Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jay Wright

We've won games that way. We've shot poorly and then got on the offensive boards and played defense. They were just too good.

Todd Tripp

We struggled on offense, but we kept playing defense and kept getting stops. I thought we controlled the boards and our defense was good tonight.

Becky Hammon

We have to get to the offensive glass. We didn't crash the boards when we should have. We settled for jumpers instead of getting to the line.

Charlaine Harris

I thought about making biscuits, but there seemed to be more than enough calories on board.

Charlie Munger

A board member should be perfectly willing to leave at any time and willing to make the tough calls.

Becky Hammon

We didn't crash the boards when we should have, ... We settled for jumpers instead of getting to the line.

Don Brownlee

We've undergone a very heavy level of scrutiny by review boards because of Genesis and because of the Columbia accident. . . . It was a cultural shift in NASA, that you're now required to understand all the risks.

Paul Alioto

We're getting boards and picking up loose balls. We've been playing well of late. You always hope to be peaking at this stage of the season.

Steve Kellar

All our posts kind of realize that our first options are our guards. I would like it to be an inside-out game, but invariably we tend to be more outside-in. Mackenzie does a good job of hitting the boards and getting some points inside for us.

Charles Dickens

Money and goods are certainly the best of references.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Alan Moore

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

Alan Alda

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Akira Kurosawa

A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.

Eddie Mathews

It's only a hitch when you're in a slump. When you're hitting the ball its called rhythm.

Cameron Bennerman

We started hitting (the 3s) for one thing. If they go in, they count. They add.

Shawn Russell

We started hitting our outside shots. That opened things up on the inside.

Charlaine Harris

What had set the fae world off? I`d never seen one. Now you couldn`t throw a trowel without hitting a fairy.

Neneh Cherry

When me and my brother Eagle-Eye were kids, life was about hitting the road, getting on the bus. We loved it.

Lora Staveness

When we did get looks we weren't knocking them down, and they were hitting their shots and locating their shooters.

Nick Reid

Unless it's hitting somebody when they're not looking.

Ryan Doumit

Unfortunately, it's taken us until the ninth inning to get back into every game. Timely hitting has to come sooner than the ninth.

Alan Trammel

We're just not hitting right now. It isn't that we aren't trying.

Henry Thomas

We struggled from the perimeter, we struggled inside we struggled on the boards. We struggled every place tonight.

Atharva Veda

WHEN you scatter seeds on the surface of the soil, they do not germinate; you have to keep them inside the soil.

Chauncey Billups

We were trying to go to him, inside and outside. We were going to keep going to him until he got tired.

Natassia Malthe

I'm very kinesthetic, and when you're that way, you just feel it in your body. I know that other actors think with the logical part of their brain, but I wear my character inside my body, even when I'm away from the set.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I'm always trying to make something that is impossible to film. Why would somebody just read a novel when they can see it on TV or in the cinema? I really have to think of the things fiction can do that film can't and play to the strengths of the novel. With a novel, you can get right inside somebody's head.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Why would somebody just read a novel when they can see it on TV or in the cinema? I really have to think of the things fiction can do that film can't and play to the strengths of the novel. With a novel, you can get right inside somebody's head.

Lamar Butler

They were kind of going through the motions during warm-ups. It just seemed like they were arrogant. We noticed it. When teams are arrogant, it does something to you inside you can't describe.

Rick Byrd

They took (the three-point game) away from us by getting up in our shooters on the perimeter. We've got to score better inside when people play us that way.

Dwight Littlefield

They're very well-balanced. Inside and out, they're a tough team to defend.

Oscar Wilde

A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain.

John Berger

Propaganda invariably serves the long-term interests of some elite.

John Gottman

Discussions invariably end on the same note as they begin.

Ben Karlin

Those reports will invariably be shoddily produced, poorly reported and sloppily edited,

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Capture of a wild animal is invariably traumatic.

