Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julian Barnes

In soccer, the form of the encoded adjective is well-developed.

Tom Allen

One adjective - kind - is repeated by all who knew Peter. Peter was also a devoted husband, father, grandfather and son.

Brian Eno

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

Robert Thomson

disproportionate amount for the use of one mild adjective in a single piece of commentary in the sports pages.

Dick Schaap

Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.

Gore Vidal

The word heterosexual is an adjective, the word homosexual is an adjective. They describe an activity. Of course there's a homosexual activity; of course there's a heterosexual activity. But there's no homosexual person. There's no heterosexual person. Everybody is everything.

Matt Bomer

What we really have to do is stop the adjective before the job title - whether it's 'black actor,' a 'gay actor' or anything actor.

Johnny Depp

I was known as 'Ray, Head of Security' in the bookstores and stuff where he was signing books. I just spent an enormous amount of time with him and watched him like a hawk. Studied him. I tried to steal his soul.

Michael Gibson

I would think that it would only be fair that the Chamber was able to reduce their request by 25 percent with their money they got from Charlie Adams Day and other things, that Main Street be reduced by the same amount from $10,000 to $7,500,

John Planamenta

Kelly is a very intelligent player. She held that ball the perfect amount of time.

Gene Watson

John and I are good friends and we've performed from the same stage before. I don't know how his part of the concert is set up, but I'll take mine from 'Love in the Hot Afternoon,' the song that got me started, and bring the people right up to date. I'll be skipping through the career and covering as much as we can in the allotted amount of time we have.

Dusty Baker

I talked to him the other day because he was pressing a little bit already. I told him to just relax. It's the same game he played in Venezuela. We have to eliminate the pressures of the amount of people and TV and radio, simplify things and say, 'Hey, man, it's baseball.

Terry Delp

I think it's a blooming business. You have to have the drive, but in a short amount of time, you can have a lucrative job.

Bobby Cox

I think it changed the atmosphere in this city a little bit, ... We've always had good clubs, not always veterans. We've always had young kids but nothing to this extent during my tenure. Some of those kids are from the area. It really caught on. It energized the town, and created a tremendous amount of interest in the team. You know, they were kind of the underdog kids, and people root for that.

Alexander Downer

I think in turn the media has become very interested in this specific case, and has gone into an enormous amount of detail.

Adam Levine

It all sounded questionable. ... I just hope if it's a false accusation, that the amount of media attention focused on the players, the same amount of attention is put on their innocence.

Helane Becker

The commentary was a lot more optimistic than I expected it to be given the high oil prices. The outlook was also a little more optimistic than I would have expected.

James Lindsay

The commentary on next year's earnings will disappoint but, obviously, reflects the extra interest costs and higher depreciation going forward.

Art Hogan

The equities markets are very forward pricing mechanisms so the (corporate) news you're hearing has been priced into the market, for the most part. The news that you should focus on is what will be suggested in the commentary that comes out because we're trying to invest for fourth-quarter growth.

Mark Vitner

You could even interpret the minutes to read that economic growth has already slowed to its long-run potential and that the federal funds rate is already at a neutral level. The Fed's commentary describes an economy that is nearing or already in the early stages of a soft landing.

Barry Hyman

It's not the quarter-percentage point increase that is worrying people. We are all waiting to see if the commentary will point to one, two or more interest-rate increases.

Michael McDermott

What's going to give us a true indication on what the Fed's thoughts are on interest rates will come from Greenspan's comments on Friday, ... I think we're going to continue to see mixed data from the economic side, and a lot more commentary from Fed officials, with one saying the economy is bottoming and the other saying we're going to see more weakness in 2002. That will continue into the first half of this year.

John McEnroe

If anyone's been listening to my commentary the past year then they know I'm in favor of using replay. I think it will make tennis more interesting.

