Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Bauman

Leah's one of the most consistent beam workers we've ever had. That will make her mad enough to come out and really want to hit it next week.

Becky Cleary

We're looking solid in everything else, but in gymnastics the beam is the make or break event. South Burlington stayed on beam more than us and deserved the overall win. But we showed that when we stay on the beam we will be tough to beat.

Jack McDevitt

One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.

J. M. Roberts

She could do things on beam that I had no name for. As a third-year coach, I had visions of grandeur, thoughts of state championships dancing before me. I couldn't wait to work with someone at that level.

Paul Barrett

Since both the external beam and the seed radiation yield similar results -- and occasionally they are used together -- for most men the choice boils down to convenience: Do you want an invasive treatment that is done in about an hour, or a noninvasive treatment that takes seven weeks.

Agnes Martin

Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life

Bill Clinton

I am going to focus like a laser beam on this economy.

Carey Fagan

I felt like we had a slow start on our first two events tonight. The scores were tight and vault was still our weak event. I was happy with how we performed on floor and beam. We scored a season high on beam and it was nice to finish the meet strong. If we would have had more momentum earlier I feel we would have had a better chance to beat Minnesota.

Brad Cattermole

We're a better team than what we performed tonight. We finished with a little energy on beam and did very well.

Don Maestri

We accomplished a lot this year. We won 14 games, which I think is overachieving. We beat (ULL) twice and Western Kentucky, which was a big win for our program.

Shawn Flanary

We accomplished a lot of goals, especially winning the NCC after finishing second the last two years. All the teams that beat us were all ranked in the top 20.

Bob Jacoby

We always hope to put together a pretty good season, but I think for us our primary goal is to try to beat Watterson. It doesn't really matter if we win the state championship if we don't beat Watterson. That's kind of the way it's become.

Ruth Shields

We always have a nice little rivalry with them so it's a nice way to start the season, beating a county rival,

Jay Graham

We always had a (player) within an arm's length of (Kirstein). We respect his game. We wanted to make sure that he didn't beat us.

Jose Gonzalez

We always had a guitar at home, but it wasn't until I was 14 when I picked it up myself when my father handed me these sheets of music of the Beatles and some other classics. That's where I learned all the chords and learned how to play and sing at the same time.

Eric Devendorf

We always feel like we can beat (anybody). We have the talent. It's just the chemistry. We need to play together and play well on defense and then the offense is gonna come.

Jermaine Wallace

We always expect any team can beat you. Coach Mike stresses the fact that you can't underestimate anybody.

Bill Hybels

The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.

Bear Grylls

You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.

Peter Lewis

We acknowledge he has a contract and we definitely want to stand by that and give him every chance of success.

Brett Basanez

We always have to score more points than they do. We get just as many chances as they do so we have to make good on our chances and take our shots. If it (the score) comes down to 99-98, that's what it needs to be and we have to have 99. If it comes down to 3-2, we've got to have the three.

Milan Hejduk

We always have a chance to win every night. I'm looking forward to the upcoming season and this new NHL era.

Mike Steib

We always feel we have a chance to win as long as we play hard and play good defense.

Rahul Dravid

We also see tomorrow's game as an opportunity to give a chance to some of our batsmen and bowlers.

Denis Leary

There's not going to be a 'Rescue Me' movie. Not a chance.

Joe Nedney

Whenever you're in my job, you're just grateful for opportunities, whenever and wherever they arise. The chance to do this job can be taken away really quickly, and sometimes it's not because of anything you did.

Greg Mattison

When you're a major college football coach and your son is a major college football player, the chances of being together for the holidays are slim to none. But we had talked about this happening.

Robert Rainy

The earlier practice of the Church had been more or less to employ in worship under the presidency of the pastor or pastors, the gifts of the congregation.

Bret Tuetken

Like everyone else, they wanted to take Hope and Maria out of the game. I told the girls earlier today that someone is going to get open shots.

Omar Abdullah

Let them repeat what they have already told the prime minister in earlier meetings but they must show their presence.

