Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Tiller

We're still a spread offense. We're going to throw it around. We think our tight ends (Charles Davis and Dustin Keller) are talented and we want to get them involved.

Rich Gannon

I am very proud with my association with the Oakland Raiders. I am very thankful to Mr. (Al) Davis (team owner) for giving me that opportunity to play in 1999.

Rich Gannon

I am very proud with my association with the Oakland Raiders, ... I am very thankful to Mr. (Al) Davis (team owner) for giving me that opportunity to play in 1999.

Brad Coker

Basically, Crist and Davis are nominal front-runners. Going in, they are going to be the favorites.

Tommy Haas

France will have to be reckoned with in Davis Cup. We weren't good enough today.

Craig Milburn

Tonight was the most focused I've ever seen Jessica Davis on the mound.

Will Flowers

We had a big first inning and that kind of set the tone. Our young kids just played good, scored and scored early. (Sophomore right-hander) Jacob Davis did a good job of throwing strikes.

Paul Weller

No one told Miles Davis or BB King to pack it in. John Lee Hooker played literally up to the day he died. Why should pop musicians be any different?

Barry Cohen

He's a compassionate guy; he's a person of substance; he's passionate about what he wants for this state. Jim Davis is a nice guy. From my perspective, it takes more than a nice guy to get elected.

Kathleen Blanco

When folks who are desperate are trying to get home, it just makes it more difficult for us to get to folks whose lives are in danger.

Joe Volpe

We are producing more jobs than the labor market has workers for ... we're desperate for immigration,

D. James

We've got a very stern test here. They're going to be a desperate bunch, and that's something they're not used to. We're in the same boat, so it should be a good football game.

Ashleigh Brilliant

I'm not yet desperate enough to do anything about the conditions that are making me desperate.

Willie Mitchell

When you're a desperate team, you do whatever it takes.

William Shakespeare

Desperate times breed desperate measures

Nate Corddry

Coffee shops are everywhere, especially in Los Angeles, chock full of sad sacks desperate to make sure their screenplays make it into the right hands... or any hands, for that matter. The one thing that makes a coffee shop truly great, though, is charm.

Bob Geldof

Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best

Steve Coppell

We were desperate for a left side, and the videos landed in our lap.

Pat Riley

We were a minute and a half away from the Finals -- big deal, ... It's about winning a championship.

Charles Dickens

All partings foreshadow the great final one.

David Rudisha

I missed the final of the World Championships in 2009, but I told the coach I would break the world record in 2010. Which I did. Then in 2011 I won the World Championships and now in 2012 it is the Olympics. That is how I have been working.

Brian Greene

Experimental evidence is the final arbiter of right and wrong.

Rob Catloth

We're looking forward to the finals tomorrow and it should be a good day of racing.

Agnes Kosinski

We're looking forward to the finals ? it should be exciting.

Brian Tracy

In the final analysis, you always get paid for your results.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

Could it be, I wonder, that there is such a thing as a wantologist, someone we can hire to figure out what we want? Have I arrived at some final telling moment in my research on outsourcing intimate parts of our lives, or at the absurdist edge of the market frontier?

Bill Hicks

In the beginning God created the heavans and the earth... see you at the final.

Nina Simmons

We have security stationed in front of the student areas, and we're telling them, Look, guys, here's the plan. We've got to get the visiting team out of here. We know you're going to rush the floor, but here's the path that we want to take to go onto the floor. We're going to open it up to you and just funnel you down this way.

Reggie Bush

What (the offensive line has) been able to do up front has been amazing.

Delroy Lindo

When you're working in front of the camera, there are always things that occur to you after the director has said 'Cut.' I could probably, if I sat down and thought about it, come up with instances where I wished I had made this particular choice or that particular choice.

Jeff Boogaart

When he gets the rebound, it's going the other way quick. Nobody stepped in front so he got all the way down to the goal.

Ryan Jones

We want players who don't give up. We want players who sacrifice everything for the name on the front of the jersey.

Courtney Cassard

We wanted to use the front part on weekends and holidays for recruitment where it would be kind of a lobby where people could go get information about Nicholls.

Troy Glaus

The expectations are great. That means everyone in the front office did their job. Expectations should be relished and enjoyed.

Joe Speed

The reality is that the guys starting in front of him are All-Stars. This is an opportunity for Bucky to go to spring training, play as hard as he can, and try to work his way back to the big leagues.

Dale Earnhardt

There ain't no way you can do that. They'll find a way around it. (Crew chiefs) will find a way around it. We'll find something else to run into each other with if it isn't the front bumper.

Carlos Fuentes

By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word.

C. S. Lewis

Here at last is the thing I was made for.

C. S. Lewis

Ah, poor Pole. It's been to much for her, this last bit. Turned her head, I shouldn't wonder. She's beginning to see things.

Jimmy Johnson

We have to find some speed and turn things around. Thankfully, we had a strong start to the season, so this last month we really didn't have to race our way in. But we've got to find it in a hurry.

Agnetha Faltskog

Abba's last tour was a success but awful for me.

