Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it's blowing up; and then they lengthens it out.

McKayla Maroney

I wasn't expecting two seconds of me on the medal stand to go viral after the Olympics. I came back to my room after the medal ceremony, and my dad said this picture of me doing a face I don't even remember making is blowing up.

Billy Mayfair

You don't know what you're going to get, but we got a nice day. Monday, it was blowing 30-40 mph here. You get one of those days in the next couple days, and the guys playing here are going to be at a big disadvantage.

Michael Walker

With the wind blowing like it is and the direction it's blowing in, yeah, I'm very concerned.

Kent Worley

It's just been blown apart. You've got buildings with all their windows blown out. You've got curtains blowing in the wind. You've got insulation from ceilings all over the streets.

Dave Schutter

A lot of it is misleading because he has had some close matches. The scores just don't indicate it because he's blowing them open in the last period. He could easily have lost a match or two this weekend, but he's capitalizing when he's in a position of advantage. He's turning people and making things happen.

Jamie Foxx

They got the boats blowing up, they blowing up buildings, ... They got people strapped with C-4. You got people lying in the middle of the street getting hit with Mack trucks. It's crazy.

David Young

They had contaminated soil sitting uncovered and exposed for months. Wind was blowing dust into neighborhoods.

Roy Williams

They understand the competitiveness you have to have. I told them that, in 1982, North Carolina won the championship and we won the first game by blowing out James Madison 52-50.

Howard Platt

We're experimenting with the viability of doing some Livingstone games that don't conflict with our North Carolina games,

Mac Gifford

We're experimenting, and I'm already looking at the tournament. Carolina will definitely be playing a lot of singles, she's played quite well.

Ivory Latta

As kids, we did look at Tennessee and they were the dominant team. But now, North Carolina has come up.

Pat Summitt

At Duke, they played great and we played bad. At times, North Carolina overwhelmed us with their speed and quickness.

Dave Foreman

A big, big factor in South Carolina 's favor. They do a great job of forcing turnovers and making assists. Didn't happen today.

Richard Burr

Thirty-one states have a 211 presence, but until 100 percent of North Carolina and 100 percent of the country is involved, we haven't finished our job,

David Haskins

It's truly a Carolina family when you are down there.

Jim Knight

This potentially is the worst agricultural damage that eastern North Carolina has ever faced.

Rasheed Wallace

I told him, if they see us, you know, hey, Carolina will have to do their thing. That's been a pretty good rivalry over the last few years.

Charles Dickens

Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.

Charles Dickens

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

Charles Stross

I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer.

Tim Short

We've won playoff games before, but not down 18 on someone else's home court. Yeah, this is pretty special.

Mike Pomerenke

We've won more games this year than we'd won all of last year already. And you know, that's a huge improvement.

Chris Bosh

You don't have to appreciate me - I hope you underestimate me. That way, when I have a good game, it'll hit you even harder.

Chris Bosh

I've modeled my game after Kevin Garnett and Tim Duncan.

Chris Bosh

I know how the game is played, and I'm always working on it.

Eddie Kaye Thomas

If I have the TV on, it's either a Mets game or 'SportsCenter.'

Mark Roesler

As we go over time, personalities like Humphrey Bogart, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, these personalities have become brands.

Dule Hill

It was a shock to my system leaving 'The West Wing' and going to 'Psych.' I remember being like, 'What are you doing?' when James Roday first started improvising. Steve and the writing staff write it that way. They leave gaps.

Pierce Brosnan

James Bond is one of those heroes that all guys feel they could actually be like.

Sarah Hall

James Salter has talents on the page we novelists would sell souls to the devil for.

Charlie Whitehurst

The sky's the limit for James and the lot of those guys.

Elizabeth Moore

Now my time will be spent remembering Rebecca, Michael and James Patrick.

Dick Tomey

Rufus is a terrific receiver. James is outstanding. Broussard can be outstanding.

Pat Riley

I've spoken to James about it. He understands. He just wants to win and he'll do whatever it takes.

Maria Hernandez

It was we who reported that James was missing.

Dave Favre

Actually her name is Madison and she's our vice-president and CEO.

Joe Wilson

On Madison Avenue, I was making more money than I ever had or ever would again, ... what mattered to me.

Alice Cooper

I'm on in 80 cities. Madison was the first place we went No. 1 in the ratings.

Gary Jennings

When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.

Brian Sky

To our knowledge, this is the first (designated) film school in Northern Colorado.

Jeff Perreault

They're undefeated and the #1 ranked team in North Dakota. Their program is very strong.

Ramon Ramirez

They used to migrate to here. Now they migrate from here. They may go to work in Florida, North Carolina, New York. But they come back here.

Rick Moody

They tell them to just keep walking north and don't look back. We've tried to apprehend some of these bandits.

David Cook

There's a lot of flatland in Texas and in the northern part of the state.

Tom Greene

It's all Northern Telecom. It was U.S. selling; they just started selling it and it took a lot of the other tech stocks with it.

Hugh Willoughby

This is the nailbiting time for forecasters, ... We're waiting for Bertha to make her turn to the northeast but there's some uncertainty about when it will happen.

David H. Murdock

North Carolina was where you could have Thanksgiving and feel like it was Thanksgiving.

Bruce LaRoque

Rapids and Roseau have had a long-standing rivalry. Sometimes you like to see the two northern schools not playing (each other in the first round), but I suppose the southern schools could say that, too.

Alan Moore

As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.

Dean Acheson

The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.

David Hume

Morals and criticism are not so properly objects of the understanding as of taste and sentiment.

Audrey Tautou

I understand that nobody understands me, but I can't be someone I'm not.

Dee Hock

The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future.

Carlos Castaneda

You're chained to you reason ... Understanding is only a very small affair, so very small

Charlotte Lamb

I wish you wouldn't walk in and out of my mind as though it was a railway station!

Charles Baudelaire

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

Charlie Kaufman

Every day of your life, you have information that enters your head, and that information informs your understanding of things, or shifts it, or changes it, or deepens it, or confuses you. Every day, every moment of every day - it's like this thing that happens.

Alan Alda

I'm in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.

E. B. White

We've won here now so we don't have to worry about the 15-year thing.

Bill Nye

When or if answers are found, you can be assured those answers will lead to more questions. Is the troubling or wonderful? It depends on your view of your place in nature, your place among the stars; I suppose.

C. S. Lewis

You see, Aslan didn't tell Pole what would happen. He only told her what to do. That fellow will be the death of us once he's up, I shouldn't wonder. But that doesn't let us off following the signs. - The Silver Chair

Kent Kersten

We have some bruises and we may have one or two wrestlers out. We were injury-free when we won the duals championship in 2003. It's not the same this year.

William Shakespeare

You are made Rather to wonder at the things you hear Than to work any.

William Shakespeare

Thus did I keep my person fresh and new, My presence, like a robe pontifical, Ne'er seen but wondered at, and so my state, Seldom but sumptuous, showed like a feast.

William Shakespeare

By being seldom seen, I could not stir But like a comet I was wondered at.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

I'm told I'm like my father, and he was the most wonderful man. But I think he was gentler than me.