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.

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.

Steve Bellamy

They (Brown and Mayor Oscar Goodman) bent over backwards to make it work. (The city officials) were extraordinarily accommodating and it's been a wonderful experience.

Mikko Hirvonen

I've had lots of problems. There's something wrong with the centre differential and the handbrake, and I had to shunt backwards and forwards to get round all the hairpins.

Pope Francis

It is not possible to go backwards. We must go forward. Always forward.

Kendrick Lamar

We all get distracted, the question is, would you bounce back or bounce backwards?

Thom Yorke

When I go forwards, you go backwards And somewhere we will meet

Madeleine Albright

History is written backwards but lived forwards.

David Del Tredici

A maverick feels like he has no choice however difficult his choice of expression. In my case, it was going backwards into tonality. It seemed so wrong. The idea that progress is going into the past in a new way is very strange, even though there are precedents.

Bill Evans

Harrington gave us a lot of scares. He likes to cut back and he's low to the ground. We bent a few times but we didn't break, and we had a couple of goal-line stands inside the 15 that were good.

David Smith

I went to see what was going on. I seen him standing on the reef, waist deep in water. He yelled, help! then he was looking around, then bent over, look in the water, stand back up. I yelled back at him, Ed, help what?

Stephen Schwartz

If somebody was bent on using that material in a weapon, they would most likely kill themselves and their compatriots before they were ever able to use the bomb,

John Cronin

It seems that they're bent on destroying the structure of government itself,

Stuart Pearce

It's a 'suck it and see' situation with Georgios. But I think this weekend will be too soon for him. We will wait and see but he is hell bent on getting back as quick as he can.

Joseph Pilates

Americans! They want to go 600 miles an hour, and they don't know how to walk! Look at them in the street. Bent over. Coughing! Young men with gray faces! Why can't they look at the animals? Look at a cat. Look at any animal. The only animal that doesn't hold its stomach in is the pig.

Kevin Hall

There's a sense in the health and law enforcement communities that the situation, in fact, has gotten worse with time. The governor recently spent the weekend in Southwest Virginia, and a lot of folks bent his ear on the meth problem.

Ed Mitchell

The result in Idaho is that you could theoretically be a convicted cannibal and still have a hunting license. But if you are a convicted cannibal, you cannot legally own a bent BB gun in the state of Idaho.

Harry Hill

It was one of those years when God bent over and kissed California.

David Stern

I would say that the city is making it pretty clear of what they want us to do, and we'll accommodate them.

Leslie Brunell

I would say we're talking several to many years before the city can be rebuilt.

Jason Wiemer

I talked to (assistant coach) Rich Preston and expressed some interest. I knew I wanted to come back here and wanted to make sure they knew that. It worked out well. I enjoyed playing here, I love the city and liked the guys here. I looked at the team, watched them play in the playoffs. It was something I wanted to be a part of.

Mike Shanahan

I think it's a better system. There are more opportunities, and because teams have to come to your city to do the interviews, it can be done without conflicting with what you're trying to get done.

Bill Hopkins

It always concerns me when a homegrown company like Roanoke Electric Steel gets tied up with management control outside the city and state.

Jay Clark

I actually got into Mason City on Dec. 17. I really won't know about Mason City until I get back from Christmas.

John Burke

He controlled the night in the city of Albany. Everything had to go through him, whether you were working with another agency, you had to go through him. If you wanted to make an arrest, you had to go through him, unless, of course, a cop witnessed a crime.

Sunny Mindel

He is recognized as the mayor who led the city from being described as ungovernable to being an international symbol of urban renaissance. Why? Because of the unprecedented record reductions in taxes, homicides and welfare numbers, and the improvement in the quality of life for all New Yorkers.

George Shinn

We are going to prove to the world that Oklahoma City is a major league city.

Joseph J. Lhota

I was involved as deputy mayor in New York City on 9/11.

David Gudgel

It is my opinion that most probably I will be getting a recommendation from my mayor pro tem (today),

Willie Brown

Mayors are judged by results.

Christine Quinn

I'm tough, and you know what? New Yorkers deserve that. They work head, they fight it out, they slug it out. And they deserve a mayor or a speaker who's going to do the same.

George Griffin

there's a sense Jan will stand up to the mayor when she disagrees.

Ed Koch

I'm not an author, but before I became mayor, I wasn't a mayor.

Mark Begich

As mayor of Anchorage, with 43 percent of the state's population, we have worked on a variety of projects from road projects to renewable energy to a variety of things.

John Hickenlooper

The most important thing a mayor does is hire talented people to run the city.

Rep. Ayres

This is something the mayor has been working on for two years.

Ang Lee

In a year when the Oscars have such an independent spirit, I really treasure this encouragement.

Joe Orton

The Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility.

Octavia Spencer

I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part.

Philippe Falardeau

I don't like ostentatious galas and stuff like that, but if you get to the Oscars, you'd better get used to it and you'd better enjoy it.

Charlize Theron

This is very surreal for me because two years ago, I stood right here and won my Oscar for 'Monster.

Steve Box

We know how sacred the Oscars are. But we said, what the heck.

Elizabeth Banks

I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv.

Brett Ratner

I'm not going to turn down an Oscar, but I'm not strategizing for one.

Brett Ratner

I never dreamed I would be producing the Oscars. That was a huge deal for me.

Tom Ferguson

I think (the Fringe) is wonderful because . . . this is not 'Annie Get Your Gun,'

Mary Campbell

We feel it is a wonderful program, and they do wonderful things.

Jim Rash

I think what's wonderful is that 'Community' has always had its voice, has always had it's vision, and that started from the very beginning.

Anne Murphy

We can have all these wonderful things in place,

Vincente Minnelli

I see wonderful films by Bertolucci, Visconti, and Fellini.

Robert Caro

As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life.

Roald Dahl

Come right up close to me and I will show you something wonderful.

Vasily Grossman

Ivan tells Anna: "I used to imagine that being embraced by a woman . . . as something so wonderful that it would make me forget everthing . . . [But] happiness, it turns out, will be to share with you the burden I can't share with anyone else.

Robert Stack

It's all malarky; even the wonderful part is malarky.