Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gayle Lynds

For a decade, I was a stay-at-home mom. I sent my husband to his law office, sat on PTA boards and baked cookies - great cookies. All of a sudden, I had no husband, no job, few prospects, and two small children who had grown accustomed to eating.

Greg Davis

There's going to be some ups and downs. ... A couple of times they didn't play to the standard that they're accustomed to, and I think we'll see the very best of it.

Yevgeny Adamov

By 1998, the Americans got accustomed to the fact that people in Russia must listen to them and they don't have to listen to anyone here,

J. J. Johnson

Most of our girls are accustomed to playing several games in a short time frame. As a coach and as a team, you want to play games. Plus, you might see a different brand of softball than you are accustomed to playing, and that can be beneficial as well.

Richard Bove

Midwestern banks are accustomed to shifts in the local economies. They plan for it. However, they do not avoid it. They get hurt. Their loan losses rise. Their earnings tumble and their stock prices are impacted. It will happen again.

Jesse Schwartzman

Maryland's offense got a lead, and held the ball for long periods at a time, and it's tough to get into a rhythm that way. Our defense started to do things we are not accustomed to doing because we needed the ball.

Quantez Robertson

I was glad to be playing against those guys in practice. They made me better every day. I had to gain weight. I had to get stronger. I had to get accustomed to the speed and pace of the college game.

Daniel Gibson

It felt like we were able to rewind some things and get back to the basketball we're accustomed to playing.

Jim Lampley

We're both accustomed to being the center of attention. We're both accustomed to being spoiled by the people around us. And we don't expect to have to compete with somebody for all of that.

Rogers Johns

Happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky.

Landon Donovan

The good thing is it's over and it's not like that's going to have ramifications on our season. If anything it will help us. You don't play in games of that intensity and atmosphere but a couple of times a year.

Steve Gregory

The atmosphere that it brings, I really like it a lot,

Lucian Freud

It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen.

Dick Vitale

This is a very special atmosphere in the Big East. The people are right on top of the floor. It's not like the pro atmosphere you have at places like Madison Square Garden and the Meadowlands. This is the essence of college basketball.

Andy Chiodo

It was such a great experience. It was a great event. The hockey was really good. The fans, the atmosphere in Switzerland is amazing.

Brian McCann

With the magnitude of the game, catching 18 innings, it didn't seem like that, ... If it was a regular-season game, maybe it would have seemed like that. But the atmosphere here, and what we needed to accomplish, it wasn't as big of a deal.

Mac Gifford

We're not an outdoor team, obviously; we're an indoor team. Up here in the Northeast, we're a little more subdued. I wanted them to see an atmosphere that's loud, kind of like a basketball arena. Everybody is shouting and yelling and screaming, which the team isn't used to.

Jamie Bamber

Back in the Eighties, I'd buy the biggest Benetton jumper I could find and would wear it long-sleeved, hanging off my shoulders, with a varsity jacket and a baseball cap on back to front with a quiff. I was the smallest boy in my class, and I looked like a reject from New Kids On The Block. Terrible.

Jeff Chown

Right now there's a risk in signing any baseball player, whether or not there's been a rumor about him or not. There's a dark cloud over the entire sport.

Jose Guillen

This is a pitchers' ballpark. Everybody knows that here. It's not in my mind anymore. I'm just here to play baseball -- that's what I'm going to do. Some of these guys are worried about it. That's not by business.

Babe Ruth

All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good.

Babe Ruth

I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world... the kids... our national pastime.

Jim Stoyle

We're happy to be 6-5. We've turned the corner. The thing is, we were 2-5 at one time (after having) lost four in a row and were frustrated. We were searching for some identity. The kids turned it around. That's what is unique about baseball that you can't do with basketball. You have to do get after it the next day.

Bobby Fischer

When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.

Mark Attanasio

Doug is one of the most highly respected executives in baseball and this extension validates our belief that his leadership is vital to the Milwaukee Brewers continued development,

Rick Reilly

And you know who lets them get away with lying? ... Baseball writers. Hardly any Hall of Fame voters have the (guts) to stand up and say, 'These guys cheated. I'm not voting them into the Hall of Fame.'

Jim Olson

Once we developed their confidence, their trust (and) their respect, they were more willing to talk to us.

Krist Novoselic

The only way you do anything is to become really active. And the most effective way to get your message to your elected representatives is to make campaign contributions and develop relationships with them.

Alfred North Whitehead

Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology.

Steve Ballmer

Developers, developers, developers, developers.

Michael Reed

New developers really have to do something special to get people to see what they're doing. It doesn't surprise me at all.

