Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Clay Ford, Jr.

We took our eye off the ball as a company.

Steve Friedman

The only crystal ball even more difficult to read than where one's own personal situation may be is where the country is headed and what the country's economic situation will be in 20 or 30 years.

Rick Adelman

The patience at the end of the game there when Brad hit the three was terrific. We had plenty of time, we moved the ball around and they made a mistake and left Brad standing there. Then in the overtime we took control, especially when Odom fouled out.

Phillip Hilliard

The past two games we haven't been hitting the ball. He had to be (critical) ? nobody was hitting the ball. We should've hit the ball a lot better, and we weren't focused on the fundamentals.

Bruce Buck

The past three weeks, teams haven't thrown the ball his way.

Briana Evigan

Hip hop classes and ballet are what I've been keeping up with, and of course my usual abdominal workout, which consists of 500 sit-ups a session. Or I take a 30-minute abs class at my gym. But dance classes are a full-body cardio workout, which always brings me success and keeps me feeling great.

Don Yaeger

Dungy, head coach of the Indianapolis Colts, has long believed that he, his staff and players should be as devoted to family time as they are to playing time, as focused on giving to charities as they are to taking the ball away from opponents.

Neil Kinnock

I didn't call for a ballot at the start of the miners' strike in 1984. I'll regret that until my dying day.

Richard Simmons

When you gather up all the balls of life that you try to juggle, it is a very difficult thing to try to focus in on taking good care of yourself. But that's why God invented me - so I can come and teach and preach and make people laugh and give them some education so they can start liking themselves better.

Yotam Ottolenghi

As is always the way with pancakes, the first hotcake to come out of the pan will probably be a bit misshapen. Just scoff it, and carry on with the rest.

William Fichtner

It's not that there aren't people who care creatively in the world of television, but there's always a bit more time in making a movie. I always feel films are more of a creative journey.

William Thomas Green Morton

That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a sense of ethics and decency was one of the bitter ironies of history.

Chuck Palahniuk

Your life isn't about doing one perfect 'thing' and then falling down dead. It's more like going to church or writing a book. You do it over and over, always trying to be a little bit better. Then you die.

Bill Gates

To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

Clotilde Hesme

I am very organic; I eat a lot of seeds. At home in the morning, I eat muesli with a banana. At noon, I mix a little bit of all the seeds I can find. I love quinoa. It's great - it cooks like rice and is better than caviar.

Chris Carter

Writing is a little athletic for me. I get worked up a little bit when I do it. So I guess I'm a little bit like that composer conducting. There are a lot of things that go into what I do, but I think athletics really sort of shaped my ethic.

Evangeline Lilly

I have been a bit of a reluctant actress since the get-go, since the beginning of 'Lost.'

Ellie Goulding

I'm a bit grungy - I love wearing boots. But I also love putting on a beautiful white dress and jewels. I have those two alter-egos.

Cilla Black

I would have loved to have cracked America. When I tried, I got homesick. Then, when I was in New York, my nanna died, and I just wanted to come home.

Tom Brokaw

I would say that we have not completely cracked the code of the '60s. We are still finding our way through that time.

Jeff Garcia

Yeah, I'd like to be in school. Just friends. Staying at home isn't all what it's cracked up to be. It's pretty boring.

Alice Oswald

Topsoil is a place of digestion. It sucks and chews things into smaller pieces. When it's hungry, it turns grey and stony; when it's thirsty, it opens thousands of cracked lips. Subsoil is more skeletal: it doesn't digest.

Allard Beutel

We're not seeing tanks floating down the rivers. We're not seeing tanks cracked open.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Some feel as though the world is their oyster; others feel as though they were the oyster itself, plucked from the ocean, cracked open, and robbed of all that is precious to them.

Rick Majerus

That ACC is everything it is pretty much cracked up to be, in terms of talent, coaching, venues that you play in, fan enthusiasm and degree of difficulty in terms of winning on the road. And I would say the same thing with the Big Ten.

