Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Gavin

Going forward, we expect the economy to show positive year-on-year and seasonally adjusted rates in the quarters ahead, but the 1.8 percent Central Bank estimate appears to have more downside than upside risk at the moment.

Julius James

It is a big adjustment. The higher you go the faster you have to play, the less time you have to react. You have to be mentally adjusted to the rapid changes.

Randy Mayes

I think the opposing coaches had a lot of respect for him. Biggest thing he had to get used to was playing every down and pass blocking. And he adjusted to both of those well.

Connie Clark

I thought we grew a lot mentally. We were challenged to make sure we adjusted mentally.

Debbie Ryan

I thought that we really adjusted well from the first half to the second half, which is a good indication of how well these kids do at adjusting. We did a much better job of defending penetration and we got on the boards a lot better.

Gary Barnett

I thought our defense was on the ball. We had a good plan and sort of knew what they were going to do. I thought we tackled well. They had one new formation for us, and only a couple of new plays. The kids adjusted to (those) pretty well.

Don Shows

I thought our defense adjusted real well to what Ruston was doing. Ruston looked good on that first drive, but the defense picked it up after that.

Cari Strange

I think we're peaking at the right time, and we adjusted decently tonight. One of our goals was to win a couple games in the playoffs. The kids worked really hard, and different girls have been stepping us for us in each game.

Ron Artest

I think when I got Defensive Player of the Year I was playing great defense. Last year when they implemented those new rules, I was still playing very good defense. I just have to get adjusted to the NBA style of play. It will be fine because I can still slide my feet.

Chris Strathman

It all started on the defensive end. The effort was great.

Rick Carlisle

He wanted to give it a try, and he really gave us some defensive energy to start the third, which was big.

Gil Brandt

He didn't work out like a tight end would work out, but he worked out like a defensive or offensive lineman. He's an intriguing guy, a good guy to look at.

Lou Dawkins

He could easily have gotten more time early, but he didn't understand our defensive philosophy. The one thing we say here is if you don't play defense, you don't play. You can always have an off night shooting, but you can always play defense.

Nick Saban

He didn't look like a defensive end doing that.

Sam Simpson

He can run. He can catch. He can block, ... He's our long-snapper and he plays as well on the defensive side as he does on offense.

Ed Nottle

Hector had a nice game at shortstop for us. I felt Eugene Julien was a little rusty out there, so I gave him the night off. Hector made some nice defensive plays in the field, got a big hit and drove in a big run.

Lanny Smith

He killed us. We had some breakdowns in our defensive rotations, which we usually don't do.

Rusty Brauner

Hannah directs traffic and provides lots of cohesion for us on the defensive end. She has great vision seeing the entire field and knows the defensive scheme. She is a vocal leader and our players listen to her.

Mike Scioscia

Kenny's a fine manager. He was my vote for manager of the year.

David Walker

I think in the run game, we'll be fine and I think we'll be able to have some success with it -- we really need to, in order to help the passing game out,

John Diamond

He was a fine teacher in the classroom. The worst thing that he could have done for me was to retire.

Burt Reynolds

He was a wonderful man and a fine actor, and we will all miss him.

Bill Hamilton

He did so many things. Not only was he a fine producer, but he was also turning out to be a phenomenal novelist as well as a highly considerable biographer.

Guy Hansen

He could be a power guy like Clemens or he could be a finesse guy like Radke. Or he could end up in the middle.

Brandon Roy

Guys made shots tonight. It didn't have to be a 'Brandon Roy makes shots down the stretch' night, and that's fine with me.

Jerome Davis

There are some very fine officers on this force but there are also some racist ones and those obviously need to be weeded out.

Larry Sandburg

Have you ever seen a shortstop play a finer game than that. She probably saved two or three runs.

Ken Hill

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

Charles Warren

I was like, 'Wow,' something's going on here, ... Something good is about to happen.

