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.'

Natalie Massenet

When I started Net-a-Porter, I knew nothing. And I was pregnant. Starting a new venture and being pregnant for the first time are pretty similar in many ways. If you knew what was going to happen to you, you wouldn't venture down that road.

Nathaniel Smith

If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find so many friends in England as I suppose they do.

Greg Nossaman

When we were down nine on Thursday night, we knew Brandon would be able to play Saturday, so we said, let's try to (win this) so he can play another game. That was motivational.

Ray Allen

When I was open, I just knew it was time to make a shot.

Mike Rumph

When I was in sixth grade, honestly, I thought I knew everything. I still don't know nothing. I'm still learning stuff.

Katie Leclerc

When I played 'Annie' in the seventh grade, I knew from then on that I wanted to be an actor.

Jim McCarthy

When we had that warm weather in January, we knew we were going to be in trouble.

Doug Baggett

When we got down 10 or 12, I knew we were in trouble.

Jeremy Northam

Years and years ago, when everyone knew that Pierce was going to be doing the job, they started selecting new people. I had this bizarre thing when I hadn't done many movies, and of going on for an interview.

John Ellinger

The positives are, there is a team in Salt Lake City. And the fans; we've been received.

Cory Jacobs

We are proud of what we've done because nobody has done what we've done at Lake Fenton for a long time.

Benjamin Millepied

Swan Lake is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training.

Charlaine Harris

I could just envision Sam imagining that I wanted him to go out to the lake with me, only to be confronted by Jannalynn and whatever she thought of as a romantic dinner -- live rabbits they could chase together, maybe.

Rudy Cruz

We're seeing moderate snowfall up in the Lake Tahoe area.

Bob Balaban

I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area.

Pat Brown

A lot of it was luck. But Red Lake is so productive. It's just a natural rearing pond.

Rob Parker

North Lake is a lot like us. They're not real big, but they're experienced and aggressive. I think we match up well with them.

Kerry Prather

Once the shad have been removed, it will take about two years for the lake to produce quality bluegill again.

Gila Reinstein

We want them to feel very welcome and to be as acclimated as soon as possible.

Joe Papin

We started out really quick, using our speed. As soon as they scored the first goal, we went a little flat.

Michael Faraday

Why, sir, there is every possibility that you will soon be able to tax it! (to PM William Gladstone, on the usefulness of electricity)

David Montgomery

We'd like to do it as soon as possible.

Howie Carr

As soon as he's caught, that's the end.

Greg Riegle

They'd like to get started on it as soon as possible.

Saadi Saadi

They should come up with it forthwith. The sooner they do it, the better it is for all concerned.

Steve Jones

They were going to have to be paring back very soon anyway.

Bobby Bowden

It's one of those things you have to do sooner or later, and we can't wait any later,

Jessica Raine

The most common place I get stopped by fans is the ladies'.

Joe Torre

They stopped thinking and went out there and reacted.

Rick DiPietro

They're a little bright. But they stopped the puck.

Trevor Rabin

The reason I stopped doing the band is that I wanted to do something different... Yes had become like 'Groundhog Day' for me. I loved being in the band, but it was album-tour, album-tour, different album-different tour.

Scott White

We had the energy. It was there. And then they stopped the punt and it deflated everything.

G. H. Hardy

Basically, it's been wars that have stopped Mardi Gras.

Alastair Reynolds

One of the big breakthroughs I had as a writer was when I stopped agonising over every word.

William Maxwell

My wife has to tell me I haven't said anything all day. I've stopped talking, and I'm totally unaware of it.

Vijay Batra

We have stopped work on the footbridge after objections from Pakistani soldiers,