Top 1200 Grand Slam Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I don't want to slam the cute and fun movies out there, but it gets old.

Every man who has a calling to minister to the inhabitants of the world was ordained to that very purpose in the Grand Council of heaven before this world was. I suppose I was ordained to this very office in that Grand Council.

I used slam dunking as a tool for intimidation.

Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.

I think probably Wimbledon is my best chance to win a slam.

It may be that the requirement of a preliminary approval by the Grand Jury, of all accusations of a serious nature, justified the boast that a man was presumed to be innocent until he was 'found' guilty; but that presumption certainly ceased to have practical application, so soon as the Grand Jury had returned a 'true bill'.

When you walk through that door of opportunity you don't slam it shut behind you.

It's a joke how tough it is to win a Slam.

I think the ideal job in that alternative universe would be to lead whitewater rafting trips through the Grand Canyon. So maybe I'd be a guy leading whitewater rafting trips at the Grand Canyon. Or maybe a professional skydiver.

I believed there was enough evidence to go to trial. Grand jury said there wasn't. Okay, fine. Do I have a right to disagree with the grand jury? Many Americans believe O.J. Simpson was guilty. A jury said he wasn't. So I have as much right to question a jury as they do. Does it make somebody a racist? No! They just disagreed with the jury. So did I.

When I lost the Wimbledon 2012 final, I didn't know if I'd ever win a slam.

I don't slam doors in people's faces, and I'm not a bigot.

I couldn't care less if the guy I'm guarding has HIV. I'm going to slam him anyway.

I get very cranky when interrupted. I snap at people, sigh dramatically and slam my door shut.

Honestly so much money gets taken for taxes from contest winnings that you have to be smart with it. People think that because I won 200 grand, I actually got 200 grand, but a big chunk of that gets taken out. You have to be very smart with your money.

He didn't slam the door, didn't rage, didn't weep, he simply left.

You slam the bottom and either walk away or suck it up and get through it.

To attain the rank of grand master of memory, you must be able to perform three seemingly superhuman feats. You have to memorize 1,000 digits in under an hour, the precise order of 10 shuffled decks of playing cards in the same amount of time, and one shuffled deck in less than two minutes. There are 36 grand masters of memory in the world.

I saw an amazing film when I was 16 called 'Slam'. It's about a spoken-word poet. Saul Williams is in it.

In Ireland, the tribes are called after the founder, as the Hy Conaill, Hy Fiachra, or sons of Conal, sons of Fiech, through grand, great-grand, and great-great-grandchildren.

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

Some Brexiteers are passionate defenders of the benefits of immigration. Others just can't wait to slam the doors shut.

I like the Slam Dunk contest when it's good.

Ain't nothing but 10 grand. What's 10 grand to me?

When you're at a certain point in your time - age, that is, when you're older - you start to realize that, actually, what you leave behind you does count, and so you start to become fundamentally aware of your own destiny, which sounds very grand. It's not grand at all, actually.

There is no grand strategy. My sensibilities push me in a certain direction. Other actors have different sensibilities. That's all. I think it really is that simple. There's no grand strategy. There are so many variables that I have no control over. I sign on to movies I want to watch, as a fan.

My studio practice is a - I suppose a bit more like [Thomas] Gainsborough or [Peter Paul] Rubens in the sense that any artist who wants to create a grand narrative on a grand scale has to sort of parse out some of the smaller aspects of painting or the more mundane aspects of painting to others.

When crazy comes knocking at the door, you gotta slam it shut.

No one wants a default, or to slam the door in the IMF's face.

Municipal networks expand economic opportunities. We've got to open new doors, not slam them shut.

When I was a kid, my favorite event was the Slam Dunk Contest.

I came out the back of the building and I was hollering, 'I've sung on the Grand Ole Opry! I've sung on the Grand Ole Opry!'

I've never launched any initiative or campaign that people thought was a slam dunk.

I'm not a big sports fan, but I love it when they 'slam dunk.' That's sexy.

It doesn't matter who's under the basket, I'm going to try to slam or block the shot.

Just take the lack of presence of F1 in the United States. In theory - and logically - you would have an East Coast Grand Prix, a West Coast Grand Prix, and I think you should have a street race in Detroit - it is still the motor capital of the US. You stay in the US for four weeks and could have two to three races, certainly two.

I think people's interpretation of a body slam is different than the techniques.

Dude did you come here to lecture or to fight? BRING IT ON." -Slam Dunk

Halloween will be a slam-dunk for merchants despite the weakening consumer spending trends.

The main event is freedom. I often wonder if I had the complete freedom to not have to write, if I would write. That's the one mystery that I hope I get to experience. It might be a good idea to retire, since as this delusion of an economy progresses, it seems that if you make ten grand a year or a hundred grand a year, there's absolutely no difference.

When you’ve worked hard and done well and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you.

This world will slam doors in your face at every opportunity. Be willing to employ a foot when necessary.

One of my favorite scenes in Fellini is the ecclesiastical fashion show in Roma, and the end of 8 ½, when all the characters in the life of Guido, Marcello Mastroianni, get together and do this grand procession. That was on my mind, especially at the 45th anniversary, when all those characters in Valentino's life returned to Rome. I kept watching that and saying, if only we can arrange that grand procession at the end...and it kind of happened.

It's a slam-dunk case!

I'm going to build my own slam.

The Grand Ole Opry was my favorite. That's when I got to discover the stuff inside the Grand Ole Opry, like Hank Williams' clothes, the dressing room Taylor Swift stayed in and some other things. Then I got to perform.

I don't care when people use the term 'one-Slam wonder' with me.

I like to stand and bang with people. If they mess up, I'm gonna slam them.

If we fixed a hangnail the way our government fixes the economy, we'd slam a car door on it.

If you hear Thelonious Monk play a run that goes from the top of the piano, OK, he has opened up the Grand Canyon with that. He's the river that's carved this entire space that we call the Grand Canyon. He does that with one run. He lets you know, like, what the possibility of the sound of the piano can do.

I ain't no joke, I used to let the mic smoke, Now I slam it when I'm done and make sure it's broke.

Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character.

To keep up appearances, I stomp my room and slam the door.

I'm not a big sports fan, but I love it when they "slam dunk." That's sexy.

You're a grand old flag! You're a high-flying flag, And forever in peace may you wave. You're the emblem of the land I love, The home of the free and the brave. Ev'ry heart beats true 'Neath the Red, White and Blue,' Where there's never a boast or brag. But should auld acquaintance be forgot, Keep your eye on the grand old flag.

Books about technology start-ups have a pattern. First, there's the grand vision of the founders, then the heroic journey of producing new worlds from all-night coding and caffeine abuse, and finally, the grand finale: immense wealth and secular sainthood. Let's call it the Jobs Narrative.

If you can't slam with the best, then jam with the rest.

There was years when my father didn't even make a hundred grand - or barely made a hundred grand - and sure, we had a maid, but she only came twice a week. What do you think happened the other five days? You think those dishes washed themselves? You think those clothes got themselves in the hamper?

Someday, in the distant future, our grand-children' s grand-children will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge.

[On the 1982 intruder into her bedroom:] I realized immediately that it wasn't a servant because they don't slam doors.