Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Dunn

Jacob pitched a great game. He actually got slower as the game went on, and I think that really affected their rhythm.

King Hussein

Jordanians are responsible people and they will not be affected by what is said to undermine Parliament's role, dignity and its influence.

Frank Culbertson

It affected us over several days, and every morning when I opened the mail (e-mail), there would be some new piece of information that would hit me pretty hard.

O. Singh

It affected my performance in Zimbabwe tour as well. I could not concentrate on my game due to immense pressure that if I commit any mistake, the coach will definitely make it an issue against me,

Ted Roof

It certainly set the tone for the second half. I surely don't want to say that was the only play that affected the outcome of the game, but we've got to be able to get off the field on third and long.

Kip Janvrin

I think the injuries really affected us last weekend. I think we are a better team than the other teams, but we need to be more consistent. I think it will all come together when it really counts.

Ron Reichle

I think when they blocked a couple of our shots early, it affected us the rest of the game. We let that bother us. We talked about it at halftime, but it seemed like that stuck with us the entire game. It made us change our shots.

Lisa Mandeville

I think the difference in this game was two things. I think their size. We were one and done for most of the evening. And our inability to hit shots, both in the paint and on the outside. Their defense is good but I don?t think their defense affected our missing shots.

John Gibbons

I think the baseball world is not giving them as much credit as they deserve. They're a good ball club, they proved that last year, just too many outside influences affected them.

George Herbert Mead

Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure.

Anders Rasmussen

It is positive that the (EU) Commission is trying to reduce the short-term impact by proposing to let the blocked textiles into the market,

Jeff Samardzija

I thought we blocked exceptionally well. We hurt them with screen passes and every time we had three or four guys leading the way.

Jerry Bailey

I didn't get to a spot as early as I needed to. I got blocked and had nowhere to go. I had a feeling it was going to be too little too late.

Billy Donovan

Our blocks in the Miami game came the right way. They came with our big guys playing good post defense, moving their feet. When someone from Miami committed to shooting the basketball, most of our blocked shots were on the ball.

Aftab Sherpao

Right now people are angry. They are wailing and crying. Some of them have blocked roads in the town and we are trying to control the situation.

Oliver Luck

I packed the family up in the car, and we went to the game, at the old Mile High, and it was a real downpour, just torrential rain. It turned out that there was a mudslide that blocked off I-70 so we had to take this huge detour and ended up getting home at something like four in the morning. I actually called Don up and said that I hoped that my experience with soccer would get better from here!

Charlie Villanueva

I heard them, I heard them, ... But I blocked everything out, and I was really confident when I stepped to the line and knocked them down.

Curtis Sanford

I'm just trying to do my job. The guys are getting some good blocked shots for me and letting me see the rest.

Jim Tressel

It bothers you that he might be criticized. Does that mean I think he's been perfect? No. But I think Ted Ginn has done an excellent job for us.

Bill Thomas

It bothers us a great deal, and we'll be before the court on it Monday.

Andrew VonderHaar

It bothers the heck out of me. I just want to get back in there so bad. I just get mad at myself for getting those stupid fouls.

James Vincent McMorrow

It bothers me when musicians listen to music from the '60s and try and recreate it. Those people weren't trying to recreate music from the '20s. Why do it?

Richard Morris

It bothers me when I hear it in a car commercial or some such. But for the most part, it's better than seeing sacred music relegated to the scrap heap.

John Taylor

It bothers me to think about it -- the kids are starting fires and they're firefighters. It's wrong.

Tim Wildmon

It bothers me that the White House card leaves off any reference to Jesus, while we've got Ramadan celebrations in the White House. What's going on there?

Cindy Davis

It bothers me that kids who are doing it are not thinking of the lives they're putting in jeopardy,

Michael Bamberger

It bothered me a lot (Saturday night). We don't ever want to be part of the story.

Hanya Yanagihara

I was interested about how relationships change as you get older. You are great friends in your 20s. In your 30s, you get married. Your 40s are all about your kids. In your 50s, you get divorced, and your friendships become primary again.

