Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rachel Boston

I go on walks during lunch breaks and travel with a fold-up yoga mat. I also love reading by candlelight at night.

West Chicago caught some breaks earlier in the game. I guess in that last inning it was our turn.

Eric Shanteau

Most people take long breaks after Olympics. I needed some normalcy back in my life, so I came back to the pool.

You know he's the right man for the job. It's just the mind-set he has. All the crap that can seep into your mind doesn't even enter his head. He breaks it down to A-B-C. For some guys it's the whole alphabet. It's trigonometry and calculus both. He's the consummate pro.

Eli Pariser

We need to fix the Bush prescription drug plan that subsidizes big pharmaceutical companies at the expense of senior citizens. We need to stop the oil companies from obscene profiteering, which reduces the standard of living for so many Americans. As usual, this Administration prescribes the same quack medicine for all our ailments: tax breaks for the richest Americans and the largest, most profitable corporations.

Our guys are tough. They got a lot of heart. I love the way we play. We didn't give up. We came roaring back and I thought we were maybe going to jump in the driver's seat for a minute. Jackson stopped that. Tonight, it just seemed like the breaks went their way, but good teams make their breaks and they made some tonight. They put it on us.

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Johnny Damon

Spring training is too long anyway. I think this team, we're ready for the season to start right now, the position players anyway. It can be long and tedious, and this breaks it up.

That feels good, but you need some breaks with something like that, and I had some. You love that sound.

(Jerome) definitely played hard and wanted it more than we did. We gave up too many odd-man breaks and that's how they scored the winning goal. ... We also have to be better at finishing.

I thought we had the opportunity to put the game away. We made a lot of line breaks but couldn't convert them into five-pointers.

I thought that we played extremely hard tonight. We didn't get any breaks on the floor and they made some adjustments that hurt us.

Ron Wilson

I think that first shot that Joe clanked off the pipe might have shaken them up a little bit. He provided a spark, but for the first time in a while we got a couple of breaks early in the game.

Brent Barry

I think it touched every part of the rim - maybe the backboard, maybe the shot clock. I think there's still some chrome on the ball. ... We needed breaks like that.

Geno Auriemma

I think it takes some of the luster off the regular season championship. Now, it doesn't carry as much weight as it used to. Some years, there are breaks in the schedule. Some years are tougher than normal. It's not conducive to having a regular season champion.

It is like when your car breaks down. Why now?

Ralph Goodale

It is not about tax breaks for the wealthy. With the greatest respect, partisan sloganeering, to that effect, really insults the intelligence of Canadians.

Republicans will say this economy is going really well, the last thing we need is a huge increase in taxes. Democrats will say we don't need to give these huge tax breaks to the rich. How that debate gets formed is key.

Greg Oden

When they (Greg Jr. and his brother, Anthony) started basketball, I couldn't see them as much, ... I used to have them for summers and entire Christmas breaks because I never wanted them to think I forgot about them.

We made some pressure plays early in the game to stay in it, and then got a few breaks late.

We made some mistakes, obviously, but I thought we competed well the whole time. They had some big breaks go their way.

I thought we wrestled well. A couple of breaks go our way and we would have won the whole thing.

I think the mystique of knowing they're good enough to do it has been removed, but they know it can happen. It just remains a case where you've got to have a few breaks and you've got to play well.

I think when you bring a program up from the bottom, you don't get any breaks. You don't get any breaks from officials, on scheduling, stuff like that. That's part of the price you pay for your program having been down for quite a period of time.

When I think back on it, of course I got lucky and got great directors and good breaks but all that was the physical part. But what made me a star was that I could take a chance and not have anything to worry about in terms of losing.

This was a game that just went back and forth, ... There were a lot of mistakes, a lot of hard hitting, and it just came down to us being able to get the breaks when we needed to set up in field goal position.

This was one of those games where we simply got the breaks we needed. We could have been down 2-0 at halftime as Huntington North hit the crossbar twice but couldn't get in.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The expected vertical line of Ikiru's narrative breaks when Kurosawa does a flash-forward in the middle of the film.

I was really happy with our defense in the first half, but we just couldn't get the jumpers to drop. We were 0-for-8 from the free throw line. Little things like that. I don't think we played that badly. A couple of breaks and it could have been a tied game. That's a credit to them. They had those runs. They got some fast breaks. That was not part of the game plan.

I was particularly pleased with our two starting sophomore. They played with courage. We didn't get the breaks tonight, but I thought those guys played hard and courageously throughout the game, as did all of our kids, but in particular those two.

I wasn't used to that, they are. At the end of the tournament she breaks out a check and tells me I did a good job.

Tana Umaga

If we make breaks we need to finish them off.

Bud Selig

He's had a remarkable career. Whatever happens, happens. We're going to let nature take its course. Commissioners don't sit around and say, 'I hope this guy breaks it or not.