Famous Quotes & Sayings

Heidi Bayley

Whenever you're hanging ice even if it's not over someone's head, which we avoid for obvious reasons it's very heavy and, of course, it melts. You don't want it to drop in the middle of the event because it feels disastrous even though nothing disastrous actually happens.

Kevin McCloud

I've had my fair share of colds, which last longer than they should and can cause wheezing, so I avoid people who are sneezing like the plague and am scrupulous about hygiene and hand-washing.

Brian Cashman

We're going forward as though he's catching all season. We're not trying to avoid it.

John Brady

We're shortening the competitive segments in practice to try to keep an edge, but at the same time try to avoid an injury.

Richard Armitage

Let's be clear: Neither Secretary Powell or I opposed the notion of removing Saddam Hussein by force, but we wanted to avoid the war if we could. But if we couldn't, the notion of removing Saddam Hussein from the scene seemed eminently sensible, given that you had, what, 16 or so U.N. Security Council resolutions basically saying the same thing.

Rob Manuel

'Waveform' puts you in charge of the wavy pathway of a ship in space. Hit the good stuff and avoid the bad things. While it sounds simple, this title will keep you on your toes as you try to navigate the dark inky space. By hitting the items you want or following the correct path, you build up your combo as well as your speed.

Rob Manuel

There's a certain logic to avoiding the haters, but as a strategy, it's utterly flawed. When you turn off the feedback, you lose the benefits as well as the drawbacks. It's like having a sore finger and cutting off your arm.

Sally Phillips

I don't have the self-discipline for diets; I break rules I set for myself, so I try and eat more healthily, juice more, and avoid sugar.

Robert Reich

In America, people with lots of money can easily avoid the consequences of bad bets and big losses by cashing out at the first sign of trouble.

John Talbot

Wayne brings with him a wealth of experience and a fine reputation and I am confident that he will make a powerful contribution to English National Ballet and to the British dance world.

Limas Sweed

We always believe. That's something coach Brown talks about a lot. You always come out and believe in each other. We told the defense, 'We get the ball back, we're going to make things happen, we're going to make plays and that's exactly what we did.

Dennis Lillee

If I've to bowl to Sachin, I'll bowl with my helmet on. He hits the ball so hard.

Al Capone

In this life all that I have is my word and my balls and I do not break them for nobody.

Al Franken

I'm a bit of a shill for the Clinton Administration, which has its perks. I'm invited to all the inaugural balls.

Kyle Wright

When he lines up in the backfield, you hear the defense changing the play. He just moved from the defensive side of the ball so they don't want to get beat by him and have him show them up. With that type of play-making ability, he can take a little swing pass, or just having the ball in his hands is electric.

Shannon Stewart

When he hit it, I had a good break on it. It seemed like one of those balls that kept going downward as I got closer, and then I was caught. I thought I'd have a chance to dive and catch it, but then as I did that, it pushed away from me.

Greg Williams

When you're a championship team, you just have to play over whatever is thrown at you. The bottom line is we didn't shoot the ball well enough to win.

Don Allen

We had chances. Even at nine points we come out and throw the ball away three or four straight times to start the third quarter. We just got into force mode a little early and when you don't take care of the basketball, nothing good is going to happen.

Dierks Bentley

I'm a member of the George Jones fan club, and I'm a member of U2's fan club.

Dennis Bergkamp

So I took it as a very positive sign that the club came to me rather than the other way round.

Chris Cornell

I don’t really go to clubs so I don’t know what sounds are made there,

Robert Palmer

I've got to the point where I just get on with it and the content of what I put on the records is determined from what I learn from the audience, from what works live, from what I want to hear when I go to a club or what I'd like to play when I get home.

Andy Robinson

Like everyone connected with his club and England, I would like to wish him a full and speedy recovery.'

David Houghton

Luke's a wonderful guy. He's been a great leader and a great player at this club but he needs to move on.

Jim Bailey

Making the right club selection is helping her. She's always been a good putter, but her putting has improved. She has gotten probably another 10-15 yards (off the tee), which helps.

Paul Wilkinson

Lee is not with a club right now and is spending time with us.

Lee Trevino

My point is, there's no sense trying to squeeze something out of your swing if you can let your clubs do the shotmaking for you.

Barney Frank

We don't get ourselves dry cleaned.

Theo Van Gogh

I would not be able to pen an academic and dry diatribe. I have too much talent for that.

