Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alafair Burke

I was downright obnoxious. In second grade, we had some program where we kept a public list of all the books we read. I think it even included the number of pages. In my nerdy mind, having the longest and most impressive list was somehow going to make up for the fact that I couldn't climb a rope or do a backwards summersault in PE.

Stan Perkins

I was a chunky little kid, and when they sat me in that wagon, it tipped backward and I banged my head on the (concrete) floor. I was howling pretty good, but Dad went outside and cried his eyes out.

Neil Strauss

All this stuff is backward engineered from what works. Nobody sat at a computer and invented these techniques. They watched guys who are successful and broke it down to what works.

Tony Vis

All of a sudden (in the second half) we started to play vertical, where now we're playing forward basketball rather than looking to throw the ball backward and going side to side. We got our players out running.

John Updike

The good ending dismisses us with a touch of ceremony and throws a backward light of significance over the story just read. It makes it, as they say, or unmakes it. A weak beginning is forgettable, but the end of a story bulks in the reader's mind like the giant foot in a foreshortened photograph.

Joe Ferrer

The horse went over backward once and came down. He got his left foot out of the stirrup but he couldn't get his right foot out in time.

Shawn Mendes

The first year I started hockey, I didn't know how to skate, so I got on the ice with all of the hockey players, and we were doing drills where we had to go backwards in figure eights. And I could not skate, and I just kept falling on my butt, and it was very embarrassing.

Joan Baker

Everyone's bent over backward in the Whitesboro school district,

Robert Greenstein

The new data are particularly troubling for working people, showing backward movement for most workers. In short, the census data provide new evidence that, as in 2002 and 2003, the recovery was neither robust nor broad-based.

Bob Mancini

Kitchener may be the class of our conference. Erie always has a good team. They do a good job of reloading. We'll be playing in two very tough buildings this weekend.

Daniel Kurtzer

I would suggest that we need to focus on killing terrorists instead of building democracies.

Matt Duffy

I talked to a of people and they said your freshman year is a building year.

Bruce Wisan

He wants to come back and start building and I am thrilled with that.

Drew Houston

There's this joy that comes from sitting down to solve a problem and standing up when it's done and good. Building a company or managing people is never just done.

Jerrold Post

He recounted to me that when he first saw the pictures of the bombed-out shells of the building he was really horrified.

Jaquelin T. Robertson

Good buildings make and are made by their settings, and they are appropriately different in different locations. Climate, culture, topography and materials have helped create regional architectural languages that seem curiously right for their locations and for all times.

Dorothy Johnson

It is going to bump us up another level, ... It is remarkable that we have ranked as high as we have with the buildings we have.

Jeff Murray

Lab buildings are fun because scientists are so passionate. Researchers are very concerned and knowledgeable about their space and have a lot of ideas of how it should work, because they realize it can make a big difference in how productive they are.

Danny Sheaffer

I would think it's a no-brainer you carry three catchers (in the playoffs). And there are no other catchers on the roster. Mike did a heck of a job defensively. ... Mike can be proud of the fact when he caught in the big leagues, the lead didn't diminish at all.

Jeff Davis

I wouldn't be surprised (if the rally continued next week), ... There's a lot of momentum that can carry into the coming weeks.

Ronnie Brown

I wouldn't be surprised if he called me later on this week and put some kind of wager out there as far as yards per carry or something.

Steve Bruce

Kenny Cunningham is in a similar position to Roy. He's good enough to carry on playing a few seasons. He doesn't drink or smoke and he's the first in to training every morning.

Dave Jones

I think it's a great idea. If you carry a weapon, you're going to use a weapon, that's as simple as it gets.

Dionny Reynolds

It ain't me no more. Just because I'm gone, it's still somebody out here that's going to carry the legacy. It's still going to be that one cat out here that's going to do it again. This ain't the last time this is going to happen.

Paul Nisbet

...He knows what he's doing. I think we'll just see a very good team being formed here that will carry on with what Debbie Hopkins started. We have a 'buy' on it. We feel that it was a good move to get this over with quickly. We've always had the utmost regard for Mike Sears.

Paul Bremer

He is virulently anti-Western and is particularly anti-American, ... and he has the resources to fund considerable anti-American or anti-Western activity. So he is a concern, because he's got a clear motive and he's got the means to carry out -- or to pay people to carry out -- attacks.

Naeem Khan

has confessed to carrying out bombings in Lahore, Kasur and Faisalabad.

William Rhodes

The China-US relationship is evolving into the most important bilateral relationship in the world.

Ramzan Kadyrov

evolving into a fully fledged member of the Russian Federation.

John Engler

I think this will be an evolving thing. We expect them to review this by fall, by October.

Neil Peart

I'm learning all the time. I'm evolving all the time as a human being. I'm getting better, I hope, in all of the important ways.

