Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Hoffer

It is cheering to see that the rats are still around - the ship is not sinking

Bill Cassara

He was kind of cheering me on. He has always had an interest in Edgar Kennedy.

Ray Emery

They want to see wins and it was a tough night. It's understood you don't want to get booed but they were cheering when I was winning so that's part of being a fan.

Neil Rackers

They want to see action, they want to see football. With the whistling, I didn't know if that was cheering or booing.

Mike Doss

It was hard going out there and not having Coach Dungy on the sidelines, with his presence and leadership. We knew he was home watching and cheering all the way through. We play hard for him.

Bob Nutting

It?s a different kind of tennis here. With seven courts, you can all go out there together and relax. With four courts, there?s more cheering and more pressure.

Bill Laimbeer

We'll be cheering loudly for the Sun. This is about making the playoffs -- we're not going to be bashful.

Sathya Baba

Baba tells us that when we serve another, we should remind ourselves that we are serving the Divinity within that other. This is something that we frequently forget, for it needs a very big mental re-adjustment. Don't worry about it -- just serve! But the very least that is demanded of us in this context is to RESPECT the person we are serving. That includes respecting their beliefs; in fact, it means reaching their spiritual Self through their beliefs, not ours. It means putting oneself in their shoes; cheering them up if possible, but seeing things from their point of view.

William Butler Yeats

Nor law, nor duty bade me fight,Nor public men, nor cheering crowds.

Brandt Jobe

Last August, I was sitting on a couch wondering if I was ever going to play golf again. A year later, I'm playing in the Tour Championship. Right now, after all that, life is pretty good.

Carl Miller

I was a couch potato until my mother talked me into swimming,

Tom Larson

He was sitting on the couch in his pajamas. He had on his reading glasses, and he was facing the TV.

James Heckman

I remember sitting there on my father's couch or my mother's couch, listening to this lecture about how there were two groups and we had to be separated. We've come a long way from this kind of open racism. And I think it's wonderful.

Julia Davis

It's hard to get started. Hard because you want to lay on the couch and be lazy.

Ken Williams

It's too long a wait. But I'd rather wait till Saturday than next Feb. 15. I've been there before, sitting on the couch watching this all happen (for other teams). It's not a good feeling.

Pam Tambini

It's good to be back. When I was sick, I still watched the games. That wasn't fun, watching from the couch when I knew I could be playing.

Jonathan Richman

I visited Lou Reed in New York a few times before I went away. I visited them a few times when I was still living at home- took the train down. I hung out with the Velvet Underground a bit, slept on their manager's couch but it was Steve Selznick not Danny Fields.

Richard Fixaris

She smelled the smoke, called 911, and went in and saw the couch was in flames. He was on the couch.

Monica Crowley

Just when you think you've heard it all from Team Obama, the next day brings another jaw-dropper.

Meredith Ostrom

John Casablancas was saying, 'You will be the next Claudia Schiffer!' But I said, 'Actually, I have to go to college.'

Ted Ligety

I think it's kind of stupid to make him do it if he isn't going to be in the next run.

Ken Warwick

When they go to school the next day, it's become the show to watch, and if they haven't seen it, they've got a problem.

Elliott Sadler

I actually am pretty pumped up for the next nine races.

Charlie Lewis

He was really on us that next morning, ... We didn't start that day.

Bon Battu

He has no personal problems whatsoever and will be back training next week.

Shimon Peres

He indicated he may do it in the first part of next year.

Ricky Bennett

He doesn't throw it a whole lot in games, but at least he's trying something he can work on going into next year.

Randy Cunneyworth

He's been sitting long enough. We need a contribution from him.

M. Wolfe

He was just sitting here three weeks ago.

Chris Barnes

He got tired of sitting on the bench.

Richard Barnfield

As it fell upon a day In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove of myrtles made.

Tyler Perry

I'm always on to something else. It's like, I'm sitting here now jotting down notes for something that's in my head. There's always something going on in my head, and I have to just keep executing.

Robert Hunter

Being in a floodplain is like sitting down in a bathtub.

Tyler McNeece

Being in the game, being able to make a difference, is so much better than sitting on the bench.

Tim Stewart

If I were sitting in that seat, I would want to have a vote as to what was going on here.

Jonathan Swift

T is as cheap sitting as standing.

Lorrie Fair

Michael Jordan always wore his Carolina shorts under his Bulls' uniform.

Adam Smith

Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor.

Andy Robinson

It has been killing me watching from the stands, I want to get back into the action,

Brian Urlacher

If I was someone, I'd do the same to us after watching that film.

Hugh Johnson

We're all watching the same stuff. Like sheep.

Bobby Cox

I think you've got to do what you have to do to win right now.

Gerhard Schroeder

There is no alternative to this struggle, which we must win and will win,

Chad Qualls

We've got to win the first before we win the fourth.

Amani Toomer

To get a win we've got to play good. And we really didn't play that well at all.

Richard Petty

No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

Richard P. Feynman

Winning a Nobel Prize is no big deal, but winning it with an IQ of 124 is really something.

Retief Goosen

You can't really measure your game. You can shoot seven under and lose and you can shoot even and win.

Trudi Canavan

It is said, in Imardin, that the wind has a soul, and that it wails through the narrow streets because it is grieved by what it finds there.

Rick Cook

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

Mark Richt

He's a big-league talent. I wish he wasn't a freshman. Hopefully, we won't have to play him for a while.

William James

If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.

Roald Dahl

I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems. I couldn't face the embarrassment, and anyway I lack the courage. Any courage I had was knocked out of me when I was young. But now, all of sudden I have a sort of desperate wish to tell everything to somebody.

Sara Shepard

My sister had blown out the candle in our breath.That meant our wishes were definitely going to come true

Samuel Johnson

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.

Saint Augustine

Be always displeased with what you are if you wish to be what you are not. Always add, always walk, always proceed. Neither stand still nor go back nor deviate.

William Goldman

[Prince Humperdinck] was seventy-five minutes away from his first female murder, and he wondered if he could get his fingers to her throat before even the start of a scream. He had been practicing on giant sausages all the afternoon and had the movements down pretty pat, but then, giant sausages weren’t necks and all the wishing in the world wouldn’t make them so.

Voltaire

We cannot wish for that we know not.

Emily Cederholm

I think the expectations are higher, but they don't feel so much pressure. This whole year is different.

Brandon Roy

I think this is the year it can happen.

Richard D. James

My filing system's really crap because I can never decide whether to sort things by studio, or year, or where I lived.

Richard D. James

I've always got to change something. All the tracks I've done in the last five years were made in like six different studios. It gets a bit complicated.

Robbie Coltraine

Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you.

Rob Sheffield

Not being able to protect her from things was the most frightening thing I'd ever felt, and it kicked in as soon as we got together. With every year we spent together, I became more conscious that I now had an infinitely expanding number of reasons to be afraid. I had something to lose.

Rob Chapman

The way I have progressed as a writer over the years is to try and stay true to the principles I absorbed.

Rob Halford

They were and still are a groundbreaking band. Even though they haven't released any new music in ages, you can put on the first Black Sabbath album and it still sounds as fresh today as it did 30-odd years ago. And that's because great music has a timeless ability: To me, Sabbath are in the same league as the Beatles or Mozart. They're on the leading edge of something extraordinary.

Richard P. Feynman

If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those years of study, still cannot spell 'friend,' I say to them that something's the matter with the way you spell friend.