Larry Greene

I don't think it's a sad commentary on society. We're just inundated with tragedies. I guess it's a defense mechanism to compartmentalize these things and set them aside.

Robert Sarver

From the get-go, our entire intention was to sign Joe Johnson . As I read some of the reports and listen to some of the commentary about how we kind of duped our fans or tricked our fans or whatever, it's just totally false. We went out of our way to do everything we could to sign Joe Johnson .

Democritus

Magnanimity consists in enduring tactlessness with mildness.

Chris Kozak

We've had a mild winter and we've got a higher-than-normal storage inventory.

Jerry Conway

Because of the mild weather we've been having there's no ice, and the seals now have to find an alternative place to pup.

Charlie Batch

He's been able to put this together and make sure the right pieces are in place. And we were pieces of this team.

Troy Polamalu

I became a millionaire overnight by signing a piece of paper. I made more money in that one second than my entire family did in their lifetime.

Richard Gere

I do my work as an actor, but another part of my work goes to the piece as a whole. I can be fairly detached looking at my work and be brutal on myself.

Ryan Reynolds

If it weren’t so off-putting for my co-workers. I’d wear my flannel, one-piece 'Hannah Montana' pajamas, like, all the time!

Tyson Chandler

Probably the most dramatic pieces in my wardrobe would be capes.

Walt Disney

Disneyland is like a piece of clay: If there is something I don't like, I'm not stuck with it. I can reshape and revamp.

Sarah Dessen

So while it seemed like you were seeing everything, you really weren't. Just bits and pieces that looked like a whole.

Rod Serling

The writer's no different. When he's rejected, that paper is rejected, in a sense, a sizeable fragment of the writer is rejected as well. It's a piece of himself that's being turned down.

William Butler Yeats

Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the Accusation of Sin, as in George Eliot, who plucks her Tito in pieces with as much assurance as if he had been clockwork, literature has begun to change into something else.

Wes Moore

Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it so important than not a single moment be wasted.

Jude Law

When I think about it like that, it feels like a burden. But that won't mean I'll be single for the rest of my life - I hope. I feel very settled with myself in my world. I don't feel as needy and desperate to prove things about myself. In my twenties I was very keen to achieve this and disprove this and that. Now I enjoy just being able to concentrate on my children and my work and myself.

Mark Twain

Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

Nadine Gordimer

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

Martin Buber

Solitude is the place of purification.

Pete Wilson

The grateful heart is not developed in a single moment; it is the result of a thousand choices.

Pearl S. Buck

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

John Mellencamp

I've just been fortunate to havehad a lot of hit records, though Human Wheels doesn't qualify as a hit record-but it's really the best single I've ever had.

Malcolm Forbes

There is just no way any management with any intelligence and foresight cannot recognize the value of a corporate image. It is the best, single marketable investment that a company can make.

Geoff Stults

In sports, every day you can be the hero or the goat.

Dick Enberg

He was the first superstar of sports television.

William Law

If you attempt to talk with a dying man about sports or business, he is no longer interested. He now sees other things as more important. People who are dying recognize what we often forget, that we are standing on the brink of another world.

Vinny Testaverde

First you have to spread on the rust performer, then you add a coat of protective enamel, and then you spray on the satin finish so you look good.

Woody Allen

I came home one night, some month ago, and I went to the closet in my bedroom...and a moth ate my sports jacket. He was laying on the floor, nauseous, y'know.

William Wilberforce

Watering places - the sports of the field - cards! never-failing cards! - the assembly - the theater - all contribute their aid - amusements are multiplied, and combined, and varied, 'to fill up the void of a listless and languid life;' and by the judicious use of these different resources, there is often a kind of sober settled plan of domestic dissipation, in which with all imaginable decency year after year wears away in unprofitable vacancy.

William Wordsworth

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

William J. Clinton

When it comes to anything that's social, whether it's your family, your school, your community, your business or your country, winning is a team sport.

William James

Effort is a measure of a Man.