Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isabel Gillies

I dropped off my kids from 10 to 2, went to the library, and just wrote. This is my second career - I'm 41 - and I'm a terrible speller.

I think the meet went better than planned. Most dropped time. Some who weren't even tapered for sectionals dropped time.

Some of the things they're recommending were hot issues in the 1990s, and they were dropped after being pushed by predecessors of mine very strongly and just didn't get anywhere.

Robert Morley

Names were not so much dropped as thrown in a perpetual game of catch.

I was very pleased with how we swam. A lot of swimmers dropped time and showed they could handle (the pressure of) big meets.

I think she was dropped off but we don't know by who. Her story is really inconsistent. We are trying to get information out of her but she's shutting down.

Caitlin Rose

I went to community college for about a year but I'd started taking music seriously by then so I dropped out.

We're seeing hotels with occupancies that have dropped maybe 20 or 30 percentage points,

Three games ago (in Winnipeg), we probably dropped about three (passes) that could have helped us,

Mavis Staples

I sang with my father for over 50 years, and now all of a sudden he's gone, and I just dropped out.

Some people are like cats - if they're dropped upside down, they land on their feet. I get a little irritated about stories like that.

You always have to be happy with a second place. I just tried to run steady as the early leaders dropped off. When he passed me, I knew there was no way I'd get him.

Yesterday, you had a relief rally because the price of oil dropped so much, but I'm not sure how much of a factor that's going to be in the short-term. Prices are still near $40 a barrel, and the trend for the time being is up.

That would have helped if we would've made that play. He just dropped it, it looked like to me.

That was probably the key to the victory. Every time they dropped back to pass he was getting harassed. Those guys up front dominated.

I was pretty horrified about what I was seeing. So I looked up and started screaming at the guy, and that's why I dropped the camera.

I was pleased that he dropped the pass and we went right back to him and he got in sync.

I was originally going to run the 100, the 220 and the 440. But there were going to be heats for the event and I didn't think I could run all three with all the heats without being exhausted. So I dropped the 220, which I probably could have won and ran the 440. As it turned out, had I won the 220 as well, I would have won the team state championship by myself.

Mike Miller

Where we used to do 10,000 (skiers) a year, we dropped down to 7,000 last year.

we dropped Mack as a named defendant for the time being, subject to some understandings we reached with his counsel.

We dropped her down to the 400 once we saw the wind howling from the north to see if we could get a little speed work in. We were hesitating on that decision, because we were going to try to do something really special today (in the 800).

We dropped fly balls. I think my shortstop missed six or seven balls. We didn't show up ready to play, they did. They played well. We did not.

It dropped right on the line, just like I wanted.

Compensation increases for CEOs, while far exceeding those for other employees, have dropped from the heady levels found in last year's survey.

As he sort of went down, two of them sort of dropped on to him to hold him down, and the other one fired. I heard five shots.

Ken Hitchcock

Our energy just dropped right off the board. Our energy just went down the tubes and we've got to figure out a way to recover.

On the way down I actually got to see what it was like from an aerial view, and it was just destruction...it pretty much dropped my jaw,

Normally I probably wouldn't have been too sad about that record. It's the way we went 3-3. We started off 3-0, then dropped three to end it. For a lot of guys last year, it was a new experience. You can have a loss or setback and still do well enough to win your conference.

Enforcement levels have dropped so low that boosting them has become very easy.

Lance Armstrong

EPO is a powerful drug, ... Some say it makes you 10 percent faster. Let's say I took EPO in 1999 and didn't take it from 2000 to 2005. My performance never dropped off. Obviously, I'm not saying I did. But I only got faster.

Quinn was wrestling very well up until that point, dropped his hips and got in trouble.

Purdue is in the process of rebuilding their program after they dropped it for a year. This really wasn't a tough match, but I was happy with how the shooters responded and posted near some of their personal bests. This match gave us an opportunity to take a look at some of our other shooters.

Productivity hasn't met the high hopes held out for it and, as a result, has pretty much dropped off the radar screen for economy watchers.