Famous Quotes & Sayings

I think people tend to forget that trees are living creatures. They're sort of like dogs. Huge, quiet, motionless dogs, with bark instead of fur.

Mike Bryan

It hurts. It doesn't feel good to let your team down when you are staring down the barrel of giving yourself a two-set lead.

Jon Favreau

Christopher Nolan's 'Batman Begins' set the bar very high for the superhero movie, as it showed that you could get a great cast for these movies and take a real filmmaker's perspective.

Jane Johnson

Illinois has what we call a code which sets minimum state standards. It should set a bar that should be achievable everywhere. My concern is are the minimal requirements really minimal for Pike County? At the local level, we need to work with people to come up with suitable private sewage disposal systems within a reasonable cost. It's a matter of reaching a balance.

Nancy Hills

I know it's mostly them, but I help them. They raise the bar for themselves.

Charlie Williams

I have yet to see any tests predict the success or failure of any teacher in the classroom, ... Passing the bar exam doesn't mean that you are going to be a great lawyer. Obviously, passing the bar exam doesn't mean you are going to be a good politician either.

Michael Gartner

I hope salary isn't a bar to getting good people as candidates. I think that we will try to find the very best man or woman we can find and then try to work out the very best salary package we can work out.

Herb Alpert

I haven't seen this many people since I played bar mitzvahs years ago.

Igor Stravinsky

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I've felt it

Monty Beisel

The thing that Rodney does best is he sets the tempo for the way things are done around here. He's a great student of the game. He knows what's going on and he leads by example.

Paula Creamer

The thing that I find with Annika is that she does her work and then she leaves. She doesn't hang around, ... She just gets it done and stays focused and that's what I'm trying to do, learn from that. The best player out here obviously is Annika and she has the best time management

Dom Capers

The thing I liked about our defense today is that we were able to get pressure on the quarterback. Our defense has improved. In the last two games we've played our best defensive games.

Dave Maggard

I've looked at facilities all over the country. And I think they will find our stadium is one of the best for soccer anywhere.

Reggie White

I wanted to do what's best for this family.

Al Smith

The music industry is constantly evolving to find new ways to reach our customer, the music fan. The number of possibilities for this is very exciting, and we look forward to working with Universal to discover the best opportunities for consumers and our businesses.

Lisa Brown

The MS Society is the world's best in research. Our mission is to find a cure for MS, so 40 percent of the money we raise goes to research.

Gary Adler

A free market is by far the best for the consumer.

John Scott

A do-it-all player who knows how to win is the best way to describe Tom. He has the maturity and physical skills to come in this fall as an outside linebacker and make us a better defense.

I bet when neanderthal kids would make a snowman, someone would always end up saying, 'Don't forget the thick, heavy brows.' Then they would get all embarrassed because they remembered they had the big husky brows too, and they'd get mad and eat the snowman.

I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye.

I bet it was pretty hard to pick up girls if you had the Black Death.

I bet it's hard to break farmers of the old superstitions like "Tornado got Old Yeller, stay in the cellar.

I bet for an Indian, shooting an old fat pioneer woman in the back with an arrow, and she fires her shotgun into the ground as she falls over, is like the top thing you can do.

If you're a young Mafia gangster out on your first date, I bet it's real embarrassing if someone tries to kill you.

I hope if dogs take over the world, and they choose a king, they don't just go by size, because I bet there are some Chihuahuas with some good ideas.

Luke Scott

If someone accuses me of not being born here, I can go -within 10 minutes - to my filing cabinet and I can pick up my real birth certificate and I can go, 'See? Look! Here it is. Here it is.'

Thad Schultz

We hope to have at least 50 kids, somewhere between 50 and 75. The people calling are very excited, very positive about what we did last year.

The crows seemed to be calling his name, thought Caw.

Toby Hall

It's such a slow pitch, it catches everybody off guard. I love calling it because I love to see the expressions on the hitters' faces.

Scott Young

Huge. County championship. Oughtta be another big one.