Famous Quotes & Sayings

Xavi

I spend the entire 90 minutes looking for space on the pitch. I'm always between the opposition's two holding midfielders and thinking, 'The defence is here, so I get the ball and I go there to where the space is.'

Twyla Tharp

At the ballet classes I took when I first came to New York, I would see great dancers like Cynthia Gregory and Lupe Serrano. I would look at them and study what they could do, and what I couldn't do. And then I'd think maybe they should try what I could do.

Thierry Henry

The only thing I won't watch is darts. And I don't watch cricket. How can you like a game that requires you to take four days off work to follow a Test? And I don't really like golf. I know a lot of English footballers play, but I know that if I go with the club to play, sooner or later I will end up trying to smash the ball with my foot.

Thierry Henry

But the moment I've got a ball at my feet, I'm happy.

Imelda May

There have never been so many women in the music industry, but they're doing ballads and pop. Where's the new Joan Jetts and the Wanda Jacksons and the Debbie Harrys, all these strong women? I wanna be the woman that rocks.

William Clay Ford, Jr.

We took our eye off the ball as a company.

Steve Friedman

The only crystal ball even more difficult to read than where one's own personal situation may be is where the country is headed and what the country's economic situation will be in 20 or 30 years.

Rick Adelman

The patience at the end of the game there when Brad hit the three was terrific. We had plenty of time, we moved the ball around and they made a mistake and left Brad standing there. Then in the overtime we took control, especially when Odom fouled out.

Phillip Hilliard

The past two games we haven't been hitting the ball. He had to be (critical) ? nobody was hitting the ball. We should've hit the ball a lot better, and we weren't focused on the fundamentals.

Parvesh Cheena

My big downfall is deep-dish pizza from Chicago. That is why I can't go vegan - I can't give up cheese. I can't give up dairy.

Rob Shepard

We had too many turnovers in the first quarter that pretty much started our downfall from the beginning. We panicked too much in the first quarter and we weren't really running our offensive sets that well.

Sylvia Hatchell

I think right now that's probably the downfall of the NCAA tournament.

Rob Guinn

We took a lot of dumb penalties. That was our downfall in this series. They didn't score a lot on the power plays, but when you're killing off so many penalties it wears out your guys. That was the difference; they had legs and we didn't. And they played smarter than we did. That's why this series is over.

King Tuff

That's always my downfall on tour: the food. I just want to eat everything.

George Foreman

We all think we've got one more boxing match in us, and that, probably, will be the downfall of Floyd Mayweather, George Foreman, Manny Pacquiao. We'll overstay our welcome.

Mark Krause

We didn't play well defensively. It's been our downfall all year.

Ellen Gerton

She's really shown wonderful skills. Her only downfall is she's short.

Doug Janik

It's tough to say. We were right up at the top of the league in PK but we've fallen way off lately. It's frustrating and it's costing us games. If you could point a finger to one thing for our downfall lately, it's that.

Inga Cadranel

When we were growing up, we had all these crazy, in-your-face guys around the house. For us, it was like, 'Ugh! Actors again.'

Ziggy Marley

Even if I wasn't in music, even if my father was a carpenter, some guy in Jamaica would go 'You're just like Bob. You're just like your father.' That happens in Jamaica all the time.

William E. Conway, Jr.

I'm the luckiest guy in the world, and I am going to give away every penny before I die.

Val Kilmer

I've been very fortunate and met the guys that have become, basically, philosophers and have a kind of sensibility about life that's very precious.

Chuck Palahniuk

I get a lot of letters from women who insist that 'Fight Club' is not just a guy thing. They insist that women have the same rage and need the same outlet.

Chuck Palahniuk

When I first used to tour, guys would come up and say, 'Where's the fight club in my area?' and I would say, 'There isn't one.' And they'd say, 'No, no, you can tell me, you can tell me.'

will.i.am

When you think about the guys who started Twitter, and the Google guys, and the Facebook guys and the Napster guys, and the Microsoft guys, and the Dell guys and the Instagram guys, it's all guys. The girls, they're being left behind.

Clay Shirky

Whether it's long-form journalism or investigative journalism, it's no fun to just be the guy diagnosing the problem.

Evel Knievel

Nothing's worse than a guy who loses fair and square and then whines about it.

Imelda May

I was one of those annoying kids that loves singing and entertaining.

Gwen Moore

We cannot allow our kids not to have an educational opportunity.

Gail Carson Levine

Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.

Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange

One has to divide attention between having kids and a full workload.

William H. Macy

I'm not against watching myself, but I miss a lot of it. I've got two little kids who we don't let watch TV.

William Joyce

I like stirring things up. I'm on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasionally I find some adults that have that same mischievous streak, so I don't get in too much trouble.

Wendelin Van Draanen

You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.

Vanessa Hudgens

My advice to kids is give it your all! Give it 110 percent and don't give up!

Wyclef Jean

As a producer, I always want to know what makes the kids tick.

Connie Mack

You're born with two strikes against you, so don't take a third one on your own.

Maximilian Schell

Directing is like meeting a woman. You don't know her, but something strikes you, and then you just have to go into it.

Dan Nobbs

We throw strikes and play defense, that's pretty much our philosophy.

Derek Jeter

He was throwing strikes, that's the thing. You try to be patient, but if he's throwing strikes with it, you find yourself in the hole.

Tom Pratt

I thought (Shaver) had big-league command. Everything was down in the zone. He threw 43 strikes in 58 pitches.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Don't be called out on strikes. Go down swinging.

Clint Hurdle

He really struggled to throw any strikes (on the third-base side) of the plate,

John Hedgecoth

We think that this strikes the right balance.

Themistocles

Strike, if you will, but listen.

Russian Proverb

What the young one begs for, the grown-up throws away

Ashley Lewie

When Ari throws a pitch, I know where it is going to go.

Carroll Ballard

It throws me in the toilet. I'm going to have a lot of trouble getting another picture.

Maureen Allyn

This may be what throws us into recession.

Dan Hawkins

Very talented, I like the way he throws the football,

Dave Odom

I know (Kinsey) would have been here. It's one of those things: He wasn't here on time, so he doesn't start. That throws Renaldo back in there.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I'm not difficult to work with, trust me.

Bergen Evans

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.

William Shakespeare

There's no trust, No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.

Baz Luhrmann

Trust yourself that you can do it and get it

Peter Sis

I trust the pictures to tell what I want to say.

Shari Pulliam

One of the most important things we can do is trust our instincts.

Jack McConnell

I don't trust him. He has wandering eyes!" ()

John Hill

I'd trust her with my wife and with my life,

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.