Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah Lowe

Rebounding is still something we need to focus on and improve on. More than anything, it's just that continual focus of boxing out.

Edward Walker

Part of the strategy is keeping the rhetoric up to remind the Syrians that they are not out of the box yet and that Lebanese democracy has the full support of the Western powers.

Pierre Littbarski

Our main thing will be to try to keep them away from our goal as they are quite dangerous around the box but I think they are vulnerable in the defensive zone so we will also be trying to go out and score.

Rep. Bucher

People have to realize there is a cost to the low prices at these big box stores like Wal-Mart. These chains get financial incentives to open stores and warehouses here, yet they feed their workers into Medicaid at taxpayers expense.

Joel Edgerton

People love boxing, but you've gotta wait two or three years for your favorite boxer to have a fight.

Laila Ali

People like to see me fight. A name can only take you so far. There are only a few fighters out of the thousands of boxers out there that have name recognition. I'm definitely not upset by that.

Anne Johnson

Stay away from the money box. The money box should be closed.

Mo'Nique

Stand-up keeps you on your toes because it's instant. With TV and movies, you have to wait for the numbers to come in to see what happened at the box office. With stand-up, it's right there, that night, in your face.

Joshua Slocum

Some funeral homes try to guilt families into buying more expensive urns by stamping 'temporary container' on the outside of the cardboard or plastic box that the remains are returned in.

Ron Gardenhire

Rodriguez knew that if he made a mistake, he was going to get hurt. That was the presence we have been searching for. Having him there with a few other guys, there's a presence there that you have to make some pitches. It carries over and that was nice to see.

Josef Albers

Repeated experiments with adjacent colors will show that any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.

Source Unknown

Remember that the faith that moves mountains always carries a pick.

Matt Brown

I think the volunteers are a big key to Greensboro's success over the years. It's one of the most unique things you'll ever see. The people in this community are enthralled with the ACC and it carries over into the NCAA events.

Jon Heacock

That was too many carries this early in the season. He was getting tired in the second half. We've got to be smarter about how we do that this week.

Hugh Johnson

I think everybody knew this before, but this kind of takes it from the back page and moves it to the front page, ... He certainly carries a lot of weight in the market.

David Toms

I think he's got a lot of charisma, carries himself very well. I can just tell by the way he goes about his business, and he obviously can play golf pretty well, too. So he doesn't seem like he's intimidated by what's going on out here at all.

David Toms

I think he's got a lot of charisma, carries himself very well.

Ronnie Brown

I think for Carnell it's been a little tough from the standpoint of coming out of college, me and him splitting time, ... Then to come to a level like this and to have 37 carries and 26 carries on back-to-back weeks, that's pretty tough on your body.

Melanie Balcomb

Rebounding was a huge concern. We worked hard on checking them out and not being able to hurt us on the offensive boards.

Larry Cox

Previously, there was no way for our customers to check on the status of flights from our Web site. Now, our customers have a convenient and fun way to check on flight information without having to scroll through the Web pages of individual airlines.

Larry Coker

Our players have checked in, and we start practice tomorrow. We're very excited about it, but more important, the players are excited. ... Now it's time for practice. It's time for football.

Hugh Johnson

Ordinarily you would expect the stock market to rise or do better, but it's not, and I think the reason it's not is it's being held in check by high oil prices.

Paul Denham

Our local laws officer checked and wrote out the ticket at the rear of the vehicle and placed the ticket from the passenger side on the windscreen,

Jay LaBonte

People have developed a false sense of security when it comes to checks. They feel check fraud is something that happens to someone else.

Paolo Bonaiuti

Such a tiny difference necessitates a scrupulous checking of the counting.

Kim Ens

Stay away from people that are coughing, just like with anything else, or sneezing. And if you're having symptoms go get it checked out.

Gary Orfield

Statistics greatly underestimate dropout rates because they rely on school principals who weren't checking on them. When students disappeared, the principals just wrote them as transfers.

Sam Tilley

Referring the issue to the UN Security Council moves Iran a step closer to possible sanctions, which despite Iran's claims otherwise could lead to Iran halting its oil exports.

S. Walker

Our policy on this mirrors many other states' and there is no intent to prohibit any person from claiming a prize. They simply must have the required identification.

