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.

will.i.am

Coming out with records when you're in a big, successful group that plays stadiums, that's scary to come out by yourself.

Chris Bohjalian

If you are stymied as a writer, if it's just not coming together, then take the pressure off and don't feel that you need to write 1,000 words today; just write one really good sentence.

Ellen Key

If, in the coming thousand years, a feminine culture shall really supplement the masculine, then this will be exactly in the measure in which women have the courage to create and to act as most feminists now do not even dare think.

Erin Karpluk

Sometimes, as a guest actor, when you come on, you're coming into a show that's already been established, and the wheels are already in motion. It can be very nerve-wracking, jumping in as a newcomer, but everyone on 'Saving Hope' was so welcoming.

Jeffrey Passel

The overall picture is that of young, working families coming to the U.S. to participate in the labor market.

Joe Mullen

(The penalty kill) been huge for us. The guys have been coming up so big, especially on the 5-on-3 (opportunities).

Bryan Cogman

Coming out of Juilliard, I had a big head, and a lot of people wouldn't want to be an assistant. But I am so fortunate, and I've learned a ton.

Brendan Fletcher

I found myself drawn to the remote Kimberley region of Australia - in the far Northwest corner of the country - our last frontier. I still can't explain why. I kept coming back over many years and started shooting material.

Denis Villeneuve

Sometimes you have compulsions that you can't control coming from the subconscious... they are the dictator inside ourselves.

Wendy Kopp

It gets to whether we're a teacher-education model or a movement for social justice. I would say we're about the latter.

Bonnie Tyler

The international travelling gets harder as I get older, but when I'm performing on stage, it makes it all worth while.

David Carson

Just because something's legible doesn't means it communicates. More importantly, it doesn't mean it communicates the right thing. So, what is the message sent before somebody actually gets into the material? And I think that's sometimes an overlooked area.

Nile Rodgers

My career has been wacky and not at all normal. I've never had a manager, nobody gets jobs for me. I wind up working with artists that I meet.

Nas

I don't want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I'm not perfect, and I'm just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?

Steve Buscemi

When I get cast, I always flip to the end of the script to see if my character gets beaten up or killed.

Charles Manson

When I go on the mountain and I say "Do it!", it gets done. And if it doesn't get done, then I move on it. And that's the last thing in the world you want from me!

Vincent Simeone

When a tree gets transplanted, its growth slows down because it's in shock.

Matt Winkler

When a team gets into a slump, it seems everyone does. Fortunately, Jake and Jordan stepped up.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Swiss chard is undervalued in Britain. It's a great substitute for spinach and keeps its shape well.

Yotam Ottolenghi

A great ratatouille is one in which the vegetables interact with each other but are still discernible from each other. The trick is to cook them just right: not over, not under.

William Shatner

I love technology. Matches, to light a fire, is really high tech. The wheel is really one of the great inventions of all time. Other than that, I am an ignoramus about technology.

William Shatner

In entertainment, whether it's movies or television or whatever, I'm a great audience, but I don't remember the names of the people I've seen or the groups that I've heard.

Wentworth Miller

I know what it takes to go from the point where someone's looking at a newspaper article, and thinking, 'Oh, this would make a great TV series,' to the point where you're actually on a set and there's a camera aimed at someone.

William Manchester

He was a great thundering paradox of a man.

Wes Anderson

Every time you do a take on a movie, you're not sure if it's going to succeed. Even if you have a great cast, like we had, every scene you're kind of waiting for the release. 'Oh, yes; it happened. We got it!' There's always the possibility that it's just not going to work.

Zubin Mehta

The New York Philharmonic is a tremendous opportunity, a great orchestra.

Abraham Lincoln

I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.

Joshua Foer

We're visual creatures. Probably, when we were hunter gatherers... that was the kind of thing that mattered. And remembering, say, phone numbers was, like, not that important when you're hunting down a mastodon or whatever.

Eddie Izzard

We must have been hunters and gatherers but some of us were just waiters and hopers.

Darren Shan

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." - Harkat Mulds (Hunters of the Dusk)

Toba Beta

If you seek for the supreme predator, then find God. He is the hunter of the killer of mankind himself, the devil.

