Famous Quotes & Sayings

We came out of the chute like gangbusters. Our lack of concentration on the defensive end allowed them (the Trappers) to hit some threes ... in the first half, we basically got outplayed.

We came out flat and allowed Southern Miss to control the tempo early. Southern Miss came out with a lot of energy and played like they had something to prove after the results from the fall. It was an evenly played game in the first half, but we weren't winning many of the 50 percent chances.

Lindy Ruff

We came out and played well, skated well, we generated a lot of opportunities, we just didn't finish. We let them hang around. We took a careless penalty late that allowed them the opportunity to tie the game up.

I eventually grew into a pre-teen Marilyn Munster, that being the only option I could find that allowed for a) blonde hair, b) a fondness for frilly pink things and wearing ribbons in your hair, and c) hanging out with monsters.

There is a list of things I'm not allowed to discuss at the dinner table! I am extraordinarily passionate about the Black Death, which is not something most people are into.

Sebastian Horsley

If I want to dislike women, I should be allowed to. As it happens, I love them. Women to me are privately worshipped and publicly disdained.

Sebastian Horsley

Why shouldn't I be allowed to say stupid, outrageous things?

Sandra Lee

Raising myself and caring for my brothers and sisters allowed me the benefit of a lot of information that I wouldn't have otherwise gotten. I had to be frugal, thoughtful, resourceful. I didn't have anyone to tell me, 'You can't.'

Rosamund Pike

Actresses generally aren't allowed to have haircuts, because short hair isn't considered as versatile.

Orlando Bloom

Success can allow you to try for greatness, can give you an opportunity to take a chance on something. I'm very blessed to have the success that I've had, and that's given me so many opportunities to work on being great.

Michael Bolton

Sinatra, here's a guy who plays a tough guy in all his movies, but was allowed to be vulnerable when he stepped up to the microphone.

Olivier Theyskens

My mother loved fashion and always had a great aesthetic. But she also considered the cost of it, with the kids, that it wasn't something to allow herself.

Marcus Samuelsson

While you can find zucchini in markets in most places year-round, allowing you to make everything from breakfast dishes like zucchini and onion frittatas to snacks like zucchini-stuffed crab cakes, the onset of fall marks the beginning of hard squash season.

Marco Rubio

We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction. Because this country that God has blessed us with, it is worth fighting for.

Ruth Ozeki

For me, writing is a way of thinking. I write in a journal a lot. I'm a very impatient person, so writing and meditation allow me to slow down and watch my mind; they are containers that keep me in place, hold me still.

Pico Iyer

Older boys were allowed to beat younger ones at my 15th-century English boarding school, and every boy had to run a five-mile annual steeplechase through the sludge and rain of an October day, as horses do. We wrote poems in dead languages and recited the Lord's Prayer in Latin every Sunday night.

Ruth Bernhard

I allowed life to give me presents. And everything just sort of happened the way it was supposed to happen. I did not pursue anything. It more or less pursued me.

Mary Ellen Mark

I saw that my camera gave me a sense of connection with others that I never had before. It allowed me to enter lives, satisfying a curiosity that was always there but that was never explored before.

Mary Leakey

I quite liked having a baby - I think I won't put it more strongly than that. But I had no intention of allowing motherhood to disrupt my work as an archeologist.

Jeff Jones

We had our chances, but we couldn't capitalize on them. We allowed Emmanuel to get into its offensive rhythm throughout the game. We just didn't come out to play.

We'll probably be fairly small. The U.S. military will be the backbone of what will allow us to knock you out. Right now, the military has the most interesting things going on.

Rick Carlisle

We have the same group that played well and won the other night. We're not going to make excuses. Our undoing tonight was the first quarter when we allowed them to shoot over 77 percent. That got them going early.

We have talked quite a bit about trying to do things more efficiently, and a charter would allow us to improve the way we do things.

We were stuffing papers and during the conversation with another woman, Sacha said she was making a decision on whether or not to allow Gabe to see Caleb

Ben Howland

Typically if we get out-boarded by nine and shoot 5-of-13 from the foul line and allow someone to shoot 61 percent in the first half, we are not going to win. We gutted it out, found a way.

Time and a lack of allowing penetration will be a key in this game offensively, while stopping the spread running and passing game is the key on defense.

Jim Haslett

You are allowed to pull as long as you are going forward. They allowed Atlanta to do it last week.

We wanted to make Sandburg work for everything. Sandburg is good when they are allowed to set up something. We wanted to keep Sandburg from establishing a comfort zone. We figured some pressure would keep Sandburg on the run and prevent that comfort zone.

Sam Roberts

We wanted to have a lot of events to include our families and friends. These people are very important to us because they give us their full support in allowing us to do what we want to do.

We've looked at Army regulations, and it specifically states there are no toxins allowed in textile fabrics,

We have come too far in the process of Arab-Israeli peacemaking to allow the vultures of violence to shape the region's future.

We have too many buildings in this town and not enough architecture. There's a real tendency in this community to want everything to look the same. The Strip is allowed to do anything, but once you get off the Strip, there's very little originality.

We have to limit them to one shot, first of all. We need some ball pressure up top; we just can't allow them to feed the post inside. We obviously just need to try to deny the ball getting into the post.