Jim Brady

Passport Health has been a competitor for many years and we are honored that they selected us as the claims management partner for their customers. We are excited about having the opportunity to serve the Passport Health customer base, and look forward to meeting their claims management needs with our comprehensive solution.

Terry Shea

People need to remember, just because the (state) supreme court allows it to go forward, does not mean it's a legitimate claim - they are just allegations.

B. R. Hayden

People have the mindset that we have to claim this land from Mother Nature.

Adam Ereli

Such violence is inconsistent with LTTE claims to be committed to the peace process.

R. W. Apple, Jr.

Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.

Loren Smith

Statistically, it's hard to judge on numbers as low as 100 from year to year. A better yardstick is the overall number of claims that were investigated.

Chuck Cross

Some of these firms claim to be located in Bellevue and Seattle, but we find they're not at the addresses given. Often they're in Canada.

John Nichols

Our media seem to be waiting for Fitzgerald to do all the work. What if during Watergate we left things up to Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox?

Wendell Perkins

Oracle had a nice run and no longer fit our value parameters.

Tom McCabe

People need to know where they fit in. It's a very specific program.

Kaley Cuoco

Staying fit is all about trying to find enjoyment in something physical, because that's the only way you're gonna get results.

Jon Sundvold

Our work the last three weeks has indicated that these two men could potentially be good fits at the University of Missouri.

Jurgen Klinsmann

Physically he is not fully fit at the moment and he urgently needs to win match practice.

Kevin Mawae

We never talked about my contract. He said he wants smart players willing to do the little things the right way. I thought I would be one of those guys, but I didn't fit in their plans.

Paul Maholm

I was a little nervous. I was just trying to learn from all the guys -- knowing I was going to be one of the first ones cut. I just tried to fit in where I could.

Marie Kondo

I will only purchase what fits me. If I want to lose weight, I do that first and then go shopping.

Patty Sheehan

Pat played wonderful pressure golf in front of them.

Bode Miller

People in the U.S. will watch anything if it's put in front of their face over and over again. I like to see what's possible, more than anything.

Richie Sambora

Stand on the stage in front of 15 people or 15,000. Have them look up to you and tell you how wonderful you are, and if you don't think that's a great feeling, okay, then you're unlike me.

Bill Belichick

Some of the things we had problems with the first two weeks I thought we did a little better. I thought the 'fits' were a little better in the front seven.

Evan Walters

Our team seems to produce well in front of a hostile crowd. It just spurs our adrenaline.

Keith Tiemeyer

Our saying this year is we have to take something away from other teams. And that's what we did tonight. If we keep doing all the things we need to do all year long, we're going to keep taking games away from those teams in front of us.

John Conte

Our system of justice is not and should not be a system of frontier justice,

Andy Emanuel

Our three ECC games were all one-goal losses. We still have our goals in front of us in terms of trying to make the state tournament and win the ECC championship.

Ben Wallace

Right now, that's what we're playing for. We're not worried about who they put in front of us or who we've got to play this week or next week. We're just trying to win every game we possibly can.

Afrojack

When I started producing, I was just making music under all different names. 'Black Afro.' 'Super Grandmaster.' 'Mister Bull.' Like, the most stupid, idiotic names. 'Afrojack' was one of those idiotic names.

Aaron Boone

I took it as a frustrated, idiotic comment, especially considering the slop he was throwing up there. I mean, who is Josh Towers?

Miranda Hart

People come up to me and say, 'Can I just thank you for writing my life?' And I reply, 'I'm glad someone else is as idiotic as I am.'

Noam Chomsky

Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.

Mark Twain

All human rules are more or less idiotic.

Richard Ford

Some idiotic things are well worth doing.

Jack McGuire

Our logistics worked well generally, up until 2005. We couldn't imagine how something that big and complicated could happen. It took a process that worked OK and stretched it, and we got to see all the cracks.

Mike McLaughlin

People have put just about anything you can imagine on top of landfills.

Julie Daum

Some have made more money than they expected. Some have been merged out of a job. Some have been as successful as they could have imagined and feel it's time to move to the next phase of their lives.

Romesh Gunesekera

People who read fiction are different from other people because they are people who are interested in an imagined world.

