Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anne Fortier

I was in Siena and decided I wanted to write a story set there. Then I discovered that the original story of Romeo and Juliet was set in Siena. It occurred to me that this was too much of a gift - I had to do it. That's how I ended up writing a parallel story to Romeo and Juliet.

Robert Browning

I would think the extra pair of eyes, extra pair of ears would maybe deter someone who may have decided to try something.

Bruce Bochy

Jake was feeling the effects of everything going on in his teeth and his hand. To me, that is major surgery. I made up my mind after talking to him. I was inclined to get him when I went out there. I decided he had enough.

Randy Barnhill

Jack was getting after it. We decided to switch him around and move him up front (from the midfield), because he can score when he's got the ball.

E. Hicks

John has an important job here with the Rangers. I want him as part of our team as we move forward and I am glad he has decided to stay with our organization.

Mary Reynolds

I think it is really unfortunate that the New York University administration has decided to take a page out of the Yale administration's anti-union book, ... It's shocking that in 2000 the NYU administration decided to recognize the democratic decision of their students, and then at the whim of the president of the university, they can take away their contract, take away their grievance procedure.

Jim Crosbie

It all started with our defense. They decided to go out and get some stops.

Marty Schottenheimer

He wanted to finish, but I decided it was time to give Michael a few shots.

Von Hayes

He walked into my office yesterday after San Antonio's game and said his passion is elsewhere, so he decided to retire. We wish him well.

Charles Rogers

I was just determined, I don't know when the next time is I'll get in. As far as me starting, it won't happen.

Ryan Moore

I was looking forward to it, I love a challenge. I like the fact that a lot of people don't think it is possible. That is fine with me. I want to go out there and not necessarily prove everybody wrong, but go and do something that not many other people have done. It gets me a little more fired up and a little more determined to do so.

Wendy Hastings

Kirsten has such great determination on the court. She runs down every shot and always give 100 percent.

Mike Conklin

Jake was a good kid, ... He was determined to take the opportunity provided and succeed.

Lisa Nash

Jack and I were determined to have more kids, to have more healthy kids, and possibly to have a transplant for Molly.

Kofi Annan

keep working with determination on the tough issues on which progress is urgent but has not yet been achieved.

Bryant Young

Just the way it felt and how it was kind of contorted, I immediately thought it felt worse than it is. I was determined not to get carted off the field again, though.

Anne Maschmeyer

Just the sheer number of starlings are overwhelming the existing deterrent systems.

Maria Miller

Judge Lipscomb is the one in the position to determine his (Conrad's) sentence, and we're satisfied with the sentence as ordered. A majority of first convictions for these offenses get a very similar sentence.

Bible Bible

He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.

Source Unknown

What you are doing rings so loudly in my ears that I can't hear what you're saying.

Michael Williams

He has big ears and he's real skinny. People like to pick on him. It was like that as long as I could remember.

Merv Adams

He'll reach up and take one of those big old floppy ears and he'll say, 'I can't hear you,' and they'll start that all over again.

Vinnie Jones

I've always had my ear pierced with a diamond stud. I did it myself when I was 16.

William Faulkner

We have all heard what we wanted to hear! Truth that sounds right to our ears!

Roald Dahl

A whizzpopper!" cried the BFG, beaming at her. "Us giants is making whizzpoppers all the time! Whizzpopping is a sign of happiness. It is music in our ears! You surely is not telling me that a little whizzpopping if forbidden among human beans?

Robert Walpole

I took the right sow by the ear.

Sara Gruen

I strain to hear, but my old ears, for all their obscene hugeness, pick up nothing but snippets:

Casey Hampton

Knowing that they think that much of me makes it extra special. It's kind of a consolation prize for me.

Scott Verplank

I wouldn't pinpoint any tournament that I lost because of my condition, ... But it's an extra hurdle I have to jump every day.

Mark Wright

Jake is the sort of big target man who will give us extra options up front.

Jeff Gross

Josh is a weapon (on kickoffs and field goals) and has come into his own as a punter. We need to make sure we fix the PAT and field goal snapping. Our snappers have been working extra hours to improve.

Byron Young

I think injuries played a key role in tonight's game. If we have those two extra guys who knows what happens. We just ran out of gas at the end.

Adam Hall

He comes up with his own drills. He sets up the shooters where he wants them, and tells them where to shoot so he can get that extra practice.

Bobby April

He is very game. Maybe, in his own way, he found a little extra incentive out of that.

John Gibbons

Guys when they get tired they lose their location. What happens is they got reach back and give a little extra to maintain what they got and your location suffers but you maintain your velocity.

Jason Terry

Guys were making the extra pass. I was open and knocked them down. We wanted to stay aggressive.

Donald Ray Pollock

I would try to write my own story about some East Coast suburbanite having an affair or something like that. So I did that for maybe two years or so, and it just wasn't working for me at all.

Jennifer Baker

I would say maybe there are more mistakes.

Doyle Davidson

I talked with him maybe three times, I don't remember what about.

Joel Klein

I think it could take a year, maybe a little more than a year,

Kyle Waters

I think in the past year, he wrote maybe one check.

Sarah Brightman

I always felt older than my years, maybe because I was married to someone older.

Tom Woods

He was a decent, law-abiding man. Maybe he was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Dayton Moore

He can play first, and maybe a little outfield. But he's really a third baseman. I don't think you want to move him around.

Sam Hunt

Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.

Jon Gruden

I wouldn't probably give up a pair of nine-and-a-half turf shoes for me,

William Mathews

Proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

And I, the while, the sole unbusy thing, Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.

Warren Miller

A pair of skis are the ultimate transformation to freedom

Yogi Berra

Why don't you pair'em up in threes?

Tristan Tzara

To make a poem, take one newspaper, one pair of scissors, snip the words one by one and put them in a bag. Shake gently, draw them out at random, and copy them conscientiously... DADA est mort. DADA est idiot. Vive DADA!

Jimmy Calderwood

Can he play football? Give him a pair of boots!

Fats Domino

I'm walkin' to New Orleans, I'm going to need two pair of shoes, When I get through walkin' to you, When I get back to New Orleans.

Bruce Dickinson

I only ever had one pair of Spandex trousers!