Famous Quotes & Sayings

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists

Tom DeLay

The House would descend into 'Lord of the Flies.'

Rhonda Honegger

They descended on us like angels. We don't know how they found out about us, but that is how everything has happened in every step of this playground. Things just fell into place.

Rabih Alameddine

A soccer game is a Wagner opera. The narrative sets up, the tension builds, the music ebbs and flows, the strings, the horns, more tension, and suddenly a moment of pure bliss, trumpet-tongued Gabriel sings, and gods descend from Olympus to dance - this peak of ecstasy.

Charles Godfrey Leland

They saw a Dream of Loveliness descending from the train.

John Anderson

The SWAT team descended on that vehicle in a pretty significant way, ... I think they would have fought it out if there had been less of a presence, but I think they realized it would be fruitless.

Todd Musburger

Doctors refer to the left anterior descending artery as the widow maker. It was about 90 percent blocked. He needed to get this done much sooner than later. I talked to him today and he was in good spirits. He'll be fine.

Gary Gibson

We've got a living dinosaur here. All the modern games of football and rugby must have descended from this game - and others like it.

Malcolm Sharp

He was descending from 8,000 to 7,000 feet when the engine conked out.

Wynton Marsalis

The first jazz musician was a trumpeter, Buddy Bolden, and the last will be a trumpeter, the archangel Gabriel.

Frances Beinecke

The San Gabriel monument expands our natural heritage, but there is more in need of safeguarding - extraordinary places like Utah's Greater Canyonlands.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

And there’s one more thing. (Gabriel) Neutering? (Zeke)

Mike Rutherford

When Peter Gabriel left, we obviously lost a very strong stage performer. Phil hasn't replaced him; Phil's done a different thing.

Paul Doughty

Knowing that I have these younger girls who are playing and getting better every game is encouraging.

Tom Renney

Kevin was fine. I thought it was more an opportunity to wake up 18 guys and get ourselves back in the hockey game by doing what we have to do in terms of managing the puck, and maybe give yourself to play 5-on-5 hockey or better.

Dion Phaneuf

I wouldn't pinpoint any one thing. I just have to play my game and I didn't do that for the first little bit.

David Ward

Jacob pitched a really good game for us today. He was throwing pretty hard. If he can keep pitching like that, we'll be in good shape.

Larry Finucane

I would say the pressure is on them (Mills). They're the #6 or #7 seed and have the game on their home court.

Rich Kaelin

Katie really looks up to some of my seniors. But that's the nice thing about softball. It's very competitive on the field, but once the game is over most of these girls are friends.

Kenyon Martin

Just trying to get back in the groove and get my conditioning back. Keep working on my game like I have been. Work on my shot, so when I'm open, I can knock that shot down.

John Thornton

Just to see the kind of passion we played with in that game, even when things didn't go right. That's how you've got to play. And when you don't, the result will be what happened (in Kansas City) when you don't play a game like everything's on the line.

Brodie Croyle

Just to say we went out 10-2, won our last game and got it going back in the right direction, will make the rest of our lives a lot easier.

Mark McNulty

Golf is a very humbling game. I just hope the golf gods will be good to me again.

Rod Parsley

There is always death at the end of your plan and life at the end of God's plan.

Tyga

God will never send anything your wayyou couldn’t handle.

William Ames

The will of God is single and totally one in Him.

English 20th Century Proverbs

The gods send nuts to those who have no teeth.

Maxwell Anderson

The gods of men are sillier than their kings and queens, and emptier and more powerless

Michael Redd

This says a lot about this team. We've been up and down all year. The gods are with us.

Michael Redd

It speaks a lot about our team. We've been up and down all year long, and to still be in a position to be fifth, the gods are with us.

Neil Gaiman

One thing that I get from a lot of people with 'American Gods' is people saying that they would love some kind of glossary with a list of all the Gods and who they are, so that they can look them up.

Mitchell Baker

What we have is 95 percent there and what we are doing at the moment is actually polishing.

Andy Schulz

I thought you saw the momentum swing once we got the lead. That was a big factor.

Alan Pardew

We're playing with a real exuberance. We were very strong individually at the back and at the moment I am very pleased.

Takenori Kanzaki

I think we have the momentum to get a majority, and I want to keep up this momentum right to the end.

Nick Saban

I think that was really probably the turning point of the game, that we could recapture the momentum and come right back and make a big play and score and keep them three scores behind,

Joshua Lederberg

I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was awarded, I was 33; the work I had done when I was 21.

Janet Ray

He was sweet from that moment on. I don't understand what happened.

Gary Jackson

He was so proud. I think when he got his wings, it was the proudest moment in his life.

Greg Chappell

He is not fit. At the moment it does not look like he can play.

Ken Hill

Music is about textures as well as melody.