Dave Edwards

The Hunter has been around for 15 to 16 years,

John Betjeman

Miss J. Hunter Dunn, Miss J. Hunter Dunn,/ Furnish'd and burnish'd by Aldershot sun.

Dennis Jones

This was just too much for the hunters and the guides.

Martina Hingis

Before I was the hunter. Now I'm the hunted.

Joe Kasper

Hunter has for a long time been a proponent of the need to improve our submarine capabilities. Hunter saw the value in the Groton sub base.

Conor Maynard

My parents listened to a lot of music when I was really little. They used to listen to people like Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and I used to be really into that.

Vijay

I liked Michael Jackson and used to practice his steps. I enjoy dancing!

Robert Sanger

Was Michael Jackson ever on a single call?

Doc Rivers

We narrowed it down to Jackson and then Freddie Jones (who would take the last shot). Tony got up into Jackson, which I thought was the right thing to do, and they had to shoot a fade-away shot.

Victor LaValle

It's tough to write beautifully about ugly things, but Mitchell S. Jackson makes it look easy.

Aidan Turner

When you walk onto a Peter Jackson set, you can see straightaway that money isn't an issue.

Kenny Ortega

Whenever you went into any place where there was Michael Jackson footage at Sony, it was like going through Homeland Security.

Danny Fortson

Just because he is Stu Jackson and all that, maybe I am supposed to be scared and not speak my mind. But if I see something that is wrong, and I feel wronged, I am going to speak my mind. As simple as that.

Louis Walsh

Michael Jackson is an inspiration and we are approaching him,

Ellie Goulding

I used to make my manager Jamie not tell me where I was going to be the next day, because I was so afraid of flying and of anything. But now I love flying, I love working hard, I love being around the world.

Diana Gabaldon

That's what marriage is good for; it makes a sacrament out of things ye'd otherwise have to confess. Jamie Fraser

Roger Moore

Well, I spent many years living in Gstaad and still visit there regularly - as my son and his partner Jamie have a restaurant there.

Ron Harris

I suppose you could say he succeeded where Johnny Murtagh and Jamie Spencer failed,

Richard Petty

What's your take on the Jamie McMurray and Kurt Busch deals?

Jeff Marcus

Jamie was literally six steps out from winning the race.

Ozzie Guillen

Jamie can be tough on a lot of guys. It allows me to use my bench, but he can just be tough on hitters. Look at the numbers.

Pam Borton

I thought she was playing scared and tentative. Jamie wasn't getting the job done.

Vivica A. Fox

Going from drama to just straight-up comedy with Tommy Davidson and Jamie Foxx - what a blast.

Clive Thompson

A textbook requires a consistent sense of style and a linear structure, hallmarks of a single authorial presence. An encyclopedia doesn't.

Cheech Marin

Don't ever insult a Chicano about being a Chicano because then all the other Chicanos will be on you with a vengeance. They will even fight each to be first in line to support you.

Jake Ijams

When a new line or product comes out there are problems they have to work out.

Vin Scully

One of my favorite expressions ever uttered by a player is Roy Campanella's line about how, in order to be a major-league player, you have to have a lot of little boy in you.

Jim Hayes

We had a pretty steady stream from the beginning. We only had a line at the beginning, but it's slowed down.

John Stocco

Whereas this summer, we'd line up receivers and run the same route over and over and over and over. And then, we'd switch to the next route and run it over and over.

Nina Easton

The discovery of heroes is rarely linear or obvious. They usually sneak up on you.

Teemu Selanne

We are just playing so well right now, and we have lots of confidence. This team is unbelievable right now. Every line is doing their job.

Reba McEntire

So, I think it has to do with the product and what you take to the public. If they like it, they're going to come see you, and if they don't, and if you're kind of getting out of the trendy line of things, then they won't come see you.

Erik Smith

we had a problem with people posting offensive pictures.

Steve Hutchinson

Walter is undoubtedly one of, if not the top, offensive lineman in the league.

Donny Burnett

We could have rebounded better today. We got out rebounded, especially on the offensive end. They had more second and third opportunities than we did first chances.