John Schuerholz

I think it's obvious. If he doesn't do what he's doing for us, I can only imagine where we'd be. I can't imagine a player on a winning team being more valuable to his team than he's been.

Sarah Frazier

I was trying to imagine what a train would look like if it ran into a pig.

Jose Ramos

I thought I had made it. I never imagined I would be here marching.

Derek Brown

Just about any industry you can imagine is going to be impacted in some way,

Paul Gebhardt

I don't imagine I would be disqualified, but there can be time or monetary penalties.

Jennifer Taylor

People have had that old mentality that (child care) is just like a baby-sitting service.

Saeb Erekat

start thinking in the mentality of a partner.

Steve Erickson

Overall I think I'm playing a lot better. I've worked a lot more this year and I'm more confident. I'm mentally stronger.

Nicole Vaidisova

Physically I was well, mentally I was well. I just never got into my rhythm.

Shane Montgomery

Most of the pressure we saw Saturday we had seen before. We just had some mental breakdowns. You see that sometimes in your first game.

Aaron Glenn

I think this team is mentally strong enough to overcome it. We have to.

Rafael Benitez

We need a new mentality in the Premier League, especially away from home, and when we have that, things will be much better for sure.

Cameron van der Burgh

I think the mental victory is worth it as much as a gold medal.

Bud Black

That was the nerves of his first major-league start. Everything speeded up on him. The next time, he realized, 'That's not me. That's not who I am.' It was a whole different mentality from the minute he got to the ballpark. He warmed up better, he was focused, he was concentrated.

Ryan Murphy

Our motto this week just has to be 'Finish. When we get in the red zone, we have to score points. If we score points, it's a completely different ballgame.

Kyle McLaren

Just shoot the puck whenever you get a chance. It's been my motto for 10 years.

Al Capone

Public service is my motto.

Albert Schweitzer

You ask me for a motto. Here it is: SERVICE.

Dante Alighieri

Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. [Omnes relinquite spes, o vos intrantes]

Rudolph Valentino

What is your motto Mr. Valentino? Live and Let Live.

Amy Poehler

That is the motto women should constantly repeat over and over again. 'Good for her! Not for me.'

Janice Dickinson

What's my motto when it comes to money? Don't put so much emphasis on it!

Ayumi Hamasaki

Of course, my motto is still, 'Work is work, private is private.

William Giles

Surprise, the stuff that news is made of.

Alan Clarke

Overall, this reinforces signs that we have seen the worst news on UK activity.

Bill Evans

Our 5 and 11 p.m. news had their strongest performance since we signed on.

Michelle Williams

I went to sleep with the news every night,

Robert Green

It is a small piece of encouraging news for the week ahead.

Billy McNeill

It is a small consolation to know that he has been spared a lot more pain and suffering but today we feel very sad at his passing. It is devastating news for everyone.

Randol Schoenberg

The arbitrators wanted us to keep it confidential, but the news leaked.

Roy Williams

That's the kind of news we like to hear.

Dan Anderson

I was watching the news a lot on TV, and was just kind of struck by how, it seemed like every hour, something worse was happening,

Robert Collins

passersby would actually notice that there was something there.

Jonathan Plucker

People notice things like cutbacks. They do notice, even if they don't have school-aged children. They really are paying attention.

Jorge Ramos

I will go to a nice restaurant in Miami, and no one sitting at the tables will notice me or even know who I am. Then everyone in the kitchen comes out and wants to take a picture.

J. Taylor

Just enough time to say 'Hi,' wave and notice he was passing.

Cillian Murphy

That was the first time people noticed me in the U.S..

David Sullivan

That was the first time people actually noticed her, and why, I don't know. She has been playing this tough for two years.

Dave Lewis

I wish I had noticed the teammate's number so I could tell you his name. He is a true American hero.

Adam Nelson

I didn't notice the rain. I thought it was sunny all day long.

Gus Frerotte

I didn't notice Keith Traylor that much in Denver.

Noah Cowan

Just tell your readers they can come down and see anything and it should be good,

Lee Siegel

The Web critic relies on his or her readers for attentiveness and approval.

Christina Baker Kline

I think a lot of readers are looking for a book they can talk about.

