I knew that she (Hill) was balling in the first half. I knew that if we could stop her then we would...
LADONA PIERCE Coming into the game, Coach (Six) told me to stop her. We denied the wings really hard, because that...
LADONA PIERCE It was definitely tough. I had to play through it, but I was really tired. It took a lot out of me.
LADONA PIERCE Doctor's orders. I'm sure they'll push up on me a little more to see how healthy I am, but that's OK...
LADONA PIERCE The biggest thing I try to teach her is when and when not to push the ball. She never forces anythin...
LADONA PIERCE I didn't practice, but I had to be there. I have to see practice in case they're putting in new play...
LADONA PIERCE Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion
PIERCE Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
TAMORA PIERCE The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that's rooted thoroughly in somebody looking...
TAMORA PIERCE Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter ...
TAMORA PIERCE We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every ...
TAMORA PIERCE I was nuts for stuff in the Middle Ages when I was just in the third and fourth grades.
TAMORA PIERCE I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third p...
TAMORA PIERCE I love meeting fans. They're always fun, they always have good things to say, smart questions to...
TAMORA PIERCE Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' just rocked my world in the late '80s and early '90s. I ...
TAMORA PIERCE I'm of the Samuel Goldwyn school of writing: If you need to send a message, call Western Union. ...
TAMORA PIERCE Anyone who tells you they don't need to rewrite, they're usually the ones who need it worst.
TAMORA PIERCE You have an audience that is fairly well grounded in the real world. You serve them and yourself bes...
TAMORA PIERCE With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don'...
TAMORA PIERCE If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would ...
TAMORA PIERCE After I recovered from 'Lioness', I wanted to write something about animals because I really...
TAMORA PIERCE What happens to each of my female heroes, certainly, is they find something bigger than themselves t...
TAMORA PIERCE I believe that we haven't begun to understand the many forces that bind the physical world, any ...
TAMORA PIERCE What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achiev...
TAMORA PIERCE My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull...
TAMORA PIERCE One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my chara...
TAMORA PIERCE If you aren't having fun, if you aren't anxious to find out what happens next as you write, ...
TAMORA PIERCE I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
TAMORA PIERCE Teen problem novels? I can go through them like a box of chocolates. And there are fantasy books out...
TAMORA PIERCE I don't write from dreams because I don't remember mine, but I had a fragment of an image le...
TAMORA PIERCE I went to Beijing for the Olympics and was literally right across the track from Usain Bolt. And whe...
WENDELL PIERCE I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and liv...
WENDELL PIERCE We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer.
WENDELL PIERCE It was really great to also see the response that people were having to 'Treme' 'cause y...
WENDELL PIERCE Gregory Hines was the most talented man I've ever met or seen. Gregory Hines is one of those peo...
WENDELL PIERCE One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people...
WENDELL PIERCE New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a ...
WENDELL PIERCE At Julliard we had some voice classes. It was really just so you could carry a tune. It always just ...
WENDELL PIERCE I played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer ...
WENDELL PIERCE 'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud ...
WENDELL PIERCE A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're ...
WENDELL PIERCE The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.
WENDELL PIERCE What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflec...
WENDELL PIERCE The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, w...
WENDELL PIERCE And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and com...
WENDELL PIERCE The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided ...
WENDELL PIERCE Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
WENDELL PIERCE With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.
FRANKLIN PIERCE I have some wonderful suits in my closet, a lovely car, some refined watches.
PIERCE BROSNAN Oh, humiliation is poisonous. It's one of the deepest pains of being human.
PIERCE BROSNAN Daniel Craig is brilliant as Bond: there is no question about that. But it's a different Bond. I...
PIERCE BROSNAN You always bump into politics in life, and as a man, I'm party to a number of environmental issu...
PIERCE BROSNAN There are few colonial nations anymore. Instead, we are colonized by financial institutions beyond o...
CHARLIE PIERCE Movies are somewhat diminished by blockbusters, which are great, but there's not enough choice.
PIERCE BROSNAN Daja: "He and Rosethorn work together? They hate each other."
Lark: "I didn't say they liked i...
TAMORA PIERCE Curiosity killed the cat,” Fesgao remarked, his dark eyes unreadable.
Aly rolled her eyes. Wh...
TAMORA PIERCE Alan, you seem to think we won't like you unless you do things just like everyone else. Have you eve...
TAMORA PIERCE I--buy, and I sell."
"You're a thief.