Amy Jones

Kevin wants to change the course of his life and just get out of the industry. It was his decision. It's a life choice.

Richard Applegate

I would try to talk to your employer and see if they would change the investments, ... You might as well try if the choices stink or the offerings are really expensive.

Jeff Murray

Jack Reynolds (the developer's attorney) told me that a simple language change in their development proposal resulted in the need to rezone the site. They changed the language from 'senior living' to 'age-restricted' and apparently, doing so requires a rezoning if they want to develop the site in the way that they propose.

Robert Boswell

I write a ridiculous number of drafts. The characters change and grow through the drafting, and my understanding of them deepens. Creating characters in a novel is like shooting at clay pigeons and missing, and then missing more productively as the narrative continues.

Al Bowman

Just to put that in perspective, a traffic ticket is a summary offense. It happened years ago in college. I think, obviously, Mike has changed quite a bit, as we all have, in these last eight years or six years. I'm sure he's not proud of these.

Barry Collier

Kansas didn't just cut our hair. They shaved our head. They scored 196 or 96 or one or the other on us. It'll take a tremendous effort to slow them down and change that.

Bruce Bochy

Just seeing his name in the lineup changes the flow of the game.

Gabriella Goddard

Just one step could change your life forever.

Todd Jones

I was lucky to get a couple by him. Because he's a pretty deadly hitter.

Max von Sydow

I was in such a hurry to be an actor. Now I'm sometimes mad at myself that I didn't stop and study for a couple of years.

Shawn Chacon

I wouldn't say I needed it desperately. But after struggling the first couple of times you put more pressure on yourself.

Billy Beane

Kenny called me a couple days ago in Phoenix, ... He gave me a call.It took a lot for him to pick up the phone.

Dwyane Wade

Just the right place at the right time. Some nights are like that. I was able to get in a couple passing lanes and get some picks, but for the most part, it was just being in the right place at the right time.

Chuck Grant

Jon pitched a very good game, but there were two innings when we gave them five outs. We're a pretty young team, and we were missing a couple of players today, but that's no excuse for mental errors. We have to improve in that area, and it's my job to see that we do.

Mary Roach

I talk to a lot of people who, when you try to sum them up in a couple of sentences, seem like they must be insane.

Mike Scioscia

He was a winner. He won a couple of division titles. He did win. Just because he didn't win a championship is not how you define the man.

Stan Conte

He didn't respond the way we thought he was going to. We gave him a couple of days and we gave him an injection. It didn't make a difference.

Patty Krueger

Knowing when you are done, knowing when you are through with the entire painting, is the hardest thing to learn.

Charles Clarke

I think it is a shocking state of affairs. The concern, possibly anger, that people will feel is entirely understandable.

Petro Poroshenko

He didn't look in my eyes the entire time he was reading his statement.

Patrick Swayze

He just dropped. And the entire responsibility of the family suddenly was on me.

Paul Doyle

He's devastated. The one main focus of the entire year was the world championships, so it's pretty tough.

Jerry Sullivan

His versatility and value to the offense can't be overstated. If he were healthy for the entire season, even as inconsistent as we were in the pass game, Arnaz would probably have been a 60- to 70-catch guy.

Tony Blair

I think it's entirely reasonable to talk about the possibility of withdrawal of troops next year but it's got to be always conditioned by the fact that we withdraw when the job is done,

Delia Ephron

It consists entirely of people who are not related by blood, many of whom can't stand each other.

Patrick Moore

It hurts not having Lips in there. But the entire field goal team has got to get better.

Rodney Melville

I will look for ways to restrict testimony.

Shayne Ward

I have been to see a specialist and they have told me that singers often suffer from this problem, but that it's nothing to worry about and that I need to rest my voice for a week or so.

Richard M. Nixon

Fate has ordained that the men who went to the Moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace. These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin [Buzz] Aldrin, know that there is no hope for their recovery. But they also know that there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice.

