Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joyce Johnson

I was in really bad shape. I don't remember a lot of it. But after I got out of there, I spent a week and a half in the hospital. Half of it in the intensive care unit.

Curtis Anderson

I would say it's four to one we've had more bad days than good days.

Ed Muniz

Katrina dealt us a bad hand. But to say you're going to cut Mardi Gras is the wrong approach. That would be another financial hit for the city as well as a psychological hit.

James Haynes

Joe has good feet, ... If something broke down, I felt he could get away easily. The other night (against DeSoto) he got a bad snap, made this guy miss and that guy miss, and before you knew it, he broke it to the sidelines for about 30 yards.

Craig Thomas

I think it's a bad precedent to arbitrarily select lands in a hasty manner and trade important public land to buy asphalt to fill potholes on county roads.

Bobby Hamilton

I think it needs to trickle down to this deal, ... The only bad thing about it is that we don't run enough races.

Levi Brown

I think it just took a couple wins, just a couple successes. Not going out and having bad things happen all the time. Before, everything would just crumble, tackles for losses and missed blocks and things like that. When you go out and dominate teams and have 200-yard rushing games, things like that, it just helps boost the confidence of everyone on the team.

Ahmet Gueye

I think it hurt more than my injury to have to watch the team lose without me. I felt so bad for the team, especially the seniors. But the only thing I can do about it now is work hard and come back even stronger for next year.

David Tom

I think it has been good for me to be here, ... I feel good. I haven't seen any bad effects from the medicine, other than I feel a little tired in the mornings. I think that's because I take the medicine at night.

Iris Apfel

I live in the Dark Ages, the 17th century. Actually, I would have loved to be in Paris in the early 20th century when the Ballets Russes were there and Chanel was designing.

Matt Raymond

Roads are not only crucial in fighting forest fires but also in promoting forest health.

Erik Solheim

In order to get the parties to the table it is crucial that the ceasefire is respected. If we can make some progress during my visit, I will be satisfied.

Leo Mazzone

He wouldn't lay it out there. But he'd let them put something in play that he wouldn't let them put in play in a crucial situation.

Alando Tucker

Those are crucial minutes. We wanted to get a good start because we didn't want this game to resemble the Milwaukee game.

Eddie Jordan

It's night and day from one year to the next year. He's so very crucial to our success. . . . It was a pleasant surprise how much he matured and how well he played for us.

Gary Waddock

Dominic is slowly working his way back. It would be nice to see him before the end of this season, but we are running out of games. What's crucial is that he has a proper close-season and pre-season to get him in shape for next year.

Richard Thurin

You try to get the killer instinct and when you get to that position you have to play harder, but we would make the crucial mistake.

Gholamreza Aghazadeh

The November meeting is a very crucial one. It is a turning point.

Scott Nelson

That (registration) is going to be crucial to the process.

Carl Pohlad

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

Kevin Towers

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

Herb Cytyrn

Jake is a very good skier and I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to sectionals.

Bill Walsh

I would say that we made a lot of good trades, but that may have been the best.

Tim Kohs

Kayla can guard any kid in the state and make them miserable. In the past, I've always had one or two kids who raised the level of the team by their intensity at practice and their commitment. McCarthy and Finn are as good as any kids I've had like that.

Ken Auletta

Journalists prize independence, not teamwork. Journalists understand waste is inherent to good journalism ... that good reporting and writing is hard to quantify.

Bobby Cox

John is not 100 percent. But if he's 95 percent, that's good enough.

Hector Garcia

John has pretty good quickness for a big guy,

Bobby Cox

I talked to Leo and I think he's going home and that's a big thing if a guy can do that. I think it's a good situation for him. He had a wonderful 15 years here and we move on.

Rick Masi

We talked about when we had the wind at our right back, we wanted to use it to play it up and over into the opposite wing.

Nelson Eddy

In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.

R. C. Sproul

The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled and become most aware of ourselves as creatures. This is the opposite of Satan's original temptation, "You shall be as gods.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The opposite of nature is impossible.

Oliver Goldsmith

In two opposite opinions, if one be perfectly reasonable, the other can't be perfectly right.

Pope Benedict XVI

The fundamental human right, the presupposition of every other right, is the right to life itself. This is true of life from the moment of conception until its natural end. Abortion, consequently, cannot be a human right -- it is the very opposite. It is a deep wound in society.

Pico Iyer

Making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions.

Scott McClellan

Saddam Hussein is being treated the exact opposite of the way his regime treated those he imprisoned and tortured simply for expressing their opinions. And so I reject that.

Seth

Try is the opposite of hiding.

Sonny Rollins

What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respected and to be sort of treated not in a discriminatory way. I don't think there is anything controversial about me saying that. This is just a fact.

Tupac Shakur

America wants its respect.

Waylon Jennings

I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.

David Warren

If you're going to come, you have to respect our event.

Henry David Thoreau

The deeds of love are less questionable than any action of an individual can be, for, it being founded on the rarest mutual respect, the parties incessantly stimulate each other to a loftier and purer life, and the act in which they are associated must be pure and noble indeed, for innocence and purity can have no equal. In this relation we deal with one whom we respect more religiously even than we respect our better selves, and we shall necessarily conduct as in the presence of God. What presence can be more awful to the lover than the presence of his beloved?

Henry David Thoreau

Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.

Malcolm X

Respect me, or put me to death.

Malcolm X

I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.

Malcolm X

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

Michael Chertoff

It is going to be an unhappy number,

Robert Sheckley

A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind.

Whitney Houston

I'd rather be alone than unhappy

Chris Richards

I'm unhappy because we just lost. We thought we had it in our hands, but we just didn't execute.

Moby

Who wakes up when they're worth £120million and says, 'I'm unhappy today but if only I had an extra £2million!'

Pat Conroy

One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.

Pope Francis

Seeking happiness in material things is a sure way of being unhappy.

Keith Emerson

At the Isle of Wight, the sound went out and kind of kept on going. And I wasn't... when I came off stage I was kind of unhappy about how we had played. But now, I listen back to those recordings and it's not bad.

Karen Armstrong

My greatest solace is my study. If I am deprived of my study, I can become lost, unhappy and unhinged.

Irwin Cohen

I think this works for New York City.

Sienna Guillory

I think that, with homoeopathy, if you get the right mix, it works 20 times quicker than conventional medicine.

Dan Ryan

It (mousetrap car) always works better at home.

Jim Hodges

My latest works are these things with light bulbs.

Romesh Gunesekera

Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.

Shane McAnally

When something works on a huge level, everybody does it.

David Nash

If it works for you, then that's great. It's what makes you feel safe.