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A mat on the floor is not good enough.


Patricia McInturff

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If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN Shake off your stiffness and rigidity by sleeping on the mat on the floor.
APURVA GAGLANI Lay down like a floor mat and people will walk on you or stand up for yourself - the choice is yours
JIM GENOVESE What happened is there were feces on the mat. Someone had diarrhea on the mat.
TOM MEIXNER I like Patricia. I LOVE Patricia. Patricia makes COFFEE nervous.
YOU'VE GOT MAIL We're just hoping everyone is healthy enough to get on the floor.
MARK SLOTSVE Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD I was a little superstitious, so it felt good to win on that mat.
MATT LEE The only problem I've had with my Vox wah is its tendency to move around on the floor. So now it...
KIRK HAMMETT If you wake up everyday with hatred for others, then it is time you changed your sleeping position a...
APURVA GAGLANI Dylan's not an extremely vocal kid. His role is when he goes out on the mat, and what he does when h...
BILLY BAKER Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. He has so much going for him. Not just on the mat. I've tried to tell him that athletics is somethin...
JEFF STOVER Jake just made a couple of mistakes and like a good wrestler does, Blanton took advantage of the sit...
JOE FUNDERBURK His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING We all want to trust someone ,but we all think that what we see is real and the truth but if we trul...
GARY F EVANS... Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good...
DOUGLAS HORTON Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good...
DOUG HORTON You can't say enough about him. He's a coach on the floor, he keeps us organized and he's a competit...
BILL VINCENT If something is not good enough, stop doing it.
JONATHAN IVE We had enough guys do enough good things. It's not going to be good enough on Thursday against the R...
BRAD SHAW We don't want to make excuses. Even though those guys are out, we have to put five guys out on the f...
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KAREN SCOTT I know you have it in you, Guy," Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be ter...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman.
SAMUEL JOHNSON I take ballet class as often as possible - up to 5 times a week - and try to go to the gym on the da...
AMANDA SCHULL My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
KAPIL SIBAL A property that is pet-friendly is usually on the ground floor, not on a busy street, and perhaps wi...
AMANDA STURGES Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE In particular, Timmy Stuart, at 103, is really improving quite a bit and doing a good job on the mat...
TONY CANACARI The entire history of their company was basically on the floor. In one office, we were walking on a ...
BOB JACKSON They went a little cold from the floor. And our defense combined with good foul shooting was enough ...
LYNN RIBOLINI Don't ever feel that your not good enough for them, they are the ones not good enough for you
BRANDON WILLIAM BELTHIUS Tim not scoring, he doesn't care. He had six assists and led the team. ... He's unselfish enough to ...
GREGG POPOVICH A pause is good, but it's not enough,
BORIS YELTSIN The crowd was great on both sides of the mat.
RICK BOWERS The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU Not having [Gummersall] on the floor doesn't cause our shots not to go in. Our shots didn't fall, an...
TERI RODGERS Driving round a bend and skidding on a mat of dead toads is very unpleasant for all concerned.
AMANDA HILLIER Eight percent is good but not good enough.
CHRISTINE CULVER Being a man is not enough, being a good man is.
JIM GENOVESE It's not the nineteenth century; I'm not meant to be judged on how good a housekeeper I am. Getting ...
EMILY MATCHAR He's not going to go to the mat for this.
LARRY JACOBS He's a very good player, it's good to see he could make a full recovery and have as good a year as h...
JEFF VAN GUNDY (Lombardi) outwrestled him all over the mat.
BRIAN ARCHIBALD I was married for 30 years. Isn't that enough? I've had my share of dirty underwear on the floor.
MARTHA STEWART The measure of a man is not in how he gets knocked to the mat, it is in how he gets up.
JEPH LOEB All my life I've wanted to tell people I love them. Fear usually held me back, that they wouldn't ca...
PATRICIA GAFFNEY A good job is not good enough here. A good job is 18, 19 wins. Twenty-two wins is a very good job. B...
TOM IZZO What chance combination of shadow and sound and his own thoughts had created it?
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH Andre is our motor. I feel naked when he's not on the floor.
GEORGE KARL They're not allowed to cry. There is no crying. You come on the floor like an athlete, you leave the...
JULIE GOODWIN When he's on the floor, things happen. When he's not on the floor, we just don't have our go-to guy.
DUDLEY ETHERIDGE Going into this game, we don't have any excuses. We have enough to get out on the floor and dress. W...
BILLY DONOVAN It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
CHARLES DU BOS You're bloody insane, Karede," Mat said. "Unfortunately, so am I.
ROBERT JORDAN I've never read a self help book... the most self-help I've read is on a beer mat.