Alexis de Tocqueville

I am deeply convinced that any permanent, regular administrative system whose aim is to provide for the needs of the poor will breed more miseries than it can cure, will deprave the population that it wants to help and comfort, will dry up the sources of savings, will stop the accumulation of capital, will retard the development of trade, and will benumb human industry.

Art Garfunkel

Records have images. There are wet records and dry records. And big records.

Jennifer Connelly

The producers were great. They tried so hard to make it bearable. They got a hot tub so I could sit around and be warm between without having to dry off the whole time. But there was a lot trudging around in cold, dank water.

Dan Glickman

We have just got to roll up our sleeves and work on a variety of ways to help these folks through this terrible, terrible dry weather crisis,

Wayne Lukas

She didn't like the off-track the first time. I think she just runs better on the dry track.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.

Jodi Picoult

She wondered how many hours it had been since she'd talked out loud. If you didn't use your voice, ever, would it eventually shrivel up and dry away? Was there a natural selection involved in not speaking up?

Alan Phillips

I knew nothing about this. I just got a flyer that got stuck in my mailbox.

Jason Reitman

I am an obsessive flyer, myself.

Mitch Hedberg

Then let's print up some flyers!

Lil Wayne

Flyer than the rest but I don’t rest I keep goin

Kate Hudson

I'm not interested in being fearful. I'm not a good flyer, but that doesn't stop me.

John Krasinski

The things we always disengage with are one-sided stories or one-sided characters. They're very boring. When you feel like you're being hit over the head, you disengage.

Carlos Beltran

When he hit the ball, the first thing that I did was freeze. The second thing that I did was take a step back. And when it was time for me to come forward, it was too late for me.

Sean Singletary

When he hit that, I knew he was going to be hot.

Alex Padilla

When he hit me that first time it made me realize what I was actually out there doing.

J. D. Souther

When I lived in Los Angeles, I used to live in the Hollywood Hills, behind Grauman's Theater, and I'd always hit the matinees.

Donald Lowe

When the meteor hits the surface, it instantaneously melts and vaporizes rock, and that rock vapor is sucked right back up the hole into the atmosphere,

Jose Cano

Makes me nervous. I want him to get a hit right now. I don't want him to go down. I want him to stay here forever.

Retief Goosen

Luckily, it doesn't really hurt me when I hit the ball. I know it's there, but it's nothing serious.

Larry Gispert

Life could be very, very different if we get hit by a major hurricane.

Natalie Jeremijenko

I used to have a lovely Chelsea loft - then I got divorced.

Bob Snyder

I'm thinking that $6000 to $10,000 is a lofty goal, but an obtainable goal.

Krystyna Phillips

We actually get more people out here by appointment than during our open hours.

Guy Ritchie

We always have a take that's 'one for fun', so once you've got what you need, you can do what you like. Something does occasionally pop out of that tree. I'm always open to ideas.

Al Gore

...it is appropriate to have an over representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis.

Butch Klein

When I got there, he opened the back of his vehicle and it was just packed,

Tom Coughlin

Let's talk about winning first, before we talk about anything else, ... We need to win some games. That's what I talk about. ... We need to openly talk about winning before we talk about anything else.

Greg Davis

Let's open up with a 15 zap read.

Daniel Barber

It has made me realise how many doors open for you when you're up for an Oscar. It seems once you are nominated, it validates you as a serious director, and you become someone that people want to work with.

Kara Walker

Once you open up the Pandora's box of race and gender... you're never done.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

There are still too many people out there who are claustrophobic. On easyCruise, we are going to open up as many cabins as we can.

Mark Krikorian

Low-skilled Americans suffer something like an 8 percent reduction in their wages because of low-skilled immigration.

David Winters

What we do is quite different from 99.9 percent of Wall Street.

Chris Cooney

Only 10 percent say very unfavorable after 20 years of work.

Jeff Judkins

Since I've been here, we've never had six teams in the (Ratings Percentage Index) top 60. I think that says a lot for our conference.

Mirko Mikelic

Maytag produces 99 percent in the U.S., and they are just not price competitive.

Mark Geragos

Seventy percent of what's in there is not true.

Serj Tankian

The percentage of Americans in the prison system, Prison system, has doubled since 1985

David Hillery

The percentage of African-Americans at (SDSU) in proportion to the population isn't equal.

Mario Pescante

We are preparing very well but it is not possible to be 100 percent secure.

Olli Jokinen

We're just trying to get as much of shots as possible,

Erlana Larkins

Shots like that just take everything out of you.

Adam Haluska

Shots going down. That's what it's all about.

Mitchell Davis

We started out well, and we made them take shots that we wanted them to. But Trinity's very good. And we just couldn't make any shots.

