Famous Quotes & Sayings

We knew they were on a roll and this is like their Cinderella season. We knew they?d be up for the game and we knew there was a possibility it would be close. We just had to play our game and that?s we did.

Laura Osnes

People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.

Kenneth Branagh

How many times do you read about 'the Cinderella story,' the story of the underdog, the story of the ordinary human being, often subjected to cruelty and ignorance and neglect, who somehow triumphs?

Gail Carson Levine

I had to write something and couldn't think of a plot, so I decided to write a Cinderella story because it already had a plot! Then, when I thought about Cinderella's character, I realized that she was too much of a goody-two-shoes for me, and I would hate her before I finished ten pages.

Harriet Monroe

. . . poetry, 'The Cinderella of the Arts.'

I don't want any of the Cinderella talk.

I felt like Cinderella going to the ball.

I feel like we are stepping out of the Cinderella role. Our record is not really impressive, but .... I guess our record doesn't really count as long as we play as a team and stick together.

We studied many different versions of classic fairy tales from different cultures around the world. We took stories like Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood and studied at least five versions of each so the students could compare and contrast them.

I think we're a Cinderella team, but I think we're just as good as any team out there.

I thought our defensive effort tonight was outstanding. Next week's going to be tough, but if we defend like that and make people uncomfortable, we can make a Cinderella run here, without a doubt.

I thought our defensive effort tonight was outstanding. If we can play defense like that, we can make a Cinderella run here.

We are excited that the DVD launch is happening, and there's a lot of great Cinderella merchandise that's going to be on wish lists this holiday.

Rick Carlisle

We were very much a Cinderella team, and we were able to shock a lot of people in that tournament because we were so well coached and prepared.

We consider ourselves a Cinderella team. But we know we can play with anybody.

I think sunflower has kind of come full circle. It was a Cinderella crop in the late 1970s and early 1980s. But as other crops have had technology - Roundup Ready corn, herbicides and insect resistance - growers have opted for those technologies in lieu of sunflower.

Jesse McCartney

It is not funny or humorous or like a Disney film. It is not a Herbie or a Cinderella Story.

Bonnie Raitt

I was very touched, and very happy that Kelly won. It was such a Cinderella story.

Robert Walker

You know there are going to be Cinderella stories, but you just don't know which teams.

We don't see them as a Cinderella team. We just view them as one of the top 32 teams in the country.

Eva Herzigova

I would like to direct a movie, but not a glossy feature film. I am thinking it would be more like a full-length documentary type of movie about my life. It would definitely be autobiographical. It would be about a girl from the Eastern bloc who makes it in the fashion world. You know, a Cinderella story.

This could be a Cinderella story. It's going to be a tough task.

They are someone we're a little nervous about because they're like us. They're on a Cinderella run. They have as much heart for the game as we do.

Everybody wanted to see us lose. We just had to make the Cinderella story a different outcome than all the ones in the movies.

We felt we had to jump on them early. They were a Cinderella team, and I told them the longer you let them hang around, the more things could go in their favor. We had to get out and squash them.

It sounds like this incredible Cinderella story, ... but it didn't surprise me at all.

Scott Peterson

I told the girls before the game that it would not be our offense that would win the game, it would be our defense. It is like a Cinderella year for us and the girls really deserve it.

Corey Brewer

It is time to kiss Cinderella and send her home.

Russell Crowe

For me, Cinderella Man is the story of how one family survived the Depression,

Ozzie Guillen

I never felt this before, as a player, as a manager, as a coach ? winning the division from the beginning. We're the Cinderella of the playoffs.

They're on a roll. Cinderella is living in East St. Louis.

Billy Donovan

In the NCAA tournament, there are two things people love to see -- a Cinderella story and a team that is so powerful and explosive they look invincible.

Susan Ford

I never read 'The Cinderella Complex' - I'm too afraid that my name might be in it.