Kevin Parker

Looks to me like we'll have to light it earlier than we thought.

Erich Bergen

A lot of my friends were a lot into theatre a lot earlier than I was. A lot of my friends were kids who were in The Broadway Kids and the kids auditioning for Gavroche in 'Les Miz.' I was never that kid. I was weaned on Michael Jackson. Not literally, because that would have been odd.

Therese Fowler

No writing effort is ever wasted. At the very least, it's practice, and a writer never knows when he or she might usefully cannibalize an earlier effort for something new.

John Gleason

We're looking to a better fourth quarter as opposed to the earlier part of the year.

Christopher Howell

We're good at putting together one or two good hits to start a rally or keep one going. We just need to be able to do it earlier in the game so we don't have to sweat it for five innings.

Jeffrey Grau

Online sales are growing at a healthy clip, even though sales may have pulled back somewhat from the robust pace seen earlier this year.

Mike Schnur

We actually didn't swim very well tonight. West Chester won seven individual events out of nine. We were just tired and not as up for it.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Sometimes a single phrase of testimony can set events in motion that affect someone's life for eternity.

Boris Yeltsin

Let us do everything to...ensure that those tragic events never happen in our land again.

Jack Warner

Leah was solid in all three of her events. She will impress a lot of people this year.

Robin Tobias

We did not do as well as I thought we would in relay events. We have some work to do in the relays. There is a lot of time before sectionals, so hopefully we can find some answers.

Jane Addams

National events determine our ideals, as much as our ideals determine national events.

Benjamin Disraeli

One event makes another. What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens; and time can only prove which is most for our advantage.

Wendy Cheung

There are a lot of events happening this month and we hope lots of people will come to them.

Umberto Eco

Today, political events are nullified unless they're on TV.

Barnett Newman

From the very beginning I felt that I would do a series,

Matt Hasselbeck

We actually felt we had the momentum after that. It was good for our offense.

Stan Clark

We always felt we did the proper thing.

Shirley Manson

We always felt like we've never specifically fitted in with anyone; there's never been a movement surrounding what we're doing.

Tomas Vokoun

We had been scoring a lot of goals and maybe we felt like we just couldn't lose. We started playing loose, but now we're not scoring four or five goals a game per night. And in this NHL, you're not going to win many goals scoring two goals a night.

Gia Coppola

When I graduated, I felt a little burned out on taking pictures after so many years of churning out so many for classes.

Michael Burgess

When I got up this morning, I felt good. This is a big win for us.

Gene Luen Yang

When I got the job with 'Superman,' it felt like somebody threw me into the ocean. I was just trying to figure it out, to figure out how to tread water. Lucky for me, I'm part of a great team.

Van Horn

When the jury returned the verdict, I felt high, but then I realized, I still had lost a son.

David Duchovny

Actually, I have an interest in finishing my Ph.D., but I just know I never will.

Jenson Button

We had a very good race in Monza last year when we finished on the podium,

Kevin Mahoney

When I look at these seniors that have been with us for four years, they've won four conference, four counties, four prep, four state championships and finished undefeated. You can't go out any better than that.

David Pickard

We're glad to be back, but now we want to finish the story. It was a good year last year, but we want to take the next step.

Edward Johnson

We're just going down there. We haven't really talked about it. We're just going down there trying to win. We don't know how it is. We wanted to win district, but it didn't work out that way. We're not going to take (Jim Hill) light, but we're going to try to finish them off.

Tom Izzo

Let's not anoint us as a finished product yet. But I like the steps we're taking.

Hale Irwin

Let's put that in perspective, ... I finished an hour before the leaders. It wasn't like that putt sent me into the playoffs. Heading into the 11th hole, I wasn't even in the top 15.

Scott M. Gimple

Lots of shows are written completely in the writer's room. And I wouldn't say 'The Walking Dead' is that way. There are three levels to it. There's us in the room. The writers going off by themselves. And me working with the writers on a finished script.

Karl Dorrell

Look, we're not a finished product by any means and we're still in that shadow, ... But we are gaining some momentum.

