Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Fetters

Well, she hit it so high that I didn't know if it was going to go over the fence. Then, when it finally hit I didn't know which side of the fence it was on. But they quit chasing it, so that gave me a pretty good idea.

Peter Bernard

With the high need and growing demand, lots of money and time is being thrown at a problem, but everyone is chasing after the very few graduates that exist.

Christopher Traulsen

A lot of the companies these funds have invested in have run pretty hard. Chasing performance here is probably a recipe for disaster.

Brad Salem

They got the start they wanted. Now, we're chasing a very good football team.

James Brunner

They took our 50 because we were chasing the president and we got out of there right away, ... The other 50 or 100 were there for another two to three days. They never moved.

Ken Hitchcock

It's not just chasing the New York Rangers, it's also chasing Buffalo. The third or fourth seed is home ice (advantage) and we want home ice because it's going to be that close.

Ed Walker

For him life wasn't chasing income and fame. It was about making his soul complete.

Sun Haiping

For Liu, the main goal for the National Games is to ensure a gold, rather than chasing a better result.

Chauncey Billups

For me, after chasing him around the court, I wanted to make him play defense, too.

Alan Kay

There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.

Bill Maher

I love trains. It's the only way to travel anymore where it doesn't involve a TSA agent slowly tracing the curve of my inner thigh.

Benjamin Hoff

Without difficulties, life would be like a stream without rocks and curves – about as interesting as concrete. Without problems, there can be no personal growth, no group achievement, no progress of humanity. But what mattes about problems is what one does with them.

Camilla Luddington

I definitely have curves. I dont intend on losing them.

Chaske Spencer

Where I come from, there were traditions with my race and whenever you faced a curve in life, there was always a tradition.

Fred Zimny

It's just tricky. It's an extremely technical track and extremely fast down there at the bottom. If you get something wrong in a curve, it's just the way the curve sends you. You get shot up to the roof.

Kevin Flanagan

A lot of curve flattening trades had to be reversed.

Lee Sterrey

It's only a learning curve for a lot of them as this is their first trip.

Nate Elliott

It's the natural growth curve of the industry. It took a while for it to gain traction, then we saw several years of explosive growth, and now it will slow down.

Charles Caleb Colton

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Alan Watts

Zen is really extraordinarily simple as long as one doesn't try to be cute about it or beat around the bush! Zen is simply the sensation and the clear understanding ... that there is behind the multiplicity of events and creatures in this universe simply one energy -- and it appears as you, and everything is it. The practice of Zen is to understand that one energy so as to "feel it in your bones.

Alan Watts

Naturally, for a person who finds his identity in something other than his full organism is less than half a man. He is cut off from complete participation in nature. Instead of being a body, he 'has' a body. Instead of living and loving he 'has' instincts for survival and copulation.

Alan Greenspan

Without the triggers, that tax cut is irreponsible fiscal policy. Eventually, I think that will be the consensus view.

Alan Greenspan

Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here.

Alan Beck

Between the innocence of boyhood and the dignity of manhood, we find a delightful creature called a boy....A boy is truth with dirt on its face, beauty with a cut on its finger, wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the hope of the future with a frog in its pocket.

Alan Blinder

In the classic old business cycle, there would be a diminution in sales; it would take a little while for this information to reach corporate headquarters. And there would be an inventory pileup. And then - bam - businesses would react, sometimes violently, by cutting production.

Chris Chocola

Like my colleagues, I did about 10 to 15 town hall meetings on this issue; and what I found is people came with a sincere interest to learn, a sincere interest to cut through the rhetoric and understand how this Medicare bill impacts them in their daily lives.

Chris Colfer

I wasn't going to get such a nice car - I was going to get a cute little hybrid or something, keep the trees happy - but then my grandfather died, and it was all: retail therapy!

Jeff Judkins

Ambrosia is as gifted offensively and defensively as any of those players in this game.

Eddie O'Sullivan

They scored one good try but we gifted them the rest and paid the price.

Matisyahu

As a kid, I was really into performing. I would do choruses, I would do musicals, whatever it was. And then, as a teenager, I got into an acting class at SUNY Purchase for gifted kids, and that really turned me on to material beyond musicals, Sam Shepard, and Christopher Durang plays.

Mike Waldo

Spencer is a very gifted player who works very hard at what he does. I thought he played smart, played with a lot of intensity and had a great game.

Mark Machtolf

Ryan is a big, strong physically gifted hitter who has the potential to hit for a lot of power.

Mike Kemp

We're a pretty good goal-scoring team, top to bottom. Parse is the high profile guy, but we've got a group of gifted scorers.

Norm Cook

This year, he's done an unbelievable job. He's just one of these gifted goal-scorers. He's got a great scoring touch.

Donald Ray Pollock

J.R. Angelella is a truly gifted writer. Zombie is one of the smartest, strangest, and most beautifully crafted coming-of-age stories you will ever encounter.

Ken Johnson

Many times in life you take struggles and disappointments to realize the potential and gifted talents that they have.

Arne Jacobsen

Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high.

Denzel Washington

Goals on the road to achievement cannot be achieved without discipline and consistency.

Denis Waitley

A winner concentrates on that which is goal achieving rather than tension relieving.

Denis Waitley

The reason so many individuals fail to achieve their goals in life is that they never really set them in the first place

Denis Waitley

Happiness, wealth, and success are by-products of goal setting, they cannot be the goal themselves.