Yoweri Museveni

May the soul of the late President Milton Obote... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace.

Wasim Akram

First of all, convince yourself that you are the best because the rest of your life is going to go proving this to others.

Rick Warren

Relationships are always worth restoring.

Doctor Who

Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead.

Alain Vigneault

Rest is as important as anything else right now.

Dennis Erlich

I like those scores -- everything in the 30s. Those are the types of scores we're going to need the rest of the season.

Leslie Moonves

God, it seemed like we had shot somebody.

Mark Kantor

He said he was getting a new job. Everything seemed to be going fantastic.

Robyn Robichaux

He seemed like his usual self, ... Same as he always was.

Hope Schulte

I don't know what was going on. It just seemed like everything was just going in for me. I just did what I usually do, and (the shots) just seemed to fall.

The Sense

It's how me and my friends talk to each other. It seemed very real and very natural.

Larry Long

It just seemed very suspicious that he would be doing that activity.

Louise Hall

It just seemed appropriate that I got it back on this day.

Steve Kerr

It seemed like they were disregarding the pass,

Mike Woods

It seemed like every time we'd get it to one or two and get a shot at the rim, it seemed like it had a lid on it. We were down two and O'Rourke had a wide-open 3 that was in and out; down two and Tyler Gilbert had a 15-footer that was three-quarters of the way down and out.

Justin Gray

I take tough shots all season. I do take a lot of them. You end up making some.

Frank Sciolla

It didn't matter. We were getting lay-ups. We were getting all the shots we wanted. They just weren't going in.

Keith Bogans

We've got to make the shots when they double-team Yao. That's what it comes down to.

Russ Crist

We made the shots to win the game. They just had enough time to get one off.

William S. Burroughs

If I knew how much you loved me, I would’ve shot you sooner.

Wayne Gretzky

I missed 100% of the shots I didn't take

Mark Slonaker

They got 14 more shots because of our turnovers. They scored off our turnovers.

Mike Adras

They get a lot more shots because of their defense.

Alan Nicholl

They had taken 20 shots but they hadn't scored so we were right in it.

Brian Gionta

You thought they were down and out, for sure. But they stuck with it and got some confidence. Once you win the first one, you never know.

Joy Fielding

I've always been hopelessly stuck in the present.

Spalding Gray

To be famous is to be stuck in an inflexible place. But at least it is to be stuck with money.

Petra Haden

I love the Bach Prelude No. 2 in C Minor and had that stuck in my head: why don't I put this on Imaginaryland? So I brought it to my friend Tom Grimley who recorded That Dog's first record. I played him all my a cappella pieces, and he said, "P, you should really make a record, it would be great! You can record it at my studio and I'll put it out!"

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

When some systems are stuck in a dangerous impasse, randomness and only randomness can unlock them and set them free.

Phil Garner

No, ... He snow-coned it. Stuck to the top of his glove.

Don Blalock

I said 'who is he?' I was stuck thereafter.

LaSheena Brown

That was something new. They were able to get that lob in, but we stuck it out.

Herb Caen

New Yorkers are stuck in a gloomy mucilage of mutual commiseration.

Scott Faieta

I talked with the contractor, who is still optimistic.

Mario Theissen

I talked to him (Ralf) on Friday, he was very positive, he wants to get back in the car.

Curtis Martin

I talked to him a lot. I showed him around. I showed him where he would probably want to live. I told him he could have my place if he wanted it. I told him I'd do whatever it took to get him here.

Ginalyn Ofamin

I talked to her yesterday, and she is doing better.

Tom Oswald

I talked to her about things like how to take notes. We weren't flirting, though. At the time, I didn't know she was going through a divorce.

Beth Combs

It can't be about wins and losses. We've talked about it's not where you start, it's where you finish.

Willie Randolph

He wants to be the best. We've talked a lot about his approach.

Kevin Garnett

He just talked to me briefly, and I could tell right away that we were going to get along.

Chris Stoneberg

We talked about what if the Seahawks and Steelers play. We never thought it would happen.