Famous Quotes & Sayings

I don't think I got a bargain. I think it is a bargain to have saved it. If it was gone, you wouldn't have anything.

Mal Peet

I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.

Frances McDormand

I don't know how you can clean someone else's toilet. I can barely touch my own.

Philip Levine

I don't know how much the music has influenced my writing; I know it's inspired me, and the young jazz musicians I went to school with in Detroit, Kenny Burrell, Pepper Adams, Bess Bonier, Tommy Flanagan, Barry Harris, were the first people I knew who were living the creative lives of artists.

Jessica Pare

I don't know if you know this - I don't drive a stick. I mean, I barely drive my automatic. I get to work and everything, but I'm not any kind of driving prodigy.

Mark Shapiro

I didn't feel like we were going to keep up our end of the bargain of playing time that we had communicated to him. I didn't feel like we could and still put the best team on the field.

I didn't tell them anything at half-time because those players have stared down the barrel of a gun before.

Barry Bonds

I didn't speak to the media (there) because I didn't want it to be a distraction. It upsets me that a private conversation would end up published, misinterpreted possibly because of a language barrier and be taken entirely out of context.

Jenny Lewis

I didn't know anything about music when I started a band. I barely knew how to play a guitar. I didn't know how to produce records. I learned how to play bass guitar and keyboards in Rilo Kiley. I picked up a lot from my collaborators.

I didn't know that. But we still have some work to do and we had to dig ourselves out of that hole so we had to bare down a little bit and we have done a pretty good job of that on the weekends.

Christopher Poole

Because there's no structural barrier to joining 4chan, the community is really dynamic; for every five people that leave, five new people join, bringing their perspective and culture. A lot of other communities get set in their ways.

Gerry Mulligan

So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone

Georges Simenon

We live in a time when writers do not always have barriers around them

Mark Freeman

He's something else. He's a Barry Sanders type back. He's very elusive.

He's still Barry Bonds. He can get hot quickly and go 10-for-10 and hit a few home runs. He hit a lot this spring. He could come in here and get hot.

Flip Saunders

He's the barometer for their team. He is the heart and soul of their team. He can play three positions (shooting guard and both forward spots), and he works so hard. He is kind of like their Ben. Ben is our energy guy, and Shane is theirs.

Clint Hurdle

He's swinging the bat very well. He's got some barrel down there to drive in some runs. There are some things we've talked to him about we want him to focus on and take into the season, but I'm just looking forward to watching him play in that role and getting more opportunities to help us be productive offensively as well as defensively.

He's such a great hitter. And now you consider him like Barry Bonds, when he was going good.

The last competition, parallel bars were pretty much peaked, and the same with the vault before that meet. We're ready for that peak, but we have to put it together on one day.

Phil Garner

The interesting thing about him is that Dr. Mac, for all of the bravado about wanting to hold the line on dollars, became the first guy to pay a million dollars to somebody (Ryan). ... Fast-forward a couple of years, and people have somehow forgotten that this guy crossed a barrier that hadn't been crossed and treated Nolan great. I don't know all that went on between Nolan and Mac. OK, maybe it's probably not the bright spot, but it certainly shouldn't be how he's remembered.

The large 3.2 million barrel increase in (US) gasoline accelerated selling.

Stephen Lee

The language barrier is probably the most difficult and takes the longest to overcome.

The landscape is different now. There are still a lot of barriers but the racial inequality is not as clear cut.

The last thing we want to do is impose our world view, ... But we help them to think through new, creative ways to overcome geographic or bureaucratic barriers to care.

The last thing we need is crude moving back to the $70-a- barrel level.

The message is that he has no respect for the people he is bargaining with. ... He should bargain in good faith and defend that contract to the public.

The inventory data must be quite a bearish factor in the market. The price is well supported around $58 a barrel though.

The Fed is saying that 'we're being tested here, we're being tested on our anti-inflation credibility,' ... They need to sound tough. They need a pretty good bark to go with their bite.

Mayer Hawthorne

Barry White, Smokey Robinson and Curtis Mayfield are big influences for me. But I'm also a metal head. I was in a bunch of punk rock bands. The Bee Gees, hip-hop and the Beach Boys are just as much of an influence on me as Smokey.

Mayer Hawthorne

I learn the most from trial and error. I learn about what I'd like to be able to do from people like Barbara Mason. Saying I want to sing like Barbara Mason and doing it, it's two very different scenarios.

David Bowie

I wanted to be Gerry Mulligan, only, see, I didn't have any kind of technique. So I thought, well, baritone sax is kind of easier; I can manage that - except I couldn't afford a baritone, so I bought an alto, which was the same fingering.

Lisa Edelstein

No day would be complete without chocolate. My favorite: Vosges Creole bar - it's dark chocolate with cocoa nibs. Holy Toledo, that thing is good.

What we need at the bare minimum is an industry-wide code to stop what amounts to store card mis-selling and we are surprised that the Competition Commission stops well short of calling for this.