Stella McCartney

I was in this stadium with 200,000 people looking at my mum and dad. That was mind-bending.

Harry Redknapp

I was looking out there with two minutes to go thinking 'Don't do this to me again'.

John Smoltz

I was looking forward. It was brutal. I was tested to the max.

Trot Nixon

I was looking for Baez to come after me like he normally does,

Jim Crawley

I was looking at our play sheet at halftime,

Shannon Stewart

I was in shock when she told me. I would never think in a million years that she would be fired, especially after looking at her record and all.

Dwight Davis

I wouldn't be surprised to see anything at this point; this is the Wild West in terms of licensing models, ... Everyone is looking for models right now.

Kenneth Clarke

I think it sends a message that they are looking for a younger leader.

Les Harrison

We're on the radar now and we're looking to get on the map.

Bob McDonald

He just had that something, that intangible. You don't know who has it, but he had it. To do whatever it took to meet his goal.

Kate Bosworth

I don't really get star-struck, but I do get talent struck. If I meet somebody that I think is just wildly talented and brilliant, that's when I start getting nervous.

Larry Gregory

Having these meetings was more important than taking part on that panel,

Howard Stringer

He's a star. Nobody turns down a meeting with him.

Alison Goldfrapp

I thought what everyone thinks when they first meet Will,

Mike Pincus

The people that were at this meeting had no opinion at all.

George Speight

I think some people are trying to do me over ... and they're going to meet with some very stiff resistance.

Mike Bohn

I'd like the players to have the opportunity to meet him before the game.

Tony Fabrizio

I don't know that the rocky start is as important as what people see at the end of the day. The real rubber meets the road when they see what their expectations were versus what they actually get.

Azzam Tamimi

I actually have a moderating influence, rather than radicalizing influences,

Aidan Gillen

'Heroes', 'Desperate Housewives', 'The Sopranos' - they're all very stylised. 'The Wire' is much more rooted in realism and honesty. In American television, I can't think of anything I'd rather have been in because it has got something to say and that is the kind of thing I want to do.

Brian Penn

It could have been worse. They could have been using grenades rather than eggs.

Jason Alexander

There is no community service in 'Seinfeld.' But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it.

Yvonne Johnson

I think we need to do that rather than just talk about it.

Luigi Speranza

We look at this a temporary blip rather than a sign the recovery is fading.

Ruzwana Bashir

In the end, I'd rather wear a nice dress, and if someone is not going to take me seriously, that's so superficial.

Kelly Slater

I tend to do a lot better here when it's big rather than when its small.

Lois Capps

I read that in the Wall Street Journal, and I find it rather offensive,

Julie Myers

I will seek to work with those who are knowledgeable in this area, who know more than I do.

Malayan Proverb

If you have, give; if you lack, seek

Sathya Baba

If you dare, seek My Truth. Come, surrender unto Me.

Phillip Nalbone

They will seek to use it as a negotiating tool.

Timothy Radcliffe

Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.

Rumi

What you are seeking is also seeking you.

Charles Miller

My understanding is we were seeking what keywords are put in and URLs. Nothing personal.

Danys Baez

We didn't seek this out, but after an in-depth exploration, it made sense for us.

Donte' Stallworth

I don't know what it was, ... but I know it wasn't us being shut down.

Mara Wilson

I get a lot of "Shut up, Matilda." I probably get as many "Shut up, Matildas" as Wil Wheaton gets "Shut up, Wesleys." That was an actual line on his show, though.

Khaled Hosseini

Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life.

Marty Schottenheimer

We still could have shut them out and won by four.

Shi Zhengrong

After the Fukushima disaster, Japan shut down most of its reactors and said it would move to renewables.

Shaun Cody

It's painful. It's really frustrating, and it makes you want to shut it down. You want to, as a player, say 'I can't take this no more.' But I'm a professional.

Kevin Roy

Sunday at 6 p.m., we shut it down.

Brandon Rush

It just shut them up. You lost, what more can you say?

Chad DePaoli

They were able to shut us down in a lot of situations. They really slowed us down.

Chris McCray

It can only go one of two ways now, up or down. I think this year we really want it." ()

Devin Brown

There are so many different ways you can do that.

Tom Daschle

I think it's important for us to try to find ways to work together,

Nathan Rosane

In U.S. ways so that when we leave, we don't have to come back.

Phil Savage

There are other ways to get up there to get him.

Andrew Jones

It's really sad, but in a lot of ways it was time.

Warren McCormick

Not at all. But there are ways to do it properly." ()

Andy Reid

Offensively, we've got a ways to go now. We need to get back on track.

Mike Stoops

More and more we need to find ways to get them on the field. They are very athletic, and I think they can contribute.