Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Thomas

I was looking forward to showing some character by giving a good effort all the way to the end of the year. I thought there was a good chance that maybe we could end the season with a win and feel good about ourselves. But it wasn't to be.

Lyle Overbay

I was looking for a pitch to hit. I had a chance to drive it. When I saw it go in the gap I thought maybe there would be a chance to score. Next thing you know, we win the game.

Jarome Iginla

Kipper, he's played like that all year. He's been amazing. Especially early tonight, they had some chances and he made some timely saves.

Donna Reed

Just the idea of giving a critically ill person a new chance at life. Every time I think about it I get goose bumps. My son lives on in them.

Brian France

Joe Gibbs has proven that you can take success from one sport and translate it to another. If they follow anything close to his model, and they're smart guys, they'll have a chance to be successful.

John Lucas

John has had a lot of skills for a long time, ... Sometimes, picking the wrong school, picking a system that doesn't fit, you have to go where you can. I think he's in a system now he likes and respects a lot, he's getting a chance to play with high-level athletes.

Ron Wilson

It actually gave us a chance to stop the goal from being counted. But it's just one of those things.

Brian Jensen

I think it's a great team. You get a chance to talk about poker with some great players and there's a feeling of team spirit.

Larry Davis

I think it's a great idea. While my wife's doing the grocery shopping instead of just wandering around the store, it would be a good chance to have my cholesterol checked again.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

Alden Ehrenreich

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.

Chuck D.

Joey wrestled a great tournament, and we don't want him to get lost in the shuffle. He was solid all weekend.

Tim Ehresman

Joe was great tonight. He did things tonight he's been practicing all year. Come heck or high water, he was going to make it (to the regional tournament) again.

Ike Turner

Joe Louis is a great artist. He kind of helped me somewhat getting back to the blues.

Fay Vincent

John is the hero. He did a great job. Now Rose admits John was correct.

Mitchel McLaughlin

John Hume has, I think, demonstrated great sensitivity and judgment throughout this peace process. And I think it's hard to imagine a more inappropriate moment to make that suggestion.

Donnie Henderson

I think it's a great opportunity. You always want to hear your name, and now a team has actually called. It's exciting.

Ryan Coleman

I think we're doing a tremendous job defensively. We're holding our opponents to 50 points or less, which is right where they need to be.

Asma Jehangir

I did not see ill will on the part of the government, that they were holding it for themselves, or misappropriating it. But nevertheless, what they didn't understand is the need for speed. They're being bureaucratic.

Jeff Hanna

He loved it over there, and they loved him. When we went onstage in Japan, there were people holding up 'Vassar Clements' placards.

Glenn Mason

I'm an old-fashioned guy. There are two kinds of coaches: schemers and fundamentalists. Fundamentalists teach blocking, tackling and holding on to the ball.

Brian Hill

I'm sure it's discouraging for him. He looked to me that he was having some pain and I didn't want to take any chances. I saw him wincing out there and holding his midsection. It didn't make sense for him to continue. I know he's down.

Lisa Parker

You can see where there's no bark. That's where we were holding onto it.

Jeremy Lewis

It's like holding a wolf by the ears, ... You don't want to hold it, but you don't want to let it go.

Mike Holmgren

I've had the privilege of holding it (the Lombardi Trophy) before and I hope to touch it again.

Kristin Hannah

Sometimes holding on was all you could do.

Martha Washington

He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.

Tim Ruskell

We lost our two starting receivers to injuries at various times. If we didn't have Joe, we would have had a skid. We wouldn't have had our 11 in a row and we wouldn't be here.

Jim Daley

Injuries occur and they are always unnerving and you always have to adapt. Sometimes, you have more notice than the end of the week.

Venus Williams

Injuries are part of sports, but right now, (I'm) solid.

Simon Gagne

It's tough news to take right now, especially with the start I have had and everything was going well. Right now, we're going through so many injuries and my turn came.

Chan Gailey

It's OK. It's not where it needs to be. Most of that is because of injuries and not having enough time playing together.

Kathy Harper

We are seeing anything from soft tissue injuries to major injuries that can involve paralysis from the lap belt, to thoracic injuries from the shoulder belt.

Stephen Schwerdt

Sometimes these type of injuries are frustrating and more time is needed to get it right. We will now back off his training for two weeks and then reassess.

Phil Jackson

This is really a slow go if it's a tear. What we do know is these are the type of injuries you've got to let heal, go slow with.

Donna Myers

What you are doing is running the seniors out of Worthington.

Lindsay Whalen

It could be worse, ... I'm already kind of running around and jumping. They kind of said to me, 'Just see how you feel.'

Derrick Williams

We talked all week about establishing the running game. We established out running game, and now we can see that we can run and pass.

Robert Cormier

Archie became absolutely still, afraid that the rapid beating of his heart might betray his sudden knowledge, the proof of what he'd always suspected, not only of Brother Leon but most grownups, most adults: they were vulnerable, running scared, open to invasion.

Richard Paul Evans

Love never gives in or up, holding tight to lofty ideals that transcend this earth and time, while its counterfeit simply concludes it was mistaken and quickly runs off to find the next real thing.

Richard P. Feynman

The idea that no one really knew how to run a government led to the idea that we should arrange a system by which new ideas could be developed, tried out, and tossed out if necessary, with more new ideas brought in - a trial and error system.

Richard Dawkins

The trouble with conspiracies, even those that are to everybody's advantage in the long run, is that they are open to abuse. If manipulators really had the powers claimed, they could win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that they could also win a Nobel Prize for discovering fundamental physical forces hitherto unknown to science

Richard Dawkins

If we are too friendly to nice, decent bishops, we run the risk of buying into the fiction that there's something virtuous about believing things because of faith rather than because of evidence. We run the risk of betraying scientific enlightenment.

Richard Dawkins

On one planet [earth], and possibly only one planet in the entire universe, molecules that would normally make nothing more complicated than a chunk of rock, gather themselves together into chunks of rock-sized matter of such staggering complexity that they are capable of running, jumping, swimming, flying, seeing, hearing, capturing and eating other such animated chunks of complexity; capable in some cases of thinking and feeling, and falling in love with yet other chunks of complex matter.