Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yingxi Yu

Price dynamics in gold next year will continue to be largely determined by speculative interest, backed by a myriad of justifications like inflationary risks, energy-price led economic slowdown, expectations of a US dollar correction, soaring physical demand, supply-side constraints, hopes of large scale central bank buying and so on.

Mike Degory

Our quarterback position is going to take a lot of criticism, but Chris has been our guy. He has never backed down and he's done a great job.

George Roosevelt

Our officers backed off the chase because of the danger. But the suspects' car ran out of control and hit the house at about 60 (mph).

Kevin Reilly

Some of the best shows on TV start with the perception of controversy, which is usually not an issue if it's backed by quality. The intent with 'The Book of Daniel' is to make a high-quality show that is both highly entertaining and thought-provoking.

Susan Minot

I went to graduate school with zero expectation. I kind of backed into it. I wanted to go back to school because I felt gaps in my literary background. I studied mostly twentieth-century English literature in college, so I thought, 'Maybe I'll go back for my writing.'

Lauren Emerson

Just because we didn't win a championship doesn't mean we didn't have a good season. We never backed down from anything.

Billy Cox

(Jimi) was so into it -- if you listen closely you will see that I stayed on him, ... And when he started 'The Star Spangled Banner,' that impromptu thing, you hear the first four, five, or six notes; I'm in there with him. Then I said, 'Wait a minute, we didn't rehearse this, and it doesn't sound too good with me playing.' I backed away, and he continued and made a classic out of that.

Dick Vermeil

Larry Johnson has already carried the load. He knows he can do it. He just doesn't have a Priest Holmes backing him up like he backed up Priest Holmes.

Carl Jackson

That was very distracting for him. He backed away before hitting his second shot and said, 'Hold on, we've got more golf to play.' I could see where it broke his concentration.

Pat Robertson

(Regarding his prayers to keep Hurricane Gloria away from Virginia Beach) It was 'extremely important because I felt that if I couldn't move a hurricane, I could hardly move a nation

Nancy Lopez

Paula can't wait to get out of the gate. She's ready to play, so I felt playing her first was important. She has not stopped talking about playing in this event. She's excited. I love it. I want her to get out there and do it.

Marty Hickman

Our membership felt that something had to be done to level the playing field.

Kevin Huck

Our motivation was way up. We felt like we needed to come out and prove ourselves.

Charles Ramsey

Suffice it to say it took a few interviews, but we did get the information we felt was important at the time,

Sarah Parker

Suddenly, I felt like I was wearing patchouli in a room full of Chanel.

Rod Argent

Suddenly, and for the first time in all these years, it felt honest and right to include the name 'Zombies' somewhere on the album.

I. Stone

State, repeat. It felt so good. There was, like, five seconds, and I was thinking 'hold the ball.' It felt so good.

Joe Wilhelm

Stanford is the No. 7 team in the nation, and we were with them the whole way. I felt we raced a lot better on Sunday.

Arsene Wenger

Have Tottenham closed the gap on Arsenal? Last time I checked they were still 4 miles and 11 titles away

Rick Sweet

He keeps hitting gaps and running, and he's 30-plus (actually 32) years old. He's the one who told me, 'I guess I'm just getting old.' But it's hard on you with all that running, especially as hot as it is.

John Walsh

There are still huge gaps in the system,

Zach Thomas

He was huge. The guy takes up a lot of gaps and does a great job of getting push. He does a great job of plugging.

Brian Robison

We stayed in the gaps like we were supposed to and put pressure on the quarterback. We didn't see much of that last year, but this year we got after him.

Brian Urlacher

We've just got to be more disciplined. If we get out of our gaps and miss tackles, we're going to get gashed. That happened quite a bit.

Sebastien Loeb

With such gaps between the competitors, there isn't much else to do. We are comfortable and the team says this is how we are going to finish.

Anurag Kashyap

It is very good to bridge the gaps between Indian and international cinema.

Hugh Price

But, on the downside, there are gaps that persist.

David Garrow

It is not surprising in the least that a president from Texas would nominate an SMU graduate to the Supreme Court, ... It would have been surprising for JFK.

John Searles

I think I'm more sympathetic to writers, to the work and the struggle and the craft of it, than when I was in graduate school at NYU and was very judgmental.

Susan Blanchard

If we had a 40,000-square-foot building, it means no graduate student offices, no research space at all.

Jennifer McMahon

I graduated with a B.A. from Goddard College in 1991 and then studied poetry for a year in the M.F.A. in Writing Program at Vermont College.

John Davies

I graduated in June 2005 with a GPA of 3.021.

Edward Hill

I graduated from medical school in 1964 and we had never heard of these different kinds of E coli,

John Glover

I graduated from high school in '62 and I didn't know any people who were gay. I'm sure there were people, but I didn't know any. For years and years, I guess, I was very uptight about being a gay actor. I thought it would make me less hirable.

Vinny Guadagnino

I graduated from CUNY College of Staten Island with a 3.9 GPA in three and a half years.