Josh Boone

Mainly it's Marcus, to be honest with you. Marcus is telling me a whole lot of times where to go. He'll just come up to me after a play and say, 'Next time slip that.' I'll be like, 'All right,' and he'll just throw a perfect pass. It just really helps to have a guy like him on the floor leading us.

Michelle Perkins

This will provide better access. People won't have to go the second and third floor any more.

Tom Hank

There are whole floors of people in studios that worry about such things, as though there is power that can be wielded over such matters,

Cary Thompson

She ran our offense all year. She was a real floor leader for us.

Al Northington

She just stepped it up, ran the floor and was a great leader.

Jim Jeske

She meant a lot for us, and was a stabilizing force on the team. We needed her on the floor for as many minutes as possible.

Ray Allen

Mentally it just got worse, ... And physically, you're just running up and down the floor and it seemed like everything just went their way. Again, I know we'll recover from this.

Chuck Benda

My job is pretty easy. I just turn them loose on the floor and let them play.

John Beilein

Senior players have helped us make our style work. It just opens the floor for us, whether people are in man or zone.

David Dunn

Take up giving-away as a hobby while you are young, and you will have a happy life. What is more, because you do so many thoughtful things on impulse, you will develop a lively and interesting personality- gracious, friendly, and likeable.

David Brainerd

If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.

Audrey Hepburn

You can only hope to get a combination of happy work and a happy life.

Denis Thatcher

What it meant to me: a happy life, of course, companionship, of course. A common objective, I think.

Denis Waitley

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned or worn.

Diego Della Valle

When you work too much, you are boring - that is possible. But to have a happy life, if you can do several things in the correct way, that is perfect.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

May I invite you to rise to the great potential within you. But don't reach beyond your capacity. Don't set goals beyond your capacity to achieve. Don't feel guilty or dwell on thoughts of failure. Don't compare yourself with others. Do the best you can, and the Lord will provide the rest. Have faith and confidence in Him, and you will see miracles happen in your life and the lives of your loved ones.

Kevin Williamson

Hey, I'm happy someone is hiring me. It could be all over. I'm so lucky to have a job.

Ernie Els

When I got to my ball, I was like, what's going on? I've never seen that happen. I was very happy to make a 4.

Alain de Botton

Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards.

Aimee Mullins

It's hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I'm on stilts!

Tom Wolfe

I read somewhere that writers, as they get older, become more and more perfectionist. Which may be because they think more highly of themselves and they worry about their reputations. I think there's some truth to that.

Todd Rundgren

People have always said that I could have been a highly successful pop artist, if only that were my intention. It never was. My original intention was to be a kind of behind-the-scenes participant in music, to just be a record producer and engineer. And I made a record for myself just so I could have an outlet for my musical ideas.

Robert Hess

We're seeing very high levels relative to historical levels. Our shelters are over capacity.

Dave Lawrence

We're looking at a quick warm-up. It's a quick-hitting, high pressure system.

S. Jay Olshansky

In centenarians and supercentenarians - people over 110 - you see a higher level of fecundity much later in life.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I.

Robert Toombs

The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic.

Phil Esposito

When you're an athlete, you meet a lot of people.

Evan Bayh

My first meeting as a senator, my first day, they were already talking about the next election. Part of that's the permanent campaign, part of that's a word I've been using more frequently, 'tribal.' Our politics has become tribal: It's us versus them.

E. L. Konigsburg

Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.'

Mia Masten

We did look at the site. It doesn't meet our criteria.

John Key

Moral persuasion over a period of time makes a difference, but we shouldn't be naive to think that just because we raise it in a meeting it will make all those problems go away. It won't and it doesn't.

Ridley Scott

When I meet an actor that I think is going to be possible is from the second he walks through the door, because it's a visual medium.

Paul Hewitt

The product and service we require meets with our customers' and our expectations.

Chris Smith

We have a safety meeting before any event. There's also people watching at all times.

Jack Straw

We have just made history, ... We've had the first ministerial meeting on the opening of accession negotiations.

