Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Lehrer

San Francisco is a city of twenty-something millionaire white kids named Doug.

Mark Schmidt

We started off too slow and didn't seem to have our legs. I think they were itching to play because of the time off, and it was hard to get back into it. But give St. Francis credit. They made a run, and we didn't do a good job stopping it.

Alice Cooper

On the last day of school, it's the national anthem. On that day, it's the most popular song on the planet. (Laughs.) I become Francis Scott Key for one day.

Patti Smith

I was studying Francis of Assisi for quite some time, when Benedict was still the pope. And I was studying it for a song that I did for my last album, 'Banga.'

John Sprague

Frank is a very patriotic man. He joined the Sons of the American Revolution late in life. Not because of Francis Scott Key, but because of Frank's great-great-great grandfather, John Ross Key.

Patrick Noonan

I don't think it's over yet. We still have our heads up. St. Francis has to play Driscoll next week.

Rod Scott

I feel like St. Francis will be challenging and a great opportunity for her. Her height and physical size are a plus for her. She has good hands and moves well around the basket.

Alfonso Felder

Of all cities, San Francisco should be able to find a way to keep these theaters.

Adam Timmerman

When you hear that date, it just can't help but jog your memory. You hear 9/11, it just makes you think of what happened. Plus, I think we played San Francisco the first game after 9/11.

C. S. Lewis

Edmund, give a special goodbye to Trumpkin for me. He's been a brick.

Chris Hamilton

We have sat down and done the figures, and the result is that there has been an increase of just under 10-per-cent on last year's sales. We're not up in purely money terms, just on ticket sales, but it's good news for the club.

David Bennett

We have to have a good week of practice. We've got to get back to fundamentals.

Craig Beesley

We have to go up there tomorrow and play good ball.

Mike Thomas

We have to get there, but we should be on our way (to the title game). There's other good teams up there, but we should have a good shot.

Jordan Leopold

We have to get off to a good start. It's one of those things of whoever wants it the most is going to end up getting it.

James Greer

We have to get better at getting through the full-court trap. We had been struggling with that, but we did a good job when we needed it.

Siv Meisingseth

We have normal traffic today and the prospects for tomorrow are good too.

Kay Runge

Whenever you have an urban library, there are parking issues. The good thing about our new location is the nearby ramps.

Doug MacGregor

We have no interest in a name on a masthead. With any partnership, you want the whole to be greater than the sum of the parts.

Bill Buckner

We want it to be a great destination year-round, make it a place to go play and stay.

Dusty Baker

We were trying everything to get him his victory. It was a great run by Greg. The guys wanted to win for him, and we left him in in the ninth to have that opportunity.

Alan Ladd

I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me

Charlie Chaplin

There is greatness in everyone.

Charles Sumner

The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.

Charles de Gaulle

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Charles de Gaulle

France cannot be France without greatness.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Carol Shields

We are too kind, too willing--too unwilling too--reaching out blindly with a grasping hand but not knowing how to ask for what we don't even know we want.

Carlos Castaneda

Your thoughts and your actions are fixed forever in their terms. That is slavery. I, on the other hand, brought you freedom. Freedom is expensive, but the price is not impossible. So, fear your captors, your masters. Don't waste your time and your power fearing me.

Carlos Castaneda

A guardian is broad-minded and understanding. A guard, on the other hand, is a vigilante, narrow-minded and most of the time despotic.

C. S. Lewis

I don't want to hold you hand!

Aaron Tveit

I can clap with one hand.

Alan K. Simpson

It is a travesty, in my mind, for the state and local governments on the one hand to expect the Federal government to reimburse them for costs attributable to illegal immigrants, when on the other hand the State and local governments prohibit their own law enforcement and other officials from cooperating with the Immigration and Naturalization Service to locate or apprehend or expel illegal aliens.

Alan Keyes

Our success or failure is not in the hands of our leaders. It is in our hands.

Charlotte Bronte

I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy." Mr. Rochester

Charlotte Bronte

... and she held out a pretty gold ring. 'Put it,' she said, 'on the fourth finger of my left hand, and I am yours and you are mine; and we shall leave Earth and make our own Heaven yonder.'

Agnes Repplier

We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.

Caitlin Flanagan

I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.

Mark Cuban

I'm scared shitless of heights.

Jamie Bell

I'm still pretty terrified of heights.

Calvin Harris

Reaching the height of 6 ft. 5 in.; I never expected to be that tall. I just shot up.

Edward Gorey

To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.

Edwin Louis Cole

You seek the heights of manhood when you seek the depths of God.