OPHELIA LOVIBOND [On ABC's] This Week, ... too many people in the country are either not old enough for Medicare, ......
PAUL WELLSTONE All the normal people of the ages and generations that contribute to helping and doing their bit for...
GARY F EVANS... The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
MICHAEL KORDA I'm not good enough to flip in and out of my Brit accent to my American accent.
DAMIAN LEWIS Alex is a good leader on the floor. She always keeps her head up whether it's a bad game or not. She...
HEIDI LEIDY We're apparently not good enough for the Republican convention, ... They would rather stay on a floa...
CAROLYN MALONEY Landis is a very good mat wrestler and when he got in that position I knew he would come out with a ...
SKIP PIGHETTI Intention, good or bad, is not enough.
JOHN STEINBECK I'm so excited because every year we've gotten to a different stage. We've feel short with teams tha...
ANDRE PAYNE Can't say enough good things about him. He scores when we need him to score; he passes when we need ...
JARED PHAY I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint;...
STEPHEN KING The hype man's job is to get everybody out of their seats and on the dance floor to have a good ...
FLAVOR FLAV My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. ...
PAUL SIMON We needed to have a good start on both ends of the floor. We wanted to play 94 feet. We didn't want ...
GREGG GRINSTEINNER It's a bounce-back game. I think this team is good enough to move on, but we know Lindbergh is a goo...
DON HOFFMAN I thought our transition game was really good tonight especially in the fourth quarter. Our guards d...
GREG TAYLOR The point on nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sin...
JOAN BAEZ We're not good enough to rely on playing good offense or good defense. We need all three phases.
BRENDON AYANBADEJO Success is like a high-rise building I'm on the first floor. There are a lot of people in the ba...
JUSTIN GUARINI When the ball's on the floor, we're on the floor.
JAMAR NUTTER David's really anxious to get on the mat and get that WPIAL berth.
CHAD ROLAND He's just being patient on the mat and making moves when they're there.
CASEY GRUBBS Pressure is showing on the BMC they want to ban a lot of things and bring down a lot of things. The ...
APURVA GAGLANI It's not often you find freshmen on the varsity. Floor is an area as a team where we are not as stro...
CARLA PETERSON The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest
GEORGE NORMAN DOUGLAS The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good e...
OSCAR WILDE The longer I live, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good ...
OSCAR WILDE The first time he scored on Rico in a match (during practice), he walked off the mat smiling.
ANDY MEDDERS It was really exciting. I was kind of nervous right away, but after a while you get over your nerves...
DYLAN SUCHOCKI Being a nice guy is not good enough to win this campaign.
RICK DAVIS Everybody on the floor was playing hard and when that happens good things will happen.
LIZ GLIEM blackmagic on a person http://www.astrodost.com/how-to-do-black-magic-on-a-person blackmagic on a pe...
ASTRODOST Party's on the first floor, there's nobody on the second floor.
MIKE RYAN Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity.
MICHAEL J. GELB I hate bullies. I hate them. I'm not good enough with words to describe how much I hate them.
ANDREW VACHSS If we can get everybody on the mat, we should do well this year.
MATT GARCIA I see the president's package as the floor, not the ceiling.
TOM DELAY Let God's grace be the mosque, and devotion the prayer mat. Let the Quran be the good conduct.
GURU NANAK You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
JOE E. LEWIS You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
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PATRICIA MACLACHLAN Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I think it's important to remember where I began. I know that when I talk to other writers, say,...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN In a way, my childhood was one long bunch of pages... I read and read and read.
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I never work from an outline, and often I don't know how the story will end.
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and b...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended fam...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I have great editors, and I always have. Somehow, great editors ask the right questions or pose thin...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything ...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I love to talk to children about making mistakes. It's important that I tell them about how I do...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I always doubted myself. I doubted the way I looked, my body, my voice - everything.
PATRICIA KAAS When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
PATRICIA KAAS People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
PATRICIA KAAS When you are 25 or even 30, you can just do things. When you get to 35, things are different. Time i...
PATRICIA KAAS I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after,...
PATRICIA KAAS Sometimes, I wake up and the skies are grey and everything's horrible.
PATRICIA KAAS Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our ent...
PATRICIA IRELAND And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fac...
PATRICIA IRELAND We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would...
PATRICIA IRELAND We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the ...
PATRICIA IRELAND We may be in a tough time right now, but when we are in a tough time is when our movement gets reall...
PATRICIA IRELAND They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney...
PATRICIA IRELAND Bush's choice of Dick Cheney as his running mate is clear confirmation of the policies he would ...
PATRICIA IRELAND I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so m...
PATRICIA IRELAND Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.
PATRICIA IRELAND My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. T...
PATRICIA IRELAND I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to lead...
PATRICIA IRELAND