Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brad Anderson

He ran out into the cornfield. I waited until things settled a bit, then walked in the field and dragged him out. He was a nice deer.

Paul Kariya

he promised me I'd get to drive his Porsche this year.

Steve Spurrier

He popped that draw pretty good. He's a good runner. He gets his pads low, and he's hard to tackle.

Joe Girardi

Great hitters are able to do that. They're still going to drive in 120 runs. You're not going to walk a guy 700 times. That would be a record.

For the most part it was dry rot, not just externally but internally where we opened it up.

For the full fiscal year 1999, we are targeting earnings growth with more promising prospects evident by the year's second half. Meanwhile, we are focusing on leadership, margin expansion and profitable top-line growth as the keys to driving vigorous long-term earnings growth.

Clayton Christensen

For online universities, like Liverpool and the University of Phoenix, if prices drop by 60%, they still make money. But for the vast majority of traditional universities, if the prices fall by 10%, they are bankrupt; they have no wriggle room.

For now the gasoline market looks OK. I'm not going to say the summer driving season is not going to see higher prices. I think there's a lot of uncertainty.

For the poor people, they might represent the problem in terms of food production, in particular, drought and flooding. And the problem is increasing.

For the past 10 years, drunken driving has been at the forefront for the police department, ... There are a number of indicators for drunken driving, but that doesn't always mean the person has been drinking.

For the next year, year and a half I expect Ford to lose market share. It doesn't have many levers to pull. Its product pipeline is relatively dry and GM is being very aggressive.

For that to happen, you need the stocks to drop 50 percent this year. The picture in the telecom sector is not improving.

For that to happen, you need the stocks to drop 50 percent this year, ... The picture in the telecom sector is not improving.

For the first time fans will be able to follow the draft ù wherever they are.

Sugar Ray Leonard

For some reason, I was drawn towards boxing. Or maybe boxing drew me towards it - because once I put those gloves on, after about six months, boxing was my life.

Iris Johansen

Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but high suspense writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama.

Idris Elba

Working at BBC, at the head of one of the top dramas, is a tradition for great actors.

Gloria Naylor

I don't want to write without a sense of drama, without passion, or without both eyes open to the world around me.

J. R. R. Tolkien

It never does to leave a live Dragon out of the equation.

J. R. R. Tolkien

No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Speak politely to an enraged dragon.

Iwan Rheon

I think drama school really teaches you how to annunciate; you're conscious that people might not understand you if you speak too fast and too Welsh.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

There is a permanent amnesia planted in us, which just as we keep forgetting our dreams, we sometimes keep on forgetting our reality.

Irene Cara

All of a sudden, I was hearing stories about how difficult I was to work with, ridiculous rumors about drugs and what a diva I was. I never had to go to rehab or a program.

Elton John

I was more ashamed that I couldn't work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs.

Ian MacKaye

My humor is very dry. To me it doesn't make sense.

Ian Fleming

A medium Vodka dry Martini - with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred.

Hugh Laurie

I never went to drama school, I don't have any certificates saying: 'He's a qualified actor.' But I did think that 'House' was something I didn't have to apologise for. It was something I was really proud of and it was sort of... whether you liked it or not, it was undeniable.

Hugh Laurie

I couldn't imagine what Fox thought they were doing, contemplating such a jagged protagonist for a prime-time drama. I only knew that I wanted the role very much.

Hugh Hefner

I didn't want to repeat my parents life. I saw in their lives a routine and a lack of dreaming, a lack of the possibilities, a lack of passion. And I didn't want to live without passion.

Hugh Hefner

I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.

Hugh Hefner

I was a very idealistic, very romantic kid in a very typically Midwestern Methodist repressed home. There was no show of affection of any kind, and I escaped to dreams and fantasies produced, by and large, by the music and the movies of the '30s.

Hugh Jackman

As a boy, I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that.