Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Conley

We're going to throw some people into some different events. We might try Michael in the 400, and we might switch our distance runners around a little bit. We're looking to qualify as many people as we can for the Meet of Champions later this month. This week and next week will be a great opportunity to do that.

Andy Leggio

We're going to take a shot at it. I think she deserves it. She hasn't run with that caliber of horse. We're going to give her a chance to prove herself. She's won every distance I've run her.

James Gray

What a director really does is set the emotional temperature and the mood and the level, amount, or lack of, distance between the action and the character, and the character and the audience.

Shawn Masters

We felt like if we could get a couple of more runs, we could really break it up and put a little distance between us. The guys did exactly what they were supposed to do. Phillip Vance did a great job putting it down the first-base line, where we asked him to put it.

Jim Leonard

We're hoping this will clear up most of the problems. The distance to the existing tower is too far. We've got a lot of radio dead spots that this should fix.

Dick Booth

We're back. That is what it used to be and we need to keep it there. It worked today, but those distances aren't going to hold up all the time.

Alan Bennett

[talking about the Holocaust] 'But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained. And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.' 'But this is History. Distance yourselves. Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground. We don't see it, and because we don't see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past. And one of the historian's jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be... even on the Holocaust.

Alan Ball

Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous and wondrous, with this reality we desire. That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering. For me, the thing that I love is that it's all about the present moment.

Akhenaton

The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance

Arthur Levitt

Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values.

Houssaye Houssaye

There are two persons in the world we never see as they are,--one's self and one's other self.

William Shakespeare

The jury passing on the prisoner's life may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try.

William Shakespeare

So they loved as love in twain Had the essence but in one; Two distinct, divisions none...

William Shakespeare

So we grew together like to a double cherry, seeming parted, but yet an union in partition, two lovely berries molded on one stem.

Alan Grayson

The real two-party system in America is the Meanies and the Weenies. The Meanies want to take away your benefits, and the Weenies want to compromise with them.

Alan Green

Well, he had two stabs at the cherry

Alan Jackson

I didn't realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that my grandma played banjo at one time, and I didn't even know that until a year or two ago.

Alan Greenspan

Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems. The companies could hire the educated workers they need. And those workers would compete with high-income people, driving more income equality.

Chen Shui-bian

The road to democracy may be winding and is like a river taking many curves, but eventually the river will reach the ocean.

Chad Harbach

Heat radiated off Henry's face. Salty snot ran down his upper lip. A majestic fart propelled him to the top of Section 12, just at the springing of the stadium's curve. He slapped the sign as if high-fiving a teammate. It gave back a game shudder. He was crusing now, darkness be damned, stripping off his sweatshirt and his long underwear top without breaking stride.

Camilla Luddington

I definitely have curves. I dont intend on losing them.

Casey Affleck

For people who have... had curve balls thrown at them, it is easier to digest change and digest change in other people. Change only scares the small-minded. The small-minded and me

Carl Jung

The curve of life is like the parabola of a projectile which, disturbed from its initial state of rest, rises and then returns to a state of repose... Like a projectile flying to its goal, life ends in death. Even its ascent and its zenith are only steps and means to this goal... For, enlightenment or no enlightenment, consciousness or no consciousness, nature prepares itself for death.

Bertolt Brecht

As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.

Carre Otis

But life inevitably throws us curve balls, unexpected circumstances that remind us to expect the unexpected. I've come to understand these curve balls are the beautiful unfolding of both karma and current.

Ashlee Simpson

There's gonna be a time when I'm way curvier, and that'll be sexy too. What defines sexy is not someone's weight. Personally I like curves. I wanna look good for me. I wanna feel good.

Brad Gilbert

There's always a learning curve, where you've got to learn what your subject is all about.