Chris Simon

We finally cracked it. It's an honor to reach that level of musicianship.

Chris Quinn

Got cracked in the jaw a little bit. That's the price you pay.

Edward Snowden

If they had taught a class on how to be the kind of citizen Dick Cheney worries about, I would have finished high school.

Cary Fukunaga

I'm never more miserable than when I write, and never more happy than having finished and having it sitting in front of me.

Craig Bruce

When you are finished with it, put it back in the first place that you looked for it.

Taurean Green

We are not finished yet. We are still on a mission.

Larry Bishop

I got it into my head that I was going to be starring in movies that I wrote, so that's what I did. I stopped acting in all things, and I wrote my first script, which was optioned a week after I finished it.

Lamar Alexander

We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech.

Lauren Bacall

Movies are great fun and wonderful when they're good. But you never get to see them till six months after they're finished. So you never get a sense of whether they're really well liked or how good they are. And you don't really know what the finished product is going to be like, because it's a director's medium.

Mike Elmore

We reloaded the truck and took it to Ernie Abercrombie's warehouse. We finished at 8 p.m. Monday night.

Amy Chow

It is fine to be all focused on gymnastics if that is what you want to do, but once you are finished with gymnastics, what are you going to do?

Wendi McLendon-Covey

I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.

Virginia Postrel

A standard 'well woman' checkup can last as little as 10 minutes, hardly time for any in-depth discussions.

Yayoi Kusama

I have done all the work myself, not assistants. That's why I'm in a wheelchair: I've been doing it physically - it's hard labour - throughout my life.

Chet Faker

I always try to work hard and get things done as soon as possible, but never at the loss of quality of the product.

Evangeline Lilly

Saying 'no' is not hard for me; it's scarier for me to say 'yes.' I'm actually more afraid of commitment than of saying 'no.'

Elaine Stritch

I'm a hotel baby, absolutely: it's hard to think of a hotel I haven't stayed in.

Eartha Kitt

Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.

Chelsea Clinton

Role models really matter. It's hard to imagine yourself as something you don't see.

Shannon McSweeney

The pipe is hard as a rock. They were able to practice on it (Wednesday) even after all the rain.

Bill Baker

We played okay. We had 15 hits and we had an eight-run second inning.

Deke Richards

I was strictly after hits when it came down to the Jackson 5. That's all I was concerned with.

Gary Enis

We had opportunities tonight to make plays, make pitches, and get hits. They just got more timely hits than we did.

Tom Kelly

Yeah, we hollered at him. 'Stay on the ball! Stay on the ball!' Now he stands right in there and hits it that way nine miles and hits it this way nine miles.

Huey Lewis

We had several hits in the States but probably only one big one in Europe. The crowds are smaller.

Mike Hargrove

We had nine hits and scored three runs. Sometimes you don't get the hits when you need them.

Derek Jeter

Those are situations you have to come through. Because two-out hits are pretty clutch.

Joe Farmer

We want to sure that if that storm hits South Carolina, people will have ample time to get out of its way.

Becky Harrold

When we got the passes, we could not get our hits to fall. We were doing all the things we needed to do, but were not doing them well enough.

Kevin Froud

We proceeded to quit scoring. We were getting shots in the lane, but we weren't hitting them. We weren't playing with our head, but we made the plays in the end that we needed to.

Brian Smith

We opened up that third quarter pretty much on fire. When we're hitting 3s, we're pretty tough to stop.

Doug Dexheimer

We have made big strides hitting volleys and getting into the net.

Mike Redwine

We're kind of hitting our stride. We've won three in a row and we've also won three straight at home now.

Kate Warne

To me there's nothing magical about hitting 10,000.

Mike Conrad

Timely hitting has been our nemesis in this tournament.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

You do not lead by hitting people over the head-that's assault, not leadership.

Tom White

Today we got timely hitting through out our whole lineup.

Donald Dupree

We are playing much better, and it seems like we've rejuvenated ourselves now after hitting the doldrums. We took some time off, and I think that has helped.