Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Lemmon

As always, our first concerns are for protection of people and our environment. With this in mind, we continue to work closely with the electric utilities as they re-establish service in Mississippi,

Mark Johnson

That was a close call, but it was the right one. There was never any doubt that (Byrd) won that match.

Steven Ross

Our customers are going to be shut out with all the closed streets.

Gilberto Madail

Of those 12 cases, there was a response to only one, and that response was to close it for lack of proof.

Rick Hendrick

The momentum and the talent we have going into this year, we have never worked this close together, I'm really excited about this year.

George Arroyo

During the four years I have coached Caitlin, I have seen no players with even close to her speed. She can control the ball, take it away from other players and stop impossible shots.

Kirk Hinrich

Defensively, we were nowhere close to being good enough. That's what we're supposed to be?a defensive team. We just didn't have it tonight.

Kevin Donley

Defensively, they pinched inside to close off running lanes, and did a great job in coverage. Offensively, Emmert is a very gifted athlete, who gets away and makes plays when you think you've got him.

Cameron Bennerman

Coach always teaches us on defense to close out with a high hand and take away that shot. If you're on offense, if a defender doesn't do that, then you're at liberty to shoot the 3. It's just confidence.

Joey Skaggs

As a news story, I'm just a subject, not a person. My early performances were provocative, so I was stereotypically portrayed as a counter-cultural figure by the mainstream media.

Keith Newman

Defensively, I think we've got to get off to a better start than what we have. I think we've got to go out there and set the tone early in the game.

Cilla Black

There's a whole generation out there who don't know that I was a pop singer in the early days.

Jake Shields

I've only seen two of his fights, and it was hard to get a feel for him because he had his man on the ground most of the time. I'm going to have to feel him out early on and see what he's got.

Brian Jones

The September report was taken too early to get the full effect.

W. S. Gilbert

The wickets will be similar to what the players will face early in the season at the SCG,

Frances Gulland

These are top-level predators. Like us, they eat anchovies, squid, salmon and mussels. They are sentinels for human health, because they share our ecosystems and prey. We may see impacts in sea lions before people - they could be an early warning.

Mike Schmidt

This is as early as I've ever seen it get this wild.

John Jackson

This is going to be the province of tech geeks, your early adopter. It's a niche play, not a volume play.

Larry Garza

As for me, I'm single, and it hurts me 'cause he's not here and he won't be able to see his grandchildren grow up. He was always proud of his three sons finishing college, growing up and providing for themselves.

Lori Nelson

As a company, we're more focused on finishing Red Rock Resort than any of our future projects.

Joe Krabbenhoft

Ray finished it off with those free throws like I knew he would. I'm just glad I could help the team's goal of sending Ray out on a good note at home.

John Oliver

People really have come for a dialogue when they go to a stand-up show in the U.K. They say, 'I understand that you have now finished your little comedy monologue; now I have something to say regarding what I've just heard.

Tom Chicantek

Cody had a nice overall season, finishing with a 17-11 record.

Wally Buono

The teams that finished at the low end of the totem pole, they'll get the impact players. If you're picking where we are, they're going to be gone.

Luis Aragones

The three teams are complicated. They've finished second so they must be. All three are dangerous.

Linda Cardellini

After I finished 'E.R.', I wanted to concentrate on re-examining what kind of actress I am and taking time for real-life things.

Sheryl Swoopes

Somebody said to me, 'Well, you went in at halftime and you had nine assists, and you only finished with 10,'

Michael Bennet

Often times, political games prevent senators from even beginning to debate some of the most important issues.

Eric Bagley

The Montpelier-U-32 game is always a tough game. They're going to come out and play as hard as they can.

Andre Muse

Defensively, we really tried to shut them down. They have troubles scoring in the half-court offense, so we tried to slow the tempo of the game down.

Lauri Hakala

Defensively, he reads the game better than any other libero. He's very technical and he's very good all-around. He can pass all kinds of serves. He doesn't have any weaknesses that stand out so nobody can go after him.

Tony Parker

Definitely. It was tough in overtime. Maybe we ran out of gas. But we should've won the game before that. We had it.

Chris Gardocki

Cole is old enough that he'll be able to remember this when he gets older. Being able to take him into the locker room after the game was really cool.

Nykesha Sales

Any win on the road, when it's a three game series, is important,

Skip Harlicka

An indescribable feeling. I had never been involved in a game like that. Just 16 months before I had been in high school.

Jim Calhoun

And the Elvin Hayes-Jabbar game at the Astrodome, that was something I was thinking about for days.

Gary Carr

It was a long day. But the girls learned a lot and they're trying to find their way.

Edward Herrmann

I like sunny stories. You know, my favorite girls in the '50s were Debbie Reynolds, Doris Day, and Esther Williams.

Marianne Bretschneider

We've talked about it in the past. We've had some girls who are up 6-0 and then the next thing you know it's 7-5. Now they're starting to really put it together.

Jeremy Burk

The only way to go from here is up, and all the girls agree. We've got a great squad and all of the girls are very experienced at golf.

Thomas Kelly

We've had a shutout every game, so I think that shows the kind of intensity the girls have shown every game.

