Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adlai E. Stevenson

A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.

Carl Mattei

After a game like that, to think we were one rebound away and we couldn't get it. I told the kids it comes down to free throws and rebounding.

Mahmud Abbas

after nearly 40 years of occupation, still do not live as free people in their own land.

Don Allen

Sometimes you have to have a little luck on your side, as well, especially the way we shot some free throws down the stretch.

Lee Humphrey

I've practiced my free throws, but I just don't know what it is. You don't take a whole lot of them at this time of year. There's not much time to practice. I just don't know.

Sam Smith

It would be nice to see my name roll by. But I'm hearing it might be better not to be drafted. That way, I'll be a priority free agent.

Stuart Creason

It was weird. I don't even think I shot it for half my points. I was getting fouled before I could even shoot. At least I made most of my free throws.

Randall Stallworth

I've been struggling all year with free throws, and I've been trying some different things. It was nice to make those at the end.

Fred Davis

I've been in this game long enough to realize you can't go out and sign a free agent. We'll play with who we have.

Eddie Van Halen

I have selective hearing.

Edward Kitsis

At the time it was airing, Claire had been kidnapped. So instead of hearing her husband was a little nervous, she just went, 'So Claire comes back? You just ruined it for me!' To this day, my wife refuses to hear anything about 'Lost.' She just wants to watch it.

Richard Branson

Listen more than you talk. Nobody learned anything by hearing themselves speak.

Suzanne Farrell

I liked tap, because I liked hearing the results of my movements.

Taylor Momsen

My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life.

Ronald D. Moore

I like interacting with fans and I like hearing what they say, but you have to take it all with a grain of salt.

Sojourner Truth

Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain't got nothing more to say.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

What are you? (Danger) Well, had you listened before you stabbed me, you would have heard the ‘I’m Acheron’s Squire’ part. Apparently that somehow escaped your hearing and you mistook me for a pin cushion. (Alexion)

Lisa See

Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.

Jim Tracy

A very wonderful note, I might add. A very professionally done thing.

Adelaide Anne Procter

No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been.

Peter Beattie

The money might be better off used for things like law-and- order initiatives, schools and hospitals,

Pat Davis

The technician will see if the AC system is an old one or in need of repair. A suggestion might then be made to upgrade to a more energy-efficient system.

John Butler

See, I might have screwed the whole thing up in Buffalo,

Eric Desjardins

I've tried to play with the composites, and I still might go to it eventually, ... But I'm used to the feel of the wooden sticks and I like them.

Don Haskins

I spent 18 months, off and on, with the script writer. I might as well have not spent one second with him.

Ben Dattner

You should be truthful, constructive and not personal, vindictive or petty. You might say, 'Here are some suggestions for the next person who has this job.

Greg O'Connor

You might wonder about the wisdom of that policy.

Charles Singley

Ruth was my girlfriend's name at the time.

Brett Favre

Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we're not immune to tragedy.

Arthur Adamov

What is there? I know first of all that I am. But who am I? All I know of myself is that I suffer. And if I suffer it is because at the origin of myself there is mutilation, separation. I am separated. What I am separated from -- I cannot name it. But I am separated.

Jamie Farr

It makes you famous, you get money from it, you go on and do the best you can, but it really is dreadful that people don't know your name.

James Van Der Beek

I've been through quite a few hurricanes. I worked in North Carolina, where there's a housing development whose name was Landfall.

Jane Smiley

Charles Dickens was an avid seeker of names - he read directories and looked for odd names on gravestones.

Asa Gray

This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which has become familiar, that of protoplasm.

Brian Wilson

I earned my famous name.

Brie Larson

I have a sister and her name is Mimsy, like from 'Alice in Wonderland,' so we've got some strange names in our family.

Jose Manuel Barroso

I very often compare relations between states to relations with people. Sometimes we are nicer to those we don't know well, who are not our friends, than we are to our friends, because with our friends we don't need to be nice all the time.

Al Michaels

It would be a nice way for this whole run to end with the first overtime Super Bowl.

Jonathan Simon

It would be nice if I could come back to Auburn. It would be nice to give back.

Ann Beattie

It was very much a surprise. It's very nice when someone takes notice.

Ryan Giggs

The rivalry between the two teams is massive, so it's always nice to play them and even nicer to win.

Tim Ricketts

This is our third straight win and to win on the road like this is a nice victory.

Glenys Bakker

We're gunning for that. It would be nice to end the season with another win.

Brendan Fraser

It's nice to know that if you've worked really hard at something, it gets recognised with a tick in the success column - however you define that, be it making a bunch of dough, which the actors never see much of, or whether it's a piece that's enlightening or stays with the audience maybe six, seven or even eight or 10 years later.

Jane Kaczmarek

One of the greatest joys of tennis is having a nice volley and not really keeping score, not really looking at the lines, but just catching up with each other.

Ron Bonjean

The speaker is making it a top priority to get that done.

Mike Claffey

We've taken that on because it's a priority for safety reasons.

Steve Squyres

For Spirit, the priority has been to reach a safe winter haven.

Jakaya Kikwete

I will make sure research and development is a top priority in agricultural development.

Gary Snyder

The first priority is just to get them registered,

Edgerrin James

They just signed a new guy, so they are working to get better. As long as it is a priority ten it is all right.

Jerry Woolsey

It was tough for us to keep up with them. They got on a roll and shot really well.

Jennifer Schack

We could see a shower in today's forecast. We could see a storm roll through.

Derek Lowe

I think it's tough for everybody. We can't just go out there and roll over and die. ... To see where we are right now is very disappointing.

Jon Huertas

I don't really like roller coasters!

Don Cassidy

You don't have to be 75 to use a rolling wire basket.

Cameron Bennerman

This is 2006. We're just trying to keep this thing rolling while we're here.

Austin Stowell

I want to get out there and do anything, but I still don't know about riding roller coasters. I've never been on one. There is something about being strapped in and on a track; I always feel like we're going to be launched off somewhere.