Famous Quotes & Sayings

Morris Gleitzman

I used to get stuck trying to find the first sentence of a story, then I realised that it was often because I didn't know what problem a character was facing in the story. As soon as I did, I could have the character trying to do something about it or have the problem whack him between the eyes.

Lori Wada

You must register. Otherwise, you will be facing this kind of prison term.

Geoffrey Smith

We don't want people to panic, but they need to realize we're facing a very grave situation.

Brian Dawkins

We mixed it up. When you're facing that kind of coverage, maybe (Moss) doesn't go out and run like he usually would run. In his mind, he's thinking, well, I can't get past. It takes a weapon away from that offense.

Pat Robertson

I apologized and I said I will be praying for him, but one day we will be staring nuclear weapons and it won't be (Hurricane) Katrina facing New Orleans, it's going to be a Venezuelan nuke.

Andruw Jones

It's going to be nice, but we're still facing Pedro tonight.

Ricky Davis

You saw it right here on the stand, ... Right in front of you.

B. R. Hayden

We have a rule for that, but I don't have it in front of me,

Phil Cline

There's really only one way out and one way in. Once he's inside and by that front door, he's got them cornered.

Jorge Posada

There's nothing he could do. I'm right in front of the plate.

John Swiatek

We were learning what we were doing while we were doing it! We put a front office staff together, and we put a marketing plan together, and we just went for it.

Steve Watkins

Making the team is not in the front of my mind at all. I just wanted to come in here and show them what I can do.

Robbie Coltrane

Ninety percent of people's nightmares is standing in front of 1,000 people. Did you know that? And having to speak. You would have thought it would have been a madman tying you up and taking your eyes out.

Bill Wilson

(My grandmother) used to tell me how pretty it was with a lake out in front of it. So it kind of stimulated my interest in taking part in this and doing something with it.

Lindsey Jacobellis

Getting out in front first and staying in front usually works.

Jim Tracy

We know he's very capable. He has the pitches to get major-league hitters out.

Tamar Kvaratskhelia

We're going there to play and kick their butts.

Tom Wopat

No, I kick Jim's (expletive). ... He's a terrific actor and wonderful singer, but I think that the musical stuff was maybe better served by me.

Buddy Gouldsmith

Maybe we needed that kind of tail kicking to wake us up.

Michaela McManus

I'm sort of like the kid that kicks around in Vans, beat-up Converse, ripped jeans, and t-shirts.

Lance Bennett

I don't like putting a stamp on myself, a limit on myself. I'm not saying I want to be a 60-play wide receiver, but I'm not saying I just want to do punt and kick returns, either. I just want to make big plays on offense.

Ryan Dunn

I'm Ryan Dunn, and I'm about to get the sh*t kicked out of me by a girl.

David Akers

This is the kick I'm most proud of,

Alan Moore

Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as a poet today, and you'll find it's very different!

Arthur Koestler

I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned river strewn with the wreckage of flooded cities and the corpses of the drowned.

Ben Jonson

Each petty hand Can steer a ship becalm'd; but he that will Govern and carry her to her ends, must know His tides, his currents, how to shift his sails; What she will bear in foul, what in fair weathers; Where her springs are, her leaks, and how to stop 'em; What strands, what shelves, what rocks do threaten her.

Abdallah II of Jordan

The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.

Andrew Bacevich

Time and again-from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the events of 9/11 to the onset of the Arab Spring-events have caught the experts, whether in government or on the outside, completely by surprise. Business owners with comparable performance records go bust. Brokers lose their clients. Physicians get sued for malpractice. Yet think-tankers and policy wonks continue to opine, never pausing to reflect on-or apologize for-their spotty records.

Christy Mathewson

A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.

Rumi

True beauty is a ray that springs from the sacred depths of the soul...

Rumi

If you become a helper of hearts, springs of wisdom will flow from your heart.

Rumi

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. In the depths there is a spring with all the water your heart is thirsty for.

Rumi

Don't insist on going where you think you want to go. Ask the way to the spring.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

I have a second-degree black belt in Okinawan kobudo weapons training.

Nader al-Masri

I have a coach but there's nobody at my level in Gaza. I have to do most of my training sessions on my own.

Gina Carano

I am always training because I love it.

Haile Gebrselassie

In my life I do a lot of things but I never forget my training.

Mark Twain

There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I don't have any training in dance. I can convince an audience that I know how to dance because I'm a convincing actor.

Marcus Luttrell

To break a Navy Seal, you have to kill us. That's why we can make it into our training. That's why we can call ourselves Seals because the only way your gonna break us is to kill us.

Juliet Mills

Do some work in the theater if you can. It is the best training you can get.