Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alafair Burke

I was downright obnoxious. In second grade, we had some program where we kept a public list of all the books we read. I think it even included the number of pages. In my nerdy mind, having the longest and most impressive list was somehow going to make up for the fact that I couldn't climb a rope or do a backwards summersault in PE.

Shawn Mendes

The first year I started hockey, I didn't know how to skate, so I got on the ice with all of the hockey players, and we were doing drills where we had to go backwards in figure eights. And I could not skate, and I just kept falling on my butt, and it was very embarrassing.

Steve Sawyer

This is a very long way from a consensus document. It's a giant step backwards and ignores all the negative lessons of the 1970s oil shocks.

Ron Clarke

This is a very important project for us. We spent a heck of a lot of money. . . . My client has bent over backwards to do everything that the staff has requested, Vote Yes on Preservation Pointe.

Mark Swanger

I want to see the openness of county government become institutionalized. If it is institutionalized, it is very difficult to take backwards steps. Open government extends beyond the concept of letting the public know what is going on. It will result in better decisions.

John Carter

The NHL on OLN is a marquee property, ... We wanted someone who knew the game backwards and forwards, and Mike stood out as the man for the job. His experience and his passion for the game are going to be key as we present this new-generation hockey season on OLN.

Winston Churchill

The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go.

Tom Higgins

It's still the right thing to do because you don't want to be going backwards (on a handoff) to go forward, that's why you use the quarterback sneak and they did a nice job of stopping us,

Kenny Rogers

It's so funny what this song did, ... I went to a movie the other night and when we came out there were a bunch of kids -- around 14 or 15 years old -- with their hats on backwards and sloppy clothes. They were so excited to see Kenny Rogers. They had heard the music before but it wasn't cool until now.

Susan Lowe

It brings everybody back to a better negotiating stance. You don't have unrealistic sellers and you have buyers that can take their time and breathe when they are buying. It makes for a better win-win situation for everybody involved.

Dan Grossman

He could hardly breathe and his face started turning green.

Damien Chazelle

I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.

B. R. Hayden

We're only staying in there four or five minutes at a time. Even wearing masks, because you can't breathe in there.

Aaron Brown

He was that guy who lived and breathed it. He should have had another 10 years' worth of stories to tell.

Tom Ridge

I am going to step back a little bit, breathe deeply and then decide.

Joanne Sanabria

He gave me two minutes more with my son. He's an angel. He breathed life into him.

Rob Sumner

In the back of my mind I was a little concerned about a letdown because you can breathe a sigh of relief. I'm not sure if that's what happened, but we had a very good start and then didn't play well in the middle of that game.

Marilyn Monroe

I never wear stockings or underclothes because I think it is important to breathe freely.

Stan Cliburn

He's a guy who has gone to the post for me and Stu (Wings pitching coach Stu Cliburn ) many times in the past. He's a bulldog and a great competitor.

Randy Bennett

He just needs somebody that understands these kinds of dogs.

Mark Hines

We're pleased that it is working and making the dogs happier.

Shannon Elizabeth

I have been trying to find gas masks for dogs. I have a vet friend who said that somebody in his office got some

Dick Samuels

I couldn't script a better way to spend my time. It's all about good dogs and good people.

Robert Browning

Others mistrust and say: "But time escapes - live now or never!" He said: "What's time? Leave Now for dogs and apes - Man has For ever

Gloria Estefan

I'm totally animal-oriented, ... I've got nine dogs, eight birds, turtles, fish and I had wallabies at one point.

Carlos Arreola

I never intended to do anything with dogs or anything except donkeys, but there was such a big need with the humane society.

Lisa Peterson

I'm actually more surprised by the people who don't sleep with their dogs. The people I know, they all sleep with their dogs.

Darek Farmer

I love dogs and little kids innocent beings.

Ron Gardenhire

He's just rushing. It looks like to me he's not patient. I'm just letting him play and not think about it, see if he can work his way through some of these things.

Mick Jagger

It is all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

Bryan Bridges

We're playing smart hockey. You don't want to be sitting back and letting the other team pressure you when you have a lead.

Trace Adkins

I thought the song would be a hit, but this is something else. It has taken on a life of its own. I?m just standing on the side letting it be.

Carl Jung

This is where we go our seperate ways. Aware of the almost feel of his hand on my arm when he pulls me back to him and says, "Yes." I look at him, unsure of what he's saying yes to. "The questions you asked earlier, about wanting to settle down, start a family, see my family? Yes. Yes to all of it." I try to swallow but can't, try to speak but the words just won't come. His hands sliding around me, grasping me to him, he lets go of the vial, allows it to fall, to crash to the ground. The sparkling green liquid seeping out all around as he says, "But mostly yes to you.

Richard Bach

The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go.

William S. Burroughs

According to the legend an evil old doctor, who called himself God and us dogs, created the first boy in his adolescent image. The boy peopled the garden with male phantoms that rose from his ejaculations. This angered God, who was getting on in years. He decided it endangered his position as CREATOR. So he crept upon the boy and anaesthetized him and made Eve from his rib. Henceforth all creation of beings would process through female channels. But some of Adam's phantoms refused to let God near them under any pretext.

William James

Modern transcendental idealism, Emersonianism, for instance, also seems to let God evaporate into abstract Ideality. Not a deity in concreto, not a superhuman person, but the immanent divinity in things, the essentially spiritual structure of the universe, is the object of the transcendentalist cult. In that address of the graduating class at Divinity College in 1838 which made Emerson famous, the frank expression of this worship of mere abstract laws was what made the scandal of the performance.

Sarah Addison Allen

First frost meant letting go, so it was always reason to celebrate.

Robin Hobb

We are as we are. How can you claim to know what life I was meant to lead, let alone threaten to force me into it? All your quibbling is nonsense. As well forbid your nose to snuff, or your ears to hear. We are as we do.

Veronica Roth

The Dauthless have the wierdest slang. Pansycake, Nose...is there a term for The Candor?" "Of course."Uriah grins."Jerks

Mike Shannon

Don't bite off your head to spite your nose.

Little Richard

They shoulda called me Little Cocaine, I was sniffing so much of the stuff! My nose got big enough to back a diesel truck in, unload it, and drive it right out again.

Lily Allen

Staying in with you is better than sticking things up my nose

Paul Merson

You can’t bite your nose off to spite your face.

Paul Merson

You don't want to bite your nose off to spite your face

Edith Wharton

I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes.

Chevy Chase

You could knock my teeth out and break my nose, and there'd be something funny about it to me.