Ramon Hernandez

I was looking for a fastball. I got it on the good part of the bat. It went where no one could get it.

Carl Pohlad

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

Paul Marsh

Kinston paled a great game, and with them, it's always a battle. We didn't shoot well from the outside, but it's good to pick up that second win in a row.

Buck Showalter

Kenny was effective. They've seen Kenny so much. They hit some good pitches for hits. He bent, but he didn't break.

Alex Winter

Knowing that it is highly competitive, and I'm not the first person to say this, but good stories do tend to get made.

Kevin Towers

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

John Crumbley

(Key West) had a tough week this week, but (starting pitcher Daniel) Foltz pitched a good game. It was good to be in this type of pressure situation.

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.

B. B. King

Kevin did a great job tonight. He gutted it out there at the end for us. It was a great team win.

Brian Smith

Kieron has played some great rugby for us this season.

Larry Martin

Knoxville is a great place to live. It's a great place to raise kids.

James Patterson

Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.

Mary Carskadon

Kids are too sleepy to learn well. They're too sleepy to be happy. And they're at great risk for such things as traffic accidents.

Alan Trammel

I wouldn't say it was one of his greatest performances, but he pitched well enough to win.

Jim Schmitz

Jake Wade did just such a great job throwing strikes, going right at them. He pitched six quality innings. It was just nice to see him come out like that.

Bill Parcells

I was kind of thinking back to Seattle last year, ... We kind of talked about that. We're just fortunate, really.

Joe Edgens

Kelley is going to be right up to the last minute before it's done.

Dave Kaplan

(Jocelyn) bounced back from a rough outing last time. Very nicely done. She's going to get another start, and we're going to keep working with her.

Will Grace

JLo-so karen hows married life?Karen-well it only lasted 20 minutesJLo-Oh is that short?

Bobbie Davis

I think I said to the players last year that they had one day to celebrate. And then they had to start concentrating and thinking about this year.

Keyshawn Johnson

It ain't no rebirth. I realized it last year when he was here, then he was gone. Quickly.

John Brady

He was 338 last season, ... We said he was at 320, but we lied. Now he's at 306 or 312. Really. He was quick last year. At 310, he's like nimble quick.

Bobby Cox

He couldn't wiggle out of the last one. Thought he might, but he didn't.

Jack Parker

He couldn't make a pass or shoot a puck. If this wasn't his senior year, if he was a junior, we probably wouldn't have played him this weekend. I didn't want to miss what could have been, at any moment, his last game.

Tony Parker

I want to become the first European floor leader to succeed in the NBA. I want to be the standard-bearer and prove we can succeed here.

Xi Jinping

NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.

Donnie Walsh

Reggie is the one who made our transformation to the NBA real.

Herbert Hainer

In the long term, this new 11-year partnership has the power to make the NBA and Adidas synonymous in basketball.

Gilbert Arenas

If you want to go to the NBA and you're a guard, go to Lute Olson.

Luke Ridnour

I just know he's called me to use the NBA platform as a way to share about him.

Lamar Odom

The thing I love about the NBA game is that it's a playmaker's league.

Kyrie Irving

I felt like we would have definitely won an NBA championship if everyone was healthy.

Billy Donovan

It's not about just getting to the NBA with these guys. It's about making an impact. This is their decision.

Jerry Krause

I wrote, 'He's as smart a young player as I've ever seen,'

Ben Chandler

I think it can be a distraction to the player being recruited and the team, if it's something the team is not used to, ... Around Loomis, little old Loomis, it's a little crazy.

John Madden

He could do it as a player and he could do it as a coach, because they respect him. That's what it's all about.

Charlie Coe

He'll be a player for us. He's a young guy, so we'll have to get him in here and see how he does. But with our situation, he'll have a shot.

Justin Fishman

GW has always had talented players because of where it's located.

Ken Hitchcock

He's a significant player of our team. We need him in the lineup.

