Famous Quotes & Sayings

Becky G

When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.

V. S. Naipaul

To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.'

Calvin Saunders

We played with better intensity on defense in the second quarter. Plus, we converted on their turnovers. Overall, I'd say we played good defense.

Saint Teresa of Avila

When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness.

Madonna Ciccone

I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.

Andrew Connor

When you see our drives, we took them the length of the field, converted third downs and converted inside the red zone, which was something we struggled on in some of the other big games we have played this year.

Dave Stephens

We got to the line 29 times, which is a real positive. But we only converted 17.

Bryant McGill

Through death all life is converted into food for the inconceivably vast maw of eternity.

Russ Parsons

In New York, it's all about restaurants -- prepared food. Nobody cooks because nobody has a kitchen, or if they do, they've converted it into a shoe closet,

Mike Ferda

The penalty on Hicks' reverse was a big one, but we did get a new series of downs with plenty of time left.

Michael Buble

I want to be around for a long time. I want this to be a career. I want to sing like Tony Bennett. I want to be an old man and I want to go through all the ups and downs and I wanna still love what I do.

Elisabeth Shue

What keeps this industry challenging as an actor is that you never know how something will turn out. The ups and downs are constant. You're never just smoothly sailing along. You're always going to be on loose footing. That's what ultimately now I expect and accept and that doesn't scare me as much.

Vidya Balan

Cinema is about people, and we are a very emotional people. That is why you see those ups and those downs and those colours. That is what Indian cinema is about.

Kent Thompson

The only downside I can see is that we can't prepay until 2014, rather than 2010.

Alan Greenspan

It's only when the markets are perceived to have exhausted themselves on the downside that they turn. Trying to prevent them from going down just merely prolongs the agony.

Gary Linden

We have a market all of a sudden. The downside is, we don't have product. It's not fun not being able to help people in their time of need.

Eric Heitmann

(We need to) have more downs to keep running the ball.

Scott Silver

We haven't gotten any negative feedback. It's all positive; there's no downside to it. We see the results of husbandry training on a regular basis.

Wayne Rooney

As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.

Viswanathan Anand

In Gujarat, we had the world record of largest number of chess games in a single venue - 20,500 - and in Tamil Nadu, I have been emphasizing on the positives of chess to the authorities.

Age Hareide

The points mattered more than anything tonight. The results in the other games went our way, and now we can travel to Belarus knowing that we are in the play-offs. I hope our luck continues.

Ted Young

The pat on the back (for winning the regular season) is gone. The first do-or-die games for the girls are (today) and on Saturday for the boys. Everything you've worked for is gone on Saturday if you're not prepared for it mentally or physically.

Mark Fox

We played well in spurts and didn't play well at times. Often games in March aren't pretty, but we were able to find a way to win.

Brad Fuller

We played well and showed up. We had 13 hits, which is probably more than we've had in the last three games combined. We got a good game from Heath and that's a lot on his shoulders as young as he is.

Chris Lorditch

We play some good games outside of the division. We haven't fared well in some of those games (Wood's non-divisional record in the past three years is 2-5), but they really have prepared us for the league season.

Venus Williams

We played all kinds of games like bobbing for apples, ... I don't get to do that, it was amazing. I took it so seriously.

Pam Player

We played a better first half. I was trying to keep them pumped up and keep them focused. We've got to make sure we win all the games all the way out. In order to do that, we've got to keep our heads on our shoulders.

William McDonough

We get jealous not because we're evil, but because we have little artists pent up inside us.

Eudora Welty

To imagine yourself inside another person... is what a storywriter does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.

Lucy Alibar

If you have a perfectionist streak - and who doesn't? - running can kill the perfectionist inside you.

Shel Silverstein

There Is A Voice Inside Of YouThat Whispers All Day Long,"I Feel That This Is Right For Me,I Know That This Is Wrong."No Teacher, Preacher, Parent, FriendOr Wise Man Can DecideWhat's Right For You- Just Listen ToThe Voice That Speaks Inside.

Raymond Carver

It's something that I feel I know about, relationships between men and women. I like to write from the woman's point of view now and again, to get inside her head, to feel what she's feeling.

Marlon Wayans

Sometimes they try to put you inside a box, but I look at my filmography and I've been able to do a lot.

William Williams

Time is a storm in which we are all lost. Only inside the convolutions of the storm itself shall we find our directions.

Hank Greely

Unlike perusing your mail or tapping your phone, this is looking inside your brain.

Franco Tito

We're not really sure how many people were trapped inside. I talked with three survivors and they told me there could be 50 to 70 people inside when the tunnel collapsed.

Erez Lieberman Aiden

Much of contemporary science is really the length and shadow of the technology we apply.

John Andrews

When a sermon at length comes to an end, people rise and praise God, and they feel the same way after many other speeches

Kate Atkinson

Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.

