Famous Quotes & Sayings

Given that fact, the timing, and the rate at which the fires moved, the damage to the plant community might not be as bad as we think it is." ()

Getting through it when the good times in the day finally begin to outweigh the bad takes three to four months before things really do turn around.

Give Belfast credit. They're not a bad team at all. They're going to upset some good teams this year.

Give a dog a bad name and hang him.

(Girls get) the social messages that being a single, unwed mother is a very bad thing, and they're smart enough to know they aren't going to do that very bad thing,

Getting into a bidding war with J&J is bad enough. But getting into a cash-throwing contest with J&J is even scarier.

Jonathan Maberry

Get your butt in a chair and write. If it comes out weak or bad or clunky or ordinary, then accept that this happens to everyone. Everyone. Get it down, get it done, and fix it in the rewrite. Just like everyone from Stephen King to J. K. Rowling to Chuck Palahniuk does.

Freak things. It's not that the Miami offense has gotten worse or Quarterback U doesn't have its luster anymore. It's just two quarterbacks who went through bad experiences.

Four hundred Iraqis made a very bad choice,

William Kennedy

Four years ago, many banks were insolvent or close to it because they were loaded down with a lot of bad loans, ... This was a drag on the economy, but many banks have been forced to merge or close.

For sure he's going to be right up there. It's not that bad a penalty at a circuit like this. I think his main problem is that down in 11th place Turn One is going to be difficult for him. The guys around him are going to know that he's got a lot to lose, and they can lean on him.

David Gray

Friday night I'm going nowhereAll the lights are changing green to redTurning over TV stationsSituations running through my headWell looking back through timeYou know it's clear that I've been blindI've been a foolTo ever open up my heartTo all that jealousy, that bitterness, that ridiculeSaturday I'm running wildAnd all the lights are changing red to greenMoving through the crowd I'm pushingChemicals all rushing through my bloodstreamOnly wish that you were hereYou know I'm seeing it so clearI've been afraidTo tell you how I really feelAdmit to some of those bad mistakes I've made

From all indications I think Goodyear has a tire that is going to work. As bad as it was a year ago, I think it has the potential to be that good this year.

From a financial point of view, it's bad news for them in the near term.

From a Dragons point of view, it's bad news. They've had a multitude of injuries and they have a small squad anyway. I feel for Paul and the Dragons and I hope they can find a way of covering the losses.

David Leadbetter

From a certain perspective, you might say what Sean went through with his dad got him to where he is right now. There is something to be said for a harder life. I'm not saying it's for everyone, but for Sean it had some beneficial effects. He has a tremendous hunger and love for the game, and he wants badly to get better. He gets excited about trying new things, and I tell him we're going to work very slowly, we aren't going to make major changes. Because he is a hell of a ball-striker. He really flushes it.

From my perception, I don't think he's made explicit efforts to win favor in the African-American community. Making speeches and making his presence felt at African-American events isn't a bad strategy , but if he's going to win, it's got to go beyond that.

From my close observation of writers...they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.

From March 15 forward, it just gets nuts. If you want someone to focus, it's not a bad idea to hire someone now.

Michael Medved

For several decades, Hollywood has tried to ignore the increasingly overwhelming evidence that edgy, adult-themed entertainment usually constitutes a bad investment and a sucker bet at the box office,

From what we're hearing, the infrastructure seems in such bad shape, it doesn't seem reasonable to start rebuilding on that particular site,

(Fry) is so big that he took everything we had to the basket. He forced us into a jump shooting team. And we had a bad shooting night.

(Frye) had some bad plays and then he came back and made some good plays. This is a good learning experience for him.

Mark Stoops

Fundamentally we are getting better. But there are enough bad things, too - missed tackles and guys getting out of their gaps and giving up big plays. That's something we can't do. To be a great team like we want to be, we can't give up those big plays.

Michel Faber

I don't remember my childhood very well for one reason or another, possibly childhood trauma or possibly just a very bad memory. My early life has sort of been erased from my memory banks.

I don't remember being part of a game that got off to such a bad start and where we were able to come back. I thought it was an incredible test of character. Crystal really challenged our team with a gut-check in our timeout. She was pretty emotional about how to change the level of play.

I don't think I deserved that bad boy reputation. I know some bad boys who do deserve it. But if you're high profile and you get up to some mischief automatically people put you down as someone bad.

Amber Smith

If anything, the reason why they scored that goal was a mental lapse. I feel like the girls, there were some bad calls and they just mentally were out of it for a few moments, and that's when they scored the goal.

If anything, the Penn game went a lot better than expected. We had to deal with some bad luck in overtime, and when they score with seven seconds left to go, there's not much you can do.

Dan Rooney

If anything, since March more people have come to realize it's a bad idea,

If anything, it woke us up. There were just some miscommunications and some bad things happened.

If anything, hanging onto tradition for as long as they did only gave them a bad name.

Alan Jackson

If anything good came out of 9/11, to me, was that people were so cynical about the world - all you hear about on the news is all the bad stuff everyday, but what was refreshing to me was after that, you saw how many good people there are out there. For every one bad one, there's a thousand good ones.