Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Yagge

We did them some favors on defense. That's what happens when you play on your heels instead of on your toes. We made some adjustments. Hopefully, we'll learn from those adjustments. We've got to.

Bruce Arena

There are other players who could be here who aren't here because of their positions in the league. To get some favors in return ? that means a lot to send those players back. This is a time we could do it.

Ludwig von Mises

The masses favor socialism because they trust the socialist propaganda of the intellectuals. The intellectuals, not the populace, are molding public opinion.

Calvin Trillin

I'm in favor of liberalizing immigration because of the effect it would have on restaurants. I'd let just about everybody in except the English.

David Dreman

Favored stocks underperform the market, while out-of-favor companies outperform the market, but the reappraisal often happens slowly, even glacially.

Edward Kennedy

I favor access to discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

Benjamin Franklin

If you want to make a friend, let someone do you a favor.

Benjamin Franklin

You don't get somebody to like you by doing them a favor. That only tends to build resentment over the fact that they are needy and you are not. No, you ask them to do you a favor.

Baltasar Gracian

When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.

Tim Scott

I'm going to be a Republican who happens to be black - who will talk about issues that I'm passionate about.

Vivienne Westwood

I'm very lucky. The public happens to like me. Maybe they like me because I use every opportunity to talk about injustice.

Cam Newton

What happens when you take a lion out of the safari and try to take him to your place of residence and make him a house pet? It ain't going to happen. That's the type of person that I am. I'm that lion.

Arnold Palmer

My problem happens to be near-sightedness - inability to see distance. And this is pretty tough on a golfer.

S. Hughes

We are just struggling scoring runs. We are just not getting whole lot of hits. That happens sometimes. You just hope it doesn't happen to long.

Carl Schoedel

We recognize the next improvement that happens out there is going to be a big-dollar one. That's why we need a plan.

Anna Netrebko

I know what I'm missing. I know what I have to work on. Coloratura. And I sing sharp sometimes. It happens when I'm nervous.

Stella McCartney

If you try to create something people enjoy, and it happens to be made in a responsible way, then that's when you can really strike an incredible balance.

Antonio Daniels

Tim and the Spurs are going to the Virgin Islands. Tim said he had nothing to do with it. Yeah right, he just happens to be from the islands. But hey, Richmond will be just fine. We're there to work anyway.

Beyonce Knowles

My style offstage is so different from onstage. I love a pair of sexy heels with jeans, a nice jacket, or a little dress.

Melvin Scott

Yeah, a big hump. The talk about the Tar Heels is that we can't win on the road.

Jerry Stackhouse

We were just not in the game. We were totally knocked on our heels in the first half.

Fiona Phillips

The heels are going to be a problem. I can't even walk in heels.

Dan Starkey

We set them back on their heels early. But when they got rolling, they rolled.

John Earl

The 11 a.m. service is the big one. That's the one where we'll kick up our heels and really strut.

Christina Aguilera

I've always been really good with my heels. Even pregnant, I could perform in heels.

Jody Conradt

We're improving, but I don't know if we're improving quickly enough. This team has been on its heels for some time. We've been in a perfect storm.

Jason Bradbury

We were on our heels all night long. But I tell you what, they flat-out hit the ball.

Chuck Palahniuk

Sometimes, like in 'Invisible Monsters,' I get too out of control, and instead of a plot point every chapter, I want a plot point in every sentence.

Vidya Balan

I like all things natural, and I love being Indian. So clothes-wise, I love wearing Indian. Does my wearing a salwar kameez instead of a dress make me less of an actor, less of a person?

Chris Christie

The people of New Jersey stepped up. They shared in the sacrifice. You know what else they did? They rewarded politicians who lead instead of politicians who pandered.

Frank Slutsky

We differentiated by having wraps instead of sandwiches. We're not looking for Tony's competition.

James Garner

The characters I've played, especially Bret Maverick and Jim Rockford, almost never use a gun, and they always try to use their wits instead of their fists.

Rod Stewart

Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house.

Jimmy Doolittle

If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to so so from the neck up instead of from the neck down.

Charles R. Jackson

I have become so used to having people say, 'We loved your movie' instead of 'We read your book' that now I merely say, 'Thanks.'

Pat Coyle

We have an eight-player rotation and those players are going to play. If I can keep their minutes in the 20s instead of the 30s, I'll do it.

William Shatner

With three kids, it was always very, very tight, and it was always a scramble for what was my next job. So I learned never to go into debt because I don't want those monthly payments to preoccupy my thoughts.

William Allan

Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter.

Eric Lamoureux

The over-riding question is, what will we learn from Katrina?

Bruce Weber

I like to start out each day from the beginning. I'm always learning things.

Brittany Howard

A song like 'Heartbreaker,' it's a song about learning - it's not necessarily a song about heartbreak. It's more than that. We write those songs to relive how we got over something.

Brian Kernighan

Every language teaches you something, so learning a language is never wasted, especially if it's different in more than just syntactic trivia.

Brad Grey

I learned no detail was too small. It was all about the details.

Bonnie Bassler

I want to make a drug. I want the science to be more than imaginary, where I think, 'We're learning these fundamental principles, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.' I think we are doing that, but I want to do something really practical. I want to actually, in my lifetime, help people.

Denis Lavant

It's something that I learned even before I started acting: the movement, the dance of the body, is very important, and it comes before words.