It has a perverse effect. It says the DEC can essentially put things in the drawer, lock them away, then when we do find out about things and realize we have a right to challenge, the statute of limitations runs out.

Chauncey Billups

I want to win the game, don't get me wrong. But mostly, I am just trying to stay healthy. That's the most important thing right now; that and trying to lock up that home-court advantage.

Rick Byrd

I don't go on stage, and he doesn't come into the locker room.

Rick James

I'm finally locked into the now, and it's great.

Jonathan Lewis

In the locker room, on the bus, on the plane.

Kari Swartz

If you see a deal, you need to lock it in.

Kenard Lang

I'll be shocked, and I would not want to walk into the locker room,

Bret Ellis

I locked myself in a room for a month,

Frank Barrows

I know I'm out of order. Lock me up.

S. Hughes

I would take a pause and see how it goes. I think the big move has been made already.

Dale Shull

I wrestle him and he's a lot stronger. Then the same moves I try to put on him I put on the other guys, and it's a lot easier.

Bob Peck

I think it is the right time for me to move on,

Emeka Okafor

I think I stepped on somebody's foot. I'm not in too much pain, but I really can't move (the ankle).

Marty Barnes

I also haven't moved anything on my desk. Nothing has been touched.

Corey Kline

He can't show any moves until the semifinals.

John Woodring

He's done, so we have to move on.

Stone Gossard

I think when you put a new record out, everyone has a song or two that they feel people will be moved by so much that radio will be forced to play it.

Dan Evans

We just have to get the president to move it up on his priority list.

Julie Harris

I liked Live and Let Die, where money was no object.

Hasso Plattner

Business reporting is not dealing with objects, it is dealing with relationships between objects.

Henry Grunwald

A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up by the ocean.

Philip Johnson

Pick very few objects and place them exactly.

John Burnside

One of the most beautiful objects I have ever seen was a Yupik wolf mask, made in Nunivak in around 1890.

Erwin W. Lutzer

Faith is only as good as the object in which it is placed.

Tom Driscoll

We're opening up the day after Mother's Day.

Anthony Geary

I have friends in France who are artists. I go to gallery openings and things like that.

Richelle Mead

Those who have to ask if faith is true are opening up a discussion they may not be ready for.

Winston Churchill

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Anders Igel

Our acquisition strategy is still very much the same as before, but we are opening up our thinking a little.

Cynthia Johnson

In the past two years, since so many burrito places have been opening up, people have been going there.

Peter Hall

I have to pour it on the opening weekend, then go back into battle.

Frank Robinson

I promise you tomorrow you'll see the Opening Day lineup.

Richard Eyre

I'm never comfortable at theatre opening nights. If it's my own production I'm too wound up to be able to enjoy the performance and too wary to enjoy the event as a social occasion.

Ben Williams

Just like we need standards in software and hardware, we need standards in power utilization and power savings.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Gary Gaetti

He's got some serious power. I'm talking big power.

Jean Charest

It could be a strong and powerful symbol of our relationship,

Sandra Tsing Loh

With more women in power, the world would be better off.

Laura Harper

I think it was a powerful move. It was very inspirational. To be able to sit and look out on the court, it was awesome.

Alfonso G. Robles

The fact that lately some circles, not less powerful by their small size, have been actively promoting certain theories, as dangerous as they are illusory, of a "limited", "winnable" or "protracted" nuclear war, as well as their obsession of "nuclear superiority", make it advisable to bear always in mind that the immediate goal of all States, as was expressly declared in the Final Document of the Special Assembly of 1978, "is that of the elimination of the danger of a nuclear war"

J. J. Johnson

He had the power to amend the survivor's trust. He had the power to appoint the descendant's trust.

Adrian Burgos

He is a powerful voice. He reminds us what is at stake. We know we have to be sober-minded in our deliberation.

Dave Tuttle

Harland understands the technical side of 9-1-1 and how it's supposed to work.

Zydrunas Ilgauskas

I think it's going to be a little different for him because he's going to play the same team so many times. But we're going to see an even better side of him because he's going to be able to adjust.

George Clooney

I think it's important to be on the right side of history.

Roz Chast

I think when your parents die, it is kind of like a moving sidewalk: you're not just on the sideline and watching them go by. You know, you're going to the same place they are.

John Stevens

We're on the wrong side of being close.

Bill Ritter

We're on the Durango side of the litigation, not the Texas side.

Joe Mires

There is another whole side of her when she is playing.

Carl Jung

Mine. I'm on my side.

Leona Lewis

I dont hate L.A. There's a very beautiful side to it; it's scenic, and I can go horse riding.

Neal Stephenson

... when I saw any of those kinds of beauty I knew I was alive, and not just in the sense that when I hit my thumb with a hammer I knew I was alive, but rather in the sense that I was partaking of something--something was passing through me that it was in my nature to be a part of.

Jonathan Safran Foer

It's a good rule of thumb, it seems to me: if you're not allowed to see where something comes from, don't put it in your mouth.

James Joyce

Stephen jerked his thumb towards the window, saying: — That is God. Hooray! Ay! Whrrwhee! — What? Mr Deasy asked. — A shout in the street, Stephen answered, shrugging his shoulders.

Joko Beck

An old Zen rule of thumb is not to answer until one has been asked three times.

Emraan Hashmi

My victory is when the audience buys a ticket to watch my film. I am extremely thrilled when they give it a thumbs-up.

Kenny Loggins

Bruce Marshall's acoustic set gets a big thumbs up from me.

Arthur Baer

If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.

Bruce Schneier

If someone steals your password, you can change it. But if someone steals your thumbprint, you can't get a new thumb. The failure modes are very different.

Adam Schiff

Too much under the thumb of the Iranians.

Ken Hitchcock

We can't get all wrapped up in what's going on,