Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Osler

There are no straight backs, no symmetrical faces, many wry noses, and no even legs. We are a crooked and perverse generation.

Bertolt Brecht

If there are obstacles, the shortest line between two points may be a crooked line.

William Blake

Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius

Terry Francona

It worked out well. We put a nice crooked number up early and we got to stay away from some guys in the ?pen that we wanted to.

Dontrelle Willis

It's big for our team because it gives them an extra day. We're definitely going to need them. I know about having days off. They can be helpful sometimes, especially late in the year. It's just key to go out there and establish early, especially in this park where they can put up some crooked numbers early.

William Danforth

Lines of least resistance make crooked rivers and crooked men.

Jerry Only

We got dragged through a system and got burned by crooked lawyers, and the list goes on and on.

Mike Trapasso

We played just well enough to get beat. We gave up crooked numbers in two innings. We just didn't get it done today.

Mike Church

We didn?t get our big crooked number inning today. But that?s Can, that?s the hardest he?s thrown all year. It wasn?t 81 (miles per hour) or 82. It was 85, 86, which is not gas, but when you can throw the changeup and curveball at will, you?re gonna win.

Minna Antrim

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius

Eugene Delacroix

What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - possessing them - that what has been said has still not been said enough.

Richelle Mead

It's not my fault so much as my genius,

Zinedine Zidane

If Zizou kept his temper, he would not be the genius that he is

Henry Adams

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Genius is what makes us forget the master's talent.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Talent does what it can, and genius does what it must.

Michael Hevezi

It was 1 percent genius and 99 percent perspiration.

Neville Cardus

A great composition to me is.. an incarnation of a genius, of all that was ever in him of the slightest consequence.

Penny Circle

He is responding to treatment and shows improvement every day.

Simon Crisford

I think we will be recommending to Sheikh Mohammed that she stays in trainer next year because there is potential for more improvement from her.

Tyra Banks

Don't make excuses - make improvements!

Keith Fithen

I'm seeing a lot of individual improvement. They just have to come together as a team.

James Anthony Froude

Human improvement is from within outward.

Gale Kaufman

This is no surprise. All of our private tracks have shown no improvement in the governor's popularity and all of his initiatives are losing.

Skip Glover

That's a big step. That's a big improvement in this team since last year. Last year, a lot of times a team got physical with them they might be a little more hesitant, but not this time. They usually don't return what they get. They like to play their game.

Derek Schulz

That's a big improvement over anything they've done this year.

Dave Long

It's much lower than it should be. There is much room for improvement.

Rudi Giuliani

It may look like the worst is over, and in many ways it is, but the roads will be very slippery and very dangerous, particularly during the night,

Don Allen

I saw a lot of two-lane roads become four-lane roads. Back when I first started all the development on (Ga. Highway) 124 had not occurred.

Jan Egeland

We need helicopters because the roads are gone,

Anne Bishop

I'm not sure I could write a straight urban fantasy any more than I could write a straight contemporary story. I would end up being intimidated by all the small details.

Mike Connors

It went pretty much straight into the ground.

Ella Wilcox

Do you wish the world were better?Let me tell you what to do.Set a watch upon your actions,Keep them always straight and true.

Pierce Brosnan

I can still run in a straight line, and I can still throw a punch.