Samuel Barnett

I have been out of drama school for 13 years, so there are 13 years' worth of graduates behind me.

Horace Engdahl

I think he is unassailable from a literary point of view, ... On the other hand, there may be some people who think he's too established.

Ian Mcewan

Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition.

Aberjhani

Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.

Siri Hustvedt

It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering!

Andrea Hirata

I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text.

Paul Theroux

Japan, Germany, and India seem to me to have serious writers, readers, and book buyers, but the Netherlands has struck me as the most robust literary culture in the world.

Jeffrey Eugenides

One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality.

Ellen Potter

I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much more fun writing kids' books.

Tawni O'Dell

I write literary, not commercial, fiction - or so I've been told by my publishers who are proud I write literary fiction but secretly wish I wrote commercial.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

REFORM, v. A thing that mostly satisfies reformers opposed to reformation.

Sheila Nevins

respect mostly the people on the other side of the camera.

Brian Wheeler

I think people in Albemarle are used to us starting earlier. Mostly they just want to know when that day is.

Dario Fo

I am interested, too, in satirical theater, in the grotesque, or even in tragedy at times, but I am mostly comfortable with comedy.

Quvenzhane Wallis

When I need to cry, I think of very sad things, mostly about animals.

Charlie Siem

I'm always on duty, so I tend to wear suits. I've got double-breasted and single-breasted, mostly dark blues and grays. I'm obsessed with them, and I always have been.

Matt McGorry

I have a background in erotic dancing, but that's mostly just - it's not professional, it's just amateur.

Isabella Rossellini

The first time I went to Hollywood, I was 25 years old. My background was mostly Italian.

Sigmar Polke

Light is a metaphoric thing. There is green light and red light. Then there is black light, which is mostly danger.

Rhys Ifans

Spider-Man is a school boy that's looking for his parents.

Becca Fitzpatrick

The truth is, normal might take years. Normal might never happen. But it’s definitely not going to happen if I lounge around here watching soaps and avoiding life. I’m going to school today, end of story.

Becca Fitzpatrick

For someone who’s made it clear that her life is superior to every other student’s at this school, you sure make it a habit of pursuing every facet of our boring, worthless lives.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You’ve never been to school, ever? If that’s true— and you’re right, I don’t think it is—what made you decide to come this year?” “You....Your eyes, Nora. Those cold, pale gray eyes are surprisingly irresistible.” He tipped his head sideways, as if to study me from a new angle. “And that killer curvy mouth

Becca Fitzpatrick

He inclined his head at my dress. "What's the occasion?" "Homecoming," I said, twirling. "Like?" "Last I heard, Homecoming requires a date." "About that," i hedged. "I'm sort of...going with Scott. We both figure a high-school dance is the last place Hank will be patrolling." Patch smiled, but it was tight. "I take that back. If Hank wants to shoot Scott, he has my blessing.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You’ve never been to school, ever? If that’s true—and you’re right, I don’t think it is—what made you decide to come this year?” “You.

B. F. Skinner

Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?

Joe Green

We never stopped having school, ... Things are going well.

Bill Simmons

When I was in elementary school, we had the kid who threw chairs, the kid who stuttered, and the kid who went to the bathroom on himself ... but we never had the kid who came in one day and started shooting everyone.

Robert Battle

I studied martial arts before I studied dance.

Steven Blair

We've studied this from many perspectives in women and in men, and we get the same answer: It's not the obesity, it's the fitness.

Idina Menzel

Growing up I studied classically and did lots of shows in school.

Flea

I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.

Poe Ballantine

I studied a truckload of true crime, praying for illumination, but most true crime relies on luridness and voyeurism for effect.

Edward Brooke

I never studied much at Howard, but at Boston University, I didn't do much else but study.

Marcelo Balboa

I never really studied the game. I just watched tape of who I had to cover. That was my studying.

Barry Ritholtz

Unlike cheap stocks, inexpensive asset classes have a lower chance of big drawdowns (broad asset classes don't go to zero) and a higher probability of average or better returns.

Billy Corgan

Shave your head, wear a 'ZERO' shirt. Take away your identity. What do you have? You still have yourself.

Carl Paladino

Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?

Pete Domenici

If we can find the offsets we'll go down to zero across-the- board,

Aimee Mann

Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won't put these futures back together. All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn't be enough to bring me back to zero.

Billie Piper

The whole size zero debate is disgusting. My sister, who's 13, looks amazing - but she's already worried about her figure.

Chris Crutcher

Censors can make a case for zero tolerance in language. They can make the argument that since we don't allow our children to use that language in schools, we also shouldn't give them stories in which it is used.

Ayn Rand

A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability, incompetence, suffering, disease, disaster, the lack, the fault, the flaw-the zero.

Cameron Sinclair

Forget your environmental footprint. Think about your ethical footprint. What good is it to build a zero-carbon, energy efficient complex, when the labor producing this architectural gem is unethical at best?