Jim Jeske

She's been a surprise early. We knew she would develop as the year went on, but she's done it sooner than we thought and that's probably why we've had the success we've had early on.

John Lasseter

Short films really helped me develop as a story teller, animator, and as a director.

H. Hart

I feel like he is developing a different technique and I wish I had a little more time with him. He has great potential this year and he is developing quickly. I am working with him on a new style of diving and his technique when he goes off the diving board.

Edmund Phelps

The 1920s and 1930s were a period of sensational productivity growth: new products were springing up all over the place, and most of those new products and new methods were developed by people who started their own companies.

Kristin Bauer van Straten

Fans are afraid to meet me. They're sort of afraid for their lives and won't look me in the eye.

Alan Cumming

I'm not a fan of Twitter.

Tim Tessalone

We use them for the fans and as a revenue generator,

Jarvis Green

Every time he made a play you heard the fans yelling and that pumped us up, ... He is the same old guy.

Brian Boyle

We've had red and white fans screaming at us before.

Chuck Darby

Every team thinks of their fans as the 12th Man. I don't see why it's a big deal. The 12th Man is our fans, and they made a difference.

Kobe Bryant

We are on a journey, and to put on a show like this for the fans here in L.A. is truly something special. I grew up in front of these people, and now they are seeing me as an older, young man.

Bob DuPuy

is sort of cool. Our fans are becoming, well, I don't want to say 'obsessive.' That sounds negative. But they're avid.

Taio Cruz

All I can do is make good music and make it for the fans, not for anybody else.

Michael Beasley

It was an honor to be a part of history, but honestly I don't remember all the games we've played. I do remember the trips, though, and that's what we will miss the most ? all those good times.

Leroy Franklin

These are two very big games for us. We have a young team that is really is starting to come on and we're getting better with each game.

Rien Long

These are the games d-linemen live for. We were grooving.

Jerry Stackhouse

This is starting to become who we are. We feel that we are going to win these games and have the wherewithal to sustain anything any team throws at us.

Jim Tressel

This is one of those games that I don't know that you have to worry about getting anyone's attention,

Marc Bulger

You want it to be more balanced, ... You're not going to win many games in the NFL throwing it 60 or 70 times. It might work in high school and sometimes in college, but in the NFL you've got to have a running game.

Andy Reid

You're not going to win too many games in the NFL with six turnovers. When you really get down to it today, that was the problem.

Arianna Huffington

Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.

Magic Johnson

And the road games would have been worse.

Jonathan Simon

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

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.

Ron Gardenhire

We've talked about it. He says he'd like to do more. That would be nice to see.

Bella Thorne

The Humane Society is so great to work with. Because everyone there is so nice and supportive, and they're all animal lovers like me.

Bobby Robson

Anything from 1-0 to 2-0 would be a nice result

Billy Campbell

To me, if I'm reading a fantastic story or I go on a nice first date and I have a wonderful time, I'm not gonna complain because it didn't work out. I'm gonna go on a second date.

Billie Burke

Twins are so practical. It's always nice to have a spare.

Charles Olson

Were all moving, moving, moving. Isnt it nice?

Andy Stanley

The sermon begins in the parking lot.

Joseph Lowery

I was here when Rosa Parks started and I just wanted to be here when she departed,

Nelson Mandela

which made us realize that this is an international phenomenon that we celebrate. Rosa Parks is worldwide.

Russell Brand

Life is not a theme park, and if it is, the theme is death.

Steve Frank

Parker comforted them. He was quiet and gentle. He was what they needed.

Maribeth Smith

If you want to park on the west side of downtown, come down on the west side. If you want to park east, park east, don't rely on Meridian.

Tony Marino

I just wish people would go with the flow. I mean, a parking meter is like a restaurant table: We have to turn these things over.

Ted Forrest

It's better than parking in the parking lot. This way, you just pull right up to the curb, pick up your people and go.

Channing Tatum

I sort of became infatuated with soldiers. I got to know some of them and got a little perturbed with Hollywood making a spectacle out of them and making them look like they have screwed up somehow.

Janis Karpinski

I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers who were depending on me to take care of them, and I did.

Clara Barton

I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?

Albert Schweitzer

Soldiers' graves are the greatest preachers of peace.

Murray Rothbard

[W]hich category of crimes does the State pursue and punish most intensely? [T]hose against private citizens or those against itself? The gravest crimes in the State's lexicon are almost invariably not invasions of private person or property, but dangers to its own contentment, for example, treason, desertion of a soldier to the enemy, failure to register for the draft, subversion and subversive conspiracy, assassination of rulers and such economic crimes against the State as counterfeiting its money or evasion of its income tax.