Famous Quotes & Sayings

Life, to me, is like a quiet forest pool, one that needs a direct hit from a big rock half-buried in the ground. You pull and you pull, but you can't get the rock out of the ground. So you give it a good kick, but you lose your balance and go skidding down the hill toward the pool. Then out comes a big Hawaiian man who was screwing his wife beside the pool because they thought it was real pretty. He tells you to get out of there, but you start faking it, like you're talking Hawaiian, and then he gets mad and chases you...

Neville Isdell

We have a long way to go in mastering that art, ... As we identified the fact we were under pricing, the pendulum swung too far over to only improve price. The pendulum should be stopped in the middle so we have a proper balance between volume and price.

Dean Stanley

should meet, and could beat, street expectations, based on anticipated strong demand.

Matthew Paull

Significantly, when we convert this group of restaurants to developmental licensees, the results we currently report from these markets will be replaced over time with a royalty--- a royalty based solely on a percentage of sales, and our capital requirements will be eliminated.

Udo Jacob

Simply put, this verdict is not the result of the evidence, but is largely based on fantasy.

Shen Si

Since Shanghai International plans to take the stakes from other shareholders in an internal deal instead of from the public market, the price will be based on their own negotiations.

Pam Grier

I have a wide stretch of film interests because everything is based on Greek tragedy.

Dolly Parton

I have a person who works in my organization who once was a woman and now is a man. I didn't know for years that this person had had a sex change. I know what a wonderful person he is, and I based some of my feelings (in the song) on my feelings for him and on knowing what he went through.

Joseph Barbera

I first pitched the idea of doing a series of cartoons based on Bible stories. They didn't much like it.

Chantalle Rye

I feel good about our chances going into this tournament based on our team. If we end up playing on Sunday for that championship, I think our confidence is going to be the biggest thing. And passion, heart. We've got so much on this team, it's incredible.

Howard Varinsky

If both sides get rid of unfavorable people and they wind up with people in the middle, then the verdict will be based on the evidence. If it's done incorrectly, cases can be won or lost during jury selection.

Elizabeth Kenny

One of the puppets is a drawing on my thumb. That is Handsome Percy.

Margaret Atwood

I look up at the ceiling, tracing the foliage of the wreath. Today it makes me think of a hat, the large-brimmed hats women used to wear at some period during the old days: hats like enormous halos, festooned with fruit and flowers, and the feathers of exotic birds; hats like an idea of paradise, floating just above the head, a thought solidified.

Vince Carter

We're really starting to gel, starting to move. We've got our flow going as a starting unit. It's good to see.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

When someday I die, Please tell those whom I know That I ebbed with the Flow

Michael Capellas

We see significant revenue flow in the fourth quarter of this year.

Tim Duncan

We got into a flow in the third quarter. All in all it was a team effort.

Gal Luft

There is a lot we can learn from Brazil. They are doing great things,

Butch Harmon

The reason I stand before you today the man I am is because of my brother. A lot has been written about what a great teacher Dick was. He was my teacher. He was more than a brother. He was more than a friend. He was a mentor.

Judy Gold

There is nothing - nothing - like writing a great joke and having that joke kill onstage.

Stacey Bendet

Theory did a great work pant, and everyone was doing denim. But no one was making a trouser sexy, or the focus of an outfit... So, that's what I set out to do.

Domhnall Gleeson

There is something wonderful about turning up every day and knowing that not just the character but the whole movie kind of rests on your shoulders. And there's great satisfaction when you think it's going well and then real terror when you think it's not.

Mo Charlo

We had a great year. We won the regular-season championship, we won the tournament and we won 27 games. You can't take that away. We accomplished a lot.

Herb Sendek

We had a great understanding of what we were trying to accomplish. But we do understand we have a long way to go.

Amy Stewart

We had a great turn out, we had perfect weather, and all the kids ran great today,

Jim Koch

We had a great tournament. The new national rankings should put us about seventh or eighth.

Kirby Moses

Ten of our 14 wrestlers scored points which helped us today. There were 15 teams and we didn't know what to expect. We were the smallest school there.

Deon Grant

We didn't play bad, ... But we sure didn't do a lot to help ourselves.

Derek Smith

Time of possession obviously helps us. We've just got to keep on working.

Bobby Douglas

Trent will be OK. There is no reason to risk anything when the Big 12 meet is two weeks away.

Keith Nicholls

If he can get an acquittal before the primary, he might still be strong.

Wade Henderson

If his view had prevailed, our country's voting rights revolution might never have happened,

James Farrior

If he would have stayed in the game, it might have been a long day for us. We just didn't play up to our level.

Henry Hyde

If he verifies these charges, impeachment might very well be an option,

J. Michael Straczynski

If your going to have delusions, you might as well go for the really satisfying ones.

J. K. Rowling

Well — I was lucky once, wasn't I?” said Harry, pointing at his scar. “I might get lucky again.

J. K. Rowling

Professor Snape was forcing them to research antidotes. They took this one seriously, as he had hinted that he might be poisoning one of them before Christmas to see if their antidote worked.

J. K. Rowling

He might have crawled up into the airing cupboard and died, but I mustn't get my hopes up.

Chris Stapleton

If I'm feeling like rock, we'll do some of that, and if I'm feeling some other way, we might do some of that. So, that's typically how I record and write and play music and anything else.