Frank Chodorov

When people say 'let's do something about it', they mean 'let's get hold of the political machinery so that we can do something to somebody else.' And that somebody is invariably you.

Charles Dickens

"There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones."

Charles Dickens

"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."

Charles Stross

I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went "aha!" - because what you need is an agent who knows the industry but who doesn't have a huge list of famous clients whose needs will inevitably be put ahead of you. So I emailed her, and ... well, 11 years later I am the client listed at the top of her masthead!

Charles Stross

What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.

Alan Watts

It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.

Alan Parker

Film-making is a physically hard job.

Alan Patricof

I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available.

Alan Rickman

One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right.

Alan Rickman

I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.

Ritchie McKay

They survived our run. I thought we took some of their primary options away offensively but we couldn't do it over 40 minutes. They tired us out and we turned it over too much.

Jim Grant

It's not that we're concerned. We have plenty of options for the space.

Harold Williams

There was one recommendation, and from that we agonized over the plan. Other options should have been considered.

Jeremy Bates

The whole tie this time around with the team I have got has got more options than I have ever had,

Bill Elliott

You never put your options away. I wouldn't say never. It would have to be the right deal.

Frans Houten

There are various M&A options we will explore.

David Chamberlin

An IPO is one of the options we are considering and at the top of the list.

Ryan Coetzee

We are waiting on various parties to get back to us on a variety of options and proposals.

Jack Ablin

You have to look at all the options you have available, from A to Z.

Ben Nelson

We're going to run like we're 10 points down,

Dave Garza

We're going to put some big points on the board.

Zeus Kerravala

What they're trying to do is to take IP communications to another level. Every vendor has the same vision, but they're all at different points to getting there.

Brad Hemphill

When we can get big points out of her, it helps.

Andy Reid

We feel that we have the quality to get the three points and we want to win the group.

Tony Gonzalez

It's embarrassing. For us to go out there and score three points is inexcusable.

Greg Garmen

They turned our turnovers into points and we didn't.

Al Groh

They take a lot of points with them.

Ike Taylor

They put up a lot of points and they put up a lot of yards, ... We know they're going to be on the attack.

Matt Mullenweg

When I first got into technology I didn't really understand what open source was. Once I started writing software, I realized how important this would be.

Bob Elek

We are getting better the more we work on this. We realize we have a lot of work going on out there.

Joey Harrington

It's just one game. We all realize that.

Jesse Spencer

All of my girlfriends have been actors, and I've realized that maybe it's not for me - and find something else outside of the industry.

Mark Basham

They realize they have to be executing. It's not just about a Web site.

Bob Denver

It was the mid-'70s when I realized it wasn't going off the air,

Clarence Curry

It's a business. I realized that after being through it for a year and a half. You don't get down. You never know when you can go to another team and be on their 53 (man roster).

Eric Roberts

the sun starts to come up and they don't even realize that it had set yet.

Jim Taylor

After Andrew, insurers realized the premiums they were charging weren't enough,

James Salter

West Pointers tend to be rigorously honest - more than necessary, in my view.

Nina Hoss

In Germany, actors tend to be more laid-back and take orders from the director: 'Tell me what you want.' I'm more into collaboration. So are Americans.

Andy Serkis

When we, as humans, articulate, our tongues tend to hit the back of the teeth.

Nobu Matsuhisa

When I'm dining out privately, I tend to avoid fine-dining venues; I like things to feel casual.

Hugh Johnson

They tend to be like sheep. They are followers. It's called piling on in football, and I think it's the equivalent. It's unprecedented.

Chris Jordan

My ideas tend to arise out of nowhere when I'm not intentionally trying to think of something.

Nicholas D. Kristof

The bulk of the emails tend to come after a column. I can get about 2,000 after a column.

Ezra Taft Benson

An unvirtuous citizenry tend to elect representatives who will pander to their covetous lustings.

Maurice Strong

The tendency is to keep doing things the way you have done them.