TAMORA PIERCE George looked at her for a long moment. Finally he replied, "And why do you find it so hard to think...
TAMORA PIERCE Her free hand was clenched in a fist. I held still, waiting for her to say something, to tell me she...
TAMORA PIERCE You're more trouble than you're worth."
"I'm a girl. That's my job.
TAMORA PIERCE This may be my only chance to see humans before these two are made into fertilizer for Moonwind's ro...
TAMORA PIERCE I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war.
PIERCE BROWN Alanna: All I know is that I'm to jump when I'm told and I have no free time.
TAMORA PIERCE The bravest person I know is afraid of the dark. She sleeps with a night lamp always, but if her fri...
TAMORA PIERCE You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brigh...
PIERCE BROWN Photograph is a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than th...
AMBROSE PIERCE From '86 until the summer of last year, wherever I went, people would say, You would have made a gre...
PIERCE BROSNAN It's harder to heal than it is to kill.
TAMORA PIERCE Why do boys say someone acts like a girl as if it were an insult?
TAMORA PIERCE The first thing every mage should learn is that magic makes fools of us. Now you may call yourself a...
TAMORA PIERCE Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.
FRANKLIN PIERCE I'm first and foremost an Irishman, by birth, by nature, by soul, but an American citizen throug...
PIERCE BROSNAN We create our own government. We are responsible for its beauty and for its ugliness. We are respons...
CHARLIE PIERCE Action films can be like watching paint dry. You can just die in the trailer waiting for them to set...
PIERCE BROSNAN 'We, The People' is more than a statement of purpose. It is an acknowledgement of an obligat...
CHARLIE PIERCE Together we are stronger, our voices louder, and the synergy of our actions more powerful. Together ...
PIERCE BROSNAN To my eye, women get sexier around 35. They know a thing or two, and knowledge is always alluring.
PIERCE BROSNAN With such riches as I have in life, you're always nervous. Being Irish, you're waiting for s...
PIERCE BROSNAN I've always looked at independent booksellers in a romantic light.
PIERCE BROWN Life changes when you have a child, when you have your own family. You become more careful about wha...
PAUL PIERCE Gradually, football has seen its appeal slip at the most basic levels. Pediatricians are advising pa...
CHARLIE PIERCE Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, ...
WENDELL PIERCE Love means that everything is right with the world. Love and only love. Love means that you are cont...
PIERCE BROSNAN I'm one of those guys who believes that you need a strong woman in your life.
PIERCE BROSNAN I like dressing in all seasons. Every season has its own character and charm.
PIERCE BROSNAN Ubuntu is about a community coming together to help one another.
PAUL PIERCE Kids get influenced by other kids.
PAUL PIERCE At the beginning of the season, I set my goal to see if I can lead the league in scoring, because I ...
PAUL PIERCE The rim is looking bigger and bigger every game.
PAUL PIERCE I like the Raiders. That's my favorite team.
PAUL PIERCE My favorite quarterback is Donovan McNabb. I think he's a complete quarterback. I love the way h...
PAUL PIERCE 'A Christmas Story' is my favorite Christmas movie.
PAUL PIERCE I'm a competitive player, and I love being on the court. If the NBA cancels the season I'm d...
PAUL PIERCE I've never been in a gang. None of my friends have been in a gang. I've never rolled around ...
PAUL PIERCE I've always been a late bloomer. My body developed late. From ninth to 10th grade, I grew like 3...
PAUL PIERCE I worked at a hospital for a week. And at a golf course when I was in college at Kansas for about a ...
PAUL PIERCE Once people start making comparisons to a player of the past, they want you to be that player. I try...
PAUL PIERCE When you gotta go through something tough, I've always been a guy that just wants to get it out ...
PAUL PIERCE I'm a competitive person. I love the game of basketball. I'm a gym rat.
PAUL PIERCE Just soaking up the history of the Boston Celtics has been the best thing that's happened to me ...
PAUL PIERCE I majored in criminal justice. I like 'CSI,' all that, '24.' I watch those shows on ...
PAUL PIERCE The Celtics don't celebrate anything but championships.
PAUL PIERCE A lot of people that I've had around me have been my closest friends since junior high, back whe...
PAUL PIERCE I think the most important thing I work on is just my mental approach to every day, my mental approa...
PAUL PIERCE My brother was a huge Charles Barkley fan - my brother went to Miami. He played power forward, and h...
PAUL PIERCE When you win a championship, it is a great feeling, and you really don't want that feeling to go...
