Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alafair Burke

I was downright obnoxious. In second grade, we had some program where we kept a public list of all the books we read. I think it even included the number of pages. In my nerdy mind, having the longest and most impressive list was somehow going to make up for the fact that I couldn't climb a rope or do a backwards summersault in PE.

Stan Perkins

I was a chunky little kid, and when they sat me in that wagon, it tipped backward and I banged my head on the (concrete) floor. I was howling pretty good, but Dad went outside and cried his eyes out.

Neil Strauss

All this stuff is backward engineered from what works. Nobody sat at a computer and invented these techniques. They watched guys who are successful and broke it down to what works.

Tony Vis

All of a sudden (in the second half) we started to play vertical, where now we're playing forward basketball rather than looking to throw the ball backward and going side to side. We got our players out running.

John Updike

The good ending dismisses us with a touch of ceremony and throws a backward light of significance over the story just read. It makes it, as they say, or unmakes it. A weak beginning is forgettable, but the end of a story bulks in the reader's mind like the giant foot in a foreshortened photograph.

Joe Ferrer

The horse went over backward once and came down. He got his left foot out of the stirrup but he couldn't get his right foot out in time.

Shawn Mendes

The first year I started hockey, I didn't know how to skate, so I got on the ice with all of the hockey players, and we were doing drills where we had to go backwards in figure eights. And I could not skate, and I just kept falling on my butt, and it was very embarrassing.

Joan Baker

Everyone's bent over backward in the Whitesboro school district,

Robert Greenstein

The new data are particularly troubling for working people, showing backward movement for most workers. In short, the census data provide new evidence that, as in 2002 and 2003, the recovery was neither robust nor broad-based.

Jean Coutu

We look forward to capturing integration cost savings since we eliminated the dual head office infrastructures during the first quarter of fiscal 2006,

Gary Weiss

Humiliating events have a way of capturing the public's imagination. So it has been since antiquity, when gladiators were pitted against each other and the legions of Spartacus were crucified in endless rows on the way to Rome.

Scott Smyser

Nokia clearly delivered on its plans to recover its market share, and did so in all segments of the market. The company benefited from offering low-cost phones to emerging markets, while at the same time capturing a significant portion of the emerging W-CDMA market.

Nick Woodman

I think that devices like Glass are going to do a terrific job of capturing your first-person perspective. And that's what people first think of when they think of GoPro.

Klaus Toepfer

While the most important solutions to climate change will remain energy efficiency and cleaner energy sources ... capturing and storing carbon dioxide can supplement these other efforts.

Brian Clarke

We are delighted to participate with Stream Theory in capturing our share of the burgeoning online marketplace,

Carlos Santana

capturing the sound -- to be soulful, sincere, simple, be true to the motives of honoring the music. And that's all I concentrated on.

Chris Jones

Capturing particles from a comet as it whizzes by is a way of looking back in time.

Osama Laden

capturing him would mean a lot to the American people.

Kathleen Hanna

I always thought that putting tons of reverb on my voice was kind of the equivalent of airbrushing. And I wanted other girls and women to hear a real female voice that wasn't completely manipulated.

Don Moore

What we give them is the equivalent of a catered experience of being in a band.

Shirley Chisholm

In the end antiblack, antifemale, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing - antihumanism.

Frank Beamer

I personally like it, ... I think our kids like it. I think it's the equivalent of Monday night football in the pros. You're the only game on or you're the most important game on TV.

Avery Johnson

And I think he wants another shot, because he was really disappointed that he was unable to play in the playoffs. We missed him tremendously. That's just like the Spurs losing Robert Horry. That's the equivalent to what Keith does for us.

Jim Butch

This is going to be the equivalent of a 40-mile wide F3 or F2 tornado.

Larry Dunn

This is the equivalent of trying to sedate a dinosaur.

John Bennett

This is the equivalent of the Sweet 16 for the students.

Porter Goss

This is the equivalent of the liberation of Paris in the Second World War,

Jim Rogers

with more money than knew existed in the world.

Howard Smith

Construction vandalism has existed since the population in Spotsylvania started growing,

Chris Servheen

These natural movement patterns have existed in the Rocky Mountains for thousands of years.

Phil Dixon

The only misgiving that I think has existed is that this is on the fast track.

Mike McCarthy

I worked at a place that followed a system where the quarterback was taught to take the sack rather than force the throw. That's kind of an old-school theory, but it has existed in this game.

Jim Lovell

The fascination to go into space has existed for hundreds of years. But as we do things and they're successful, people get bored.

Dan Thompson

The property owners want some service they typically can't get with the township. ... Wisconsin is one of the few states that have town government. They have disappeared in most states or never existed in the first place. Town officials aren't comfortable hearing that.

Stella McCartney

I was in this stadium with 200,000 people looking at my mum and dad. That was mind-bending.

Harry Redknapp

I was looking out there with two minutes to go thinking 'Don't do this to me again'.

John Smoltz

I was looking forward. It was brutal. I was tested to the max.

Trot Nixon

I was looking for Baez to come after me like he normally does,

Jim Crawley

I was looking at our play sheet at halftime,

Dwight Davis

I wouldn't be surprised to see anything at this point; this is the Wild West in terms of licensing models, ... Everyone is looking for models right now.

Kenneth Clarke

I think it sends a message that they are looking for a younger leader.

Les Harrison

We're on the radar now and we're looking to get on the map.

Before Veeder

When he showed up, I wasn't looking for him, but he said he would, and sure enough he did.

Lorne Michaels

I think you're seeing the wave of the future.

Buddy Bell

We told Peralta when we sent him down that we'd probably be seeing him soon. We just didn't think it'd be this soon.

Kevin Sheridan

Remember, this has only been operational for 90 days. What you're seeing is version 1.1.

Sam Stovall

In general, we are seeing things that look a lot better.

Carl Anderson

I keep seeing them go up, up, up.

John Criscuolo

I just can't support seeing any teachers walk out the door. They're our backbone.

Joe Thornton

It's nice. It's different waking up and seeing sunshine.

Michael Goodman

It's sort of like you're seeing Yahoo spread its wings and be more of a portal that ties into the TV in your home.

Josh Beckett

It's weird seeing Luis in another uniform. I think he signed with the Marlins when he was like 4.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Cynthia Johnson

He didn't get the time that we may feel he deserved, and he may not get it in this lifetime. But before it's all over with, he will get it.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Mona Singh

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.

John Shimkus

It is a bittersweet time for many of us to be here,

Jack Smith

It is a long season, we have a long time to get at them.

Lorrie Moore

I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.

Scottish Proverb

What may be done at any time will be done at no time