Billy Crystal

I don't like heights. This is why I stopped growing at fifth grade.

Antonio Porchia

My heaviness comes from the heights.

Michael Novak

The universe moves in the direction of Liberty.

John Walls

She is very versatile and moves well. She was tough to stop.

Troy Glaus

With the moves that they made, and things that they've been able to do, this team seems poised to make a run. We're young and very, very talented.

Italo Calvino

Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.

Jeremy Spencer

Give me anything that moves my heart, that gives me goosebumps.

Rob Gronkowski

I feel like when I do some dance moves during the week or at the house, I'm quicker on my feet. I can react quicker just from dancing.

Steve Evans

If this moves forward, you'll see a reigniting of the water wars like you wouldn't believe.

Christine McVie

For Stevie, the words are of prime importance; the song moves around the words, rather than the words moving around the song.

Floyd Skloot

Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, sticks in our memories and minds.

Carol Leifer

There are so many opportunities that I could've gotten before if I had just took a little more of a risk.

Carlos Fuentes

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

Duncan Fletcher

We want to rest Freddie whenever we can. We saw this as an opportunity the other day.

Fran Dunphy

When your opportunity comes, it's not what you do right as much as it's what you don't do wrong.

Abba Eban

Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

Aasif Mandvi

When my family decided to leave England I could not have been happier. I was sort of like - America seemed like the land of opportunity and, you know, it was Hollywood to me.

Alan Stern

Naming celestial objects is usually done by astronomers and professionals. Other people who are interested in space never get the opportunity to do that kind of thing.

Alan Rusbridger

There is this ferocious digital revolution coming along and we're in the teeth of that at the time of maximum economic disruption. There are huge opportunities there. I made the point in my supplementary statement that the Guardian is now a very considerable global player, but there are huge challenges in terms of making, of finding, the convincing business model, so I want to see Guardian journalism continue and thrive, although whether and to what extent that is in print or in digital is a sort of second order matter.

Alan Shepard

So everything turned out fine, and we were given the opportunity to go to Washington and be briefed on the project of man in space, and given the opportunity to choose whether we wanted to get involved or not.

Dan Miller

We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.

Tracy Hickman

One of the wonderful things about Batman is that he is just a man. He doesn't have superpowers or extraordinary powers other than his tremendous intellect and physical prowess.

Mary-Kate Olsen

We did many of our own stunts. We had our hands full. In fact, the roles were physically demanding.

Bill Self

We're still playing better physically than we are mentally.

Twyla Tharp

Who a dancer is physically feeds into character for me. Always has.

Dan DeRose

We're going to try and be physical with the guards.

Jackie Bledsoe

We'll see what we'll do. We would rather run it first, of course, but we may have to throw it. They're pretty physical up front.

Rob Gordon

Since we've been at Eustis, I don't think we've played in a more physical game.

Eric Coleman

Most physical team we'll play all year. In any conference.

Michael Vick

This time it's going to be in different weather conditions. I think that will be a plus for us.

Ron Gardenhire

He did a super job. That'll be a plus for us.

Tim Purpura

He can play all three (outfield) positions, and he runs exceptionally well and has a plus arm, ... He's more of a speed-and-defense type of guy.

Micky Arison

I think that was a big psychological plus for us.

Julia Mancuso

When I travel, I always have about 40 pairs of skis with me, plus a ski technician and a ski coach.

Bob Walsh

I tell them this isn't about me, it's about you. This is your time. I keep telling them not to worry about that stuff, that if we go out and try to keep getting better every game, we'll get 600 plus some.

Hayley Hasselhoff

I've never worn plus size brands, and I never had to because I found what worked for my body type. So my advice is to find what works for you.

Tim Tucker

They're used to winning. Plus they understand the tournament trail.

Tom Richards

This is the first time in three years we've had a jayvee team. It's been a plus for our program.

Jane Addams

We are learning that a standard of social ethics is not attained by travelling a sequestered byway, but by mixing on the thronged and common road where all must turn out for one another, and at least see the size of one another's burdens.

Chris Cooper

It's not the size of the hard drive that counts, it's how you download it.

Jane Goodall

Mainly because as women's education increases all around the planet, we find that family size tends to drop.

Chan Gailey

Size is definitely relative. If you're bigger, they can see you easier.

Delta Burke

Eve wasn't a size 6 and neither am I.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Never underestimate the size and scope of my problems.

Bill Johnson

Sometimes our breakthrough begins when we refuse to be impressed with the size of our problem.

Edwin Moses

I overcame size with mechanics.

Dick Cavett

I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn't include someone the size of the Hindenburg.