Robert Hall

We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.

Lady Gregory

It is not known, now, for what length of time the Tuatha de Danaan had the sway over Ireland, and it is likely it was a long time they had it, but they were put from it at last.

Jack Straw

those misgivings were surely put to rest by the lengthy statement we have just heard.

Edwin Way Teale

How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and death is often far from a true measure of your days of living.

Avicenna

Width of life is more important than length of life.

Diane Ackerman

Don't just live the length of your life - live the width of it as well.

Will Chase

I played more performances of 'Chris' in 'Miss Saigon' than anyone else.

Colm Meaney

I played trombone for 10 minutes, and then I was in an accordion band in school for even less.

Jamie Dixon

We played well in the first half, and we should have been up by more. Teams lose. It's how you respond, and we've always responded well.

Paul Dowe

We played well enough to win. The bounces just didn't go our way.

Willie Randolph

We played well enough to win. I'd rather win, but you can't be disappointed.

Paul Doerrfeld

We played well enough to win, but if we play one of the top teams in the state tonight, we're not even close.

Jose Theodore

We played well defensively and we waited for our chances. That's how we're going to have success and that's the way we have to play at home.

Amy Newman

We played well, but we could have still done better,

Aaron Bender

We played well, but had too many errors. We had a five-out inning in the fifth.

Bobbi Brown

Whether you are a stay-at-home mum, or on the red carpet, or in Afghanistan, the better you feel, the better you do your job.

Leila Janah

Most of us working on poverty alleviation simply want to know, 'How much poverty can I reduce for every dollar I donate?'

Howard Davidowitz

Wal-Mart is effectively redefining its future, and not before time.

Kamala Harris

'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.

Roy Blunt

I'd be a lot more excited about eliminating earmarks if we reduced all of the spending by whatever the earmarks used to be, but nobody's, apparently, going to talk about doing that.

Madonna Ciccone

When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.

David Mitchell

You'd have to reduce a whole lot of ammonia before you get any benefit.

Etty Hillesum

We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.

Greg Knudsen

We're not saying let's make everything easier. There will be the need for a new test because of the new standards, but they have not been reduced in difficulty.

M. Thompson

We struggled with that, ... made all the sense in the world.

Frank Robinson

We struggled through it, ... Tomorrow, I'm back in the bullpen.

Peter Zoppi

We struggled offensively. We didn't make enough contact. We couldn't deliver.

Stephen Merchant

Generally, I'm terrified of shopping. I like the idea of being well-dressed, but I've always struggled to get anything that fits. I envy those that go into old vintage shops.

Jim Richards

We really struggled offensively and lacked the timely hit,

Ned Yost

We had struggled to that point. We were going down in order, boom, boom, boom.

Jeff Judkins

This team is young and inexperienced. They haven't been in these type of games, with this pressure. I think they struggled with that a little.

Brad Skene

Our tackling was off today. We struggled with that and that was the difference.

Jeff Knoy

She struggled early; I think she had two or three turnovers right off the bat. I yanked her tail out and said, 'Hey, you're going to have to play better if we're going to be successful.' And it usually rotates through her and Helen on how well we're going to play.

Brittany Howard

I once had this massacred afro in third grade. Parts were bigger than others. It was just terrible.

Charles Nelson Reilly

I live at the dentist's. I'm on my third set of teeth that they put in with nails and screws.

George H. W. Bush

use the third person -- 'they' and 'he' -- and you know who I mean.

Dwyane Wade

We know we can win. That's what we're all here for. . . . This is my third year here and it's like it's my third different team, but we can win.

Jay Carlin

In the third quarter, we couldn't put them away.

Sean Paul

all done right here in the Third World.

Rupert Grint

One in the third film, I'm looking forward to meeting one of the Dementors.

Jim Rich

Sen. Landrieu said she wanted to be our third senator.

Brandon Jacobs

If it's third-and-one, then I'm going in, no ifs or buts about.

Cary Fukunaga

Sundance took me on my first film and from there sort of launched my career.

Solange Knowles

I felt like when I took my weave out, I wasn't pretty, I wasn't noticeable.

Luka Sulic

It took us three months to finish the arrangement of 'Thunderstruck.'

Nandan Nilekani

We took Infosys public. That was a nonstop three-week global roadshow.

Dhani Jones

My parents took me around the world when I was young, so I caught the bug. Every person is different when he travels, and every travellers' story is uniquely his own.

Raymond Bonner

I'm not the only foreigner who took up golf while living in Jakarta.

Ian Mckellen

Actors don't, in fact, retire, do they? It took me a while to remember that.

Larry Coker

We had a little edge, ... We took it a little personal.

Andrew Griffin

We had everything it took this year to get over the hump. We just didn't execute.