Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.

Charles Dickens

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

Charles Stross

I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer.

Tim Short

We've won playoff games before, but not down 18 on someone else's home court. Yeah, this is pretty special.

Mike Pomerenke

We've won more games this year than we'd won all of last year already. And you know, that's a huge improvement.

Chris Bosh

You don't have to appreciate me - I hope you underestimate me. That way, when I have a good game, it'll hit you even harder.

Chris Bosh

I've modeled my game after Kevin Garnett and Tim Duncan.

Chris Bosh

I know how the game is played, and I'm always working on it.

Eddie Kaye Thomas

If I have the TV on, it's either a Mets game or 'SportsCenter.'

Jay Johnson

Where Jeff could score 25 or 30 points now we're getting 12 points from this post player, 12 points from this post player and maybe six from another. It's more evenly distributed.

Bob Stanley

We got word that they're looting on Jefferson Highway, which is our neighborhood. We've quit worrying about the water. Now we're worried about the looting.

Becky Bailey

It's an updated, modernized engraving. It's Jefferson as you've never seen him before.

Mike Ricci

The only two teams we didn't see were Jefferson and Princeton.

Bethany McLean

The worst story I ever wrote was after the conviction of Jeff Skilling and Ken Lay. My co-author and I wrote a piece for 'Fortune' saying everything's going to be different now.

Paul Quantrill

This was a blip in the road for Jeff Francis. He is going to pitch in the majors for a long time.

Craig Cameron

We know that Jeff received lucrative offers from other clubs,

Tracy McGrady

I would have griped about (being taken out) because we were playing so well. We wanted to win this game. I was really going to talk (coach Jeff Van Gundy) into leaving me out there, even though they wanted to keep my minutes down.

Meggie Ford

I got to know Jeff after he was under our mentorship,

Deb Caletti

It's shocking the things we call love.

Ben Nelson

We are at that time of year where we have surprises with the strengthening of storms.

Cathleen Schine

Life is full of surprises. Why is that always surprising?

Meredith Patton

We're going to come out and surprise a lot of people. We're a young team, but we never give up.

Franz Beckenbauer

It only surprises me that no one thought of it before.

Randy Leliaert

It was a surprise in some ways, but in some ways not.

Rafael Benitez

It was a surprise but it was clear.

Charles Schumer

It would surprise me very much if they don't do it,

Marty Schottenheimer

I should have still been able to get it done. I wasn't surprised they took me out.

Luis von Ahn

I put a lot of weight on feelings and am weirdly in touch with them, which is not typical for an engineer.

Dennis Robinson

It's not the typical setting. We wanted a homey atmosphere.

Bob Podges

It was a typical Stow-Barberton game. Back-and-forth, down-to-the wire, that's how they all are.

Scott Gomez

It was a typical Scott Stevens win, I guess.

Daryl Hall

The song 'Laughing Down Crying' is not a typical Daryl song.

James Hall

Things like that really don't happen, but this is not your typical suburb, it's part of the city.

Barbara Mertz

stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.

Bobby Robson

Don't ask me what a typical Brazilian is because I don't know what a typical Brazilian is. But Romario was a typical Brazilian.

Scott Norton

This year is not a typical year in any way,