Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rob Sumner

Our defenseman couldn't get there because he was getting blocked. There was a scoring chance created off of it and they scored.

Al Wolski

The monkey is kinda off our back. The first win is always the most important. To be so close to it so many games prior, it gnawed at their insides and finally they got a chance to win. It's great for them.

John Sweeney

A record 53 percent of nonunion workers say they'd join a union tomorrow if given the chance - that's the highest percentage in 20 years. It is our job to reach out to them.

Scott Downs

A point of emphasis with us right now is that we do not have a virtual returning starter at any position. That's the way we want to go into spring drills. As a staff, we are now evaluating our players on the field. We've had a chance to observe them through winter conditioning, but now let's see where we're at as a football team.

H. Hart

Anything that's going to give me a chance is worth doing, ... Hopefully I can show them I can play some third and then find an everyday spot.

Herman Demmink

Any team we think has a chance to compete for a national championship needs to be able to take the show on the road.

Marsha Blackburn

Any spending should be debated openly on the floor of the House and voted on in open session, with the American people having a chance to watch and listen.

Curtis Granderson

Any of the the 30 ball clubs have a chance at success, and the fans know that. It keeps everything exciting.

Mark Dennis

Any of these projects stands a better chance of going forward in the next year with an earmark. If not, we have to go back next year. There's always a push back that could occur.

Gholamhossein Elham

During the attack, the local driver and a Revolutionary Guardsman was killed. The police immediately intervened. One smuggler was killed and one arrested.

Matt Smith

The 'movie drunk' that you see, the guy that's all over the roadway going ten miles an hour ? that?s probably about one percent of all the intoxicated drivers that will actually get arrested.

Felix Sabates

The most important factor was all the drivers are there. To make a hall of fame successful they need drivers to make appearances.

Elliott Sadler

Safety is the No. 1 issue for us. That's something that's come to the forefront, something that the drivers really want to work on. We want to make this sport as safe as we can, and NASCAR is working hand-in-hand with us to make sure we have that.

Skip Pighetti

That's my lucky number. My favorite NASCAR driver is number 6 (Mark Martin). When I saw we had six in the finals I thought we could get six champs.

Lon Anderson

You really have to pay attention, because merging requires two things. It requires your being a good driver, being conscientious, but it also requires the other drivers to work with you.

Aaron Anderson

We needed a solution that would get all the right information to the drivers as quickly and as cost-effectively as possible.

Jeff Burton

We have drivers who think it's OK for them to do something, but it's not OK for somebody to do it to them.

Rick Mears

You hear a lot of drivers say they'll quit when they're not enjoying it. That's pretty much what happened to me. It was a combination of things, but mostly it was losing that enthusiasm I always felt before.

Miles D. White

People come to a company like Abbott sometimes and think, 'It's so big, I can't make a difference.' I think just the opposite. I think everybody can make a difference.

Julian Lee

The tendency (is) once prices start to rise, for everybody to open the tap a little bit.

Greg Spires

The most important thing is that we're playing together and everybody is gelling, everybody likes each other, ... Everybody wants to win, and when you're winning, everybody's happy.

Kevin Cox

Southwest has made it well known to everybody they're going to push this matter,

Warren Sapp

Once you've sat at the king's table, you know what it's like. That's a feast that everybody is going to be trying, ... It's a matter of us just repeating our success. It sounds crazy. But we do it one day at a time.

John Senden

You've got to think about winning, because everybody thinks about winning playing on this tour. If you're within two or three at the turn, maybe you have a chance.

Tyler Graunke

Your feet get really hot, but it was OK. It was fine for me. We'll see how everybody adjusts on Sept. 3.

Jeff Hewitt

You're hoping and praying you don't find anyone. You pray everybody left town.

Roy Young

You never plan that. You always plan everybody to come home at the same time. My thoughts and prayers are with his family. Jeremy was a good guy.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I used to think when I was in my teens I was very different from my father, but now I see that what we do is probably quite similar.

Ben Okri

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

Barbara Kingsolver

Once the rains abated, my father's garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper.

