Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rob Sumner

Our defenseman couldn't get there because he was getting blocked. There was a scoring chance created off of it and they scored.

Al Wolski

The monkey is kinda off our back. The first win is always the most important. To be so close to it so many games prior, it gnawed at their insides and finally they got a chance to win. It's great for them.

Don Watson

Defense was the major flaw of our play. We never gave the offense a chance to shine because of poor passing and serve receive.

Joe Tucci

Dell had a great model, a different model. If we had a chance to replay the record in this industry, there would be a lot more people following this kind of strategy.

Brian Winter

Delisha Milton-Jones is a heck of a defender, and so is Charlotte Smith-Taylor. They did a nice job on (the play), but we had a chance to win the game and that's what we wanted.

Drew Brees

Definitely a game we should have won. To have the momentum we did, to be down on the yard-and-a-half line when we were up 14-10, we felt we had a great chance to put them away.

Mark Nash

Dee had played Blanche for us in A Streetcar Named Desire back in 2001, ... When I heard she was doing this show, I jumped on the chance to import it to our theatre.

Robert Dozier

Coach said ... we're way more talented than they were, and we've got an even better chance of making it to the Final Four. He preaches it to us. We hear that at least one time every day, that it shouldn't be as tough for us to get there as it was for them.

Jim Sandusky

Coach Ross invited us and I thought it would just be a good chance for our players to see how football is played at the next level. I want them to see how college players prepare, how they run drills, how seriously they take it.

Eric Takamura

Their contention is any spill is a violation.

William S. Paley

What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.

Jim Calhoun

I've been in a (locker) room with some talented teams and some teams that bordered on greatness. But I don't know if I've been in a room before with so many kids that have sacrificed so much.

Brandon Sanderson

That isn’t greatness. That’s just foolishness.

Archibald Alexander

No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins. Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound.

Brad Meltzer

Greatness isn't something you should always be chasing. There's greatness within all of us, and I think that's what we forget,

Baltasar Gracian

Wisdom and courage make mutual contributions to greatness.

Baltasar Gracian

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Blaise Pascal

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

Blaise Pascal

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity. The greatness of the human soul is shown by knowing how to keep within proper bounds. There are two equally dangerous extremes- to shut reason out, and not to let nothing in.

Blaise Pascal

That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising to be told that it is foolish to seek greatness; that is most remarkable.

Brandon Claussen

When I walked over there, he wasn't moving. He was knocked out. He wasn't moving at all.

Ray Rice

I won't call myself a failure. Failure is not getting knocked down. It's not getting up.

Isaac Newton

What goes up must come down.

Larry Smith

Chemo is chemo, but it wasn't the kind that just knocked you on your butt.

John Rainey

He stuck his neck out and knocked it out of the park.

Frank Barrett

He tilted at windmills, but he knocked over a lot of them in a variety of fields.

DeJuan Blair

That was like getting knocked out in the last second of a title fight.

Aaron McFarland

That's a very talented team. They'll do well. I'd love to say we got knocked out by the state champions.

Dave Ketterman

They just really needed a win more than we did. They played with a sense of urgency and knocked some shots down.

Jonny Lee Miller

The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I have no idea what I will be doing next, and I kind of like that.

Clive Woodward

This is an outstanding team for the tour and will be a tremendous opportunity for some other players to step up to the mark,

Mustafa Shakur

This is an opportunity to be around pros and watch Steve going around the court, trying to pick up some things.

Alexa Posny

This is an opportunity that only comes once in a lifetime.

Kate Buckley

That opportunity made me realize I wanted to be a director,

Arthur Miller

The witch-hunt was a perverse manifestation of the panic which set in among all classes when the balance began to turn toward greater individual freedom. The witch-hunt was not, however, a mere repression. It was also, and as importantly, a long overdue opportunity for everyone so inclined to express publicly his guilt and sins, under the cover of accusations against the victims.

Brenda Strong

We are all being called to be more present than ever, while dealing with a more challenging array of personal and professional challenges, opportunities and all-around growth.

Brad Pitt

When you first get opportunities, suddenly you get surrounded by a lot of people who want to make money off you but also are there to help. But they start telling you so much what you need to be and what you need to do to maintain some idea of career maintenance.

Jane Fonda

I know how gratifying it is not only to work in film but to be acknowledged by peers; producing '9 to 5' was an opportunity that I valued precisely because it's so rarely in the hands of women.

Bill Bullard

As a regular commissioner, it takes about 50 percent of my time, ... As chairman, it's about 90 percent of my time. It's significantly more work and more hours.

Frank Barnaby

A vast percentage of centrifuges have to be rejected in testing, up to 60% rejection.

Padraig Harrington

These fairways are at least 50 percent narrower that anything you would see in the States.

Greg Anderson

We have 50 percent of the units reserved and that's very exciting.

Craig Shniderman

Percentage of sales--the table contributions, which often represent about 50 percent of the table revenue--actually go up.

Chris Cooney

Only 10 percent say very unfavorable after 20 years of work.

Melissa Etheridge

I would say I'm 97 percent back now,

Thomas A. Edison

Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

Lawrence Lindsey

I would not be surprised to see 5 percent unemployment by the end of the summer. I would be surprised to see 6 percent.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.

Auguste Comte

Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.

Juvenal

There's no effrontery like that of a woman caught in the act; her very guilt inspires her with wrath and insolence.

Cameron Diaz

What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.

Jane Austen

With women, the heart argues, not the mind.

Jane Wagner

A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?

Bella Abzug

Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one.

Barry Watson

It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious.