Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kurt Busiek

I created lots of characters in high school and college, and the first character I created in pro comics was Liana, Green Lantern of M'Elu, for a backup story in 'Green Lantern #162,' my first professional sale.

Mark Slough

I think everyone all around is happy. He's going to be the backup if Ricky isn't there. I don't think there's any doubt about that.

Charline Labonte

I would love it. That's what I've been working for. I'm not looking for the backup spot. I'm looking for the first spot.

Jeff Bower

My biggest concern is we didn't establish a backup coming out of spring drills. To win a championship, you better be good at quarterback, including the back up.

Ray Brown

Mark did the thing that a backup is supposed to do. Go in and play well and keep himself on the coach's mind.

Ray Brown

Mark did the thing that a backup is supposed to do, ... Go in and play well and keep himself on the coach's mind.

Aaron Rodgers

It'd be nice to get a couple warmup throws, but I went out there cold-turkey. And that's what a backup needs to do - be ready at any time. On this team, with Brett Favre in charge, that doesn't happen much, but if I am the No. 2 guy, I'll definitely be ready.

Marty Booker

I stretched and tried to do whatever I could to get in there. It's always nice to have a good backup quarterback that can come in and make plays for you.

Scott Skiles

He plays 20 minutes a game and consistently blocks shots all over the place. He's a great defender and still changes ends very well. He's an intimidating-type player. To have a backup center like him is a luxury.

Paul Steinhardt

The search for a structure that blocks the passage of light in all directions has fascinated physicists and engineers for the past two decades.

Terry Hoeppner

Vince Lombardi had the seven blocks of granite. Well guess what? We have the seven blocks of limestone.

Martin Lapointe

He works every shift even though I think every morning he wakes up his body is sore and aches. But he shows up every game, works hard, blocks shots and leads the team. It's pretty to watch.

Sheila DiNardo

It just sums it all up, of how focused she is as a player. I think when she gets into a game, she blocks everything out, including records or anything like that. She just plays. Definitely, not one of those foul shots bothered her.

Herman Frazier

A lot of times we field calls about the large blocks of tickets that are held by corporations and different people who sometimes don't come to the contests. Now they will be able to put those tickets back into the system.

Jim Phillips

For instance, for every 500 students, we need a new school; for every 700 students, we need a new school. The administration has to provide the direction and we have to determine the perimeters as the starting blocks to those long-range plans.

Shane Carruth

It's a risk, but I'm sort of ready to let go of thinking of movies as books that you can watch. The notion of, 'If I put the narrative blocks in the right order, this will solve all of my storytelling problems.' No, it won't, and you end up with little more than books on film.

Matt Wagner

It was a short one, so I was going to leave it. But I took it and made a few moves and got a few great blocks and took it all the way.

Stephen Kinzer

The long conflict between Israel and Palestine has, for better or worse, become the world's conflict. It permanently destabilizes the Middle East, blocks the settlement of urgent crises, and intensifies looming threats to the West.

Bobby Burton

You're talking about 35 million households who watched the Rose Bowl. That was putting the Longhorns front and center in a lot of future recruits.

Bob Kelley

The only way it can identify where you are is if it dials a 911 center with the location-based identifier.

Stephen Sommers

There are four movies that got me into wanting to make movies: Journey to the Center of the Earth, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Swiss Family Robinson, and Jason and the Argonauts. Those are the movies that took me to different places when I was a kid. I fell in love with movies by watching those movies.

Glynn Turman

Seems like everybody has seen 'Cooley High.' That's what put me on the map. Garrett Morris and I go way back, even before the movie. Great guy. We've done theater and stage plays together, Lincoln Center and all kinds of things.

Liz Boyd

We're struggling because Michigan is the center of manufacturing in the country, and manufacturing is in crisis.

Erick Jackson

We've heard the parish is wiped out, totally wiped out. Its hospitals, schools, homes and civic center are all under water.

John Dick

We will open the detention center and see how many prisoners we receive from the Tribal Court before we decide whether to take contract inmates from other areas.

Craig Haase

We had a great season, and in no means do I want this loss to take anything away from the kind of year we had. It's always tough to see the season come to an end. But I'll take this every year. Having the season end at the Kohl Center is pretty special.

Scott Creel

We've never seen anything like it. It literally covered one end of the shopping center to the other and in some instances, 10 inches deep.

Elizabeth Edwards

Maybe we all change over time.

Timothy Collins

We wanted to at least sketch out what some of the potential changes are for people who live in these counties,

Lisa Nelson

We've had to make some changes to our database here at the department and we are running a little late on the assessments this year.

Jason Varitek

We've had a lot of changes in this organization for a team that has just come off a world championship and was able to work its way back into the playoffs,

Jay Feaster

We've had some personnel changes there, and as much as anything, we're hoping we can get a spark. We need to start winning some games if we're going to make the playoffs there.

Mike Browning

We've had so many changes this season, especially early on. We lost players, and were short players, and then had new players. We're finally at a point where we can run a full five-on-five at practice and that helps us a lot.

Jim Daley

... We already have two changes in the secondary. I'd like not to make a third one.

Chris Powell

Everybody had a lot of hopes for growth in the company and there were a lot of changes at that time.

Alessandro Cortini

Everything changes when you are away from home for a year. It's just nonstop.

Regg Simon

Your guys that have scored all year should be scoring in the playoffs, too. (Sioux Falls') two big defenders were doing a good job on them with hooks and holds, but they always find a way to score.

Andy Gray

Listen, if you're a defender, DO BETTER!

Benjamin Watson

He threw a great ball. They were playing man-to-man, and there's not much the defender can do when he throws a perfect ball.

