Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlotte Bronte

It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment.

Ransom Antoine

When we were up by 10, I thought we had it, but we couldn't get it together. We had the mental lapse that we normally have.

Jay Christie

We really have to chock this one up to a lapse in procedures.

Ben Gordon

We can't come out and have all these lapses. If they get two, at worst we're going into overtime. It was just a mental lapse on our part.

Alice Stewart

The first priority is to make sure the people have what they need and that there is not a lapse in their coverage.

Steve Burtt

You can't get flustered. They were right picking us as the first team in the conference. We have the pieces to the puzzle to put this thing together. We just had a lapse tonight.

Tom Hollander

If you're actually being paid to be miserable, and to be as miserable as you can be, that's a very fortunate thing, if you're prone to occasional lapses of spirit.

Vijender Singh

I have prepared myself to be at my peak in London. But in the Olympics, there are so many factors. You need to stay alert all the time, and a lapse of concentration, even for a second, will let you down.

Carre Otis

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

Carol Roth

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Carol Kane

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

Carol Kane

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

Carol Leifer

They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

Carol Shields

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Carol Moseley Braun

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.

Carol Moseley Braun

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

Carlos Beltran

I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do.

Vince Carter

We want to play team defense, regardless (of what Iverson does). A.I. can get his points. The priority is to win the game.

Gary Thomas

When we got priority through downtown, it pushed us into a comfortable ranking.

Ajay Kumar

Security of Salem will be our top priority when he comes to Delhi.

Diane Nelson

We're going to help DC feel like more of an important priority in Warner Bros.

Mike Claffey

We've taken that on because it's a priority for safety reasons.

Steve Squyres

For Spirit, the priority has been to reach a safe winter haven.

Augustin Matata Ponyo

I have been busy working in order to make agriculture a priority sector not on a small scale, but into an agro-based industry.

Bob Menendez

My first priority is growing this economy in the long term, and stimulating it in the short term.

Alan Gustafson

We need to respect the red flag. The No. 1 priority in that situation is safety to other people, and that's what we got away from.

Abby Wambach

I'm not sure if I'm going to get into coaching. I'm sure I'll stay in soccer somehow.

Rick Adelman

We're just trying to make sure somebody's on him all the time.

Brooke Adams

With this one I just want to make sure it was OK.

Larry Bloom

When he has time off, he isn't really sure what to do with it. He's a little lost.

Veronica Corpuz

We're going to try and work through this to make sure no more productions will be canceled or postponed.

I. Stone

What we're really trying to do is to make sure when they get to kindergarten, they are better prepared, because for many of them, there is nothing until they get to kindergarten.

Jamie Shea

When we are sure what happened, we will tell you what happened.

John Small

She didn't do the crime, but she sure can do the thyme!

Mike Holmgren

Let's just wait on that and make sure what's written and what's said is correct.