Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Williams

These dissidents contend that all the people in Leisure World are poor, downtrodden, sheepish people who can't protect themselves, ... But the truth of the matter is, a lot of people are just that way because they don't want to get involved. They want to retire in peace.

Alex Figert

This is a real crucial time for our team. It might determine if we contend for a playoff berth at the end of the season, so we just need to focus on getting as many points as possible.

Greg Martin

We had small pockets of weather to contend with in the Northeast and some wind at O'Hare, but overall we got off to a good start.

Victoria Jackson

We have a team that can contend for a national title.

Zach Johnson

Some people thought I'd be on the PGA Tour, that I'd win tournaments, play in majors, contend in majors, win majors. I thought they were crazy.

Mike Scioscia

I don't know if there's any pattern, other than the fact that it looks like the number of teams that are going to contend has expanded because a lot of teams have stepped it up a level.

Kurt Busch

It feels good to get off to a great start. But we're just two races in. I'd like to say that we're a championship contender with the way we ended last year and we'll just try to keep our momentum rolling forward.

Al Cohen

We had a lot to contend with last year after being moved off the turnpike. But we learned a lot.

Paul Menard

Win races and contend for the championship, that's what we want to do.

Rob Neyland

That's where the rubber meets the road in this - the lasting impact.

Atharva Veda

See yourselves in all; See all in yourselves; that is the road to lasting peace and joy.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Michael Redd

I've thought of guys, whether they were here last year or not, and doing something special for them.

Richard Martin

The worker shortage is more severe this year than last and will be more severe next year.

Charles Ward

This is as much snow as we've seen in the last 15 years, and we got it all in one whack.

Richard Yamarone

This is Greenspan?s last hurrah. The swan song for the big guy.

Mike Griffin

This is going to be the last hurrah.

Patty Murray

This is not the last word on this issue,

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.

Raina Telgemeier

I used to rely on black-and-white, and while I was working on 'Smile,' I learned to adapt to color on my end.

Joel Parkinson

I used to be tense or nervous before heats. But I've learned to get rid of the negative stuff and just stay relaxed and positive - and it seems to be working for me.

Jose Canseco

Proof Positive, I'm a very positive person and I've moved on.

Douglas Alexander

The style of politics that Damian McBride represents has been discredited, and Labour has moved on.

Jamie Friedman

The stock moved up pretty quickly, so we changed.

Otis Smith

You want me to tell you that moving Steve was big? I told you that when we moved him.

Anna Kendrick

When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.

Darrell Fox

We already have a shooting range. I don't see where there's enough people (who would use another) that one needs to be moved into a community.

Jay Wright

You get past that first one and now we are in the tournament. We've moved on and I think that makes them feel better, that they can just go play basketball.

Juan Felipe Herrera

What I really had was stories, the oral traditions of my parents. We moved so much that that was really our encyclopedia. A dream world told to me from my parents in the living room.

Tom Daschle

We haven't made progress. We've moved back from progress, ... a half-measure only.

Todd Fischer

You've had all year to do it and, hopefully, it doesn't come down to one tournament.

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.