Edward Snowden

The internet is the most complex system that humans have ever invented. And with every internet enabled operation that we've seen so far, all of these offensive operations, we see knock on effects. We see unintended consequences.

Clara Kassel

We've been able to run some offensive plays already.

Benjamin Tucker

Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act.

Johnny Thomas

We have to find two offensive lineman to replace those guys. That's a priority.

Luke Babbitt

When your shots don't fall, you just have to go get offensive rebounds and keep working hard.

Bryan McCabe

We know we've got the offensive here. The problem is our play defensively. We get away from it sometimes.

Allan Palmer

The outside (of Hangar 37) has to be restored, and we've got to repaint it and put a new roof on, and make it look like it did in 1941.

Pete Wentz

It's strange - there's a public persona of me that does nothing for me: the side of me where it's 'US Weekly,' where 12 cars sit outside my house because of who I married. That side never shuts off. I would like that to shut off sometimes, yes.

Lin Loring

We practiced outside on (Wednesday), and it went well.

Lillian Bullock

We're like a tag-team. If she's not posting you up, I'm outside shooting the jumper.

Rohit Sharma

You should not remain in your comfort zone; if you want to make it big, you must challenge yourself, get out of your comfort zone, and succeed in doing well outside of your comfort areas.

Baz Luhrmann

I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.

Buddy Trask

We were at the rim, and didn't have to rely on outside shooting and we made the big plays when we had to make them. We always want to make it interesting though.

Chris Boyd

We were trying to live outside regular society three months.

Charles de Lint

I've always been interested in the outsider.

Gus Frerotte

Yeah, that would be nice. That's kind of how it goes, how it should be. The world doesn't stop turning. Eventually, your time runs out.

Jim Tracy

We got the three runs in the third, but we did nothing else. That's all we did.

Alan Trammell

We didn't score any runs. We had opportunities to score runs and we didn't do it. That was it.

Howard Fast

It's been said that I am the most widely read writer of the 20th century. The number of books I've sold runs into untold millions.

O. J. Simpson

We had two runs and we didn't get third.

Rich Falter

We have a little different theory about when teams get runs on us. We like to keep it up tempo and tire teams out.

Rogers Beasley

Water runs right through it. No more sloppy racetracks.

Jon Gruden

That was the play of the game. He runs down on that and just makes an unbelievable effort. There were just a lot of things like that for us today.

Pam Adams

We really should have scored 10 runs in that game.

will.i.am

I read Twitter all the time, even though I rarely tweet.

Tamara Tunie

Even though you're married, you're still individuals. You still have to grow and nurture your individuality.

Nita Ambani

My grandfather was a French professor in Kolkata, though I never met him.

Sandrine Bonnaire

I'm not very eccentric. I wear more conservative clothes, though I do like mini-skirts.

Nathaniel Philbrick

Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'

Chen Guangbiao

Even though I am smiling, I have some suffering in my heart.

Malala Yousafzai

I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

The size of my head though is pretty abnormal.

David Quammen

Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come.

Chuck Feeney

I happen to enjoy grilled cheese and tomato sandwiches.

Rand Hoch

Tom Lynch may not be the only one who could use a sensitivity workshop.

Don Meredith

Tom Landry is a perfectionist. If he was married to Raquel Welch, he'd expect her to cook.

Scott Baio

Tom Bosley may have passed, but through that part and that character, a part of him will live on forever.

Richard Gentles

We'll know tomorrow from the vet if he can be released.

Charles Dickens

At the great iron gate of the churchyard he stopped and looked in. He looked up at the high tower spectrally resisting the wind, and he looked round at the white tombstones, like enough to the dead in their winding-sheets, and he counted the nine tolls of the clock-bell.

Charles Dickens

The cold hoarfrost glistened on the tombstones, and sparkled like rows of gems, among the stone carvings of the old church. The snow lay hard and crisp upon the ground; and spread over the thickly-strewn mounds of earth, so white and smooth a cover, that it seemed as if corpses lay there, hidden only by their winding sheets.

Charles Spurgeon

No one served God by doing things tomorrow.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If we make provision for sinning tomorrow, we will be sinning tomorrow.