Ken Klee

Momentum switches in a heartbeat, ... I thought we were taking it to them, then there was one extraordinary play by their guy. ... I'd like to have it over again.

David Shields

Momentum, in literary mosaic, derives not from narrative but from the subtle, progressive buildup of thematic resonances.

Richard Herring

We have seen a lot of momentum buying,

Arthur Keith

Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution.

Debbie Casto

We've got a very aggressive, trapping style of defense. And we get a lot of turnovers out of it. We've been able to get momentum with turnovers and score in transition.

Earl Weaver

Momentum is only as good as tomorrow's starting pitcher.

Ben Gordon

When we go down to Miami, we've got to keep the snowball going. We've got momentum going. We've got confidence. So we've got to keep it up.

Ben Gordon

When we go down there, we've got to keep the snowball rolling. We have momentum right now. We have confidence. So we need to keep that up.

Dave Tippett

We feel the momentum is on our side now.

David Twohy

Sometimes, if you leave yourself open, an actor can bring nice nuances to a character.

David Walliams

In Britain, a cup of tea is the answer to every problem. Fallen off your bicycle? Nice cup of tea. Your house has been destroyed by a meteorite? Nice cup of tea and a biscuit. Your entire family has been eaten by a Tyrannosaurus Rex that has travelled through a space/time portal? Nice cup of tea and a piece of cake. Possibly a savoury option would be welcome here too, for example a Scotch egg or a sausage roll.

David Hyde Pierce

Nothing ever guarantees you anything-that's my rule. My other rule is never believe anything that anyone tells you, and then you'll never be fooled. It's not as cynical as it sounds; it's just that people always say something for a reason-maybe a nice reason, maybe a devious reason-so on that level, you can't take things at face value.

David Brooks

The three people who are most often talked about with Hillary Clinton, whether it's Tim Kaine or Vilsack or Cory Booker, they are three extremely nice people.

Benazir Bhutto

Being nice should never be perceived as being weak. It's not a sign of weakness, it's a sign of courtesy, manners, grace, a woman's ability to make everyone...feel at home, and it should never be construed as weakness.....

Benedict Cumberbatch

It'd be really nice to wake up looking like, I don't know, Jake Gyllenhaal and think, 'Let's try this on for a day and see how it feels.'

Benedict Cumberbatch

Look at you lot, you're all so vacant, is it nice not being me it must be so relaxing.

Bear Grylls

My favorite moments? Where it's all going swimmingly, the sun's out and I've got a fire going and a nice snake on the barbecue.

Bear Grylls

Eating any of these things, goat testicles or what have you, isn't going to be nice, but you get into that zone, you become focussed and you do what you need to do. It's all about one thing: coming home in one piece.

Patrick Kelly

I am so very proud of all my wrestlers. They performed like warriors.

Ravi Shankar

One single raga can be performed for two hours, three hours.

Mary Jane

I think we did really well; as a whole we performed a lot better and we sounded a lot better.

Rob Willman

I think we could've done a little better. I'm not down at all. But we could've performed better.

Jerry Brookings

I actually had a little R&B group, and Tito performed with me once.

Doug Castellari

That's the style we teach, and they performed well.

Dieter Zetsche

It has performed well in the world's toughest market.

Woody Johnson

I think he's performed fabulously. We're not winning, but he's doing everything he can to win, and I think the team's doing everything they can.

Neve McIntosh

I haven't done any 'Fringe' shows since I was about 17. Then I performed with my youth theatre in a show where we all had this old-fashioned make-up on and giggled through our lines.

Ed Cange

One night, somebody scores a lot, then another (night), it's someone else. That's our bedrock. It's a team concept.

Alain Vigneault

Three wins by 1-0 scores -- obviously, our goaltending has been solid.

Josh Beckett

Right now it's going to come down to whoever scores more runs, because the starters aren't going to be out there as long,

Jerry Kelly

Just play well and the scores will come. I showed that today.

Chris Nelson

That's the way we've been all year. Every time someone scores on us, we score right back.

