Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lucius Thomas

The bottom line is, if the service pay works, the constable with 15 years' service won't be too worried about promotion because it will put him above the young man who is promoted to sergeant.

Carrie Graf

Our aim was to try to keep our head above water. Unfortunately, our head was under water. But we went blue in the face, we came up for air and we're going OK now. We've learned to swim.

Lin Wood

Despite their threats and assertions to the contrary, the AJC, its attorneys and its employees are not above the law and the authority of the court,

Matthew Parry

Despite our belief that crude prices will slowly trend down over the remainder of the year, further escalation in the U.N.-Iran standoff could quite conceivably send oil to a new record above $70.

Martin Charnin

'Annie' was a comic strip with an awful lot of information in it. It had more information in the balloons above the characters than practically any other comic strip that was around. The strip told tales instead of jokes.

Ameen Rihani

An idealist is ahead of his time only in the sense that he is articulate. The same is true of a nation. For even primitive people, even effete races have a message for those above or below them. The heritage of the Ideal, however small can not be exhausted.

Josh Bernoff

Any strategy that gets a message to rise above the clutter is terrific from the advertiser's perspective. Even if it's not much of a secret, it's still a pretty good marketing idea.

Darren Ward

The subscriber growth is above market expectations. The fact that they've done it in a way they can reiterate their margin guidance rather than have to soften it further is reassuring.

Ken Goldstein

The strong signal from the indicators means that the recession could be over soon. Three successive monthly increases, each larger than the one before, bring the level of the leading series above the pre-recession peak.

Hugh Johnson

The stuff that worked in the fourth quarter and the first part of this year isn't working any more, like Internet stocks, large-cap tech stocks, and other large-cap names.

Pete Carroll

I've never understood how two-thirds of the thing can vote for you one way and one third can knock you into fourth place. It looks like it should be third, third, third, but that's my simple math.

Ozzie Guillen

I've only been thrown out four times in my career, not my managing career. If I get tossed from the game, I think I let the team down. If a manager is not there in a playoff game I think you lose the respect of your team. I need my players and my players need me.

Dan Spellman

The second and fourth quarter, we didn't shoot all that well. Defensively, we did a real nice job.

Doug Johnson

I've been here four years now, ... and I know this offense. I know what needs to be done. We'll still be a contender. I don't feel any different today than I did yesterday. I was a leader on this team before this happened and I'm going to be a leader now.

Mike Falbo

This is not at all like fourth quarter of last year.

Mark Murray

This is something that's been in the works for three or four months and frankly, it only represents a tiny fraction of Internet users.

Terri Mitchell

All-American players go from four points in the first half to 20.

Brett Ratner

You can't show a four-hour movie in a theater, really.

Lisa Randall

Harvard freshmen are smart, interested, and excited, and it's fun hearing their different perspectives and stuff that they will share.

Steve Woll

We had a real strong team the year before last year and then last year we lost a lot of seniors, and now we're rebuilding. This year we have 10 freshmen so we are rebuilding even more.

Clint Johnson

The reason for that was, the season before I got there, it was the first year freshmen could play. All those stats that had been collected, those people had been playing for three years.

Dick Bennett

You have to recognize that they've got a lot of young kids out there. They're playing freshmen and they lost great players. People don't realize the number of great players they lost. I think probably they're a good team, but they're not the same team as they were last year.

Dave Pishkur

If their freshmen test score is in the top 10, we give those 10 kids $1,000.

Sarah Kennedy

She just woke up. We've been working hard on hitting and the young girls are taking control. That's nice to see from freshmen and sophomores.

Jeff Donaldson

I feel positive about this team. These kids won titles as freshmen (frosh championship), sophomores (JV) and juniors (NCL I) so they are used to hanging up a pennant.

Keith Wilbur

We had a lot of freshmen who stepped up and played well last season. They now have a year under their belts, so I think we'll improve this year.

Chris Ellis

He gives you that look, and you're out of it for a whole practice. He spooks a lot of freshmen out with that.

Tony Russa

That's just the way he pitches. I think it has more to do with him mentally concentrating really well. He hasn't let anything get away from him.

Samuel Butler

Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it.

Billy Gillispie

We just made so many mental mistakes, and that's embarrassing to me. And that is my fault.

Sherron Collins

We just tried to stay mentally focused. They were trying to get in our heads, but we slowed it down at the end.

Riley Wallace

No excuses. We just have to get better prepared mentally to play. Mentally, we just weren't in the game.

Mac Gifford

She plays to win and she is a very mentally tough person. She just can't stand to lose.

Annika Sorenstam

She is very, very strong. She is mentally strong and she is tough.

Carlton Valentine

(Holt) did the little things that we didn't do. When you look at a four-point game, you look at the little things. We need to find some mental toughness, intestinal fortitude, a way to get it done. We'll get better.

Kevin Parker

He's fearless. We think he's going to make it because he has the mentality of (Panthers receiver) Steve Smith.

Steve Nash

You replay and you rethink. The mistakes really hurt.

Ned Yost

He's as tough as they come. He doesn't make mistakes.

Bill Gray

We made too many mistakes on special teams, ... That can't happen. We pride ourselves on special teams at Samford. So we've got to get that fixed.

John Gibbons

He wasn't real sharp. But they have a good-hitting club. They make you pay if you make mistakes and that's what it was.

Ray Rivera

He made that one mistake. What can you do?

Jorge Rodriguez

I'm no angel. I make mistakes like every other human, but I try to do what's right.

Tyler Palko

All of the mistakes we've made are very correctable,

Julie Johnson

They do as well as they can. Everybody's human, they make mistakes,

Brian Schankin

We didn't start well. Morenci didn't make the little mistakes they needed to make in order for us to have a chance.

Jessica Valenti

As a kid, I wasn't sure that I would ever get married - I was not the kind of little girl who played at being a bride.

Charles Terry

I've played 654 concerts. That's never been done.

Chad Greenway

Don't put this on the refs. They played better than us. That's what should be written in the papers.

Chris Masoner

We wanted this one going home. We played them well.

Joel Rankin

Every team we've played the second time, we've played them better. You look at the shooting percentage; it's not even close.

Andy Cerroni

Tonight, Scotty played with a lot of confidence. He was out there tonight. We didn't take him out. He's so strong with the ball.

Akeem Wright

We turned it on in the second half. We turned around and played like we played at KU. This is how we're going to have to play every game.

Neil Peart

When I started playing, I played in R&B bands. I played James Brown, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding and all that.

Andrea Smith

When I started at Hurricane, there was already a shortstop there. So, I played third.