Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Bryant

Jackson thanked Claypool for backing the airport, but he did not endorse him. He is neutral in the county board president race.

Vitor Meira

John has been backing me since I started in the IRL and we've got a great relationship and I feel very lucky,

Michael Woolfolk

There are strong economic fundamentals backing not only the U.S. economy but the U.S. dollar right now. We are likely to get two more rate hikes.

Dick Handbury

He?s got a very good staff behind him, both up on the hill (at the district offices) and down at the high school. And he?s certainly going to have the backing of the board.

Joe Girardi

He saw me a lot when he came to the park, because I was always backing up first base, ... He makes you feel pretty comfortable.

Alfred Goldman

We're in the process of making a bottom but probably not at the bottom. After the damage done to people's psyches, my guess is we'll get a bounce, but then spend a month backing and filling in this general area.

Jim Padilla

I think we'll see some degree of moderation, but I don't see any backing off to a large degree.

Jim Zalesky

Oregon State has a great tradition. You've got the backing of the administration, which is key. You've also got good Oregon high school wrestling, there's a good base there.

James Wolfensohn

If you were in a job where it was unclear what the purpose of that job was and what the backing that you had was and who had the responsibility...you would probably wonder...if that was the thing you wanted to do.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

While President Putin is busy redrawing the map of Europe, President Obama is busy filling out his brackets.

Sean Coste

I think that we had a lot of good looks from Kara inside in the post. Kim did a nice job filling in on the blocks.

Angus T. Jones

I'm on 'Two and a Half Men,' and I don't want to be on it. Please stop watching it, and filling your head with filth.

Ann Marsh

I'm not filling up, I'm only getting $10, then I'll go somewhere else when I have the time where it's not as expensive.

Thom Cooper

There are over 1,500 tickets sold to the performance, filling the majority of the main floor and grand tier. There are still some good seats available.

Laura Brown

They were down five games in the second. They did a good job of filling that spot for us today.

John McGee

It's not Kathy filling Mark's shoes. It's a different kind of shoe.

John McKenna

You can't just keep filling landfills with stuff when there is a use for it.

Tavi Gevinson

If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.

Richard Baxter

Tomorrow is always the sluggard's working day; today is his holiday

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Some holiday traditions are sacred. In our house one such tradition is the annual Christmas classic cinema celebration.

Winston Churchill

Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.

Gary Crane

Christina stepped up for us. She has been playing well throughout the holidays and has improved for us.

O. Henry

A holiday in a new dress—can earth offer anything more enchanting?

Joe Strummer

I just want to go back to rockin', but I'm uncertain as to what to actually do ... The truth is, I never stopped thinking about rock 'n' roll for a second that I'm on holiday.

Evan Rachel Wood

I've made my own music, and the way I've always described it is Peggy Lee with an electric guitar, or Billie Holiday with some PJ Harvey in there.

Mindy Kaling

I'm Indian-American and I think that when I think of myself as being culturally Indian, it had so much to do with when I lived with my parents and was a kid because they would take me to the Diwali festivals. They would take me to the temple, and they would teach me about all the different holidays.

Kenny Baker

I started out Ice skating with Holiday On Ice and just got offered the part of R2 by chance.

Rep. Lawlor

There is going to be a public hearing, and there is going to be a vote, and, more likely than not, he is going to be confirmed.

Lawrence DiRita

It is likely we will get down to the baseline after the election,

Sen. Nass

It is likely to not be successful when we come back in January. This is a promise that may not be kept.

Herb Kohl

Well, you're likely to be confirmed, as we all know.

Robert Hill

He'll more than likely have to go to counseling, get parenting classes.

Himanshu Patel

The market is likely to be reassured that management is now putting firmer parameters around 2006 performance.

Lisa Maxwell

It's just an untouched jewel. It really is just kind of the next place for likely development patterns to occur.

Georgeanne Bender

There will always be people who line up in the middle of the night for those specials, but it's much better to offer people a coupon that allows them, say, 50 percent off on any one item. That way they're much more likely to come in.

Richard Murray

There's a real chance, it's not the most likely chance, but there's a real possibility that that's the way the race could play out.

Mike Martz

He'll be back, but whether it's this week or not I don't know.

Annika Sorenstam

I have had two weeks off and I'm rested,

Ryan Kwanten

I'm more of a heat-of-the-moment type of guy. A friend will tell me about something coming up, maybe that weekend, and usually not an abundance of thought goes into my doing it.

Sarah Silverman

If I don't do stand-up for two weeks, I get freaked out.

Riz Ahmed

I think that with piracy and tighter funds being around, people are realising that the game to play is to try and win people's respect with bold film making and then win a special place in people's collections, rather than just having the biggest opening weekends.

Robert Redford

I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

I was very burned out after Buffy. It was exhausting. It took me from essentially 18 on the pilot to being 24 and married when we finished. That show was my life. I was doing movies on the hiatuses and on weekends, but I needed to explore and live that gypsy lifestyle.

Vladimir Lenin

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

Van Morrison

I didn't know what some of the stuff on Astral Weeks was about until years later.