Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary McFadden

Designing was an effortless exercise and something I always enjoyed.

Rick Smith

People get stuck on power, but good swings can generate effortless speed, not powerless speed. Powerless speed comes from this violent effort to swing the club, and that's not how it works.

Michael Palin

Ronnie could turn himself into any character. He did it with an effortless ease.

Catherine Malandrino

Macrame is effortless.

Kerry Collins

Everything is so effortless for him, ... It doesn't look like he's running. I can throw it as far as I can and he catches up to it with no problem. He's a unique guy. He can run unique routes. Every day, I see something that's new and different, and it's something that I like.

Tom Petty

It's always been great to be onstage. It's really effortless up there. It's not a lot of work.

Yigal Azrouel

It's just my aesthetic: to want to feel a bit undone, effortless but not without style.

Eric Albright

I know Kurtis is going to generate some interest (from scouts) this year, and he needs to be able to handle that mentally. It's a challenge, but I think he's up to it.

Paul Swangard

You want to be using the off-season to generate momentum. And nothing has happened, from the stadium issue on down, to give much acceleration to that momentum. For every step forward, it seems like they've taken two steps backward.

Bob Hartley

It's a matter of playing our game. Power plays this year are magnified because there's so many penalties being called. In all the games, you're going to get some power plays if you skate. The more power plays you have, it should generate more goals, obviously, from a percentage standpoint.

Tom Mullins

It's a manufacturer that has international ownership structure, and this project would generate just over 500 jobs, but they're still looking at a number of places in Texas and in surrounding states. It's a laundry list for that and the others at this point.

Rob Blake

That second period, as much time as we spent in our own zone, it was tough to generate things.

Robert Struble

All the pressures are related to development. More people need more water. They generate more water. They generate more storm water. All of those things can be managed. All of those problems have solutions, but some ways are better than others.

Ron Campbell

As you generate more sales tax, you can take some of that back into the machine and grow what you have.

Ann Muscat

A lot of people don't know there's a nonprofit conservation group that's responsible for the majority of Catalina ... and has to generate its own revenues.

Robert Crowder

A lot of governments would love to have an industry come in that would generate that kind of income.

Ken Hill

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

Charles Warren

I was like, 'Wow,' something's going on here, ... Something good is about to happen.

Ramon Hernandez

I was looking for a fastball. I got it on the good part of the bat. It went where no one could get it.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Paul Marsh

Kinston paled a great game, and with them, it's always a battle. We didn't shoot well from the outside, but it's good to pick up that second win in a row.

Buck Showalter

Kenny was effective. They've seen Kenny so much. They hit some good pitches for hits. He bent, but he didn't break.

Alex Winter

Knowing that it is highly competitive, and I'm not the first person to say this, but good stories do tend to get made.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

John Crumbley

(Key West) had a tough week this week, but (starting pitcher Daniel) Foltz pitched a good game. It was good to be in this type of pressure situation.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

Joe Horn

Just to make those people happy, it's all worthwhile.

Spencer Kayden

I surround myself with people I admire and respect. I have never tried to make anything happen. I don't know how long 'Urinetown' will run on Broadway, and I find myself strangely unconcerned about it.

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Dave Breitenfeld

I think, in general, most people in the public don't know what we do.

Addison Timlin

I prefer working, period. I think that I like doing film more just because when you get a script, you have the story from start to finish, so you can really find the character's arc, and when you walk away from it, you know you're sort of powerless to what happens.

Maggie Q

We've all, at some point in our lives, been in a position where we have felt powerless.

Pat Listach

He just did what he does. He mixes his speeds up.

John Donnelly

He's a different kind of guy. He's a slasher. (Dave) was more of a speed guy. But we'll take another Fischer.

Marvel Smith

He's got the kind of speed you can't coach,

Mike Frosco

I think we'll have more speed than we've ever had. I think we're young, I think they'll step it up.

Joe Thornton

I think we have more speed than them.

Daron Rahlves

I don't know where the speed was today.

Sandra Cisneros

Being on a highway, all that speed and aggression, is very terrifying to me.

Anthony Chan

I just see it as a speed bump.

Tyson Thompson

I'm getting better at it. I'm just trying to get a feel for the speed of the game.

Brian Gionta

You thought they were down and out, for sure. But they stuck with it and got some confidence. Once you win the first one, you never know.

Joy Fielding

I've always been hopelessly stuck in the present.

Spalding Gray

To be famous is to be stuck in an inflexible place. But at least it is to be stuck with money.

Petra Haden

I love the Bach Prelude No. 2 in C Minor and had that stuck in my head: why don't I put this on Imaginaryland? So I brought it to my friend Tom Grimley who recorded That Dog's first record. I played him all my a cappella pieces, and he said, "P, you should really make a record, it would be great! You can record it at my studio and I'll put it out!"

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

When some systems are stuck in a dangerous impasse, randomness and only randomness can unlock them and set them free.

Phil Garner

No, ... He snow-coned it. Stuck to the top of his glove.

Don Blalock

I said 'who is he?' I was stuck thereafter.

LaSheena Brown

That was something new. They were able to get that lob in, but we stuck it out.

Herb Caen

New Yorkers are stuck in a gloomy mucilage of mutual commiseration.

Virginia Woolf

For the young people could not talk. And why should they? Shout, embrace, swing, be up at dawn...

Robert Johnson

History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that.

Robert Louis Stevenson

If it comes to a swinging, swing all, say I.

Ty Cobb

The longer I live, the longer I realize that batting is more a mental matter than it is physical. The ability to grasp the bat, swing at the proper time, take a proper stance; all these are elemental. Batting is rather a study in psychology, a sizing up of a pitcher and catcher and observing little details that are of immense importance. It's like the study of crime, the work of a detective as he picks up clues.

William Butler Yeats

Your hooves have stamped at the black margin of the wood, Even where horrible green parrots call and swing. My works are all stamped down into the sultry mud.

Yann Martel

The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.

Wynton Marsalis

Swing is extreme coordination. It's a maintaining balance, equilibrium. It's about executing very difficult rhythms with a panache and a feeling in the context of very strict time. So, everything about the swing is about some guideline and some grid and the elegant way that you negotiate your way through that grid.

Wynton Marsalis

Certain music, jazz in particular, has the ability to make you a better citizen of the world. It helps you expand your world view and gives you more confidence in your cultural achievements. Improvisational jazz teaches you about yourself while the swing in jazz teaches you how to work with others

Wynton Marsalis

Everything about the swing is about some guideline and some grid and the elegant way that you negotiate your way through that grid.

Rick Riordan

Coach Hedge grumbled as he tended their wounds. “How come I never get invited on these violent trips?

Woody Allen

[The universe is] haphazard, morally neutral, and unimaginably violent.

Mahatma Gandhi

Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being.

Noam Chomsky

States are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power

Shaun Alexander

It is what it is. We play a violent sport.

Jon Jansen

It's a violent game, a violent place to play.

Aaron Spelling

But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.

Jasmine Guy

Anything that is non-violent is OK with me.

Jose Maldonado

You'd think if he was a violent offender, they wouldn't let him be out.