PAUL PIERCE The game isn't over till the clock says zero.
PAUL PIERCE I probably visualize myself, the shots I'm going to get in the game, how I'm going to play d...
PAUL PIERCE There's a line that separates having confidence and being conceited. I don't cross that line...
PAUL PIERCE I always wanted a little brother because I felt like the little brother had to do everything.
PAUL PIERCE Cancer is a very sad thing, but you can always take something from every experience.
PIERCE BROSNAN Ralon didn't make anyone else put his tack away?" Alex wanted to know. "You didn't see anything stra...
TAMORA PIERCE A bully fights people littler and weaker than he is because he thinks it's fun.
TAMORA PIERCE That’s what Society does—spread the blame so there is no villain
PIERCE BROWN I had planned on coming back to get clothes for the next day, but I couldn't get in the building. It...
BEN PIERCE A lot of the technology stocks may be down lately, but people who have been holding good old blue ch...
BEN PIERCE People tend to do much of their tax planning late in the year.
BEN PIERCE What we try to do is make it easy for people with the financial means and philanthropic interest to ...
BEN PIERCE Personally, I think that the school did a poor job of letting the students know about our situation,...
BEN PIERCE Man cannot be freed by the same injustice that enslaved it.
PIERCE BROWN I told Ersken, "Lately it's been like living on the knife's edge, never knowing which side I'll fall...
TAMORA PIERCE Scary with you is better than scary without you
TAMORA PIERCE I have said to my agents, 'I want to work. I want to play character roles.'
PIERCE BROSNAN Must whales and dolphins be subjected to deafening noise that will cause more than 3.5 million insta...
PIERCE BROSNAN You're always going to have to prove yourself, because acting is such a capricious game.
PIERCE BROSNAN Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.
TAMORA PIERCE Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends
TAMORA PIERCE Words are a weapon stronger than he knows. And songs are even greater. The words wake the mind. The ...
PIERCE BROWN I bet his mother was a wyvern.
-Scamp
TAMORA PIERCE Scummer, pox and wound rot!" roared Tunstall, slamming his fist down on the bed. "Gods cursed the pi...
TAMORA PIERCE Guys ask me when I'm going to be back, and I don't have no answer for them. At the same time, I've g...
ANTONIO PIERCE We've got a lot of quality right now. Get us a defensive tackle and a little more depth, and we'll b...
ANTONIO PIERCE He's revived. He's coming back with a chip on his shoulder.
ANTONIO PIERCE maybe the smartest player we have.
ANTONIO PIERCE Jay's my boy ... He's saved our butt three or four times,
ANTONIO PIERCE That's how serious he is about proving himself. This isn't even about playing with a chip on your sh...
ANTONIO PIERCE We played those guys as tough as anybody at their place. We put ourselves in a position to win, and ...
ANTONIO PIERCE When I first signed here, I was told by Coach Coughlin, the defensive coordinator, everybody, 'We ha...
ANTONIO PIERCE We knock those guys off next week, we might not have the best record in the N.F.C., but we'd have th...
ANTONIO PIERCE It felt real good, ... Just to go out and prove that I can do it week in and week out. Not just to t...
ANTONIO PIERCE The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality i...
CHARLIE PIERCE A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absu...
FRANKLIN PIERCE Bill Clinton was not a symbol. People did not invest in him their idea of what America should be or,...
CHARLIE PIERCE Most important of all, there is no right or wrong way to write - there's only what works for you...
TAMORA PIERCE Sometimes things aren't clear right away. That's where you need to be patient and persevere ...
MARY PIERCE The idea that America elected a black man to be its president forty years after it declined to allow...
CHARLIE PIERCE I was aware that I was not getting the good acting roles because I was either too handsome, too pret...
PIERCE BROSNAN I know what it's like to be famous. It's good money and it's great fun. A real kick in t...
PIERCE BROSNAN A man becomes what he dreams. And I dreamed of being in the movies. I was brought up on Steve McQuee...
PIERCE BROSNAN There's plenty more fish in the sea than Prince Jonathan," he told her softly. "And this particular ...
TAMORA PIERCE Once she was certain, she didn't waiver. I had to make her stop for water or a bite to eat. She obey...
TAMORA PIERCE You must tell Lady Alanna that sometime. I'd do it from a distance.
TAMORA PIERCE Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark.
PIERCE BROWN For all the huffing and blowing we get about rugged individualism, the American spirit and the Ameri...