Ken Hill

People don't have fun making music all the time.

Shamir

I was inspired to make music since I was 7 because my aunt is a songwriter.

Swae Lee

I write a lot of rhymes, but I don't really end up using them a lot of times, and I end up just freestyling. I like to write music, though, more than I like to freestyle, to be honest.

Andrew Lack

has got two revenue streams: one from our music and one from the sale of his iPods.

Steve Earle

Music was very influential on me as a kid.

James Blake

I think the music that you make, often it's even better if you identify with other people.

Evelyn Glennie

What I have to do as a musician is do everything that is not on the music.

Brooks Yang

We talk about music and how we got involved.

Jim Crace

I'm not a new-agey person, but narrative is ancient and wise and generous.

Neil MacGregor

Objects let you tell a narrative that encompasses everybody. Texts don't.

Neil MacGregor

Objects are better than text at conveying narrative

Paul Scheuring

I have a great amount of respect for the audience. They know narrative construct. They know all the tropes.

Terry Tempest Williams

What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences.

Joseph Campbell

Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.

Joan Didion

We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images.

James McBride

First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.

John Madden

There was a hidden narrative I felt we could get into, It's about an accessible world. Family and relationships are accessible subjects.

Jeff Tedford

He doesn't go through the peaks and valleys that some people would. He just has an easy-going attitude.

American Society

Being able to function. Being at the peak of what you can do or at the peak of what you think you should be.

Pat Howard

I haven't had a two-month pre-season, which would have put me in peak condition,

James Summers

You usually reach a peak a week after a storm.

Sean Connors

All I had to do was to get them into shape and keep them there, ... I'm just trying to get them to peak at the right time.

Jared Bernstein

Ultimately unemployment will peak somewhere around 6.2 or 6.3 percent,

Moon Unit Zappa

I peaked early. I was told I'd missed my boat.

Brian McInerney

We're running out of snow for the watershed. This will probably be the peak they see this year, but there's no guarantee.

Ryan Coleman

The way we're playing right now is amazing, almost. We're reaching our peak right now.

Donald Harrison

I suspect what it is is pure stress.

Doug Green

We're pretty kid-friendly. With the pure kids' shows, all the songs are up-tempo. We keep it moving.

Jeff Corbett

There are no pure, pure climber's stages, no 10-mile, 14-percent brutes. And there are no bone-flat sprinters' stages, either.

Mike Scioscia

If you look at it purely from the organization's standpoint, we'd like Ervin to keep progressing with our catchers, but this is very important: We're not standing in his way.

Sir Robson

I know nothing about it, it's just pure speculation.

James Maxey

I wanted us to leave, purely as a precautionary measure,

Ovid

Pure women are only those who have not been asked.

David Rakoff

Arts and crafts, or getting to be in a play with people, or making a little short film, that's pure sugar, because the stakes are so low.

Niall Ferguson

Through pure accident of birth, I've managed to stay relatively youthful.

Gregg Marshall

It all sets up for a lot of drama.

Alastair Reynolds

I think the danger with using the term 'trilogy' is that it sets up particular expectations in the reader's mind.

Marcos Baghdatis

The first two sets I was really stressed out, I didn't know what to do.

Shana Martin

I want to be the person who sets the curve.

Dinah Maria Mulock

It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.

Mark Polansky

When the application sets are similar, there?s movement.

David Hallberg

When stress sets in, and pressure, I focus.

Cass Elliot

I've been fat since I was seven, and being fat sets you apart.

Amy Cooper

When Kyra sets it makes her a lot more vocal and involved. She has a tendency when she's not setting to become an island. Kyra's a really smart player.

Kate Winslet

I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.

Richard Morris

Then suddenly the Roman liturgy disappeared as we knew it.

Khandi Alexander

There's nothing worse than having a very strong female character and then suddenly having it go away.

Rachel Brosnahan

It's a strange thing that we're actors, and we're always playing a character, and then suddenly we're at a place like Cannes, and we're getting photographed as ourselves, and you're like, 'What do you do?'

Kenneth Clarke

They suddenly thought they had someone with the X-factor.

Bill Xia

It's not that suddenly we did something new.

Lynsey Addario

Sometimes when I am photographing a major news event, I am suddenly overwhelmed by helplessness.

J. F. Powers

He suddenly found himself on the precipice of utility.

Gary Jones

Suddenly you've got this big-screen, movie-screen, home-theater experience, wherever you are.

Josh Brown

I'm going to do something. There's a little tension between us.

Orhan Pamuk

When something explosive is kept hidden away, a tension builds within that must ultimately be released.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I am not afraid of the word tension.

Nadine Gordimer

The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.

Kanye West

Let the music defuse all the tension.

Albert Einstein

One lives one's life under constant tension, until it's time to go for good