Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gail Carson Levine

Most of my job life has had to do with welfare, first helping people find work and then as an administrator. The earlier experience was more direct and satisfying, and I enjoy thinking that a bunch of people somewhere are doing better today than they might have done if not for me.

Gene Ween

We had been working. We had a bunch of songs written and it came time to make the record, so we had our lawyer make the call to Elektra and ask for our advance. Then, we got dropped. It was actually exciting.

'Mustanging' was like trout fishing. It is always the big ones that get away. When you did get a bunch of them into a corral, you found they did not look half so large and handsome as when they were first sighted on the prairie.

Constance Wu

The more you know about somebody's back story, the deeper you can delve into that well, and the more your comedic choices resonate full-body instead of just being quick, quippy one-liners that are just like a bunch of people trying to be clever. Because after a while, cleverness is just really obnoxious!

Jennifer Jones

The pieces can be difficult, but he teaches you how to feel the music and not just play a bunch of notes.

In summer, my Sundays are often taken up with cricket. I play with a bunch of other over-competitive and overenthusiastic guys who I have known for a very long time.

David Crosby

I gave up bread, and I've lost a bunch of weight, which is very good because I'm diabetic.

Dave Grohl

I love to play. And fortunately, I don't know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they're always up for playing.

Wanda Sykes

I'm shy. I am. I mean, if I get around, you know, in a room of a bunch of people especially I - you know, I don't know or - it takes me a while to warm up. I'm - and the real me, I'm not as witty as, you know, as the comic Wanda. The comic, she's had time to work on some things.

Nat Wolff

I can play a bunch of instruments but drums? My brother's a drummer and I've always been jealous that he's such a good drummer. I always try to play but it's always kinda just bashing. I can keep time but no one really wants to hear me play drums.

The American people rejected strict managed care in the late '90s. Government regulation, like the kind in other industrialized countries, is opposed by powerful industry forces and is not in the cards politically. So we're stuck with a bunch of halfway measures.

That was huge. We practice our two minute offense a bunch being a throwing team. We executed really well. It fell together pretty good. What can you say about that sophomore quarterback (Matt Brown). He did a darn good job and he took some shots tonight. He's a tough nut and he's a good kid. He's getting to be a pretty good quarterback. He's really come a long way.

Reggie Bush

That was pure instincts. That wasn't premeditated at all. I was just trying to be a playmaker. I had used that play a bunch of times in high school, but it didn't work out this time.

The 14 guys wrestle so well together. There's no superstars, and nobody's out there to be the hero. We have just a bunch of guys on the same page doing their jobs.

That was a lot of fun and they did really good. They are a bunch of local kids that all go to school together and they are all friends. We put a team together and the kids learned a lot this year. That's been a lot of fun teaching the kids this summer.

We have an all-around bunch of good guys. We're just playing hard and getting those W's. As long as we win, I think that's everybody's goal. Just getting to state, whatever it takes.

We came out pretty strong and the game was pretty even for the first period. Then we went and took a bunch of penalties and it killed us, ... We can't be giving teams that many opportunities on the power play and expect to be successful. It's something we'll need to work if we want to get better.

Sandra Lee

Nobody makes bouillabaisse from scratch. It's all a bunch of malarkey. Even the restaurants buy a commercial-grade product. I had a very famous chef tell me that.

Religion and political cartoons, as you may have heard, make a difficult couple, ever since that day of 2005, when a bunch of cartoonists in Denmark drew cartoons that had repercussions all over the world - demonstrations, fatwa, they provoked violence. People died in the violence.

Marcus Samuelsson

Like all food, whether you're talking about Persian food, or Chinese food, or Swedish food, it's always a reflection of wars, trading, a bunch of good and a bunch of bad. But what's left is always the food story.

Reggie Wayne

We had opportunities. We just let a whole bunch of them go down the drain.

Bobby Bowden

We'll probably go light with a bunch of them this week.

We have a great group of mature girls who went on the field focused and took care of business. Our chemistry has been fantastic, and this has been a great bunch of kids who are easy to coach and who listen and respond. They've got a lot of confidence in themselves and each other.

We have a great bunch of girls, they just kept working and stayed focused.

You are getting raped in the middle of the street by a bunch of thugs!!! Are you gonna sit there and take it like a little girl, or are you gonna fight back??!!

David Johnson

You are a proud bunch of aviators flying a proud bird. I'm glad we are keeping it pointed in the right direction together.

We've got some pretty good hitters and somebody keeps doing something good. Weaver throws a bunch of strikes, our guys are definitely swinging and somebody's going to win that battle.

Alex Brown

We've got some guys who need some rest. We had our bye week early in the year (Week 4). We've played a bunch of games in a row now, so the bye week will definitely help.

Speedy Claxton

We've got some great guys, and I've made a bunch of friendships here. Hopefully, I can come back and continue it.

We've got six or seven girls on this team that can put up 15 or 20 points in a night. So I think that other teams might have a hard time reading us. We certainly have a bunch of girls that don't mind taking the big shots.

We've got sales stuff up at the front of the store that's just kind of flying. We've got sales stuff in the middle of the store that's just going. We got a whole bunch of new Star Wars stuff, all kinds of new games, and it's just flying off the shelves.

Mark Richt

We're not a team that has a bunch of superstars. We're not a one-man show. It's certainly not good to lose your starting quarterback, especially as good as he was playing, but we're going to concentrate on what we're going to do now rather than on what we've lost.

Matt Tong

We've done a bunch of new recordings and we are not sure which one we will pick.