CHARLIE PIERCE She will not come back, but her beauty, her voice, will echo until the end of time. She believed in ...
PIERCE BROWN Bye, Felicia.
PIERCE BROWN The last few weeks, it?s really come around. Even when I?m not swinging well, my putter will come ar...
BRYAN PIERCE We currently have 18 conservation easements totaling about 1,825 acres. The largest is 700 acres, an...
BRYAN PIERCE People basically want to protect their family land for the future. Basically, they love their land a...
BRYAN PIERCE It's typically not a 'no development' program, it's really a limited development program.
BRYAN PIERCE We have just entered into our new season, with a new producer, a new album and a new label. For me, ...
BRYAN PIERCE I live for the dream that my children will be born free. That they will be what they like. That they...
PIERCE BROWN I am the Reaper and death is my shadow.
PIERCE BROWN Funny thing, watching gods realize they’ve been mortal all along.
PIERCE BROWN The measure of a man is what he does when he has power.
PIERCE BROWN Love and war are two different battlefields.
PIERCE BROWN Oh, poor Chicago. That's a long time ago. You think about a big city like this, and you think there'...
BILLY PIERCE I'm surprised Ozzie hasn't had a nervous breakdown.
BILLY PIERCE They really came through when they had to. That was phenomenal.
BILLY PIERCE We aren't real deep at heavyweight. We needed to be (further) ahead. (Hansen) did a good job.
BILLY PIERCE Over the past 75 years, The Dearborn Inn has served as a shining example of what a great American ho...
BOB PIERCE Memory interface verification is critical in the chip development process. An effective solution mus...
BOB PIERCE If you throw a party in the gated community, and you don't want some people to come, just don't give...
BOB PIERCE Although you should respect venomous snakes and approach them with caution, most snakes you encounte...
BOB PIERCE I would like to play a game or two in Montgomery, like we used to do. It's a beautiful ballpark and,...
BOBBY PIERCE Those are the guys that are throwing well. That's about all we've used consistently so far.
BOBBY PIERCE He's a guy that knows the strike zone well. We'll be giving him more opportunities.
BOBBY PIERCE We're trying to get another bat or two going. We're trying to solidify things and this early, it doe...
BOBBY PIERCE It's a game of inches. The inches just haven't gone our way. I don't think we've played exceptionall...
BOBBY PIERCE You don't want them to be around a bunch of people because then you'll have a whole team infected. B...
BOBBY PIERCE It is a game of inches, but we just couldn't get one to go our way tonight. Still, I am proud of our...
BOBBY PIERCE I never put much stock in preseason polls, especially when it is the first season in a new conferenc...
BOBBY PIERCE I'd say it's a pretty big loss for us. He was well on his way back to pitching for us again.
BOBBY PIERCE I am sure the other coaches in the league had a hard time deciding where to place our players on the...
BOBBY PIERCE She got to her feet and tucked her fingers into her armpits to warm them, glaring at Briar and Parah...
TAMORA PIERCE I'm not so fond of people myself, Evvy, but I took my vows for a reason. There are two classes of pe...
TAMORA PIERCE He doesn't need my help coming up with pranks. He's got too many ideas of his own.
- Daja refer...
TAMORA PIERCE Don't let him upset you," Niko told the four softly. "He's old and he's frightened."
"You're as...
TAMORA PIERCE She glared at him. "Why are you forever asking hard questions?"
He smiled. "Sooner or later you...
TAMORA PIERCE Sometimes there's nothing you can do. [...] Sometimes they don't have enough to fight with.
TAMORA PIERCE At last Niko dropped his hands, and opened his eyes. His perfect tree illusion solidified and settle...
TAMORA PIERCE It was time to work on his trees, to brew medicines and weed the rooftop plants before he forgot who...
TAMORA PIERCE Evvy: "Is she going to eat Jooba-hooba? She looks like she's going to bite him, at least."
Bri...
TAMORA PIERCE Briar: "They never tell you some things. They tell you mages have wonderful power and they learn all...
TAMORA PIERCE Briar: "So I guess I was the last to know."
Rosethorn: "Of course you are. You're a man, aren'...
TAMORA PIERCE The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ou...
FRANKLIN PIERCE Non-ambiguity is the shaping force of reality.
JOSEPH PIERCE Acting allows me to explore new worlds, to discover characters by delving into their lives, and ulti...
PIERCE BROSNAN I have not had any plastic surgery in any shape or form. No implants. And my hair is not dyed.
PIERCE BROSNAN