Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brad Shaw

Once you've played in the NHL, I think you get a little misunderstood sometimes. These guys, with the salaries involved now and the way they get treated, people can lose perspective that these guys are human, too. Unfortunately, the job they've chosen, you don't get to have a bad day. It helps that I played in this league; it gives you a legitimacy right away ... But I don't know if there's that much advantage to it.

Sidney Lowe

We've got a dunk contest coming tomorrow, so they can see the guys do their thing there. The games, you can't allow that. But he had a couple and he took advantage of it.

Pat Hill

We've got a big one coming up this week and our team realizes it, ... They've been in big games before and they understand. Our players have been to tough places. We've had the advantage of experiencing a tough environment. That doesn't make it any easier though. You still have to be prepared, listen well, know your hand signals, etc. You have to understand the emotion of the crowd is controlled by the whole team and what we have to do as the visitors, is try and take that part of the game out of the picture.

Dean Ellis

We've got 10 players that can play. We're one of the few teams in the league 10 deep. When you have 10 deep, you have to take advantage of it.

Ben Snively

We'll have to handle their pressure and play with the same intensity on defense as we did on Saturday night. If we can beat their pressure, we do have a size advantage in several positions. But we have to attack the basket.

Alex Grossman

We also have an advantage in the intuitiveness of all of our software. Everything from Mac OS X Server Admin and Server Monitor all the way to ARD (Apple Remote Desktop) make the tasks that people have to do a lot easier.

Billy Andrade

We all think about winning, that's why we are out here, ... Like I said earlier, you just need some breaks to go your way, and when that happens, you better take advantage of it.

Robyn

Everyone's talking about how no one is buying records any more, but to me it's quite logical. In the 1990s, music was so hardcore-marketed to a certain group of people that I think a lot of kids felt taken advantage of.

Donna Proctor

Everything came at just the right time. It worked to our advantage that there were two outs and two strikes. On the defensive side, you're pulling your hair out over a hit like that because it's just out of reach.

Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk freely, make my own meals, and even hurl large rocks at their heads. It was only later that I discovered that they were not Indians at all but only dirty-clothes hampers.

Carlos Fuentes

What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what can only be said by narrative - to allow it to be itself.

Brian Nelson

What I've learned in this game is that good teams don't let one loss overwhelm them or allow one win make them comfortable.

Brian Hill

We got a little dejected at that point and we fought back, but we can't allow those things to be unsettling,

Dr. Schaffner

We cannot let our guard down, because a series of genetic changes could happen at any time that could allow this virus to pick up the capacity to move from person to person.

George H. W. Bush

We cannot allow the world's most dangerous nations to possess the world's most dangerous weapons.

Bill Clinton

We cannot allow them to have a hundred nuclear weapons. We cannot allow a country to, in effect, become the bomb-seller of the world because they're in a snit, and because they can't grow a crop.

Stratton Pollitzer

We cannot allow them to be repealed overnight with some broad, lukewarm legislation.

Jay Inslee

We cannot allow telecommunications companies to hijack the Internet. After all, the beauty of the Internet is its open architecture.

Meghan Coward

Sometimes Molly will fly out to L.A. for a few days, raid the gallery scene there, and come back with a list of names and try to lure them down here.

Beth McNamara

We gave it a good fight today. Our team hustled and did a few things well and a few things not so well that we will work on, ... We made a few mistakes defensively and they capitalized. They made some really good plays.

Jonathan Cheechoo

We weren't very disciplined; (we) took a few penalties maybe we shouldn't (have). It was pretty one-sided, the (penalty) calling, but at the same time we were putting ourselves in that position.

Bob O'Brien

Twelve, 13 years is a long time, but we've had a few (cases) even longer than that.

Victor Matfield

Now we just have to win a few on tour.

Thron Riggs

I would have been jelly in a few more minutes.

Jeff Brimhall

If we'd have hit a few free throws down the stretch, we win that ballgame.

Lindsay Davenport

She gave me a few errors, which always helps,

John Stamos

I have a trainer that I box with. Luckily, on ER, they'll tell me if I have a shirtless scene coming up and I'll have a few weeks to power it out.

Joe Thornton

Those guys are going to get signed. It's just a matter of time.

Pat Carroll

Let's rock the Capitol. Don't let these guys sneak back into town.

Mike Santiago

Leon is the starting quarterback for the Nicholls State game. Just like all the guys know, it is one day at a time. We have a lot of competition. You got to hold that spot.

S. Walker

Losing to those guys is always the worst. It's terrible.

Jose Guillen

Lots of times, you really need guys for motivation, guys trying to help your teammates. Lots of times, you see a lot of guys, they don't really care.

Tony Gwynn

Lots of guys took them. They were everywhere.

Jeff Kent

Last year we started 12-2, and you guys had us going to the World Series already. Now we're 4-4 and you have concerns. I'm kind of perplexed.

Dusty Baker

Scott Eyre is a fun-loving guy, but the rest of the guys, especially the new guys we've got, they are all business.

Rob Judson

Senior day is really a special day. I could tell at our morning shoot-around that these guys were really focused. Everyone went out there and made sure that NIU would get the win.

Rusty Wallace

The racetrack said, 'You get a release from the judge, we'll let you race,'

Bobby Hamilton

I don't think you can do it with 10 races to go in trucks because we only run 25 races,

Jose Mourinho

Maybe next season we can race.

Jose Mourinho

It’s not important how we play. If you have a Ferrari and I have a small car, to beat you in a race I have to break your wheel or put sugar in your tank.

Jose Bergamin

Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race.

Kurt Busch

James Finch has always had pretty stout cars for the restrictor-plate races and I know we'll be very competitive at Daytona.

Jonathan Swift

I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth.

Jonathan Swift

All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.

Jonathan Sacks

Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.

Charles Bukowski

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart

Alberto Salazar

I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.

Alberto Salazar

I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.

Alfred Kazin

Brooklyn Heights itself is a window on the port. Here, where the perspective is fixed by the towers of Manhattan and the hills of New Jersey and Staten Island, the channels running between seem fingers of the world ocean. Here one can easily embrace the suggestion, which Whitman felt so easily, that the whole American world opens out from here, north and west.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Alex D. Linz

Home Alone was a lot and a lot and a lot of standing and sitting and walking and running and it was physically demanding but in this, I'm doing back flips and riding ostriches. It's physically demanding in a new way, so it's fun.

Alex Garland

When you develop an infatuation for someone you always find a reason to believe that this is exactly the person for you. It doesn’t need to be a good reason. Taking photographs of the night sky, for example. Now, in the long run, that’s just the kind of dumb, irritating habit that would cause you to split up. But in the haze of infatuation, it’s just what you’ve been searching for all these years.

Alex Ferguson

David impresses by his example on the field. He never stops running, he plays with supreme confidence, he always tries his hardest and he scores important goals. (on David Beckham)

Alec Baldwin

Anderson Cooper has a job to do. And that job is to try to reinforce his credibility in the gay community after the fact that you couldn’t get him out of the closet for 10 years with a canister of tear gas. Now he’s the sheriff; now he’s running around writing everybody a ticket!

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Henri Bergson

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Charlie King

Right place at the right time is all I can say about that one.

Gil Brandt

Really? I think for a long time they probably didn't have a quarterback because they were a wishbone team.

Robert Battle

Reflection is not something you have a lot of time for.

Sarah MacLean

If you think back to your time as a teenager, everything was dramatic.

Ellen DeGeneres

Above all, I strive to be the best I can - to be better than I was yesterday and better tomorrow.