Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dick Vermeil

Regardless of what excuse we want to make, we have to do a better job of getting the ball to Tony Gonzalez 's hands. He set an all-time record in the history of the National Football League with 102 catches last year and I'm certainly not going to panic because he's not at that pace right now.

April Horace

Regardless of the outcome, this is still the first inning of a very long ball game.

Ebenezer Ekuban

Regardless of how they started last week passing the ball, their motto is: We're going to hurt you with the run and we're going to pound, pound, pound. And eventually you'll succumb to all that pounding. ... You've got to get on top of them early, man. If you get on top of them early, their running game is nonexistent. They're going to have to pass the ball to catch up to you.

Joe Masleh

Regan Mooney stepped up big time for us in the first half with 12 points while Ryan and Rayne were struggling. Ball handling, rebounds. That was a very big help. Usually when Ryan and Rayne struggle, no one steps up. She took it upon herself. And Mary Kate Brady hit the boards, scored 10 points. That's what has to happen. The other kids have to step up.

Eric Johnson

Refinancing is necessary because the current financing is short term with a very large balloon payment that no community would be in a position to meet.

Dan Smith

Rebecca normally moves the ball so we thought we had a pretty good shot because she normally hits the ball somewhere.

Dan Silverthorn

Rehabilitating this facility is a great investment for us -- the facility itself is of tremendous value to TransPORT and the region, and a great location for our first port development -- it puts us in a whole new ball game.

Mike Sewak

Reggie was so open that all you could say was get the ball to him.

Carmelo Anthony

Reggie is a (great) block-out guy and Ruben will go down there and battle. Sometimes, the ball just seems to fall right in my hands.

Lois Perrin

From the outside, it looks fine. It's strikingly gorgeous. But that's what is deceiving about it.

Dustin Lanz

He was our go-to guy. He was the main focus and with someone so dominant, we had to get it to him. He went by guys who were slower, and he was pretty much a power guy. He's just super-athletic - it's deceiving how quick he is.

Bible Bible

Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons

Ned Yost

Looks are deceiving at times. Sometimes, they're not.

Agatha Christie

I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.

Aesop

Appearances are deceiving.

Bram Stoker

And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere 'modernity' cannot kill.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that ... begins by deceiving others, will end ... by deceiving himself.

George Shultz

If there are ways in which we can make Qaddafi nervous, why shouldn't we? That is not deceiving you, but just using your predictable tendencies to report things that we try to keep secret.

Paul Nocito

St. Anthony's was one of the better shooting teams we have faced this year.

Jason Bay

Roger wasn't as sharp as the other times we've faced him,

Ned Yost

Rodriguez was really good today. The last time we faced him he was just OK.

Richard Tischler

Playing a quality team like Marietta really boosted our guys up. We had four tough games that started (Tuesday) with Marietta, and Marietta was a measuring stick for us and the toughest team we faced so far.

Holly Cartner

It is a violation of international law to return people to a place where they will be persecuted and tortured. Kazakh officials had an obligation to know the risk these men faced if returned, but sent them back anyway.

Gary Shaw

Jeff is not looking past Robin Reid. Reid is the stiffest test Jeff Lacy will have faced in his 19-0 career.

Mick Stefanek

That was a really good team that we faced tonight. It's a tough loss, but I'm very proud of these kids and of the great season that we had.

John Winn

That's the premise that we have followed in redirecting administrative funds to problem areas, as opposed to some of the more Draconian measures we were faced with.

Jeff Suppan

Last year I faced them a lot, so I think that prepares me for this year,

Brendan Wilders

Overall, my putative numbers will come down just slightly.

Tony Batista

I'm here, that's what I can say. I know for sure the numbers are going to come. You just have to wait, but I know at the end of the season the numbers are going to be there.

Barry McCaffrey

So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.

Barry McGuire

You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.

B. F. Skinner

If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

It could be argued that, in Thailand, many foreigners have come and gone, and the number of people who are considered to be Thai have traveled abroad in a great number.

C. S. Lewis

The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection.

C. S. Lewis

The Intelligentsia (scientists apart) are losing all touch with, and all influence over, nearly the whole human race. Our most esteemed poets and critics are read by our most esteemed critics and poets (who don't usually like them much) and nobody else takes any notice. An increasing number of highly literate people simply ignore what the 'Highbrows' are doing. It says nothing to them. The Highbrows in return ignore and insult them.

Cecelia Ahern

Age is just a number, not a state of mind or a reason for any type of particular behaviour.

Ken Hibbard

Our pitching was good. We just didn't hit.

Larry Beinfest

Our pitching staff was strong, and we've seen the progression here to the big leagues. Tankersley's progression has been excellent.

Curtis Eccles

Our pitching just wasn't there tonight. We're still getting better, still trying to improve. There are some first and third situations that got away from us.

Bobby Cox

Our pitching isn't where it should be and where it will be. And it's the same with the pitching we've faced. It's been a strange week.

Phil Garner

Our pitching has been good. You can't say that enough.

Wayne Vickery

Our pitching has been better than I think even we thought it would be right now.

Derek Karcich

Our strengths will be our pitching and speed.

Chris Ross

Our starting pitching was erratic, and we got in a hole.

Derrick Landrus

Pitching should be one of our strengths. We have a lot of depth.

Becca Fitzpatrick

My first job entailed spending a summer working in a cornfield in Nebraska.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Jev stroked his chin. "Do I look like a summer fling?

Becca Fitzpatrick

She looked up, her face pink as a Christmas ham. “You ever try chasing down a car?” she gasped. “I’ll one-up you. I gave Scott my hot dog and asked if he’d go to Summer Solstice with me.” “What does the hot dog have to do with anything?” “I said he’d be a wiener if he didn’t go with me.” Vee wheezed laughter. “I’d have run harder had I known I’d get to see you call him a wiener.

Barry Lopez

Watching the animals come and go, and feeling the land swell up to meet them and then feeling it grow still at their departure, I came to think of the migrations as breath, as the land breathing. In spring a great inhalation of light and animals. The long-bated breath of summer. And an exhalation that propelled them all south in the fall.

Carrie Brownstein

As a kid, before I got into music, I did all the drama classes, went to theater camp in the summers, so it wasn't totally a foreign world.

Carl Sagan

Quickly capping 363 oil well fires in a war zone is impossible. The fires would burn out of control until they put themselves out... The resulting soot might well stretch over all of South Asia... It could be carried around the world... [and] the consequences could be dire. Beneath such a pall sunlight would be dimmed, temperatures lowered and droughts more frequent. Spring and summer frosts may be expected... This endangerment of the food supplies... appears to be likely enough that it should affect the war plans...

Carl Sagan

We invest far off places with a certain romance... Long summers, mild winters, rich harvests, plentiful game; none of them lasts for ever. Your own life, or your bands, or even your species - might be owed to a restless few, drawn by a craving they can hardly articulate or understand, to undiscovered lands, and new worlds.

Bill Bryson

For a long time, I'd been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in the same summer.

Bill Bryson

Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain--which is to say, all of it. Every last bit of it, good and bad--old churches, country lanes, people saying 'Mustn't grumble,' and 'I'm terribly sorry but,' people apologizing to ME when I conk them with a careless elbow, milk in bottles, beans on toast, haymaking in June, seaside piers, Ordnance Survey maps, tea and crumpets, summer showers and foggy winter evenings--every bit of it.