Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alex Shoumatoff

Elephants are not human, of course. They are something much more ancient and primordial, living on a different plane of existence. Long before we arrived on the scene, they worked out a way of being in the world that has not fundamentally changed and is sustainable, and not predatory or destructive.

Rich Conover

She's a combination guard with good size and is a really good athlete.

Bob Scott

Mick was a good athlete. A 50-year-old guy looking at Mick had to love him. He was living the life they wanted to live but very few had a shot at. I don't think he had any desire to go pro, but there weren't any pros that he wasn't friendly with.

Bob Gaudet

Mike Devine has done a great job. He played all of 30-some odd minutes (34:22 to be exact) last year as a freshman. Coming into this year, we had Sean Samuel who looked like the goalie that was going to start for us. Mike kind of wrestled it away and got a chance and made good by it. He's a real calm kid, he's very athletic and the guys really enjoy playing in front of him. He's a guy that really hates to get beat. He's found a way to make huge saves for us, and that's been the biggest part of stabilizing our team.

Joe Fussner

William Paterson is a very athletic team. We put pressure on them. We made one mistake at the end when we left their shooter wide open.

Cassidy Freeman

I think I give off a strong energy. I'm 5'9, I'm pretty athletic and I'm pretty outspoken.

Lisa Walker

It ensures this person is educated, holds a degree and passes national boards to be a certified athletic trainer.

Jessica Uecker

It feels great. We worked hard for it. We've got a bunch of athletic girls on this team.

Tommy Felty

We're blessed with a lot of athletic kids, and it was nice to see all of them get on the field. Not only that, but they executed well and didn't make many mistakes.

Philip Knight

We endured many significant challenges in the second quarter, in particular, a soft U.S. retail market for athletic footwear and apparel. Despite these challenges, we met our bottom line expectations as we began to see an impact from our efforts to control expenses in a weak retail environment.

Don Pooley

I've played well every week, but there's this one guy that's been beating me every week.

Joe Macri

This is a tough one to swallow. I think I'd rather get beat by 25 or 30 than get beat by a point.

Jason Dawson

This is something we've been working for the past three years. We've gotten beat on a buzzer-beater the last two years (50-49 loss to Johnstown in a Division III district final two years ago, 54-53 loss to Bloom-Carroll in a Division III district final last year), so we're working hard to make sure that doesn't happen again.

Channing Frye

The way this season has gone, ... who knows who the team to beat is now?

Bill Wallace

That's in my opinion the best team in the league and we can play right with them. They have a senior pitcher, six or seven seniors, but we'll be okay. I hope we'll be in it, but I think they are the team to beat right now.

Kevin Klette

That's huge. We know we can beat them and they know we can beat them and I love not having a day off in between so we can get right back on the ice and finish it while we have the momentum from this game.

Tom Penders

That (shot by Henderson) hurt. We played great defense, and then he just kind of flung it up there to beat the shot clock.

Lee Humphrey

That's happened to some teams this year, too. Texas was ranked No. 2, and they lost to Tennessee. But we just need to focus on what we need to focus on. We know that every game we play, whoever we play, they have a chance to beat us, especially from this point on in the year.

Ben Howland

That's my expectation, that we're going to feed off this win and it's going to make us better. We're going to need to be better, a lot better, to have a chance to beat Memphis.

Michael Beasley

It was an honor to be a part of history, but honestly I don't remember all the games we've played. I do remember the trips, though, and that's what we will miss the most ? all those good times.

Rick Pennypacker

There's some people up here who are a little upset that he's not going to Penn State. He's only going to get bigger, stronger, and faster. He could have had a lot more statistics if we had been worried about that sort of thing. Several of our games were over at halftime or otherwise his numbers could have been even better.

Ann Macbeth

Video just accesses international information so much more readily.

Andy Cohen

I talk, watch TV, spout opinions, schmooze, negotiate, talk some more, play games, and have a little cocktail.

Andrea Bocelli

My life experience has taught me nothing happens by chance. Even the idea of the ball in a roulette game: it's not chance it ends up in a certain place. It's forces that are at play.

Jeff Hironaka

Western has won so many games where they've been trailing and come back at the end, so I was never comfortable.

Mike Ortner

We stayed sharp pretty much throughout the match. We realize the games will get tougher from here on out.

Alex Rodriguez

I only look forward. I can't get all caught up in what I've done. I still have plenty to accomplish in the game. Hopefully, I'm just scratching the surface.

