Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joyce Carol Oates

Primarily, 'Black Girl/White Girl' is the story of two very different, yet somehow 'fated' girls; for Genna, her 'friendship' with Minette is the most haunting of her life, though it is one-sided and ends in tragedy.

Keith Rowen

Denny's point is that as a tight ends coach, you've been involved in the passing and the blocking.

Carl Riccadonna

The strike is a tidal wave for New York - but at the national level, it ends up being more of a ripple.

Martin L. Gross

The tax laws are written by men with considerable net worth, and with little understanding of what wage-earners must do to make ends meet.

Peter Speicher

Now I hope and pray the kidney's not shot. If he ends up on dialysis again, then it was too late.

Bertrand Russel

Rules of conduct, whatever they may be are not sufficient to produce good results unless the ends sought are good

Terry Malone

I've taken a job with the New Orleans Saints as tight end ends coach, and I'll fly to New Orleans to start the job on Monday. The combination of going to the NFL and also to work with Sean Payton is a very exciting opportunity.

Delos Smith

The whole key is whether or not (a war) ends quickly.

Larry Rohr

The work never ends so you really have to do your job and grieve at the same time.

Greg Biffle

Roush is putting everything into a third championship and the National Guard team is more focused that I've ever seen them. It's an exciting position to be in right now.

Ayrton Senna

Fear is exciting for me.

John Updike

I must say, when I reread myself, it's the poetry I tend to look at. It's the most exciting to write, and it's over the quickest.

Erin Horn

We're just trying to get people to come out and watch and Florida State will be an exciting game.

Jerry Hollendorfer

When the horse made his exciting finishes and was running on late very strong, we thought the horse might have some potential.

Brian McKnight

It's just exciting to be part of something that is brand-new.

Lindsay Bowen

We're playing four straight at home, and it's exciting to play in front of big crowds. We just have to keep getting better now that we're playing games at a higher level like this week. We're really looking forward to it.

Sophie Kinsella

There is something exciting about saving up for a special treat. Bring back the piggy bank!

Kris Draper

Those two kids are special. And the new rules are going to be exciting for them.

Dick Vermeil

Normally, when you win a football game and you really feel good about it flying home, you look at tapes and it's not quite as good as you thought it was,

Chuck D.

The secret to my success was that somehow I always managed to live to fly another day.

Richard Harris

The motive for why the shooter shot the victim doesn't fly with what everyone knows about Bryan. Here's a student who is doing well academically. Why would he have any involvement in a shooting with someone he doesn't know?

John Phillips

The most important thing up here is that we are the experiment; we are learning how to fly in space,

Marguerite Cotto

Some only fly for very specific types of training. We need to talk about how we could provide some types of ratings without owning the equipment.

Grant Fairley

Speech recognition software is the stealth solution flying under the radar today that will revolutionize all our tomorrows.

Sami Abdulbari

On defense, there aren't as many things to do. On defense, I can fly around more.

Paul Reid

Pre-qualifications are good, but it's like flying stand-by: You think you're going on. When you have a ticket (pre-approval), you know you'll fly.

Desmond Clark

Preferably my own rap artists, Fly and ABM. I also might play a little online poker with my laptop.

Kobe Bryant

Any player that was going to come down the lane at that point in time, I was going to let him know that he just can't walk through there. I think we as a team have to do a better job of establishing that.

James Marsden

As an actor, you always think your last job is your last job, and you're always doubting yourself and worried that people will see you're a fraud.

David Schwimmer

As an actor, the training I received was that I walk through the world as an observer of life and of people. My job is to actually be looking out all the time and watching people.

Eli Roth

As a director, you have to know what actors are doing. You're the one telling them what to do. The actors' job is to come prepared to the set, but sometimes, if they're beginning actors or people who are non-actors, you have to teach them how to act.

Darren Criss

As an actor it's your job to empathise with your character regardless of whether they have a different sexual orientation, spiritual beliefs, or anything.

Dick Vitale

As long as he doesn't take my job.

Johnny Damon

Randy did his job to keep us in the game. We need to score more than just two runs.

Source Unknown

Professionalism: It's NOT the job you DO, It's HOW you DO the job.

John Challenger

People see themselves moving (between) too many jobs today, too many companies.

Brett Favre

In the NFL a lot of times everyone gets caught up in the business side of things. For them it's all about money and it really leaves a sour taste in your mouth.

Brandon Jacobs

I can be in the NFL as long as any other back. I went late in the draft because no one thought I could do it.

Deion Sanders

I expect to be great. I expect to do what hasn't been done. I expect to provoke change.

Andrew Luck

Hopefully one day I can be up there with Peyton in terms of history.

Andrew Luck

The victories are what I judge things on.

Andrew Luck

I've been lucky enough to be around some great coaches, all the way from Pop Warner to now.

Robert Kraft

I just didn't like the way we were, in my opinion, being unfairly attacked. I just decided to do what was right for our family.

