Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jay Larranaga

I just looked on the Internet for certain trends and if anything pops out in the games that Michigan State lost. I think when they attempted less than 16 free throws, they lost every game, and they are a great free throw shooting team. I think there was also was a great discrepancy between wins and losses and how their inside player Paul Davis played. When he played well and scored over 18, 19 points, they usually won.

Joey Skaggs

In 1968 I organized the Hippie Bus Tour to Queens as a satirical cultural exchange tour and I attempted to burn down a Vietnamese Village Nativity I erected in Central Park to protest the war in Vietnam.

Brad Soderberg

I know that topic keeps coming up, but I'm most interested in quality basketball. We're having a hard time sustaining quality basketball, and tonight was as bad as it gets. Everything we tried didn't work. Every shot we attempted seemed a little off rhythm.

Kathleen Blanco

The Corps Of Engineers has attempted to fix the situation under emergency conditions, ... They're not the best conditions, and probably too little, too late.

George Washington

The consciousness of having attempted faithfully to discharge my duty, and the approbation of my Country will be a sufficient recompense for my Services

Keiji Fukuda

This has never been attempted before. There is a very good chance that we will fail and that we will not be able to stop it.

Jonathan Stamp

It's not a documentary. It's a historical fiction. But we have attempted to make the world, the background, the detail of that world as authentic as possible.

E. B. White

Everyone has been wonderful, ... So many people have sent me supportive e-mails or attempted phone calls.

E. Hicks

The attempted murder charge is farcical because the Americans have already said David has never fired a shot at any coalition forces or civilians.

Frank Taylor

He's a balanced gorgeous horse. He looks just like Forestry.

Charles Johnson

He's a guy of high moral integrity, and a guy who I believe in, quite frankly. ... I think it's unfortunate that a balanced story has not been told.

Steve Cook

Historically when weve gone into a program like this, weve had engine developments that start right off the bat. Instead were saying, lets focus our new propulsion development on much smaller-scale efforts. Lets also have back up plans in case it doesnt work out. Its a balanced risk versus reward that weve laid out here.

Jill Sales

I think it's cool how she's well balanced between hockey and school. I just think it's neat how someone can excel at both.

Manuel Pellegrini

I was convinced we would beat Inter. The first half was balanced but in the second perhaps we deserved more than one goal.

Lorne Calvert

To further production in China means the use, more and more...of fertilizer, ... The Chinese farmer is, more and more, experiencing the benefits of a balanced fertilizer approach.

Alexander Kalugin

It is important for the international community to make balanced moves in the present situation.

Gary Ladd

Children begin their lives in the social world of their families, however, as they mature they are introduced to the social world of peers and spend increasing amounts of time with kids their own age. The types of relationships they form differ from those they have with parents and siblings and teach them unique skills that impact their development. Peer relationships are more balanced and the partners tend to bring similar levels of ability, reasoning and skill to their interactions.

Lynn Coady

I'm trying to get at something a little transcendent between humans. But at the same time, there's all that baggage: What's beautiful about humans is what's balanced by what's kind of ugly and petty and depressing.

Mona Sutphen

I was always complaining that there weren't enough good people going into public service, so I figured I had to get behind someone I found so compelling.

Elliott Sadler

Kevin's done a great job, ... He's been the man behind the scenes for the last two years. Everybody's been behind him the last two weeks and things are going really well.

Alison Parker

Kids who commit serious crimes shouldn't go scot-free. But if they are too young to vote or buy cigarettes, they are too young to spend the rest of their lives behind bars.

Ron Prince

I wouldn't read too much into who's doing what with what group. We're trying to get all the quarterbacks the opportunity to play with different combinations. It's only what's fair to them when you're going to be behind a group that hasn't been blocking together but for two weeks.

Robert Gamez

I would've made a double bogey but I double-chipped, ... The wind caught me on my downswing on the first shot and I went long. The guys behind me hit good shots and came up short. The wind switched that quickly.

John Jones

I would say that we won when we had to win and did what it took to win (in the first half of district). I wouldn't say our wins were pretty, but we have to put that behind us.

Rohan Verplank

Katie skied great and was only 0.6 and 0.3 seconds behind the winner.

Jeff Tedford

Joe took the game pretty hard. He just needs to know we're behind him 100 percent.

Howard Inch

Josh threw strikes and we made the plays in the field behind him.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

James Patterson

Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.