Bob Macaluso

He's the kind of kid that could make a defender miss in a phone booth.

Bryan Winkler

He sets people up -- he gets in there and draws defenders and sets his teammates up very well. He's a good skilled player with a high work rating.

Jeff Guinn

I was thrilled that Matt won the defender of the week award,

Chris Abel

I dropped our very first pass, but the first touchdown was a perfect pass from Aaron. The defender had no chance. We got some more great pass protection on the second pass. Neff just threw it up for me to go get it.

Stephen Jackson

He's not as good of a defender as Ron, but he's an All-Star. I'll welcome any All-Star to our team. He's a great player.

Scholanda Hoston

I know I'm going to be the primary defender on her, but our team does such a great job of never leaving me out there on my own. You're not going to shut a player like her out, she's a great player. You just want to make every shot she gets difficult.

Charles Peguy

Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics.

Douglas Adams

I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.

Czeslaw Milosz

All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.

T. S. Eliot

To make an end is to make a beginning.

John Milton

Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.

Johnny Cash

What have I become, my sweetest friend. Everyone I know goes away, in the end.

John Selden

Wit and wisdom differ; wit is upon the sudden turn, wisdom is bringing about ends.

James Lee Burke

We all end up in the same place. Some sonner than others.

Mark Strand

Once you start describing nothingness, you end up with somethingness.

Michael Bennet

Often times, political games prevent senators from even beginning to debate some of the most important issues.

Scott Robinson

A point for us is good but we made some mistakes out there and I thought this was a game we could have won. Normally in three-on-three someone scores after a game like this but we'll take the positives and move on into the new year.

Brian Buchanan

And then I see them at the games, and they just go, go, go. I never hear them complain. Heck, they're always so happy to be there. And it reminds me how lucky we are to have them.

Jeff Jackson

The most important thing right now is to get points every weekend. Our main goal right now is to go into every game trying to steal a point or two, especially with all these road games.

Mike Hargrove

The most important inning of any game is the one after you score. You have to shut them down. We didn't shut them down.

Brian Laing

The most important game is the next game.

Tracy Adams

Actually, we had contributions by all 11 girls, whether they scored or not. It was a good game from everyone.

Margo Jonker

Successful pitching is reflected in the won-loss column. If our pitching staff performs well, our team as a whole will do well. Pitching is very important in the game of fast-pitch softball.

Kimo Oelhoffen

Stopping the run, that's our No. 1 goal every game. I don't think it's ever not been our No. 1 goal.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Derek Jeter

People say this is the greatest offense ever. But let us play awhile. Names don't win games. You have to play the games.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

Rebecca Hornbacher

Deb, on the other hand, is one of our most versatile players. She played midfield for her first two years here at ISU, played as a defenseman last year and now is switching back. Once again, she has done a great job with the transition process.

Jim Yerkovich

(Deane) plays with the greatest intensity of any big kid I've ever been around.

John Tavares

Any player in the NHL would be a great comparison, but when you name a guy like Sidney Crosby . . . but I don't know if I'll be able to do things he's done in the league because we're different types of players,

David Phillips

Are we no longer the Great White North? It's incredible.

Flynn Stachowski

A.P. with a great at-bat sparked us up.

John Wooden

A player who makes a team great is much more valuable than a great player.

Brad Shaw

Sometimes it's better to take 30 minutes out of your day and talk about something other than hockey.

Paul Whitworth

And we're 35 minutes away from Silicon Valley,

Amy Poehler

The minute anyone makes you feel weird and non-included or not supported, you know, either beat it or tell them to beat it.

Anne Robinson

I do have a rule that very few meetings are worth more than ten minutes.

Sara Lewis

Unfortunately that wasn't done until 20 minutes into the call.

Stephenie Meyer

I thought about that for a minute - about what I wanted.

Stephen Chbosky

After a few minutes, it was time for me to leave. I don't know who decides these things. It just happens.

Ron White

Diamonds - that'll shut her up... for a minute!

Paul Maurice

We played the first 60 minutes the way we wanted to. We just couldn't put the puck in the net.

David Wright

This one's on my shoulders. Those were tough plays to make, but these are the big leagues.

David Martin

We had plenty of opportunities, we just didn't make the plays when we had our chances.

Lance Berkman

We've got a logjam out there. We'll see how that plays out. It's an interesting situation.

Mike O'Connell

We're going to wait and see how it plays out,

Bronco Mendenhall

I give TCU credit, they made the plays to win.

Bob Stoops

He's the best. You can say all you want about him. He makes the plays that matter, and you see it every week.

Terry Teachout

One reason why Shakespeare's plays remain so popular is that they're now regularly presented in updated stagings with a contemporary flavor.

Bret Bielema

Obviously, you've seen him make plays out there. He's going to make some for them (opponents), unfortunately. We're trying to get those out of his system.

Greg Graham

That was a tough one. We made all the plays down the stretch. We got big stops, we just ran out of time.

Kareem Rodriguez

The shots that usually go down weren't going down. It was one shot and out for us.

Tom Tupa

I've taken shots for it. It hasn't worked. That's disappointing.

Hines Ward

We thought we could take some shots in the air. We're an experienced team and we took our chances.

Sanja Tomasevic

Everything they told us would happen, did. They would have their big shots and their power. But we could play with them if we were patient.

Edgar Bronfman

between very long shots and very, very, very long shots.

Ronald Reagan

If our planes were shot down, yes, they's wake me right away. If the other fellows' were shot down, why wake me up?

Susan Estrich

I don't like cheap shots, I really don't.

John Wayne

I never shot nobody I didnt have to.

Helen Darling

He said we need to get more shots up. We're getting used to it.