Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Hall

We definitely weren't playing our best game in the beginning and that showed. I don't know if that was from the layoff or whatever, but it was our fault.

We definitely started crashing the boards better in the second half. We knew if we weren't going to get the rebounds now, when are we going to rebound? Rebounds always matter, no matter if it's the beginning or end.

We worked so hard throughout the season on our defense because we were so offensive minded in the beginning of the year. As the season went on, we knew defense would help us win games.

We work a lot on defense and we do a great job at the beginning. But we will have to pick up the intensity throughout the game.

We won the league, that was the goal we set for ourselves at the beginning of the season. Our next goal is to finish undefeated in the league.

We want to make sure it is on everybody's radar while the session is just beginning.

Meg Whitman

We want to help sellers grow even if that means off the marketplace -- beginning an exciting new chapter for you and your business, and for us as well.

We didn't have a lot of energy coming out tonight. When we get down, we usually fight back. We can't dig a hole for ourselves at the beginning of the game and expect to win.

We are making these changes at a time when we are beginning to see signs that our business is stabilizing,

Armstrong Williams

For starters, this country embodies something utterly unique: History's first democratic empire. Beginning in the post war era, we have used free trade and democracy to create a series of interlocking relationships that end war.

The rap on him coming out, talking with some of the other tight end coaches in the league, they questioned his hands and I was glad they did. I had my eyes on him from the beginning and he was the one I wanted. I was just fortunate and blessed, I'd say, to be able to get him in the third round.

There is intelligence information that there are people in Khartoum who were not in Khartoum before. In these situations it is to a certain extent conjuncture (but) it would be unwise not to take the beginnings of such warnings seriously.

Kenny Loggins

Women are just beginning to see that; there's something about being a woman that's innately different from being a man. I love what I'm seeing take place and I know Julia has so much to offer.

This would be a positive signal of building confidence, and this is what we need at the beginning of these delicate negotiations.

This star constellation will be our guide and point of reference from the beginning to the end.

We had a tough schedule in the beginning and now we are coming into a part of the schedule where we need to keep going and building off this win.

Dan Quayle

Today, our campaign is really in a rather unique position because the most recent, national poll -- the CNN/Time (magazine) poll -- shows us in second place, finally beginning to emerge as the clear alternative to the front-runner,

Today, we can have a little swagger about ourselves. We've been saying since the beginning of the season that we were going to be a good team. But we're just getting to the place where our expectations were.

Kasey Keller

To be able to shut them up at the beginning of the second half by getting two goals and just kind of seeing the game out comfortably was fantastic.

Sri Chinmoy

Ours is a divine journey; therefore, this journey has neither a beginning nor an end... This journey has a goal, but it does not stop at any goal, for it has come to realise that today's goal is only the starting point of tomorrow's journey.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

I'm a firm believer in stories with arcs and beginnings and endings and all that. 'Scott Pilgrim' is sort of one long novel, and it's so long that I get confused and sort of tread water sometimes. But there's definitely a goal to it. People who just dismiss it as shallow, that's their prerogative, but it's not really my intent.

Brian Skerry

I still think there's a big part of the population that has a lot of misinformation about sharks. But I think it's beginning to change a little bit. As good information about sharks permeates popular culture, things may start to change.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

Ian Rankin

When a murder is satisfied, it isn't the beginning of the story; it's the middle. We shouldn't forget that fact because murder has ripples. You never go back to being the same. The people that investigate these crimes never go back to being the same as they were before they started the investigation. The people's whose lives have been affected, the victim's families, even the murderer themselves are profoundly changed. That's why murder is still the most interesting crime for us to write about, because it is the only crime where something unique is taken away from the world, something that can't be replaced.

William Throsby Bridges

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.

Neil Cross

I was writing novels at eight. It was a science fiction epic, which went by the unimprovable title of 'Another Kind of Warrior.' I'd write it beginning to end, but when I'd finished it, I was another year older. The quality of writing and thought changed radically, so I'd start it again. I re-wrote that same book until I was 16.

We didn't play very well at the beginning but to weather the storm we knew Rutland was capable of putting on us and stay close in the first half, get the jitters out; that was key for us.

We are heading for 1,000 percent inflation by the year end if we do not start behaving better. The government itself is beginning to feel the impact of their policies. They don't want the consequences of having, one month, not paid the army.

We are grateful for the support given by the governor and our Legislature for our salary increases. And we are confident this is the beginning of a renewal of support for higher education.

Sam Allardyce

The deal with Jussi is very close now. I would have thought it will be done by the back end of this week or the beginning of next at the latest.

Richie Havens

You can't even kill yourself if it isn't your time to go. People have no control whatsoever over what happens to them, and they are beginning to realize this. The future lies in the time of living. Your doing something will get you into tomorrow, if you want to call it tomorrow. If you want to make those distinctions at all.

The Democrats are in exactly the same position as the Sunnis in Iraq. From the very beginning, they have done everything they can to disparage the process. Now they have to turn around and convince their supporters to participate. That is a pretty quick pivot.

The debt equity swap carried by the Chinese is beginning to be rather costly, it is this organic realization rather than pushy comments from (U.S. Treasury Secretary) John Snow that is likely to trigger a change.