Phil Mason

We would have been up by two scores had we scored on that drive.

Tracy Konopacky

As a team, I thought we really did well. We stuck our landings in the vault, and had two 9-point scores on the floor.

Sue Olds

Our API scores give us the idea that we're on the right path.

Amy Williams

It's not right when we have teachers that are fudging on the test scores because they want to look good.

Gilles Lupien

We've said no to the offer. We're going to wait until the season is over, and then we are going to talk. We want to wait until at least April.

Celine Dion

This is the season for families. Hold yours close.

Richard Walker

We've still a lot to do before the season starts.

Brian Dawkins

I will never have my best season.

Steve Spurrier

Six and five, ... We thought 6-5 would be a wonderful season for this team.

W. S. Gilbert

She's been killing it all season and is only getting better.

Billy Donovan

We're right back to where we were before the season started.

Gerald Anderson

Now our team is back to where we want it to be. We should have success like we were having at the start of the season when we were all healthy.

Russ Witzig

I can't say enough about Brandon. He wrestled really well today, and all season long.

Michael Richards

We have more work to do. We're taking small and slow steps. Other towns do it. We can do it.

Ben Affleck

You get old, you slow down.

Sylvia Hatchell

To play slow would not be the thing to do with her.

Nicole Strasko

I got off to a slow start thinking about the game. I'm a freshman, and this was my first tournament game, and with it in the new gym, I wanted to do really good.

Dan Johnson

We're approaching this slowly and methodically. There's a lot of work to be done.

Christopher Traulsen

If it's a trend, it's going to be slow moving.

Donatella Versace

There's time to slow down, after you're dead.

Flip Saunders

We were a half-second slow and they were throwing it up there.

David Justice

What were you doing on that? ... You have to know he's slow and throw the ball.

August Wilson

I ain't never found no place for me to fit. Seem like all I do is start over. It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself.

Joan Van Ark

When I become the village idiot, or at least, it starts to become a joke, you can't do that much longer.

Shannon Hoon

You start wanting to see a different place every day.

Scott Moody

Like I have to start from scratch, I don't have anything.

Busta Rhymes

Then i starter krompy kromp with Kroomp Krompp and the i kromped all over the Krommmmp!

Carson Kressley

Show's going well. New season starting, we're on the road.

Trey Burke

There are leaders vocally, and there are leaders by example. I think I'm starting to become better at being a leader vocally, just talking on the court.

David Collins

One way to start all over is to find a young woman and start a family.

Bobbi Brown

She's going to start recording, ... Hopefully, I will get to work with her on this album.

Jason London

Whenever you have a tight schedule, you sort of have to film whatever you can that day.

Jose Carreras

I am a little nervous with strangers. But I'm not tight inside. I think I am impulsive.

Dennis Franchione

We're going to make a tight end out of you, yet.

Johnny Damon

I would be jacked up. But I'd be worried about that high, tight pitch.

Candice Olson

In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.

Donnie Madzia

We were a little tight early. The 10-day layoff that we had took its toll early. We were prepared, so we had to come out and execute.

Ken Whisenhunt

I think the big part of it is the quarterback and that tight end's relationship,

Larry Coker

I thought they were going to turn me into a tight end,

Troy Dolan

He had a good, tight waist. He tried to tilt me. He was pretty tough on top.

Sergei Bubka

The pole vault is a very complicated event, there are many things involved.

Blaise Pascal

What amazes me the most is to see that everyone is not amazed at his own weakness.

Blaise Pascal

The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it.

Richard G. Scott

The Lord sees weaknesses differently than He does rebellion.

Edward Ruscha

All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I've always had a weakness for heroic imagery.

Brit Hume

What played to what had been a relative weakness for us-this was exploding overseas as well, and we had to scramble to mount some reach and get into places and be competitive on the ground.

Babe Ruth

A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.

Arthur Helps

We are not so easily guided by our most prominent weaknesses as by those of which we are least aware.

Clarence Day

Every maiden's weak and willin' When she meets the proper villian.