Alex Rodriguez

Michael Jordan told me the way he kept the crown was by always outworking everyone else because he knew everyone was always coming after him. You can sneak up on people when you are 18, 19, 20. It's tougher when you're established. Before, I'd see 13, 14, 15 pitches that I could drive in a game. Now, I see one, two or three, so I have to be better.

Bill Hicks

How many people disapprove of the job the Conservatives are doing? Seventy percent. Of those same people, how many will vote for them again? ...Seventy percent. What the f-k? Where did they take this poll, at an S&M parlor?

Barack Obama

Every single thing I`ve done, from the Affordable Care Act to pushing to raise the minimum wage, to making sure that young people are able to go to college and get good job training, to what we`re pushing now in terms of sick paid leave,everything I do has been focused on how do we make sure the middle class is getting a fair deal.

Douglas Coupland

MCJOB: A low-pay, low-prestige, low-dignity, no-future job in the service sector. Frequently considered a satisfying career choice for people who have never held one.

Adam Savage

That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.

Adam Carolla

The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were.

Adam Carolla

Everything seems overwhelming when you stand back and look at the totality of it. I build a lot of stuff and it would all seem impossible if I didn't break it down piece by piece, stage by stage. The best gift you can give yourself is some drive--that thing inside of you that gets you out the door to the gym, job interviews, and dates. The believe-in-yourself adage is grossly overrated.

Anna Wintour

Go get a job. Whether it’s working as a designer or working in a restaurant and then doing your own thing in your own time, it’s a reality of life. In the end it’s going to be helpful to you and so many others.

Angus T. Jones

Committing yourself to some kind of job that isn't committed to God is going to bring so much trouble into your life. It's not good and not something I would suggest that someone seek.

Anish Kapoor

I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form

Andy Johnson

Some people think that because it's a threatened species, that every one we save is good. But not if they never get to live in the wild.

Andrew Niccol

Some people think 'Lord of War' is a political film,

Liam Hemsworth

Southern people remind me a lot of Australia.

Mark Rylance

So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it.

Lois Lowry

Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy.

Robin Cook

Tell the people of Serbia how much wealth you have sucked out during the same years they have been impoverished in Serbia,

Nick Hanauer

Tech innovation is something societies have to pursue as vigorously as they can. We have to innovate civically and socially at the same rate; otherwise, you create unfortunate disruptions, and that's where you have people opposing technological innovations.

Harvey Pekar

Sometimes I want to convey something complex philosophically, and sometimes I just want to portray myself in a situation that I think other people have been in many times, but it hasn't been written about much.

Ron Moody

Pressure makes people react in different ways. Some people plunge in, and others take the way out.

Jim Pattison

I've got a lot of respect for tuba players, just carrying that thing around.

Markwayne Mullin

Oklahoma has a respect for our neighbors. That's the Oklahoma standard.

Mark Twain

The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods. It remains a perpetuated crime, can never be anything but the symbol of a crime. It is no more entitled to respect than is the flag of a pirate.

Joseph de Maistre

I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.

Kate Smith

I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.

Kate Millett

People have a right to their own lives, and if you can't help somebody, you ought to get out of their way.

Linda Tripp

Respect is not ever assigned; it's earned.

Lili Taylor

I see my job as an actor to be as good a channel as I can be. Acting is a gift, and I have respect for it.

Pema Chodron

The still lake without ripples is an image of our minds at ease, so full of unlimited friendliness for all the junk at the bottom of the lake that we don't feel the need to churn up the waters just to avoid looking at what's there.

Debby Ryan

One of the things I love about summer is that you can wear a bikini top and put something over it and it kind of just always looks a little beach-ready, which I think is very fun.

Angie Martinez

I went to night school and summer school, I made that whole year up and I actually graduated on time. Also, I got a part-time job at the radio station.

Zacarias Moussaoui

I knew Mohamed Atta had something to do in this operation. I knew definitely that the White House and World Trade Centre would be hit. I knew it would happen after August. I was told it would happen at the end of the summer.

Ty Simpkins

I belong to an improv group, I play cello, I have these phases - fencing, tae kwon do, baseball, ice hockey, boogie boarding in the summer, snowboarding in the winter.

William C. Bryant

The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep to-night.

William Butler Yeats

That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees - Those dying generations-at their song, The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas, Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long Whatever is begotten, born, and dies. Caught in that sensual music all neglect Monuments of unaging intellect.

William Butler Yeats

Hearts with one purpose alone/Through summer and winter seem/Enchanted to a stone/To trouble the living stream.

Wilkie Collins

Yes! the books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride... Early and late, through the long winter nights and the quiet summer days, I drank at the fountain of knowledge, and never wearied of the draught.

Walter Winchell

It's a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do.