Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bikram Choudhury

For months, I slept at work, even though I had an apartment. I'd fall asleep on the floor at 4:30 A.M. By 7 A.M., I was up and ready to start teaching every class.

Paracelsus

That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it.... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself. - The Dream Game

Chris Winfield

We're really starting to see Microsoft gear up. Of course, the company was asleep at the wheel for a long time.

Roger McNamee

Microsoft didn't get to $8 billion in revenues and $7 billion in cash because they fell asleep at the switch.

Larry Haverty

Management is not asleep at the switch. Anything you can do to move the needle in that direction is terrific for shareholders.

Dave Sarachan

We gave up an awful goal from my standpoint. We fell asleep three minutes in, and now you've got 87 minutes left to try to get back into it. We did everything we could to do that, but it just didn't fall for us.

Richard Alley

We haven't been sleeping on the rights, or asleep at the wheel, in this case.

Randy Scyoc

I was happy with way we played defense in the first half. In the second half, we sort of fell asleep a little bit and didn't box out sometimes, and they crawled back in the game.

Henry Reed

What we hear while we are asleep continues to resonate with us upon awakening.

Caryn Jarocki

That was helpful, but her on the bench in the first half (with three fouls) wasn't helpful.

Ron Gardenhire

That was good enough for me. He wants to play. It's frustrating for him not to play. It was driving him crazy. On the bench in Chicago, he was going nuts. Hopefully, we can get him healthy and keep him on the field.

Chauncey Duke

That was the spark of the game, him coming off the bench and hitting three in a row.

Sean Dockery

That was a great coaching strategy. That brought them momentum for the fans and for the team. They got some guys off the bench who stepped up and made big plays.

Clint Hurdle

We have always been big on guys on the bench being versatile.

Barry Gibb

We could have been sleeping on park benches now but fortunately everything turned out well, much better than we had ever hoped.

Pam Borton

We can't have Jamie sitting on the bench for very long. Jamie's got to find a way to keep herself on the floor.

Main Street

We have the ?Keep Main Street Blooming? project, and we honor downtown businesses, and we have donated two benches and matching garbage cans ... make it a better, happier, more fun place to be.

Chase Cofer

We've got the deepest bench in the state. Even with a few of our key players hurt, we've still got seven or eight guys deep. We work the 3/4-court man (defense) the whole time and by the end of the game they were worn out.

Brad Goreski

If you do a smoky eye, chances are you will not want to do a strong lip as well. It's never good to gild the lily.

Darell Hammond

This summer, we need to let our kids go play and we need to stop worrying about whether or not it's going to ruin their chances of getting into college.

Bill Cosby

If you have one of the worst schools in the city, then chances are the teachers are not going to care for you. Chances are the parents don't feel seriously about coming to meet with teachers.

Ichiro Kawachi

The 4,000 chemicals in tobacco smoke just about do everything that we know that is harmful to the heart, ... It will damage the lining of the arteries, increase the stickiness of your blood, therefore increasing the chances that you will develop clotting and develop a heart attack.

Greg Jackson

That was tough during our championship year. He realized his chances of playing at another level will be extremely tough, but his education is in the palm of his hands.

Sam Jacobs

We have a more offensive-minded team with more weapons this year. Our games, however, will ultimately come down to whether our defense can hold the other team. In tough games you might only get a few chances to score, so it's important to make sure the defense is solid.

Mickey Blatnik

We could never get the lead to enough where (Maysville) had to panic. We had some chances to go up by six or eight points and take the game over, but we just couldn't get over the hump.

Otto Baric

We could have done better. We had a couple of chances which we should have converted. The Swiss are a good team.

Dan Favreau

We just didn't give them a lot of opportunities. They didn't have a lot of chances because our defense was really strong.

Gaines Adams

I feel like by me putting on a couple more pounds will help my game tremendously. Putting on 10-15 pounds will help me stop the run better and be a more dominant pass rusher.

