Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will C. Barnes

'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.

Ben Elliot

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.

Cheech Marin

The very first time I got to drive by myself, I took a bunch of my friends to school and was caught by a motorcycle cop going 90 miles an hour on a back street.

Abraham Lincoln

Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.

Evangeline Lilly

In every one of the 'Squickerwonker' books, we will explore a new Squickerwonker character and their vice and how their vice generally leads to their undoing.

Deborah Eisenberg

I'm not used to interviews. People don't generally interview waitresses.

Ethan Zuckerman

People generally pay attention to what they already know about and what they care about.

David Suzuki

Scientists generally are really chicken about getting involved in some kind of dispute. As a broadcaster, I find it very difficult to urge them, if it is a controversial subject. They don't want to have science being portrayed badly.

Victor Grignard

Whereas, generally speaking, zinc reacts suitably only with the first members of the alkyl iodides, with magnesium it is possible to use bromides, iodides, and in many cases, chlorides.

Jack Myers

We still got a generally weak economy. There's uncertainty about the Middle East, Venezuela and Enron,

Felix Bloch

It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.

Bill Bryson

I have made a career of bumbling around places, stumbling on landmarks and generally being quite haphazard and shambolic about the way I go about things.

Voltaire

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

Rachel Seibel

We have lots of flexibility and production on this team and we're happy with what we saw today.

Frank Rijkaard

We did the job we had to do and I'm very happy to be in the final.

Vyacheslav Davidenko

We are happy we can play a part in the mission of the first Brazilian astronaut. He will undoubtedly become a national hero for Brazil.

Gordon Godfred

We are happy to be part of a worldwide event.

Linda Ryan

We are happy that things are moving in the right directions.

Rob Ridings

We still have to win out to get second place, but all I know right now is we're 6-2 and happy to be there.

Alan Lacy

We recognize that we really don't make enough money in our retail business, ... If you look just at our retail segment we're not happy with our retail performance here.

Olli Jokinen

We can't give him credit. He's probably happy he got his first shutout in the NHL, but we made him look good. We really didn't test that guy.

Starsmith

When I've worked with established artists, I've naturally been more restricted, but you still have to take risks and push yourself to do something different.

Chester Brown

It's not so much that I got that idea at some point, it came up naturally because of the improvisational nature of the story I was telling.

Mitchell Baker

People are more naturally protective of what they create than of what they consume.

Leon Askin

We wanted to bring the political situation in Austria on stage. Naturally we could not do that without pointing to Austrian's northern neighbor Germany.

Chris Cornell

Rock will always have CBGB, whether it's open or closed, ... It will just naturally be replaced by something else.

Edmund Hillary

I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally - but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

Dave Schreiner

We do these things naturally and we don't talk about them.

Tony McCoy

I think I'm skilful enough, but I don't consider myself a naturally talented, gifted sports person.

Jeff Barker

People are naturally curious, they want to see what's going on.

David Carradine

Quentin is very organic; there was no way that he was going to put someone else's hand in there and anyway, my hands are kind of famous. It seemed right.

Lisa Tuttle

I can't remember a time when I didn't write or make up stories, because it seemed to come with reading.

Mary Leakey

I got too old to live in the bush. You really need to be youngish and healthy, so it seemed stupid to keep going.

John Kruk

When I first came in the league, I thought Jack Clark and Steve Garvey were big. Then all of sudden it seemed like everyone was that big.

Todd Blackadder

Ulster seemed to get their tries effortlessly whereas we had to work for ours.

Quinton Ross

That was incredible. It seemed like he made every shot tonight. Every time he got the ball, he made a shot.

William Adams

My own wisdom, and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day.

Jim Colborn

I was very impressed. He seemed to get stronger as he went along. He stayed in his delivery.

Lindsay Davenport

I was, today, trying to get a lot of just first serves in and not tried to go for too much, ... (It) seemed to work.

Nancy Gibbs

Professor Obama has at least talked to us like we're adults.

Mark Ford

We never had a plan. We just walked around and talked about it, and he did it.

Mike Maroth

We got together and talked some things out.

Tim Thompson

When you started thinking your going to make a mistake, you've talked yourself into making it.

Ben Maynard

We had always talked about being in there at the same time.

Jody Gravelin

We haven't even talked about winning the league. We just want to play to our potential.

Chris Daly

What they talked about were the qualifications for manslaughter,

Ken Reed

If you talked to me in November, I would have told you there was no way I would do what I have done.

Robert Bennett

In fact, I even talked to the parents. They were there at the same time.

Jerome Bettis

My teammates put me on their back and wouldn't let me down.

Mike Eaves

He just has to do his part, let his teammates do their part and we should come out all right.

Jim Haslett

I don't know that his teammates would actually want him back for what he did.

Jevon Kearse

It's not me at all, ... But we're winning and my teammates are getting sacks. That's really all I can say.

David Castillo

We want to let him know we're here for him as teammates and family.

Vince Young

I'm not too much getting into the Heisman right now. It's all about my teammates right now. Whatever they want to say, let them talk, man.

Curt Shaw

When Jared got hot, his teammates got him the ball.

Amanda Padilla

I just have to know I can make the shots. My teammates were there to get me the ball.

Eric Ripert

As young cook, especially in France, they're very tough in the kitchen. The idea is to make you humble and learn fast.

Sergei Udaltsov

The harder they resist us, the tougher will be our response.

Phillip Fulmer

We have a lot of work to do when we go back home.  It's a tough loss, but it's not the end of the season.

Bill Carmody

Yeah, it's tough to win on the road.

Doug Miller

We'll never really know what went down. This is a tough situation.

Pat McMahon

We're not used to this and don't like it one bit. It's a very long and a very tough day.

Bill Fetters

Well, they always give us a tough game.

Flip Saunders

We made him take a lot of tough shots.

Julie Clark

We have a tough schedule, ... But we have a tough team, we should be strong.