Bob Snell

He's a very intelligent player with speed and size and he hits.

Chris Morris

He's a very experienced and uncompromising midfielder, and I like having that type of player in my squad.

Kelvin Sampson

He's a unique player and he kind of does what we need.

Dwyane Wade

I was like, 'Hey, Carmelo Anthony should be playing too.' . . . I think I could have helped.

Jeff Attinella

Kevin's taught me everything I know about playing keeper. He's prepared me for every situation.

John Buck

Just say today's the day and keep playing hard. Hopefully, it's going to end tomorrow.

Jose Reyes

He is playing like the game. He is trying all the time.

Scot Bunnell

Harrison is playing really well and to go over there and win will be a challenge.

Thomas Muster

I was so tired of playing tennis, so tired of traveling, of hotels, everything related to this sport.

Taylor Hawkins

I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.

Susumu Tonegawa

Recalling a memory is not like playing a tape recorder. It's a creative process.

Chris Crocker

There are still things I can do better. As a whole, everyone's playing together.

Robert Smith

It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.

Will Anderson

They wanted us to stop so they could do the cha-cha slide or something,

Ryan Smith

They just slide into the lake, they don't even stand a chance.

Naomi Judd

An expert is just somebody from out of town with slides.

Margaret Atwood

How easy it is, treachery. You just slide into it.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Taking a hypersensitive approach to life had come to seem so much more pure and honest then joining the ranks of the numb masses who could let it all slide by. What I stopped realizing was that if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all. Everything registers at the same decibel...

Bill Lee

The only rule I got is if you slide, get up.

Greg Moore

The slide breached the back wall of the house.

Mark Dinger

No work can be done until the slide stabilizes and we don't know when that will occur.

Alex Villalobos

I think that if we play our style and do what we have to do and make them play our game, we'll be OK.

Ronnie Brewer

We've got to play our style of basketball. (Being physical) is not our style of basketball.

Richard Whately

Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.

Richard Whately

The first requisite of style, not only in rhetoric, but in all compositions, is perspicuity.

Toyo Ito

I will never fix my architectural style and never be satisfied with my works.

Woodrow Wilson

I must beg you to indulge me in the matter of hyphens.... You will find that I have marked out a great many in the proofs. We arein danger of Germanizing our printing by using them so much, and I have a very decided preference in the matter.

William Saroyan

Jack Benny had style from the beginning. He stood straight and walked kind of sideways as if he were being gently shoved by a touch of genius.

William James

If there is aught of good in the style, it is the result of ceaseless toil in rewriting. Everything comes out wrong with me at first; but when once objectified I can torture and poke and scrape and pat it till it offends me no more.

Rian Johnson

I'm definitely a big believer in the notion that a heightened style can get you closer to an authentic human experience than so-called realism on film. There are films I love that have kind of a muted or realistic style, but for me on any given day I have more moments during the course of a day that feel like a Fellini movie than I do a Cassavettes movie.

Jeff Hammond

He's a different person than he was a year ago.

Emily Cederholm

I think the expectations are higher, but they don't feel so much pressure. This whole year is different.

Brandon Roy

I think this is the year it can happen.

Two Chainz

In my 8th grade yearbook picture I had on 2 chains.

Richard D. James

My filing system's really crap because I can never decide whether to sort things by studio, or year, or where I lived.

Richard D. James

I've always got to change something. All the tracks I've done in the last five years were made in like six different studios. It gets a bit complicated.

Robbie Coltraine

Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you.

Rob Sheffield

Not being able to protect her from things was the most frightening thing I'd ever felt, and it kicked in as soon as we got together. With every year we spent together, I became more conscious that I now had an infinitely expanding number of reasons to be afraid. I had something to lose.

Rob Brown

To me, an untrained ear, a young person at the time, I would hear off the different feels, all these different sounds, and then years later realize that everyone had used the same equipment, just to their own ends.