Yo-Yo Ma

I think all musicians have at one time or another experienced one physical problem or another. I have had tendinitis a couple of times, so I try to be really careful. It takes patience and persistence to overcome injury.

Elle Fanning

When I do a movie, that's just a couple months out of my year and out of my life. All the other months I'm just at home, running around doing errands with my mom and going to sleepovers. I feel like I have that side of my life, and then I also do the films - which is just sort of a plus.

Boris Boehm

The overall performance of the market in the last couple of days has been impressive. Investors are locking in profits.

Bryan Cogman

The pressure used to wear on me. I was on Twitter a couple years ago, and I couldn't handle it all that well. Don't get me wrong, because 90% of the feedback you get is fantastic.

Carl Reiner

I was a Teletype operator in the army, so that's where I learned to type. One day, I went downstairs to see if I could still type - I hadn't done it for four or five years after the war. So I typed out a page and I showed it to my wife and she said, "Where did you get this?" I said I wrote it. "You wrote this?" It was something very funny. I went and wrote another page, another couple of pages, and by the time I was finished I had 13 little short stories, humorous short stories.

Bill Bryson

You can always tell a Midwestern couple in Europe because they will be standing on a traffic island in the middle of a busy intersection looking at a windblown map and arguing over which way is west. European cities, with their wandering streets and undisciplined alleys, drive Midwesterners practically insane.

Bette Davis

If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.

Ashton Kutcher

I have someone that cooks for me... that's the best thing ever. I just want to show up and I want my house to be like a hotel... so I want to have a couple of options... I like to have a couple of options.

Clint Eastwood

A lot of dumb pictures have made a lot of money, but that doesn't mean they're going to be anything cinema students will revel over in the future.

Greg Boyle

Most employers just aren't willing to look beyond the dumbest or worst thing someone has done.

Adam Morrison

You know, if we would have lost, I don't think I would have been the one complaining about what people said. It's a very emotional game. You guys have got to be dumb if you don't think they were talking trash when they were up nine with nine minutes to go.

Jacque Jones

We haven't been scoring a lot of runs lately. I was stuck in no-man's land. You look back on it, and it's a dumb decision, but I play hard. I play aggressive.

Turkish Proverb

If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb

Ella Wilcox

God! though all other sins on earth persist,Strike dumb the blatant, loud-mouthed atheist.

Steve Gulley

I think it comes down to the fact that we're just dumb enough to think we can have fun together playing on stage.

Jerry Taylor

It could be one of the dumbest ideas of the year. I haven't looked at all of the ideas yet, but it's got to be right up there.

Larry Kersten

Humiliation - The harder you try, the dumber you look.

Yolanda Adams

Those of us who are blessed, we owe it to our fellow citizens and folks who we are around to do something special for them.

Chuck Palahniuk

When I first read the story 'Guts' in workshop - my fellow writers that I've been meeting with for almost 20 years - they laughed; they didn't have any kind of shock reaction.

Buddy Lester

I fell off a chair onto a broken water glass when I was 3 years old.

Brian Kernighan

Bell Labs was an astonishing place for many decades, though it fell on somewhat hard times during the telecom meltdown some years ago, as its corporate owner had to cope with shrinking markets.

Brea Grant

I was once doing an improv show and it was my turn to jump on stage and I fell on my face. It's a really terrible way to start a show.

Tracey Morrill

We need to learn to mark up better. We got frustrated that they were getting opportunities and forgot about what we were doing. It worked for us then we fell apart.

Olivia Newton-John

The 'Great Walk to Beijing' was a fundraiser for my cancer center. It was a three-week trek with fellow cancer 'thrivers,' including celebrities ranging from Joan Rivers to Leeza Gibbons and Olympians.

Buddy Bell

We had officers who had to go to the hospital who fell out from the heat, and we would've lost more if it wasn't for them,

Chris Landry

We were going to give up a fourth-round pick just to move up one spot, we wanted him so bad. And all of a sudden, he fell right into our laps.