Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ice T

I think the most successful are the most paranoid. The first thing people do when they buy a mansion is they build the biggest wall you could possibly build around it. What happens is, now you become a target. If I go into the hood, I'm at a disadvantage. They could carry guns. I can't. They can hit me in the face. I can't.

Ice Cube

I never get tired of 'It Was A Good Day' references or jokes or anything like that. It's just, you know, keeping my biggest hit alive. Nothing wrong with that.

Isaac Brock

I like Modest Mouse. I'm our biggest fan. And enemy. I won't waste people's time by putting out a Modest Mouse record just because. That's fair, right?

Ian Watson

My father-in-law just happens to be a global procurement guru. Now retired, he was the global head of procurement for some of the biggest companies in the world as well as our very own treasury.

Giovanni Agnelli

The Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy, and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside the Soviet Union.

Gianni Agnelli

Well, the Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside Soviet Union, there's no doubt about that.

Gareth Bale

My dad's the one who's always been there; he's my hero, you could say. Even when he was working, he'd do anything for me. He's been the biggest influence in my life.

Vonda Shepard

The biggest similarity between me and my character is that we've both played clubs for 20 years. In real life, the clubs aren't quite as controlled - and my hair isn't quite as in place as it is on 'Ally McBeal.'

Christian Bale

The biggest rebellion I could've ever had with my father would be to work in a bank. He would have disowned me. As long as I was doing something where I didn't have to wear a tie, I was good.

Jeff Gundy

That was probably part defense and probably partly them missing shots they can make.

Jordan Leedle

We have an excellent defense. All of the goals that have been scored on us have been on free kicks and penalty kicks so nothing from the run of play. Defense is definitely what we pride ourselves on.

Chris Kirkpatrick

We have a mix of new and veteran kids on our defensive unit, and they held them to one score and 198 total yards, including only 68 passing. That was most satisfying. It's much easier to win games with defense than by trying to outscore somebody.

Mel Wilkins

We have a lot of young players, and they had some first-time jitters in CIF. I told them to start stepping up their defense in the second quarter, and they did. They need to remember that defense wins games.

Erin Lind

We need to keep playing as a team, and keep working on our defense and not make stupid fouls.

Brian Ainsworth

We couldn't come up with the key hits. And we weren't mentally prepared on defense. To win, you have to play every play, and we didn't do that today.

Matt Hasselbeck

We could have lost this game. They've got some great leadership on this team. To come in here like that and play like this, the defense was just awesome.

Ed Stephenson

We could have held them a little tighter, which is what we've done in the past. We've got to score eight or nine, and our defense has got to do the job of holding them to seven or eight.

Ron Collins

We just didn't take enough shots tonight. They played a good defense and shot very well.

Kyle Lohse

That was terrible execution at that time. Things weren't going my way, and that capped it off right there.

Greg Robinson

We have to worry about getting better. That's the name of the game for us right now. The execution is better. I think (fans are) going to see a more experienced football team than they've seen at this time last year.

Rick Carlisle

We've had great execution in the last two games; we won one and lost another. These types of one-possession games come in waves. The way our team is set up, we have players that can make plays.

David Patrick

I think it will come down to half-court execution. I don't look for a high-scoring affair.

Bill Winters

We have not invested in our franchises ... as aggressively as others or as aggressively as we should have. And we've had some execution misses.

Terry Ennis

I was very pleased with the execution of the offense. They were very crisp tonight.

Rodney Barker

I was very happy at that time because I had had a few minutes after the execution to really see what I felt inside. And I felt like the 14 years that she's been down here has done me no justice.

Tom Izzo

I was very disappointed in our execution and some of our guard play. Maybe we were a little fatigued. We were short on a lot of shots.

Doc Rivers

I was happy. I was proud of our young guys. They just kept fighting. I was using it to teach execution to young guys.

Gwen Moore

It is very frightening to see a resurgence of the old mores, or lack thereof, regarding women's rights to their own bodies.

China Mieville

'Kraken' is a very undisciplined book. That's a gamble. If it doesn't come off, it's disastrous. But there are pleasures, I think, to a meandering lack of discipline that you can't get the other way, and vice versa.

Menachem Begin

Operation Peace for Galilee is not a military operation resulting from the lack of an alternative.

Patrick Modiano

Recently, I looked back at my first manuscripts and was struck by the lack of space, of breath. That's exactly how it felt, back then... like I was suffocating.

Phil Klay

Resilience is, of course, necessary for a warrior. But a lack of empathy isn't.

Enrique Pena Nieto

Mexico has lost its leadership, and a lot of that has to do with its poor performance and the lack of better results in our country.

Charles Blood

I think they probably should have canceled this week for lack of interest.

Rosanne Cahn

Manufacturers are still selling a lot in the United States but their lack of pricing power in the top-line really puts a lot of pressure on them to become more efficient.

Robert McCann

We are not where we want to be, not for lack of effort, but because the process simply takes longer to produce results than any of us would like.

Christine Gregoire

We can seize this time and do it our way and in the process be proud of ourselves and prosper as well.

Noreena Hertz

We need to know how we are feeling. Mindfully acknowledging our feelings serves as an 'emotional thermostat' that recalibrates our decision making. It's not that we can't be anxious, it's that we need to acknowledge to ourselves that we are.

Martin Parr

The ability for us to laugh at ourselves is Britain's saving grace.

Tracy Morgan

We need to learn to laugh at ourselves because when you don't laugh, you cry. And I don't feel like crying.

Saundra Hess

We could never get a run going. We shot ourselves in the foot.

Mike Glumac

We were going pretty well there for a bit. And all of a sudden, we've been sliding. We just have to find a way to get ourselves out of it.

Ken Lee

We have come a long way since we established ourselves here in May 2003.

Darren Alexander

We?re still trying to find ourselves on the mound.

Al Johnson

You know if you don't do something in a big hurry, it's all going to slip away. We need to do something about it to make it stop. We got ourselves in it. We've got to get ourselves out of it.

Bethenny Frankel

I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness.

Bo Ryan

That was his shot in the 1920s and 30s.

Dennis Fermoyle

That was the only shot we got in the third period.

Eric Osmundson

That was the big shot of the game.

Scott Skiles

We had our chances. We just couldn't make enough shots at the end.

Christy Porter

We were sluggish. We couldn't make the shots fall.

John Boyd

Whoever was on the grassy knoll in '63 shot better than we did.

Darren Jackson

We just couldn't make our shots under the basket.

Annika Sorenstam

Winning the LPGA Championship was very satisfying, especially considering the shot I made over the trees on the 16th.

George Allen

Before I was governor, tuition was skyrocketing, and we stopped that. We capped and then we froze college tuition.

William Patterson

I stopped going to the conferences because most of (us) are all gone.

Jim Crace

I stopped being an engaged journalist and became a disengaged novelist.

David Hallberg

I stopped acting Romeo and just became Romeo.

Richard Greenberg

I thought if I stopped writing, ... the world would explode.

Vijay Batra

We have stopped work on the footbridge after objections from Pakistani soldiers,

G. H. Hardy

Basically, it's been wars that have stopped Mardi Gras.

John Mellencamp

Hanging out is a waste of time. The only time I would hang out was when I was a kid, I would hang out in the streets. But once I started making records, I stopped hanging out.

Mike McBride

He was unbelievable. We couldn't have stopped him with 16 tanks.