Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Scioscia

He keeps getting finer and finer with his stuff. Although he's not throwing as hard as he once did, he's still adept at hitting spots, changing speeds and keeping hitters off-balance. He just knows how to pitch, knows what he wants to do, and he's very good at it.

Dave Walker

I think we'll definitely bring down more schools, just because of the new track and I think they'll be more adept to come down to compete.

E. B. White

I think we've become adept at it. It has become our signature play.

Robby Gordon

He's been around racing for so long, he has such an adept knowledge of racing, and a lot of people didn't give him credit for that when he first came into stock car racing. If I had a second-car team, he could drive for me any time. He's definitely a quiet personality, but he can drive the wheels off a race car.

Alan Hamilton

In the opulence of its set, its cast was remarkably adept and it was richly endowed with character actors able, indeed anxious, to play cameo roles.

Steven Wood

Higher interest rates have been weathered by home buyers through the use of adept home financing techniques. Nevertheless, the resilience in the housing sector will support further monetary tightening by the Fed.

Christin Baker

The (European) Commission is quite adept at speeches, press conferences and finger-pointing.

Pir Vilayat Khan

The adept may reach one of those rare moments that spell illumination -- aware of the light of the consciousness that illumines our consciousness as the sun dawns on the sleeping earth and bathes it in effulgence.

Susan Barnes

A lot of the changes are so new that the younger generations are so adept at it, but the older isn't.

Ken Hill

The prime goal of an author is the same as a musician, which is to emotionally connect with the reader in some way or another.

Marty Heires

Know that we are fully cooperating with the authorities. You can be sure of that.

Karen Russell

It can be difficult workshopping novels because any questions or qualms you have as the author can be like, 'That's next chapter, don't worry about it!' I don't think the workshop is set up so well to do that for novels.

Tim Reese

He was able to find that median where he was an authority figure but cool enough that he would hang out with his students.

Zlatko Kranjcar

He decided himself to leave the squad. If we called him back, we would lose authority without any guarantees that he would not repeat such an act.

Jane Moore

He is old school. He's not a friend to the students, he's an authority figure. He is type of faculty member that students come to when they have problems. If they need a swift kick, he'd do that.

Jennifer Stephens

has no authority over the statements of that organization.

Paolo Iorio

Hamdi will have a fair and transparent trial. Public opinion is one thing, judicial authority is another.

Yasser Arafat

has to invest more of his authority, of his control. But there is a beginning of hope that I wouldn't put aside.

Malik Peiris

Just the introduction per se (of the virus from wild birds to poultry) is not a major risk but if it becomes endemic, that is the problem,

Gary Williams

It becomes very important that you have as many players as possible.

Ciara

It becomes obvious when people are sincere in their criticism and when they're not. I've learned over time that people will always have something to say.

Mike Childress

It becomes even more critical as we know some of our feedstock suppliers have curtailed or discontinued their supply.

Scott Maddox

It becomes clear to me that in order for us to compete, we don't need a contested primary,

David Graham

Golf is a form of entertainment. In some respects, people will continue to spend on entertainment, it then becomes a matter of how cost-effective they can be.

Freeman Dyson

God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the scale of our comprehension.

Dave Tippett

Hockey is a game where intimidation is still a part of the game, and you'll go to great lengths to try to win a game. If you know a player has an injury or weakness, he becomes vulnerable. He becomes targeted.

Jacky Ickx

Historic Grand Prix is a collective nostalgia in the discipline which becomes more and more hermetic to those who are not a part of it.

Daniel Petrie

They studio were flabbergasted when they discovered how interested everybody was in 'those old people.' And now many upcoming projects feature older people; it's become a trend.

James Hogg

He was scarcely then a year old, and knew so little of herding that he had never turned a sheep in his life; but as soon as he discovered it was his duty to do so I can never forget with what anxiety and eagerness he learned his different evolutions.

Pierre Fermat

I have discovered a truly remarkable proof which this margin is too small to contain.

Matt Reeves

I discovered the fun of genre is... you get to explore your fears, and you get to use the metaphor of the genre - whether it's a giant monster or a... 12-year-old vampire. Whatever it is, you can sink something underneath the surface and make a personal film under the guise of great fun romp.

Michael Steger

I discovered that I wanted to be an actor back when I did my first play in junior high. I've been doing theater in junior high and high school, and I just kept feeding the fire, kept wanting to pursue acting full-on.

Richard Whitehead

As we worked with e-Security, we discovered that they also had the same vision and the same needs.

Kinky Friedman

It seems to me the governor has just discovered we have a border.

Arthur Cashin

They discovered that inventory levels had dropped precipitously for the second month in a row. That meant we were working out of this excess inventory and they liked that enough.

Jane Hoffa

For history, we start with the American Indians and then who discovered America. It's really kind of fun when we get to the Mexican American war because they have a lot to offer from a different perspective.

Morgan Pressel

Harder than it had to be ... that's for sure. I was struggling to make solid contact.

Chauncey Billups

He's a volume shooter and he's pretty much the No. 1 and No. 2 options for them. He's going to shoot a lot of shots, and he's going to make some tough ones and score some points. We'll be right there doing whatever we can to make it harder on him.

Sam Worthington

To film in water is three times harder than just on land.

Shari Schau

I think we just played harder than they did.

Carla Thomas

I think we played harder (than in December). We showed more intensity and heart. We were still in it with 10 minutes left. The only reason we didn't pull it out was because we didn't play our game. We stopped playing hard.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

I think at places like 'Slate' or the magazine where I work, there was a really poor record of hiring African-American writers. It was really that simple. And I think with the proliferation of the Internet and Internet media, it has been a little harder to maintain that gatekeeper position.

Rex Grossman

I think that's just human nature to make you want to work harder to improve yourself, and I think that'll be a positive for me.

Herman Edwards

It is harder for me because we know all the work he has put into it,

Phil Ehlinger

Restaurants need parking relief to expand; that's going to be much harder to get now.

Sarah Pinborough

I wrote my first five horror novels while I was teaching.

Edmund White

I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.

William Golding

However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.

Wendell Berry

There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.

Brian Moore

Research is usually a policeman stopping a novel from progressing.

Jojo Moyes

Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages.

Rudolfo Anaya

In many respects, I think 'Bless Me, Ultima' is a novel about the indigenous.

Sarah Waters

I knew I'd always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, 'Well, I'd rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one'.

Eric Hoffer

To the old, the new is usually bad news.

Bob Hartley

It was like a photocopy (of the second period), just reverse it.

Willy Wonka

So much time, and so little to do! Strike that, reverse it.

Willy Wonka

We have so much time, and so little to do. Wait! Stop! Reverse that.

Emily Lyons

I was in the right place, just at the wrong time that day.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Denny Green

J.J. is the starter. I said that a long time ago.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Leslie Cohen

I think it'll be time at the end of this year for them to go off and try something new, ... It'll be torture. It'll be torture.

Mary Lambert

I think I streaked one time when I was 16, which was scary.

Cynthia Johnson

He didn't get the time that we may feel he deserved, and he may not get it in this lifetime. But before it's all over with, he will get it.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Mona Singh

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.