Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Duwel

The boys competition I think is a lot more of a level playing field. And I think the fact that we won last year was just a tribute to the boys stepping up and racing. I don't think anybody thought we were going to win that.

Kev Reynolds

Autumn is a fabulous time. The walking is great, the snows haven't really started to descend then, there's hardly anybody about, wildlife is abundant.

Lloyd Carr

At some point he will be considered with the very, very best offensive linemen that have ever played here and that's high praise. He is so talented athletically and he is so tough mentally. For anybody who was going to start a football team, Jake Long would be a great place to start.

Ogden Nash

Bankers are just like anybody else, except richer

Freddie Leathers

Bardstown is really on a roll right now. They're playing as well as anybody in the region. We had things going the way we wanted early in the game, but they are just so athletic and quick that the game just changed like that.

Heidi Deery

Baker is the type of player, that even if you do keep her to 15 points, she can distribute the ball better than anybody I've seen in girls basketball.

Geoff Blum

Bags and Biggio. Anybody who stays with one team that long and puts that kind of investment into a city deserves to represent that city and that team in the World Series.

David Rosenberg

A year ago, 'deflation' was dripping off everybody's lips. Today, core inflation is off its low, but it's about the same as it was a year ago, yet all anybody can talk about is how far the Fed will hike.

Jim Tracy

Back in May, when the Padres went something like 22-6, they had a chance to slam the door, throw the lock around the handle and close it off for everybody else. And it didn't happen. So it's not a matter of anybody putting on any type of serious charge thus far, it's a matter of teams just winning some games here and there.

Kris Alexander

As far as track meets, it's by far the best meet in the state.

Charles Bofferding

As engineers, we have a different perspective. If a company really wants to get its product to be the best in all areas, then it must listen to all sides. A union is the best vehicle to carry the engineers' perspective.

Chris Widger

As far as him quitting, I hope not, I'd like to come back here next year, but he has to do whatever's best for him, best for his family and best for his health.

Michael Carty

As far as Harley-Davidson goes, it makes a great product. It's got one of the best bikes in the world, ... It's, I think, leading motorcycle sales. It does restaurants. It does clothing. It's diversified and it's a winner.

Chucky Atkins

A shorter rotation is to be expected. Every team and every coach does that. Every team wants its seven or eight best out there.

Mike Sweeney

As far as stuff goes, that's the best stuff we've seen all year. I think he's only given up one or two runs all year and he showed us why -- he was on top of his game tonight.

Joe McCarthy

As far as somebody that's crafty with the ball, he's probably the best we've seen so far.

Orpheus Roye

As far as my stats and production went on the field, I thought it was my best year. I felt really good at the end of the season with the system. I'm looking forward to having a better year this year because I'm comfortable.

Ryan Kolb

As far as knowing the plays we've been running, we're as prepared as we're going to be. We'll take it one game at a time, one period at a time. We set goals for each period and that works best for us.

Taylor Dane

The moral of the story is that with each person justice is served, but what is justice at the end of the day when my brains are blown out anyway?

Rod Lurie

I've been a huge fan of Steven Bochco's for over two decades. I'm blown away excited to see how much more he will electrify 'Commander In Chief,'

Sebastian Coe

Sacrifice is going to war for your country. Sacrifice is a brave young man being blown up by a landmine in Afghanistan.

Jeff Pendergraph

You only get blown out if you stand there and let people punch you and you don't fight back. That's what happened to us.

Elliot Ackerman

There are these moments in the military where you're present at these enormous intersections of history and humanity. I came out of the end of that, and I just wanted to write. If you do it well, you know it will last. It can't get blown away like everything else.

Simon Power

There are some pretty rotten things going on in our prisons. We've seen prisoners sleeping in vans, a big increase in smuggling contraband into prisons, we've heard the suggestion that criminals should be prison guards, seen budgets blown and prisoners accessing violent movies.

Steven Blair

We have a public health problem of overweight and obesity, but it's been blown out of proportion, ... We focus on obesity and not on other health habits and other risk factors.

Jeff Stoughton

You hate to lose any game, but I don't mind getting blown out because it's a little easier. You're more relaxed, at least when you know the end should be near.

Craig Wilson

What are you going to yell and scream about? Maybe you can say, 'Hey, you guys are playing hard!' I mean, obviously, our record isn't what we'd like it to be. At the same time, we're still going out there and staying in every game. It's not like we're getting blown out of the water.

Tasnim Aslam

As far as Pakistan is concerned we are ready to open crossing points on the five designated places at the Line of Control (LoC) on Monday.

Mechai Viravaidya

As far as my part of the world is concerned there's not even a tree,

Robert Craig

As far as I'm concerned Paul deserves the right to continue what he's doing,

John Reade

As far as we're concerned the tour is going on,

Stephane Dujarric

As far as we're concerned the planning is going ahead. We're talking to the AU.

Richard Shelton

As a poet I am not primarily concerned with intellect. I'm not that smart. I want to make people laugh and cry.

Cynthia Lorenzo

As always, we're concerned with a safe and nurturing environment to help the youth in our care.

Bob Dole

As Americans, we need to be concerned not only about another humanitarian tragedy for the Kurds of Iraq, but also about the potential resurgence of Saddam Hussein as a menace to the peace and stability of this vital region,

Gavin DeGraw

As I've played for a wider variety of audiences, I've become more concerned with showing them a good time, ... I hope that when they leave, they feel like they got something different, and that it was worth it to come out on their time off, when they have to work the whole rest of the week. Now that I'm on the road all the time, time off is more valuable to me. So I figure I'd better make it worth their time.

Pam Euton

In my mind, all three of those girls are deserving to be Player of the Year. All of them have been valuable in different ways.