Sarah MacLean

There is a whole generation of romance readers and writers who suffer from what I like to think of as 'Thorn Birds' Fever.

Khaled Hosseini

Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

Binyavanga Wainaina

I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether it's with Africa or childhood.

Barbara Park

There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.

Amy Bloom

I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb.

Dionne Bromfield

The papers are only going to show what they want the readers to see. It's all propaganda, to be honest.

John Barrett

That's usually the consumer's way of saying they're not interested.

Scott Simms

I think this is what we expected, ultimately. We didn't do anything wrong -- that's what we've been saying all along.

Frank MacKay

It doesn't have any basis. It's like me saying they're Martians; it's silly.

Hal McManus

I'm so tired of saying 'box out' that I'm sick of it. I think I say 'box out' in my sleep.

Herman Edwards

I don't even know, ... I'm not trying to start a quarterback controversy and say who the quarterback is. Anything is possible. But I'm not saying we're switching, I'm not saying that.

M. Wolfe

I was like 'Why am I saying not guilty?' ... I thought I had to or something. It was the wrong decision.

Earl Hamner

I can't get used to saying the words, 'my biographer,'

Joe Wooden

Just like the old saying goes, "Vasser's boon-doggling again.

Richie Benaud

If it was me, I probably wouldn't be saying anything.

Italian Proverb

It is better to wear out one's shoes than one's sheets

Michael Allen

We put up sheets here so they can have their privacy,

Jeff Davidson

When plywood starts to go up to $23 a sheet ... that's a lot of dollars.

Debra Moore

We have the sheets where you can see on each side of her where it spilled over. The sheets were a maroon color, so it's real obvious.

Sandra Dee

I used to sign vouchers and sign-out sheets with 'Alexandra Dee.' Somehow it stuck.

Roger McNamee

They started out in a world of spread sheets and word processors,

Jimmy Hoffa

We never had any silk sheets in our family...

Ryan Murphy

I love crispy, cool sheets.

Scott Weiland

I can't read sheet music, I have to just listen to it, and then just go for it.

Shellie Samuels

Sure they were suspicious that night. No question! They're cops. That's their job,

Bubba Scott

Sure it's nerve-wracking when it's so close. But you get used to them and compete.

Peter Jacobsen

Sure I do. After all, I know Tonya Harding.

Genderen Stort

Resettlement for sure has become more difficult. They don't see the pressing need any more.

David Fox

I'm here to make sure we get things resolved.

Dave Shoji

I think they just wanted to get some confidence. I'm sure he wanted to see better play out of his starters.

Brian Levy

I think there will be a place for him in this league. I'm not sure where it will be.

John Carey

That was a time when they weren't really sure if things were going to come together, ... And they sure did!

Starhawk Starhawk

That would be great, but I am not so sure it will be that easy.

Joe Glenn

Steamboat, the bucking horse, is the symbol for our state,

Arthur Hardy

I think Mardi Gras is a symbol that we're down but not out.

Lisa Mendler

Helen is a symbol of the tenacity of our people.

Paul Tagliabue

He was mythic. He symbolizes football, and, more importantly, he symbolizes leadership.

Alfred Korzybski

Who rules our symbols, rules us.

A. E. Waite

The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.

Winston Scott

This symbolizes a whole new way of doing business.

David Mamet

The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.

Allen Ginsberg

Things are symbols of themselves.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

I was 11 years old and horse-obsessed. New York City was an unfortunate place for a girl like me to be growing up.

Aileen Quinn

I will always be a New York girl at heart, but I am really liking the L.A. lifestyle.

Rachel Tucker

Living in New York for 10 months was incredible; it was everything I thought it was going to be and more.

Peter Thiel

I worked at a law firm in New York very briefly.

Gina Rodriguez

I can live in L.A. as a struggling artist. I cannot live in New York as a struggling artist.

Jim Sims

He wanted it to feel romantic, seductive-elegant like a place you'd see in New York magazine.

Antonio Sabato, Jr.

I'm a Laker fan, always have been. And the New York Yankees, for sure.

Josh Pais

I live mostly in New York, but I teach in both New York and L.A.

Cathy Elkies

For us, it was really about the story of the Plaza. It is such a New York institution.