Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nathaniel Philbrick

As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was also in love with sailing.

Neil Marshall

So much of 'Doomsday' is taken from the early 'Mad Max' films.

We did some good things early on. We hit and run, we stole some bases. We did some good things offensively to put ourselves in a good position.

We didn't play well. It's too early in the season to be flat the way we were.

We are headed for a Katrina-induced soft patch, but I would not interpret this as the early warning of a recession.

We are going to zero down on this very early and put an end to this menace.

Bob Bryan

We got on them really early and I was hitting my wide serve really well on the ad-court. It went well the whole time.

We didn't do a good job early on of communicating, and we just couldn't get into the flow of things.

Lyle Lovett

My first performance was in second grade with my friend Rodney Fisher, and we worked up versions of 'Long Tall Texan' and 'I Want to Hold Your Hand.' It gave me a little early confidence that I could actually do this music thing.

Willie Nelson

I started out writing poems before I figured to put melodies to them and play the guitar. Somewhere, there's a book out there on all those early songs and poems. I hope no one ever finds it. I don't think it's my finest work.

You make a lot of adjustments in the early years, and it gets easier.

Upbeat earnings news left Wall Street with a triple digit gain through yesterday's session and this looks set to lift European equities in early trade.

Tom Bodett

My work is still very much light-hearted, positive outlook, laugh at yourself. But it isn't going to be the laugh-a-minute kind of thing that my early work was.

Tom Araya

Slayer fans are unforgiving. Early on in the career, if something changes, it's accepted. But 30 years down the road, in my opinion, they would rather see us do a three-piece than even try to replace Jeff, in a sense.

Tad Williams

I am a sandwich man. Somewhere early in life, my epigenetic switches got flicked to 'likes sandwiches,' and that's where they still are. I suspect it's at least in part because they're easy to eat while reading.

William Boyd

As a novelist, where do you go to tap into memories, and impressions, and sensations? It's usually, in my experience, your early life, before you started thinking of yourself as a writer, because somehow those experiences are unadulterated.

Wednesday is an early release day, so kids will be out of school early and able to get their homework done. My staff is really excited about it.

You'd like to get off to a good start. It's a long season, and you aren't going to be out of it early if you have a few setbacks. If you aren't ready to play every night, you will get your feelings hurt.

We didn't shoot well early, but Zion is one of the better teams we will play. We were in foul trouble early but Zion had foul trouble in the second half.

Lon Kruger

We didn't seem to have a lot of energy early on. We were searching for a spark.

We don't have that hiccup, so we'll be playing some games early at home and in August, we'll be on the road.

My advice to young people is to get something that's growing because that's how you get career opportunities thrown at you that you don't deserve, if you will... that come at you early because the firms need you.

Helen Dunmore

I could start with Mandelstam, who was a huge influence on my early writing.

Horton Foote

Early on, I said to myself that I would like to write a kind of moral and spiritual history of a place. It sounds a little pretentious, I know. But that's really what I set for myself.

Prada is such a huge company, and it was an honour to work with them and so early on in my career.

Chino Moreno

I've always had a deep passion for a lot of early electronic and sampled music.

We're early in the outbreak. We expect more cases. It is a very serious outbreak. Ebola kills its victims very quickly. We're taking this outbreak very seriously.

Bill Rancic

I've been a runner a long time. When I first got into it, I started doing small triathlons in Chicago, and I just did it to get in shape. When I got out of college, I put on a few pounds like everybody does. I did it when I was in my early 20s, but I never really did any long runs.

There is interest from operators. It's still too early to tell who and what, but we (Intel and Nokia) are making sure it is working.

Dylan Moran

I was very into New Order, Joy Division, all of that when I was younger. I had a lot of bootlegs that I saved up my pocket money to buy. I had all the obscure early EPs.

Dannel Malloy

The early development of the human brain is extremely important for setting the table, if you will, for potential future accomplishment.

Bjork

With a small town mentality, you make a decision very early on as to whether you are going to do everything by the book or just go your own way and not care.

The question always presents itself: How formidable are the challengers? Early measures show them leading by very narrow margins, and the preferences are party based. It's way too early to say whether the challengers will be formidable.