Mike Fuller

I'm so proud to see him on the all-district list. Michael is very deserving of it. He's not the fastest or strongest player out there, but he makes the plays. He uses his mind, and he did things the way they're supposed to be done. He just loves to play, and it's very rewarding to see someone like that get honored.

Miles D. White

People come to a company like Abbott sometimes and think, 'It's so big, I can't make a difference.' I think just the opposite. I think everybody can make a difference.

Julian Lee

The tendency (is) once prices start to rise, for everybody to open the tap a little bit.

Don Waddell

The oldest guy in the tournament was one of our better players. Unfortunately not everybody had the jump that he had. If we did, we'd probably be talking about something differently.

David Chokachi

After about two weeks, you realize everybody's human, and everybody puts their pants on the same way.

Spanish Proverb

A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody

LeBron James

After a great win like that, you don't want everyone to scatter. I wanted to get everybody together and let them know that we are all in.

Bud Boudreaux

After Frances, everybody around here was seasoned veterans. If a third hurricane had hit us, we would have restored power within three days. And after a fourth one, we would have snapped fingers and the lights would come on.

Bruce Moore

After everybody had taken pictures and gone I went up and put my hand on his shoulder, kind of looking at him in the eye, and I realized he's a hero to me,

Theodore Roosevelt

The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Paul Gregg

As far as Wayne Rooney's concerned, I am pleased to inform you that he reported for training at the start of the season on Monday,

Randy Julander

As far as water supply is concerned, we're looking at a great year.

Frank Culbertson

As far as waiting or going, you can't wait on the ground for something else to happen. It looks like the situation is stable.

Tim Allen

As far as trucking in snow, we don't have the money.

Kevin Atticks

As far as tourists, (Worcester County) can't be beat.

Jim Dyke

As far as this week is concerned, you've seen this process move forward and that's important, and you have learned more about her judicial philosophy and her qualifications and her experiences, all important considerations for senators.

Kate Ziegler

As far as the world record goes, it still seems so far away from me, ... As far as the world championships . . . I'm just so happy how it's gone.

Shantel Rivard

As far as the type of goals that went in, she wasn't looking sharp.

Tony Stewart

As far as the to-do list is concerned, it's the No. 1 thing. The last two years, I've led enough laps to win the whole race outright.

Bobby Clark

A tie on the road at Michigan State wasn't the worst result. It's not going to hurt us if we can take something out these three games.

Bob Rose

Northwest is hurting. They're hurting themselves, and they're hurting the passengers.

Matt Brown

No shots were fired, and no one got hurt,

Dan Sieger

Delphi is really important for us. If it runs into problems, it could hurt us, too.

Bill Boyd

Dec. 6 when we played them it was a nightmare for us. We didn't play well. It hurt our kids. To our kids' credit, they bounced back from that.

George H. W. Bush

are not just unfair, they are unsound and would hurt the American economy.

Kip Carpenter

The starter is really hurting people. You're supposed to be down for 1 1/2, 2 seconds at the most. When you're down for 2 1/2, 3 seconds, it's a tough position. I tripped up and it just got my timing off.

Ricky Davis

The second quarter hurt us. They jumped out to a 12-14-point lead and we just couldn't get it back.

Julio Cesar

The target was not reached and all we have left is a big hurt,

John Grammer

As coaches, we tell the players to make plays and that's what they did. We made some big plays to win at the end, especially Derek Carver.

Don Baylor

I've always viewed it like this: If you take that player away from the team, where does it finish?

Sydnee Wyss

I've always been the smallest player on my team. I'm just used to it. I don't think about it anymore.

Chris Avellone

The most important thing in games isn't the designer's narrative, but the story the player creates through his experiences.

Mark Franke

So the player tells the stewardess he didn't get enough to eat, either, and where was his $20.

John Fox

Sometimes players don't like to be reminded of their mistakes, at least not right away.

John Nash

Ruben's a very unusual player. I don't know that I've ever been around a player like him before.

Cheryl Burnett

Purdue has some players that, in the time of need, are really going to step up and want the basketball.

Rick Barnes

I've never seen players take so much pride in their schoolwork.

Aravind Adiga

Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.

Carson McCullers

That was the best of all. To speak the truth and be attended.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.

Arianna Huffington

Failure is not the opposite to success, it's a stepping stone to success. If our primary goal is to be approved of, then we are not going to take risks, we are not going to speak out, we are going to try to blend in.

Craig Ferguson

That's here on CBS, where the 'C' stands for 'Classy' and the 'BS' speaks for itself.

Arthur Schopenhauer

We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.

Elie Wiesel

John XXI was a very great pope and he's the one who actually corrected the liturgy. He did so because of his friend Jules Isaac, a French Jewish historian who was a friend of John Paul, of John 23rd, and he convinced him and he changed the liturgy, no more Jew, the perfidious Jew and so forth and now, and don't speak any more of the Jews killing Christ. Things have changed.

Dave Pelzer

There's a lot of Dave mania when I speak.

Carine Roitfeld

To see yourself on the big screen, you're big, you hate your voice, your vocabulary. You say the same words, you speak bad.

Albert Einstein

If I can't picture it, I can't understand it.

Maurice Chevalier

Considering the alternative. . . it's not too bad at all.

John Ralston Saul

I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good statistics.

Michael Crichton

Theories are just fantasies. And they change.

Hippocrates

And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.

Bertrand Russell

Zeno was concerned with three problems... These are the problem of the infinitesimal, the infinite, and continuity.

H. G. Wells

Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture....

Horace

We are just statistics, born to consume resources.

Hannah Arendt

Every thought is an afterthought.