Denis Waitley

Achievers can almost literally taste success because they imagine their goals in such vivid detail. Setbacks only seem to add spice and favor to the final taste of victory.

Denis Waitley

Be willing to wait longer for you goals to bear fruit than you had anticipated.

Denis Waitley

Make certain that your goals are not measured in comparison with others.

Deena Kastor

A goal is just an awesome way to force growth on yourself.

Lorraine Bracco

You know, last season I didn't do anything on the show, so I was frustrated. I mean, don't get me wrong: It's nice to get a paycheck. But if you don't really do anything it's not very satisfying.

Mike Heffernan

We're in significantly better shape than we were last year,

Gene Stephenson

We're in last place now in the league. Twenty-nine years we've never been in this situation in this league at 2-6, I know that. Right now, we're just not very good.

Bill Trumbo

We're in a much-improved spot from a year ago. At this point last season, we were 0-4.

William Shakespeare

This act is an ancient tale new told; And, in the last repeating, troublesome, Being urged at a time unseasonable.

Shawan Robinson

When you think of those overtime games, some of the others that were ours to win going into the last minute or so, I know ? we all know ? it would a be a different season if we had him.

C. S. Lewis

Here at last is the thing I was made for.

C. S. Lewis

Ah, poor Pole. It's been to much for her, this last bit. Turned her head, I shouldn't wonder. She's beginning to see things.

Jimmy Johnson

We have to find some speed and turn things around. Thankfully, we had a strong start to the season, so this last month we really didn't have to race our way in. But we've got to find it in a hurry.

David Hood

Accepting the key premise that the learner is the primary customer of schooling means others follow naturally. ... The core business of schooling is learning, and the quality of learning experienced by all learners should be the standard against which performance is measured.

Nolan Sotillo

I play guitar, piano, and I'm learning to play the drums.

Carlos Castaneda

When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become.

Chanakya

One destitute of wealth is not destitute, he is indeed rich, but the man devoid of learning is destitute in every way.

Charles Handy

Learning is experience understood in tranquility.

Charles Godfrey Leland

The Lord of Learning who upraised mankind from being silent brutes to singing men.

Beth Brooke

Setbacks are just learning experiences.

Bernard Malamud

A man had to learn, it was his nature.

Bill Watterson

Calvin: Today for show and tell, I've brought a tiny miracle of nature: a single snowflake! I think we might all learn a lesson from how this utterly unique and exquisite crystal turns into an ordinary, boring molecule of water just like every other one when you bring it into the classroom. And now, while the analogy sinks in, I will be leaving you drips and going outside...

Chuck D.

We're just releasing a little tension. We've already prepared. We had some stuff left over, and we've restocked on other supplies.

Doug Allen

Yes, I lost the whole left of my car.

Kevin Keen

About 3 minutes left I took a timeout and I just told them that we have to get back to playing as a team. I think they took it to heart...they know what got us here and from that point on we took control.

Josh Beckett

It's kind of cool. I got my whole left side of the infield.

Larry Davis

It's kind of a non-issue. If it were in his left side, it would've been more of an issue.

Brian Sullivan

A lot of people take it seriously because a lot of people left after they came.

Bobby Hernandez

They need to come and give their side of the story so we can find out what the reason is why they left the scene where somebody died.

Robert Parker

They needed to do it. If this restructuring is left to year three out of the three-year plan, I think the market is going to be unimpressed.

Jeffrey Lichtman

This case, what is left of it, is a limping wreck.

John Paquette

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

Brandon Kendzierski

It seems like whenever we wrestle, somebody wins by one point. And I think that's why our matches are so good, so intense. We know it's going to be close.

H. Hunt

They have all been winning their matches lately. We just need to keep playing like we've been playing.

Thomas Doll

It's the worst thing when something like that happens. We're missing the one or two percent we need to win matches like we did in the first half.

Gary Parker

It is very frustrating. That's two matches which were there for the winning.

Laime Contreras

Apparently, because we only played two matches and got to the final. I thought it didn't make a difference, because if you're good, you're good. But it really helped.

Bill Cunningham

The tail number of the plane located matches the Grossman aircraft,

Zinedine Zidane

It was an exceptional game, like we had in 2000 with Portugal and Italy, ... In these two matches we managed to reverse the trend, and we did it again.

Kevin Pietersen

These days you can play almost 100 Test matches in six years.

Steve Erle

We're still making the mistakes we don't need to.

Shawn Kimple

They played hard. Offense and defense, they play hard. But you can't make mistakes and when you make too many and we made way too many any team can play with anybody. That's what happened.

Riley Wallace

They don't make many mistakes and that's what makes them successful.

Julie Johnson

They do as well as they can. Everybody's human, they make mistakes,

Montae Reagor

They run a very complex, complicated offense and if you make a mistake, they'll make you pay. So we really have to be on the details.

Grant Hill

They turned the screws when they needed to. They don't make mistakes. They wait for you to make mistakes.

Brian Lawton

They put pressure on us with their serve and we just made too many mistakes on the passing end.

Richard Seymour

It's very disappointing but we did it and mistakes are part of the game. It was very uncharacteristic of the way we've played in our run.

Jake Grove

There were some mistakes, but for the most part I think I did all right out there,