Carl Mattei

We've had a run where we've played a lot of ranked teams, but we haven't run into a team as physical as Highlands Ranch. We're happy we won the league, but you don't really want to go into the postseason with a loss. But maybe it will help because the girls won't want to feel that same hurt for the next six or seven games.

Bob Black

We've had a rivalry with them for a long time. We've been gunning for this for years. The girls were ready and they worked real hard all year.

Sam Powell

We've had some girls really step up and that's let us rotate a little deeper.

Jennifer Zimmerman

We'll have to improve in the medley to get to finals. But the girls have had a great week, and I think they can do it.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Mark Rodgers

As long as we stick to issues and keep it civil, this (announcement) should be a good thing for our party.

David Wright

As long as we get these big two-out hits and keep scoring runs late like this, we're going to be in good shape.

Ron Zook

A specialist worked with him and we feel very good about him,

Bob Jones

As long as everyone uses good microphone etiquette, it should go fine.

Jim Rash

As long as a teaser saves some things, that's good.

Carlos Ghosn

As long as it is a good investment for Renault, we'll stay.

Jim Cummings

As long as it comes across, the characters are well-served, the stories are good, and people like it, that's it for me. I'm a happy guy.

Kurt Thomas

As long as I set a good pick and roll, get to the open spot, it's about me knocking down the shot. He knows when to find you.

Peja Stojakovic

Probably I won't be available. My knee is still hurting. Hopefully we can get it better.

Jim Bolla

Officially, all we're saying is she's suspended right now. It's day-to-day, and hopefully when we get to Reno, we can get some things resolved one way or the other.

Dave Roberts

The more interesting we make this, the more I'll have to try to push the envelope. But hopefully it doesn't come to that.

Kirk Pedersen

Right now we are struggling a little big with our relay teams. We are going to work on those and hopefully get them to run a little better.

E. Hicks

It was unfortunate that we didn't play well on a national stage, but hopefully we can turn all that frustration on the Eagles.

Shane Murphy

I've been saying we're a work in progress, and there's still improving to do. Hopefully we can keep getting better and get to where we want to be.

Tim Frisby

This is a start. Hopefully I'll get more this season,

William Henderson

This is the first time and hopefully the last time I'll have to do that.

Bill Bunting

That's what we're looking for, hopefully less taxes and less government.

Robert Jackson

People take liberties and one thing leads to another,

Yuriko Koike

Sometimes a political leader needs to be so stubborn that he would not move a little,

Michael McCord

Saint Clair has kind of taken the lead on this." ()

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Prosperity often leads to pride, which leads to sin.

Michael Panzner

You normally don't find new leadership until you get washouts and corrections.

Babe Ruth

The most important thing that a young athlete must do it pick the right sport. Not one that they like just a little bit, but one that they love. Because,if they don't really love their sport, they won't work as hard as they should. Me? I loved to hit.

Arthur Ashe

We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities.

Brian Tracy

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.

Jan Schakowsky

The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.

Goran Persson

A nice person who I've learned to appreciate.

Caroll Spinney

I've learned to say, 'I'm a friend of Big Bird. He even taught me how to sound like him.'

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I've learned to lose with a smile on my face. That's what the Oscar teaches you.

Scott Eyre

I've become a better pitcher because I've learned to economize.

Russ Ortiz

After I sat down and thought about it, I learned a lot about the game, about myself.

Tom DeLay

some things that we've learned and when we do it again, we'll probably be better at it.

Ozzie Guillen

Now I learned a lesson. I never thought I was going to do that, and it's ugly because I know a lot of people have taken the first shot at me, and I come back real strong.

Bradlee Pelt

I don't think it ticks him off anymore. I think Jake has learned to program critics, the media in general.

John Connell

Obviously, we're playing a high-quality team. It's not something you can practice for. We learned a lot today.

David Taras

He's pre-empting any opponents by saying he's already leaving,

Neal Stephenson

Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor.

Caroline Wozniacki

There are so many tough opponents out there and tough competitors so I've never liked to look ahead.

Laurie Helgoe

I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan.

Debbie Ryan

We just went cold. We have a tendency to do that.

Sasha Roiz

I have this tendency to play these horrible, horrible characters.

Brett Ratner

When I was 13, Eddie Murphy was to me what Chris Tucker was to 13-year-olds when I made 'Rush Hour.' And 'Rush Hour' really came out of the fact that I grew up watching 'Beverly Hills Cop' and '48 Hrs.'

Brett Ratner

I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.

Brandon Sanderson

People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN'T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort.

Ayn Rand

He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning...

Benjamin Cardozo

The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more.

Benjamin Cardozo

More truly characteristic of dissent is a dignity, an elevation, of mood and thought and phrase. Deep conviction and warm feeling are saying their last say with knowledge that the cause is lost. The voice of the majority may be that of force triumphant, content with the plaudits of the hour, and recking little of the morrow. The dissenter speaks to the future, and his voice is pitched to a key that will carry through the years.

Benito Mussolini

If I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep!

Brad Paisley

Willie Nelson, out there 200 days a year, calls his band family. And it is.

Brad Pitt

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all