Joe Minucci

We were at the lowest of lows last year. We couldn't get any lower. This year we are looking to make a playoff push, and trying to win the division.

Alan Rudolph

It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one.

Charles Dickens

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

Charles Simmons

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Richard G. Scott

A sense of humor is an escape valve for the pressures of life.

Travis Bradberry

Mistakes and pressure are inevitable; the secret to getting past them is to stay calm.

Frank Chumbley

We are going to have to find out who is going to step up when the pressure is on. We are going to have to find that out real early.

Jan de Bont

It's always an enormous pressure when you do a sequel. The demands are so high, and it's expensive.

Jamie Redknapp

There is pressure every day as a footballer.

Chris Carter

There's always the pressure to make the movie good.

Chris Bosh

Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you do under pressure.

Ben Broussard

We've already got a ton of pressure going out there. We can't start worrying about that we have to win this and we have to win that. We just had to go out there and try to get a run.

Greg Hill

We started putting pressure on them and rotating the ball.

Thomas Keller

ultimately, the system proved instrumental in fostering an undeniably unified restaurant staff.

Ewen Bremner

I've proved to myself I can get along in different kinds of parts and different kinds of productions.

William Davis

When I had money, money, O!My many friends proved all untrue;But now I have no money, O!My friends are real though very few.

William Davis

When I had money, money, O! My many friends proved all untrue; But now I have no money, O! My friends are real though very few.

Lee Hamilton

We're getting better at this. But we still haven't proved we are safe.

Lauren Goodman

More than just being the voice of a generation, Marvin Gaye proved to be its very heartbeat.

Robert Lichter

We thought that nothing could top the O.J. Simpson story and this proved us wrong.

Richard Attias

The symbolic significance of individual athletes' achievements has sometimes proved more productive than the negotiations of diplomats or politicians.

Cathy Clark

He had proved to us over and over he could be trusted, so we didn't question him.

Michelle Gomez

I feel so Scottish when I go abroad, and I'm so proud of it, but for me, it's not a political statement - I just happen to be Scottish.

Robert Louis Stevenson

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.

Denis Law

It was one of those goals that's invariably a goal.

Paul Gallagher

I'm in the facial-hair phase of my career.

Alexander McQueen

I feel more Scottish than Norman.

Gordon Strachan

I've got more important things to think about. I've got a yogurt to finish by today, the expiry date is today.

Andy Murray

I am Scottish. I am also British.

Joey McIntyre

Those English and Scottish know how to do accents.

Jeanette MacDonald

I've been told I have an Irish temper, I know I have Scottish thrift, and, like the English, I love a good show.

Agnes Varda

I'd been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that's part of being shy.

Caroline Kennedy

I'm not as shy as everybody makes me out to be.

Kate Micucci

I'm really shy - I don't do karaoke.

Alan Moore

I'm not a very shy person. I'm just somebody who's got a lot of work and who doesn't like to parade himself in new celebrity contexts.

Al Pacino

I'm so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

Before I started touring, I worked with someone to help me, even physically, because I was so shy. And you can't be shy going onstage. So I had to push myself in a direction that wasn't myself.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life.

Diana Taurasi

I'm not afraid of anyone. I'm not shy about anything. Not even my big nose.

Beyonce Knowles

I was so shy and when my sister was born I found it hard. I was really strange and kind of too quiet.

David Sedaris

My boyfriend got me a computer three years ago. I'll admit it does make things a lot easier. When I was working on a typewriter and I whited out a line, often I would choose a word to go in the space just because it fit. Now I don't have to do that.

Lykke Li

The first thing you do when you get off tour is let off some steam and, you know, have some type of big breakdown.

Lykke Li

I'll always be in some type of turmoil. So what I've tried to do is just surrender to that.

Bob Marley

You're on a positive road. You have some type of direction where you're going, so you have to just keep on going.

Daniel Handler

Never, under any circumstances, let the Virginian wolfsnake near a typewriter.

Craig Ferguson

In the 1970s vampires were pretty boring. The scariest vampire was Count Chocula. One bite of Count Chocula and you were cursed with Type 2 diabetes.

Clive Thompson

Type as quickly as you can and always carry a pencil.

Elizabeth Holmes

With some diseases, like type 2 diabetes, if people get alerted early, they can take steps to avert getting sick.

Billy Bob Thornton

I don't know how to type so I handwrite everything.

Venus Williams

I won Wimbledon because I wanted to be like her in Australia. I just want to be like her. But if she loses, then I'm like, 'Oh, man, now I have to do it.

Venus Williams

I won Wimbledon because I wanted to be like her in Australia,

John Newcombe

I had started my love affair with Wimbledon.

Ivan Lendl

I am not playing Wimbledon because I am allergic to grass.

Richard Krajicek

But, then, Sampras won Wimbledon six times and that automatically puts him among the greatest

John McEnroe

The only thing championship about Wimbledon is its prestige.

Steffi Graf

Grass is a surface I have always loved, Wimbledon is a tournament I have always loved.