Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dominique Moceanu

I got injured at the Olympic Trials in 2000. I could not jump. I could not walk on my leg properly. I couldn't bend my knee. I couldn't straighten it.

Anne Michaels

Certain things can't be approximated, so I'm always interested in getting in another way, one which makes the reader bend in closer to the scene even if that scene, especially if that scene, is painful... Brutal language isn't necessarily the most truthful way of describing a brutal moment.

Because there is a lot of footwork involved, you tighten your stomach muscles. You're bending at the knee. Back erect, and that enables you to move your heels.

John Steinbeck

Just as the Carthaginians hired mercenaries to do their fighting for them, we Americans bring in mercenaries to do our hard and humble work. I hope we may not be overwhelmed one day by peoples not too proud or too lazy or too soft to bend to the earth and pick up the things we eat.

I saw there were 3,000 people in Fort Bend County, and we knew we could sleep some people here.

That bunt by Gonzalez threw everybody for a loop. That got the South Bend dugout all excited. Big-time players make big-time plays. I thought we pitched him well during this series.

Sharon Kay Penman

My novels about medieval Wales were set in unexplored terrain; my readers did not know what lay around every bend in the road.

My wife and I thought it would be cool to spend a year in South Bend ... and 26 years later, we are still here.

Sam Torrance

My view is we should bend the rules, change the rules - do anything to get the best team.

My message to the United States is a simple one: use the WTO system, but do not expect us to bend it to suit a timetable that you are seeking to impose by means of illegal unilateral action,

Sathya Baba

It is difficult indeed to understand the ego in its depth and devious ways. It is an inert entity, that is to say, it cannot know itself not can it know others; It has no fear; it will not bend before others; it degrades man from the golden glory, which is his due, to the level of lowly dust.

That's the real growth area. There's only so much more you can do in bending sheet metal.

Samantha Power

I worry about Zimbabweans. They bend, they bend, they bend, they bend - where do the people break? How long can they go on scrounging for food in garbage dumps and using the moisture from sewage drains to plant vegetables?

Reggie Lee

I would love to play a normal human being with a little bit of a comedic bend that had a love interest. I would love to explore comedy, like a half-hour kind of single-camera comedy. I think that would kind of suit me best.

Most of the golf instruction out there does everything but establish consistency on the course. It would be as if I continued practicing my typing once a week, but each time I tried a new style. One week I would hold my fingers over the middle row of keys and bend my fingers at a 90 degree angle, then the next week move to the top row and only bend them 75 degrees, and the next week over the bottom row, etc. At that rate I'd get worse and never finish a Golf Improvement Weekly.

Most of our corn is either going to travel to South Bend to the ethanol production plant there, or will be shipped by rail to the Southeast.

Tamsin Greig

I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn't want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself.

We'll bend a little bit but won't break, just with the kind of kids we have, and our scheme,

Uri Geller

If I am looking for something, for example a lost sunken submarine, I just hold my hands over the map and focus on the submarine until I feel a magnetic pull towards the location. To double check, I fly over the area. There is no deep concentration or meditation involved. I can talk, cycle or do other things at the same time. When I bend a spoon I just stroke the spoon gently and talk to it-bend, bend-and it bends.

I come home 10, 11, 12 o'clock at night and ride. I'll take her out in the rain and do a lot of bending exercises, pretending like she's going around the barrel, making her bend. You don't want them turning boxy around the barrel, because they'll end up hurting themselves.

Jason Aldean

I can picture guys sitting out in their yard, working in their yard, bending over to plant some trees or something, and half their crack shows, ... I mean, that's kind of one of the things that drew me into the song. The song talks about things that I grew up experiencing.

Gerald Wallace

I couldn't straighten or bend my leg when I went down. It felt more like when players bump knees at first. Then the pain just started getting worse. After that, I just didn't even try to get up.

Gerald Wallace

I couldn't straighten my leg or bend it. It felt like I bumped knees at first, but the pain got more and more intense. Then I didn't try to get up. I don't really know what the diagnosis is, but I'm getting ready to go over and get some tests done.

He's got a couple fingers that are pretty sore. Nothing's swollen, but he's having trouble bending them. If he's still having trouble tomorrow, he'll probably go see the doctor. Hopefully nothing's broken and we can get him back in the lineup.

Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that handle the shield; and the Lydians, that handle and bend the bow.

Open is one of those convenient marketing terms. People bend it to meet their needs.

Larry Bird

Over the last four, five years, you've seen some of the things, and maybe we did bend over too much for Ronnie to try to help him. But I can sleep good at night, knowing we did the best we could.

Our philosophy on defense is bend but don't break and we bent a lot tonight. Fortunately we only broke one time.

Valeria Golino

I can touch my toes, but I bend in a strange way. I'll never be in the Olympics.

Blair Brown

I'm less of a 'Star Wars' fan, with googley monsters, than actually how do we bend this reality out, and how many other realities exist?

Uri Geller

To be very honest with you, I even managed to bend it ever so slightly

Ellen G. White

Parents should have perfect control over their own spirits, and with mildness and yet firmness bend the will of the child until it shall expect nothing else but to yield to their wishes.

We're doing the best we can. There's a lot of bending that must be done, but it's being done as quickly and efficiently as it can be.