Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lev Grossman

Hating a book is not unlike hating a person; in fact it's tempting to just go ahead and hate the author personally, by proxy, qua human being, except that I know that would be a mistake.

Guns don't fall from the sky into the hands of criminals. The crime gun market is fed by a small, identifiable group of reckless gun dealers. Yes, we must severely punish criminals who use guns. But we must also stop the flood of illegal guns at its source -- the gun dealers who put profit ahead of public safety.

Having harvested all the knowledge and wisdom we can from our mistakes and failures, we should put them behind us and go ahead

He's actually come in ahead of schedule having passed the appropriate medical test, but it's been a challenge for us not being able to put out the same back-line on consecutive weekends.

He's a first-pitch fastball guy. Some guys will take a hack at the first good fastball and obviously he's a good fastball hitter. He'll work the count a little bit so if you get ahead maybe he chases one.

Shane Doan

He's 19 points ahead of the next closest guy on our team. He's able to create things from nothing on offense.

Her work ethic. We're trying to get her to work harder in practice. Last year it was at a five out of 10. This year, she's at a seven rather than nine or 10. It's better, but her future is ahead of her.

Jonathan Cheechoo

He's a great player. I've watched him since '94, I guess. He's always been one of the best players in the league, so I got lucky to get ahead of him.

Here we are just into 2006 and already there is another mother planning to bury her son. It's sad. It's the first homicide of the year and we have a long year ahead of us.

Here we are, four weeks ahead of Thanksgiving, and it hasn't gotten stupid yet.

Johnny Damon

Going into Yankee Stadium, we expect to win. We know what the job ahead of us is. We need to win as many games as possible.

Going into this tournament, they're ready to play. We're more ahead of the game than we were last year going into this tournament.

Elton Brand

Golden State is hovering right about .500 and they're behind us in the Pacific, so it's very instrumental. We're in there, so we have to stay ahead of the teams that are behind us and catch some of the upper-echelon teams.

Gold closed out the week on a firmer yet inconclusive note as traders squared logbooks ahead of the weekend.

He's a lot further ahead than he was last year. Sometimes you don't have the command you want early in the game, but he made the adjustment. As the game went on, he got pretty good.

He's a lot farther ahead than I ever anticipated just watching him on TV. He's a polished big-league pitcher. Mike's been through a lot, losing 20 games and not ducking starts. He's pretty far ahead.

He's a tough man, ... and he knows he has a tough job ahead of him, with all the changes about to happen.

He's defiantly thinking ahead to re-election. He wants to win back those moderates and Democrats, many of them that helped put him in office.

He seemed to have a purpose. He was driven. Big things were looking ahead for that young man.

He's done well. I had my concerns and I think he's a little ahead of schedule. From what we can see, his injury is behind him. It'll take a little time, but certainly over the next month or so, he should be coming into form.

Jim Haslett

He should have thrown it to Joe. He made a poor decision, and the next thing you know they're ahead 17-7.

He should go ahead and pay me for next year's game, I would guess, ... I see a trend and I don't see it changing anytime soon. I mean, we're dominating the Sun Belt.

He's gotten stronger since the end of last year. He's a little ahead of the game in comparison to where he was at this point at this same time last year.

His position is very difficult to break into, whether you're 23 or 27 ? and he's 20. As a coach, you hope that you haven't given him too much sometimes, but he's responded to his tough nights. The next night he's always better. He's a very focused young man, and if he remains that way, he'll have a nice career ahead of him.

His next outing will be a big indicator where his knee is at in relationship to where his arm is. His arm is ahead of his knee right now in terms of strength and stamina.

Historically, the market has tried to move four months ahead of an economic recovery.

His times are ahead this year of where they were last year at this same time. If he can keep it up, he has a possibility of going real far in state.

I think it's just concerns ahead of the quarter. Brocade is an expensive stock that hasn't seen the sell-off that some of the other high P/E stocks have seen.

I think it's a very good thing that they didn't go ahead with this, that they were blocked. I didn't think it was a good measure because they would lose revenue.

I think it's fair to say he was a man of his time, but it's also fair to say he realized where society was moving. He probably didn't move quick enough to get ahead of that, but by no means was he holding it back.

I think it's basically a case of no interest on either the buy or the sell side. People have already emotionally prepared for the long weekend, and they don't want to carry much ahead of it.

I think it's an enormous roll of the dice for AOL Time Warner. The two movies were developed independently. The 'Lord of the Rings' was in development for some time. As that was happening, Warner Brothers won the Harry Potter movie, and because that was such a hot property they wanted to move ahead as quickly as possible.

I think it's great. We've done it every year since the conference began and I think that says a lot about the program and the players. It's not easy and every year everybody is going for you. We take it one game at a time and don't get too far ahead of ourselves. Now we're getting close to the playoffs and we still have a big weekend ahead of us with Colby and Bowdoin.