Scott Wilson

We struggled offensively all night. The shots just rolled off the rim.

Cecily von Ziegesar

I usually wouldn't be this close to you without a tetnus shot.

Mariusz Czerkawski

We have to get more traffic, simple plays, with more pucks on the net. Simple shots can work sometimes.

Dick Bartholdi

We are getting more shots than we ever have. But we always have trouble scoring.

Mickey Williams

We're getting shots off but they've not been on target.

Deepa Mehta

I've never seen or heard of a mob sitting down to read a film script.

Don Helling

We're sitting in a super spot for tomorrow.

Ezra Klein

If I'm sitting around exulting over traffic data, I'm an idiot.

Brian Eno

Put out as much as you can. It doesn't do anything sitting on a shelf.

Brian Lara

The only batsman I would love to see by paying for the tickets and sitting in the stand just to watch him is none other than Sachin Tendulkar

Brandon Sanderson

Ham shook his head, sitting down, pouring himself something to drink. "I don't get it, El. Why'd she attack him?" "She's loony," Spook said.

Jim Schmitz

The only place I got to see him was sitting on the bench.

Pat Burstein

She did everything in a hurry. When she was sitting in a chair, she'd get up running.

Rosa Parks

she stood up by sitting down. I'm only standing here because of her.

David Duval

I slowly continued to compensate for the physical problems I was having and ended up completely destroying my swing, my set-up, my posture. Everything was gone.

Arnold Palmer

Swing your swing. I know, I did.

Alan Dershowitz

Our First Amendment expresses a far different calculus for regulating speech than for regulating nonexpressive conduct and that is as it should be. The right to swing your fist should end at the tip of my nose, but your right to express your ideas should not necessarily end at the lobes of my ears.

Augusten Burroughs

His laugh is made if porch swings and lemonade

Ray Giacoletti

We're having a tough time right now. We've just got to keep swinging and keep grinding.

Buddy Rich

But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band.

Carlos Beltran

I like to be aggressive. I like to swing the bat.

Charles Caleb Colton

False reasoners are often best confuted by giving them the full swing of their own absurdities.

Ashley Madekwe

I'm known for changing halfway through the day if my mood swings.

Diana DeGarmo

I'm planning to be the youngest contestant in the Top 32, and I'm planning to be the youngest person in the Top 10...

Brandon Sanderson

...somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.

Eric Clapton

Musically, Nathan is in the Top 3 as a bassist.

Jeff Malloy

She has to be (on the top of her game).

Benoit Mandelbrot

Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.

Orlando Hudson

We'll be around the top of our division.

Anne Byrn

Now that would be way too much for the top of a cake.

Carles Puyol

I can't see the top of the Eiffel Tower yet.

Steve Swasey

From top to bottom, Blockbuster is deliberately and willfully infringing on our patented methods.

David Viscott

You don't have to try, you just have to be.

David Viscott

Lists today are a way of trying to get through the day, because we are losing a sense of time.

David Heyman

Making the films is never easy, but actually that aspect of trying to make a better film or to keep the standard high is something that comes organically.

David Heyman

All we try and do is make the best films we can. If you do that then hopefully the audiences will come, and they have. Everything else is gravy.

David Hyde Pierce

On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when it's also funny.

David Douglas

It's so off the charts and off anybody's radar screen, that place. It might as well be another planet. Just try to find somebody who's been to Madagascar. Nobody has been to Madagascar.

David Duchovny

I enjoy trying to figure out the best way to compliment the picture and not overpower it.

David Duchovny

Usually, when I act, I try to forget the words and let them come, and just find my way through them.

David Brooks

I learned I'm not a science writer. I'm not very good at describing how something is happening. I try to describe "So What?"

Elizabeth Peyton

I don't rise to the occasion unless I'm really moved.

Charles M. Schwab

In the long run, no nation can prosper unless the world prospers.

Ken Hitchcock

We're not going to put him in unless he's 100 percent.

Kristin Bauer van Straten

Unless you're a serial killer, you're worried about being liked by somebody.

Jacques Rogge

Unless something unforeseen happens, they are going to make it if they keep up this pace.

Dan Robinson

unless something is in our refinery in a week or so, we're starved.

Brad Coker

Unless it's over 50 percent, I'm always skeptical. It could pass. It could fail. You can't really make a call.

Murray Walker

Unless I'm very much mistaken... I am very much mistaken.

Armand Assante

I don't go to work unless I feel I really have a story that would be interesting to tell.