Ayelet Waldman

I was born in Israel, to Canadian parents. My father immigrated in 1948, part of a wave of young men and women who came as pioneers, to fight for a Jewish homeland. Their motive was in large part a reaction to the Holocaust, and their slogan was 'Never Again.'

Brad Meltzer

She wasn't tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.

Brad Pitt

With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you.

Jamie Bell

I never had a father figure so I never missed it.

Cameron Diaz

My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.

C. S. Lewis

I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them.... I had always the same certainty of finding a book that was new to me as a man who walks into a field has of finding a new blade of grass.

Rene Redzepi

There is no conflict between a better meal and a better world.

Robert Grosseteste

And strictly forbid that any quarrelling be at your meals.

Redd Foxx

The food here is so tasteless you could eat a meal of it and belch and it wouldn't remind you of anything.

Summer Sanders

Honestly, if I can plan out a few meals ahead of time, I feel much more organized.

Philip Larkin

A good meal can somewhat repair / The eatings of slight love

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

One in six people in the U.S. at some point each year don't know where their next meal will come from.

Ranjana Kumari

What do you do in a situation where you know if you stay back in the house, you may be abused sexually? There may be a possibility of you not even surviving, not even getting a meal to eat.

Donna White

I went out for a meal but I couldn't throw a big party. I just couldn't.

Joe Sakic

Any free meal is a good meal, you know?

Rene Redzepi

There is no conflict between a better meal and a better world.

Robert Grosseteste

And strictly forbid that any quarrelling be at your meals.

Redd Foxx

The food here is so tasteless you could eat a meal of it and belch and it wouldn't remind you of anything.

Summer Sanders

Honestly, if I can plan out a few meals ahead of time, I feel much more organized.

Philip Larkin

A good meal can somewhat repair / The eatings of slight love

Joe Sakic

Any free meal is a good meal, you know?

Mark Morris

I never eat standing up, I never eat in front of the refrigerator. I treat myself very formally with meals. I don't watch TV or read. It's a little bit of a ritual, and it's more enjoyable.

Junior Seau

The best meal at my restaurant is the whole right side of the menu.

Denis Leary

Marriage is like a dull meal with the dessert at the beginning.

Archie Panjabi

My mother told me not to listen to anyone. She had been told that she wouldn't be able to teach and she did.

Barbara Mertz

There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay in store. The figure that stood in the door was not that of an enemy. It was worse. It was his mother.

Ayelet Waldman

Look, if you ask a child, 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath,' they'll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But I think it's really important that children don't feel their parents' emotional lives depend on their success.

Ayelet Waldman

I have made so many mistakes as a mother. But the one thing that I know I do is I make sure my children know how much I love them and they are absolutely secure in that.

Ayelet Waldman

I have two daughters and I have done everything in my power to prevent them from assimilating, even being aware of, my idiocy about my weight.

Ayelet Waldman

If a good mother is one who loves her child more than anyone else in the world, I am not a good mother. I am in fact a bad mother. I love my husband more than I love my children.

Ayelet Waldman

You can take the babushka off the Jewish mother and dress her up in a pair of Seven jeans and Marc Jacobs sling-backs, but she's still going to expect a passel of grandkids.

Ayn Rand

The lust that drives others to enslave an empire, had become, in her limits, a passion for power over him. She had set out to break him, as if, unable to equal his value, she could surpass it by destroying it, as if the measure of his greatness would thus become the measure of hers, as if the vandal who smashed a statue were greater than the artist who had made it, as if the murderer who killed a child were greater than the mother who had given it birth.

Brenda Ueland

If you would shut your door against the children for an hour a day and say: 'Mother is working on her five-act tragedy in blank verse!' you would be surprised how they would respect you. They would probably all become playwrights.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

Alison Goldfrapp

People say that sort of thing and I just think, nah,

Juan Rincon

People say stuff at the games. But most of the people, especially here in Minnesota, have been amazing.

Bill Butler

People say one tree doesn't make a difference, but really they do.

P. J. O'Rourke

People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'

Rhys Ifans

People say: 'Oh, it's only acting,' but it's not ever just acting. At least not with me.

Jewel

But maybe if we are surrounded in beauty Someday we will become what we see