Robert Griffin III

It's not about talent once you get to the NFL because everyone's got it. It's about being willing to go that extra mile to be the best and that's something that I've always done.

Robert A. M. Stern

That was the shocking part. Here we were in the midst of everything and this potentially giant story was being told and virtually noone was there.

Evan Bayh

What we are seeing in New Orleans is the result of a series of misjudgments and misdirected priorities, that have all produced an increasingly tragic result.

Christine Mitchell

Now, parents will start to return to the city. I think this symbolizes to a lot of people that, yes, New Orleans is back and will accommodate families.

Charles Harper

New Orleans is ruined, it will never be what it was again. I shed tears when I think about it. It seems hopeless.

Charles Harper

New Orleans is ruined, it will never be what it was again, ... I shed tears when I think about it. It seems hopeless.

Brian Kern

New Orleans is back open, so come on down and start visiting.

Jarvis Deberry

New Orleans had one of the most rooted populations in the nation.

Mark Smith

New Orleans as we know it does not exist.

Michael Brown

My first words to him were, 'Mr. President, it is my estimation ... at least 90 percent of the population of New Orleans has been displaced. He was truly taken aback by that.

Kodi Smit-McPhee

New Orleans is awake all night, and every night is a party.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

The saints are the sinners who keep on going

Reggie Bush

I want the Saints to be one of those teams where when other teams see us on the schedule, they know they're in for one hell of a game.

Anthony Williams

Sean Kelley's good, but our O-line is where it is. Without that line, Sean Kelley's stuck in the backfield.

Seamus Heaney

The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.

Jose Maria

The start of the work is (Saturday), but they are practically working now,

Elena Dementieva

I usually start to play well when I'm in trouble.

Carnell Williams

Sometimes you need this. It's tough, but now we can stop talking about 13-0 and start talking about being this 0-1 Tiger team and what we're going to do about it.

DeShawn Stevenson

Sometimes you've got to switch up the starting lineup to get a spark, just to get a win.

Nick Jones

Tech blitzes so much, the only way you can get them to back down is start to gash them,

Tom Craft

It was an electrifying start but I didn't have any follow-up.

Celso Amorim

The step taken (by the EU) was not sufficient to start negotiation in other sectors,

Kelvin Sampson

I see this as something like a snowball. Get it rolling, and it's got to start somewhere.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

is going to wear for a while and then I think we're going to get back to a real campaign. ... We're going to have to start talking about issues.

Brandon Sanderson

Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good thing can become destructive if taken to excess.

Auguste Rodin

Recently I have taken to isolating limbs, the torso. Why am I blamed for it? Why is the head allowed and not portions of the body? Every part of the human figure is expressive.

Augusten Burroughs

I don't read memoirs. But if you write a memoir, I would think you'd want people to know, "O.K., look, I've taken some liberties here." It's just a matter of being open with your readers.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I embrace technology and I just think that in 1984 when James Cameron wrote about the technology, everyone thought he was totally way out there and it was science fiction. Now it's almost reality what he talked about. The machines have taken over, except they have not become self-aware, like in Terminator. So this is really one thing that we have to watch out for, but I think technology is good.

Ayn Rand

Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one's own benefit is evil. Thus the beneficiary of an action is the only criterion of moral value - and so long as that beneficiary is anybody other than oneself, anything goes.

Audie Murphy

I'm glad that it didn't take as long to get Shepard off the ground as it's taken this series. I'd begun to think the Congo would be ahead of us in the space race before Whispering Smith ever got on the air.

Benjamin Cardozo

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.

Cameron Mackintosh

I've taken considerable gambles on shows, but they're very considered gambles.

C. S. Lewis

They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.

Jose Carreras

I am a little nervous with strangers. But I'm not tight inside. I think I am impulsive.

Marcus Spears

When I was recruited and after I signed, I had aspirations to be a tight end and thought I would be.

Johnny Damon

I would be jacked up. But I'd be worried about that high, tight pitch.

Mikael Samuelsson

I just wear tight skates, that's all. It's getting better, for sure. It's better every day.

Dennis Franchione

We're going to make a tight end out of you, yet.

David Morehouse

Time is tight in a two- to three-year span, not a two- to three-month span.

Tres Thomas

We wanted to keep it tight between the University and SMG until we got the go-ahead from the band.

Kristin Baker

I've matured. I think I work better with the team.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Amanda Hale

I've come to realise I work so much better when I'm going by instinct.

Luis Castillo

This is terrible. Very disappointing. I've got to get back out there. There's so many things I have to work on.

Bryson Sumlin

That's not in the playbook, ... That's just excitement. Everything worked as clockwork.

Boris Yeltsin

I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.

Auguste Rodin

Where shall we begin? There is no beginning. Start where you arrive. Stop before what entices you. And work! You will enter little by little into the entirety. Method will be born in proportion to your interest.

Jane Fonda

The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.