Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alafair Burke

I was downright obnoxious. In second grade, we had some program where we kept a public list of all the books we read. I think it even included the number of pages. In my nerdy mind, having the longest and most impressive list was somehow going to make up for the fact that I couldn't climb a rope or do a backwards summersault in PE.

Stan Perkins

I was a chunky little kid, and when they sat me in that wagon, it tipped backward and I banged my head on the (concrete) floor. I was howling pretty good, but Dad went outside and cried his eyes out.

Neil Strauss

All this stuff is backward engineered from what works. Nobody sat at a computer and invented these techniques. They watched guys who are successful and broke it down to what works.

Tony Vis

All of a sudden (in the second half) we started to play vertical, where now we're playing forward basketball rather than looking to throw the ball backward and going side to side. We got our players out running.

John Updike

The good ending dismisses us with a touch of ceremony and throws a backward light of significance over the story just read. It makes it, as they say, or unmakes it. A weak beginning is forgettable, but the end of a story bulks in the reader's mind like the giant foot in a foreshortened photograph.

Joe Ferrer

The horse went over backward once and came down. He got his left foot out of the stirrup but he couldn't get his right foot out in time.

Shawn Mendes

The first year I started hockey, I didn't know how to skate, so I got on the ice with all of the hockey players, and we were doing drills where we had to go backwards in figure eights. And I could not skate, and I just kept falling on my butt, and it was very embarrassing.

Joan Baker

Everyone's bent over backward in the Whitesboro school district,

Robert Greenstein

The new data are particularly troubling for working people, showing backward movement for most workers. In short, the census data provide new evidence that, as in 2002 and 2003, the recovery was neither robust nor broad-based.

Susan Tedeschi

I wrote 'You Need To Be With Me' when I was madly in love with this guy who just didn't love me. I fell in love with the idea of him and wanted to be together, ... I always thought we'd be together, but I guess it wasn't meant to be. He just got married this summer.

Carlos Fuentes

Kara's been kind of hovering between varsity and JV all four years. She was disappointed that she fell on beam, but I told her we didn't need her on beam. We needed her on bars.

Edie Falco

I actually washed my window once, and it fell through-it was being held together by the dirt.

Q'orianka Kilcher

I just want to learn even more about my culture and about the Algonquin culture because I fell in love with Pocahontas and the Algonquin tribe.

Chiqui Muller

Here, I took one look at the lagoons and the sunsets, and I fell in love.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Her tears fell with the dews at even;/ Her tears fell ere the dews were dried.

Jane Harman

He's a likable fellow who has helped restore some bipartisanship to the committee.

Issac Marsh

I thought we played well -- well enough to win in the second half. We made the adjustments that we talked about at halftime, and they worked. We just fell a little short tonight.

Patricia Morehart

When he walked into the room, he just lit up the room. He just grabbed your heart and tugged on it. You fell in love with him as soon as you met him.

Scott Terry

I write about everything in life. Whether it be things that plague us in the world today or what's on the front page of the newspaper or even love, it all comes down to what inspires you.

Dave Freer

just the main front in a war which has nothing to do with Iraq,

David Rudow

I think it's a good acquisition because it's the front end of development.

Paul Ford

He's a force. I got a front row seat on-deck.

Ray Brown

I thought we had the potential to do something. It looks like we're heading that way. It's not all over, said and done, but it's all in front of us, and I'm glad to be a part of a team that's playing for something in December.

Larry Robinson

I thought our positioning was good and that we were able to keep their players in front of us. When you're chasing, that's usually when you get penalties.

Bill Elliott

It gives you much more situational awareness. All of the information is right there in front of you (on the screen). Before you had to search around for it.

Derrick Joseph

It happened right in front of her face. She is a smart girl. She knows what happened.

Patrick Lalime

It happened quick. The puck was right in front and all I heard was 'ping.' I saw it come back. It looked like it his the post.

Matt Hammitt

Just to find the time to think about everything, just trying to wrap our heads around everything that was going on, and to try to go out and headline a show every night was really hard.

Paul Franklin

Keep your heads up, boys. This is your job. Don't let these (suicide bombers) intimidate you. We're here for the right reasons.

Steve Irwin

Because when they strike it can be that quick that if they're within range, you're dead, you're dead in your tracks. And his head weighs more than my body so it's WHACK!

Steve Hutchinson

I think we're all kind of hoping for it. But we all kind of had it in our head this is going to be a long week.

Don Thompson

I think we are heading toward a military dictatorship.

David Carr

It is nerve-wracking in there, ... Lots of tension, because it's so quiet. And everybody's got their head in the book, listening for a number.

Charles Payne

I think were heading into next week with a head of steam we haven't seen for some time.

Henry Bonilla

He's bloodied. He might be wounded. But he is going to get up, strap it on and take these things head on. He is by no means cowering. He is more passionate about standing tall than I've ever seen him.

Pat Brisson

He's going out on his own terms. He is walking out with his head up.

John DeVries

Katie was playing well. She'd get herself open and put herself in position to score ... she makes things happen.

A. S. Byatt

I have never been able to read Agatha Christie - the pleasure is purely in the puzzle, and the reader is toyed with by someone who didn't decide herself who the killer was until the end of the writing.

Martin Cohen

must disqualify himself or herself in a proceeding in which his or her impartiality might reasonably be questioned.

Frederick W. Smith

I was so despondent, wondering what I am going to do, and then the minister herself called.

Guru Singh

She shall meet Him without delay, if she rids herself of duality.

Cesar Rodriguez

I would hold her up to the mirror and make her look at herself and I would say, 'Do you really want to live like this? Look at yourself. Talk to yourself. How do you feel about yourself?

Romeo Crennel

I'm not going to measure a season by one game. When you get knocked down, how do you get back up and respond the next time out?

Lindsey Hunter

It kind of knocked him back a little bit. You could tell.

Dave Ketterman

They just really needed a win more than we did. They played with a sense of urgency and knocked some shots down.

Daylon McCutcheon

I've had the wind knocked out of me before. This was way worse than that." ()

Terri Mitchell

When you're playing the seventh ranked team in the nation, you need to do something special to win. They knocked down their shots and we didn't.

Muhammad Ali

You dont lose if you get knocked down; you lose if you stay down.

Michael Matz

That's everyone's concern. In a 20-horse field, you can get knocked out before you get to the first turn. Nothing you can do about that.

Chris Givens

The last two years in a row we had to go down to Muskegon and Mona Shores knocked us out in the first round. It was nice to be able to stay home, for one, and then to turn the tables on them.

John Mushtare

All the momentum was our way and the wind was knocked out of us after the game.