Mary Carskadon

Kids are too sleepy to learn well. They're too sleepy to be happy. And they're at great risk for such things as traffic accidents.

Jim Schmitz

Jake Wade did just such a great job throwing strikes, going right at them. He pitched six quality innings. It was just nice to see him come out like that.

Alden Ehrenreich

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.

Chuck D.

Joey wrestled a great tournament, and we don't want him to get lost in the shuffle. He was solid all weekend.

Tim Ehresman

Joe was great tonight. He did things tonight he's been practicing all year. Come heck or high water, he was going to make it (to the regional tournament) again.

Ike Turner

Joe Louis is a great artist. He kind of helped me somewhat getting back to the blues.

Scott Rice

Joey's a talented kid. He did a nice job on his routes.

Matt McKay

Joe did an outstanding job on Biggs. We didn't want him shooting 3s.

Galen Hall

Joe did a miraculous job keeping that squad from not splitting offensively and defensively.

John Caudwell

Journalists like to say I started off sweeping the pottery floors. But it was just a short-lived part time job doing that after I left school.

Garrett Gravesen

Jobs can wait, but the lives of these kids cannot. And because no one else was doing anything else about it.

Glen Smith

He viewed it as a job that had to be done.

Allard Baird

He comes into Spring Training where it's his job to lose.

Phil Garner

He just likes going out and pitching, doing his job and saying, 'Thank you very much,' and going home.

Taylor Hawkins

In the Foo Fighters, my main job is to be the drummer, and that's enough.

Mario Lemieux

I thought the other lines were pretty good, as well. We'll see what happens.

Nariman Behravesh

I think that whole line of reasoning is overdone.

Dale Mitchell

He was lined up straight with the ship canal,

Joy Harjo

I come from a long line of revolutionaries.

Richelle Mead

My life didnʹt need to be on the line for me to enjoy dessert.

Vinny Testaverde

When you're on the road, you have to be louder and you have to communicate. That's really the bottom line.

William Whewell

Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards.

William J. Clinton

Follow the trend lines, not the headlines.

Richard Francis Burton

The Now, that indivisible point which studs the length of infinite line Whose ends are nowhere, is thine all , the puny all thou callest thine.

Christian Moody

His passes were perfect. Look at his shooting. I think he's the best.

Brenda Frese

When we're focused, we can go on runs like that. In the second half, we started making more unselfish passes and made things happen.

George Osborne

They all said I was a very young guy. Well there is nothing I can do about that but with each day that passes the problem solves itself.

Kyrie Irving

I'm not really a big X's and O's guy, but if you want to go there, I'm more of a space-the-floor type of coach: Five out, zero in, and that's the way we play basketball, screen and roll here and there, pocket passes everywhere; it's what it's about.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness.

Tom Armstrong

We worked a lot on our high-low passes and our post players sealing. That worked well for us.

Frida Kahlo

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Serena Williams

I'm not taking Zika lightly. Especially being older, I definitely am going everywhere protected. I'm protecting myself.

Michelle Moran

there is nothing to fear but fear itself yet even then fear shouldn't be feared because fear cannot take what is protected by change

Bryan Brown

That's because they took out everything that protected us.

Timothy Treadwell

I came, I saved, I protected and I studied,

Francis G. Slay

Violence is not a constitutionally protected right. Damaging property is not a constitutionally protected right; inciting violence is not a constitutionally protected right.

Bobby Bowden

I wanted to see what we could do throwing the ball,

Mike Holmgren

They have you outnumbered just a little bit. Now it is safer, I suppose, than throwing a pass, but you can't worry too much about that.

David Berry

You can't keep throwing us around. Accommodate your own people.

Cliff Lee

Mostly, I was throwing fastballs and locating them.

Daunte Culpepper

When you're throwing things and spitting on people, it's distasteful.

Willie Randolph

I don't like throwing superlatives around, but you've got to like what you see.

Vance Havner

The temple of truth has never suffered so much from woodpeckers on the outside as from termites within.

Dusty Baker

Right now, Wood is progressing like we want him to. We just don't want any setbacks, that's No. 1.

James Russell Lowell

The nunneries of silent nooks, the murmured longing of the wood.

Anurag Kashyap

Through movies, I have met nearly everyone I have wanted to, except Woody Allen.

Elijah Wood

Hello! I'm Elijah Wood, and i'm a looser!

John Muir

In the woods is perpetual youth.

Ernest Hemingway

We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood.

Howard Thurman

Follow the grain in your own wood....